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Vol 9 No. lit* SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 191j-_____.
ALL GERMANY IS CGI
OFF FROM EKE WORLD
No More Ships From Any Place
Can Enter Ports of
Teutonic Allies.
ALL GERMANY SHUT OFF
WASHINGTON, March 1.—The governments of
France and Britain notified the United States govern
ment formally today that all shipping of all kinds to
and from all countries and Germany is to be stopped. The
allied governments will hold all cargoes but will confiscate
only contraband. The prohibition of shipping starts to
day. The notification of the two allied powers says dis-'
tinctly that no ships of any kind will be permitted to enter
or leave German ports during the war. It is believed that
the United States department will protest against this
procedure. It is already known that Britain and France
will be asked by this government to show how such a gen
eral blockade can be enforced, it will also be asked what
disposition will be made of the cargoes detained. The
matter of trade between this country and Germany and
Austria has now, therefore, come to a crisis and gloomy
forebodings are being voiced on all hands. The loss of
trade to the United States by the complete blockade of
the Teutonic nations will be tremendous and there is some
doubt as to whether the allied powers can make such a
blockade effective. Germany and Austria can still secure
supplies from Scandinavia, Holland, Italy, Roumania,
Bulgaria and Turkey without having such trade exposed
to the allied fleets. The blockade declaration is taken to
mean that the allies have come to the conclusion that some
other means than fighting must be resorted to bring the
war to a successful conclusion. This is all taken to mean
here that there can be no hope entertained of an early
ending of the struggle unless the allies can succeed in
starving out the hostile nations and the process is expect
ed to take a long time. The newspapers in the eastern
states generally suggest this reading of the new move by
the allies and point out that the victory of the allied na
tions and the conquering of Germany depends entirely on
whether Germany can support herself or not.
FRENCH ADVANCE A LITTLE
PARIS, March 2.—According to the official report
this morning the attack on Ypres has been repulsed.
Some progress has been made to the nothwest of Perthes
but it is admittedly slight. Slight French gains are also
reported from the regions of Argonne and the Vosges.
Along the remainder of the western line comparative
quiet reigns.
IN THE DARDANELLES
ATHENS, March 2.—It is reported that the bomb
bardment of the Dardanelles forts has been resumed by
the allied fleets. Opinions here seem to differ as to the
possibility of forcing the famous channel. The fleets have
not yet reached the narrowest part of the channel. They
are said to be in range of Tchanak Kalessi but it is assum
ed that the Turks will bring up guns from the Asia Minor
side of the passage before giving up. A fact which indi
cates that Turkey is not feeling safe is that she is gather
ing a force of a hundred thousand men to defend the capi
tal. It has always been understood that the Dardanelles
had been prepared with mines for any such attempt as
that which is now being made by the allied fleets but no
information has arrived here that would indicate the loss
of any allied ship engaged in the attempt to reach the sea
of Marmora. Should the fleets reach Constantinople and
fail to reduce the fortifications there at both sides of the
Bosphorus they might be placed in a very serious predic
ament in attempting to get out. The general opinion here
is, however, that the allied admirals have full knowledge
of the conditions 'ud are not taking any chances. The
venture is being regarded throughout the Balkans with a
profound interest as the fate of Turkey in Europe means
so much to all of us.
GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESS
BERLIN, March 2.—The official bulletin this morn
ing contains the information that the Gennan troops have
been successful in their attacks in the Argonne district
and in the department of Champagne. Violent counter at
tacks in the department of the Vosges have been repulsed
there has been no change worthy of note in the eastern
theatre both sides holding the positions which they occup
ied some days ago. The Austrians are said to have been
stiffened remarkably since the beginning of the war and
are now able to face the Russians with perfect confidence.
The fate of the eastern campaign evidently, however,
rests in the northen operations if the military experts
here are to be taken as authorities.
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ASK ft. ft. WORK
FOR LOCAL MEN
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CITY COUNCIL ENDORSES AC
TION SUGGESTED BY
GATEWAY.
SEND IN ALL THE NAMES
MOVEMENT BEGINS TO GET'
EMPLOYMENT FOR
ALASKANS.
