The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: VIII
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday, January 24,1.^.5
No. 4
OF INTEREST
TO TOWN AND DISTRICT
P. A. Hansen, supt of the
C. R. N. W. Rly. erme up on Mon
day’s train and went through t.>
Kennecott.
Pete Jacobson had the mist
ortune to freeze both his hands
badly on Sunday and had to be
taken to Kennecott hospital for
treatment.
Everything was s-'t to resu
me operations on Nizina Bridge
early this week but the severe
cold snap delayed doings a few
days.
Mr. and Mrs. J.B. O’Neill
and family departed for Cordova
on Saturday where they expect
to spend several weeks. Jack will
look after his brother’s interest
there for a time.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Woodman dep
arted Thursday tor sunny Calif
ornia to take a well earned hoi
iday. Ever , one is predicting that
they will beoome homesick and
return in a week or two
Well, Sig is away at last.
He departed on Thursday for
his long threatened trip to Du!
uth, Minnesota.
.1. H. Reynolds made a trip
to Cordova this week for the
purpose of taking Blorn there
to a wait the sitting of the Grand
Jury. He returned Wednesday.
Dr. and Mrs. Gill’spie of
Kennocott left on Thursday mor
nings train for Cordova where
they will taae the boat for Seattle.
William Trim, brother of A.
E. Trim, and who has been etnp.
oyed at the Mother Lode, started
outside on Thursday. i»e intends
taking atrip via the Panama Can
al to the eastern States.
PRESIDENT DESIRES TO
VISIT PACIFIC COAST ANT
MAY ALSO VISIT ALASKA
Washington correspondent, says
thatPresident Coolidge desires
to make a trip to the Pacific Const
in June, providing business affair
of the administration permit
President and Mrs. Coolidge aim
to be gone t wo month end will
include Alaskain their itinera r\
if practicable He will also attend
theOoxernors conference if it.is
held in Seattle at this Jime.
T be President is sniu i» t>i* es’
peciall desi rous of visiting ALska
and making a tr ip over the Alaska
railroad to Fairbanks.
Mr. Al. Fagirbu1 g. come into
town Friday on a business trip.
Mr. J. \. wasuill oi ijreen rcuue
( op per Co. arrived in tow 'i to
day and notes a slight change
from Los Angeles.
Optimists who have been
predicting a break in the cold
spell with today’s change of the
moon will now go to the foot o1
the class and give th<* pi*ssimis
ts a chance. Dud McKinney
says the first hundred years
are the worst.
Word has been received that
three caterpillars and seven men
are arriving on today’s train for
the work on lie* Nizina bridge.
Business looking up!
I Thosewho have been accustomed
I
to obtaining the special line of
QuinlansToilet accessor'es hand
j led by Mrs. L. II. Woodman are
advised that those have been turn
ed over to Mrs. C. O. Marwood and
some may be >bta.ined from hm
at any tine*.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Brenwicli
and Harold Brenwick have moved
into town for the remainder o1
the winter.
GOVERNOR BONE
| COMING NORTH
Gov. Scott. C. Bone decided
to sail fi>r* Juneau today at the
last moment took passage on the
steamer Alameda this forenoon.
Washington, D. C.
i The Alaska Game Rill passed
j tin* lower house today and in
, a tew days will become a law.
! _
S oaim-r Admiral Watons, bound
! lor Seattle to Alaska, lost a
propeller blade off the British
Columbia Coast and put into
Prince Rupert
Bon Jackson, has on display
in the urug store a clock, the sea
j ndof which was made by Mr. Ha
llinlead of the Mother Lode out
of high grade copper ore. The
workmanship and design are per
feet ana it is a real work of art,
well worth examining.
Inquiry has come to the
{Governor’s office for information
j concerning . Lxandor Stowe,
; known as Aleck Stowe, who ser
' veu in the Spanish—American
j war in Manilla, came to Dawson
j during the stampede in 1898, to
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j Nome in LOO, and from that
! time has not been heard from
; He was six feet in height and of
fair complexion. His sister, Mrs.
Abbie Hunt, Box 245, Cambridge^
I Nebraska, would appreciate gr
eatly any information in regard
to him. This can either be sent
directly to her at her address,
or to the Governor’s office, Jun
can, Alaska.
| ANCHORAGE ALASKAN IS
PURCHASED BY BANK MAN
Winfield Ervin, cashier of
the First National Bank, last
Saturday purchased the Daily
Alaskan morning newspaper, at
a marshal’s sale on a foreclosure
mortgage held by th« bank lor
$‘5,9(X).
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RICH STRIKE ON
COLDSTREAM
The feature mining news of
the week, in the Northland, is a
report from a dependable source
j that a rich pay has been struck
on the left limit of Gol f stream
creek, in the Fairbanks district,
and that rich placer ground has
been revealed, thiough explorat
ion, at Horsefly Falls, in British
Columbia. The report from Fair
} banks states that the ground un
[ covered there goes, at the point
of discovery, $10 to the bedrock
foot, and that it is in wet ground
The ground is considered bench
diggings and lies along of the
Wagner claims and the Bigelow
claims (now’ taken overby the
j Fair bands Exploration Company )
on Goldstream, a famous produc
er oi the interior district. Details
of the discovesy are lac king.
Trie Horsefly cre^>k oiscov
ery was made by eight men from
Victoria, B. C. In this party are
John S. Edwards, a frmer well
| known Klondike!’, and Robert Ov
ers, a Provincial government auth
ority on placers, who has recent
j ly resigned from official service,
land Albert E. Robertson. Mr.
Robertson has reached Victoria
with news of the strike. He repo
rts that the party discovered the
source of the gold which enrich
ed the bed of the Horsefly river
and was responsible for the fam
ous gold rush on Harper’s Camp,
forty miles northeast of Williams
lake, in the sixties. The gravel,
Robertson reports, runs
from $10 to $17 per yard in gold.
For five and a half miles below
the Falls, the prospectors got
values sufficiently rich to work,
even by hand methods.
Question If Ivanhoe costs
| sixty cent at a bookstore, what
I is Kenilworth?
l
Answer Great Scott! What
a novel question!