Cordova, December 9
The body of Mrs. Jack Shepard, a
native of Alaska and pioneer of Cor
dova, who had been missing since
last Saturday, was found on the
beach a few rods north of the dock
by N. P. Nelson about 11:30 this
forenoon. The body was clothed in
street costume with the exception of
the bonnet, which was missing. Mr.
Nelson, who is a longshoreman, dis
covered the body as he was passing
in a small boat. He brought it to
the float at the dock and notified
Commissioner Adams, who held an
inquest this afternoon.
Mrs. Shepard was last seen alive
late Saturday evening. She came
from the Orca cannery in the com
pany launch earlier in the day to
attend the funeral of Mrs. Gio, and
all trace of her was lost after she
left the house in Oldtown where the 1
funeral was held, so the Daily
Alaskan was informed by Sox Stev
enns, a nephew, who had been
searching for her since Sunday.
Mrs. Shepard was about 50 years |
of age and the mother of six chil
dren, all of whom reside in or near
Cordova. Mr. and Mrs. Shepard
separated last spring. He is also a|
well known pioneer of the city.
The jury consisted of M. Finke.l-1
stein, Harry Rolf, Camille McGowan, i
F. Marshall, M. W. Dietrick, and '■
A. J. Henneke.
The verdict of the jury was thatj
Mrs. Shepard was accidentally
drowned. It is presumed she fell
overboard from the float while at
tempting to get aboard the launch
Saturday night.
A. G. Montgomery of Clyde,
Kansas, is anxious to learn of the
whereabouts of his son, Dr. Mont
gomery, who was in Cordova in
July, 1913, and w-as one of the first
to join the stampede to Shushanna.
Anyone knowing the doctor a pres
ent address will confer a favor on
his anxious father and family by
writing the former at the address
above given.
A leltter from “The Two Jacks,'1
brings the information that Cnisana
is quiet.
Owners of claims there are cut
ting wood and preparing to prospect i
the benches. If they And good pay
they will remain; if not, then good
bye. 1
It is reported that Fred Leby has i
struck pay on his bench claim.
F. T. Hamshaw has a number of !
boilers and crews prospecting on 1
Wilson Creek. 1
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Frank Rotch, a relative of Thos.
Riggs of the Alaska Engineering ;
Commission, came north on the i i
steamer Evans. He will remain in i
each of the principal cities a few (
days, but the nature of his mission •
could not be learned. i
A stage line has been established
between Fairbanks and the new ,
camp on the Tolovana. 1
John Faliy has struck Ave feet of •
pay dirt on Happy Creek, near Fair- ,
banks, said to run 10 cents to the ,
pan.
'the city limits of Juneau are tc ,
be extended to include several addi- ;
tions and to increase the area of the
municipality about one-third.
A new shaft to be 2,400 deep has ;
been started at the Ready Bullion;
mine, Treadw'ell. The dimensions j
are 20 feet by 7 feet 6 inches, out-!
side measurement.
Residents of the Koyukuk district j
complain about their miserable
mail service. Only three mails each
way from Wiseman had been car
ried during the year, up to Novem
ber 1.
'•■A syndicate of Valdez people
which leased the Sealy-Davis prop
erty on Shoup Bay has let to Olaf
Olson, Jas. Frasier, Jas. O’Brien and
John Baun a contract to drive 200 i
feet of tunnel.
A gigantic mastodon skull, dug:
from frozen ground 110 feet below I.
the surface near Dawson lias been j
brought to Seattle by Capt. S. C. j
Barrington. The ground was frozen |
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Cordova, December 10
The core drill which was set up for demonstration
purposes at the shop of Harmon & Deever, and which began
operations Monday morning, struck artesian water at a depth
of about 37 feet, this morning, after passing through 11 feet
of graywack under the gravel and stujd.
Operation of the drill was suspended to permit of tests j
of the water, which appears to be pure. A flow estimated at
10 gallons a minute continues unabated from the casing. Tanks
from the refrigerator plant are to be filled tonight for the
purpose of testing the water for ice-making purposes.
Suspension of drilling operations is only temporary, and
this work will be resumed as soon as the nature of the water
from the present strata is determined. The working of the j
drill is being watched with interest bv local mining
men and others.
Cordova, Decemebr 11
A late paper from Boston received,
by Alvah Eames brings the informa
tion that the shipment of 7,000,000
humpback salmon eggs from Afog
nak, Alaska, had been received at
Bangor, Me. They are to be divided
, equally between the United States
* hatcheries at Greene Lake and East
Orland for development. These
eggs were shipped across the conti
nent in a federal fisheries depart
g. ment car kept at a temperature of
40 degrees, in charge of J. P. Foley,
of Massachusetts, the car “captain,”
and several assistants. The eggs
were not in the least affected by the
jar of railroad travel. About the
first of February tney will have de
veloped into fishes an inch long,
and will then be ready for planting
in Maine coast rivers, the localities
selected being Damariscotta, Wal
dobor, Union River, Rockland and
other places eastward to the St.
Croix.
