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Vo| N . SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21,1916.___Ten Cent* th« Copy
MEXICANS MOUNT GUNS FACING
POSITIONS HELD BY AMERICANS
AWAIT CARRANZA REPLY |
WASHINGTON, June 21.—The capital is today
awaiting the reply of Carranza to the note sent by this
government sternlv refusing to withdraw the troops fiom
Mexico. Secretary of War Baker has suddenly become
the busiest man in Washington and is constantly confei
ring with the various officials of the army*. Ihe geneial
opinion is indeed, it is almost an official statement, that
the reply of Carranza will be awaited for twenty-four
hours more or forty-eight hours if it is thought advisable.
The atmosphere here is decidedly warlike and all feel that,
only a complete backdown by the Mexican provisional
president can avert hostilities.
MEXICANS MENACE AMERICANS
COLUMBUS, June 21.—General Pershing has sent
advices to the effect that the troops of i arranza aie on
the very verge of hostilities. They* have already* placed
cannon in positions where they menace the Ameiican
troops and all the indications are that they are piepaiing
really to attack.
l. S. SOLDIER ARRESTED
DUBLAX, Mexico, June 21—An American soldier, a <
member of the Pershing army, was taken prisoner yester
day and was held several hours but was finally released to
Pershing. The arrest is regarded as a proof of the desire
of the Mexicans to ignore the threats of the Americans. .
A feeling has grown here within the past few days that
Mexico is behaving with greater contempt for the power
of the United States than would be warranted by Her ,
ability to meet the United States single-handed.
MEXICANS ADVANCING
DOUGLAS. June 21. — Refugees report that large ,
bodies of Mexican troops are moving northward along i
the Narcozari railroad and the advance guards have al
ready reached a point that is only twenty-two miles dist- '
ant from our southern border.
PERSHING THREATENED
COLON'IA DUBLAN, Mexico, June 21.—It has been
learned since that before the Mexicans released the
American soldier they had taken prisoner General I ei -
- shing hail warned them that if he was held another hour
he would wreck the town about their heads. On the re
ceipt of this threat the Carranza officials released him at
once. The situation here is not noticeably tense but there
is an ominous quiet prevailing.
DANGER INCREASING
COLUMBUS, June 21—The situation between the
Pershing troops and the Mexicans south of Namiquipa
is said to be getting hourly more serious. It seems to be
feared that the American motor truck supply trains are
in real danger from being tired upon and the report of the
mounting of artillery by the Mexicans to command the
United States positions is confirmed.
GREAT FLEET LEAV ES
SAN DIEGO, June 21.—With the departure from this
port of a squadron of armored cruisers and a flotilla of
torpedo boats and destroyers, with the cruiser Maryland,
the greatest naval demonstration in the history of the
Pacific fleet with the coast of Mexico as the objective will
be recorded. _
NATIONAL GUARD TO MOVE
SAN ANTONIO, June 21.—The majority of the hun
dred thousand national guardsmen who are mobilizing
throughout the country will begin to move towards the
border immediately the mobilization is completed. The
inilitia under the direct orders of 1 unston will be distri
buted along the border from the Gulf of Mexico to Cali
fornia anti will be assigned to patrol duty, releasing all the
regulars now engaged in that work for the invasion of
Mexico should war be declared.
MORE AEROPLANES
WASHINGTON, June 21.—The House today voted
an increase of the apropriation for aeroplanes from $1,
222,000 to $37,000,000.
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ALASKA BOYS
FOR ACADEMIES
V ALDEZ BOY AND JI N EAT BOY
MADE CADETS BY WICK
ERSHAM.
WASHINGTON, June 21. — Dele
gate Wickersham has appointed an
Alaskan boy to the naval academy and
mo to the military academy. The
naval cadet who goes to Annapolis is
Sampson McKinnon of Juneau and
ihe boy who goes to West Point is
Ellis Babcock of Valdez.
