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ITALIAN ADVANCE INTO
AUSTRIA CONTINUES VET
ITALIAN PROGRESS
GENEVA, May 28.—The Italian advance into
Austria is progressing and has reached a point near
Montalionc thirtv miles from Trieste. The Austrians and
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Italians are reported to be battling near Ploken where the
first great engagement of the war is almost surely taking
place.
ITALIANS RAID TRIESTE
ROME. May 28.—Italian hydroplanes raided the
Austrian railroad at Trieste last night but the extent of
the damage inflicted by the dropping of the bombs could
not be ascertained in the darkness. Additional Austrian
territory in the Tyrol has been occupied by our troops and
the advance still continues in that region. The military
authorities are not apparently desirous of giving the im
pression that any great victories have been gained but
they express satisfaction that the war is being carried in
to the enemy’s country and that when a great battle comes
it will be fought on Austrian and not Italian soil. An
artillery duel is now proceeding between the advance
guards of the two armies near the fortified positions at
the Trentino border.
CAPTURE FOURTEEN TOWNS
GENEVA, May 28.—The news coming this after
noon shows that the Italians are continuing their suc
cesses inside the Austrian border. It is reported that
fourteen towns have already been captured by the invad
ers and that the Austrians fall back from place to place
without very serious opposition. All this part of Europe,
and particularly Switzerland, is waiting with tremendous
interest for the clash of the two main armies and for the
moment the war in other parts of the continent is almost
forgotten.
GERMANY ANSWERS TOMORROW
LONDON, May 28—A report from the Hague says
that when the German government delivers its reply to
the United States protest against the sinking of the Lusi
tania tomorrow this reply will be found to l>e of a tempor
izing nature. According to the report the German gov
ernment will ask the United States government to prove
that the Lusitania did not carry ammunition in an effort
to show that she was actually engaged in the war against
the Germans.
TORPEDO GOT NEBRASKAN
LIVERPOOL, May 28.—The American ship Nebras
kan which was injured by an external explosion has man
aged to reach this port safely. Captain Green of the ship
sa\s that while he saw no submarine he is certain that the
vessel was hit by a submarine torpedo and not by a mine.
The American consul here has received instructions to be
gin an investigation of the facts. It is admitted that
much difficulty will be experienced in proving that a tor
pedo inflicted the injury on the ship but an examination of
the hull by experts may bring out the truth.
PRZEMYSL INVESTED
VIENNA, May 28.—It is announced here today that
the investment of the city and fortress of Przemysl by the
Austrians and Germans is continuing. The Austrians are
now attempting a double flanking movement with the ob
ject of encircling the place completely but the operation
is admittedly cliflicult. The Russians are putting forth
every effort to force the Teutonic allies backward to the
south and north but have failed up to the present. It is
also reported that the chief passes in the Carpathians
are now either in possession of our troops or have been
made positions of grave danger for the Russians.
MILAN, Italy, May 28.—A large mob gathered here
last night and attacked several business houses belonging
to Germans and Austrians. One large German hotel was
broken into and ransacked in spite of the efforts of the
police to save it. The bitterness of feeling is growing
more and more intense.
MASSING FORCES
GENEVA, May 28.—Authoritative advices arriving
here show that the fighting between the Italians and
Austrians up to the present has been limited to skirm
ishes. Both sides are massing large forces, however, in
positions whose proximity promises that general engage
ments will soon be recorded. The Austrians are moboliz
ing from forces that have not been engaged for some time
against the Russians. The war against Italy, judging by
the Vienna papers, will be carried on as a separate"under
taking so that the operations will not interfere with the
campaign in Galicia- Not a note of information has come
as to what Germany is doing towards aiding in the cam
paign against Italy but that she is preparing new forces
for the struggle is not doubted.
DIST. ATTY. SAYS
BECKER IS DOOMED.
Denies That Confession by the Con
demned Man Will Save Him
From the C hair.