This is the second year of the
United States government experi
|i ment in transplanting Pacific salmon
to Atlantic waters. The success of
the experiment requires five years
for demonstration, but it is to be
noted that 95 per cent of last year’s
jpggs were successfully hatched.
Among arrivals on the train from
the interior, which reached Cordova
a 2 o’clock this afternoon, were six
from Fairbanks, who came through
to Chitina by horse stage in eight
days. They reported eight inches of
snow on the summit, but at other
points the record “dry” season con
tinues and retards work at winter
diggings because of inability to move
freight fast enough.
Cordova, December 12
C. F. Whitham and P. M. Clark,
two pioneers of the Shushanna dis
mct. are in the city returning from
a business trip to Seattle.
E. Miller and S. E. Holden of
Katalla are in the city and will be
passengers on the train for the in
terior Monday, with the new camp
at the headwaters of the Chitina as
their destination.
from the surface down.
A new postoitice has neen estab
lished at Takotna with mail service
to Ruby. This insures the continu
ous existence of a winter trail be
tween Seward and Ruby and the dis
tricts in the lower end of the Yukon
river. A mail route has been estab
lished between Takotna and Mc
Grath on the Kuskokwim,
Cordova, December 14
The bitter indictment of Congress
in the annual report 'of Secretary oi
the Navy Daniels, because of the
great loss of life and ships in the
waters of Alaska through the penur
ious policy of that body in denyinig i
adequate funds for surveys and sur
vey vessels, was one of the most
scathing ever made in a public docu
ment. Only a faint idea of the docu
ment was conveyed in the brief
cablegram received by the Daily
Alaskan at the time the report was
submitted last week. The full text
of the report was received in to
day’s mail by the steamer Mariposa.
It tells some plain, cold-blooded
facts about neglect of the govern
mentr—facts' WliidlY Alaskans and
people of the North Pacific coast are
familiar with, but which they have
heretofore been unable to bring
before Congress in a way to secure
results desired. It is believed the
majority of Congressmen are not so
apathetic as to prevent them from
being stirred to action by these
burning words of the secretary. Fol
lowing are some of the hot shot the
secretary fires at Congress:
"Our citizens have been drowned
in Alaskan waters and both public
and private property has been de
stroyed because of • the penurious
ness of the United States govern
ment.
“Vessels now in the service of the
coast and geodetic survey are anti
quated and dilapidataed; they are
without sufficienit power to gain
steerage way in heavy weather and
should be condemned.
"It is a shameful thing to send
American officers and men to sea in
such ships as the Endeavor, Gedney
tnd McArthur. These vessels are
dangerously unsanitary and unsea
ft’ort.hy*.-- - --
"Thirty-three hundred pinnacle
rocks were found by drag-netting on
:he Atlantic coast and $93 of these
vere distinct menaces to navigation
Pinnacle rocks in Alaska are known
)y the names of the ships that, found
hem—only too often with disas
rous results.
“The government apparently is
nuch more concerned in saving a
ew dollars than in saying the lives
>f its citizens.
Will the people of the United
States regard with patience an atti
ude that says, substantially—Let
ihipB go down and let people
Irown?’ ’’
The secretary asks for an appro
bation of $500,000 to replace the
rinity of antiques that do duty as
mrvey vessels in Western waters,
md an appropriation of $225,000
or the commencement of a thor
>ugh dragnet survey.
The greater part of the volumin
>us report is devoted to Alaska and
he Pacific coast. In general it
■ecom mends ecenomy in the vari
>us bureaus in the department of
:ommerce, and it reviews briefly the
mportant work of investigating
:ommercial conditions in the United
States and foreign countries.
In dealing with the coast surv> y,
Secretary Redfield says that its
vork comes first in the protection
>f life and property along our shores
ind in opening the way for trade,
‘ret after an experience of 20
nonths I affirm that the past atti
:ude of the government towards the
loast and geodetic survey * * »
las been—both with respect to its
lousing, its vessels and the neces
sary apparatus as regards the Paci
ic Coast and Alaska—like that of
i wealthy and prosperous man re
fusing to give his loyal children the
lecessaries of life.”
Referring to the Alaska railway,
;he secretary says:
"\ve put su.uuu.uo omto a railway
:o develop a growing national pos
session from which we have drawn
tundreds of millions in value with
out providing the ordinary appar
itus required to make surveys to
nsure safety in waters known to he
iangerous by their continued ter-,
rible record.”
This record includes 290 vessels
if a total value of $12,792,250.
rhree of these were, government ves
sels—the revenue cutters Perry in
1910 and Tahoma in 1914 and the
lighthouse tender Armeria in 1912.
The secretary invites special at
tention to the fact that appropria
tions for special works in the light
house service for the liscal year
1915 total only $136,000, while the
average amount for the ten preced
ing years was $946,927 annually.
Referring to the antique coast
survey vessels now in nse—the En
leavor, Gedney and McArthur—the
secretary says:
lo continue the use of these
ships is but little removed in Wis
iom from a policy which would re
fuse to build a new battleship bs
:auee the old Constitution is still in
existence. * * * By the time
tew ships can be built to replace
:hem it will be a grave question
whether these ships can be sent to
sea at all, and the important work
which they must do be stopped till
iafe vessels are provided.
