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Vo|. u). No. 237 SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23,1910. __Ten Cents the Copy
GERMANS NOW TAKE OFFENSIVE
AGAINST ALLIES IN THE WEST
GERMANS PENETRATE ALLIES
PARIS, August 23.—Strong forces of German troops
made powerful attacks last night on the allied trenches
south of the Somme, southeast of Estrees and west oi
Seyeeourt, which were captured by the French last rlues-,
day, and succeeded in penetrating the French lines at
several points, it is oiheially aunuited. The attack was
preceded by an intense bombardment lasting for several
huurs in which the whole French front south of the Som
me was placed under a heavy tire. North ot the Somme
the Germans maintained also a tierce bombardment on the
French first line and the communicating trenches. While
the war office candidly admits the successes of the enemy
it declares that nothing has occurred which cannot be re
paired.
ALL NATIONS IN ATTACK
LONDON, August 23—The great battle of Jhe na
tions, with the troops of nearly every European belliger
ent nation engaged, is gradually developing in the Balkans
as the fighting along a hundred and fifty mile front in
creases in fury. The allied nations have decided to drive
the Teutons and their ailies northward it* possible and so
cut off communication between Germany and Turkey.
Military experts express the opinion that this is the vital
point of the Teutonic line as cutting off Turkey would
leave that country and Bulgaria at the mercy of the allies
and would result m isolating the central powers even more
effectually than would the driving of the Germans back on
their borders in tiie north. The Austrians are being re
quested by their allies to send some forces to this front
from which they had withdrawn, f orces of Bulgarians,
Germans and Turks are now meeting the onslaught on the
Greek border so that the coming of the Austrians would
complete the representation of the central allies in the
struggle at that point. The French, British, Russians,
Italians, Montenegrins and Serbians are all to be repre
«ented on the other side and this w ill make the battle the
record one for the number of nations involved.
GERMANS ATTACK BRITISH
LONDON, August 23.—The Germans launched tw’o
determined attacks last night to wrest from the British
the newly captured positions south of Thiepaul which was
regarded as a German stronghold before it was taken
from them. With respect to the attacks last night General
Haig reports that botii of the assaults were repulsed al
though in one of them the Germans gained a temporary
footing in the British trenches. The German losses are
described as heavy. The news todaj is taken as meaning
that the Teutons have again taken the offensive on the
western front more determinedly than at any time for
many months.
DEUTSCHLAND UNREPORTED
BERLIN, August 23.—Berlin is still without news of
the submarine Deutschland which sailed from Baltimore
on August 2. The trip the other way was made in 1G days
but, it is pointed out, greater precautions might have been
necessary this time as the allied fleets were on the watch
more closely.
RUSSIAN NEWS SCANT
LONDON, August 23. — News from the Russo-Aus
trian front today has been awaited in vain. The last in
formation indicated that the Teutons had inflicted some
minor reverses on the Slavs and it is assumed that the
Russian drive lias been checked temporarily. The reports
from other fronts except those mentioned above shows
this morning very little change in tly> condition.
PREPARING FOR MAIL TODAY'S BASEBALL FREAK
OVER TO ANCHORAGE -
_ CHICAGO, August 19.—Joe Jack
Alvuh Fames, the chief clerk of the son, White Sox slugging gardener,
railway mail service, has arrived in iuls a hunch that he always plays be
Seward to make arrangements re- fore every game, and Manager Raw
garding the mail service to Ancho-»pe land is content to let him work it as
next winter. The bids have been call-' long as he keeps punching the ball,
ed for and Mr. Fames is now prepur- He gathers a handful of pebbles
ing to have things fixed up. He Ts shortly before the game, retires to the
authority also for stating that the club house, and tosses them to KTs
Seward postmaster has had his salary teammates, who to humor him, bat the
increased. stones. Joe says “It’s just a hunch.”
1*081111:1811*1’ Here
Gets an Increase!
List Comes of Changes in Salaries
For Coming Year.
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The salary of the postmaster at
Seward will be sixteen hundred dol-t
lars a year from last July until July.
