CZAR’S ARMY DEFEATS AUSTRIANS
GALICIA ARMY ROUTED FLEES TO CARPATHIAN MTS.
WAR OFFICE ADMITS RUSSIAN DEFEAT AT ALLENSTEIN
GERMANS 50 MILES FROM PARIS AND STILL GOING
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CLEM FIB
Women of the Underworld Must
Move—Orders City Council To
Abolish the District.
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 2—United
States District Attorney Crossley to
day notified the members of the city
council that unless the city took steps
within thirty days to abolish the red
light district that the federal auth
orities would prosecute the property
owners who rented their buildings or
leased their ground to women of the
underworld.
The action of the district attorney
caused a sensation because since the
town was born the district has al
ways been open and many respecta
ble people 'fear that if the stockade
is pulled down the women will scat
ter into all the hotels and throughout
the residence district.
A protest will at once be made to
Washington against the interference
of the district attorney in the affairs
of the town.
FRIGES TUMBLE
IN NEW TORN
City Authorities Establish Markets
and Farmers Sell Goods Cheaply
Sugar Down to Seven Cents.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Four munic
ipal markets were opened here to
day, the farmers coming from the
surrounding country bringing in their
garden truck to sell to the people.
Within one hour after the farmers
had established themselves In the
markets they had sold out, the people
rushing to secure the bargains of
fered and save the huge profits of
the middlemen.
The system will be extended to all
parts of New York and markets will
be established in every borough to
allow the farmers to bring wagon
loads of garden truck into the city,
where the housewives may purchase •
without the additional cost of the
middlemen and retailers.
As a result of the efforts of the
city authorities to cheapen the cost
of living by investigating the reason
for the recent jumps In food prices
the price of sugar has gone down
to seven cents a pound retail, the
government investigators having
proven that the stocks of sugar were
larger at present than at any time
in the past ten years.
The Sugar Trust has dropped the
price to the wholesalers, claiming
that the foreign demand had not been
realized and that many foreign con
tracts placed at the opening of the
war had been cancelled because of
the inability of the foreign govern
ments to secure transportation to Eu
rope and therefore the sugar would
be sold in America.
Beef prices are expected to drop,
as the investigations made by the
government has shown that the farm
ers cannot sell cattle for any price,
while the packers are demanding big
prices claiming that no beef is ob
tainable.
Frank Youngs Doing Well.
Frank E. Youngs is now sluicing
on Cooper creek, Kenal river, and
the prospects is mighty satisfactory.
,He will clean up and come to the
city August 29th.—Seward Gateway.
Kaiser Starts For Russian Border To Meet Overwhelming Slav Army—Berlin
Fears Russians Will Burn the City In Revenge for Destruction of Louvine
In Belgium—French Aviator Over Brussels Drops Pamphlets and Escapes
Unhurt—Antwerp Expects Germans To Assault City—Turkey Expected
To Declare War Today—Italy and Greece Will Join Allies Against Turks.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 2.—The ,
war office here has announced that
the Russian troops have inflicted a
terrible defeat upon the Austrian
army in Galicia, taking 30,000 pris
oners, capturing thirty-five guns and
breaking the army in two. The sol
diers of Franz Joseph are fleeing for
the Carpathian mountains with the
Russian Cossacks in hot pursuit.
Allies Try To Stop Germans.
LONDON, Sept. 2.—The French and
English troops are trying to stop the
German advance at the River Oise,
fifty miles from Paris. The Germans
have made charge after charge upon
the allies positions, forcing the Eng
lish troops to give ground, but have
been paying a terrible toll in lives.
Artillery Plays Havoc.
The artillery of the French and
English gunners has been magnifi
cent, mowing the Germans down by
the thousands, but the concealed bat
teries are forced to retire under the
fire of the big German guns.
The English and French aviators
and the armies operating in north
west France and in Belgium from
Brussels to the Channel and the
North Sea, report that the Germans
have retired towards the Meuse so
as to contract their line.
More Germans Go Towards Russia.
ROTTERDAM, Holland, Sept. 2.—
The movement of German troops
^continues from Belgium towards the
Russian frontier. The Berlin war of
fice is reported as tearing that the
great horde of Russians may make
good their threat to beat down the
German resistance by very weight of
numbers.
