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V«l. o. No. 70 SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1914. ______
JAP ARMY MAY GO TO EUROPE
OFFERS CORDOVA R. R. FOR ITS PHYSICAL VALUE
FRENCH AND BRITISH
FLEETS BOMBARD POLA
Government of Britain Drawing
Up Note in Answer to
United States.
BOMBARDING POLA
BERLIN, Dec. 31.—Thirty French and British war
ships have started the bombardment of Pola, the great
Austrian naval base on the Adriatic. The place is well
fortified on all sides and possesses a great citadel so that
there is good reason to believe that the enemy can be
driven away. The city has a population of forty thousand
and it is the chief naval base of the empire. Ihe allied
ships also have started the bombardment of Rovigno, a
town some fifteen miles distant on the coast. The effort
of the allied fleets to reduce Cattaro have completely fail
ed and the same result is hoped for in this case. The Aus
trian fleet may, however, decide to go out and meet the
allied ships so that a great naval battle would result.
DRAWING ANSWER TO U. S.
LONDON, Dec. 31.—The answer to the American note
relating to the seizure of American ships is now being pre
pared and will soon be drawn up and presented to the
state department at Washington. It is stated semi-official
ly that the note will adopt the same friendly tone which
characterized the note from the American government
and the whole matter will be adjusted without further
friction.
JAPAN MAY SEND ARMY
TOKIO, Dec. 31.—The Japanese foreign office an
nounces that no nation has requested that a Japanese
army be sent to Europe to take part in the war against
Germany. A report is current in Tokio that the Russians
favor the sending of the Japanese reinforcements but
Great Britain hesitates because of the economical and pol
itical difficulties which might arise. The expense of send
ing the Japanese would probably fall on Great Britian to
a great extent.
NOTHING DEFINITE THIS MORNING
LONDON, Dec. 3.—Nothing of a definite nature has
arrived in the dispatches from the front this morning. In
the west along the entire front from Alsace to the North
Sea the allies have exerted steady pressure and have made
slow progress almost everywhere. In upper Alsace the
French entered the village of Steinbach which was oc
cupied after severe house to house fighting, half the com
munity taking part in the battle as well as the soldiers.
The defeat of the Austrians in Galicia is not denied but
Vienna has sent no confirmation of the intelligence. The
German forces in Poland are finding it extremely diffi
cult to continue towards Warsaw. Petrograd believes the
German offensive has broken down but it is possible that
the invaders are reorganizing their forces with a view
to another determined attempt to push the Russians
further back. The taking of Warsaw apparently depends
on the success of the German forces advancing from the
north. If they can succeed in making headway the Rus
sian center may be compelled to fall back to avoid being
taken on the flank or rear. Petrograd also announces that
a Turkish column has been defeated in Transcaucasia and
dispersed by artillery after half the Turkish strength was
lost. The fighting in that part of the world is evidently
now proceeding in Russian territory, however.
TAKE SOLOMON ISLAND
MELBOURNE, Dec. 31.—British forces occupied
Beuainville, the largest of the Solomon islands yesterday
according to a cable received here today. The occupation
was carried out without much opposition as only a few
' German officials were there when the British forces ar
rived.
SERVIANS TO INVADE
PARIS, Dec. 31.—The Servian minister to France has
announced that the Servian army will invade Hungary in
the spring. The weather at present prevents the attempt
but in the meantime the Servian army will prepare. The
invasion of Bosnia will also be attempted once again and
much help is expected from the natives of that country as
they are Slavs and in sympathy with Servia. The Servian
army is now said to be well equipped and provisioned.
ALEXANDER HAS
DEENJNDICTED
STEEL MAGNATE MUST GO ON
TRIAL ON WHITE SLAVE
CHARGE.
CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—An indictment
charging Charles Alexander the
wealthy steel magnate of Providence,
with a violation of the white slave
act was returned today in the fed
eral court. Another indictment was
returned charging attempted bribery
against Jeanie Elizabeth Cope of Los
Angeles whom Alexander is charged
with transporting. After the arrest
of Alexander the police stated the
girl had proposed to them to black
mail Alexander and that she and they
would divide what every money they
secured.
