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The McCarthy weekly news., 1923-07-28
PERSONALS

Encouraged by the reports brot in from ChisaDe, John Nit kill left last Tuesday for his claims in that region.
 MT. and Mrs. J. B. ONeill CT tertained Mr. and Mrs. Caskell, O. Green Butte at dinner last Sur day. the occasion being Miss Dee nie'S ninth birthday.
 Colonel Stevenson came in iron the creeks yesterday.
 Jack Conway was down for . time this morning from the Eerie mine visiting the children in toWr
 Mrs. Kate Kennedy received g new Dodge car on last Saturday $ train.
 Frank Iverson made a business trip to Kennecott yesterday and prot Miss Mildred Erickson back Wihh him for short visit at the ranch.
 Mir. and Mrs. Roy Snider spent the week at Nikoli,
 From all indications at least one new nurse will be needed soon again at the Kennecott hos pitsl.
 A. E. Trimm has the contract leI by the Green Butte company for repairing the trail to sheil camp. Robert Veach, Victor Lar ge and Jack Bishop are working for Mir. Trimm.
 Mrs. Trimm and children have been camping on the Mother Lode trail.
 Mrs. Roberts garden on her ranch at Black burn is in splendid shape. She has a large variety o1 vegetables, including some very hardy bean, tomato anb cucum Der plants, as well as berries and a lovely assortment of flow CTS.
 Pete Perrin is in town from the Mother Lode.
 Pete Laloff came down from the Green Butte.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1923-07-28
REPORTS FROM
 CHITINA

In an interview with Mir. and Mrs. C. E.. SchelI, of Cincinnatti ti, Ohio, seasoned travellers, our Chi tina correspondent was pleased to note that they declared them selves happiest, best entertained and cared for in our own Ameri can possessions. The travellers arrived iu Chitina last Saturday over the Richardson Highway in d Galen stage. They reported a delightful trip, and registered no complaints, in spite of one day of rain. They found the Highway, most interesting and asserted that nowhere in the world had they been better fed than in the roadhouses along the way.
 The couple has been travelling year, during which time they have visited Japan, Corea, Man churia, China, the Philippines, Burma. India, CeyIon, Australia, New Zealand. the Fiji Islands the Hawaiian Islands. Mir. Schell re marked that in spite of Kipling's
 East is East and West is West
 And never the twain shal. meet" this blending seems to hay e been accomplished in the Hawai- in Islands. He asserts that one needs go no further than the Islands to study tropical condi tions and the people of the Orient US there they live under far bet ter conditions than in their own countries. Of course, if one wish IS to study the countries them selves and especially if one wants to learn to value the comforts of the United States, it is necessary to visit the Orient proper.
 They missed the pirates opera ting between Canton and Hong Kong by ten days. The bandits they missed by a mere stroke of luck, changing their route at the sst moment.
 They had already been over much of Alaska, enjoying their
The McCarthy weekly news., 1923-07-28
FIRES THREATEN
 BRIDGES

MT. Trimm and Bill Weare have spent most of the week fight ing fires along Mccarthy creek, which threaten the destruction of bridges on the Mother Lode trail.
 Yesterday there was an unu sually large fire at Swift creek.
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ABOVE SUSPICION
By Robert Orr Chipperfeld.
Authsr Of The Second Buua," Unseen Hsnd,'
"Ths Tixs~ Of Conscisnos' Hc.
cepynsAt 1884, By n. q