"These ships have earned an hon
jrable repose. I trust they may sur
vive to get it without carrying with
hem, ere it is gained, the officers
ind crews whose misfortune it is to
se continued in their use. * * *
rhese ships are expensive luxuries,
extravagant in the waste of time
ind fuel and likely to be even more
extravagant in the waste fo lives.
"These old, obsolete ships, with
>ut wireless equipment and deficient
n many modern appliancese, can
lot be safely used except in pro
jected waters. The Endeavor, now
working in sheltered waters on the
Atlantic coast, cannot be sent to the
Pacific, since she could not survive
:he voyage. The steamers Gedney
ind McArthur, while still employed
in surveys in sheltered waters in
;he Pacific, are. unfit for the service.
“These three steamers are respec
tively, 52, 39, and 38 years old, are
tingle screw, single-cylinder, and
single.-boller, coal-burning vessels,
without electricity for wireless or
for lighting, without refrigerating
plants, without condensers to make
fresh drinking water, and like other
equipment, now medieval.”
Mrs. Wm. D. Boyer, wife of a
former employe of the Copper River
fc Northwestern railway stationed at
Dordova, died at Idaho Falls on
Friday, November 19, after a sur
gical operation. This information
was received today by Floyd Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyer were well known
snd highly respected here* They
Jeparted from Cordova last fall for
their ne whome, where Mr. Boyer is
aow employed by the Oregon Short*
LATE M'GARTHY NEWS
P. T. Hamshaw of Chisan^ is in
town on his way east.
The Lubbe boys returned home
rom Chisana Tuesday.
Rev. Jas. McBride of Cordova,
rnd Judge O’Connor of Chitina,
were arrivals on Friday's train.
Rev. McBride held services Friday
svening, which were well attended.
He also started a Sunday school for
:he children, which will be heJd in
ihe court room until a church is
milt.
Wm. G. Witte, of Chisana is in
;on.
F. Youngs, F. T. Hamshaw, Chis
ina, W. S. Wiknor, Mother Lode
Mine, Max Rede, Dan Creek and
3has David, Spruce Point Road
House are registered at the Golden
Hotel.
December 8, 1914.
Line as night yard master. Their
friends here extend their sympathies
:o the bereaved ones. Mrs. Boyer
?ame to Cordova as a bride early in
the summer of 1914. '
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NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Here’s a
real war item. Victor Linart, a
Belgian entered in the six-day bi
cycle race here, got in training for
the event by running from the Ger
mans. Linart admits that he won
the now famous dash from Antwerp
when the Germans captured the
city, but was the first to reach the
famous coast resort.
Linart is the middle distance
champion of Belgium. After reach
ing Ostend ahead of all the other
starters, Linart went to Folkstone,
England, where he was a refugee.
A German shell wrecked his home
dkiring the bombardment of Ant
werp and he lost his racing outfit.
This did not interfere with his
speed in reaching Ostend, however,
and Floyd McFarland, managing the
six-day race had new togs waiting
for him here. In a letter to McFar
land while at Folkstone, Linart
said:
"I rode my wheel from Antwerp j
to Ostend, and it wTas a hard ride.
I was one. of the last to leave Ant
werp and the first to arrive in Os
tend. Making wide detours to
escape the awful congestion on the
main highway tripled the distance,
and riding at tip speed all the time,
put me in fine shape.”
The Seattle team of the North
western League in negotiating for
six new players "young men who
can be developed,” instead of sea
soned players whose worth is
known. The new policy will save
$2,000 a month in salaries and limit
the playing squad to 15. It’s a
Dugdaie scheme, but old fans pre
dict the falling otT in attendance at
cames will more than offset the
amount, saved by this spasm of
economy.
We hesitate to make any sugges
tions regarding possible ways in
which to settle the terrific baseball
war that has left so many magnates
hoarse and throaty, for fear of hav
ing the Noble Peace prize, pinned on
us. However, should we stop hesi
tating and suggest, we say that »i
the National League really ousted
Murphy, the, American League Big
Bill Devery and the Federals Gil
more, it ought to be even up and
time to shake hands all around.
The secret is out. Harvard’s suc
cess, despite the toss of Brickley,
was explained by a Crimson grad
the other day. Brickley’s appendix,
kept in a bottle, was surreptitiously
carried to New Haven by two super
stitious undergrads who had access
to where it was kept. Those two
times that Yale threatened to score,
the bottle was unwrapped and held
an high. Believe it or not, that's
the way it was told to us.
Tex Vernon, the Aberdeen feath
erweight, who was considered the
best little scrapper in his class
around the Northwest, met a sad
setback in New Orleans last week.
Vernon was knocked out in the
eighth round by "Red” Dolan, the
Eastern feather, In a scheduled teu
round bout.
Lehigh produced the best drop
kicker of the season in Cahall, who
booted the pigskin over 10 times in
secen games.
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