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. SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA. FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1916._Ten Cent, the Copy
U. S. CAVALRY SMASHES VILLA FORCE AND THE
BANDIT CHIEF IS PERMANENTLY DISABLED
RUNNING BATTLE FOR TEN MILES
ENDS IN SCATTERING THE OUTLAWS
FLASH!!
The American cavalry has had a clash with the Villa
force. Several Americans are reported to have been hit
and thirty Mexicans killed.
SAX GEROXIMO, March 31.—Colonel Dodd struck
the Villa command consisting of fifty men at six o’clock
Wednesday morning at Guerrero. Villa himself was suf
fering from a broken leg and a lame hip as the result of a
clash with the Carranzaistas previously and he was not
present at the tight. The number of Villa dead- killed in
the battle, is known to lie thirty but probably others were
carried away dead. Dodds captured two machine guns
and a large number of horses, saddles and arms. Our
casualties consisted of four enlisted men wounded, nonb
seriously. The attack was a surprise and the Villaistas
were driven back in a ten miles running fight. At the
close of the fighting they got away to the mountains
northwest of the railroad where they separated into small
bands. A large number of Carranza sympathizers who
were being held for execution were liberated as a result
of the fight. In order to reach Guerrero in time Dodds
marched 55 miles in IT hours. Hernandez, the V ilia com
mander. was killed, and this with the wounds to Villa him
self and the wounding of Lopez, his chief lieutenant, the
blow is a serious one to the bandits. Villa is believed to
have been permanently disabled.
R E PORTS EXAGG ERATED
WASHINGTON, March 31.—The reports of skirm
ishes in Mexico have been exaggerated, according to the
reports about noon today. Consul Garcia declines to
give out the details but he says he based his information
on dispatches from General Cabazasto, commanding the
Guerrero garrison, to General Gavira at Juarez.
EXCHANGED SHOTS
SAN ANTONIO, March 31.—Funston has received
authentic but unofficial reports that the largest Villa force
is now working along the railroad from Guerrero towards
Chihuahua City. The latest reports are that the Ameri
cans and the Villaistas have exchanged shots but the
nature of the fight is not fully cleared.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT
EL PASO, March 31.—The American expedition has
clashed with Villa near Tres Asamos, in the Gurrero re
gion, according to a message from Casas Grandes to Con
sul Carcia here. The report is very meager.
SAY VILLA WOUNDED
EL PASO' March 31.—Villa is again reported to have
been wounded. The story is that he was hit while attack
ing a Carranza force while the soldiers were engaged in
a dance at Guerrero last Tuesday night.
AMERICANS DEFEAT VILLA
WASHINGTON, March 31.—(Latest)—The official
report of Pershing to Funston was transmitted to the
war department this afternoon and shows that the
Americans have defeated the Villaistas in a fight and kill
ed several of them. The following is the official dispatch
as received by the department through Funston:
EL PASO, March 31.—Army men were much interested
today by an unofficial report that Villa had massacred a
Carranza garrison of 153 men at Guerrero but the rumor
lacks confirmation altogether and the inclination is to be
lieve the story an invention. What makes it look untrue is
that General Pershing’s dispatches sent to San Antonio
yesterday said that Villa had passed Guerrero on Monday
but no mention was made of any massacre and Pershing,
it is assumed, would not overlook a matter of such import
ance. The report of the massacre included the statement
that the Villa force which committed it was two thousand
strong but this would be utterly at variance with the ac
counts that said the bandit chief had split his forces into
small bodies and had taken personal command of a mere
handful. The story told of the massacre at Guerrero de
clares that a number of women and children were killed
and that several women were turned over to the bandits.
ALL-ALASKA REVIEW
OFF I’RESS TONIGHT
The All-Alaska Review for this
month will be off the presses tonight
and will be on sale Monday morning.
It contains part of the report of the
Territorial mining inspector as well
as the news of all parts of the Terri
tory, and several other facts of great
interest.
LEONARD IS FAVORITE
OVER WELSH FOR TONIGHT
NEW YORK, March 31. — Benny
Leonard is a 7 to 5 favorite over
Welsh for their fight tonight. Welsh
will receive $12,500 and Leonard will
receive $6,000.
WAITE INDICTED FOR
FIRST DEGREE MURDER
NEW YORK, March 31.—Dr. Waite
was indicted for lirst degree murder
today for killing his millionaire father
in law, Peck.
| A REAL WOMAN LAWYER
WHO IS NOT A FEMINIST
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
CHICAGO, March 23.—Mrs. Flor
ence W. Stephens, 29-year old
Chicago feminine lawyer, who drove
to Chicago from Montana, 1,300
miles, in her automobile, passed the
Illinois state bar examination and
now is ready for practice.
Mrs. Stephens isn’t going into the
profession because the other women j
members of her family have been
lawyers, but because of the necessity
of earning a living for herself and
daughter Marie.
“The fact that other women mem
bers of my family have been lawyers
hasn’t much to do with my entering
the profession,” Mrs. Stephens said
todav. “The law is no feminist fad
* i
with men. My daughter is eleven
years old, healthy, rough on clothes
and has a future to be looked after.
