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SERBIAN CAMPUGN
COSTLY TO TEUTONS
Reported that Germans and Austrians
Have Suffered Casualties of
More than Sixty Thousand.
NISH, Oct. 23.—The Teutonic In
vaders of Serbia have paid a terrible
gciee for the small successes which
they have gained in King Peter’s
eonntry and it is estimated that their
casualties since the invasion began
two week8 ago have reached sixty
thousand men.
General Mackensen’s army, which
invaded Serbia from Bosnia, near the
holder of Montenegro, was forced to
retreat northward where the junc
ture of the Teutonic and Bulgarian
forces took place south of Belgrade.
It Is adm_ that the Teutonic al
lies hA captured many northern po
sitfaB^n Serbia but the Serbian
forces have suffered no crushing de
feat and have repused every effort
to capture the passes which permit
of munitions being sent to Constan
tinople.
King Peter is firm in his belief
that Greece will yet keep her treaty
made at Bucharest after the second
Balkan war whereby Greece and Ser
bia were to unite should either of
their countries be invaded by the Bul
garians. With the support of the
Greek army, and free access to the
Medlte.ranean for munitions and re
inforcements from the Allies, King
Peter believes the invaders can be
driven back into their own territory.
COL RICHARDSON
LEAVES TONIGHT
'Win Go to Washington to Report to
Department and Work for a
Ijarger Road Appropriation.
Co!. W. P. Richardson, president of
the Alaska Road commission, has re
ceived orders from the War Depart
snenJ^hstructing him to go to Wash
ington) and he leaves tonight on the
steamer City of Puebla for Seattle.
After reaching Washington Colonel
Richardson will submit his annual re
port on the Alaska road work and will
prepare an estimate for next year’s
expenditures after consulting with
Secretary Garrison of the war depart
ment.
Col. Richardson has been working
tor a special appropriation of $1000
per mile for the completion of the
government wagon road from Valdez
to Fairbanks, making it serviceable
tor auto travel at all seasons except
during the few months while the
snow lies deep on the summit.
In his efforts to secure an appro
priation for the completion of the
wagon road from the coast to the in
terior Colonel Richardson is entitled
to the support of every person in
Alaska and undoubtedly has the sup
port of Valdez and the Interior dis
tricts
During the past summer a number
of auto stages operated over the wag
on road making the trip from Fair
banks to the coast in three and one
half days, and the people of interior
Alaska are awakening to the fact that'
they are no longer isolated and that
the completion of the wagon road
would reduce the time consumed in
reaching the coast still further. Fair
banks commercial associations and
business interests may be depended
upon to work as a unit for the larger
appropriation and Valdez should lose
no time in getting active in the sup
port of the movement which means
more to the business interests of the
community than anything else possi
bly could.
The Young People’s Literary So
ciety held a social meeting last night
at Everyman’s club house. Games
and a mock breach of promise suit
formed the evening’s entertainment.
Twenty-five young people took part
in the fun.
CHINA IS THREATENED
WITH ANOTHER WAR.
MANILA, Oct. 23.—Advices from
China state that a number of the in
terior provinces of the Chinese em
pire are already in open revolt a t.. nst
the re-establishment of the monar
chy and that the movement is spread
ing fast.
The coast provinces are declared to
be in favor of the abolition ot the re
public and the restoration of the mon
archy and it is feared that should the
coming election favor th 5 monarchy
that a rebellion such as has ever be
fore been experienced in the empire
will result.
IS. ELL* YOUNGS
IS OUT III LAST
Resigns from Superintendency of Chi
cago Public Schools Owing to
Constant Annoyances.
CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—Mrs. Ella F.
Youngs, who has been superintendent
of the Chicago public schools for
many years, has tendered her resig
nation to the school board owing to
the constant heckling td which she
has been subjected.
, Mrs. Youngs was dropped from the
superintendency last year and her
first assistant named for the place,
but the woman raised such a storm
of protest that many of the school di
rectors resigned and Mrs. Youngs
was reinstated. She is one of the
most brilliant educators of the United
States and is the author of several
books on education and public
schools. *
The recent action of the school
board in ordering the teachers to
abandon their union has served to
further disorganize the staff, render
ing Mrs. Youngs duties difficult in the
extreme, as she upheld the teachers
in their attempts to improve condi
tions through united efforts. A num
ber of the teachers were dismissed by
the board when they refused to with
draw from the union and were rein
stated by Mrs. Youngs.
