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THREATEN CIVIL WAR AGAINST CONSCRIPTION
ENGLAND SHAKEN TO ITS
FOUNDATIONS BY THREAT
Russians To Evacuate Vilna, But
Reverse In That Quarter Offset
By Victories In the Southeast.
BRITISH THREATEN REVOLT
LONDON, Sept. 18—The nation was moved to its
foundations this morning when it learned that three hun
dred thousand members of the union of railroad men had
notified the government that the enaction of a conscrip
tion law will be followed by a civil war. At the conven
tion of the central body yesterday the secretary was or
dered to call a meeting of the unions the very moment the
conscription bill is introduced in parliament. The conser
vative elements have been simply dumfounded by the an
nouncement and already the newspapers of the “ruling
classes” are calling the workers traitors and declaring
that now is the time for the government to show its!
strength and make military service compulsory in spite
of the threats. The feeling is general that a conscription
hill is being prepared or has Keen prepared for introduc
tion in the house of parliament and that some of the mem
bers of the cabinet who oppose it will only do so until
they find that it is necessary. On all hands it is conceded
that the action of the railroad unions is the most serious
menaace since the beginning of the war.
TO EVACUATE VILNA
PETROGRAD, Sept. IS.—It is officially hinted that |
the czar will order the evacuation of the city of \ ilna in a
few days to avoid envelopment by the Germans and heavy
losses. The Teutons are now engaged in making a smash
ing attack east of Vilna and several detachments have
reached the railway and are attempting to pierce the
Russian line. The struggle now proceeding is the great
est that has taken place on the eastern front. It stretches
from the shores of the Baltic to Galicia in one vast line of
slaughter. Our reverses in the Vilna region are offset by
our victories in the southeast where the Germans have
been badly defeated and are fleeing in disorder. They lost
f hirty-five hundred prisoners in the fighting ye si: relay.
Vilna is more than a third of the way from Warsaw to
Petrograd but the enemy cannot hope at best to make
much further headway into our territory this year and
by spring Russia will have been thoroughly reorganise '.
The fall rains have set in to some extent and will get
worse in October and convert the roads into quagmires.
This is sure to impede the Teutonic advance and we can
afford to ignore any threat against the capital.
TO DOMINATE EUROPE
BERLIN, Sept. 18.—The belief is general in high
circles that Germany will soon send a large force to re
inforce the Austrians for the purpose of invading Serbia
and marching to the Bulgarian border to establish one
great central empire which will stretch in an unbroken
line from the Baltic to the Bosphorus and contain an in
vincible chain of armies all the way through the heart of
Europe. This is expected to be the program for the pres
ent year while next spring the war against the British
and French will be prosecuted to the speediest end pos
sible. The government has not given an indication of its
purpose in this respect but people in government circles
make no secret of their beliefs that such will be the course
pursued. . ■_ -
DIFFERENCES OVER LOAN
NEW YORK, Sept. 18— Serious differences have
arisen between the financial commissioners of the allied
nations and the New York financiers who were expected
to make the loan to Britain, France and Russia. One im
portant question on which agreement seems to be im
possible relates to the idea of using part of the loan for the
purchase of munitions in the United States. The question
of interest and commissions is also creating trouble and it
is quite within the cards that the proposed loan might fall
through.
SINK TURK SHIPS
SEBASTOL, Russia, Sept. 18.—Russian destroyers
have sunk a Turkish fleet that was engaged in carrying
munitions of war to the Gallipoli front and all the crews
of the fleet were made prisoners. The Turks were en
countered in the Black sea not far from Cons tan dm,pie
to which they were headed from some Turkish ports in
Asia Minor.
SAY BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK
VIENNA, Sept. 18.—An Austrian submarine has
sunk a large British transport in the Mediterranean and
the troops aboard are said to have gone down with their
vessel. The exact place at which the occurrence happened
is not mentioned.
