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BOTH SIDES CLAIM GAINS
IN THE LATEST LIGHTING
BULGARIA SILENT
LONDON. Oct. 5.—Bulgaria has refused to reply to
the Russian ultimatum and it is believed that the Russian
minister quitted last night and that war is inevitable
The size of the allied expedition which lias landed at
Saloniki is not known but that the landing has been made
is certain.
GERMANS C LAIM VICTORIES. j
BERLIN. Oct. b—It is officially announced today I
that the Germans have repulsed the allies almost all along !
the western front and yesterday captured a French sector
northwest of Givenchy. North of Loos we repulsed the
British who advanced with hand grenades. In Cham
pagne the enemy was repelled in an effort to attack and ,
retired covered by a heavy bombardment.
ROUMANIA NOT TO FIGHT
ROME. Oct. b—A report from Athens is to the ef-;
feet that the Russians are now showing extreme military j
activity around Sebastopol and Odessa and that they are |
preparing to transport a big expedition by the Black sea j
to the Bulgarian coast. There is little hope here that
Roumania will enter the war as she refuses to answer any
of the pleas made to her.
FIGHTING AT DVINSK
LONDON. Oct. b—The Germans are pouring a hot
fire on the Russians at Dvinsk and it is admitted that thej
gained a temporary advantage yesterday by taking some
trenches but they were later forced to abandon them.
The German prisoners report a growing weakness in the
Teutons forces and the increasing unpopularity of the
war amongst the army and the people of Germany itself.
DUMBA LEAVES
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Dr. Dumba, former Austrian
ambassador, left today for his home country with his
wife. He left no message and said he had no statement to
make until he arrives in Austria.
EXPLODE GERMAN TRAIN
PARIS. Oct. 5— It is officially reported that the
French artillery yesterday exploded a German train
carrying ammunition and soldiers north of \ erdun. The
claim is”made today officially that our troops have made
further progress in Artois and Champagne.
CONFER ON ARABIC
WASHINGTON. Oct. 5.—Yon Bernstorff and Lan
sing conferred this afternoon on the Arabic mattei and
the former promised to submit a disavowal of the act on
the part of the German government. He also stilted that
President Wilson’s wishes would be acceded to. He evi
dently has discretionary authority.
SINK GERMANS
LONDON, Oct. b.—A British submarine has tor
pedoed two German steamers in the Baltic, so turning
the tallies on the enemy. The crews were saved.
BULGARIA MAKES ALLIANCE
Mil AN Oct. 5.—It has now been learned that Bul
garia signed a military convention several days ago with
Germanv and Austria and that she had then decided to
enter the alliance with the central powers. The text of
the agreement is not fully known but it commits Bulgaria
to war. __ ———
MAD RUSH ON
THE EXCHANGE
FINANCIERS WARN THE PUBLIC
TH VT SITUATION IS VERY
D ANCEKO U S.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—A formal
warning was issue*! today against
wild and senseless speculations by
some eminent financiers through fin
ancial publications. It is stated that
the average man is bound inevitably
to lose at the end of the present fev
erish rush. It is pointed out that the
situation on the stock exchunge is
more dangerous today than ever be
fore as there is nothing whatever to
justify the mad rush which is at
present in full swing.
Job printing of every description at
The Gateway.
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❖ CABLES COME LATE. *>
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The first cable dispatches arrived
at the Gateway office at 2:15 this af
ternoon but they are being condensed
as small as possible in order to get
I them in this issue.
FIREMEN TO GIVE GRAND
BALL NEW YEAR S EVE.
At the regular meeting of the fire
boys, held last night in the fire hall,
arrangements were started for giving
a Grand Masquerade Ball on New
Year’s Eve. It is planned to be the
biggest affair of its kind ever pulled
off in Seward. Refreshments and
boxing were the principal attractions
of the meeting last evening.
R. Thompson, who is said to be the
man who first discovered gold on the
Nome beach, and who fif^t came to
Alaska in 1865, recently left Unga on
a prospecting trip. He is 80 years
old, but still hearty enough to fry
, his own bacon and carry a pack.—Ex.
GREAT STRIKE
| IS INCREASING
TWO THOUSAND MACHINISTS
NOW WALK OCT AT
SHENECTADY.
SCHENECTADY, Oct. 4.—Two
thousand general electric machinists
walked out this afternoon because the
company refused to grant them their
demand for an eight hour day. This
strike is in addition to the other
strikes in this city and neighborhood
which have been told about previously
and the local industrial world is dis
organized to an extent which has
hardly been thought possible. Crowds
of idle men can now be seen all over
the city and traffic has fallen so much
that an uncanny silence prevails.
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❖ CABLE STILL OUT *
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The cable is still out of commission
and the aC.teway had received no
outside news at 1 o’clock this after
noon. A few cabled stories that came
! too late yesterday afternoon arc pub
‘ lished today under the elate on which
| they were sent, October 4. The
Dominion line is also pone “Fluey,”
to use a Shakesperian term, and no
message can pet beyond Forty mile.