NEW YORK, May 28.—The District
Attorney stated today that a confes
sion of guilt on the part of Becker,
the former police lieutenant, will not
save him from the electric chair.
This statement was made to offset the
idea that if Becker made a confession
the governor would save his life. As
matters now look the chances for the
! condemned man look very poor.
STATIONFOfT
MATANUSKA
AGENT FOR AGRICULTURAL DE
PARTMENT HEREON WAY
TO LOCATE IT.
M. D. Snodgrass, agent for the agri
culture department and manager of
the experiment station at Kodiak, ar
rived on the Watson on the way to
Matanuska to locate the expet iment
station which, as was stated by Pro
fessor George son, is about to be estab
lished in that quarter. Mr. Snodgrass
will spend three weeks on the ground
and will secure horses from the engin
eering commisison to reach the Mata
nuska and Susitna valleys. He in
tends to examine the conditions
thoroughly anti later give his report.
He declares that, without doubt.
Kodiak and the neighborhood is a
good stock country. Lots of cattle
and sheep run out all winter on the
smaller islands and come out well in
spring. He has found a growing in
terest manifested in the possibilities
of the district and is constantly re
ceiving enquiries from outside. Two
new settlers came to Uyak bay this
year and more will follow the railroad
activities. One great drawback to the
raising of sheep and cattle in the
region, Mr. Snodgrass says, is the de
predation by brown bears. In one
nighty alone they killed two-thirds of
all the sheep at the station and the}
keep killing still.
❖ TEDDY ROOSEVELT *
❖ BREAKS A RIB. *
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NEW YORK, May 28.—Theodore
Roosevelt is suffering from a broken
rib caused by a fall from his horse
while riding near this city last even
ing. The fall was a severe one and
the injury is regarded by the doctors
as slight when the nature of the ac
cident is taken into account.
GREAT RAINS KILL MEN
AND DESTROY PROPERTY.
KANSAS CITY, May 28.—Terrific
rains in Kansas, eastern Missouri, and
parts of Oklahoma have caused tre
mendous damage to property, particu
larly to railroads, and some deaths.
Great stretches of railroads have been
washed out in some instances and
many bridges have been completely
destroyed.
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❖ NANAIMO EXPLOSION *
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NANAIMO, May 28.—Twenty men
are dead as the result of a gas ex
plosion which occured in a coal mine
here last evening. Some of the bodies
have been covered with a slide lcsult
ing from the explosion but are being
dug out.
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•l* lowing, Monday. On Monday v
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AN ALASKAN DINNER
j FOR THE PRESIDENT.
Matter lias Been Taken Up With
Governor Strong On Sug
gestion of J. H. Sears.
President Wilson will enjoy an Al
askan dinner at the San Francisco ex
position if the plans now under way
find no unexpected obstacle to their
fulfilment. J. H. Sears of the Har
riman National Bank of this city has
suggested the matter and at his sug
| gestion A. C. Miller of the Federal
Reserve Board at Washington, D. C.
has entered into communication with
Governor Strong and seems to be tak
ing a deep interest. In a letter to Mr.
Sears, Mr. Miller states that the only
difficulty apparent at this time is the
uncertainty as to the president's visit.
It may be mentioned incidentally that
Mr. Miller expresses in the letter the
hope that “the commencement of the
government railroad is bringing new
interest to the people there (Alaska)
in the outlook for their country."
The intention of the movers of the
scheme to give the president an Al
aska dinner is to have all the dishes
created from the products of this ter
ritory.
U. s. SUBMARINES
PROVE INEFFECTIVE.
Daniels to Investigate a Serious
Drawback in the Country’s
N a v y.