❖ NEW HATIEN GOVT. *
❖ IS RECOGNIZED. ❖
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—The
new Hatien government has been
recognized by the administration. Nc
statement has been made us to wheth
er the new government will recognize
the claims of the United States to
control the customs or policy of the
country but it is assumed that the
recognition of the new government
would not have been granted if the
American proposals had not been
favorably received.
UNDER BERG SEES LONG
LIFE FOR NOME COUNTRY.
Tells Them in Seattle that Seward
Peninsula Will Produce
Millions for 20 Years.
SEATTLE, Sept. 18.—Jafet Lind
erberg, president of the big Pioneer
Mining company and one of the dis
coverers of gold on Seward peninsula,
declared today that the peninsula will
yield three or four million dollars in
gold every year for the next twenty
years. His own company has had a
large output this season owing to
the fact that it has placed in opera
tion several hydraulic lifts.
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COPENHAGEN, Sept. 18.—The
German government has called all
Germans between the ages of twenty
and forty-five home from Denmark.
Some applied for citizenship in this
country but were denied on the excuse
that such a course would be a breach
of neutrality.
BERLIN, Sept. 18.—Advices re
ceived this evening are that the
Russians are evacuating Vilna and
removing their stores and wounded.
CATHOLIC BISHOP DEAD.
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 18.—Bishop
Thomas J. Conaty of the Catholic
church in the Los Angeles diocese
died today at Coronado. He had been
in poor health for some time.
STATE TIMBER CRUISER
IS KILLED BY FALL.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Sept. 18.—
Charles P. Carlson, timber cruiser for
the state, and a resident of Seattle,
fell off a cliff near this city yesterday
and was killed. The body was found
by searchers.
GREAT APPLE CROP.
WENATCHEE, Sept. 18.—The ap
ple crop of the Wenatchee district
this year will exceed three mililon
boxes.
MURRAY WITHDRAWS THE
APPLICATION FOR FRANCHISE.
James C. Murray has withdrawn
his application for an electric light
and power franchise and has 60 noti
fied the members of the city council.
The withdrawal is due to the fact that
Mr. Murray, after having examined
into matters, found that there is no
field at present for two such com
panies.
QUIT CLAIM DEED FILED.
This morning a quit claim deed was
filed by Rose J. Labaree to Oscar G.
Labaree for lots 2 and 4 in block 23
to 40, inclusive, in block 33.
DRAWING TONIGHT.
The drawing for the silver set will
take place this evening at 8 o'clock at
the Seward News company.
TENSION HIGH
TEXAS BORDER
more attacks feared and
TEXANS MAY TAKE THE
INITIATIVE.
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 18.—Tens-1
ion is very high following the fight j
with the Mexicans yesterday at this j
city and there is every reason to fear
that if the federal government fails j
to step in Texas itself will find it j
necessary to act without federal
sanction and a most serious state of |
affairs is threatened. No conflict j
occurred since the Mexicans attacked ,
this city yesterday but fresh attacks j
are looked for.
Calls Carranza Hero.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18.—Gen
eral Cabanlas, a leader of the C ar
ranza forces, who is now here re
covering from wounds received in bat
tle, said in an interview this morning
that Americans will praise Carranza
as another Lincoln when they know
the full truth about him. Carranza
is a really great leader, according to
Cabanlas, and his motto is equality,
his principles being to make all peo
ple in Mexico equal irrespective of
wealth.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—The
agents of Carranza here have issued
the charge that the American soldiers
were the cause" of the trouble at
Brownsville Friday when it was said
the Mexicans had attacked the town.
It is admitted by the Carranza people
that the Mexicans fired into the city
but they claim that the United States
troops made an unprovoked assault
on the Mexicans first. They ask the
government to make an investigation
into the whole affair.
Vote on Mexico Today.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—The
Pan-American commission will can
vass the claims of Carranza to be
provisional president of Mexico this
afternoon but they will have nothing
to do with recommending anyone for
the permanent presidency as they be
lieve that to be a matter which should
be left to the Mexicans themselves.