This is written at 1 p. m. and some
thing may come yet although it may
■ arrive so late that condensation would
| be necessary. It is a fact that some
| of the stories appearing yesterday
had a less number of words than they
had when they came but the chief
facts were told. The press messages
| coming over the Radio route are
probably made to wait until the com
mercial stuff is sent over, so that it is
j impossible to tell what will happen.
No word has been received telling
whether the Burnside is working on
the cable or not.
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Freni C. Hall, who has been out at
the Bungalow at Mile Seven for the
past five weeks, returned on the car
yesterday afternoon. Mr. Hall says
he enjoyed the long stay out there
very much.
SEWARD DECIDES EO
ASK FEDERAE BLDG.
Commercial Club Inaugurates Also Move
to Make Seward Port of Entry.
A a special meeting of the Com- j
mercial club last night a committee
was appointed to draw up resolutions ,
asking congress for an appropriation
for the erection of a federal building
at Seward and also to communicate |
with the departments interested with j
a view to having Seward designated j
as a port of entry. The committee
consists of Frank L. Ballaine, William
Sauers and J. H. Sears, the last nam
ed of whom has already had a com
munication on the subject with some
officials. The meeting of the club was
one of the biggest and the most en
thusiastic for a long time, and this j
is due to the interest taken in the j
proposal made yesterday by Senator j
Ray in the Gateway that Seward
should get to work as quickly as pos
sible to take every necessary step to
secure an appropriation for the erec
PRAISES THE
RD. COMMISSION
COMMERCIAL CLUB SHOWS AP
PRECIATION OF WORK
DONE HERE.
Expressing in the most warm terms
its appreciation of the work of Col.
W. P. Richardson and the Alaska
Road commission the Seward Com
mercial Club last evening passed a
resolution which will be forwarded by
a committe to the Commission’s
chairman. At the meeting of
the club last night several members
brought to notice the fine work done
around Moose Pass and other sections.
The appreciation was all the greater
because the members of the club ex
pressed their full knowledge of the
many claims on the funds allotted for
road work throughout the territory.
Messages were received by the club
from people interested in the Moose
Pass section who desired to show
what benefits such road work con
ferred on their district. The resolu
tion was passed not only unanimously
but with real enthusiasm.
Owing to illness, E. A. Thede was
not able to be round and about today
or to be working on the dock.
tion of the building. Delegate Wick
ershani, Chairman Edes of the En
gineering Commission, Governor
Strong and the congressional delega
tions from the Pacific coast states will
be communicated with on the matter.
On the arrival of Mr. Wickersham
here in a few weeks the committc will
probably take it up with him directly.
It was pointed out at the meeting that
Fairbanks has been assured its new
federal building and that Cordova is
also well in the running for another
building, so there is no reason at all
why Seward, the ocean terminal of
the government railroad, should not
have the finest building of all. The
members, however, expressed the
opinion that sooner or later federal
buildings will have to be erected here
but the object is to have the day
hastened.
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❖ ANCHORAGE SOON. •>
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Seward and Anchorage will be con
nected up by telegraph tonight or to
morrow, according to the information
given out today. The connecting up,
though, is more likely to be tomor
row than this evening.
BIG MOOSE DANCE TO
COME OFF THIS EVENING
Royal Time Assured in Arctic Broth
er Hood Hall by Seward
Lodge 1425.
This evening is the time for the
big dance and entertainment given by
the Seward Lodge Loyal Order of
Moose in Arctic Brotherhood hall. In
their own hall the Moese have given
some most enjoyable entertainments
and dances for the members of the
order and their friends but the affair
tonight will be open to all. Tickets
for gentlemen are one dollar each.
Ladies, of course, are free as the
motto of the social branch of the
Moose is “Place aux Dames.”
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William Henry Robinson, familiar
ly known in Valdez as “Dad”, has
been granted the pension of $10 per
month as provided in the act passed
by the Territorial legislature. He is
84 years of age and the oldest appli
cant for the pension yet to appear.
DECK LOAD Of FREIGHT IS
WASHED OFF STR. SEWARD
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TO PUT ON BIG
BUNCH OF MFN
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GANG TO BE INCREASED FOUR
FOLD BETWEEN MILES
45 AND 71.
A considerable increase is about to *
be made in the force of men now j
working on the Alaska Northern rail- i
road in places, particularly between
Mile Forty-five and Mile Seventy-one
where extra elForts are about to be
made to get the big car going to- j
wards Kern creek. Benjamin L.
Campbell, the engineer in charge of
the work in that district, arrived in
town yesterday and will go out to
work again tomorrow morning. He j
has had ten men working repairing
the loop and in a few days this gang
will be increased to thirty men, and ,
a further increase to forty-five men
will take place in a few days more.
The work to be done then will include
grading. Mr. Campbell is the popular
young engineer who did the work of j
appraising the Alaska Northern be- i
fore the government had decided to j
buy it. It may be said, by the way, j
that he has just killed two black ^
bears.