ladies'. and tryin' to keep 'Zeppa from
havin' a fit, and then the police
comm. The doctor is a friend of
yours, isn't he, Geoff? I saw you
What does he think about-about the
murder?"
Her tones were confidentially
lowered as she bent nearer to him.
and. Geoff edged away.
Doc Hoods friend to nigh every
body in the county, goin' miles day
or night to take care O. the sick
whether they kin pay or not" he
observed, non committally. He's
knowed me since 1 was knee-high to
grasshopper but he wouldn't likely
talk to me about his criminile cases,
as medical examiner. He asked me
questions just the same as he done
to everybody else"
What kind of questions. Geoff?'
Her voice was a mere whisper now,
and she hitehed along closer to him
on the step. He saw with dismay
that she would soon have him
hemmed in against the balustrade and
escape would be impossible. Doctor
Hood asked me lot of questions, too.
and he was awful kind about it, but
he was gettin' at. What did he ask
your
Geoff remembered all at once that
it was the doctor himself who had
called him "slow-thinking." and he
smiled inwardly.
Well. after he'd got through about
this mornin', he asked me IL I'd seen
any S'piciouS characters hangin'
round while I been workin' here the
last few days; tramps. or tough-look-
in city fellers that might have been
burglars spyin' out the place. Then
he wanted to know If I'd noticed any
strange motor boats anchored down
there of-shore. or ottermobiles pre-
tendin' to be stuck in the road right
clost to the gates with license plates
from way off somewheres. Geoff
warmed to his subject. After that
he started about the ketches on all
the winders and locks on the doors.
and was there any alarm system and
did Mr. Bernhard have a gun that I'd
heard tell of. Did he ask you any
o them things"
He did not Lefty eyed her COM
panion in open skepticism. IT must
say it's funny, too! Did You talk to
that detective from the county seat%'
'He talked to me-" Geoff chuckled.
kinder likes to hear himself. don't
he? Reckon he had an idee l might
have done it! He asked me every
qestion he could think o. bout myself,
and 1 expect I'm liable to find him
snoopin' round my place down by the
crick most any time. What do you
think o. him?"
Letty's sniff was eloquent.
Il guess if it was goin' to depend
on him. we'd never find out who
killed Mr.. Benkard"' She caught her
self up suddenly. Mr.. Lane is here"
II heard tell So" Geoff's tone was
she meant and why she had stopped
and changed the subject as though
sorry she had spoken. On whom was
the investigation to depend, If not
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on the local and county authorities?
''Mr. Benkard's secretary, MIR. Dunn,
came awhile ago. tco," Lefty re-
marked after pause.
.'Seen him when he driv up. but !
amt spoke to him." responded Geoff.
truthfully enough HE looked most
as bad as old Henry"
"They're a good pair!" she ex-
claimed. "Henry's in his dotage and
Mr.. Dunn's half-cracked about losin'
both outlived their usefulness when
we came on to make our home with
Mr.. Bernhard six years ago. and why
he Kept them l never could see.
Of old Henry and + like him because
he's willing and faithful enough. 1
guess Mr.. Dunn is, too, but If any
body was to listen to either of them
be downright foolishness"
"Why?' Geoff asked, mildly.
Because they're likely to imagine
all kinds of things. now that Mr..
Bernhard has been murdered, and make
mountains out of molehills, thinkin'
they can help trace the one who
did 1t! | shouldn't be surprised right
now If one or the other of them wasn't
cookin' up some notion or maxim a
mystery out of nothin'"
Except that old Henry's asleep, you
say. and 1 expect Mr.. Dunn is busy
with Mis- Cayley," Geoff remark ed.
You come with her and her daugh-
ter to New York, didn't you? Where
did you live before that? I amt never
had time to git nowheres. only just
round here"
Lefty bit her thin lips.
I'VE came from Milborough, in
Pennsylvania" she said shortly.
Geoff debated for a moment and
then made a valiant effort.
You couldn't have been with Mis-
Ca Int,t tn nj t,,a yf't
been out O. school more'n a few year.
He gulped when the words were
out and awaited the result of his rush
move with trepidation, but nothing
happened and after brief space he
stole a sidelong glance at her. To
his surprise. Letty's face had turned
dull brick-red, and little sugges-
tion of smile softened her sharp
features
age Is sometimes deceivin', Geoff."
She laughed, not unpleasantly. I've
been with Mrs. Cayley since two years
before her husband died. and that'll
be ten years next September, poor
man."
You workin' twelve year! If any
body else was to've told me, I'd never
have believed it," he exclaimed, gal
lantly. adding: What did Mis- Cay
ly's husband do? Was he in big deals
like Mr.. Benkard?"
The, query was put innocently
peared and she gave him a sharp.
suspicious glance.
He didn't do anything. He was
an invalid" she replied. with an air
of finality. Mercy, L can't sit here
gabbin' all day.
She rose, and he did likewise, with
a sigh which might have been an
expression of regret or relief
Nor me. neither, though it's the
first time we got kinder acquainted
l puttered round all mornin' doin'
nothin', and now / reckon I'll move
my concrete mixer over to the garage
and git to work there. Mis- Cayley
didn't say / shouldn't and I'll be out
O. folks way
Hey. Goor!" Lieut.. Zelle Foster
came around the corner OF the house
on a shambling run. Seen any
thin O. Doc Hood?"
NO, What's up?" Geoff demanded.
deserving his erstwhile companion
abruptly.
That detective from the district
attorneys Office has found where a
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the window and inner door of the
empty music room had been forced,
and he's buster than q bird dog
around the place; but somehow 1
don't take much stock in that forced
window. No burglary was attempted,
and IL the murderer wasn't q
stranger and had reconnoitered, he
would have found the man he was
looking for sitting unarmed within
a few feet of those open doors. Mrs.
Cayley tried to bluff when l asked
her about those anonymous death
threats. but finally she had to admit
that her brother had received "a few
| such letters, evidently the work of
| some harmless crank, and no one had
paid any attention to them except
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perhaps his overzealous secretary or
poor. childish old Henry"
Geoff chuckled.
Yes. She sent Lefty out when
was eatin' my dinner to bribe me
with a bottle o. ginger pop to let
on to you that Henry and that there
Dunn were a couple o. half-crackad
fools and not to listen to en- She
was real anxious, though, 20 find out
what you thought and what the ser
geant had asked me, and | reckon
she told Lefty to punp me gem
orally"
The Doctors eyes twinkled.
Was the pumping good?
WELL" Geoff rubbed his chin. that
| there Lettys real faithful, but tnrn
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CONTINUED from Yesterdays Starr

