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Vol. 10. No. 260 SEWARD. ALASKA, SATURDAY. SEPT. 30, 1916. _Ten Cents the Copy
ALLIES MAKE MORE GAINS BUT i
ROUMANIANS SUFFER DEFEAT
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GERMANY DEFIANT
BERLIN* Sept. 29. — Chancellor Holvveg addressing
the Reichstag today uttered again Germany's defiance oi
its enemies who, he declared, are responsible for the con
tinuation of the war. He maintained once more that
Great Britain is keeping the struggle going for the pur
pose of crushing Germany but he declared that Germany
would persevere until decisive victory crowned its efiorts.
His tone apparently held out no hope for peace and his
hearers cheered him enthusiastically. In touching on
Roumania’s entry into the war he denounced what he des
cribed as that country’s treachery and he concluded by
stating that Germany’s boundless crops this year have
strengthened her position immeasurably.
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BRITAIN ALSO DEFIANT
LONDON, Sept. 29. — The press unanimously today
approves the statement of Lloyd George that the war will
be prosecuted to the finish. The Daily Express calls the
minister’s statement a historic manifesto and declares
that it expresses what the people unequivocally feel.
JOFFRE CONGRATULATES HAIG
PARIS, Sept. 29.—General Joffre wrote his congratu
lations to General Haig today congratulating him on the
successes gained by the British troops in the west. "I bow
before the brave soldiers who are responsible" said the
generalissimo of the French armies.
ACCUSE BULGARS OF MURDER
SALONIKI, Sept. 29.—The Serbs are holding their
recent gain at Kaimakcalan despite tierce counters by the
Bulgars. The Serbian commander has issued a state
ment that the Bulgars slaughter the wounded Serbs that
fall into their hands.
ADMIT ROUMANIAN DEFEAT
LONDON, Sept. 30.—That the Roumanians have been
repulsed at Hermanstadt hi Transylvania is admitted by
the allied capitals but the Roumanians are still fighting in
that region. Berlin reports that the Russians have been
repulsed at Goduzischiki but Petrograd claims success at
Gukalmy.
ALLIES GAINING
LONDON, Sept. 29.—Reports this evening are to the
effect that the French are gaining at Fregicourt, Morval
and on the Baupaume road. The British are also gaining
at Lesars three and half miles from Baupaume towards
which they are driving a wedge.
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APPLAUD LLOYD GEORGE
ROME, Sept. 30. — The Italian newspapers warmly
approve the statement of Lloyd George of the British
cabinet that the allied nations will fight to the end. Some
of the papers express the belief that George made the
statement at this time to warn the Pope and the United
States that any proposals for intervention would not be
accepted.
BRITISH HAMPERED BY RAIN
LONDON, Sept. 30. — The first news to arrive this
morning from the front is that the British are advancing
on the Baupaume road but their operations are hampered
by rain. The Germans are violently contesting every foot
of the way and the struggle is intense. We gained live
hundred yards at Lesars last night and took a thousand
prisoners. _ ___. ■«...*»
GERMAN PRESS ROASTS U. S.
BERLIN, Sept. 30. — The press of Berlin today in
commenting on the death of an American aviator named
Rockwell who was killed in the service of France de
nounces the supposed neutrality of the United States and
urges the resumption of submarine warfare. The Zeitung
asserts that the concessions granted to the United States
in the matter of submarines has resulted in an increase of
the supply of munitions of war by America to the allied
nations. It also says that the actions of American aviat
ors show the attitude of the American people and it laughs
to scorn America’s pretenses about humanity and peace.
Sore at failure of
Unions to Walk Out
NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—The lead
er* are admittedly disappointed at
the refusal of the builders and team
sters to \ote in favor of a strike.
They still claim, Frayne says, thut a
quarter of a million men are out on
strike.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—The Ne\%
York central ferry boat* suspended
operations today as the employees
have made a demand for higher
wages. It is not to take part in the gen
eral strike that the ferrymen struck.
Che leaders of the unions this after
noon are admitting that the unions
generally are refusing to strike in
sympathy with he carmen.