THE SEWARD WILL BRING
LOCOMOTIVES HERE
She Left Seattle About Fifteen Days j
Ago and is Due Here
About Now.
The steamship Seward will bring
the locomotives to Seward from An
chorage during the voyage she is now
making. She left Seattle fifteen or
sixteen days ago and is due here
about this time. The locomotives are
the ones brought to Anchorage by the
Sinalao from Panama.
ARMY NURSES IN REUNION.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—The
twenty-first annual convention of the
National Association of Army Nurses
of the Civil War opened here today.
Most of the nurses are more than 70
yciirs old and but few members were
present.
John Gilpatrick and P. H. Seaman
went out to the head of the bay this
morning in Quest of the water birds,
of which they bagged several fine
specimens.
SEWARD LOSES FREIGHT
JUNEAU, Oct. 5.—The steamer Seward met with a
terrific sea while enroute to Alaska by the outside passage
and a deck load of freight was washed overboard. The
freight was consigned to the Alaska Gastineau company
and was worth five thousand dollars.
INDEPENDENT LINE GETS S. S.
SEATTLE, Oct. 5.—The Independent Steamship line
has chartered the steamship f ucatan to take two thou
sand tons of coal and three hundred tons of rails to An
chorage.
ROCKEFELLERS IN LOAN
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—It is shown by the books of the
loan made to the allies that Rockefeller senior gave a mil
lion to it and that William gave a smaller amount.
LANE REPORTS ON R. R.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—Lane made a report on the
Alaska railroad today in which he says twenty miles of
the road are completed and that satisfactory progress is
being made all along. The report also says that the gov
ernment will build a school at Anchorage and has con
nected Seward and Anchorage by telephone.
SON SHOT FOR A BEAR
BELLINGHAM, Oct. 5.—Simon Rockwell, aged
thirty-five, was mistaken for a bear in the woods outside
this city yesterday by his father and was shot by him.
The condition of the wounded son is critical.
BOSTON FAVORITE
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—The betting is six to five on
Boston just now but it is expected that the odds will
be lengthened.
CLOSES CHICAGO SALOONS
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—Mayor Thompson just before
starting for the San Francisco Exposition clamped the lid
on the saloons of this city on Sundays pursuant to his
campaign promises to enforce the law.
SMITH BEAT RITCHIE
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Gunboat Smith beat A1 Ritchie
last night in a ten round bout.
RAIN STOPS ALL GAMES
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Rain postponed all National
and American league games today.
SITTING UP DEAD
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5.—Herbert FJatau is in jail lor
manslaughter, the charge arising out of the ki nig 0 •
Parker when Flatau drove his auto into a wagon,
nolice found the body of Parker in a sitting position m
which it had been left by Parker when the latter drove
away.
WAR ADVANCES PRICES
CHICAGO Oct. 5.—John E. Russell, former presi
dent of the National Master Butchers association, claims
that the war has advanced the prices of meats three to
“cants! Ho also says that meat shj.l«l from A,-go,,.
tine in cold storage is sold here ns fresh ffleat. _
SEWARD AND ANCHORAGE TO
BE CONNECTED NEXT TEAR
That Seward and Anchorage will
be‘connected by railroad next year,
1916, and that the journey which
now takes days will be performed in
a few hours i6 a statement that may
be made without much fear of being
wrong. William C. Edes, chairman
of the Engineering commission, was
asked directly this morning by the
Gateway if he would say whether the
railroad would be completed from this
city to Anchorage in a year. With
his usual care he paused before giv
ing any positive answer and then he
seemed to arrange an internal mental
compromise.
“You may quote me as saying Mr.
Edes declared “that it is is possible
that Anchorage and Seward will be
connected by railroad next year.
If it is permissible to look behind
the words of the chairman of the
Commission it may be stated that un
less unexpected occurrences take
place the two cities will certainly be
connected in 1916.
Mr. Edes stated without hesitation
that if money is granted by congress,
and he has no doubt that it will be,
I “we -will make things move.” This
appropriation will, of course, ha\c the
preponderating influence on the task
of :onnecting up the two railroad
towns. Mr. Edes also pointed out
that there are thirty miles of work
to be done between the two places
which presents some real difficulties.
One difficulty will be the transporta
tion of supplies, especially by boats
on Turnagain Arm.
Another important fact stated by
the commission chairman this morn
ing is that immediately after obtain
ing the appropriation from congress
work will begin where possible. That
is that if the money is granted early
in the session beginning early in
December winter work will be carried
on if and where climatic and other
conditions make it possible. For in
stance, supplies will be shipped into
the Matanuska district over the snow
and any other necessary work will al
so be done where possible without
waiting for spring. Quite a lot o!
grading, filling of trestles and
straightening out will be necessary on
the Alaska Northern.
“Next year things will be started
up in big shape” he said “if we get
the money and there is no reason
whatever to doubt that we shall get
it.”
He will leave Seward for Washing
ton in the beginning of next month,
November. He is figuring on going
out about the 3rd or 4th if a boat
leaves about those dates. If no boat
leaves then he may find it necessary
to leave earlier.