BRITISH CENSORSHIP ON
NEWS IS VERY STRINGENT
RELIEVED THAT GENERAL ENGAGEMENTS BEING WAGED ALONG
THE ENTIRE WESTERN FRONTIER, AS MOVEMENTS OF CORRE
SPONDENTS NEAR FRONT ARE RESTRICTED—ITALY HAS DE
CLARED WAR ON BULGARIA—ALLIES ARMY MARCHING TO
BULGARIAN CAPITAL TO INTERCEPT TEUTONIC ARMY—GEN.
MACKEN8EN CONTINUES TO ADVANCE.
1XJND0N, Oct. 19.—The censorship
maintained on news from the front in
the west is more stringent now than
at any time during the war and it is
believed that general fighting has
been waged along the entire western
front. The war office has failed to
issue bulletins although watch daily
for announcements which they have
learned to expect after a period of
strict censorship. Advices from Par
is state that correspondents have been
restricted in their movements toward
front but many wounded are
cbing the hospitals near Paris as
r‘ Jences that severe battles are be
' ing fought.
Marching on Bulgarian Capital.
LONDON, Oct. 19.—The Allies
arniy which captured the Bulgarian
city Strumitza, near the Serbian bor
der. are marching northward toward
Sofia to intercept the Teutonic armies
marching to the relief of Constanti
nople. It is believed that the Allies
will reach Sofia before the Teutonic
troops can break the Serbian resis
tance and King Peter is reported to
have an army of more than three
hundred thousand men.
Italy Declares War on Hulgars.
ROME, Oct. 19.—The Italian
chamber of deputies yesterday voted
to declare war on Bulgaria and order
ed that one hundred and fifty thou
sand troops be sent .Jo Greece to re
inforce the Allies army which has in
vaded Bulgaria.
Mackensen Continues to Advance.
LONDON, Oct. 19.—Advices from
the far east state that General Mack
ensen, commanding the Teutonic
army invading Serbia from the west,
is reported as making progress in his
march through Serbia.
Robert’Scarce, of the Signal Corps
offlee in Valdez, returned from Cordo
va on the City of Puebla last night._
WILL REBUILD
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Government Ship Prometheus Leaves
Seattle Wednesday for Cordova
to Begin Work on Wireless.
SEATTLE. Oct. 19.—The govern
ment steamer Prometheus, which has
just returned from the north where
she has spent the summer building
new wireless stations and increasing
the capacity of others, will depart
for Cordova Wednesday to repair the
damage caused by the explosion of
alcohol at the Whitshed Radio sta
tion.
The officers believe that owing to
Uje .lateness of the season difficulty
be experienced in making the re
pairs at Whitshed. as the weather
was unfavorable when the steamer
left the north. It is believed that
fully a month will be required to
complete the repairs and install the
new machinery.
RAILROAD SOON BE
OPEN TO KERN CREEK.
That the Alaska Northern railroad
•will open to Kern creek in about two
weeks so that the light car can run
there for the first time in three or
tonr years is the opinion of W. J.
Fogelatrom, the bridge engineer of
the railroad commission. Mr. Fogpl
strom 6ays there are nearly a hun
dred men working along the-'- road
now. Foreman Morse is just sending
things ahead swiftly with a gang of
twenty-five men near Spencer glacier,
according to Mr. Fogelstrom. Two
bridge gangs are also at work.—
Seward Gateway.
Finds Health in Alaska.
George W. Joseph, an attorney
from Portland, went to Sitka, Alaska,
eight weeks ago, shortly after an op
eration that was the culmination of
eight years of ill health. He return
ed from the North yesterday and is
at the Seattle, en route home, his
face tanned like a piece of sole
leather, and with good health radi
ating from every inch of him. “I
went North in search of health," he
yesterday "I heard of a hot
gs resort near Sitka and head
ight Tor it. Inside of a week
after soaking up the, sulphur water
X was out in the hills chasing game
or around the streams looking for
Hah. I have visited health resorts
* elsewhere, but I have never seen the
equal of Alaska to put life back into
a man. Once,the people become fa
miliar with the resorts of Alaska the
seekers after health alone will build
ip tii® country.”—Seattle P. I.
GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATES
DWIGHT HILLIS’ AFFAIRS.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Frank Fer
guson, former manager of the busi
ness affairs of Dwight Hillis, the not
ed divine, whose affairs are being in
vestigated by the federal government,
has made affidavit that ‘Hillis made
one huhdred thousand dollars sell
ing British Columbia lands to minis
ters in the eastern states. The affairs
of the minister are in a tangled
shape, but no evidence of intentional
wrongdoing has been shown from the
testimony a^yet produced by the gov
ernment.