BASEBALL GAME lo BE
PLAYED THIS EVENING
A game between the Haasch and
Campbell teams will be played this
evening at 7:o0 o’clock on Lumber
(‘ark. The teams will be about the
>ame with a few strengthening
changes which are expected to make
:he play closer. The boys all now feel
hat they must get down to business
n preparation for the Fourth.
IIWENILE COMBINATION
GARDEN SPROFT1NG NOW
The garden planted by the rising
generation ot oewarti ;.i me corner ot
\dams and Third is now beginning to
show the fruits of the juvenile toil.
lOaeh child got a little bed in the
garden in which to try his or her
skill as an apprentice gardener and
lowers ami vegetables are now begin
ning to display the first harbingers
>f their own beautiful or palatable ex
stence. The Frank ltevell garden is
facile princeps in the race for first
place, and the gardens of the two
Madsen boys appear about next in the
progress made. Charley McKay s
patch is rather well advanced and
Lavonia Stotko’s and Margaret (
Sloan’s are very fair. Some of the
little spots seem to have defied nature
*nd the young gardeners to make any
thing out of them and have become
the worst kind of truants. The fol
lowing are the experimenters:
Jack Kanine, radishes, nasturtiums,
lettuce; Frank Revel 1, lettuce, rad
ishes; Tom Madsen, lettuce, radishes,
candy tuff; Robert Manthey, lettuce,
radishes, nasturtium; Lawrence Mc
Neer, lettuce, carrots, radishes, nas- j
turtium; Carl Madsen, radishes, let
tuce, nasturtium; Juliuse Stalinksky,
radishes, lettuce, nasturtium; Frank
Shellhorn. carrots, radishes, lettuce;
Harry Revell, radishes, lettuce, sweet
peas; Charley McKay, radishes, let
tuce; Mcrrit Shellhorn, radishes, let
tuce; Warren Alderman, radishes, let
tuce; Beatrice Baughman, radishes,
lettuce, carrots, calopy; Leanore Dry
done, radish, lettuce, marigolds: Alice
Chambers, radishes, lettuce, pansies,
sweet peas; Lavonia Stotko, radishes,
lettuce; Margaret Sloan, radishes, let
tuce, pansies; Sigrid Rosness, rad
ishes, nasturtiums, lettuce.
MANY BUYING LOIS i
AT WOODROW PARK
Several people are now purchasing
lots at Woodrow Park, the beautitul
pleasure surburb which is being
created out of part of the homestead
of J. D. Johnston at Mile Six. David
Branch, the superintendent of Libby,
McNeill & Libby, who passed by the
other day decided that he wanted to J
be in on the lovely new recreation j
ground and he purchased a lot
through Dr. Komig. Others who have
taken lots in the park are William
Sauers, Hubert Komig, Hoy Ashland
and B. M. Stone. The Pioneers have
also got a lino location there and will
improve it.
❖ CABLE GOES DOWN *
❖ SOUTH OF SITKA ❖
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For the first time in many years
cable communication between Seward
and Seattle was interrupted this
morning when the cable went out of
commission between Sitka and Seat
tle. As this is the first time such an
occurrence is recorded it is difficult
to under stand how a cable of such
strong and reliable a kind could
break. It is the best and stoutest
cable in the Pacific ocean and anyone
who says anything to the contrary
knows not whereof he speaks. That
cable never goes down, especially at
times when the people want to hear
about railroad appropriations or little
things like a war between the United
i^tUtCS dtt Al* * *- ^0{)C*
the next pirate that sticks his anciiv*
in that fish line will drag it over to
Vladivostok and leave it there. Beg
pardon, War Department. We are
not kicking. It is just ignorance
about cables on our part. Sure, she’s
a peach of a cable and it s too good
for us.
SHOOT TAKES
PLACE TONIGHT
FROM 10 O’CLOCK TO MIDNIGHT
CLAY BIRDS WILL BE
SLAUGHTERED.