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Big Liner of 3,600 Tonnage will be
Placed on the Southwestern
Alaska Run.
SEATTLE, Oct. 23.—R. W. Baxter,
of the Alaska Steamship company,
who has just returned from San
Francisco, has announced that his
company has closed negotiations for
the purchase of the big steamer Kan
sas City.,
The steamer is now at San Fran
cisco and will be immediately avail
able for service on the Southwestern
Alaska run and will be superior to
any steamers now on the northern
run.
It is stated that the Alaska Steam
ship company is paying $336,000 for
the new liner, which has a registered
tonnage of 3,600 tons, and accommo
dation for several hundred passen
gers.
The Kansas City will be drydocked
when she reaches Puget Sound and
will be overhauled before taking her
run on the Mariposa’s sailing dates
to Southwestern Alaska.
Mr. Baxter states that his company
is also negotiating for the purchase
of two freighters to handle the heavy
freight offerings owing to the govern
ment’s railroad building operations in
Alaska and the rapid development of
the copper properties on Prince Wil
liam Sound.
DIVERS SAY MARIPOSA
WILL BE EASILY FLOATED
SEATTLE, Oct. 23.—The officials
of the Alaska Steamship company
have received advices from the div
ers working on the wrecked steamer
Mariposa, near Bella Bella, stating
that the steamer will be easily float
ed, as heavy seas cannot reach the
vessel to Interrupt the work of the
Salvor's crew.
BULGARIAN FLANK MOVEMENT
THREATENS &R8IAN ARMY
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PARIS REPORTS THAT TEUTONS HAVE SUFFERED HEAVILY IN
SERBIAN CAMPAIGN AND HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO CRUSH KING
PETER’S ARMY—SERBIANS HAVi DESTROYED BRIDGES ON
RAILROADS LEADING FROM NISH-TO SOFIA—PLOT DISCOVER
ED IN RUMANIA TO ASSASSINATE KING FERDINAND AND A
GREAT MANY ARMY OFFICERS ARE ARRESTED—TEUTON INVA
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DERS ARE TWENTY MILES SOUTH OF DANUBE RIVER.
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PARIS, Oct. 23.—Advices from the
Serbian capital state that the Teu
tons have been unable to accomplish
the speedy crushing of the Serbian
forces anticipated by Vienna and Ber
lin and state that the Teutons are
only twenty miles south of the north
ern border, across the Danube.
The real menace to the Serbian
forces which have been resisting the
Teutonic invasion from the north is
the flanktng movement of the Bulga
rian army which has been reinforc
ed by Turkish cavalry. The Bulga
rians are reported to be making rap
id progress westward toward Nish
along the railroad from Sofia, the
Bulgarian capital. The Serbians have
destroyed all the railway bridges and
are resisting the Bulgarians in the
pass west of Pirot.
Rumania Favors Allies.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 23.—The Ru
manian envoy here states that his
country is overwhelmingly in favor
of the declaration of war in favor of
the Allies, but is being held back by
King Ferdinand, who is a German
prince. It is alleged that the Ruma
nian army is ready to revolt should
FELIX DIAZ HEADS
BIG MEXICAN ARMY
Is Reported to be Marching on Mexi
co City with Forty Thousand
Well-Equipped Zapatista.
JUAREZ. Oct. 23.—Felix Diaz, a
grand-son of the former president,
who ruled Mexico for twenty-five
years, and who escaped from Mexi
co when President Madero was mur
dered, is reported to have returned
from Cuba and is leading an army
of forty thousand Zapatista against
Mexico City.
Diaz is said to be unalterably op
posed to Gen. Carranza as president
of the republic and would have pre
ferred General Huerta although it
was to escape Huerta’s vengeance
that he fled the country.
The rebel army is reported to be
well equipped and It is believed that
Diaz, who has been in the United
States for several months, succeeded
in gc.-ag shipments of munitions
into Mexico before the embargo was
ordered by President Wilson.
DUKE OF MANCHESTER
IN BANKRUPTCY COURT.
LONDON, Oct. 23.—The Duke of
Manchester, husband of Helen Zim
merman, who was the heiress of the
^.-cinnati manufacturer, is passing
through the bankruptcy court. It is
reported that he has spent millions
of his wife’s money following the
races.