"I was thinkin' maybe a little
ginger ale would go good with your
lunch, Geoff," she remarked. jerkily.
II don't know what l would have
1t hadn't been for you when-when
we found Mr.. Benkard"'
ITS g. pity no one thought o old
Henry afterwards" he replied. Thank
YOU kindly for this. though"
He drank deeply but eyed her
for the acidulous housemaid had
shown him no favors before, and he was
'I did think of him when I could
the others, but ne told me you'd
brought him up some coffee and he
didn't want anything else" Without
invitation. she pumped herself down
on the steps beside him. with her
sharp elbows on her knees and her
up again Just now, but he's sleepin
like child and I'm glad of it; he
seemed nearly crazy from the shock
Of comm on Mr.. Bernhard like that
When you saw him. could you get
anything out of him, Geoff? What
did he say?"
So that was il. She had come to
pump him. But why should she care
particularly what the butler or any
one else had said about Joseph
Benkards death? Was it just a
woman's love OF gossip? Geoff fin
ished the other sandwich before he
replied:
II didn't try to git anythin' out O.
him. 'Tain't none O. my affairs. but
I wouldn't say Henry was no ways
crazy; seems real bright and level
headed to me for an old feller."
We'll. he isn't; he's in his second
childhood, if you ask me, but the
shock was enough to drive anybody
out Of their head" Lefty peered into
the newspaper spread between his
knees. What are you eatin'? Dough-
Goodness gracious. what messes you
bachelors do fix up for yourselves"
TITS what l like" Geoff protested,
In some alarm. 'I been eatin' it
steady for fifteen year, ever since my
ma died.'
Just you wait" Lefty rose,
"'Zeppa's good-for-nothing, lazy
cake and I think there's some left"
She was gone before he could re-
monstrate further, and philosophically
Seoff poured himself another glass of
ginger ale. After all, he had COM
mitted himself by accepting that. and
he might as well take whatever else
was offered. but this new attitude on
her part was disquieting.
Lefty returned presently with
huge wedge of the delectable cake on
. plate, and seated herself again be-
side him.
IT guess you'll like that better" she
remarked in answer to his cautiously
worded thanks. MY, what Il morntn'
it's been! First that-that awful
business, and then havin' to break the
news to Mrs. Cayley and the young
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she's been with Mis- Cayley for
twelve years. Mis- Cayley's husband
was an invalid and died ten year
ago. and four years afterwards she
and Miss Millie and Lefty come 10
New York from Milborough, Penn
sylvania, to keep house for Mr.. Ben
kard, Henry and William Dunn was
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the front was forced and the lock
O. the door broke! That's how the
murd'rer got in last night!'
CHAPTER vi.
Geof Helps
The creek which wound between
broad, gently sloping meadows to
the sound reflected the last pink
glow of sunset that evening. as DR..
-n0d left his car at the side of the
main road. Along the narrow. we'll
worn path he made his way toward
a tiny frame cottage set in a garden
that fairly rioted with bloom.
AS he neared 1t, a deep-throated
baying sounded from within, and
Geoff's tall, lanky figure appeared in
the doorway.
why. hello. Doc" Unfeigned sur
prise and pleasure quickened his
drawling on tones, heTe since Donn ma died dfeKon
You've kept up her garden. I see"
The doctor paused to sniff at
fragrant rosebush.
Yes" Geon replied half apollo
weakness. Seems kinder more like
livin' with somethin' pretty round.
Go on outside, Rufe.'
He added the last to nondescript
hound which had ceased Its baying
and come to the doorway beside him
Iinquiringly. The dog obeyed, wag-
ging its tail in friendly fashion at
the visitor, and then trotted off to
the shed from whence came the oc'
casional stamp OF a horses hoofs.
What sort of Il collection have
YOU in your menagerie now, Geof?'
asked the doctor, as he followed his
host into the immaculate kitchen.
only Rufe and Sim Perkins old
mare that he turned out to die last
winter and-and Lady, here"
As he spoke, 81 huge, silky, buff and
white bundle moved on an old quilt
in the corner and a great dog raised
herself on her fore legs with the
hind ones stretched out helplessiy be-
hind her.
why, it's a Russian wolfhound!
Ia beauty" DR.. Hood exclaimed.
What happened to her that her hind
quarters are paralzyed? Run over?'
She's been mistreated. Geon re
IN his tone which few had ever heard
! there. II was given ten dollars to
take her out and shoot her, but l
brought her home instead. and the
vet. I had down from the city says
she's goin' to git well. Set down,
what wasn't my business, so i
worked on the garage all afternoon"
1T looks as though this case We're
anybody's business" the doctor OBJ
served ruefully as he seated himself.
I'm going to perform the autopsy
tonight. but there will be nothing to
it, and then I'm out of II until the
trial if there ever is one. Sergt.
Eliot is using Zeke for a sort of
watchman since he discovered that
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with him already"
The visitor laughed until his fat
body shook
L thought that was now it must
nave turned out" he excl lirrcd.
Then his face sobered.
CONTINUED in Tomorrow's Starr
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window o. that big empty room at
the front was forced and the lock
O. the door broke! That's how the
murd'rer got in last night!'
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-05-31
Americas Marvels
NATURAL AND OTHERWISE
By T. T. Maxey
CHICAGO DRAINAGE CANAL