1017, and this means an increase or
four hundred dollars a year over the
salary of the previous year. The
fiscal year begins on July 1. The,
following is a list of the salaries of
the different presidential postmasters j
for the year ending last July 1, and
their salaries beginning from that
time:
1015-16 1016-17
Cordova . $1500 $1500
Douglas. 1600 1400
Fairbanks . 1000 2100
Juneau. 2100 2500
Ketchikan. 1000 1000
Nome. 1000 18001
Seward . 1200 10.00
Skagway. 1400 1500
Treadwell . 1200 1100
Valdez . 1600 1600
Wrangell. 1100 1200
F. K. LANE HEADS
MEXICO COMMISSION
Secretary of the Interior Will Help
To Make International Peace.
WASHINGTON, August 22.—Sec
retary of State Lansing announced
that the American members of the
joint commission that will settle the
differences with Mexico are Franklin
K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior,
Judge George Gray, of Wilmington,
Delaware, and Dr. John R. Mott.
Gray was born at Newcastle, Dela
ware. in 1840, is a graduate of Prince
ton and studied law at Harvard. He
was a member of the United States
senate, of the Peace Commission at
Paris in 1898, and a member of the
International Coip't of Arbitration
The Hague.
Mott was born at Livingston Manor,
N. Y., in 1865 and has been a high
Y. M. C. A. official and also an official
of similar organizations. He gradu
ated from Cornell, is a Fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society and an
author of many works on religious
and reform subjects.
FATAL EXPLOSION ON
WEST SIDE CHICAGO,
CHICAGO, August 23. — One man |
is known to be dead and eighteen are
in the hospital as the result of an oil
tank explosion on the west side today.
The police report that several others
were probably killed but that proof
of the fact has not yet been obtained.
ARMY BILL GOES TO
PRESIDENT AGAIN
♦ WASHINGTON, Augut 23. — The
$267,006,535 army appropriation bill
passed the senate today with the
clause which caused its former veto
ing eliminated. It passed the house
yesterday ard once more goes for the |
signature of the President.
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ARRIVED ON MARIPOSA
The following arrived on the Mari
posa which came on schedule time last
evening:
C. J. Livingston, Miss Edna T.Tlbb,
J. W. Keller, W. S. Kennedy, Mrs 1).
W. Harvey, Albert Lund, D. Warner.
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SEWARD NIGHTS
BRIGHTAS DAY
CITY COUNCIL DECIDES TO
MAKE THIS BRILLIANTLY
LIGHTED CITY.
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Seward is from this time forward
to be not only the most brilliantly j
lighted city in Alaska but, probably,
the best lighted city of its size to be
found anywhere. At a spei'Tal priv
ate meeting of the council last night,
at which Sam CiratT attended to dis
cuss matters, it was practically do
cided to put in one hundred tine lights
where only seventeen now exist. At
the corner of Adams and Broadway
three new cluster lights will be es
tablished to correspond with the clust
er light on the fourth corner near the
Bank of Seward and at each point
down Broadway and up to Church
street where there is a conduit will
be placed a pole for one bright light.
The distance between each light will
be 150 feet. They will be erected
down to the dock. Nice bracket lamps
will be erected on Adams street and
on the other streets from the hill
eastward and also on the streets
north of Adams, so that the whole city
out as far as the houses are plentiful
will be all lighted.
MRS! FINIIFR OF
OOLD ON SOUND IIFRF
A1 Nordstrom who arrived last
night from La Touche on the Mari
posa is the man who first discovered
gold on Prince William Sound. This
discovery was made in 1D07 and re
sulted in what is now known as the
Thomas mine on Culrof island on a
quarter of which Colonel Millard has
just taken an option. The quart/r
which Millard has taken over is owned
by Carlson. After the discovery there
came the discovery of the Cliff mine
and then the Granite. Mr. Nordstrom
believes the lead on the Culross island
property is stronger than the lea«T on,
either of the other two. Mr. Nord
strom has also been interested in val
uable mining properties in Nome an/
other districts and is now going to
tackle a new place.
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PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP
COMPANY RESUMES ITS
ORIENTAL PASSENGER TRADE
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, August 18.—
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
will resume its Oriental passenger
service tomorrow when the oil burn
ing, 10,OT)0 ton steamer “Eduador”
gets under way from here for Hono
lulu, Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai,
Manila and liong Kong.
The Pacific Mail company quit the
trans-Pacific trade when the seamen’s
law became effective, on the th'jry
that the law imposed too many hard
ships on the steamship companies for
the trade to be a paying proposition.
But with freight bringing $20 a ton
because of the war shortage of ship%
the company was soon reorganized.
As the new ships are oil burners
they do away wi\h the picturesque but
uncomfortable process of taking on
coal at Oriental ports. Travelers
probably will be glad to change the
romance of this spectacle for the more
prosaic act of taking in oil. Oil is
taken in much as water. A long pro
cession of orientals used to load the
ships with coal from handbaskets, al
so loading the passengers eyes, ears,
noses, throats and luggage with a lot
of coal dust.
LADIES AID JO MEET
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist
church will meet tomorrow at the
home of Mrs. E. L. van Gilder.
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PERSHING REPORTS VILLA IS
ALIVE AND WITH SMALL FORCE
Great System of
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Roads lor Alaska
[Jig Plans to Flank Government K. It.
With Wagon Ways.
To Hank the government railroad on
^both sides with big trunk systems of
wagon roads that will tap the richest
camps between the Yukon river and
the southwest coast of tin* territory is
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the plan of the Alaska Road Commis
sion whose chairman, Colonel Wilds
P. Richardson, arrived on the .Mari
posa in Seward last evening. The
Colonel came to inspect conditions
around here and on other parts of the
coast, lie stated today that the trunk
road from Valdez to Fairbanks will
be built with the special fund secured
this year, it will cost about $1,000 ?.
mile and will be a perfect highway.
The other grcaj, road will be west of
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the government railroad but the funds
are not yet available. This western
trunk road will tap the railroad at thi.^
end and will run into the interim
through thw Innoko, Poorman, Long
creek and Ruby districts. A branch
road will connect it with Iditarod, and
then will come a vast system of
lateral roads which will bo developed
as the requirements are recognized.
Other work will be done this year in
Ruby, Willow creek and various other
sections. Examinations of the con
ditions in the lliamna district and
others in this part of Alaska will also
be made. The colonel will be here
some days and will take a look at the
roads in this district with Superin
tendent Anton Eide.
“IJIG REN” NEWMAN. “THE
MILLIONAIRE TRAMP,”
DYING IN MILWAUKEE
(Special to Gateway by United Pressl
MILWAUKEE, August 12.—Wil
liam Newman, “the millionaire
tramp” is dying in the National Sol
diers’ home here today. A few years
age he was one of the most widely
known and most romantic figures in
American trampdom.
“Big Hen,” as he was called, was
born in Denmark and graduated from
the University of Copenhagen. He
came to the United States when 18
and traveled about the country, mak
ing his expenses by lecturing on re
form ideas.
He visited nearly every city on the
face of the earth and paid only $1.28
railroad fare. He was arrested f>08
times.
He lectured on child labor, prison
reform and abolition of white slavery.
In 1913 he was instrumental in hav
ing 2.r)0 children removed from sweat
shops in Joliet, 111. P&r three years
he was the companion of Jack London.
“I have done by best to make the
world see its evils and to correct
them,” said Newman. I have fought
the good fight and I am near the end
of my race. I can’t win against the
white plague.”
Big Ben’s life is going out very
rapidly. It is believed he can survive
only a few weeks. One of the most
romantic character stories in Amerl
' can life will be written to its end
' when he dies.
NEWSPAPER AT McCARTHY
“The Avalanche” is the resounding
name of a brand new newspaper which
has just been launched at McCarthy.
It is small but as it has come to ad
vertise a great mineral country may
it prosper.
LONDON, August 17.—The anniuU
conference of. United Method is fk
adopted a minimum wage of $600 for
Methodist ministers because of the in
creased coat of living. t
WASHINGTON, August 23.—Gen
oral Pershing reports that Villa is
now hiding in the Durango mountains
and has with him a small force of fol
lowers. This report was made to the
war department and is taken as prov
ing beyond doubt that the bandit chief
is alive in spite of all the reports re
garding his death.