ANCHORAGE EXPECTS TWO
THOUSAND POPULATION.
Anchorage is soon to get a $6,000
public school early next month and
four teachers have been engaged to
look after the one hundred and fifty
pupils who are expected to attend the
schools.
A permanent water system Is being
put in but the work has been delayed
owing to a large shipment of pipe
having been on the wrecked Maripo
sa. Several big buildings, one of
which is concrete, are being erected,
and the people of the new town be
lieve that the town will have a popu
lation of twp thousand this winter.
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the king declare in favor of the Teu
tons and it is believed that the king
may be forced to abdicate.
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Would Assassinate Ferdinand.
BUCHAREST, Oct. 23.—A plot
has been discovered to assassinate
King Ferdinand of Rumania, and
hundreds of prominent civilians and
army officers have been arrested for
being implicated in the conspiracy.
Runlania is regarded as a smoulder
ing volcano which may burst at any
moment and sweep the royal family
and members of the cabinet from the
earth. Heavy guards have been plac
ed around the capital buildings and
all troops believed to be in sympathy
with the Slavs have been ordered into
barracks where they were disarmed
to prevent an outbreak.
Many Austrians Captured.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 23.—The Rus
sian war office bulletin states that
Russian troops have gained another
victory over the Austrians in Galicia
and have captured ten thousand pris
oners. A denial is made of the re
verse reported by Berlin, which said
that thousands of Russians had been
made prisoners near Czernowitz.
Will MUM ft
STRICT CENSORSHIP
All War Poetry Will be Deleted by
the British Censorship as Office
Is Overburdened.
LONDON, Oct. 23.—The British
House of Commons yesterday discuss
ing the deletion of Rudyard Kipling’s
poetry, and all other poetry of which
war is the theme. The officials of the
British war office told the members
of the House of Commons that the
censors were burdened in their work
and were unable to recognize the dif
ference between poetry and prose.
The war office has also announced
that the censorship, which has been
enforced very stringently during the
past few weeks, will be further tight
ened as it has been discovered that
information valuable to the enemy
had been sent under the guise of j
newspaper reports.
The British Press association has |
entered a strong protest against the j
censorship on news from the front
and have pointed out that American j
papers containing news reach En-!
gland days before the battles are re- !
ported by the war office.
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AMERICAN COTTON IP
SEIZED IN ITALY.
ROME, Oct. 23.—Fifty million dol
lars worth of American cotton has
been seized by the Italian government
which was consigned to German deal
ers. The shipments have been piling
up since the declaration of war be
tween Italy and Turkey, as the ship
ments were seized in anticipation of
a declaration of war against Italy j
by Germany. The American dealers i
are demanding settlement with the
Italian government for the cotton as
many of the shipments were on the
ocean en route to Europe before Italy j
declared war on Turkey and under
international law the shipments must
he delivered to the German consign
ees or full payment made by the Ital
ian government.
Tonight.
See the two-act feature, "Duty,” at
the Liberty Theatre. New program
Sunday.
HUMAN VOICE HEARD
ACROSS THE OCEAN.
ARLINGTON. Va„ Oct, 23.—Wire
less telephones placed on Eiffel tow
er in Paris and at Honolulu have
been able to communicate and have
established a new record for long
distance wireless telephony. This
test is the first in which the human
voice has been heard across the
ocean without wires. The instru
ments were fitted with the devices
which were used in the recent tests
in communicating from the Atlantic
to the Pacific oceans across the conti
nent.
BELIEVES KILLING
WAS JUSTIFIABLE
Husband of San Francisco Murderess
WiU Not Desert His Wife
In Her Trouble.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23.—All ef
forts of the police to connect the hus- j
hand of Mrs. Mary Tamaiss with the
murder of the woman’s crippled ad-,
mirer have failed and he has beer,
given his liberty.
Mrs. Tamaiss. in her written con
fession, states that her husband
slept in the room where she haJ cc< 1
cealed the body of her dismembered i
victim, but was not aware that the I
crime had been committed.
She is unshakeable in her testi
mony that the man was killed in the
fight which followed the attack upon
her when she refused to elope. She
admits having written the letters in
which she pleads for her old admirer
to visit her and bring her love letters
Bent him before her marriage to Ta
maiss.
The husband believes the state
ment of his wife and will not desert
her during the trial as he is confi
dent that she acted in self-defense.