At the City council meeting last
night a movement was inaugurated
for the purpose of securing work for
all the unemployed of this district
when the construction of the railroad
begins or when the preliminary work
even is started. The city council has
given its sanction to the matter and
will directly correspond with the rail
road commission or whoever else
might be the proper parties to show
that there is no necessity for shipping
men in here until the present supply
is exhausted. In the meantime all
who would accept work in the rail
road construction are asked to send in
their names to E. 0. Sawyer at Ben
I.abaree’s office so that the city council
may be able to let the officials at
Washington know' exactly how many
men can be depended on here. This
list will, of course, embrace all the
men in this district, Knik and all
places where the men can be secured
without difficulty by the railroad
builders.
Mr. Sawyer brought the matter up
before the council last evening. He
stated that he had got the idea from
the Gateway editorial of yesterday
and that the matter w'as one well
worth following. A member of the
railroad commission told him last
summer that men had been shipped
in because it was doubtful whether
enough men could be secured here.
To facilitate matters Mr. Sawyer of
fered his service gratis to secure the;
names of all men who would take
w'ork under the commission so that a'
list could be sent to Washington to
show the number that could be sup
plied here. Strange to say two mem
bers of the council expressed the be
lief that it was better to postpone the
matter. They seemed to think that
it would make the people of Seward
look as if they wfere assuming too
much. One member of the council
actually went the length of saying
that “they might think we wanted to
build the railroad instead 6f them.”
Dr. Daggett pointed out that inform
ing Washington of the number of men
that could be secured here would real
ly be information to the railroad build
ers and w'ould bo actually a courtesy.
The mayor and Councilman Patton
agreed warmly with the proposal and
it was finally decided to take action
next Monday when Mr. Saw'yer will
present the names of the workers to
the council. All members of the coun
cil at the wind up seemed to favor the
movement notwithstanding some
thing that looked like a misunder
standing in the beginning.
BOTH UTAH HOUSES
PASS PROHIBITION.
SALT LAKE, March 2.—The senate
prohibition bill passed the house to
day and now awaits the signature of
the governor only.
WASHINGTON MAY REPEAL
THE ANTI HANGING LAW.
OLYMPIA, March 2.—The state
senate today passed the bill repealing
the anti-hanging law.
The meeting of the Commercial club
takes place this evening at eight
o’clock.
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SUTHERLAND
PRESIDENT
WICKGRSHAM PEOPLE ORGAN
IZE TERRITORIAL LEG
ISLATURE..
COLLINS HEADS HOUSE
JOINT SESSION TOMORROW TO
HEAR GOVERNOR’S
SPEECH.
JUNEAU, March 2.—Dan Suther
land of Ruby was elected president of
the territorial senate yesterday and
Representative Collins of Fairbanks,
speaker of the first house, was once
more placed at the head of the lower
chamber. The work on the whole
shows that the Wickershamites had
the upper hand in the organization of
the legislature and exercised their
power. A. E. Maltby, who came out
from Iditarod qnder the impression
that he had been elected to the house
was elected chief clerk of the senate.
Dierenger is the sergenat at arms.
Barry Keown of Nome who was chief
clerk in the first legislature was re
elected chief clerk of the house. He
came out from Nome over the trail.
Hunter is sergeant at arms of the low
er house.
The legislature will me,*t In joint
session tomorrow afternoon at 2
o’clock to hear the governor’s mes
sage. The governor in that message
w’ill urge economy. He will also make >
a plea for a full territorial govern
ment, for the introduction of the
Australian ballot system and for leg
islation to protect the purity of the
ballot.
HAS ONLY TWENTY SIX
DOLLARS IN THE BANK.
City Council Passes Ordinance Pro
viding For the Election of
Night Watchman.
It was announced last night that the
city has only twenty-six dollars in the
treasury and a discussion took place
as how expenses w’ere to be met until
some more money arrives. License
money and delinquent taxes are soon
to come and in the meantime the mat
ter will be fixed up some way by the
finance committee although the fixing
up might mean borrowing money from
the bank, which, considering the past
history of the pre ent council, looks
very suggestive of Nemesis.