The Chicago Drainage Canal RANKS
well to the fore among the great en-
cheering feats of modern times.
The purpose of its construction was
twofold. Primarily to purify Chicagos
supply Of drinking water. which Is oo-
tained from Lake Michigan, by revers-
ing the flow of the Chicago river SO
that the sewage from the city, instead
of being dumped into the lake, would
be carried off into the Des PLANES riv-
er which in turn empties into the ILL
nois river, Ultimately, to provide
ship canal from Lake Michigan to the
Gulf of Mexico.
Commenced In September, 1892, and
formally opened in January. 1900, this
so-called canal is approximately forty
miles in length, has minimum depth
Of twenty-five feet, varies in width
from 100 to 300 feet at the top. and has
a capacity of about 100000 cubic feet
Of water per minute.
Four major operations were In
volved in this huge task. First, the
Chicago river had to be both widened
and deepened for more than five miles; !;
next the digging Of canal for twenty
eight miles; then the river had to be
diverted from the old to the new chan
mel and finally the building Of tail
race and new channel for seven
miles.
Grave fears were entertained by
many that the cities past which this
diverted sewage must flow and which
obtained their supplies of drinking wa
ter from this stream would be visited
by an epidemic of water-borne diseases,
particularly typhoid. Again the Ques-
tlon as to whether the taking of suf-
ficient water from Lake Michigan to
flush the canal would adversely affect
the interests of the states and cities
bordering on the lake, through the low
ering of the surface of the water in
the lake, and in turn interfere with
the navigable capacity of the rivers
which flow into the lake, was long and
seriously discussed
But scientific examination and inves-
tigation failed to substantiate the
threatened dangers from disease; the
imagined damage to the navigation in
terests of the Lake Michigan region
failed to materialize.
That Chicago has benefited immeas-
urably from sanitary standpoint
there is not the question of a doubt,
according to the reports of the health
department. When the locks in the
Des PLANES and Illinois rivers, which
connect the canal with the Mississippi
river are increased in size and the
fixed bridges which span the canal in
the Chicago zone are transformed to
swinging or lift bridges, it is expected
that barges and light-draft river craft
will move in large numbers from Chi
cago, through this man-made channel,
to New Orleans.
90. 1928. Western Newspaper Union)
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-05-31
Champion Wolf Irapper.