Germans Assault Antwerp.
ANTWERP, Sept. 2.—Because of
the menace of the Belgian army in
this city the German general staff
has Issued orders to the command
ing officer of the German force out
side the city to take the town at all
hazards, as the German troops now
In Belgium towns are needed at the
front and cannot safely be taken
away from Belgium towns until the
Belgian army here is captured.
City Believed To Be Impregnable.
The city is believed to be impreg
nable. The fortifications have been
greatly strengthened. The city is pro
visioned for a siege of many months,
the new siege guns from London and
France have been mounted and sev
eral hundred machine guns are in po
sition. Deep trenches have been dug
and lined with cement, long slopes
have been erected with a steep grade
which is made slippery to prevent
the Germans from climbing them with
ease, while barbed wire entangle
ments and hidden mines have been
placed about the city to give ^he Ger
mans a warm reception.
The Belgian army numbers 125,000
trained men, while a force almost as
large is being drilled among the citi
zens of the town.
New British Army for Belgium.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—The British
consul here has received information
from London that a large British army
of between 300,000 and 500,000 men
is to be landed at Ostend, in Bel
gium, to attack the rear of the Ger
man army now operating in north
ern Prance.
Army Coming From All Parts of
World.
The British army will be partly
raised in England and the British is
lands and partly from the colonies.
The 60,000 troops now under arms in
Canada are to be sent to Ostend di
rect on the fast British liners, troops
are coming from South Africa, many
from India and other colonies of the
Brltish-government.
German Losses Are Tremendous.
War Secretary Lord Kitchener an
nounced today that the onrush of the
German troops upon the allies has
cost them thousands of lives and the
losses, he states, have been appalling.
The Germans refuse to be driven
back and continue assault after as
sault upon the entrenchments of the
allies, and by weight of numbers have
forced the French and English back.
Loss Cannot Continue.
“The German .commanders must
change their policy of sacrificing men
in order to reach Paris because the
loss is so great that in time it will
cost them the en*'re first line of the
German army, which will be annihi
lated,” says Kitchener.
Russians Near Vistula.
BERLIN, Sept. 2.—The report^ re
ceived here that the Russians 'are
now fighting the Germans near the
Vistula river is ridiculed by the. war
office, who say that the Russians
have been driven back and that the
fighting is now near the Russian
border and not on the Vistula river.
Kaiser To Take Personal Charge.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Sept.
2.—The German Kaiser is hurrying
to the Russian frontier to take per
sonal charge of the troops operating
against the large Russian armies
sweeping into German Poland. The
Russians have inflicted several se
vere defeats upon the Germans at
the outset but are believed to have
been checked, although the Russian
army is so large it is believed it
cannot be stopped from sweeping on
to Berlin.
Germans Fear Berlin Be Destroyed.
The Germans are fleeing from Ber
lin because of the threat by the Rus
sians that they will burn the city to
the ground in revenge for the de
struction of the city of Louvain in
Belgium, which was burned by the
CATHOLIC CONCLAVE STARTS
TO ELECT NEW POPE OF ROME
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FIFTY-NINE OF POSSIBLE SIXTY-SIX MEMBERS OF SACRED COL
LEGE ARE SEALED IN THE CONCLAVE WITH ONLY ONE DOOR
LEFT—DECISION BY TWO-THIRDS VOTE BEFORE ADJOURN.
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ROME, Sept. 2.—The College of
Cardinals, with fifty-nine members at
tending, started today to elect a
Pope as successor of Pope Pius X.
Of the members in attendance thirty
three are Italians and twenty-six are
of other nationalities. The Sacred
College consists of sixty-six members.
.Masons sealed up all windows and
doors but one, through which any
cardinal who arrives late may pass,
but none may come out until the
final vote Is taken and return again
to the conclave.
Crowds of people are watching the
chimney leading from the room in
which the college meets, as each bal
lot is taken they are burned and the
people then know that the vote has
been unsuccessful and that another
ballot must be taken. As no fires
are required in Rome the smoke tells
the story of ballot after ballot. It
was an enterprising newspaperman
who made this discovery at the elec
tion of the last Pope, and he was
thus able to scoop his rivals.
