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YolunK- XI * Number lsi. ™_SKWAItl), ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 26,1917._Ten Cento the Copy
ALLIES MAKE GAINS IN SOUTHEAST,
GERMANS ATTACK FRENCH LINE
TEUTON STEAMERS CAPTUREO
(By Associated Prc»* Dispatch)
PETROGRAD, July 26, (O)cial). — Roumanian and
Russian armies on the Roumanian front are fighting vali
ently in spite of the terrible defeat inflicted by the tier
mans in Galicia and have broken through the Teuton
Bulger-Turk lines, capturing thousands of prisoners and
many guns.
In battles of Tuesday and Wednesday the Roumani
ans captured over 1,000 prisoners and o3 guns. Dui ing the
same days the Russian army operating on the same hunt,
captured 1.000 prisoners and 21 guns. Indications are that
the Germans had taken many men from this line foi use
elsewhere and an endeavor was made to hold the sector
with artillery.
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GERMANS STILL ADVANCE IN GALICIA
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
BERLIN. July 26. (Official).—German troops have
captured the Galician towns ol Buczacz, 1 luniacz, Ott\ nia,
and Delatyn. The Russian armies are reported to be re
treating in the direction of Czernowitz, the capital of Bu
ko wina.
BRITISH GET MORE MERCHANTMEN
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
AMSTERDAM, July 26.—Dispatches from Texel re
port the sinking of two German steamers and that two
others were captured and taken to England by British
destroyers. This is the second successful raid by British
on German commerce within the past week.
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EXPENSIVE ATTACK IN FRANCE
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PARIS, July 26. (Official).—German assaults on the
French lines reopend last night along a i rout ol two miles
from Hurtebise to Lanovelle. and at the cost of tremen
dous losses, the Germans penetrated into certain elements
of the French first line trenches. French artillery made
the advance cost the Germans frightful losses, equal to the
most wasteful attacks at Verdun.
LOST HOPE OF WORLD CONQUEST
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
LONDON, July 26.—Lord Dorchester told the Asso
ciated Press today that Germany’s dream of world con
quest has been shattered and that all classes in Germany
now believe that the war must end through diplomacy and
not in brilliant victory.
FRENCH CUT DOWN SUB LOSSES
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PARIS, July 26.—(Official).—No French steamer of
over 1600 tons has been lost through submarine attack
for the past six weeks. French merchantmen have been
attacked during that time unsuccessfully.
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SIAM ENTERS WAR, INTERNS ALL
GERMANS AND SEIZES STEAMERS
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
BANGKOK, Siam, July 26.—Machinery in nine Aus
trian and German steamers seized after Siam declared
war on the Central powers, was found to be damaged. All
male subjects of the enemy countries have been interned
and all enemy business has been wound up. The German
prisoners have been placed in a large internment camp.
ALAMEDA BRINGS GOOD
LIST FROM THE SOUTH
The S. S. Alameda arrived at 12:15
o’clock last night from Seattle and
way ports with the following passen
gers for Seward:
Bill Hood, P. Bainbridge, C. M. En
nis and wife, Miss Margaret Ennis,
W. J. Curtiss, J. Palmer, C. J. At
kinson, Lou Howard, N. Merrit, El
liott W. Smith, A. Rakkein, Miss B.
Daughn, E. I. Hawley.
COPY OF RULES FOR U. S.
ARMY BOARDS HERE
Rules and regulations for the local
and district exemption boards pre
scribed by the President under the act
authorizing him to temporarily in
crease the military establishment of
the United States have been received
from Washington.
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Proof of labor blanks for sale at
•XBA^BO
OLD TIMERS
HERE IN 1898
BACK AGAIN
Two Members of Towle-Stetson
Party Now See Town Where
Forest Grew
James Palmer, of Santa Clara, and
W. J. Curtner, of San Jose, Califor
nia, who first landed in Resurrection
Bay March 11, 1898, and have been
away since the fall of that year, re
turned on the Alameda last night and
are tnhusiastic over the town that is
grown here that was then a heavy
forest. They are stopping at The Sew
ard.
