The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: 6.
McCarthy, alaska, sajurday _ march 17,1923
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k Sending His Representative To Alaska
Local News
Lee Yancey who has been ill
with influenza for the past Sev
ern 1 days was taken to the hos
pital Wednesday for treat ment.
Nearly everyone who has had
the ’flu is fully recovered.
McCarthy is growing in fame
if not in population. We have re
ceived several letters from differ
ent parts of the states within the
past month. All letters were
written in inquiry of the possibil
ites of this part of the country.
Dan Campbell leit for the gla
cier Thursday morning with a
doir sled and trailer. He took an
our fin large enough to supply his
wants for some months. Dan
states that he intends to catch a
little fur next season if he finds
it dull this summer.
The platform for loading stulls
and other timber consigned to,
the Kennecott mines, is nearly
finished and hauling is to begin
in a very short time.
It is reported that the actual
work of erecting the hydraulic
belonging to Mr. Coyonette will
begin in a very s hort time.
Mrs. Brown of the Nizina road
house was an overnight visitor
in town Wednesday and Thurs
day.
George Petroff who with his
partner was recently awarded
the contract for cutting fifty
cords of wood for the Road Com
mission, was in town this week
He reports that the work is pro
gressing very nicely, and that
the contract should be finished
in & short time.
Mike Birmingham well known
miner and freighter was a pass
enger on Tuesday’s train; en
route for Cordova. From that
city he inte nds to go to Hyder.
Mike has been employed by
the Kennecott Corporation
Thru the courtesy of our
Delegate Dan Sutherland
and vicinity may
obtain government garden and
flower seeds by calling at Mar
shall’s Store.
Wednesday afternoon William
Weitzel returned from the states
with his bride. The newlyweds
will make their home at Kenne
cott, Mr. Weitzel reassuming
his position with the Corporat
ion The News wishes to extend
its congratulations to the happy
couple.
Chitina News
Bishop Rowe returned to Chi
ina this week, having decided to
abandon his trip to the Interior
for the present.
Neil Pinneson and Fred Bur
luy began freigthing with a four
horse team to the Finneson prop
erty on the Katsinia. This is
the property recently bonded by
Angus McDougall. The freight
is taken five miles out the road,
across the Copper river at Camp
Comfort then up Horse Creek.
Henry Rorabottonof the Sig
nal Corps at Gulkana returned
to his duties after a three month
furlough in the States and Can*
ada. He reports a very pleasant
trip.
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U.S. To Work Coal Mines Six More Yeaas
DANCE POSTPONED
Owing to the sickness preva.
lent both here and in Kennecott
the dance, which was to have
been given at the Pioneer Hall is
postponed indefinitely.
Noted Spanish War Veteran Dies
New York March 16
General Nelson, Henry noted
veteran of the Spanish American
War died in this city today.
Germans Wreck French Train
Dusseldorf March 16
At an early hour this morn
ing civilian Germans wrecked
a French troop train that was
moving French soildiers in the
Rhineland. The train was run
ning slowT so fortunately the
death toll was slight, only four
being killed and a number
wounded,
SALE OP CIGARETTE TO
SCHOOL GIRLS FORBIDDEN
Seattle, March 17
Joseph Klemei^vizh of this city
was sentenced to an imprison
inent of six months for selling
cigarettes to high school girls’
Most of us can still remember
the time when high school Boys
did their smoking surreptitious
ly. This is an age of progress
Disastrous Cyclone in South
Memphis March 17
A cyclone that strucu the towh
of Savage, Missisippi yesterday
nearly demolished the entire
place. Today eight people are
known to be dead and approxim
ately fifty injured.
Secretary of the Interior <
Work already is belying his
name as ^regards to the Alaska
situation. Dispatches from Se
attle state that there is a perso
nal representative for the Sec
retary in that city en-route to the
North to investigate conditions.
Unlike his predessors, the rep
resentative is to get first hand
information and is to visit every
section of the Territory. Accor
ding to present plans the repre.
sentative will spend the entire
spring and summer in Alaska
gathering facts as to the needs
of tne country.
Washington March 16
The Department of the Inte
rior today announced that plans
for the development of Arctic
Alaska coal beds were perfected
and that a coal ex pert was to be
sent North in a short while.
The present schedule will cover
a period of six years. The work
that is to be done should defin
ately prove the value of Alaska
coal for naval purposes.
The work done on the Chick
aloon and Coal Creek beds con
clusively proves that there is an
immense quantity of high grade
coal that is suitabe for naval pur
poses in Alaska.
Explorer’s Boat Meets Ignomin
ious Fate at Seattle.
Everyone remembers the man
who made the dash for the North
Pole and everyone also remem
bers Commodore Peary’s ship,
Roosevelt. The ship was in her
day one of the staunchest vessels
afloat. She was recently sold in
Seattle to a tug company ^wjio
announced today that the vissel
would be transformed into a tow
ing barge.