BIG EXPLOSION
NEARVALDEZ
THREE THOUSAND POUNDS OF
POWDER TOUCHED OF AT
THE GRANITE MINE.
VALDEZ, Sept. 18.—Three thou
sand pounds of powder was exploded
yesterday at the Granite mine for
some reason which has not yet been
proven. A discharged employe has
been arrested on suspicion of having
caused the explosion but nothing can
be told until he receives a hearing.
No damage was inflicted as the powd
er had been stored away in an open
sapce far from the work or any build
space.
VALDEZ, Sept. 18.—It has since
been learned that the mill buildings
were slightly damaged by the explos
ion at the Granite mine at Hobo ba».
One and a kalf tons of powder were
exploded. The man arrested is nam
ed Domensie. He was employed at
the mine but was discharged yester
day morning by Superintendent Mil
liard. He is^aid to have made sever
al threats because of his discharge
and he was drinking heavily. He will
receive a preliminary hearing today
or tomorrow. No one was injured
by the explosion.
Mrs. J. H. Sears ami J. S. Badger
went out to the Oasis this morning
to spend the week end.
AWFUL ARTILLERY DUEL
STILL SHAKING FRANCE
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❖ LANE’S OFFICE DIRECT ❖
❖ CONFIRMS THE STORY. *
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Direct
from Secretary Lane’s office this
afternoon your correspondent receiv
ed confirmation of the story cabled to
you that Lane will ask for an ap
propriation direct from congress and
that he declines to advocate a bond
issue to secure money for the con
struction of the government railroad
In Alaska.
GERMAN OBJECTS TO
ENGLISHMAN’S ACCENT.
Dutchman Assaulted Cockney and
Latter Brings Suit for Dam
ages in Tacoma.
TACOMA, Sept. 18.—Joseph
Hutchinson, an Englishman, has
brought suit for five thousand dollars
damages against Alex Fox, a German,
who he alleges assaulted him. Ac
cording to the particulars given out
Fox patriotically objected to the Eng
lish accent of Hutchinson which had
about the same effect on the German
as the red rag on the bull. Fox has
money and is believed to be good for
the money if the case goes against
him.
WOMEN START CAMPAIGN
OF RIDICULING OTHERS.
Campaign of Laughter to Laugh
Anti-Suffragettes Into Silence
and Obscurity.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—The suf
fragettes of this city have established
a bureau which is to be known as the
“Bureau of Laughter,” and which is
intended to organize a campaign of
laughing the anti-suffragists “out of
court.” May Irwin is the leader of
the new movement and expects that
the campaign will be so successful
that the antis will soon hide their
heads.
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VICTORIA TAKES BULLION.
SEATTLE, Sept. IS.—'The steam
ship Victoria of the Alaska Steam
ship company arrived last night with
half a mlilion in bullion from Nome.
She also had sixty tons of antimony
ore from Fairbanks and one hundred
and eighty-five passengers.
TALK WITH WIFEY COST $1700.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18.—A
Pittsburg engineer who landed here
last night to visit the exposition spent
seventeen hundred and forty dollars
speaking to his wife over the long
distance telephone. He had a compli
cation of diseases known as home
sickness and lovesickness.
AMERICAN ILL-TREATED
BY RUSSIAN BANDITS.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Dr. H. C.
Leneweber of the music division of
the Congressional library at Washing
ton who has just arrived from Europe
states that he was stripped and
thrown naked into a cell by five mur
derers in Russia. He also complains
that he was held for two days pris
oner by the Russians at Grodno. He
escaped from the would-be murderers,
he says, by what might be called a
miracle. The doctor, further states
that anarchy prevails in many parts
of the no man’s land where the fight
ing is taking place.
TIE CONTRACT NOT AWARDED.
The tie contract has not yet been
awarded. The bids have been opened
but as there are nearly a score of
them and as they must all be gor.e
over carefully the awarding of the
contract is postponed a day or bo.
if,
CANNONS SHAKE THE COUNTRY
PARIS, Sept. 18.—The terrific cannonading in l ho
Argonne and other regions is shaking the whole district.
