THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter. Septem
ber 17th, 1918. at the l ost Office, at
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act of
March il. 1879.
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C. F. M. COLE. Manager
M. M. COLE Editor
Saturday July 16th. 1921.
HOME RULE FOR ALASKA J
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Something is happening to Al
aska: The white population
aecoidhg lotlectrsus kiinnii
report is row < nly 27,hb3, a de
crease of more than 23per cent
since 191 (. lie same rain
of decrease in fifty years would
lea\e the Territory in about the ;
way it was just before the Jure of
gold started the great stampede.
There were 400 white inhabit
ants in 18b0 There are lots of
other things in Alaska besides
the gold. There is great wealth
in other minerals There are
great coal deposits and Uncle
Sun is now building a remaak
able railroad which when com pie
ted will open up the country
to settlers.
Great and tremendous as was
the value of tlie California gold
fields, their total productive
wealth since the discovery of the
first nugget back in the forties
has been exceeded by the value
of the other productions of the
State by hundreds of millions.
For the one man who went to
the mines there were hundreds
who went to the lands.
So with Alaska. Gold hunt
ers seldom make good settlers.
They create a flourishing town
over night, a deserted mining
camp on the morrow.
r
But when they left they did
not take the possibilities of Alas
ka away with them. They will
remain there awaiting the right
kind of pioneers.
Congress should give encour
agement There are needs of
prospectors and capital, a larger
freedom, less government from
a federal authority thousands of
miles away, more liberal meas
ure of home rule and pei mission
to workout their own destiny:
that is what Alaskans want and
that is certainly what they are
entitled to. —The Boston Post..
NOTICE
Notice is hereby driven that
pursuant to an act of the terri
torial legislature, there is here
by made, imposed and levied up
on each male person, except
soldiers, sailors in the navy or
revenue cutter service, volunte
er firemen, paupers, insane per
sons or territorial charges,
within the Territory of Alaska
or the waters thereof, over the
age of twenty one years and un
der the age of fifty years, an ,
annual tax in the sum of five
(5.00) dollars, to be paid and col
lected in the manner provided
by law and deposited by the
treasurer of the Territory of A
laska in a separate fund called
the “school fund,” and used for!
no other than school purposes.
All persons subject to this tax
who are in the territory of A
laska on the first Monday in
the month of April shall pay
said tax on or before the first
day of May in the same year, &
all persons arriving in the Terri
tory of Alaska after the first
Monday in April shall pay said
tax within thirty days after
such arrival. PROVIDED, furth
er, that all persons subject to
said tax shall pay the same with
in ten days after a written or
oral demand by the said School
Tax Collector made within the
period between the first Monday
in April and the first Monday in
August in each year.
(Signed) Sam. Seltenreich.
School Tax Collector.
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McCarthy, Alaska
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