The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: 6.
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday
MARCH 8, 1923
No. 17.
Cjermam IVlonarcJusts 'W'ant 'WA.R 'Witli Invaders of Ruilir 'Valley
Local News
Several big outfits left town
tins week for the glacier. The
trail that far is reported to be in
tine shape.
Carl Whitam, for many years
a resident of Chisane, arrived in j
the city last Saturday evening |
He is vary optomistic aJ>out the
future of the entire district and
of Chisana in particular. He re
turned to Chisane last Thursday
morning.
BiJl Lang the well known old
timer spent a few days in town
this week.
Reports from the h »spital state
that Andy Taylor isgetting along
very nicely.
Warren Nelson was in town the
past several d.iya tin slung up a
let of buisness. He left for Chis
ar.e Friday where he will make
his headquarters during the com
ing season.
Tiie A. R. C. received a ne w
s u > nent of horses on Wednes
day’s train. All of the *stoek has
been making regular trips to the
river.
W hen all is said and done this
town is not as bad as a lot of
the big cities. Everybody man
ages to get along. •
The “plans for a ,”liiyu” time
o n the 17th of march are well
under way and if you don’t at
tend you’ll miss the time of
your life.
Ectu Tormanoff employed by
the Road Commission is spend
ingafew days in town.
Charlie Veach purchased the
Uuulry building, including
the equipment, from John Am
ber on Friday. He intends start
ing a laundry in the building for
merly occupied by the McCarthy
Cafe*
According to cards received
I ron) Capt. Hubrick, he is view
ing the sights at the National
Capitol.
Wm Marhar claim owner and
operator in Calamity Gulch, and
Young creek arrived in town Thu
rsday evening from Chisane.
He reports a good season this
last summer and is expectant of
another good cleanup this season
Mike Knowlesarrived in town
on Thursday with the mail from
Chisane. He brought in one pas
senger.
Mrs. Marshall was a Kenne
cott visitor la.-1 Wednesday.
Sig reports a great deal of
traffic between Me Carthy and
Kenneeott this week.
CHITINA NEWS
Bishop Rowe and Rev. E.P.Zie
gler were passengers on Wed
nesday’s train to Kennecott,
The Bishop’s intentions were
to hold services in Chitina, upon
his return there. From Chitina
he will go to Gulkana by autc,
and from that pointwill penetrate
into the the Interior with a dog
team.
Great interest, is being shown
in the fox industry along th&'Ri
chardson trail. Nelson M. Cray
is plannig the e stablishment of a
Many Die of Sleeping Sickness In
i
Portland
fox farm about do miles from the
city He will raise silvers and
blues. George Bull, a fox raiser
located about 1 1 miles from the
town recently shipped about 15
fine silvers and now has fifteen
pair of black and silver foxes left
Word was received this week
from Mr. and Mrs. P.M. Shaupp
formerly of Chitina that they
have located on a fruit ranch ten
miles out of Modesto, California
after touring the coast in a car.
They started from Seattle in
a Buick and toured 11,500 before
selecting this place of residence.
Cafe To Open This Week
The management of the Alaska
Cafe announces that the work on
the interior of that place is all
but finished. New booths have
been added and the entire wall
newly redecorated. The kitchen
has been enameled white, as has
the lunch counter. With Dick
Woodman doing the work a fine
looking job is assured. The place
when opened, during the first of
the coming week, will do justice
to any town.
Millionare Murders Three
Philadelphia March 3
£tenry G. Brock, banker, club
man and member of a proini
nant family to-day run down and
killed two women and one man
as they were alighting from a
street car. Four blocks further
he wrecked his car and when ar
rested was found to be drunk.
, Don’t forget that dance on the
17th. It’s going to be an annex
to County Cork. All shelailes are
to be checked at the door.
Berlin March 4
Playing upon the indignation
of the German people, aroused
by different .actions of the French
forces in the Ruhr district, and
particularly the recent indigni
ties offered the citizens
at Bochum, the Monarchist party
have declared themselves for war
with the invaders, in hopes of
of gaining a following. It is
considered to be merely a poli
tical move on the part of the Im
perialists, and no direct action
is anticipated.
Portland March 3
Physicans are baffled in thei r
attempts to check the dreaded
sleeping sickness, an epidemic
of which is making the rounds
in this city. Yesterday the well
known society worker Mrs.Jennie
K. Green succumbed to the dis
ease. This is the 64th fatality in
Portland,from this malady since
January fiirst.
Hands Chaplin the Cold Mitt
Los Angeles March 3
Pola Negri yesterday broke
brdke her engagement with Chap
lin. Asked for the reason today
she issued a statement that it is
& lover’s quarrel and that as yet
there has been no patching done
President Taking Vacaton
President and Mrs. Harding it
is announced today are leaving
Washington I^OIlday for atriP
to aPloria winter resort, to recu
perate. _
Frick Estate Heavily Taxed
New York Maaeh 3
Authorities fixed the state tax
on the estate of the late Henry
Frick at $21,000,000. The estate
is valued at $92,000,000.