LAWYERS DINE TONIGHT
Maurice L). Lechey will be host at
u dinner given ot the members of the
bar in Seward this evening. At the
dinner, it is rumored, an announce
ment will be made which will be of
local interest but, although some peo
ple know what it is, the time for pub
lication is not ripe.
Shipping Combine
Will Hurry Mail
SEATTLE, Sept. 29.—It is stated
here by the officials of the Admiral
line that the consolidation of that
line with the Pat if.c Coast will have
the effect of making mails to Alaska
more frequent. It is said that con
gressional action will be required
probably to change the name of the
combined companies to that of the
Admiral line. Alexander says the
company will maintain the same
terminals but there will be greater
efficiency and better schedules.
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GERARD ON VACATION
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Gerard,
the United States ambassador to Ber
lin, is here on vacation and Lansing
says his visit home is not for business
and has no connection with war ques
tions.
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WOMAN’S CLUB WILL
ELECT NEXT MONDAY
A meeting of the Woman’s Club will
be held next Monday at 2 p. m. in
Pioneer hall. All are requested to be
present as the officers will be elected.
HUGHES TALKS It TIMES
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Sept. 29.—
Judge Hughes spoke 14 times today.
He says the campaign now is as
strenuous as it was lor the governor
ship of New York.
BERLIN MINISTER DISMISSED
BERLIN, Ccpt. Li'.'. Deputy Wur Mlul^lfi- (Jcncml
von Wandel has been dismissed from the service ot the
government. The cause is not published but it is supposed
to be due to laxity.
GREEKS JOIN ALLIES
ATHENS, Sept. 30. — Several Greek aviators have
joined the allied forces without waiting for a declaration
of war. Conditions this morning seemed to be the same
as ever but it is believed the cabinet and the Allied govern
merits are negotiating.
PRINCE SEES YEARS OF WAR
LONDON, Sept. 30.—Prince Rupprecht has given out
an interview at the front in which he declares that the
Allies have years of effort before them to gain a decisive
victory in the Somme region. At the same time comes
word from Berlin that Chancellor Bethmann von Holweg
declares the Germans at the Somme are unshaken.
FIND PRESERVER MARKED BREMEN
PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 30. —A boatman at Cape
Elizabeth has picked up a life preserver marked “Brem
en, Wilhelmshaven” and the report got abroad that the
submarine is wrecked. The inspector of the coast guard
after seeing the preserver said that if it is a joke the joker
did a good job.
SIGHTS SUBMARINE
WESTERLY, R. I.. Sept. 30. — A fisherman reports
seeing a large submarine two miles off shore and proceed
ing towards New London. She had no escort and display
ed no flag.
NOT ARRIVED AT NEW LONDON
NEW LONDON, Sept. 30.—The submarine Bremen
had not arrived here this forenoon. Captain Hinsch was
informed of the finding of the life preserver at Cape
Elizabeth but says it is not possible that it belonged to
the Bremen as the markings were unusual.
INTERNED SHIP MOVES
NORFOLK, Sept. 29.—The interned German auxili
ary cruiser Kronprinz William Eitel Frederich is now on
the way to Philadelphia under the escort of United States
warships. The reason for the change of location is not
known. .__
SHIP SUNK
LONDON, Sept. 29. — Lloyds reports that the ship
1 Roddam has been sunk by a mine off Gibraltar.
Cuts On foreman
In Several Places
Gruesome Tragedy Told at Inquest
in Seward This Morning.
That Bert Foreman who committed
suicide last Sunday on a mountain
peak over Portage glacier cut himself
in several parts of the body was
shown in the evidence at the inquest
in Seward this morning. In addition
to cutting the arteries of the left
wrist Foreman also stubbed himself
four times near the heart and also in
the temple. The story as told in court
by B. (I. Katon, who was with Fore
man at the time, presents one of the
most gruesome tragedies of the Alas
ka trails.