The trees in the forest of Argonne are vibrating to the
crashes while around Neuville, Rollincourt, Rove and
several other districts the ground trembles as with an
earthquake. According to the official reports the chief
artillery duel is proceeding in the Argonne and in Cnam
pagne but the results are indefinite and can only be ob
served from the air.
DEADLOCK ON LOAN
NEW YORK, Sept. 18—It is believed this afternoon
that the conference on the loan to the allied nations has
reached a deadlock. Spring Rice, the British ambassador,
has been called into the conference in the hope that he
could find some means by which the negotiations could be
opened.
ITALIANS NOT GAINING
v VIENNA, Sept. 18.—The Italian attacks on our pi si
tions have apparently come to a standstill but we do mi
expect that the quietness will continue long. Our staff
reports, however, that our positions on the Italian front
ier are impregnable and that we can hold the enemy on
that front interminably. An attempt at an offensive move
ment will probably not be made until the Russian cam
paign comes to an end for the season.
RUSSIAN FRONT BROKEN
BERLIN, Sept. 18.—Part of the Russian positions
near Dvinsk have been taken and the Russian front from
Vilna to the Niemen river has been hopelessly broken.
The Dvinsk position of the Russians is a strong one ami
of great strategical importance so that its capture by o<
ftrees will mark the beginning of the really great di ve.
This drive will be in two parts, one on Riga and the oilier
on the Petrograd railroad.
BRYAN MAY ASK PEACE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—William Jennings Bryan
is now considering the proposal made by the foreign
language newspapers of the United States that he should
go to Europe as a private peace envoy. There is a possi
bility that the former secretary of state will proceed
across the Atlantic and visit the heads of the governments
of neutral powers with a view to securing a concerted
movement. Later he may try to interview the heads of
the belligerent nations to discover if any basis exists on
which peace could be founded.
BELIEVE TURKS BEATEN
LONDON, Sept. 18.—News arriving from General
Hamilton indicates that the Turkish resistance is rapidly
weakening and that a very important advance ma\ lie
looked for within a very short time. Our line at Suvla
bay extend now twelve miles towards our positions at the
“toe” of the peninsula and are almost in sight of Anzac.
Some anxiety prevails here because of the threatening
entry of Bulgaria but it is doubtful, if she does enter the
conflict, that she could hope to aid the Turks directly ow
ing to the task which will confront her on the Serbian
and Roumanian borders. No answer had been received
by her this morning to the notes sent to Greece and
Roumania demanding an explanation of the concentration
of the forces of those two countries near the frontiers.
REPORT ROCKEFELLER
SOLD TO JIM HILL.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—It is re
ported that the Rockefellers have sold
their Colorado fuel and iron proper
ties to Jim Hill owing to labor
trouble. None of the parties con
cerned will comment on the rumor.
ALAMEDA SAILING CANCELLED.
According to a cable received from
General Agent F. B. Tracy by Agent
! McDonald, the sailing of the Alameda
from Seattle tonight has been can
celled until the evening of the 24th,
when she will make the run in place
of the Northwestern, which is dre out
of there on that date. The delay
ed sailing of the Alameda has been
arranged by the Alaska Steamship
officials in order to get all their
j steamers back on their regular
schedule.
J. D. Johnston returned to his homu
at Bear creek this morning on the
car.
GARRISON WILL ASK
TWO HUNDRED MILLION.
Reported Great Preparations to be
Made for Defense of the
Country.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—It is
unofficially announced that Seovtai\
of War Garrison will ask for two
hundred million at the next session of
congress to strengthen the country
military defenses. The money will
be used for the army, for fort idea
tions, for the state militias and for.
the improvements of West Po’nt.
NORTHWESTERN TOMORROW.
The Northwestern was due to have
sailed from Cordova at 1 o clock this
afternoon and is expected to arrive
here tomorrow noon.
“Genial” Joe Morris arrived from
Anchorage on the Farragut after
quite an extended visit in the railroad
town. He is probably here now for
good.