Show Q a 1 I HEROINE OF GOLD RUSH I i ij J IS IS AGED AGES AND DESTITUTE A COLTON Cal Oct 8 S AD AP AP- AP Mother Woods who carried tho the news across Alaska that a n. great groat gold strike had been made on the spot which soon became Nome wants to take In washings so that she may eat Mrs C. C iV Chace as Mother Iother Woods Is now known left the north with In her money belt Adversity Adversity Ad Ad- began with the loss of her fortune and was followed bythe by bythe the disappearance of ot her husband I after an automobile accident r T- T 1 r T t. t V T.-V Y p R. h h Tn I Lon Ion O don and Tex Rickard nickard In the north during tho the gold rush days Mrs Chace declares she can do as good gooda a washing as anyone anone In spite of ot other her 70 years She Sho says sas she was the first white woman to set foot fool In Nome Nonte ome and that she was Anna Black of Rex Hex Beachs Beach's The Spoilers Mrs Chace heard and heeded the call of the tho north In 1894 and lived Jived in Alaska 22 years ears with only Infrequent in infrequent infrequent In- In frequent visits outside As Mrs 1 Woods before her marriage at I Dawson to C C. W W. Chace she be became became became be- be came known over over overall all Alaska as Mother Woods friend of tho the sour sour- dough It was while carrying letters letters let let- tel's and newspapers from back let let-I homo home to the sourdoughs In the Interior that she spread plead the now news from St. St Michael to Dawson that gold had been struck on the Bering Bering- strait stroH coast Ten years ago with money made and years ears of comfort in the states seemingly ly before them Mr and I Mrs Chaco Chace left Alaska to make their home In Nevada But the gold gained from the cold hills and sands of ot rushing rivers in the north melted away in the south and fortune fortune fortune for for- tune vanished Mrs Chace came here In n quest ofa ot of ota ota a living She placed a modest advertisement advertisement ad ad- in a newspaper asking for tor washings to do at her small home on the o outskirts of town |