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Vol. io. No. 292 SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1010 __Ten Cents the Copy
TEUTONS PENETRATE 20 MILES INTO
ROUMANIA EROM NORTHERN BORDER
DEUTSCHLAND DUE AGAIN
NORFOLK. Va.. Oct. 28. — It is reported that the
Deutschland is due to arrive at the Capes in the next few
hours enroute to Baltimore. She departed irom Bremen a
fortnight ago and succeeded in eluding the patrols. It
was reported last night that she had passed the Capes in
the dusk but this report has not been confirmed.
LINER AFIRE
LONDON, Oct. 28. — Lloyds reports that the liner
Chicago has reached Fayal with a fire blazing in her hold
and the efforts to put out the tire are still proceeding.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
NEW AUSTRIAN PREMIER
LONDON., Oct. 28. — Amsterdam reports say that
von Korber, former premier of Austria, has been selected
to take the premiership again in the place of the assassi
nated von Sturgkh.
RAINS IN THE WEST
LONDON, Oct. 28.—Heavy rains are impeding the
operations on the western front and no infantry attacks
have been reported in the past twenty-four hours. The
German artillery is active, however, at Hulluch and La
bassee. In the Verdun theatre some severe lighting was
reported this morning but the details were not published.
! FIGHTIXG 1X TRAXSYLVAX1A
BUCHAREST, Oct. 28.—The Roumanians have re
pulsed the Teutons in the Bekas and Tulgher regions in
the extreme north of Roumania and our troops are also
advancing in the Usui valley. Fighting continues at Pre
deal and the Roumanians have withdrawn into the Jiul
valley. The war officials declare that an effort by the
Teutons and Bulgarians in Dobrudja to invade by crossing
the river would be disastrous for them.
ARTILLERY FIGHTING
BERLIN, Oct. 28.—The only official news this morn
ing from the French front is that reconnoitering German
artillery last night quelled strongly prepared attacks near
Fresnes, Mamiancourt and Chaulnes. South of the Som
me artillery fighting is the only activity reported. Bad
weather prevails on that front and it is expected that
the operations will decrease in intensity during the
winter.
SUBMITS NEW WAR CREDIT
BERLIN, Oct. 28.—The new German war credit was
submitted to the Reichstag today. Count von Rodern,
secretary of the treasury, recounted the Great German
victories since the beginning of the war to show that what
the country is now giving is only an investment that will
be repaid a hundred fold. The members of the Reichstag,
through the party leaders, promised their full support.
BATTERING AT VERDUN
PARIS, Oct. 28.—Considerable artillery work is re
ported at Sailly and Bouchavesnes on the Somme front
but no infantry engagements are reported. On the Ver
dun front the Germans are violently and continuously
bombarding Haudremont ravine, Douaumont and Fort
Damloup. This artillery is taken as preparing the way
for an assault to recover the ground gained by our troops
this week. The war department reports that all the cap
tured positions have been consolidated by our troops.
SAYS MANY SHIPS SUNK
BERLIN, Oct. 28. — It is officially reported that the
German torpedo squadron which attacked the English
shore sank eleven outpost steamers belonging to the.
British and two British destroyers. The attack was de
livered in the English channel between Folkestone, Eng
land, and Boulogne, France. It is also officially reported
that the German flotilla returned uninjured. It is known,
the admiralty authorities say, that several other British
guard vessels were damaged and at least two destroyers
were hit.
WILSON SPEAKING AT
SHADOW LAWN TODAY
LONG BRANCH, Oct. 28. — This
has been named National W ilson Day
and the President will speak here this
afternoon. Nine special trains are
bringing people from New York to
hear him. He will speak on Wednes*
day at New York, at Buffalo oj
Thursday and will close the campaig]
j at Shadow Law n on November 4.
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REPORTED Bl RGLARS HAD
THEIR EYES ON SEW ARD
A man arrested recently in Seward
is said to have had burglar tools in
his possession and the authorities be
S lieve a plot existed to burglarize some
| Seward buildings.