Foreman and Eaton left Anchorage
at 2 a. m. on Saturday on the way to
Portage bay. Eaton works in the
Granite mine and Foreman was on
his way to work at Bettel’s bay. They
camped out by a lire that night at
Mile 6.". and Ipft for the glacier at
daybreak next morning. Arriving at
the glacier they found it raining
heavily and as the crevices looked
dangerous they decided to go over a
high butte to the left. This butte was
precipitous and rocky and they found
themselves in a serious position. The
rain had turned into sleet at that
“levation and the difficulty of making
headway was very great. Several
times Foreman expressed the belief'
that they could never get out of there.
After a time he slid down a steep in
cline and got on the bench below Eat
on but was not in Eaton’s sight as a
rock point intervened. Eaton called
to him when he was probably 150 Vet
away but got only one answer. Fin
ally Eaton slid down the same incline
in fifteen or twenty minutes and found
Foreman crouching and staring out
over the edge of the bluff while blood
streamed from his writs and spread
over the snow. Foreman was hall
standing. He was not lying down,
rather, but was stooped and trembling
like an aspen. “We’re going to freeze
anyhow,” said Foreman and after
wards he repeated several times a re
quest to ‘‘tell Ed and Henry.” Eaton
exhorted him to "buck up ami told
him he would go to seek aid. He was.
too far gone at that time, Mr. Eaton
says, to stop the blood flow or save
him and he started back for aid.
After coming up to Foreman the lat
ter olTered him his knife anil askeo
him to “finish off the job.” In his
testimony Eaton says Foreman seem
ed all right on the trip. He was in
good humor and joking on the night
before at the camp lire. He said
nothing at any time worth remember
ing about his wife who had committed
suicide a few days before at Anchor
age.
Al Chamberlain who was at the
head of the four men sent out to bring
in the body testified that he found the
remains lying about forty feet away
or so from the place where the act
had apparently been committed. It
lay in a natural position on its back
against a steep decline and only ten
feet away from a frightful precipice.
The heels were dug into the ground
as though Foreman were trying to
prevent himself from sliding over the
brink. In bringing the body down
the mountain they had to slide it over
rocks and gulches and all sorts of ob
stacles. It was also fc md that the
head had been cut in places but this
probably happened after Eaton had
left him.
Dr. Romig testified that the cut on
the wrist was sufficient to cause
death. Both arteries had been sever
ed. It was shown at the inquest that
the first story about Foreman falling
jnto a crevasse was not well founded.
The verdict of the jury was in ac
cordance with the evidence. The jury
was composed of H. E. Ellsworth,
John Gilpatrick, H. H. Hildreth,
Frank Skeen, Wm. Dewitt and John
Stevenson.
lo Build It. R. Spur
Soon in the City
Land Department Wishes to Notify
Beach People to Move.
The land department of the engi
neering commission states that the
railroad spur near the beach will be
constructed soon and it asks that
dwellers on the beach be notified
again to move and not to delay the
J work.
The following statement was given
lout by the department today:
“There are still a number of people
j living on the beach who have failed
; to vacate in accordance with the order
of the land department requiring them
to move on or before October first,
i The commission will start its work in
a few days on the industrial spur and
side tracks and will at that time com*
! mence clearing the water front of all
buildings that remain thereon after
| October first. This procedure is ab
solutely necessary on account of the
winter coming on, which if work is
not started immediately will delay
the construction of the industrial
tracks. More applications for sites
for warehouses and industrial pur
poses have been received than it i.»
believed possible to locate on the
limited water front, a portion of
which has been reserved for raihoad
purposes, and these industries must
also be promptly placed.
HAMILTON LEWIS FLAYS
THE III (ill ES A KG I'M ENTS
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James Hamilton Lewis spoke to a
crowded Arena last night and declar
ed that Democracy is responsible for
the prosperity which the country now
enjoys. He flayed the* critics ot the
administration and ridiculed Hughes
and his campaign which he declared to
have no issue but condemnation of
Wilson. He also declared that the
Republicans were silent while the
Adamson bill was being put through
congress to give railroad employees
an eight hour day but now that the\
were attacking it, he inferred, in the
interests of plutocracy.
MARIPOSA LEAVES
SEATTLE, Sept. 30.—The Mariposa
left this morning. Mrs. Frank Evans
was aboard for Seward.