WASHINGTON, May 28.—That
half the submarines of the United
States navy are ineffective is the sen
sational discovery made during the
recent manuevres of the fleet. Secre
tary Daniels has admitted the truth of
the statement and has already ordered
an investigation to ascertain the cause
Some of the papers are already call
ing attention to the fact to show how
valueless is the opinion of laymen who
have been declaring the navy to be in
a perfect condition. It is said that if
war had been declared yesterday
against the United States the sun
marine flotilla would be found to be
of greater danger to its crews than to
the enemy
FIVE MEXICANS TO DIE.
PHOENIX, May 28.—The senate
has refused the suggestion of the
governor to petition the Board of
Pardons in behalf of the five Mexi
can murderers who have been sen
tenced to hang today. An effort is
now being made to stop the execution
through the federal courts. In the
meantime the condemned men are
standing on the brink of eternity and
trying every means in their power to
save their lives.
INVITATIONS OUT
FOR A HANGING.
PHOENIX, May 27.—Sixty invita
tions have been sent out to prominent
people whose presence is required at
the hanging of five Mexicans here to
morrow.. It was learned today that
General Villa of Mexico has interested
himself in the fate of the men and
will ask the U. S. State department
to intervene as he believes the men
would not have been condemned to
death if no racial prejudices had
existed.
SUCCESSOR OF ( API .
JARVIS KILLS SELF.
C. H. Buschmann, Manager of North
western Fisheries Co., Com
mits Suicide.
SEATTLE, May 28.—C. H. Busch
mann, manager of the Northwestern
Fisheries company, shot and killed
, himself last night. II! health is given
as the cause of the act and it is known
that the unfortunate man had been
suffering physically for some time. A
remarkable circumstance connected
with the deed is that Buschmann was
j the successor of Captain Jarvis who
: also committed suicide.
FOURTH AVENUE
MUST WAIT YET
MUNICIPAL PARLIAMENT PASS
ES A LAW THAT CANNOT
PASS SUPREME COURT.
A petition is again being circulated
; by the business men of Fourth Avenue
! to have the street improved. This
sounds like a quotation from ancient
; history but it is real up-to-date news.
The new petition has been found
necessary as it has been learned that
the municipal parliament decided up
on the improvement and passed the
ordinance providing for it before the
matter had been adjusted. Since the
meeting last Monday, in other words,
it has been discovered that the amount j
of property represented on the former j
petition was not the necessary two- j
thirds. The council first built its.
house and then learned that it had no
foundation. These facts are mention
ed here without charging the regular
advertising rates asked by the Gate
way for the publication of ordinances, j
It now learns for the first time that
the decision to post ordinances instead
of paying for their publication is the
wisest step taken by the local chamber
of deputies as most of the ordinances
may have to be passed and made pub
lic all over again if present indications
mean anything.
Well, to tell the whole great history
of the latest brilliant scintillation:— ;
The first petition to improve the
streets was circulated between April
12 and 17. It was presented to the
council and referred to the street com
mittee, whose chairman is Charles
Crawford, and on April 2G the city at
torney reported that the nccssary
property was represented. Then the
engineer went to work and rcpoi ted
that the total cost would be twelve
thousand dollars odd. The council at j
its meeting last Monday decided to go
at the work after giving the property
holders the necessary ten day s notice,
and then, sad is the task to speak, it
1 was learned, just about a month after
it was stated that two thirds of the
property holders had signed the peti
tion, that two thirds of the property
holders had done nary sich a thing.
And now the whole matter will have
to be done over again. It has been
suggested that the great delay in dis
covering the error might have a pur
pose but, seriously, this suggestion
should not be entertained. The fact is
that the big four volleyed and thund
ered and blundered. It is not too late,
however, to improve the street. The
people responsible for the blunder
might yet put their heads together
and make a block pavement.
CARD PARTY AND DANCE.
A. B. Hall Saturday May 29th.
Progressive Whist 8:30 to 10 p. m.