MARRIED AT XNCTIORAGE
Mr. D. D. Vint, an engineer con
nected with the commission, and Miss
Ethel McNinch, of New York, were
married today at Anchorage. A
curious fact about the wedding is that
the happy couple were first introduc
ed to each other at Washington, D. C\,
by Mrs. Thomas Ward of Seward.
DEMOCRATIC FUND IS
NOW OVER A MILLION
NEW YORK, Oct. 28. — Cleveland
Dodge, a classmate of Woodrow Wil
son at Princeton gave fifty thousand
dollars today to the Democratic cam
paign fund. He previously contribut
ed twenty-nine thousand. The fund
now totals $1,000,283. President Wil
son personally gave twenty-five thou
sand dollars. The number of contri
butors is over forty thousand.
REPUBLICAN MEN HOLD
BACK DEMOCRATIC WOMEN
KANSAS CITY, Oct, 28.—The
police had to be called to restore or
der today when crowds of men, Re
publicans, attempted to form a June
for the special Hughes women delega
tion and by doing so held back a
decorated auto parade of Democratic
women.
PLEASANT DANTE TONIGHT
The Seward lodge of the Loyal
Order of Moose will give a very en
joyable dance tonight in A. B. Hal!.
CLOSING ON ROUMANIA
BERLIN, Oct. 28.—Falkenhayn reports that the dis
tricts around Compiluung and Slaniku will soon be in his
hands and that he will be firmly established seventy miles
from Bucharest which he expects to march upon. Both
■ jaws of the Teutonic vise are now closing. Mackensen is
rapidly clearing Oobrudja. The Roumanians have aband
oned Hirsova and the country adjacent. A fortified line in
that quarter had been depended upon to stay the Teuton
advance but the Roumanians have given it up. Roumania
will be out of the war in a month, the military leaders de
clare.
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SINK NORWEGIAN VESSELS '
LONDON, Oct. 28. — Christinia reports that nine
more Norwegian vessels have been mined by the Germans,
l'he newspapers here are urging Norway to stand firm.
NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE
LONDON, Oct. 28—Rome reports a new Russian of
fensive in Poland and Galicia and says it is a tremendous
one but the news is not officially confirmed.
GREAT GERMAN LOSSES
LONDON, Oct. 28. — Bucharest estimates that the
Germans lost iu the campaign against the Roumanians in
Transylvania not less than eight hundred thousand men.
TAMMANY SUPPORTS WILSON
LONG BRANCH, Oct. 28— Several thousand Tam
manyites will arrive today to hear W ilson speak and to
pledge their support. Grand Sachem John Voorhees has
announced that Tammany will support Wilson. Large
women delegations are also expected,
en delegations are also expected.
WILSON ELATED
LONG BRANCH, Oct. 28.—President Wilson may be
described now as elated over the election outlook. He ex
pects confidently to carry Ohio.
REPUBLICAN FUND
NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—The Hughes fund is one mil
lion, six hundred and sixty-seven thousand. The expendi
tures exceed a million and a half. Rockefeller, Astor,
Morgan and many other famous multi-millionaires are
contributors.
TEUTONS INVADING
LONDON, Oct. 28.—Petrograd reports that the Teu
, tons have penetrated Roumania from the north as far as
Kimpulung, twenty miles, and are still advancing south
ward. This place is only some eighty miles from the Rou
manian capital but the Petrograd reports indicate that the
' Roumanian army in that field is still intact.
R. R. Depot At foot
Of Adams Street
Ballaines Give Ten Lots l here l or
Nominal Sum to Commission.
It has been decided by the engineer
ing commission to build the depot at
the foot of Adams street and north
of that street where it meets the rail
road tracks. The Ballaines have sold
ten lots there for a nominal sum to
the commission and the location is
the same as that which was selected
by the Alaska Central. The depot
will be a pretty one, surrounded by
parking, flowers, etc., and will have a
three hundred feet frontage on the
railroad. Frank Ballainc has also
deeded to the commission the twelve
foot strip along the right of way in
the neighborhood of the machine
shops. Work will probably not begin
on the depot until spring.