WHERE TRAIL
IRK IS NEEDED
Alaska Road Commission Willing to
Spend $500 Toward Helping
Build Road to Sliuslianna.
Billy James, the original discoverer
of Shushanna, and whose rich claims
on Bonanza creek yielded him quite
a bunch of money, is anxious to see a
good trail built from McCarthy to the
new camp, in order that freight may
be transported during the winter
over an American route to the camp.
While fc Valdez recently he con
sulted with Major Richardson, presi
dent of the Alaska Road commission,
and learned that the commission was
willing to spend $500 towards de
fraying the expense of building the
trail, that being the amount that can
be diverted for that purpose as the
commission’s fund is limited.
Mr. James believes that unless
something is done the miners and
prospectors in the camp will have to
wait until next spring and get their
supplies in by water over the Cana
dian route. The merchants of Cor
dova and McCarthy are Interested in
keeping the trade of the camp and
are trying to devise some way of
raising funds to have the trail put in
shape for the winter. The merchants
of Cordova have already spent $0,000
on the project.
ENGINEERING COMMISSION
WILL LIGHT ANCHORAGE
Latest advices from the govern
ment town pf Anchorage states that
the Alaskan Engineering commission
will soon be furnishing electricity to
the residents of the town. Machinery
for the plant was recently landed at
Anchorage from the freighters Sina
loa and Wilmington and Chairman
Edes has announced that the plant
will be in operation as soon as pos
sible.
SCHOONER LOST
EIGHT DROWNED
Passengers and Crew Climbed Hock
But Were Swept to Death
When Tide Came In.
POINT ARENAS, Calif.. Oct. i9.—
The little coasting schooner Alliance j
was driven on the rocks near here j
last night during a terrific storm and j
six men and two women were drown- j
ed while hundreds witnessed the trag- I
cdy from the shore.
lie schooner was lri en on the j
rocks at low tide and figlu people on |
board of her left the wreck and |
cli’nbed up the sides of the rocks
over which the waves were breaking.
Fishermen a; emplel to reach the
doomed passengers but their boats
were tossed beck onto the beach by
the terrific surf.
.'<s the tin; came in the men and ;
women were swept from the rock and
th<fr lives dashed out on other pin
nacles. Not a survivor of the wreck
reached shore an-.i it is not known
how many passengers were on the
schooner when she was caught in the
storm.
FBEI6HT
Marine Underwriters Have Raised
Rates on Ships Owing to Many
Accidents in Alaskan Waters
SEATTLE, Oct. 19.—Alaska mer
chants, and wholesale houses supply
ing the north, are experiencing much
difficulty In securing freight reserva
tions on north bound vessels owing
to the loss of the Admiral V.'atson,
the Mariposa, and the big freighter
Edith, having caused a shortage of
vessels in the Alaskan trade. To
make matters worse the marine in
surance companies, w ho have been
hard hit during the past few years,
have raised their rates making the
cost of charters almost prohibitive.
Government agents have been try
ing desnerately to send supplies to
Ancho* age, fearing that naulgation
on Cook Inlet will close before the
supplies for winter can be landed,
and have been asking for space.
Sam Blum, the Valdez merchant,
has contracted for space on- all avail
able boats and J. M. Lathrop, of the
Valdez Dock company, fearing a
shortage of coal at Valdez, Is spar
ing no efTort to keep his warehouse
at Valdez filled and is sending ship
ments north as fast as possible.
The loss of the Mariposa will also
inconvenience the Alaska Road Com
mission as well as the Engineering
commission as the Mariposa carried
a big shipment of hay for the Alaska
Road commission.
The steamer City of Puebla, which
was chartered for one trip to South
western Alaska, may be replaced by
the Senator as negotiations are un
der way whereby she may be charter
ed uy the Alaska Steamship com
pany. It is also announced that the
Victoria, which has been on the
Nome run, will be placed on South
western Alaska route after finishing
her next trip to the far north.
President Baxter of ihe Alaska
Steamship company, states that his
company is planning two and possi
bly three new passenger boats for the
Southwestern Alaska trade next sum
mer.