“Mrs. Stephens even admits that;
the law is dry, but that can’t be a
hindrance to a woman who has to
work, she says. Mrs. Stephens is a
native of Circel, Montana. She
studied law in Montana until a year
ago. She was graduated from the
Hamilton college of law with honors.
Mrs. Stephens’ mother, the late
Mrs. Letta M. Hawley of Brookings, j
Mont, practiced law for many years
there. Her mother’s mother also was
an attorney.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Contractors who wish to figure on
the two story and basement reinforc
ed concrete office building may see
plans and specifications at the office
of the architect, Mr. Kingsley, Cor.
, 4th and Adams St. 3-31—tf
Don't forget the Gateway is estab
lished at Seward, Alaska.
BOOKS CLOSED
SATJVENING
WILL RE OPENED TONIGHT AND
TOMORROW UNTIL
10 P. M.
The registration books will close to
morrow night at 10 o dock lor the
city election. The office of the city
clerk will be open tonight until 10
and tomorrow until the same hour to
give men who are engaged during the
day a chance to register their names.
At 10 o’clock this morning an even
three hundred and fifty people had
registered, an number which is just
two less than the total registration
last year.
Drill Arrives To
Prospect Placers
Professor Hersehell Parker and As
i
sociates Will Use It in the
Cache C reek Dist.
The drill for the prospecting of
placer ground ir. this section of Al
aska by Professor Hersehell Parker
and his associates arrived yesterday
on the Alaska and is now being got
ready at the Doe shops for shipment
out to the Cache creek country where
it will be tried first on new ground.
This dirll is brought in just for ex
periment and a better type will be
built with it as a model. It is 450
pounds weight or about that much
and the new drill will be not more
than two hundred or two hundred and
fifty pounds. The remarkable thing
about this drill is that it works by
suction with hand power only. There
is no casing and no driving, the sand
being sucked up and the drill working
down gradually. It has been proven
perfect for well drilling and it is ex
pected to be most adaptable for placer
prospecting. After this drill gets a
good testing the new one will be con
structed.
COMING ON ALAMEDA
SEATTLE, March 31.—The follow
ing passengers for Seward are aboard
the Alameda which left last night:
Mrs. Chr.s. K ref ting, Mrs. J. Har
rington, J. Patten and wife, Wm.
Steel, Howard Fitz, Frank Cotter,
George McMahon, A. A. Agdon, Geo.
Sundquist and wife, Geo. Maltby and
wife, J. Walkinson, J. Miller, F.
Pastuovilch, Rufus Kimball, John G.
Reimcrs, P. Farrer, Geo. Reichert,
Jake Warfeld, Paul Westerlund, M.
Warren, F. Dustin, W. Fitzjab, J.
Farrand, J. Erickson, A. Rassmussen,
and thirty one steerage.
A sensation has been caused by this report notwithstand
ing failure of Pershing to say anything about it and the
feeling which this failure creates that the story is prob
ably not true. Nothing further had been learned this
morning regarding the disposition orthe V ilia forces but
the account that he has succeeded in reaching the mount
ains is accepted as correct.
WASHINGTON SILENT
WASHINGTON, March 31.—Official Washington is
silent regarding the report that Villa has gained the
mountain country but some official statement is expected
some time today. It is the opinion in many well informed
quarters that fleets of aeroplanes will be used to reach the
bandits wherever they go.
FRENCH EVACUATE WHEN THE
GERMANS SMASH MALANCOURT
WAR VETERANS
MET LAST NIGHT
The Spanish-American War veter
ans held their second meeting in Sew
ard last night at the City hall. Those
present were: Comrades: K. J.
O'Connor, W. 1.. Durham, R. R.
1’yram, J. R. Melvin, E. T. Holley, l*\
A. Hartman, D. Skiatis, G. Benj.
Poindexter, Murphy, T. Williams.
Comrades Ward, Bushaell, Jeniki,
Stites, McIntosh and Myers were un
able to attend.
Important matters pertaining to the
organization of the Camp were dis
cussed by all present. A committee
of four composed of Comrades Poin
dexter, chairman; W. L. Durham, E.
T. Holley and I>. Skiatis were ap
pointed to proceed with the establish
ment of a permanent camp at Seward.
Each member was requested to do
nate a small amount to take care of
the necessary expenses of perfecting
the organization. Camp adjourned at
10:30 to meet Thursday, April the
0th.
MARBLE MINES
The Vermont Marble company, op
erating mines at Davidson Inlet, in
Southeastern Alaska, has applied to
the Juneau land office for patents on
three claims. Under the law applica
tions for marble claims must be made
under the placer law.
MORE ON EVANS
The following are Evans passengers
in addition to those named yesterday:
Miss Olive Walters, H. E. Shugren,
Mrs. A. Shaw, Miss F. Furber, Ben
Delzelle, Glenn Carrington, Mrs.
Homlien, Miss Dolly Gilmore, Jennie
Hoddent, Antoinette Serterter and 5
steerage.