He says she has a terror of the law
and feared to reveal the crime, as
Bhe dreaded the trial which would
follow.
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AH Stocks of Thirty-Thirty Cartridges
Have Been Purchased by Stran
ger from the South.
JUNEAU, Oct. 23.—A recent arri
val from the south In Juneau has
been trying to purchase all the 30-30
cartridges from the Juneau and
Treadwell dealers. He is believed to
be an agent of the Villa faction in
Mexico as dealers have been offered
retail prices for wholesale stocks if
lelivered at once.
The 30-30 carbine is the rifle most
ly in use in Mexico and it is believed
that Villa has sent agents north to
secure a supply owing to the embar
go against him from the United
States.
It has been discovered that the
connly of that calibre cartridges has
re. i exhausted hero and inquiry
from other So”thenstern points also
renort that they have disposed of
their stocks. It is believed that a
Treat deal has already been corraled
vd the government at Washington
bas been notified of the agent’s activ
ities in order that the shipments may
be intercepted before reaching Mexi
co.
BRITISH CASUALTIES AT
LOOS WERE HEAVY.
LONDON, Oct. 23.—The British
war office has admitted the truth of
the Berlin reporl that the British cas
ualties during the twenty day en
gagement at Hullock Loos were fifty
thousand men. It is also admitted the
British were unable to force the Ger
mans from their position although
their trenches were subjected to ar
tillery bombardment for several days
before the British attempted to rush
the trenches.
NURSE MEETS
DEATH CALMLY
Execution of English Nurse by Ger»
mans Has Caused Intense Ha
tred of Teutons in England.
LONDON, Oct. 23.—Accounts ol
the execution of Elizabeth Cavill, the
English nurse shot by German troops
at Brussels, states that the woman
went to her death calmly and before
being shot stated that she was thank
ful for having been able to aid her
country.
The execution of the English wom
an while the French nurses who were
Involved in the attempt to aid Brit
ish soldiers who are German prison
ers in Belgium to escape, were par
doned by the Kaiser, has caused a
wave of indignation to sweep over
Great Britain similar to the wave of
hate which swept Germany after the
entrance of Britain into the war, and
Elizabeth Cavill is regarded as a he
roine.
It is reported that the German
governor of Belgium has ordered the
imprisonment of scores of wealthy
women because of their refusal to la
bor in the fields when ordered by
German officers to gather the crops
and perform other manual labor.
Germany is ruling Belgium with
an iron hand and cities are fined for
Infractions of the German rules by
citizens, and failure of the payment
of the fines results in the imprison
ment of the officials.
ALASKA TO HAVE
WIRELESSPHONES
Radio Officials will Install Telephone
Instruments at Cordova, Seat
tle, and Arlington, Va.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The Uni
ted States radio officials are planning
the installation of wireless phones at
the radio stations which may enable
operators in Alasak to talk direct
with Arlington, Va.
The government officials believe the
mccess which has attended the experi
ments of wireless telephony across
the continent has solved the question
of rapid communication and will per
mit of Alaskans keeping in closest
touch with the outside world at a
greatly reduced cost.
When the new wireless station is
rebuilt at Cordova, to replace the
plant recently destroyed by fire, an
instrument will be Installed there and
when the naval wireless plant at Se
ttle is built it is believed that mes
sages can be sent direct from Arling
ton, Va., to Cordova, Alaska, with but
one relay.
SEWARD VISITED BY
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
Seward was visited by the noisiest
earthquake of its history at 7:19
Vclock last Friday night and the
Post states that the -seismic disturb
ance was preceded by a roar similar
o that produced by the explosion of
'lasting at some depth beneath the
surface. The movement of the earth
•ontinued for several seconds with e
'harp jerk upward.
No damage has been reported other
;han the crackling of some chandelier
'hades hung close together in Cho
pin’s electrical supply store. A few
nottles and cans were shaken from
'he shelves in Brown & Hawkins’ and
George Phelps’ store.
After the first quake there was
juite a noise of rocks rattling down
he hill up Lowell creek canyon and
lust thirty minutes later there was a
second, but much lighter shock. The .
loise startled everyone and down- !
town stores and hotels were cleared j
tn jig time.
Reports from out the line show 1
that the shock was heavy at Mile 34 I
and also at Bird point on Turnagaln ,
arm.
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