SAN 01 EGO EXPOSITION
WILL OPEN TONIGHT.
President Wilson Will Press a Button
and Secretary McAdoo Will he
at Opening.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31.—The Pan
ama California exposition will be
opened tonight at midnight by Presi
dent Wilson who will press an elec
tric button at the whitehouse. Sec
retary of the Treasury McAdoo will
represent the president at tonight's
ceremony here. The exposition is fully
ready for the opening and begins
under the most favorable auspices.
IMMIGRATION FALLS BY
FORTY FIVE PER CENT
European War Keeps the People of
Europe From Coming to
the States.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Immigra
tion through this port decreased by
six hundred and one thousand per
sons during the year according to re
port issued today. This means a de
crease in immigration of forty five
per cent compared to the immigration
last year. This is due, of course, to
the European war.
DUNCAN McKINLEY DIES
SUDDENLY AT BERKELEY.
Was Former Congressman and was
Well Known in Connection W'ith
Alaska Coal.
BERKELEY Dec. 31.—Ex-congress
man Duncan McKinley died suddenly
of appoplexy here last night. He was
well know in Alaska as one of the
coal claimants in the Bering river
field district.
SAMPSON OWNERS
INSIST ON DAMAGE.
SEATTLE, Dec. 15.—In answer to
a petition for limitation of liability
filed by the Canadian Pacific Railway,
on behalf of the steamship Princess
Victoria, the Alaska Navigation Co.
today in the federal court asked dam
ages to the amount of $489,199.84 for
the Admiral Sampson, sunk last Aug.
26 in a collision with the Princess
Victoria.
NOME LEGISLATORS DUE
IN CORDOVA SHORTLY.
CORDOVA, Dec. 28.—Two of the
legi lators-elect from Nome arrivec
at Fairbanks on December 19, er
route to Juneau. They are travelling
with a team of nine dogs and are ex
pected to reach Chitina today or to
morrow’, and w’ill come to Cordova
From here they will take the steamei
for the territorial capital.
NO GATEWAY TOMORROW.
The Gateway will not be issued
tomorrow, New Years Day, but
if any news of importance comes
it will be posted up in bulletins.
Best wishes to everyone and
for the material advancement of
this district in the coming year.
FIGHTING MAY BECOME
GENERAL IN MEXICO.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 31.—1The
statement is made scmi-oflficially here
that early in the new year the forces
of Gutierrez, Villa and Zapata will
take the field in strength for a deter
mined campaign against the army of
Carranza in all parts of Mexico where
some of the Carranza troops have
found a resting place.
SALOONS MOVE
ACROSS STREET
PROHIBITION STARTS IN ARI
ZONA AND SALOONS MOVE
OVER TO MEXICO.
PHEONIX, Arizona, Dec. 31.—Pro
hibition becomes effective in this
state at midnight tonight. Some of the
saloons along the border moved into
Mexican territory. In some cases
saloons had to move only across the
street to get away from the United
States territory into the other re
public and were able to continue the
sale of liquor in sight of the place
where they formerly carried on bus
iness. A remarkable fact connected
with the prohibition of liquor sales
is that the saloons are all doing a
roaring business today as if everyone
was desirous of celebrating the new
order of things. Three hundred
saloons and ten wholesale houses will
close here.
ANDREW K. BEATSON DEAD.
Discoverer of Bonanza Group of Cop
per Claims on Latouche
Passes Away.
In a letter to the Gateway from
Mrs. Flora Beatson is contained the
sad news that her husband Andrew
K. Beatson, passed away at Los
Angeles on December 16. Mr. Beatson
was the discoverer of the Bonanza
group of copper mines on Latouche
island and was one of the most prom
inent figures in the Alaska mining
world.
Mr. Beatson’s death will be regard
ed as a loss by very, very many.
