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Cordova, December 16
P. D. Burke, well known and
popular pioneer of the Copper River
valley, died at Seattle yesterday.
This information reached Cordova
today in the form of a cablegram to
E. C. Ross. Mr. Burke had been ill
for about three weeks before leav
ing for the outside on the Mariposa
which sailed November 15, as he
contracted a severe cold when he
came down from his farm at Long
Lake. His reservations on two dif
ferent boatB were canceled because
he did not feel able to make the trip,
although he was not confined to his
bed at any time here.
Before his departure, Mr. Burke
confided to friends here the fact that
he Intended to give the families of
his sons, at his old home in Minne
apolis, Minnesota, a pleasant sur
prise on Christmas eve by dropping
in on them unannounced and as a
real Santa Claus; but fate willed
otherwise.
The remains will probably be
sent there for interment. Mr. Burke
was about 75 years of age and was
among the first to locate a home
stead in the Copper River valley,
where he had resided for about 12
years. He was under the care of
Malcom Smith, former physician at
the Cordova hospital, at the time of
his death.
Discovery of a big ledge of low
grade ore near the headwaters of
the Copper river has just been made
known at Fairbanks, says the Citi
zen, though the find was really
made last summer.
The discovery was made by
“Dick” Rothenberg and J. L. Myers,
who had interested an English syn
dicate in it. The war in Europe,
however, put a stop to the negotia
tions for the sale, or lease of the
property. From Mr. Myers it is
learned that the ledge is near the
Slate Creek placer mine, which has
been such a good producer and
seems exhaustless. The ledge is un
covered for a distance of a mile and
a quarter and is from 500 to 1,500
feet in width. Assays of the ore
show that it runs about 53.50 in
gold and 57.50 in silver. In most
of the assays there is also some
showing of copper and lead. Some
of the ore is free milling.
Down in the creek bed, where the
rock is decomposed, men have made
54 a day shoveling the dirt into
sluice boxes. It is believed that the
whole ledge can be milled to a good
profit when transportation facilities
are provided.
The English syndicate was to
have the mine examined by the Har
graves Engineering Company, whose,
engineers were in Cordova last j
month returning from Ruby, but it
was learned that the syndicate
would be unable to do anything with
it this season, so the matter was put
off until next season. It is expected
that when the engineers return to
Alaska next spring, the find will be
carefully inspected with a view of
promoting its development.
Sig. Goodwick, returning from
Tolovana on the. 5th inst., informed
the Fairbanks News-Miner that the
men working on 5 below discovery,
Livengood, had reached bedrock and
found nine feet of pay gravel run
ning three cents to the pan. By the
usual method of computation this
would mean 51.35 dirt, calculating
five pans to the cubic foot. The men
measured their pans and weighed
their gold and it is this information
that gives it value.
Three-cent gravel has been re
ported from Tolovana ever since
bedrock was struck this fall, but it
lay in stratas and only individual
and disconnected pannings were
weighed. The pay ground reported
was struck just before Goodwick left
and he claims it was actually meas
ured and the gold weighed. The
name of the owner of this claim
could not be learned, but he is said
to be a Garden Island man.
H. C. Hall, whose feet were frozen
after he stepped into water hidden
by snow while he was crossing Spen
cer glacier, will lose the great toe
and portions of the other toes of his
right foot, also several toes of the
left foot, as the attending physician
at Seward found amputation neces
sary.
The cable between Cordova and
Valdez went out of commission this
monring about 10 o’clock, necessi
tating the transfer of business with
outside points to the. wireless sys
tem. The Valdez ofllce has its
“trouble shooter” at work endeavor
ing to determine the location and
extent of the difficulty. If a break
has occurred, several days must
elapse before it can be repaired, as
the nearest repair boat is the Burn
aide, at Seattle.
w x. s. Nash, a mining engineer
from Juneau, who has been examin
ing property in the vicinity of Me
Carthy since last September, Tor
Bastern capitalists, was a passenger
from the interior on Tuesday's
train and will return to his home
at Juneau on the steamship Mari
posa. Mr. Nash declined to express
himself for publication, regarding
observations and conclusions.
Cordova, December 17
A shipment of 40 foxes valued at
about $20,000 was made on the
Bteamer Mariposa last night. They
are from the Fundy Fox Co.’s as
sembling station here, are consigned
-o St. Johns, New Brunswick, and
are in charge of C. D. Colwell, sup
erintendent of the local station
Each fox occupies a separate
crate. Thirty-seven of the foxes are
f the blue variety and three are the
silver gray cross.
These animals go to replenish the
herd at the Fundy Company’s big
propagating farm. While the com
pany is engaged in propagating on
several islands of Alaska, it also
has about a dozen men purchasing
throughout Alaska and the North
west territory. The furs of the sil
ver gray variety are valued at
$1,250 to $1,500 eacn, those of the
blue at $50 to $60, hence the in
creasing number of fox farms in
this part of the country.
