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When the McCarthy Idle© dives its
annual entertainment on JULY 4th
|buy a ticket and attend.'
Patronize their drab bad,
Drink their pink lemonade,
And play their old-time dames with,
Their phony money.
Tickets
$1.50
Around in Alaska i
The first launch fiom Nenana ,
is re part-d to have reached Daw i
son Monday, June 4. 1
i
The inside passage has been ■
made tsaiei by the completion of ;
the work of d rigging for pinnacle
rock, conbncted by the Geolagical
survey vessel explorer.
Victor Nyland and Axel Hog
burg were seriously hurt at Mile
122 on tne Copper River railroad
when a derrick boom shievebro
ke, part of it striking the men.
Mr. Nyianti sustained a broken
thigh and Mr. Hog burg had an
arm broken.
The second annual Alaska Tea
chers Institute will be held at
Keechikan, commencing August
27. The program has not been an
louncea as yet.
Another 1‘reak of nature was
'ouncl in the North. Robert Me
Donnell, an old trapper and hnn
:er of the Dawson district brot
n from the upper Klondike, an
mimal fur that is new t > Daw
son trappers. The skin is tan,'
with markings reseni lii g ih >se
L>f a tiger. It is 38 inches mng,
with an average width of eight
inches. The owner apparently
weighed about fifty pound's.
The first dredge of the season
to start operations in the Yukon
valley was No. 4 dredge of the
Burrell and Baird fieet, which
got under way Ma.y 18.
The Post Office department is
to make a study of conbitions in
Alaska with a view to estaplish
a parcel post zone system for the
territory.
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB CORSER Supt. 0. P. PUGH. Agent
a three bays* motor trip over
the trail in the latter’s new Che\
rolet.
A request has come to C. J.
Meier, at whose roadhouse the
president is to sleep, asking pei
mission to install electric lights
throut his house. He answered
that he was quite willing; but
he doubted it that would be au
improvement on the lighting sys
tern Alaska has at this time ol
the year.
The people of Chitina and those
along the trail are anticipating a
delightful time on the Fourth,
when Mr. and Mrs. Charles G.
Simmons will entertain them at
their roadhouse, which is ideally
located for such occasions.
Miss Naida Johnstone, well kno
wn in Kenuecott and Cordova,
writes from Fields, B. C. that
she anti her sister are spending
a delightful vacation, altho they
f;;id the towns rather too far a
part for the hiking trip they had
planned.
Thursday eve the boys played
a*' 'inst a scrub team. Had they
j'toi>4’>d with the 7th'inning" the
scire v.ould have been 4 to 3;
i)Ul— hi (1 thereby hangs a tale.
Who Killed Bruin
The report comes to us that
one small unprotected bear has
been killed at Stephen Palmer’s
camp no. 4 Chititu. The name oi
the slayer is nqt mentioned’ Ii
may be a case of Sal and s killec
a B’ar” ar our correspondent sri£
gests. But we just wonder if tlx
perpetrator of the deed woulc
have been so modest had it beei
a GREAT BIG BE^R, even gran
ing it was ”Sal and 1.”
All of Chitina Picnics
Last Friday Chitina was a de
serted village. Camp Comfort,
the habitat of the Red Man years
ago, rang with the sound of voic
es until the ghosts of the Indians
resting there, might have fancied
that their brothers had returned.
It was bub the picnicers coming
down to view the old Indian gra
ves, decorated, as isKing Tut’s
tomb, but with old alarm clocks,
old clothes, tin pans, tin cups,
and such the Red Man’s spirit
having gone to a more practical
, Hereafter where the gold and
jewels, interred in the ancient E
gyptian’s tomb would be useless.
Strangely out of harmony with
this old Indian custom seemed
the triple cross of the Greek
Church, which marks the head
of each grave.
The walk from the picnie
grounds to the deserted Indian
viliage is one of the events of the
annual school picnic, in which all
of Chitina that can get away, some
of Strelnaand whoever is in from
tin. trail, indulge. Other events
were eating, games, auto rides,
and more eating with lemonade
between acts.
The spirits of our Ked Broth
ers far more kindly disposed
than old King Tut s ghost, as e
very one came home full of vim
and vigor, and wishing school clo
sed more than once a year.
NOTICE
Notice Is Hereby Given that
all persons found trespassing or
or using any of the buildings
^ tools, timber or tunnels on the
Cole Beuch Placer Claim, desig
nated as Survey No. 1457, will be
t
prosecuted according to law.
C. F. M. Cole
Owner