The council will meet next Monday
again. The city ordinance providing
for the election of a night watchman
passed its third reading. There were
so many amendments to the new’ elect
ric franchise that the matter was put
over for a week and a new' franchise
w’ill be drawn up. The bonds have
been raised from fifteen hundred to
twenty-five hundred dollars. The
creation of an election board was not
proceeded with last night and may be
left until the last meeting of the coun
cil if the council so desire.
A HOUSE COMMITTEE
ROASTS ROCKEFELLER.
WASHINGTON, March 2.—The
report has been issued of the house
committee that has been appointed to
investigate the conditions in the Colo
rado strike region. The report con
tains a severe rebuke to Rockefeller
for refusing to consent to the arbit
ration of the strike difficulty in the
coal trouble. President Wilson had
tried to bring about an understanding
between the men and the employers
but Rockefeller and the others opposed
the president’s plans in every way
possible.
NEW YORK March 2.—An attempt
to blow up St Patrick’s cathedral this
morning has resulted in the discovery
of a plot by anarchists that surpasses
the most blood thirsty and destructive
conspiracy of modern times. 1 he
bomb was placed in the cathedral
while 800 people were in the
great edifice, but thanks to the vigi
lance of the New York police, the
bomb never exploded and a frightful
catastrophe was averted. The at
tempted destruction of the cathedral
has caused the disclosure of all the
facts connected with the gigantic con
spiracy. It was hatched by anarchists
here and was meant to bring about the
killing of capitalists and the pillaging
of the city. The wrecking of St
Patrick’s cathedral was to have been
the signal for the commencement o*
the work of destruction. The explos
ion of the bomb in the cathedral was
to be followed by the destruction of
CAPTAIN FERGUSON MAKES
WAR ON THE MEXICANS.
Former Nome Man Asks Thirty Thou
sand Dollars for Dentention
of Ship.
WASHINGTON, March 2.—Captain
W. H. Ferguson of Seattle today pre
sented a claim against the Mexican
government for thirty thousand dol
lars for the detention of his bark in
Mexican waters by the Mexican
authorities in April 1914. The cap
tain states that the fruits of the voy
age were lost by the high handed pro
ceedings of the Mexicans and that the
officials of that country violated his
rights as an American.
NIC GANN LEADS
IN NOME VOTE
MAY CONTEST ELECTION ON
GROUND OF ESKIMO
VOTING.
NOME, March 2.—All but a few
precincts have been heard from and
Thomas McGann leads in the polling
for the place in the territorial senate
made vacant by the death of Senator
Bruner. The voting is McGann 455,
Anderson 402, James 367. The Ander-*
son campaign committee is already
making plans to contest the election
of McGann on the ground that there
was a wholesale voting of Eskimos
at Unalakleet and St. Michael. And
erson and James are both in Seattle.
Each of them ran in the last election
and split the vote so that Aldrich was
the winner. The same splitting of the
vote is responsible for the heading of
the poll by McGann who wTas the
candidate of the labor men and receiv
ed the votes of the socialists and lab
orites solidly.
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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY
MINERS ARE ENTOMBED.
HINTON, W. Va., March 2.—One
hundred and sixty miners are entomb
ed as the result of a mine explosion
which occurred here last night. There
is a hope that most of the men, if not
all, will be rescued and efforts are now
being made to reach the workings
where they were engaged at the time
of the explosion.
The Juneau cable is down again.
This may prevent the receipt of direct
news about the legislature for some
time.
the homes of Rockefeller, Carnegie,0
the Vanderbilts and the other great
houses of the wealthy.
Then was to have come the looting ^
of banks and business houses and on
the whole the facts as disclosed seem
to surpass the most diabolical imagin
ation. The authorities fortunately
found out something about the con
spiracy some time ago and for three
months the detectives have been work
ing on the case. One detective actual
ly lived with the bomb manufacturer
and appeared as one of them. To his
work is due the fact that when the
bomb was laid in the cathedral, the
act which was to mark the beginning
of the reign of terror, there were a
score of detectives present and the
bomb was extinguished. The princi
pals have been arrested but hundreds
are involved in the plot and a round
ing up will follow. The full particu
lars of the plot have not yet been giv
en out by the authorities.