HCGHES ANSWERS WILSON
SPEECH AT CINCINNATI
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct. 28.—
Hughes made a speech here last night
of which the keynote was protectiv
ism but he also answered the state
ments made by President Wilson in
his speech at Cincinnati. Hughes in
sisted that the war is the cause of the
country’s present prosperity and he
pointed out the need of protection for
the nation’s industries after the war.
He declared that Wilson again is
changing his opinions as he did on
the preparedness question. He called
the President’s anti-dumping provis
ions farcical and worse than useless,
and he quoted statistics to prove it.
He showed the greatness of the ex
portations of war munitions and also
that nations always recovered quickly
after war, and fears that the war
ring nations will dump their ovei
production of these shores are ground
less, he said. Mr. Hughes again
promised a real American administra
tion if elected.
ALASKA BIDS FOR
FARMING HONORS
SEATTLE, Oct. 7.—Strawberries
measuring six Inches in circumfer
ence, a shock of wheat four feet high,
with heads of grain four inches long,
clover six feet high, enormous pota
toes and giant turnips which, resembl
ed a shipment of the products ol
Washington’s richest agricultural dis
trict were discharged at Pier 7 yes
terday afternoon, says The Times.
They did not come from the Yakima
Valley, which boasts of its crops of
vegetables, or from the grain belt of
Washington, but from Alaska, which
many easterners believe is but a play
ground for polar bears.
The shipment which would take all
kinds of blue ribbons at a county fair
came from the rich agricultural dis
trict back of Haines, Alaska, from the
Eagle River farming lands, 30 miles
west of Juneau, and from the west
side of Douglas Island, Alaska, and
was brought to Seattle aboard the
steamer Humboldt of the Humboldt
S. S. Co.
ALASKA LINE CONTEMPLATES
NEW SERVICE
SEATTLE, Oct. 17.—The plans of
the Alaska Steamship Company, in
the event that the steamships Great
Northern and Northern Pacific are se
cured, contemplates a freight line ex
tension to the west coast of South
America. Special reference to this
new freight line will be for the mov
ing of the output of the Kennecott
Copper Corporation’s properties to
the smelters of Puget Sound.—Ex.
NOW ON SALE
Vacuum cleaners. Best made.
Reasonable prices. Mt. McKinley
Electric Co.
BIG CROWD GREETS
; SULZER IN A. B. HALL
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The big Arctic Brotherhood hall was
i tilled with a crowd of warm support
• ers of the Democratic party and can
i didate last night when Charles A.
' Sulzer made his first address to the
I people of Seward. The impression ol
; the candidate gained by the audience
was exceedingly favorable and cheers
punctuated his address frequently as
telling points were brought out by tin
speaker. Those who were present last
j night and hud also been present at the
Bunnell meeting of two years ago
point out the tremendous increase in
enthusiasm made evident by the re
ception of the Democratic candidate
in the present campaign. This is ac
counted for to some extent by the
I fact that since the last election Sew
ard has been chosen by the Demo
cratic administration as the terminal
of the government railroad, a fact
which has naturally made supporter**
of the Democratic prrty more warm
in their efforts and has gained new
, ones.
Owing to the fact that the Gateway
! is changing its location this afternoon
: and the paper must be sent to press
I earlier than usual a complete review
of the very able speech of Mr. Sulzei
is not possible, but it may be said that
it was full of vigar and telling points.
Committeeman George Phelps in
troduced Mr. Sulzer. Before the
speech of the candidate for congress
John lionan, Democratic candidate fot
the territorial senate, made a short
and well delivered address in which
he advocated chiefly support for Mr.
| Sulzer, and ft* which also he showed
; that the letter which had been pub
I lished throughout the territory, to
! show that he was president of thi
Mine Operators’ Association in Fair
banks when strike breakers were
shipped in, was not founded on fact.
Mr. Ronan proved that he was not in
the territory at the time and was not
president of the union then.