When complete the College of Car
dinals which elects a new Pope con
sists of seventy members. The Col
lege of 1903, which elected Pope Pius
X., consisted of sixty-three members,
of whom fifty-six were present at the
Conclave. Today there are thirty
six Cardinals, of whom it is not ex
pected that more than sixty will be
present at the Conclave which is to
elect the successor to Pope Plus X.
Of the Cardinals composing the
present Sacred College none was cre
ated by Pius IX., twenty by Leo
XIII., and forty-six by Pius X. Under
the late Pontiff forty-six cardinals
have died, of whom three were of
his own creation.
The nationality of the Sacred Col
lege, which not infrequently plays
an Important part in the election of
a Pope, is thus distributed at pres
ent:
Italian, 34; French, $; Spanish, 5;
American, English, Austrian and Hun
garian, 3; German and Portuguese,
2, and Irish, Brazilian, Dutch, Bel
giail and Canadian, 1.
A very different aspect would have
been presented by the Sacred Col
lege prior to the famous Consistory
of November 27, 1911, on the eve of
which there were only forty-seven
living Cardinals, of whom not more
than forty would have been in suffi
ciently good health to attend a Con
clave. In that Consistory no less
than eighteen Cardinals were ap
pointed, four of whom were citizens
of the United States.
Owing to the fact that In the com
ing Conclave Italian Cardinals only
have a majority of two, there has
been much speculation as to the pos
sibility of a non-Italian Pope being
elected.
The election or Popes by conclave
dates from the Middle Ages. In an
cient times the vote of the Roman
clergy, cast in the presence of the
faithful, was the elective power; but
as the Papal dignity Increased in
wealth and splendor it became an
object of ambition. In the year 499
Symmachus enacted laws which de
finitely settled the mode of election,
but it was not until 1059, under Nich
olas II., that the Papacy was com
pletely emancipated from the tempor
al ambition of its adherents. Gregory
VII. was the last Pope to make even
a nominal concession to laymen.
The word “Conclave” came into
use about the middle of the thirteenth
century and originated in the cus
tom of selecting a hall whose door
could be securely fastened (cum
clavi—with a key) behind the voting
Cardinals until they agreed by a two
thirds majority on a candidate. In
some in tances where stubborn elect
ors held out an agreement was has
tened by diminishing their quantity
of food. The Conclave which met
in 1270 at Viterbo to elect Gregory
X. lasted a year and a half before
a result was obtained. The inhabi
tants of Viterbo finally hastened a de
cision by removing the roof of the
Palazzo escovilet where the Conclave
was held, leaving the venerable fath
ers a prey to the inclemency of the
weather.
Theoretically, any one may be
elected Pope. He need bo neither
Cardinal, priest, nor yet an Italian.
Sixtus V. was a swineherd in his
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Germans and the 40,000 people tak
en captives and forced to work in
the harvest fields in Germany.
Vienna Reports Big Battle Raging.
VIENNA, Sept. 2.—The war office
has anounced that a tremendous bat
tle is now being fought between the
Russian and Austrian armies in Ga
licia ajid that more than a million
men are facing each other.
Austrian Army Outnumbered.
The war office admits that the Aus
trian army is outnumbered by the
Russians, who have concentrated a
large force all along the border.
Russians Admit Check.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 2.—The
minister of war admits that the Ger
man resistance has stiffened and that
the Russians have been stopped for
the present in their march for Berlin.
The easy victories of the Russians ov
er the Germans having made the
commanders careless according to the
reports, but they will continue the
advance within twenty-four hours.
Austrian Army Is Cut In Two.
The war minister has also publish
ed a statement claiming that the
Russian army forcing its way to
wards Vienna through Galicia, have
cut the Austrian army in two and
that two complete army corps of Aus
trians have been completely annihi
lated. The Austrians are said to have
lost 80,000 men killed, wounded and
taken captives.
Anniversary of Sedan.