e. F. Pope. predatory animal In
spector for the United States Bureau
Of Biological Survey. is recognized as
the champion wolf catcher of the
United States" and has the reputa-
ton Of always getting his wolf" He
has given his life to the work.
Mr.. Pope began the work Of destroy
ing predatory animals when he was
twelve years old. He was raised on
a ranch in western Texas and devoted
his time to the work when conditions
reached the point where 1t was i'm.
possible to let cattle Craze without a
guard being placed over them to pro-
tect them from the voices, coyotes and
bobcats. A few years later he started
living with an old trapper who was
famed all over Texas for his success
in trapping wolves. During this period
Mr.. Pope said he got his most valu-
able experience and learned the superb
ority of scientific trapping over un.
scientific methods.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-05-31
CITIZENS MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS

Every newspaper is being flooded with literature
boosting the various Military Training Camps the
country and every young whose name and address
be obtained is receiving this literature
There a time when with many others, though
these summer training opportunities good thing
but owing to the outcroppng of the real purposes of
these Training Camps" we with thousands of Others
find it hard to support these camps.
In a circular letter which this office received Monday
find nine why young should attend
these camps.
Here four of the nine reasons:
"To learn how fire a rifle"
ITO uniform a soldier should"
"ro acquire keen appetite for nourshing army
food"
To fit Yourself for service to the nation in times of
stress"
From these quotations find that four out of the
nine points advanced in favor "Ctzens Train
ing Comps tend to make the participants efficient
in FIRING RIFLE LOOKING AND ACTING LIKE A
SOLDIER GETTING ACCUSTOMED TO ARMY FOOD
TRAINING FOR SOLDIER SERVICE.
We have too many young and older fellows already
who know too much about firing rife Too many fu
nerals held because some Drained fool pulled a
trigger and snuffed out a human life.
There is and has always been, too much of a desire
among the boys and younger look act like
soldier The ultimate result of this inbred on the
part of its young men, encouraged by the government
drove Germany to make fool of itself and cause the
butcherng of 100000 human beings say nothing of
the chaos into which the world has been driven
Rather than learn to relish army food would ten
thousand times rather teach boys and young men to
acquire a keen appetite" for MOTHERS NoURIsHING
FOOD AND STAY AT HOME in preference to running
away join the army
AS to the necessity Of soldier training Americas
past and glorious history has shown us that our men,
though not trained in militarsc fashion, have always
shown themselves equal to the strenuous occasions
We do not believe in following the example of the
nations that have tried out military auocracy failed
We believe that should rather peaceful
and stay far possible from everything that savo of
Notwithstanding Independent
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-05-31
Tho Nlahtie and Nine

My most embarrassing moment oc-
Cured one day when my employer, a
merchandise man who often writes
advertisements for newspapers, asked
me to spell the word ninety"
There is glass partition between
his desk and mine, and | was busily
engaged writing some letters. mis-
understood him and spelled the word
"nightie,' thinking he was engaged in
writing an al advertising Infants
wear. What he really was doing was
writing out check for ninety dollars.
1t was Indeed most embarrassing
moment, but | must say my boss
enjoyed a good hearty laugh at my
expense.-EXchange.