GERMANS PLANNED TO
RAID BRITISH SHIPS.
i
BOGOTO, Columbo, Oct. 19.—An
American 'yacht, the name of which
had been erased, has been detained
here on the suspicion that she is own
ed by Germans who plan to fit her
with guns to raid the British tank
steamers. Seyeral of the officers of
the yacht disappeared when the ves
sel was detained and this is taken as
conflrmatlbp of the intentions of the
owners tj)v,violate Colombo’s neutral
ity.
COMPLETE BLANK
Does Not Remember Killing Wife
and Sinking Body in Waters
of Beautiful Lake Como.
COMO, Italy, Oct. 19.—Howard
Charlton, the American on trial for.
the murder of his wife here four
years ago, was placed on the witness
stand yesterday to testify in his own
behalf. He was very exciteable dur
ing the trial and graphically told of
his feelings when he learned th*t Ms
wife was planning 1o go away ^ith
another lover.
Charlton testified that his last re
membrance of the tragedy was when
he seized a mallet which he had been
using in his studio, after that his
memory is a complete blank. He as
serts that he knows nothing of the
killing of the woman and secreting
her body in Lake Como.
The defense is attempting to estab
lish the fact that the artist was ren
dered temporarily insane through
the discovery of his wife’s intended
elopement and every action of Charl
ton during the trial showed thgt he
was of a highly nervous tempera
ment.
BELIE! MARIPOSA
CAN BE FLOATED
Officials of Alaska Steamship Com
pany Believe Liner Will Be
Back on Alaskan Run.
SEATTLE, Oct. 49.—The officials
of the Alaska Steamship company
have announced that an effort will be
made to save the wrecked liner Mari
posa, which is on a rock near Bella
Bella, B. C. Latest advices from the
scene of the wreck are to the effect
that divers working for the Canadian
boat Salvor believe that the steamer
can be safely floated and towed to
drydock.
The stern of the vessel is sub
merged in deep water up to her
smokestack, but the divers report
that with the exception of the place
where she struck the rock no great
damage has been sustained by the
.ship. The Salvor believes the Mari
posa can be brought to the surface
in twenty days.
The Alaska Steamship company
has been unable to- secure by pur
chase or charter a steamer as well
adapted for the Alaskan trade as the
Mariposa and has given the Salvor
the contract of floating her. Officers
state that if the steamer is success
fully Abated that she will be com
pletely overhauled during the com
ing winter and be back on the south
western run next spring.
CAPTAIN BRUNN OP
STEAMSHIP DISPATCH DIES.
KETCHIKAN, Oct. 19.—Captain
Brunn, commander of the steamer
Dispatch, died here last night from
pneumonia, contracted while on the
bridge for five days almost continu
ously when the steamer Mariposa was
sunk.
The Dispatch was the first to an
swer the distress signal of the Mari
posa and reached the scene within
two hours after the accident. Soon
after the accident a cold rain set In
and Capt. Brunn contracted a severe
cold. He was urged to go to a hos
pital but persisted at his work in aid
ing the officers of the Mariposa in
getting lines from the wreck to the
shore to prevent the steamer from
slipping into deep water. He was
one of the best known Alaskan pilots.
H. L. Rider, the mining man, left
for Latouche last night on the City
of Puebla.
Miss Eva Lockhart left on the City
of Puebla last night for Knik where
Bhe will be employed with the Alas
kan Engineering commission as a
stenographer.
LONDON TIMES CHARGES
CABINET WITH COWARDII
DECLARES THAT OLD MEN AND WOMEN ARE SERVING IN RANK
SERBIA WHILE YOUNG BRITISHERS ARE REFUSING TO ENI
PREMIER ASQUITH ILL AND BELIEVED SOON TO RESIGN—
TORNEY GENERAL CARSON OPPOSES CONSCRIPTION AND ^
FORCED FROM THE CABINET—LABOR LEADERS PREDICT
BELLION IF CONSCRIPTION IS ATTEMPTED.
LONDON, Oct. 19.—The British
cabinet threatens to be disrupted over
the question of conscription which
now seems necessary if the nation is
to survive the struggle in which she
is engaged. The British press has
bitterly denounced the members of
the cabinet for failure to order con
scription to provide the new armies
which Lord Kitchener declares must
be raised for the spring campaign.
The London Times, which has
heretofore been temperate in its crit
icism of the government, charges the
members of the cabinet with coward
ice for not enforcing conscription
several months ago and declares that
young men in every part of the em
pire have failed to enlist while in Ser
bia old men and women have stepped
into the ranks to fill the places of
their sons who were killed or wound
ed.
Premier Asquith is reported to be
seriously ill and admittance to all in
terviewers is denied but it is rui
ed in official circles that he is i
to resign as he has been assailed f
all quarters with charges of cow
ice.