“Uncertainly the most wonderful
harbor on the west coast/’ said Palmer
this morning and Curtner declares
that he felt even in those days that
there would be a big town here when
but nothing was known of the coal Sit
uation then.
The two men were members of the
party of eighteen brought here by the
Towle-Stetson mining company, which
had ground on Cooper Creek. They
arrived on the S. S. Excelsior, which
so far as known was the first steamer
to call here. The outfit was unloaded
on a small schooner and put ashore.
A feature of the landing was that
the two giants for the hydraulic outfit
wer lost overboard when a wind wooly
upset the schooner. Two more giants
were ordered from Outside and were
taken into Cooper creek from Sunrise.
The party had four horses and twenty
tons of freight.
What is now known as Hear Lake,
members of the party named Anvil
lake, because while freighting in the
outfit they lost an anvil there. The
mining venture proved unsuccessful
for the pay petered out and the party
left in the fall. hWen they camped
here, while on the way out, food was
scarce and they bagged squirrels in
the trees where Fourth avenue and
Adams is now located and shot whist
lers on Marathon mountain and the
hill south.
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ALASKA GIVES
LARGE SUM
Indications Arc* That Territory Has
%
Given Over $25,000 During First
Four Months
Alaskan towns have given most lib
erally to the Red Cross. Complete
reports of money taken up for this
cause have not been made up so far
but the following items gleaned from
exchanges show that the total for the
territory will probably go well above
the $25,000 mark Tor the first four
months of the war.
Seward contributions amount to
over $750, while LaTouche gave $500,
and Anchorage and vicinity has taken
up in the neighborhood of $1500.
Sitka has contributed the sum of
$342.86 to the Red Cross Fund.
At a bazaar and ball given at Ne
nana recently the sum of $1,171.30 was
raised, one-half of which went to the
Red Cross fund and the remainder to
the fund for Belgian Relief.
Ketchikan has raised the sum of $1,
269.66 for the Red Cross,, and this
amount is expected to be further in
creased in the immediate future.
Juneau, Thane, Perseverance and
Jualin combined have contributed $6,
129.58 to the Red Cross fund, and in
addition has taken in more than $1,
000 from memberships in the organ
ization.
In her official report submitted to
the local Red Cross officials regarding
her activities in Red Cross inteersts at
Rampart, Mrs. James Climie states
that three natives are numbered
among Red Cross members there. They
are Andrew George, Charles Pitka &nd
Paul. Mrs. Climie sent $50 as the
result of her work with her report.
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TRAITORS CAUSE APPALLING DEFEAT,
DIVISION WHICH LET GERMANS
IN BLOWN UP BY OWN GUNNERS
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, July 25.—Advices from Russia to
day contain the first;-inkling of the real cause lying be
hind the frightful defeat of the Russian army in the East
and indicate that the Russian commanders are checking
the retreat in Galicia.
General Korniloff’s drastic measures inch*A:-1 'owing
to pieces an entire division of traitorous troops of the
Eleventh army by his own artillerymen.
It was the failure of the Eleventh army to hold the
line which resulted in general defeat oi Russia’s Galician
force, these soldiers being in the act of holding a meeting
to decide whether or not to obey their officers when the
Teutonic attack was launched.
German agents kept their commanders informed of
conditions and instead of attempting to stop the onrush of
General Korniliffs divisions the German attack was
launched on the extreme right flank of the Russian Sev
enth army and along the 18-mile front of the Eleventh
army next in line, which was rotten with intrigue. With
the immediate collapse of the Eleventh’s defense the Sev
enth was forced to retreat to avoid being encircled, in
spite of its complete preparations to hold in the face of
any frontal attack.
The most hopeful feature of the situation is firmness
being shown by Russian armies north and south of the
broken line. The Russ army in Volhynia just north of
the affected sector, is unyielding and the army under Gen
Kornoloff to the south is again attacking.
DEATH PENALTY FOR TRAITORS RESTORED
PETROGRAD, July 20.—The commander in chief and
commanders of various armies having insisted that the
restoration of discipline necessitated infliction of the death
penalty, the government under Premier Kerensky, has
uananimously agreed to restore captital punishment dur
ing the war.
Authorities here are now engaged in bringing to jus
tice all organizers of the revolt here, which occurred in
conjunction with the collapse of the Eleventh army on the
Galician front.