GOVERNOR IN ACCIDENT
DELA, Ohio, Sept. 30.—An auto in
which Governor Willis and his family
were riding collided today with a
street car and the members of the
governor’s family and himself were
shaken and slightly injured.
BANKER CALLS WILSON
ACTION COWARDLY ONE
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 29.—B. Har
ris speaking at 4*e Bankers’ conven
tion today said the action of Presi
dent Wilson in relation to the threat
ened railroad strike was cowardice.
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CARTOONIST BUYS ISLAND
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CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—Cartoonist
McCutcheon has purchased Salt Clay
island in the Bahamas.
I PARKER OUT IN SUPPORT
OF PRESIDENT WILSON
LONGBRANCH, Sept. 29.—Parker,
“the Progressive,” has joined the Wil
son campaign and will stump for the
President in Ohio, New York and New
Jersey.
HARRY HOBEN BUYS THE
PROVINCE TRANSFER CO.
The Alaska Transfer Company to
day concluded the deal for the pur
chase of hte Province Transfer busi
ness.
Accuses Wilson 01
Being Pro British
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President Defies Accuser Who Suva
Pro*(ierman Vote is Winning.
LOXGBKAXCH, Sept. :;u. — The
part that pro-Germanism and the re
verse will take in the coming presi
• dential election was brought vividly
before the eyes of the nation today
when Jeremiah Lynch president of the
•American Truth Society, wired lYet>
j dent Wilson and stated to him that
I his pro-British leaning* were defeat
, ing the party. Lynch in hi* wire de
I dared that popular disaipruval of
; the President’s pro allied sympathy
was clearly shown in the overwhelm
ing majority given to Senator Mar
tine in the New Jersey primaries and
also to Bennett who polled more than
forty per cent of the total Democratic
vote in Xew York. These facts,
Lynch declared, showed that even the
Democratic party disapproved of Wil
son's friendship for Great Britain.
' In answer to the wire the President
I became more than emphatic. After
denying the statements of Mr. Lynch
he declared that he would "feel deep
ly mortified if your kind voted l«*i
me.” And he finished up b\ t. iling
President Lynch that he ma> tell all
other ‘‘disloyal Americans” where he
stood. Martino is the man who wa
supported by the pro-German vote.
He is the senator who pas.-ed the res
olution calling for clemency in the
case of Sir Roger Casement and that
he received his large majority on this
account is claimed by the pro-Ger
fuct is taken as indicating that Pie i
dent Wilson will be very much handi
capped for re-election by tin* same
questions that gave Martino hi> ma
jority.
Pill LA. BEATS BROOK IA N
BROOKLYN, Sept. :U>.— Philadel
phia beat the home team today by 7
to 0. The pitchers were Riley and
Pfeifer. The spectators numbered
only three thousand.
Philadelphia's victory over Brook
lyn in the National league this morn
ing, leaves the standing:
Brooklyn .608 and Philadelphia .607
Philadelphia and Brooklyn will
play again this afternoon and if Phil
adelphia beats Brooklyn the per rent
age will be Philadelphia .609, Brook
lyn .604. Boston has a cinch on the
American league.
TWO NEGROES IA NCHED
IN SPITE OK PREACHER
NOWATA, Okla., Sept. 30.—After
first heeding the pleas of a minister
and dispersing a mob here last night
reassembled and lynched two negroes
who were responsible for killing
Deputy Sheriff Gibson during a jail
delivery some days ago.
WILSON WILL IGNORE
MEXICO AND HUGHES
LONGBRAXCH, Sept. 30.—Presi
dent Wilson today outlined the reas
ons for his candidacy. He also stated
that he will not during the campaign
discuss international questions, par
ticularly the accusations connected
with Huerta, and that he will ignore
Hughes.
buys LABAREE house
Dr. J. M. Sloan has purchased the
house and furniture of Ben Labaree
near the railroad depot.
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BERT FOREMAN BURIED
Bert Foreman was buried today on
the Rudolph homestead. Rev. Mr,
Munro officiated.
DANCE THIS EVENING
Miss Hallett will give a dance this
evening at Pioneer Hall at 9 o’clock.
' A very pleasant evening is certain.