THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter. fc>eptem
ber 17th, 1918. at the lost Office, at
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act of
March 8. 1879.
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li. E. Lander Editor
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Saturday Dec.9th. 1922.
,Aint it a Fact !
We Alaskans have been told qu;te a
a lot of things in the past and it seems
as tho we get the bunk once more,
The A. R. C. swings a wicked lob
by in Washington, but sad as it sounds
they seem to have been given a cold
mitt when it came to getting actual
cash for next year’s work.
This attitude of retrenchment in
Washington has reacted on Alaska
to the extent of cutting the appropria
tion for roads all to the deuce.
The little money to be spent during
the coming season will barely keep
the roads from becoming the quagmires
of yore, and will allow absolutely no
extentions to be made.
Pat O’Cotter aptly describes our case
in his poem entitled, ’A Woman a Dog
and a Walnut tree’ when he alludes to
an appropriation being suggested and one
of the Congressional gentlemen mov
ing the amount cut in two.
Alaska is truly an orphan with a stage
orphan’s care; when it comes to roads
and trails.
We don’t want to knock the A. R. C.
for they have done well with the mon
ey they have had; BUT: why can’t our
Uncle give them enough of the stuff
that chinks to let them do what is sad
ly needed all thru Alaska.
NOTED NATIVE DIES
Jacob Takeena a native aged
101 years died recently at Chich
igof.
He is reputed to be the man
who constructed the first lumb
er building in the town of Sitka
and is said to have taught the
natives the art of hunting seal
from a canoe.
Takeena was possessor of a
grant issued by former governor
Brady giving him hunting right
on all of the west coast of Chich
agof Island.
He was a ivory carver, and ow
ing to the beauty of his designs
his work has been copied thru
out the Territory and in the Sta
tes. Ex.
COMMISSIONERS To COLLECT
FUR TAXES
The Treasurer’s Office at Jun
eau has been informed by the
Attorney General of the Territ
ory that the fur tax law, chapter
42, Sessions Laws of 1922; had
been proven valid by the recent
decision handed down in the U.S
District C >urt of the Fourth Jud
icial Division.
In view of such a decision U.
S. Commissioners thruout the
Territory have authority to col
lect such taxes under the law
referred to.
ALASKA S-S Co’s SCHEDULE
All ships sail from pier 2 Seattle
Alameda Dec. 13th Jan 4th & 24
th Feb. I4th Mar.7th
Northwestern Jan. 13th Feb: 3rd.
Feb.24th. & Mar. 17th.
Victoria Dec. 23rd.
Ports of call:- Ketchikan, Wran
gell, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez, La
Touche and Seward.
We sure will have a fierce time
trying to live on hopes now, after ev
erything has been slipping along so
splendidly.
Having pulled so hard for these roads
it’s pretty tough on Alaska to be infor
med by the powers that be that we
have been crying for the moon.
J. B. O’Neill
MERCHANT
McCarthy
m McCarthy
IK DRUG STORE
Alaska
CONFECTIONS, JEWELRY
and
NOVELTIES
More Truth Than Verse
In days, alas, fore ever fled;
When woman first was won and wed.
She laid her lovely little head
Upon her husband’s shoulder,
And; with a happy sigh or two;
She vowed that, as she journeyed thru
The years to follow, she would do
Exactly as he told her.
She saw, across the rainbow’s rim,
No cloud her gentle faith to dim.
She fancied that her love for him
Could never fail or falter.
She breathed that promise from hei
heart
And thus from history’s distant start
The word ’obey’ pecame a part
Of pledges at the alter.
e
But now she finds that married l!v
Is sometimes filled with tears and s;.
And that romance is often rife
With trials and tribulations.
She deems obedience doesn’t pay
And therefore on her wedding day;
She makes the promise to obey
With mental reservations.
And in the future we will find
That she will hardly be resigned
Her free, untrammeled soul to bind
In such a needless tether.
Upon her neck no more she'll feel
The tyrant man’s remorseless heel.
And as for that soft promise, she’ll
Ignore it alltogether.
NOTICE
I am prepared to do all kinds
of shoe repairing at reasonable
prices. Michael Vagge, Kerine
cott, Opposite Recreation Hall.