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» The McCarthy Weekly News VOL. 5. McCarthy, alaska. Saturday May lm 1922 NO. 27 TELEGRAPHIC ALASKA CABLE APPROVED Washington. May 12tn The Senate committee Inis reported favorably on an appropriation tof a million and a half dollars for a new Alaska cable, this is the first unit in the Seattle Or iental cable. HARDING IN NEW JERSEY j Washington, May 12th. Pres ident Harding left this morning for a week-end visit to the New! Jersey coast the guest of Sen.] at or Edge. DIRECTOR BUREAU MINES Kn Route to Alaska Seattle May 12th. Bain the director of the bureau of mines arrived last Monday en route to Matanuska. American Soldiers to Help. Pekin. May 12. A Hundred Am_ erican soldiers were dispatched j to Tongshan near Tientsin to day to protect foreigners. Seattle. May 12th. Dr. Frank Boyle, former mayor of Valdez, and a recent arrival from Alaska was found in a dazed and penni less condition on the waterfront At first he was unidentified and* was held in the county jail for a day and a night for observation as to his sanity. He stated he arrived with plenty of money & thinks he was drugged and rob. bed. Later Dr. Boyle was ad judged insane and ordered to be confined in the Meadows sanitarium. Maurice D. Leehey prominent Seattle attorney, has petitioned to be appointed guard ian. DEMPSEY and CARPENT1ER TO FIGHT IN 1923 ■ London, May 12th. Dempsey and Carpentier have signed contract this afternoon for a l’ight in Europe for June 1923. Savannah, Georgia- May 12th. John Vardeman and wife Bertha have been arrested and confess ed to having robbed the Chase National Bank, New York of Lib erty bonds worth half a million. Washington May 13th. The amendment of the Harrison act! putting more teeth in the law j prohibiting the importation of j narcotic drugs passed the Senate | tonight. ABOUT THE GREEN BUTTE Construction work lias beenj progressing rapidly at the Green j Butte Copper Co. property this week. Tents have been erect ed for cook and bunk houses at! the mine and also at the lower camp. Several teams are haul ing lumber, supplies etc. from Mi Carthy to the camp by wagon. Gus Carlson until recently foreman at the Jumbo mine, is foreman at the Green Butte. Harold Cabot, whotias been in the employ of the Kennecott Copper Corporation for several j years as shift boss on the tram j has gone to the Green Butte. Tom Kay leaves for the mine! today, Oscar Bachman, Joe Hut chens, Ed Hammer & Pete Craig went up to report for duty last Saturday. Walter Quon Eng is again in charge of the cookhouse. NOTICE * Thru my Banking Connections in Cordova, the Bank of Alaska, I I am prepared to handle Tele-| graphic Transfers, and make re- j mittances by Bank draft to any ; point in the United States or! Foreign Countries. R. L. H. Marshall NIZINA BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION TO START NEXT PALL STEEL WIRE CABLE SUSPEN SION BRIDGE Major Gofcwals, assistant sup erintendent of the Alaska Road Commission paid a visit to Me Carthy and the Nizina River this Week,leaving again for the coast yesterday by speeder. To an interested audience last Thursday evening MajorGotwals outlined the A. R. C. program for this section. Work will be resumed on Sourdough Road ne.\t August, at the completion of which to the river, the crew will remain all winter putting in the piers for the Nizina bridge which will be a steel cable sus pension bridge. At each end of the suspension span, steel cyl inders tilled with concrete will be sunk to bedrock. The Commission considers this bridge its most important pro ject. The Major will return next Aug. ust to make a reconnaissance of the Russell and Nizina glaciers. x\o provision has ever been made tor funds for building' a road round the Pothole, though many petitions have been sent in. Yesterday morning Major Got wals was taken over the route ^ frank Iverson, who besides being one of the ranchers most interested, is an old land office surveyor himself, and was quick ly able to show that a road could be built without much expense and that the need was impera tive. Major Gotwals stated before he left here that the road would be provided for. Tomorrow, May Hth, will be observed by people everywhere as Mothers’ Day. You may not be able to procure a white carnation to wear in her honor, but you can take half an hour and write her a letter LEGAL ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BEFORE THE GENERAL LAND OFFFICE JUNEAU SERIAL 05372 ALASKA NABESNA CORPOR ATION, Applicant Notice of Application for Patent NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That in accordance with the laws of the United States, and more especial ly the Act of Congress approved May 10th, 1872, and amendments thereof, the ALASKA NABESNA CORP ORATION, duly incorporated under the laws of Delaware and licensed to. do business in the Territory of Alaska after a full compliance with its laws, whose post office address is care of Maurice D. Leehey, G20 Alaska Build ing, Seattle, Washington, which cor poration has acquired and now holds the lode mining claim and millsite hereinafter described in accordance with said laws, and all local laws,rules, regulations and customs of miners, and has made improvements on said mining claim of the value greater than Five Hundred Dollars upon or for the benefit of each location in eluded therein, and who at this time is in the sole, actual and peaceful possession of said mining claim and each location therein contained, will apply for a patent to the same, includ ing the following named lode locations, all of which are so contiguous as to constitute a single tract of ground, and each location extends along the vein the length herein stated with surface ground 300 feet wide on each side of the center of the vein of quartz or other rock in place, bearing gold, copper and other valuable min erals, and each contains the number of acres here set opposite its name, all as fully and accurately described upon the official plat of Mineral Survey No. 1414A herewith posted on the claim, and by the Field Notes of such official survey on file with the Register of the United States Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, viz: