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HUNS tak:
TIME FOB
ATTACK
NEW YORK. May 14 — Committ
ed as they are, to a continuation of
heavy fighting, the Germans apparent
ly are taking full time before begin
ning another operation, says the As
sociated Press today. In two weeks
the Germans have only made one de
termined attack and thi.- was repuls
ed southwest of Ypres.
The German guns continue hurling
thousands of shells at the Allied pos
itions but there is no infantry action.
VIOLENT GI N EIRE
LONDON. May 14 — The Germns
are using artillery violently in the
Somme and Acre sectors according to
today’s official statment.
HAIG MAKES REPORT
LONDON, M 14 — Field M
shal Haig reports hostile artillery has
developed activity this forenoon oiorth
of Serre. This afternoon there v as
artillery activity along the southern
portion of th eBritish front and in the
sector north of Kemmel Hill.
BRITISH CASE ALT! ES
LONDON. May M — The British
casualties for this week ending today
total 41,612. Of this numoer 5*'>b0
officers ami men were killed. It is 1m*
lievedthat this week’s total is the
largest of any week of the war and is
believed to be the losses represented
when the fighting in Flanders and Pic
ardy was at it’s height as casualty re
ports usually are not available for
some time after the action in which
they are sustained.
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A I. Will
HELP OUT
ON DRI\:
The Arctic Brotherhood is going to
boost and work for the Red Cross in
the war fund drive which starts next
Monday. At the meeting last night a
committee of four, Messrs. Margules,
Settles, McConatv and Houston was
appointed to devise entertainment
that will be both amusing and bene
ficial. This entertainment will be given
next Monday night, the opening day
of the drive.
Alex McDonald was appointed to
assist the local Red Cross committee.
From the talk among the members
of the A. R., following the metting
last night, the special committee has
wide range and the sky is the limit
and the four men are expected to pull
off something that will be startling.
The public will be invited to take in
the good time.
BIG RALLY
The menapement of the Liberty this
morninp informed Georpe Sexton
chairman of the committe for the Red
Cross War Fund drive, that the thea
tre was at the disposal of the com
mittee for day time rally to be held
here next week upon the arrival of the
Alameda from the south. A Ret
Cross lecturer, A. M. Powers is aboart
thesteamer, and will pive a lecture
with illustrated slides boostinp thew'ai
fund drive. The use of the Libert}
will cost t he committee nothinp.
Read the Gateway.
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BE READY TOMORROW — CLEAN UP DAY
Tomorrow is clean-up day and wagons and men will
he sent out to collect the debris in the back yards which,
has collected during the winter months. The request is!
made that all refuse he heaped in one pile ready for the
wagons in order to prevent delay. As far as possible pro
perty holders are asked to assist in loading.
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The steamer fares between Valdez and Latouehe are
s5 and $6. The distance between Valdez and LaTouche is
about 100 miles.
The steamer fares between LaTouche and Seward are
$7 and $8. The distance is about 65 miles.
Why is the discrimination made?
This is a matter the Chamber of Commerce special
committee can take up with the representative of the
Shipping Board when the freight and passenger rates are
to be investigated in this city at a special conference
within the next ten days.
There are about 500 men at Latouehe. They are trav
eling almost weekly to Valdez or Seward to spend a few
days, then go back to the mines or fishing industry. If
there was a fair rate, Seward would secure a greater
share of the passenger business and those traveling would
make better time. Steamers to Seward go to Anchorage
and then r ‘turn here, permitting .the traveler from La
Touche three days in Seward. Travel to Valdez and re
turn takes all the way from four days to a week.
These are facts forming a basis for a most pronounc
; ed protest to the steamship companies operating on the
Southwestern Alaska route.
MANY COMING ON RATE INVESTIGATION
SEATTLE, May 14 — Otis B. Kent, attorney examin
er for the Shipping Board, leaves tomorrow on the steam
er Alameda for Juneau where an investigation into the
freight and passenger rates between here and Alaska will
be started. From Juneau, Mr. Kent will go to Seward and
; Anchorage.
The question of permitting Canadian vessels to carry
freight and passengers between Alaskan ports as a war
emergency measure will also be investigated.
Attorney examiner Kent will be accompanied north
by a galaxy of leading steamship officials. John Henry
Bunch, general freight and passenger agent of the Alaska
! Steamship Company will go north with Mr. Kent as will
also W. V. Ford, auditor, and Judge W. H. Bogle, counsel
for the same company.
C. E. Flye, general freight and passenger agent, and
Judge B. S. Grosscup, general counsel, will come north re
presenting the Pacific Steamship Company.
MUCH DAMAGE DONE AT DAWSON
| DAWSON, May 14 — Villages of Bear Creek and
j Guggville have been flooded with two feet of water owing
* to the ice in the river going out. One family on the Klon
dike river was forced to abandon their home when the ice
began moving. For three hours last Saturday afternoon
the ice jammed from bank to bank and crumpled up obsta
! cles in the way. One barge under the Northern Naviga
■ tion Company’s wharf crashed through the walls of the
N. C. Company’s steam heating plant and was stopped
with the edge of the batteiy of boilers. Fires were quick
ly drawn. Forty feet of the N. N. Co. wharf collapsed
and many barges and small boats were hurled on the river
bank.
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.FOURTEEN DEAD IN TORNADO.
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CHICAGO, May 13 — It is announced today by offi
cials that 14 were killed by the tornado which late Friday
night swept through Iowa and Central Illinois. One hun
dred and fifty persons were injured. The property dam
age is estimated at one million dollars.
CHICAGO, May 14 — Count James
Mintto, a wealthy man, sonin-Iaw of
l/ouis Swift, the meat packer, was ar
rested on a presidental warrant this
forenoon ordering his internment. He
was immediately placed in the federal
jail.
WASHINGTON, May 14 — Attor
ney General Gregory authorized the
issuance of the warrants for the in- j
ternment of Minotto under the Pres
ident’s proclamation relating to alien
enemies.
CHICAGO, May 14 — Habeas Cor
pus proceedings were started in be
half of Minotto this afternoon. Min
ot to was taken before Judge Carpenter
and released on a $r>0,000 cash bond.
AMSTERDAM, May 14 — The
Kaiser has issued a proclamation
stating that ho assumed that Lithua
nia ./ill participate in the war burdens
of Germany.
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U. S. ARTILLERY
TOUCHES OFF A
HUN MUNITION
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WITH THE AMERIANS, May 14—
American artillery this morning
touched off a gigantic ammunition st
ation at Cantigny. Two fires were
started at Motdidicr. The fires were
followed by many terrific explosions.
UGLY-SCARS ON
LEFT HAND OF
THE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Mya 14—President
Wilson today removed the bandages
which encase his left hand since it was
burned three weeks ago when he took
hold of a hot exhaust pipe of the linV
ish tank which is being sent on a tour
of the country- The hand has healed
but the burns left ugly scars which
cover the entire palm.
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HARRY MITCHELL ENLISTS
Harry Mitchell, who left Seward on
the last trip of the Alameda, has en
listed in the Canadian Engineers and
will leave Seattle at once for training
at Vancouver, B. C. This was subst
ance of a cablegram received by Miss
Vida Rich today. Mr. Mitchell had
intended to visit his old home in Mis
souri before enlisting but he changed
his plans suddenly.
NORTHWESTERN HAS FAIR
NUMBER FOR ANCHORAGE
Besides the eighteen passengers for
Seward, the Northwestern has the,
following aboard for Anchorage:
E. L. Bedell, E. Svensson, R. B.
i Mays, E. M. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. A.
! E. Clark, J. M. Fisher, I> C. Buckholz,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hendricks, Ben
Levy, Mrs. A.- P. Nofstager, D. Barnes
L. Pollati, Harvey Gordon, R. Cloke,
W. R. Hocking, James Rogers and A.
Davey.
