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WAR MIST NOT END IN A SHAM
PEACE SAYS ASQUITH IN COMMONS
WILL ADMIT SUBMARINES
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Councellor Polk of the de
partment of state says that the United States has refused
thy demand made by the Entente powers that German
submarines Ik* excluded from l nited States harbors. He
says the reasons for the refusal will he published tomor
row. He also states, however, that the United States will
not tolerate the blockading of l nited States harbors by
l iermans or Allies.
BRITISH WANT MORE MONEY
LONDON, Oct. 11.—A tremendous ovation greeted
Premier Asquith today in the house of commons when he
asked for another billion and a half war credit. The
speech of the prime minister was most interesting as
showing just wnat is thought of the war and the manner
m which it is progressing, “lhe war must not end in a
Sham peace/’ lie said and this was the keynote of his
statement. The phrase is being taken by the papers to
mean that the Allies are determined to still push the war
in spite of the seeming failure of the western olfensive,
and that no peace will be made until all danger of future;
war is destroyed. The Times sums up the statement to
.aean that while the war is mx being ended Britain will
continue.
SITUATION MAY BE SERIOUS
LONGBKANCH, Oct. 11.—Wilson and Lansing are
conferring tnilny nn f subuuu'uw ^ucotivn. ibv v>li\cials
declare that no law was violated by the sinking of the
ships off this coast but they believe there is a grave dang
er that submarines may make mistakes that would cause
international complications. President W ilson will prob
ably ask the kaiser to remove the menace. A similar re
quest was made to Britain in 11)14 and this is regarded as
a precedent. At that time Britain promised to avoid in
juring American shipping. As matters now stand no
trouble need be expected if the submarines do not repeat
their attacks and many people believe the U-53 came here
just to bring mail and only sank the ships as an incident.
PASSENGER RATES DOUBLED
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 11.—Owing to the submarining of
ships near the American coast the rates for passengers
ucross the Atlantic have been doubled. Several lines have
cancelled their sailings until it is learned that the sub
marines have quit.
SUBMARINE REPORTED
SAVANNAH, Oct. 11.—An unknown submarine was
reported this morning otT Tybee bar and it is believed to
be a German.
NOT AN AMERICAN
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—The navy department says
there is no American submarine in the vicinity of Savan
nah and the submarine reported there must be foreign.
BRITISH BAR HEARST
LONDON, Oct. 11—The Hearst International News
Service has been barred from all press privileges in the
United Kingdom because it is charged that it has garbled
the news and falsified it to make it look favorable to the
Central powers. All means of transmitting the news has
been denied to the sendee. The Hearst service first came
under the ban of the British authorities during the Irish
rebe'ktr. when the Hearst papers took the side of the revo
lutionists.
BULGARIANS DEFEATED
LONDON, Oct 11.—The British have occupied Kal
endra and Homondos on the Macedonian front and. the
Bulgarians have been retired on both wings northwest of
Ceres. The Bulgarian counter attacks along the Cerna
have been repulsed by the Serbians.
GERMANS STORM HERBUTON
BERLIN, Oct. 11.—The Germans have stormed and
captured Herbuton east of Narayurka.
Japan Will Treat
The l. S. Squarely
TOKIO, Oct. 11.—Premier Terkuchi
outlined the policy ot his government
, in a message to parliament last even
ing and in it he stated that whatever
the policy of Japan will be in future
the United States will be treated
fairly and squarely. The message
says Japan wants peace ami is not
militaristic. The United States and
other nations will be respected until
Japan’s rights are infringed, the
statement says, but it is openly stated
that civilization must be brought to
China and also progress, although the
open door will be maintained. The
message is regarded as the opening
wedge for an advance on Chinese ter
ritory.
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HCGHES NOW COMES 01 T
ON MEXICAN Ql ESTION
BALTIMORE, Oct. 11.—In a speech
here last night Hughes said the key
note of his policy with respect to
Mexico would be the “protection of
the citizens there.”
STANDARD OIL MEN
GO OCT ON STRIKE
BAYONNE. N. J., Oct. 11. — Six
thousand Standard Oil employees
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went out on strike today and noting,
has already occurred. Police and
armed posses ar guarding the plant. |
Pour patrolmen and eight strikers
were wounded by shots during the
rioting.