STILL WORKING TO
AVERT R. R. STRIKE
i WASHINGTON, August. 23. — The President today
called Chairmen Newlands and Adamson of the senate
j and house interstate commerce committees to the W dte
, House for a conference and the belief is that this summons
I resulted from a conference which was held last night be
j tween Mr. Wilson and several railroad presidents. The
| meeting with the committee chairmen is probably the
j first step in the effort to have legislation passed that would
avert the great strike, most likely legislation granting the
railroads the privilege of securing better rates to meet
the expense entailed in the giving of an eight hour day.
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IMav Cot IVrinils to
Mine in Rig Fields
The Commissioner of the Land Of
fice has informed the Land Depart
ment of the Engineering Commission
that henceforth people may obtain,
“free u.-e permits” to mine in the
Matanuska and Rering River fields!
in the parts of those fields which
have not been set aside for leasing
purposes. The old regulations were
construed to mean that such permits
could not he obtained in the two fields
named and several were refused them
but the new construction placed on the
regulations changes all this. The
“free use permits” are different from
leases- and, as suggested by their
name are more easily secured.
Loss Rabies Died
In N. Y. This Year
NEW YORK, August 2”. — Fewer
babies died in New York this year
than last year notwithstanding the in
fantile paralysis epidemic which has
claimed over sixteen hundred victims,
the health authorities declared today.
They say that the decrease in the
number of deaths is probably due to
the fact that the mothers took greater
care of the children because of Hie
fear of the epidemic.
JAPAN PLANS TO BUILD
20 NEW BATTLESHIPS
AND MANY SUBMARINES
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
TOICIO, August 17.—Japan plans to
improve her navy as fast or faster
than does the United States build up
its sea lighting machine. At least,
that is the deduction made by the Jap
anese people from the just announced
! plan to spend 234,000,000 to 310,000,
! 000 yen building new battlers in t.fe
! next seven years.
E^pctly what the plan under consid
eration by the Finance Department of
the government is, nobody knows, but
according to the papt'r Jiji, usually *
well informed publication, the outlay
for “the ideal fleet” calls for about
$150,000,000. Other papers’ estimates
are a bit lower.
A hot debate on the program is ex
pected at the forthcoming session of
the Diet because of the expenses in
! volved. The program is backed by
navy leaders and also, it is said, by
i the ministers of marine and iinance.
Newspaper reports have it that
j Japan proposes to build 3 super
dreadnaughts, 2 battle cruisers, 11
light cruisers, 10 destroyers and many
U-boats.
Alaska Packers lo
Real Now in Fruit
SAN FRA V'I SCO, August 2d.—By
a pooling of stock the merging >f the
Alaska Packers' Association and th**
principal fru;t canning concerns of
the west the formation of a twenty
five million dollar corporation is
practically certain in which the fish
company and the fruit companies will
merge.
McLean Must (Jive
l p Father’s Mail
Letters Are Relieved to Hold Secrets
of Prominent People.
WASHINGTON, August 2d.—Ed
ward R. McLean has lost the right to
^prevent the American Security and
Trust Company taking possession of
the private letters found in the estate
of his father John Ra McLean. These
letters are supposed to involve many
persons of national prominence m
connection with matters of a serious
nature. An injunction was obtained
several weeks ago by McLean against
the taking of the letters which he
declared were necessary to a suit
which he had instituted to break his
father’s will on the ground that the
latter was of unsound mind at the
time he made it. The supreme couVt
has now dissolved that injunction.
MOKE CHANGES COME
IN EATOUCHE MINE
Several changes have come in the
management of the mines at La touche
since F. R. Van Campen quit over
there. At that time Seagrave was
made manager and W. E. Dunkle was
made assistant manager but both are
now out and Stannard, the mill ex
i pert, who has been with the Guggen
heims for ten years or so is in charg?.
Dunkle is known here as the man who
went to examine the Broad Pass
prospects. Van Campen has recently
been offered the management of a
large mining pkoperty in California
and he is now in New York consider
ing whether to accept the offer or
not. The causes of the recent changes
are not tvld. Mr. Seagrave passed
through on the Mariposa last evening.
WENT ON MARIPOSA
On the Mariposa twelve Northwest
ern passengers went west and also the
I following: J. C. Gaffney, Mrs. Hill
brick, Mrs. George W. Seay. **
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