Mr. Colwell will accompany the
"oxes te their destination and ex
pects to return to Cordova about
March 1, 1915.
Cordova. December 18
Damages sustained by the steam
ship Admiral Evans when she struck
on a reef at Bird Island several
days ago, while on her trip to the
westward, were more serious than
first reported here. Maj. L. H.
French, who is a passenger on the
vessel from Seward to Seattle, in
formed the Daily Alaskan last even
ing that a hole seven feet long was
ripped in the outer sheeting of her
bottom. The fact that she has a
double bottom is responsible for the
vessel being able to proceed with
the temporary repairs which she
underwent after being beached. The
cavity was patched up with cement
ind the vessel will go on the dock
for permanent repairs when she
reaches Seattle. -
The boat struck during a heavy
snowstorm when she was under a
slow bell and did not hit hard.
The light repairs on the hull of
the steamer Dora, made necessary
when she was hung up on a reel
near Kodiak on her last trip to the
westward, were completed on the
each at Seward in time for the old
reliable packer to start on schedule
lime for the westward last Tuesday
Cordova, December 19
To get the accumulation of parcel
post packages and newspapers whicn
have accumulated at Cordova in ex
cess of the limit allowed under the
mail contract, Postmaster Deal if
Fairbanks has wired to the depart
ment at Washington. Tne News
Miner says he surmises that most
if this parcels post is Christmas
stuff and that without it t airbanks
and the creeks will have only half
a Christmas tree.
He hopes to receive an authoriza
tion to have this additional ton
taken in by stage right away. The
department usually lets a contract
in December for extra tonnage of
mail from Cordova in excess of the
regular contract, but that has not
been done this winter. Besides the
parcels post there are 3,000 pounds
of advertising matter.
Cordova, December 21
Jack Heath, a mining man well
known throughout Alaska, who had
neen missing from Seattle for about
a month, after going out from Fair
banks, has been located at Hills
boro, Ore. He had been out of a
sickbed only two days wnen he
wrote, his father. A dispatch re
ceived by the Daily Alaskan at the
time of Mr. Heath’s disapearance
expressed the fear that he had com
mitted suicide because of despond
ency resulting from loss of money
invested in a moving picture show
at Seattle. Mrs. Heath and her
Drother-in-law commenced suit
against the man who sold Mr. Heath
an outfit he did not own and for
which he could not give a bill of
sale. The fellow who bunkoed Mr.
Heath turned over some suburban
property in Portland and is at
tempting otherwise to “square him
se.lf” to avoid prosecution.
In a telegram to Fred Martin, one
of the two Democratic territorial
committeemen from the Fourth divi
sion, Charles E. Bunnell has an
nounced that he is a candidate for
the judgship of that division and
that he has been for months. State
ments made at the time of the resig
nation of Judge Fuller, that Mr.
^"nnell was a candidate, were
denied by his intimate, friends, but
'he telegram seems to settle the
matter definitely.
Job Hunters Relate Pathetic
Tales of Misery and Want
MAN and wife offer their services at
auction to the highest bidder.
Will go either together or separ
ately, for term of one, two or
three years. Both young. Man
capable along construction, me
chanical or technical lines; wire
college and business woman, twi
years’ hospital training, good
housekeeper.
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MIDDLE-AGEJP starving man, able
to do any kind of work, also
handy on rough carpenter work;
will work for small wages, city or
country.
WANT work, am specialist on house
cleaning, yard work, night watch
ing; 59 years old, married; we
need work badly so we can eat.
B. S. Clark, Beacon 649.
MARRIED man 35 years old; must
have work of some kind; wife,
three children and mother to take
care of.
YOUNG man wants any kind of
work to keep alive; wife trying,
can’t get work. Christmas decor
ating, cut wood; anything. Elliott
2231-W.
MARRIED man. 3 children, must
have work immediately; will take
anything.
STRONG, wholesome young fellow
of 18 must have work. Do peo
ple not know that crimes are
averted by helpfulness?
YOUNG man, 20, needs employment
at once. Willing to work for
board and room and necessary
expenses.
The above advertisements, selec
ted with one exception at random
from among four columns of “em
ployment wanted” in a recent num
ber of a Seattle paper, brings to
light industrial conditions which j
give the lie to the news and |
editorial columns of that paper and j
others which have been telling their
readers about the return of “pros
perity” in the states. The paper
referred to runs such ads three j
times free, otherwise those quoted |
probably could not have been |
printed. There is no doubt con-j
cealed in each line of each ad a
“human interest” story which a
skilled novelist could build into an j
attractive “movie” tragedy or drama j
as the. spirit moved. The one e.\- J
ception referred to was the first ad. j
in which a young man and hi3 wife ;
offer themselves at auction to the |
highest bidder, and which was the |
subject of a front page article, giv- j
ing the experiences of the couple
while job-hunting during their
three years’ residence in Seattle,
most of that time their home being
a tent. He had been able to secure
only two days and five hours work
in the preceding seven weeks. The
office numbers have been omitted
from most of the ads, otherwise,
they are just as they appeared
originally.