Dancing 10 to 12. Music by Miss Mc
Leod. Admission 25 cfcnts each.528-2t
OR AT SRITISII
TLESHIP TORPEDOED
BRITISH MAJESTIC SUNK
LONDON, May 28.—The regrettable announcement
was made here this morning that another great British
battleship has been torpedoed and sunk in the Dardanel
: les. The latest victim of the hostile submarines is the
Majestic, a vessel of fourteen thousand nine hunderd tons
which a few years ago was one of the greatest warships
of the British empire. The details of the occurrence have
not been fully ascertained but it is assumed that the
Majestic was destroyed by the same submarine that des
troyed the Triumph. The Majestic was built between
1895 and 1898. According to the admiralty most of the
crew of seven hundred were saved as the vessel sank near
the shore. It has also been announced today that three
hundred sailors were drowned when the Turkish submar
ine sank the Triumph just before the sinking of the
Majestic. Both of these disasters coming together have
least a gloom over the country and counteracted to some
extent the satisfaction created by the entry of Italy into
the war.
BRITISH SINK TURKS
LONDOD, May 28.—As some consolation for the
sinking of the battleship Triumph and Majestic the admir
alty states that a British submarine passed the Dardanel
les within the past few days, sank a Turkish gunboat in
the Sea of Marmora, a Turkish supply ship near ( onstan
tinople and tried to torpedo a Turkish transport that was
lying at anchor in the port of Constantinople itself . It is
supposed that the success of the Turkish submarines is
due to the aid of the Germans. Indeed it is generally ac
cepted as most likely that the Germans are in command
of the under water craft of the Ottoman fleet.
ALLIES BOMBARDING
ATHENS, May 28.—'The Allied fleets at the Dardan
elles are now once more bombarding the Turkish lorts at
both sides of the channel. The land forces at the same
time are attacking on Gallipoli peninsula and maintaining
a steady offensive. Owing to the limited space given for
operations flanking movements are impossible so that the
Allies are forced to make frontal attacks against a well
intrenched enemy.
DANISH STEAMER SUNK
COPENHAGEN, May 28.—A Danish steamer hit a
mine off Stockholm today and was sunk. About a.dozen
lives are said to have been lost owing to the quick sinking
of the ship and the impossibility of launching the lifeboats
in tint e. There is now way of telling which belligerent
country laid the mine but it may have been a floating one
that drifted some distance.
NO CHANGE SAYS PETROGRAD
PETROGRAD, May 28.—The official communique
this morning states tliat no change lias taken place m tne
general relative situations near tne East Prussian border
nor m Galicia, it is stated, though, that the Austro-Ger
man attacks in Galicia have been definitely checked and
that both armies are now facing each other with equal
chances of success.
AMERICAN WOMAN ARRESTED
SAN FRANCISCO, May 28.—Mrs. Boyce, wife of a
former California state senator, and her daughter have
been arrested in Bavaria, Germany, on the charge of in
sulting officers who were inspecting her baggage. She
was released on a five thousand dollar bond to come up
for trial. Mrs. Boyce declares that the alleged insults
were unintentional and she has requested Secretary of
State Bryan to protest against the treatment meted out
to her. information from Washington to her family is
that the American ambassador at Berlin has been in
structed to look into the matter.
BRITISH STEAMER SUNK
PENZANCE, England, May 28.—Another British
steamer was torpedoed and sunk off the Stilly Islands to
day. This makes only one of five or six sunk in the same
waters within the past week or two. No lives are report
ed to have been lost this time as the crews were able to get
away in the small boats before the vessel went under.
FRENCH STEAMER ASHORE
NATES, France, May 28.—The big French steamer
Champagne is ashore at St. Nazaire but all the nine
hundred passengers aboard are safe- A plot to dynamite
her was discovered in February and a man aboard at that
time was discovered on arrest to have a trunk full of pow -
erful bombs. These facts associated with the present ac
cident to the ship have created the belief that there is
something more than a mere accident responsible for her
going ashore. The chance to investigate the matter has
i not yet been provided.