SOCTHERN PACIFIC HEAD
IS OCT FOR WILSON
NEW YORK. Oct. 10. — President
Lovett of the Southern Pacific rail
road stated today that he is for Wil
son regardless of the eight hour day
law. He says he is for Wilson be
cause his administration must be
credited with greater achievements,
than most Presidents. Lovett said 1
Wilson settled the currency question
effectually and his foreign policy is
one of the most brilliant pages in
American history.
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CUTTING THE SUPPLY
A dispatch from Steubenville, 0., j
to the Cincinnati Times-Star, says:
Officials of the Steubenville, Wells
burg & Weirton Railway company
have announced that beginning today
passengers from Steubenville bound
for West Virginia destinations will |
not be permitted to carry a package
containing more than one-half gallon
of intoxicating liquor. They said this
action was necessary because passen
gers have been carrying so many
packages of wet goods that regular
patrons of the line have been greatly
inconvenienced.
LADIES AID MEETS
The Ladies Methodist Aid will meet
tomorrow afternoon at Mrs. hrank
Ballaine’s.
WILSON SEES JUSSERAND
LONGBRANCH, Oct. 11.—President Wilson and Jus
serand, the French ambassador, are conferring today but
they are believed to be talking only about the Polish relief
matter.
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FRENCH CAPTURE BOVENT
PARIS, Oct. 11.—The French have succeeded in deep
ly wedging the German lines at Chaulnes and have captur
ed Rover,t. Our troops have also advanced into the out
skirts of Ablaincourt and have taken positions in the
Chaulneswoods. . .........
Voters Near City
Probably Cut Out
Some days ago the Gateway pub
lished a story which said that it was
quite likely that the voters of Kenui
peninsula had been disfranchised by
the facf' that the notices of election
hail not been sent out in time, and
now comes the information that in
the Sunrise precinct the notices were
not posted until the end of last month
or the beginning of this. The law
says that they must be posted, that
precincts must be established and that
boards of election must be appointed
sixty days before election. At the
time the Gateway gave the warning
to the city council this paper only ex
pressed the fear that the proper steps
had not been taken in the outlying
districts. The city council at once
took action but the Gateway never
said positively that the outlying dis
tricts had not been attended to. It
only suggested that they might not
have been, and now comes informa
tion that this paper was only too cor
rect in its suggestion. Fortunately
the Gateway thought of the matter in
time to keep the city voters from be
ing disfranchised and it is only to he
regretted if it did not think in time
’to make the votes of the outlying dis
tricts legal. Even still it is not posi
tively sure but there is still much
reason to believe that the voters out
side of Seward on Kenai peninsula
will have difficulty in getting their
votes recorded.
Seattle Unearths
Big Booze Combine
SEATTLE, Oct. 11. — The Dry
Squad claims that it has unearthed a
combine which was established for the
purpose of breaking the dry law. It
is said that the combine has a fund of
eighty thousand dollars for the pro
tection of bootlegging. Margett, a
former patrolman, has been arrested
in connection with the matter. He is
the same man who was arrested some
time ago on a similar charge.
INSPECTORS TO WORK
THEMSELVES OUT OF JOB
CHICAGO, Oct. 5. — Smoke would
be abolished down to the last curl if
the smoke inspectors of the nation
had their wav; and they met here to
day to see if they can't beat them
selves all out of a job by finding some
way of doing just that.
Practically every bit of smoke made
is unnecessary and can be consumed
if the right firing methods rre em
ployed, the smoke men say.
CAME ON WATSON
The following arrived from the
westward this morning on the Wat
son: Al Davis, M. R Somers, Gabriel
Santos, F. A. Mithburn.
Wick Calls His
Opponents Mangy
Delegate James Wickersham allow
ed his feelings to overcome him last
night, it is regrettable to say, and he
used certainly unparliamentary lang
uage in dealing with his opponents.