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WASHINGTON, May 1 i — A dispatch from Romo
received by the Italian Embassy ays t'.i it Italian prison
ers of Austria are subjected to horrible utrages and con
cludes that never before in the history of the World have
these outrages been equalled.
There seems to be a systc natic e lb. t on Austria's part
to destroy the manhood of the Italians. Hundreds of pri
soners have been unsexed. Hundreds have boon stripped
of every bit of clothing and left without food. The wound
ed have been left unattended an 1 most of them have died
of hunger. A plague of tuberculosis is raging, the Aust
rians have injected the germ in the prisoners. Thousands
of consumptives fill the prison camps and when the prison
er’s condition become desperat . A istrians exchange
them for Austrians who have beer tr a tec kindly by the
Italians. During the past two days 400 prisoners have
been exchanged and they are suffering from tuberculosis
in advanced stages.
IE USED UPON
WESTERN FRONT
LONDON, May 14 — The Associat
ed Press is officially infoimed that the
. tatcmtne. sent from Ottawa attribut
ing the War Coi-cittee of the cabniet
announced of not using the American
army on the western front, until it be
came a complete and powerful force,
was due to an error and is now correc
ted. The American forces will be
used as fast as they arrive in Europe
following drastic training.
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CHICAGO, May 14 — Five thousand
canisters and truck driver sstruck
without warning this forenoon. The
Union leaders claim that 15,000 will
be out before 6 o’clock tonight. The
E canisters are demanding more wages.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT
DIES AT FRENCH HOME
BEAULIEU,oFrance May 14 — James
Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the
New York H&irld, died at his beauti
ful home here this morning, at the age
if 77. The newspaperman had been
unconscious for the past two days.
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WEATHER ON R. R.
The following is the report of
weather conditions along the railroad
received to 7 o’clock this morning;
Anchorage, 45, cloudy, calm.
Girdwood, 40, cloudy, calm.
Matanuska, 40, cloudy, calm.
Talkeetna, 38, cloudy, calm; one
and one half inches of new snow
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“THE HOME TIE” ISSUED
SEATTLE Wash. May ‘ - First
issues of “The Home Tie” a paper de
voted to the home interests of United
States engineers recruited in the nor
thwest, recently made their appear
ance. The “Tie” is a companion to
“The Spiker” a publication issued by
the engineers at the front, and it is
designed to W*ep the relatives and
friends in touch with the men. Copies
will be sent to the men in France.
WASHINGTON, May 14 — The
first million tons of ships completed
and delivered to the government is
already upon the sens to help defeat
the Germans. One hundred and fifty
nine vessels tctaiing 1,108,621 tons
were completed up to May 1st. Since
January 1st, over half of the. total ton
■ age was delivered. The monthly total
| show a steady increase. Most of the
ships delivered were requistioned
while on the ways on contract form,
when America entered the war. Vir
tually all of the ships are built of steel
RECORD OF BUILDING
WASHINGTON, May 14 — Eight
steel ships, totaling 48,000 tons, were
completed during the seven days end
ing on May 11th. Fourteen vessels
wore launched in the same time with
a tonnage of 57,000.
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DORA ARRIVES
FROM WESTWARD
Steamer Dora arrived from the
westward at 2:30 o’clock this after
noon 48 pasengers among them being
Charles Coach, who shot and killed
Commissioner Magill, at Kenai when
the later resisted arrest, and several
men ready for examinations • for the
selective draft. Among the first class
passengers fere the following:
J. Jorenson, P. Wilson, 0. Langchom
ette, R. H. Miller, Tom McKeen, S.
W. Larson, C. Olson. George Anderson
A. A. Johnson, W. P. Lass, John Thorn
Mrs. Pringle, Ed Nelson, N. P. Nelson
Mrs. F. G. Parker, W. J. Robertson
and C. W. Gunderson.
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INSPECTORS ARE COMING
United States steamboat inspectors,
Capt. G. H. Whitney and P. G. Peltret
are expected on the next steamer from
Juneau. The two inspectors may be
aboard the Northwestern to catch
the steamer Dora to the westward.
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