EVANS RETURNS
The Admiral Evans returned this
morning from her trip to the west
ward and Captain C. A. Glasscock re
ports nothing unusual on the trip ex
cept that he considered it advisable
to wait 14 hours at one place to avoid
the possibility of accident. She un
loaded 100 tons of outside coal here
today and was scheduled to get away
about press time.
PROGRAM FOR
WOMAN’S CLUB
April 3rd.
1. The Bad Citizenship of Good
Women Mrs. A. H. McDonald.
2. Misdemeanor Ordinance of the
Town of Seward.
Mrs. Chambers.
3. Letters from Mrs. Pennybacker
Mrs. Molony
April 17th.
Open meeting:, ladies of Seward in
vited.
1. Music.
2. The Women Contemporary with
the Jewish Heroes and Prophets
Rev. C. T. Cook.
May 1st.
1. Misdemeanor Ordinance
Mrs. Green.
2. Review of Norman Angell’s
Book, “American and the New
“World State.”
Part 1. America.
Mrs. Balderston.
3. Letter from Mrs. Pennybacker.
Mrs. Borg:en.
May 15th.
1. Review of Norman Angell's
America and the New World
a State. Part II. “The Doctrines
that Make War.” Mrs. Root
2. How the World is Fed.
Mrs. Erick Lucas.
PARIS, March 31.—It is officially admitted today that
our troops have been compelled to evacuate Malancourt
to the northwest of Verdun but we still hold the roads
leading from Bethincourt to Esnes. When we evacuated
the position Malancourt had been reduced to ruins by the
German artillery and the fortifications were of no further
| advantage to us. By the capture of Malancourt the
Teutons are enabled to straighten out their line from the
Meuse to Avocourt and thence westward.
MANY GERMANS KILLED
LONDON, March 31.—Twenty thousand Germans
have been killed and wounded in the past week’s lighting
around Verdun, according to the estimates made by
French military experts. The Teutons have now launched
a new and vast assault on both sides of the Meuse from
the bases secured by them in the first assaults and the
present effort seems to be put forth with all the care and
preparation that would suggest the intention to make it
final. In the Douaumont and Vaux sections to the east of
the fortress and at the Avocourt and Bethincourt sections
to the northwest the assaults are centered, the intention
clearly being to take the forts to the north of Verdun on
the flank. The positions in the Avocourt woods make their
defense comparatively easy and the slaughter there has
been awful when either side leaves cover to take up the
offensive. The massed batteries of the French on Hill 30*1
wiped out whole battalions of the Germans yesterday as
they rolled forward against the allied positions. French
officers who watched the German rush at Malancourt
through glasses sav they could easily see great gaps being
mowed in the German ranks as they moved up with an un
believable recklessness against the well manned fortifica
tions. British military observers incline to the belief now
that Germany has decided to take Verdun or bury all its
hopes to smash the western allied line in the effort. By
the fortress of Verdun is really meant scores oi fortresses
surrounding the city and main fortress itself. Each of
these fortresses is strong and built with all the genius that
French military engineers possess. To take each means an
assault in the open against skillfully manned works so the
carnage can be letter understood than described.
HINDENBURG WAITS
BERLIN, March 31.—The war office lias issued a
statement to the effect that the Russians are attacking in
the east but that von Hindenburg holds a line which all
the armies in the world could hardly break. He is now
contenting himself with holding this line while the strug
gle around Verdun is being fought. The announcement
contains the assertion that absolute confidence can be
maintained as Hindenburg has used the winter to make
thorough preparations.
PLOT TO CAPTURE SHIP
LEWIS, Del., March 31—A plot to capture the 50,
000 ton British ship Matoppo, carrying a valuable cargo,
and take her to sea was revealed today by Ernest Shuller
who was overpowered after holding up the ship’s captain
and attempting to seize the vessel single handed. Shuller
states that four other men had conspired to stow away
and overpower the officers and the Chinese crew when
they got to sea.
EXTINCT ALASKA HORSE
Last summer while a U. S. Geologi
cal party under Geo. L. Harrington |
was engaged in the Ruby district John ,
Hansen, on Swift creek, presented;
Mr. Harrington with a fossilized hoof
of some kind unusual to the miners
there. Recently Mr. Hansen received
a letter from the Geologist from'
Washington, stating that the hoof had |
been identified as that of an extinct
species of horse.—Ex.
RAINING AT GLACIER
Word was received from Glacier
this morning that it was raining out
there, and the trails are nearly gone.
NO COURT CRIER
When Judge Bunnell, of Fairbanks
| opened court recently, he announced
, that there would be no court crier, as
; he had decided to do away with that
I functionary. The judge said that the
court crier is an antiquated custom
not in general use in the courts, and
i he had decided that his court should
! be up-to-date. If, however, it was
found necessary to have a court crier
the work would fall to the lot of some
of the deputy marshals.—Ex.
A son was bom recently to Mr. and
! Mrs. 0. G. Tubby at Anchorage.
Mrs. Wm. Sauers is reported to be
progressing most favorably.