PARIS, Sept. 2.—The Germans are
attacking the line of the French and
allies today, which is the anniversary
of the surrender of Sedan by Napo
leon III., in the effort of securing a
complete victory over the allies, who,
however, have been inflicting terrible
losses upon the Germans and with
drawing from cover to cover. At Se
dan forty-four years ago Napoleon
surrendered 140,000 French to Gen
eral von Moltke, who had an army
of 250,000 Germans and had the
French completely surrounded.
French Biplane Over Brussels.
ANTWERP, Sept. 2.—A French
aviator in an army biplane flew ov
er Brussels yesterday and in spite
of the rain of lead from the German
troops dropped hundreds of pamph
lets into the city for the Belgians
telling them to take courage as deliv
erance was soon at hand. The avi
ator returned to this city after spy
ing out the positions of the Germans.
Antwerp Strongly Defended.
This city is in no danger of fall
ing, as the forts surrounding the ci*y
are among the best in the world and
Antwerp is so located that an enemy
can approach from one side only.
The Germans have made several as
saults but each time have been driv
en back with heavy loss.
Italy and Greece To Join Allies.
LONDON, Sept. 2.—Italy and
Greece are to join the allies within
twenty-four hours after the Turkish
government enters the war as an ally
of Germany. The assurance that the
two Mediterranean powers would
come into the fray, was given today
to the foreign minister.
Italians Will Attack Austria.
The Italians will immediately at
tack Austria and will send an army
Into the Austrian Tyrol provinces,
which will co-operate with the Ser
vians and Montenegrins coming north
from Servla.
Greece To Take Offensive.
The Greeks will Immediately take
the offensive against Turkey and will
send her fleets to the Turkish coast
and endeavor to capture the Darda
nelles.
Russians To Attack From Black 8ea
The Russians are to put 300,000
troops In Turkey from the Black Sea
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ALASKA GOAL GILL
TO PASS THURSDAY
Administration Is Backing and De
manding the Passage of the
Bill At Once.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—The Alas
ka coal land bill providing for the
leasing of the coal lands in Alaska
will probably pass the House on
Thursday. The bill will be amended
in the Senate, as a number of sen
ators have indicated their intention
of fighting the bill as passed by the
House.
The administration is urging the
passage of the bill, claiming that the
coal lands must be opened immedi
ately as the coal is needed not only
in Alaska but also by Pacific coast
towns.
The members of the Senate Con
ference committee will probably be
Senators Myers, Marcus, Smith and
Smoot, and the House Congressmen
feiris, Taylor, Lenroot.
FEDERAL TROOPS
TO POLICE BUTTE
Soldiers Start From Spokane—State
Troops In Control of City—
Miners In Ugly Mood.
SPOKANE. Sept. 2.—The War de
partment today ordered 250 soldiers
from the fort here to leave for Hel
ena, Mont., there to await the result
of the efforts of the state’s military
authorities to stop the rioting between
t 'e members of the Western Fed
eration of Miners and the rival order
recently organized in Butte, and
which has been driving men from
the mines, forcing them to take out
cards in the new union, forced the
closing down, of mines which allow
ed men of the Western Federation
to work and have threatened to de
stroy any mine property owned by
companies employing members of the
Western Federation of Miners.
The troops left at noon for Helena
to await the result of the efforts of
the state authorities to maintain or
der, and for the present will only
proceed as far as Helena.
BUTTE, Sept. 2.—The state auth
orities today established martial law
in this city and the national guard
now patrol the street^. The saloons
have all been closed and women have
been ordered to keep off the streets
after 8 o’clock at night. Men must
secure a permit to remain out after
10 and if they do not halt when or
dered to by the ‘roops are to*- be
shot.
The management of the Anaconda
company have announced that they
would resume work at the mine in
a few days If provided protection for
the property and tor the men. The
company refused to discharge the
members of the Western Federation
but were willing to employ both sides
but this was not satisfactory to the
new union organization.
The governor has requested the
federiU authorities to be ready to
send aid if the miners, numbering
10,000 men, should attempt to over
power the state troops and it is re
ported here that 250 federal troops
are coming to police the city and
take charge if necessary.
The Chinamen who were left on the
shore, of Bristol bay by the Peterson
canhery ships are passengers aboard
the steamer Dir'go for Seattle.