This may be the reason why the old
enthusiasm for Wickersham was ab
sent at tne meeting. The hall was
crowded in the beginning and most
of the people stayed to the end but
the speech did not seem like the
same old speeches that Mr. Wicker
sham made foes as well as friends ad
mire. He alluded to Toni Donahue
and Louis Shackleford as “mangy
politicians,” and, somehow, the crowd
didn’t seem to like it.
The reporter for the uateway went
to the meeting with the intention of
reporting it sympathetically but it is
impossible. He attacked Tom Dona
hue and Colonel Richerdson in a man
ner that rather repelled and made
friends for the men attacked. Tom
Donahue is admittted by everybody to
be a good fellow and a worthy na
tional committeeman of the Demo
crats. They can say what they like
about Louis Shackleford but “mangy
politician” is hardly what the repre
sentative of Alaska should call any
one unless he was very mad.
In dealing with Colonel Richaidson
Mr. Wickersham attacked his person
al character. He also said that Col
onel Richerdson had not done the
work of the Alaska Road Commission
properly, but he spoiled his argument
when he said that the Alaska po’l tax
had given the road commission a mil
lion and a half of dollars. He first
stated that three and a half million
dollars had come for roads from
congress and from the territorial
funds and he added that the poll tax
made it five millions. While on the
road question Mr. Wickersham insinu
ated that only a few miles of road had
been constructed. Six out of Seward,
seven out of Anchorage, and so on.
He evidently forgot the road between
Valdez and Fairbanks, the line roads
at Nome, the road from Ruby to Long
creek, the Tanana roads and all the
rest all over every part of the terri
tory.
On the whole the speech did not
leave a favorable impression.
He told the same old story about
the time they tried to keep him out of
the committee room. He has told it
for many years.
He spoke of Democratic National
Committeeman Donahue as “Thomas
Jefferson Donahue” and he declared
that Secretary Lane had not answer
ed Mr. Donahue’s letter asking about
the railroad. He did not say that the
assistant secretary had answered for
Mr. Lane. But the Delegate wept
more tears of sentiment than ever
Colonel Dick could when he came to
speak about the engineering commis
sion. There are some people who
think they could build the railroad
better than the commission, said he.
“Aw, go on,” said a member of the
audience and the expression seemed
to hit off the feeling of the crowd.
Then he went on to tell how Presi
dent Wilson ami Secretary Lane had
approved of the railroad after Mr.
Wickersham and the others had shown
them the way. But immediately after
he tried the soft soap stunt on the
two men named. He tried to prove,
indeed, that the Republicans had as
much to do with the railroad as the
administration or any other old Dem
ocrats, and the way he tried to prove
this was to show that if the Republi
cans had voted against it the measure
would have been lost. But he ad
mitted that 148 Democrats and only
82 Republicans voted for the bill. He
evidently tried to prove his own re
cently adopted party should be cred
ited and at the same time he tried- to
cloak this desire by pretending that
he only wanted to show the railroad
was non partisan.
BOSTON GRABS THE
FOORTH OF SERIES
Boston won the fourth of the world
sreies today by six to two, the biggest
margin in any of the games played so
far. The results of the games show
the fans right in picking Boston.
LINK-l'P
Brooklyn—
Johnson—m.
Merkle—lb.
H. Myers—r.
Wheat—1.
Uutshaw—2b.
Mowery —2b.
Olsen—as.
Myers—e.
Marquard, Cheney and Kueker—p.
Boston—
Hooper—r.
Janvrin—2b.
Walker—m.
Hoblitzel—lb.
Lewis—1.
Gardner—2b.
Scott—ss.
Carrigan—c.
Leonard—p.
First Inning—
Boston: Fails to score in their half
of the opening inning.
Brooklyn: Johnson, the first man
to bat. hits for three bases and scores
a minute later. Myers also scores in
this ininng.
2 runs.
Swond Inning—
Boston: Hoblitzel walks. Lewis
hits into right field for two bases.
Throughout tlu* speech he tried to
show that Shackleford arid Donahue
were “on tlu* payroll” and no one
cheered because the audience probably
came to the conclusion that those two
had succeeded where he himself had
failed. He even said that George
Grigsby was using the money of some
capitalists when every friend of
George Grigsby knows just exactly
how much George has got and whose
money he is spending. George is that
kind of a man.