SENATE REFUSES TO STRIKE
OUT THE LITERACY TEST.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.— By a
vote of forty seven to twelve the sen
ate today refused to strike from the
immigration bill the clause providing
for the literacy test for the admis
sion of aliens. This clause was struck
out notwithstanding the well known
opposition of President Wilson.
GOVERNOR AT HOME.
Juneau, Dec. 30.—Governor strong
and Mrs. Strong arrived on the Mari
posa from Seattle after a visit to Cal
ifornia where the governor was en
gaged as a member of the commission
for the territories in the matter of ex
hibits at the Panama exposition.
CAME ON MARIPOSA.
The following passengers arrived
this morning on the Mariposa: F. W.
Small H. Dougherty, A. Elmslee, J.
Dalton and R. Small.
SAYS OUTBREAK i
IS DANGEROUS
FORMER PHILIPPINE OFFICIAL
HEARS BAD NEWS FROM
THE ISLANDS.
WASHINGTON Dec. 31.—Private
dispatches to Dean Worcester former
secretary of the interior for the Phi
lippine islands contain the intelligence
that the recent outbreak was signi
ficant and dangerous. It was signifi
cant says the writer because it show
ed that the feeling of the Filipinos is
very hostile to the Americans and
that this feeling is more general than
had been supposed. The letter gives
no information that would show
whether the rising has been complete
ly suppressed or not.
RANDALL SAY HE IS
FOR PROHIBITION.
Man Elected as Democrat to Congress
Turns Over to the Dries and
Quits Democracy.
LOS ANGELES Dec. 31.—Charles
H. Randall who has been elected to
congress as a democrat states today
that he is not a democrat but a pro
hibitionist. He declares further that
his first act will be the introduction
of a drastic prohibition bill which he
will move heaven and earth to have
passed into law.
HALL WILL OPEN AT
EIGHT THIS EVENING.
Grand March at 10:15 After Which
the Prizes Will be Awarded
the Winners.
All Seward will see the old year
out and the new year in tonight at the
Firemen’s masquerade. The hall will
be open at 8 o'clock and the grand
march will take place at 10:15. There
is nothing more to be said about the
affair. Words are useless. Everyone
will be present and the great year
that will bring Seward galloping to
its goal will be ushered in with a
royal time.
NEW UNIVERSITY OPENS
IN SPITE OF THE WAR.
(By The Associated Press.)
BERLIN, Dec. 30.—Notwithstand
ing the war, the new University of
Frankfort has just been opened. The
Emperor signed the statutes of the
new institution on August 1, the day
the German mobilization was ordered.
Thus this new seat of learning will be
identified for all time with the great
world war, just as the university of
Berlin is known throughout Germany
for having been bom during the Na
poleonic wars. The University of
Frankfort has also attached to itse f
a reminiscence of those days by open
ing its doors on the anniversary of the
Battle of Leipzig, where Napoleon’s
power in Germany was finally broken.
The opening, on October 18, was
without any special ceremony. The
Kaiser sent from military headquart
ers a dispatch expressing his regret
that the “defence of the Fatherland
from the nefarious attacks of our
enemies” rendered it impossible for
him to be present.
WENT ON MARIPOSA.
The following passengers went out
on the Mariposa: R. S. Eskridge,,
Anna Curtis Folkart Mrs. Katie,;
Robert Guest, J. Cummings ? Mrs.
James McConnell and August Lawson.
Job printing of every description at
The Gateway.
FORMAL OFFER TO SELL
COPPER RIVER RAILROAD
No Answer Given to the Pro
posal of John Pierpont
Morgan.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—J. P.
Morgan yesterday made a formal of
fer to Secretary of the Interior Lane
to sell the Copper River and North-;
western railroad to the government
at its appraised physical valuation. I
No answer was given by the secre
tary and no answer probably was ex
pected but the financier wanted to
make offer in time. There is no chance
whatever apparently that any definite
statement will be made by the secre
R. S. ESKRIDGE SPEAKS
OF TRAIL TO IDITAROD.
Says u Man With a Jag on Could
Have Walked a Straighter Course
Than the Trail Follows.