Attorney General Sir Edward 1
son, who also went on record as
ing opposed to conscription, has I
forced from the cabinet and it is
mored other resignations are soo
follow.
The labor union leaders dec
that conscription will cause inte
rebellion which will require Bri
troops in France to be recalled
prevent the government being o
thrown. They declare that the la!
ites will make no compromise on
conscription question as was dom
agreeing to increase the output of
munition factories.
British colonies throughout
world are intensely interested in
conscription question and it is fea
that trouble will be widespreac
forced service in the army is requii
NATIVES ARE GRATEFUL
FOR RECENT DONATIONS
Col. W. G. Whorf, of Seldovla, re
ports that the natives of English Bay,
who were reported to be in a starving
condition earlier in the season, are
grateful to the whites who sent them
donations of food and clothing. He
says there are about 1,000 natives in
the district, and as they depend al
most entirely on securing work in
the canneries, they are in bad shape
as they were unable to secure em
ployment during the past summer
lowing to the failure of the salmon
jto run for the usual time.
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Killed Two IT. 8. Soldiers and Shoot
j Four Passengers While Rob
bing Overland Train.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Oct. 19.—
Mexican bandits, who held up and
robbed the St. Louis-San Francisco
passenger train last night, killed two
soldiers and wounded four passen
gers who attempted to resist the ban
dits.
When the news of the robbery
reached here regarding the holdup
and murders border patrols were im
mediately notified to watch for the
Mexicans and Intercept them before
they crossed the line. Troops are
scouring the country near where the
holdup occurred as it is'believed the
bandits have gone into hiding and
will attempt later to cross the border.
The Mexicans are believed to be a
part of a band of outlaws encamped
near the border which have not been
dispersed although both Gen. Carran
za and Gen. Villa have received com
plaints from Gen. Funston against
the bandits being permitted to re
main in camp near the border.
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Diplomatic Struggle lleing Waged.
PARIS, Oct. 19.—No new develop
ments are reported from the Balkan
states and It Is believed that despite
the fact that the Russian and Italian
ministers have requested their pass
ports from the Greek government
that Greece may yet be kept neutral.
No news has been received from Ru
mania.
General Monro Appointed.
LONDON, Oct. 19.—Lord Kitchen
er, commander in chief of the Brit
ish army, has appointed General Mon
ro to succeed Gen. Hamilton as com
mander of the British troops at the
Dardanelles. ■
CHASTISE TRUST
NOIDISSOL1
Attorney General's Office Starts S
to Restrict Unfair Methods of
Machinery Trust.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 19.—The first s
to be prosecuted by the governnu
under the Clayton trust law whi
was affirmed February 12, 1919. w
begn when the Attorney General’s
fico started suit hare today agair
the trust alleged to be controlli
the output of machinery for the mr
ufacture of shoes.
The government in its action dc
not seek a dissolution of the tru
but is asking for permanent injut
tion to prevent It from discriminati
by giving different prices to differe
customers. It is charged that t
trust has supplied machinery to fa
ored dealers which has enabled the
to lessen competition by forcing thf
competitors out of business.
ALASKA LAND CASE
BEFORE CIRCUIT COUR'
Judge William A. Munley, assistai
district attorney in Valdez, is in Ss
Francisco to appear before the Cl
cuit Court of Appeals in connectic
with the case of the United State
against W. A. Poland. This case
concerned with the attempt of th
government to cancel a patent issue
for 160 acres of land adjoining th
townsite of Seward, on the groun
that the tract is contiguous to ar
other tract lying along the shore line
the trsrts making the aggregate mor.
than too aeres ntte'ented to he v;
oiled w«der the Re’JW sddtiona
homesteed law. The law stipulate
that not more than 160 acres can hi
located contiguously and that an 80
rod strip must intervene between eacll
160 acres so located. The case wai,
appealed from the district court here
Judge F. M. Brown having upheld the;
rights of the locator.
ANCHORAGE SAILINGS
SOON END EOR SEASON.'
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The last boats scheduled to call at?
M
Anchorage will leave Seattle on Not-;
ember 4 and 5, after which navtga-j
tion will be closed for the regular!
period so far as the big liners are*
concerned. The* merchants of the
new town have been laboring under
difficulties in getting in orders to re
place the shipments lost on the
steamer Mariposa, and were further
handicapped by the fact that thej
Alaska cable washout of commission
at the time whendthey wanted to re
peat orders.