At Seattle last w'eek a commltte
was appointed by the newly formed
Unemployed Women’s League tc
protest to the Central Council of
Social Agencies against the age
limit set for those who should re
ceive the benefit of the council s
$500 appropriation. The league
also resolved itself into an informa
tion bureau, where particularly
needy cases may be reported. Many
talcs of suffering and privation were
told by the gray-haired women and
young girls who wrere present.
The municipality, as has already
been stated in these columns, main
tains “Hotel de Gink” where men
out of work can secure lodgings and
meals, doing such odd jobs therefor
as the executive committee of
’boarders” can secure with aid of
the different charitable and civic
organization. This' alleged hotel ,s
crowded to capacity and it is sup
posed that a’ portion of the overflow
was involved in the so-called I. W.
W. raid of yesterday on a big Second
avenue restaurant.
But “hard times” are not confined
to Seattle. From Rome comes this
bit of evidence—the first to reach
us from that part of the world: “The
unemployed of this city held a huge
mass meeting last night and de
manded work. The people are starv
Ing. Industries have been destroyed
because of the war in Europe. The
heavy burden of the war with Tur
key and the cost of mobilizing the
troops to protect Italian interests
during the present trouble has made
financial conditions here had.”
The receipt by the Be.thlehem
steel works of a $50,000,000 order
*nr war material to a'd in reduclna
the population of Europe will swell
dividends for the steel trust, and
furnish Bteady employment for a
limited number in a small portion of
Pennsylvania; but it will not answer !
the call of the hungry and destitute
of the east, the north, tne south or
be west. From tne very shadows
jf this company’s works—from the
city of Pittsburg comes this report
in a paper of December 3:
“The finance committee of tbe
city council provided for public im
provements to coBt $49,600 and in
tended especially to give work to
the unemployed, in the cleaning and
Improving of atreeta and parks and
for a new baseball ground in High
land park. Another important im
provement not actually needed is a
tunnel under Grant boulevard; but
the work will keep the spectre uf
hunger from many homes.”
“The amount of unemployment in
Ottawa is appalling, and the gen
ereal public would be amazed to
learn the low rates of wages that
are being paid to clerks and assist
ants in the city,” declared Delegate
James Ussher at a meeting in tbe
the Canadian metropolis appropos
the proposal to hold a social survey
of the city. Many of the clerks and
others are not receiving enough
wages to provide bread tor their
families it was claimed.
Returning to points nearer home:
The associated charities of Aber
deen, a lumber manufacturing town
where mills are running short time
when not closed entirely, applied to
the city council for permission to
let idle men cut timber on street
extensions, the association to pay
the men $1 a rick and sell the wood
to dealers. Married men are to te
given preference and the work is
expected to last all winter. They
can make $2 a day by hustling.
“What are we going to do to aid
the needy?” asks the Everett
Tribune, which quotes the city em
ployment agent as saying more than
1,000 men are out of work there
with a prospect of the number being
doubled there before spring. The
paper contains accounts of a crowd
of more than 100 men marching
daily to the city hall and demanding
that the city commission give, them
employment making needed im
provements on streets and parks. At
the recent city election a proposition
to issue bonds for this work was
voted down. Owners of large tracts
of real estate in the suburbs are en
deavoring to furnish work at $1.50
per day clearing, although public
sentiment there—the town is recog
nized as strongly “union”—is
against accepting less than $2.7;>.
Shingle manufacturers submitted a
proposition to their employes to
reduce wages about 10 per cent, but
the offer was voted down unanim
ously, the. men advising the owners
to close the mills rather than per
mit the brokers and speculators to
run and ruin their business for
them.
“We don’t want charity—we want;
work,” said one of the idle men who
lad been referred to the association.!
which has been able to care for onlv
a small portion of the calls for
assistance.
The Tribune states that a loan to
the city by individuals is being con
sidered, but those making the offer
do not approve of the proposed mini
mum Wage of $2.75. The mayor
suggested $2 as the maximum.
One man said: “I must have
something to do to get food for m.v
children. Before I will let them go
hungry, I will work for 75 cents a
day.”
State Senator John E. Campbell
has prepared a bill to be introduced
at the coming session of the legis
lature- of Washington appropriating
$250,000 for immediate relief cl
unemployed. “Writing magazine
and newspaper articles will not pro
vide food and shelter for the winter
for men and women out of jobs, or
for their more helpless children,”
he said.
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Chas. Fairbanks was drowned in
Atlin lake Dec. 14, while returning
to his home at Atlin from a hunt
ing trip.
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