Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-09-12
COOKE CITY
News Items
BY L. NJ. Prin

oJ 49, NH fNW
With the passing of Anton
Zukor, a resident here for the past
AZ years, another of the old-time
citizens of the New World mining
district has been called by death.
Mr.. Zukor died August q while
a patient at a Livingston hospital
where he had been taken several
days before by his wife. Accom-
panied by his wife, Anton Zukor
came to the United States "A
years ago from Bohemia, the cou-
pie locating in Pennsylvania for a
short period. They then came to
Cooke City where they have re-
sided V e since. Mr.. Zukor was a
jeweler by trade, but upon coming
to Montana he became interested
in mining and, during his long
residence in this state, had fol-
lowed that profession.
Until the time of death, he had
been actively engaged on a group
of five claims just east of town.
On one claim he spent many years
of work in tunneling through
granite with the hope of reaching
the mother lode. His work on his
claims can be termed marvellous in
view of the fact that for 40 years
he had been unable to stand
erect, due to an accident in 1896
at the famous Daisy mine on
Henderson mountain in which he
suffered a broken back. With the
tenacity of his Bohemian ances-
tors, he fought his way back to an
active life, but it was a life that
none would care for, as he never
could straighten up as before and
walked with his hands almost
touching the ground. At the time
of death Mr.. Zukor was n years
old and he is survived by his wife,
who was born the same year. No
relatives are in this country and
it was with a lone heart that the
faithful wife saw her mate low
cred into the grave at Livingston,
however many offered her that
sympathy needed at the time and
Mrs. Zukor will be looked after
by many friends here as well.
A blaze that for a time threat
ened to turn into a forest fire of
some consequence on Wednesday
night completely destroyed the
home of Mrs. Mile Shrine in the
east part of the city. Active work
of the volunteer fire fighters with
the cooperation of Fire GuarC
Mickey Macdonald kept tht
flames from catching in the for
est which almost surrounded thu
cottage, but the alarm vas givei
too late to save the building. Mrs
Shrine had not been home since
early morning and was spending
the night at the home of he
mother, Mrs. Mandervolle. Thu
flames we're discovered at 1890 il
the night and it is a mystery a
to how the fire started. Mrs. Sir
rine lost all her clothing, as wei
as furniture.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Robertson
left last week for Denver, in orde
to place their young son in schoo.
They expect to return to Cook
City within a few days.
Wayne Janney of the Yale OF
station, left for Billings last wee
where he will be employed for tn
winter months.
Morris Sawyer and Bert Din
left Saturday for Billings afte
spending the summer in Cook
City doing various carpenterin
jobs. Mr.. Sawyer expects to re
turn, however, and will stay in tn
mining city until real winter set
in.
Engineer A. w. Mitchell, j
charge of the Red Lodge Cook
City road work, was a visitor j
Cooke Tuesday, comforting wit
the local engineering force. H
was accompanied by Mr.. Elliott, G
the bureau of roads of Washing
ton, D. c., and several park an
forestry officials.
Mr.. and Mrs. 10 North of Bi
lings spent the week end with M
and Mrs. Lynn F. Holiday at til
smelter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Jimason. WI
are living at the smelter, were
Billings last week making a.
rangements to place their youn
sol in school. They arrived BAG
here Friday and will stay in can
until winter weather really start
The Cooke City school opent
for a nine months, session Tue