He insinuated that Thane is look
ing for the governorship and he and]
others are putting up the money. Mr.
Wickersham seems to be unable to
understand fellows like George
Grigsby and Tom Donahue and it
makes a man sick to have to listen to
filthy abuse of men who are as sterl
ing as gold, no matter what politics
have to do with it.
Mr. W’ickersham called the Repub
lican convention at Seward a “bunch
of crooked politicians.” He said it was
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“hard for an honest man to have any
thing to do with any of them. They
are getting paid for it.” That is a
sample of the language used by the
Delegate to Congress. It was inter
esting, though, to learn what he
thought of the work of that conven
tion. He said it wanted to nominate
him so that “they could get his friends
in.”
He said Colonel Richardson wasn’t
worth speaking about and then he
spent half an hour speaking about
him.
At the end of the speech, it is glad
ly admitted, the Delegate was his olo
self and spoke of the greatness of
Alaska. He said Seward was the
gateway to the greatest naval coal on
the Pacific and that we will have a
naval station here. That was good if
he didn’t say the same about Anchor
age when he was over there. There
was a time, though, when the end of
his speech sounded like the glowing
periods of Henry Derr Reynolds.
It must be admitted that the speech
for the greater part was disappoint
ing, and it was all the more disap
pointing when a person went there
with the intention of giving it favor
able notice. Personal vituperation
1 seems to be out of fashion.
Gardner drives the hull over the feme
for a home run, scoring Hoblitzel and
Lewis ahead of him.
3 runs.
Brooklyn fails to score.
Third Inning—
■ Both Boston and Brooklyn fail to
j score.
Fourth Inning—
I Boston: Hoblitzel goes out. Lewis
singles, takes second on Gardner’*
sacrifice, and ..cores *hen Carngan
singles.
I run.
Brooklyn unable to score.
Fifth Inning—
Boston: Hooper walks and also
• Janvrin. Lewis fans. Walker flies
out. Hoblitzel hits to left field for
two bases, scoring Hooper.
1 run.
Brooklyn fails to cross the plate in
■ their half of the fifth.
Sixth Inning—
Both teams fail to score.
Seventh Inning—
Hooper scores again for Boston and
Rucker replaces Cheney in the box for
Brooklyn.
1 I run.
In the eighth and ninth innings
■ neither Boston or Brooklyn is able
1 to score and the fourth game of the
| world's series ends in favor of the
American League champions by the
! score of t> to 2. The series now stands
Boston three games; Brooklyn one
! game.
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Seward Man Wins
Prize at the fair
L. L. Kales who went out from Sew
ard to establish an Alaskan exhibit at
the San Diego fair has won a (Irani!
Prize as the exhibitor of an education
al and descriptive exhibit of the terri
tory. Mr. Kales has written the
Gateway and says he feels more re
warded for his efforts in behalf of
Alaska. The exhibit was seen in part
here ami was most interesting. Mr.
Kales took all the trouble and expense
on himself and hardly said a word
about what he was going to do.
CAPLAN TRIAL MONDAY
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11.—‘The trial
of Caplan on the charge of being con
nected with the dynamiting of some
years, ago will start Monday.
WENT ON WATSON
The following went out on the Wat
son today: James Wickersham, G.
Felch, George W. Swan, John Canfield
and Mrs. N. V. Morgan.
RECEPTION FOR PATTONS
A reception will be held on I’ riday
afternoon at the Parsonage in honor
of Rev. Mr. Patton and Mrs. Patton.
WICKERSHAM GOES TO
SPEAK AT VALDEZ
Delegate James Wickersham left on
the Watson this morning for Valdez
where he will make his speech.
COLUMBlTS DAY TOMORROW
Tomorrow will be Columbus Day.
By the way, this day week will be Al
aska Day.
BANK OF SEWARD
OPENED TOMORROW
The Bank of Seward will be opened
j as usual tomorrow, Columbus Day.
One of the staff made a statement
that Alaska Day which comes next
week is a more important event but no
names are mentioned.