The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL; X
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday, Apr. a-, 1.127.
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FIRST STEAMER DOWN
RIVER SAILS MAY 2$ 1RD|
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Seattle: H. Wheeler General j
Manager of the White Pass and I
Yukon Route, announced that the
first steamer to leave Whitehorse
for Drwson is scheduled lor:
May 23rd.
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The first American vessel
down the river to Nenana is now
tentatively scheduled to leave1
Whitehorse May 29th.
Reports from the steam
ship company’s down at the low-j
er end of Marsh Lake indicates!
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more water stored this year than i
ever before.
General Manager Wheeler i
telegraphed for the cr^w to opt;n
the gates this week to start the
ioe out of Lake LeBarge.
REINDEER MEAT GAN BE
CANNED SUCCESSFULLY
Seattle: The University of
Washington announeds the succ
essful canning of reindeer meat.
Lomen Brothers, of Nome, are in
forested in the experiments and
success probably means the can
ning of the meat on a commercial
scale in Seattle.
Experiments have been car
ried out in the College of Fish—
eries laboratory.The meat is now
undergoing time tests intended
to develop its keeping qualities.
WRITE I v OF CRIME STORIES
GOES TO PRISON FOR LIFE
.Jersey City, N. .1. John Kran
eis King, writer of crime stories
for magazines, has been convicted
of murdering Michael Spiegel,
saloon keeper l ist November and
will be sentenced to life impri —
sonment.
A fortune awaits the man
who will establish a barber shop
for men only.
says Seattle mayor
FAILING TO KEEP PROMISE
Seattle. Sheriff Claude Bonniek
has served notice on Mayor Ber
tha K. Landes of Seattle that un
less she takes steps to clean tip
the city, he will s'ep in ami do it!
himself. The Sheri»Tcharg**s that i
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th«> Mayor has failed to live up to!
her pre-election promises and he» j
oath of office, so far as the vice I
issue is concerned.
Instead of waging war on
gambling dens and disorderly!
houses, he flatly alleged that the
present city administration has
sanctioned a system of regulation j
whicli covers up the operations of
the malefactors instead of putting
them out of business.
$7,000,000, LOANED ON
BONUS CERTIFICATES
Washington,- About $7,000,
000 has been loaned by the govej
rnment to more than 70,000 j
veterans on their bonus certifi
cates, Director Hines of the
veteran’s bureau reported to j
President Coolidge.
Although congress lailed
to appropriate funds for making
the loans, General Hines said
no difficulty had been experien
ced in obtaining the money from
bureau sources since the bureau
started making the loans on
[Aprii I. Most of the loans have
1 been made in southern states.
CONTRACTOR ST 1BBED 'X
HEART WILL ITVE
■ Now Orleans; Although stab
I bed in the heart, Alvin Prechtei,
! *12, a contractor, is alive with a
j good chance for recovery. The
wound, inflicted by a workman
I with whom Prechtei* luid quarrel
|ed, was dosed with eight stit—
I dies.
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PORT ALTHORP TO PACK
K)o,o(X) cases this ye \r
August Ruschmann, own
er of the Drop Sea Canning Co.,
at Port Althorpe, who Has been
interested in the Mas!, i Ginnery
industry for more than twenty
live years, and win- is one of the
best known cannervman in the
Territory, s i id that ids company
is making preparations for a. pack
of 1 O’),UOu eases this season at t he |
Port A1 thorp cannery. A crew is
making cans at the present time
and has a I ready made <>0,000 cases
of empty cans.
The company has installed
two box nailing1 machines this year
which Mr Rnschman said he be
lieved were the only two of their
kind in Alaska.Tne.v also brought
a self-elevating electric ' truck to
the cannery, which will be used
•or the first time this t\ ear and
will prove a great, time saver. The
old spark wireless set has been
done away with, and a new .'>00
watt tube mt will take its place.
There is a crew of about loO
work in at Port Althorp at the
present, time, making cans, re -
pairing all the floating property
and getting the gear in shape for
the opening of the fish season.
FIELD MUSRUM COMING
AFTER KODIAK BEARS
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Chiu-igo, — A now Field Muse
uni expedition to the Alaska
Peninsula will leave Seattle May
| 1. to collect a group of Kodiak
bears, the largest living carniv
! orous beasts, and other specim*
|ens of the Territory’s wild life,
Director D. 0. Davis of the Mus
jeum announced.
Alexander Revell, one of
Chicago’s leading merchants,
will finance the interprise and
I Robert W. Tansill, famous big
game hunter will command the
I party.
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WILD LIFE SILVERS
FL’OVI FOh’EST LILES
In an arti *le f >r Em obsm-v.t
•ion of Forest Fire P 'in' *nt ion
Week- V prill'; t * ’>() -Livy- )
J. Palmer, I*«.» kI of r,lu» r-inde-r
I industry in ALska for t ■ m* IJurnuu
of Education, after miking a
special plea for the preservation
of the benefit of the mighty herds
of reindeer now grazing on thorn,
continues as follows;
“If fire are premitted to run
rampant, considerable forage is
destroyed and the available range
for grazing reduced. The damage
to lichen range is particularly
serious. It may take a burned over
lichen area as much as 25 years
to come hack: or where so badly
burned that the cover of hum us
is destroyed. What it has taken
Nature many years (perhaps a.
generation) to build up, a fire may
destroy in a few hours. Lichens
are especially important to rais
ing ol' reindeer as comprising the
principal winter forage.
Damage to the range by fire
involves not only loss of forage
and tiees but also of game and
l'nr animals, since the small gro
und animals,"as well as the cover
of vegetation are destroyed by
the fire. The nests and youny of
game and birds are also destroy
ed.Thus the bumingover of large
areas will result in a serious depl
etion *>f the game and fur which
in turn militates against the wel
fare of the trapper; hunter and
prospector. The waste of forage,
trees, game and fur by fire per
haps has not been called sufficie
ntly to people’s attention in the
past, although a Territorial law
is in effect providing penalty for
the deliberate setting of range
fires. What is needed for Alaska
is a general fire prevention pro
gram, and in that connection a
wide, educational propaganda
against forest and range fires,
particularly in the northern and
western sections of the Territory
reaching the Eskimos through
the schools. »