The first shoot of the Seward Gun
Club will take place tonight near the
powder house from 10 p. m. to mid
night. John Gilpatrick got the traps
and everything ready today and all
will be ready at the time fixed. Sev
eral will take part and anyone who
wishes may try his hand. Prizes will
be given for the beginners as well as j
for the old trap shooters. A photo
graph will be taken of the bunch.
MARIPOSA TOMORROW
The latest from the Mariposa is
that she is due here tomorrow at 1 p.
m. This message came direct from
i the ship to Agent McDonald.
NORTHWESTERN 8 P. M.
The Northwestern is due from the
I westward at 8 p. m.
CARRANZA PREPARES
EL PASO, June 21. — Carranza is reported to have
called to Mexico City the collectors of customs of the hoi d
er points and to have ordered them to bring all the money
in their possession with them.
WITHDRAWS MONEY
NEW YORK, June 21. —The Carranza government
has withdrawn the sum of four million dollars which was
on deposit here for the financing of the ordinary business
of the Mexican government,
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GERMANS REINFORCE AUSTRIANS
AND RUSSIANS ARE CHECKED
AWFUL MURDER
DONUT UNGA
JAPANESE KILLS TWO, WOUNDS
THREE AND COMMITS
SUICIDE.
That an awful murder, involving
the loss of three lives, was commit
ted at Unga some days ago is the in
formation conveyed through Marshal
Brenneman who passed by the other
day on the way to Anchorage. He
had apparently not received the full
details but from what he had learned
it was evident that a Japanese ran
amok with a shot gun and killed two
other men before turning the gun on
himself and taking his own life. It is
also known that he wounded three
others.
DR. SLOAN APPOINTED
Dr. J. M. Sloan has been appointed
by Governor Strong a member of the
examining board for this division.
He was formerly a member of the
board for the Second division.
WANTS TO TALK AND
CANNOT SUCCEED
M. Musgrove, the former wireless
man of the Dora ..
General Hospital suffering from par
alysis, is in a most pathetic and pe
culiar condition. He has never 10
gained the use of his voice and is still
unable to express himself or even to
make himself understood by signs.
Time after time he gives the indica
tion that he desires keenly to tell
those around him something which he
wishes strongly to have known but
every effort to find what it is has fail
ed. He tries to write but fails and
a telegraph instrument has been taken
to him but he has failed to tell even
by that means what he wants. Large
letters were written out for him by
Ike Evans who asked him to spell out
by their means what he wishes to say
but he is utterly powerless to do so.
Dr. Sloan says the cause of the failure
is the lack of co-ordination between
the mind and the muscles. As an ex
ample of the result of such a condi
tion, the doctor says, a man might
know the north and want to point in
that direction but would point east or
west. Mr. Musgrove is being taken
out on the Northwestern, arrange
ments having been made by the kind
ness of the company for transporta
tion.
MURDER CHARGED TO
WOMAN AT KODIAK
A woman is now in the custody of
Deputy Marshal Karl Armstrong at
Kodiak on the charge of murder. She
is accused of slaying her illegitimate,
child but her name has not yet been
given out. It is said that she is a
half breed Russian woman.
PRESIDENT WILSON NOW
WANTS DREADNAUGHTS
WASHINGTON, June 20.—Presi
dent Wilson has urged the members of
the senate committee to specify at
least one and if possible two dread
naughts in the navy bill. He seems
to believe that the lesson of the recent
battle in the North Sea teaches the
importance of the more powerful ves
sels.
The train will leave Seward at 7
a. m, tomorrow.
RUSSIANS CHECKED
LONDON, June 21.—That the Russian advance
against the Austrians has been checked is made evident
by the reports arriving today. The Germans rushed six
divisions of 120,000 men eastward to the aid of their al
lies. Two other German divisions were sent separately
to the Lutsk and the Kovel fronts and with their aid the
Austrians opened a counter offensive with great vigor.