DEFEAT AN APPALLING BLOW TO ALLIES
LONDON, July 26.—The Rusisan defeat in Galicia is
described in a Petrograd dispatch to the London Post as
an appalling blow to the Allies.
Russia had put enormous armies ih the field.
British and French guns and gunners, British armor
ed cars, and British and French aviators had been added
to the unprecedented strength put into that section by the
Russians liiemselves to make that particular sector of the
eastern front equal to anything on the French front.
I he advance commenced under well planned moves
and the causes behind the complete breakdown of the vast
war machine followed by its being routed from ground al
ready held, still remains to be explained.
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MARTIAL LAW IS REVOKED IN SPAIN
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
MADRID, July 26—Quiet is gradually being restored
in Spain and martial law has been lifted. In Valencia the
situation is entirely normal again and strikers are to re
sume work tomorrow in other cities.
NO ATTEMPT MADE TO RUN CARS
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(By Associated Press Dispatch)
SEATTLE, July 26. — Two hundred and seventy
three strike-breakers for the Puget Sound Traction Com
pany have arrived her today, and ten of these have been
arrested for failure to register under the military draft
law. So far the company has not attempted to use the
strikebreakers and the cars are not running.
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BIG CROWD •
LEAVES WITH
BALL TEAM
Greatest Sporting Event of Year to
Open Sunday and Fans Go to
Help Seward Win
There is no lack of patriotism in
Alaska, but the war will have to take
a second place for a few’ days now
until a little score betw / Seward
and Anchorage is settled and settled
right.
An enthusiastic crow’d of fans de
parted for Anchorage on the S. S. Ala
meda early this morning and mo*-e ate
going by train Saturday to see the
big series on Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday.
The unfortunates wrho had to remain
at home are preparing to burn up the
Anchorage w’ire with demands for
dope and there will be something do
ing in all the camps between here and
the head of the Inlet for the next few'
days.
The team under Capt. J. J. Finnegan
had all the pep in the world and Man
ager Hoben had hard work herding
them into bed. In fact, he gave it up
and the boys roamed the deck until
the boat pulled out, taking part in the
general uproar.
The west-bound passenger list reads
like a section of the Seward directory.
Here it is:
Jimmie Hawkins, Miss Ethel Leslie,
Miss Edna Robb, Mrs. Eide and daug
ter Merrit, J. C. Moultby, Mrs. A. H.
McDonald, Miss Jessue Walton, Mrs.
Frank Cotter, H. N. Witt, Mat Ryan,
Mrs. A1 Davis and Miss Nell Shea,
Elizabeth Romig, Derrick Lane, Mrs.
Selma Scott, T. M. Harr and wife,
Charles Walmsley, Miss Alice Hickey,
J. J. Finnegan, Bert Anderson, “Dad"
Tolman, Con Leon, Lee James, F. I).
Hougham, H. C. Hamliton, H. Marcus,
R. H. Chadwick, and the team of fif
teen men.
Forty more rooters will leave over
the line Friday night or Saturday
morning.
It’s great to be a fan.
MRS. MOONEY
IS ACQUITTED
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Found Not Guilty of Bomb Murder At
Time of Big Preparedness Parade
In 'Frisco
SAN FRANICISCO, July 25.—Mrs.
Rena Mooney, charged with complicity
in the “preparedness bomb” outrage,
was found not guilty by the jury here
last night, following a long and sen
sational trial.
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CIVIC FAIR WILL BE
EARLY IN SEPTEMBER
Six entries have been received by
the chairman of th Civic Fair in the
ward contest, for greatest improve
ment in gardens and front yards. All
entries must be in by Aug. 1.
While th date of the fair has not
been fixed, owning to the uncertainty
as to the time when the gardens will
mature, it is understood that it will be
held about the first of September.
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Miners on the Dexter Divide, in the
Nome district, have nearly completed
the sluicing of their winter durtips and
report a very satisfactory clean-up.
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THE WEATHER
Yesterday.
Maximum. 64
Minimum ..50
Current.46
Precipitation.46
Cloudy. South wind.
WEATHER TOMORROW
Unsettled, south wind.