Mr. Sulzer opened by showing that
he was nominated by the most har
monious convention that ever met in
Alaska and very soon afterwards hi
nailed some falsehoods which have
been told about him as an employer.
He proved, as has been proved before,
that he is regarded by every man who
worked for him as the best friend of
labor in the territory.
He dwelt at some length on the
charges made by Delegate Wicker
sham against the Alaska Koad Com
mission and mad'* a hit when he show
ed that the Delegate had never open
ed his mouth against Colonel Uichard
son in his speech at Valdez, because
the very chairman of his meeting
would not tolerate it. Mr. Sulzer
showed also that the so-called
speeches in congress about the road
commission funds, the li.-dierie* and
other matters were never delivered
but were printed b) him in the eon
gressionul record after tin* present
campaign opened.
He demonstrated that before Wiek
ersham ever asked for any monej for
roads the road commission had its
yearly estimate of $750,000 submit
ted. The congressional record, from
which Sulzer read, showed that Wiek
ersham had never even spoken of the
matter before the committee.
“Talk about Wiekersham as a light
er,” said the speaker. “Wicker
sham’s lighting has always been done
in the printing office.”
Perhaps the most telling point
against the delegate was scored when
Mr. Sulzer showed that Wiekersham,
who is now posing as the foe of the
lish trust, actually told congress that
he did not want to see the fisheries
placed under the cntrol of the Alas
kans themselves and their legislature.
In this respect the speaker asked his
audience if Mr. Wiekersham during
all his time in congress had ever se
cured a change in the lish laws.
Mr. Sulzer also showed that Mr.
Wiekersham had always previously
been opposed to the granting of a full
form of teritorial government and had
been positively opposed to any form
of self government before the act was
passed.
The speaker pleaded for the elimi
nation of personal disputes such as
that in which Mr. Wickersham en
gaged with Colonel Ricahrdson. He
declared that if elected he will work
for all Alaskans and with all sorts of
Alaskans for the good of the terri
tory. He declared himself for the
principle of “Alaska for Alaskans’
in every sense and he pointed out that
he has all his interests in the terri
tory, that he is a real Alaskan who
has done his part to develope Alaska,
and that the territory being his own
he would fi.ght loyally and determin
edly to have its interests advanced and
its rights protected.
DAWSON MAN IS
KILLED AT FRONT
Dawson News, Oct. 13.—Word has
been received here that Lieut. John
Pringle, formerly of Dawson, was kill
ed recently while leading a charge
against the Germans on the western
front in Europe. Advices state that
he died a hero, and that just before
being struck by the fatal bullet he
alone dispatched an entire machine
gun crew, which likely will prove* on
further investigation to have been
one of the most daring and successful
individual exploits of the war.
MRS. SULZER GUEST OF
HONOR OF BRIDGE CLUB
Mrs. Charles A. Sulzer is the guest
of honor of the Bridge Club this after
noon at the home of Mrs. b rank L.
Ballaine.
ATLIN MINER IS
KILLED IN SLIDE
ATLIN, Oct. 17. — Frank Charle
Deboise old time miner in these parts,
was buried alive by a landslide on
Birch creek, while operating his prop
erties there. The slide is supposed
to have occurred three or four days
ago.—Ex.
Gateway Takes
1 New Quarters!
The Gateway will move into The
Office Building, or, as it is known at
present, the van Gilder building next
to the Bank of Seward on Adams St.
today. The van Gilder building has
just been completed. It is a splendid
concrete building and a credit to
Seward and Alaska. It was next to im
possible for the Gateway to miss the
chance to move into a building that is
modern and convenient in every way.
On Monday this paper hopes to greet
its many friends in the new building
as it has in the old where it saw Sew
ard become the terminal of the gov
ernment railroad. This reminds one
that it was in the office where this
issue is published the news first came
that Seward was IT.
A. E. Orlander arrived on the last
boat and will look after the business
of George the Jeweller while Mr.
Mirlach takes a trip outside for Ins
health this winter. Mr. Orlander is
accompanied by Mrs. Orlander. They
will make their home in the apart
ments over the Seward Commercial
Company.