THE AVALANCH
M. V. Lattin, Publisher.
Application Made for Admission to The Mails as
Matter of the Second Class.
10 errs, a copy. $4. yearly.
Mexico still sounds like a Mex
ican serenade.
Just wait, sugar has declined
70 cents in two weeks, looks like
we could stock up for winter.
Hughes is on his western tour
preaching preparedness, anti
Wilson and otherwise promising
prosperity, peace and plenty
when his party .shall place him
in power.
That the hyphen may weld and
not separate two nationalities is
a possibility which we find little
reason for remembering these
days. We are scathing in our
criticism of the immigrant who
fails to become a true American,
but we pay but little attention to
ihe means by which his trans
formation must be accomplished.
We forget that the hyphenated
Americ tn should be simply the
American in the making. f or
tunately the immigrants do not
wait for us to Americanize them,
but go ahead finding their own
opportunities and creating their
own agencies for assimilation.
A Romance of Mi
Blackburn
The magazine section of the
New York World contains a
thrilling story of the Mt. Black
burn expedition and its roman
tic termination. We quote from
the story in part which the
World credits as from Miss
Keen’s own story.
"Married in McCarthy, Alas
ka, J uly b and will permanently
reside there,” is really much
more romantic than it sounds.
The place is in the midst of Al
aska’s mighty “playground of
the gods,” beneath the towering
Mount Blackburn, whither more
adventurers have gone than ever
have returned. McCarthy is a
mining town, tive miles from the
terminus of the Copper River
Railway at Kennecott the site of
the now famous Bonanza copper
mine.
It was a May day, back in 1912.
High up on the dizzy slopes of
Mount Blackburn, that most in
accesible of all Alaskan peaks,
OTTO STROM
BARBER SHOP
Electric Hair & Scalp
Treatments
ONE DOOR FROM POST OFFICE
F. A. IVERSON
WOOD SAWING &
CONTRACTING
HOUSE MOVING, RAISING
OR BUILDING CONTRACTED
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY AT-LAW
three living things, a man a wo
man and a dog, were struggling
upward through the awful soli
tude. Suddenly the dog whim
pered and shrank close to the
rough wall of the precipice 'who
se base they skirted. With an
■ utuition quick as the brute's,
the mar shot oat a hand and
grasped the woman. There was
a thin hiss in the air, a rising
spume of snow, and in an inst
int the spot where the wowan’s
feet hud been planted was emp
ty air. The man had saved her
from a sno^.slide. Right there
and then, it may be, was born
the romance this story chronic
les.
George W. Handy is the son of
a German Army officer ' and' a
naturalized citizen of the United
States. Trained in a German
technical school, seasoned as a
soldier in German Southwest
Africa, twenty odd years he left
his country for good. After
that he was in turn cowboy in
Texas, miner in South America,
trader and traveller in Mexico
and California. Finally arriving
in Alaska, he settled down there
as a mining engineer. Such was
the man who wTas, with misgiv
ings as to his fit less, accepted
as a member of the Mount Black
burn expedition. As it went on
he proved his worth. It was
Handy who encouraged the wind
beaten and snow-blinded men
when they faltered on their up
ward road. It wTas Handy who,
when they were forced to sleep
in snow huts with the thermom
eter at sixteen below zero was
always cheerful and seemingly
untired. It was Handy who,
as food grew scarcer and storms
fiercer, was merely inspired to
greater daring and determinat
ion.
(continued page 4)
Some News
t
A Few Prices
FLOUR, Centennial Best,$5.80. Hard Wheat $6.70 per hund.
CAMPBELL’S SOUPS, 2 cans .25
HAPPY HOME SOLID PACK TOMATOES, $5.25, Madrona
Brand $4.50 per case.
DRiED FRUITS, Happy Home Brand, Apples, Peaches,
Prunes and Figs, $4.25, Apricots $4.75 per box 25 lb.
MINCED CLAMS, Pioneer or Lighthouse brand, 3 cans .50
SODA, Arm & Hammer brand .10
EVERYTHING IN THE CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS
AT ASTONISHINGLY LOW PRICES.
Goods Delivered at the Store Only.
FARINA, 10 pound bag,
ROLLED OATS, 10 pound bag,
.80
.70
General Merchandise
For Quality, Style and Service
Call at the Leading Clothing and
Gents Furnishing' Store
in McCarthy. A Fine Assortment
of Standard Merchandise, All Sizes
and Colors
LA
|M
SATISFACT!
u
GUARANTEED
wzmvw » v*a; »*'»«*«
The Blum GsNeilI Co.
CORDOVA
Solicit Your Patronage
GROCERIES HARDWARE BUILDING SUPPLIES
ROOF PAPER PIPE & FITTINGS C ’ROCKERY
GLASSWARE FURNITURE RUGS
CLOTHING HATS SHOES
RUBBER BOOTS FUR CAPS BLANKETS
OIL CLOTHING TRUNKS BAGS & VALISES
CIGARS & TOBACCOS
Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention
COLE MERCANTILE Co.
General Merchandise
Prospectors Outfits
Roadhouse in Connection ^
NIZINA
ALASKA