By attacking the northern (lank of General Brisiloff’s
army in its attempt to advance towards Lemberg it would
appear that the Russians have received a reverse. Wheth
er the result has been merely a check or a defeat is not yet
made clear.
PAUSE AT VERDUN
PARIS, June 21. — No fighting of importance is re
ported today at Verdun. The Russian offensive has prob
ably caused a pause in the western offensive for the pres
ent but it is expected to be resumed before long. Violent
artillery duels are still proceeding in the Chattancourt re
gion and to the northeast of the main fortress but no in
fantry assaults are mentioned in the official communiques.
TURKS FIGHT FIERCELY
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 21.—Reports here from
the front where our troops and the Russians are facing
each other state that we have completely checked the
Slav advance. The British are also unable to advance in
Mesopotamia, it is reported. Severe fighting in Egypt be
fM-oor, the Senussi tribes and the British is also reported.
RUSSIANS DRIVEN BACK
BEItl IN June 21—The Russian army which crossed
the river Styr west of Golki have been driven back across
the river and the Germans have taken a thousanc
prisoners.
MORE BODIES ASHORE
COPENHAGEN, June 21.—Bodies of the victims of
the great sea battle off the coast of Jutland still continue
to be washed ashore at various points. Wreckage is also
being picked up by Jutland seacoast dwellers in great
quantities. Further reports from the big light show that
the roughness of the sea at the time prevented the Ger
man sumbarines from operating effectively as otherwise
might have been the case.
(Note:—All the cables appearing in today s Gateway
came by the Canadian route.)_^^a——***,*
COOK’S NINE WINS IN
ninth by a fluke
A home run by Ashland and another
by Cook yesterday on the Johnston j
ranch diamond were the features of
a bitter tussle for the pennant of the
Sunday school when the nine piloted
by the Rev. C. T. Cook skinned home
by a neck ahead of the aggregation
skippered by the local Frohman. Um
pire Harvey and the captain of t!ie
winning bunch got into trouble dur
ing the exposition, Harvey telling the
complaining captain he didn t know
the game and the captain getting back
by insisting on umpiring himself.
During the game the breezes got
fanned so fiercely that a storm had
to come up and—but that aint no wa\
to talk about a Sunday school game.
Several players fell out during the
game to make way for the others
but the following were the steady
players:
For Rev. Cook; Himself, Mrs.
Green, Elizabeth Romig, Mrs. Schal
eben, Gertrude Schaleben, Sam Moyer,
Tom Madsen.
For Ashland; Himself, Margaret
Romig, Elizabeth Torrey, Mrs. Bal
laine, Hale Schaleben.
Mrs. Call and Mrs. Hammond, two
visiting ladies, were guests. Two
autos were used to get the picnickers
out and very nice refreshments were
, served.
MEN ENQUIRED FOR
PERISHED ON KODIAK
An inquiry for information a3 to
the whereabouts of Frank Kreuger,
from Mrs. Johanna Kreuger of New
York, addressed to the Chief of Police
Scott, and printed in the Gateway, has
led to the discovery of Kreuger’s fate
and revealed a remarkable coinci
dence.
In the winter of 1905-6 Kreuger and
Pontius Eliasson left Red River, on
the western coast of Kodiak island,
and about 180 miles from the town of
Kodiak, for an overland trip to the
town. They were overtaken by a se
vere snowstorm and cold weather and
are believed to have perished. They
never reached their destination and
later a search was made for the
bodies, but they could not be found.
No doubt, however, exists that they
perished, as diligent inquiry at ail
points where they could possibly have
touched failed to reveal any trace of
them.
GETTING TOGETHER
TO FIX THE PARK
Further steps are being taken to
day to prepare the lot north of the
Fire Department for a playground for
the children. It is hoped that work
will be begun at once so that the
children will have a place to play be
fore the close of the holidays.