In a strong letter to the Gateway
R. S. Eskridge the well known mining
man who recently arrived from the
Iditarod, condemns the trail between
that city and this. The letter is too
long for its publication in full but Mr.
Eskridge is so expert a musher that
his opinions are worth having.
“A reeling drunk" says the letter
“wending his tortuous way through
a thicket would not make a crookeder
course than that taken by the trail
from Old Knik to Bud creek"
“A chechaco" says the letter in
another place “lost and wild with
fright and climbing every' hill in sight
for the purpose of finding where he
was could not climb more unnecessary
hills than the trail from Anderson’s
to the mouth of Happy."
Mr. Eskridge declares that Seward
people are at fault because they fail
to raise an agitation to have the road
improved. He says that many people
in future will rather travel the longer
distance around by Fairbanks unless
some improvement is made. Every
mistake under the sun he asserts,
seems to have been made in lay
ing out this trail and when an un
usually mild-mannered and genial fel
low like Eskridge says the very
strong things contained in that com
munication there must be lots of foun
dation for the complaint. Captain
Norton more than bears out every
word he says.
MILLION DOLLARS WORTH
OF GOODS TO ALASKA.
The collector of customs for Puget
Sound, in his November statement,
just issued posts no figures on impor
tations from noncontiguous territory
of the United States, but the exports
from his district are rendered and
show that practically a round million
dollars' worth of goods were exported
to Alaska—$983,254, to the explicit
while Hawaii took $237,711 worth of
shipments from ports of his district.
HUGH DOUGHERTY SAYS
TOLOVANA LOOKS WELL.
Hugh Dougherty, who arrived this
morning on the Mariposa, says that
the new placer camp at Tolovana looks
promising. The strike is two da>s
journey from Fairbanks and three
hundred men were there when Mr.
Dougherty left the Tanana capital on
December 18.
tary or the president about the
government railroad until the report
of the commission is ready. Delegate
WicKersham has sent a call to the
members of the three Pacific coast
delegations to meet Friday morning
to discuss methods for getting an ap
propriation which was urged by Sec
retary Redrield for aids to naviga
tion in Alaska. It is expected to get
these appropriations through this ses
sion. The appropriations are now be
fore the committee.
CARRANZA HAS
QUIT MONTEREY
FLEES BEFORE THE ADVANC
ING FORCES OF GENER
AL VILLA.
WASHINGTON Dec. 31.—Carranza
evacuated Monterey yesterday with
all his forces. The army of Villa is
advancing on that city from the south
and it is expected that he will enter
the place within a day or two. The
future intentions of the constitution
alist leader are not known but his re
fusal to meet the Villa forces at all
places is taken to mean he has come
near the end of his rope by the con
stant weakening of his forces.
HERRON BOOSTS SEWARD
In the Newr York Times of Decem
ber 13 appears a long interview with
Charles E. Herron, taken at the Wald
orf hotel. The clipping, which has
been received by J. Hesse, quotes Mr.
Herron as saying that the govern
ment R. R. will be built from Seward
to Fairbanks. He also boosts the
members of the engineering commis
sion and says that this promises to
be by far the greatest and ricnest of
territories. We have been only scratch
ing around like a lot of children so
far," he said.
DAN SUTHERLAND TO
COME HERE SOON.
JUNEAU.—Dan Sutherland, ter
ritorial senator from Iditarod, is ex
pected to come North on the next
boat for the Westward, enroute to
Seward to look things over. Senator
Sutherland will be back in Juneau for
the reopening of the legislature in
March. He is the holdover member
from the Fourth division, having flip
ped a coin with Senator Henry Roden,
two years ago, and winning the toss.
Senator and Mrs. Sutherland have
been spending the winter in Seattle.
NEW STAMP MILL FOR THE
WILLOW CREEK DISTRICT.
E. H. Bartholf and his associates
will put a stamp mill on their proper
ty in the Willow creek district next
spring. The property is know as the
Mabel mine and is situated near the
Alaska Free Gold property. Mr.
Bartholf will come here in March and
go to the Broad pass country to look
over it