KING THURMAN’S BODY
FOUND IN A CABIN.
Mystery of Man Missing for Several
Months has been Clear
ed Up.
The body of King Thurman was
found in a cabin in the Chickaloon
Flats on Febraury 27 by Jack Rowell.
The body was terribly decomposed and
the finder decided not to touch them
Thurman had been missing since last
July and many efforts were made to
ascertain his fate. It had been sup
posed that he had a cabin which he
used for hunting purposes in the Flats
but none of the searchers seem to
have gone that way. Jack Rowell and
Dune Little were trapping and hunt
ing in the neighborhood last month
and Mr. Rowell seeing the cabin de
cided to look at it with a view to
spending the night there. On entering
he saw the body of Thurman lying in
the bed with one aim doubled up be
neath it. The remains were in so hor
rible a state that it was decided not
to touch them and the government
will probably arrange immediately to
have the man buried.
Fred Bunce brought the news of the
gruesome discovery to the city last
night.
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NEWS NOTES
A1 Roberts has arrived from Mile
23.
Miss Ruth Dean arrived in the city
last evening.
The city attorney has informed the
council that it has no power to prevent
saloons from running lunch counters.
Half the men in town are mentioned
in one way or another as probable
candidates for election to the city
council. Some who have declared
privately that they will run display
a fine wounded dignity when they are
asked by a reporter to declare them
selves. #
Dan Sutherland, who has been elect
ed president of the territorial senate,
is very popular. His right name is
Donald Sutherland but even his clos
est friends hardly know that fact or
the other fact that he was born in
Canada. He was United States mar
shal for the First division but his op
ponents-got his scalp. He has been a
prominent mining man in Fairbanks,
Nome and Ruby but is particularly
I known as the right hand man of
James Wickersham par excellence. He
is still a young man, perhaps in the
early forties and was married at Idita
rod about four years ago to a very
popular lady.
WILL NOT CALL
EXTRA SESSION
PRESIDENT MAKES STATEMENT
ABOUT SEVERAL
MATTERS.
WASHINGTON, March 2.—Presi
(ient Wilson stated finally today that
he would not call an extra session of
congress. In this statement he in
cluded an expression of his views on
various matters. The most import
ant fact mentioned by Lim was that
he will continue his efforts to make
belligerent nations respect American
shipping of a non-contraband nature.
He regrets the failure to pass some
of the measures on which he had set
his heart but he sees no help for it
unless by a change of sentiment that
might come before the meeting of the
next congress.
JOHN TREADWELL IS
I) I SC H A RG ED DANKRl PT.
NEW YORK, March 2.—The feder
al court today discharged John Tread
well from bankruptcy. He was declar
ed a bankrupt last November.
HARVESTER TRUST APPEALS.
WASHINGTON, March 2.—The In
ternational Harvester trust today filed
a brief for an appeal from the convic
tion in Minnesota under the Sherman
law. Thee onviction entailed the dis
solution of the trust or leaving the
state.
TO LOAN FORMERS.
WASHINGTON, March 2.—The
house has included a farm loan in the
agricultural bill which is coming up
for decision finally. The bill provides
for the establishment of associations
in different districts and for land
banks.
ANTI DRUG LAW IN EFFECT.
WASHINGTON, March 1.—The
anti-drug law went into effect today.
WILSON ASKED TO MIX
IN STRIKE TROUBLE.
WASHINGTON March 1.—Presi
dent Wilson is to be asked to inter
vene in the eastern Ohio coal strike
but it is doubtful if he '.'ill consent
to let himself be mixed up in the mat
ter as his interference in the Colorado
affairs only caused trouble.
GOVERNOR SIGNS RACING
BILL IN NEVADA STATE.
CARSON CITY, March 1.—The
governor signed the racing bill toaa>
and once more Nevada has made the
sport legal. Preparation5 are al
ready made for the establishment of
a regular racing circuit and the state
promises to become the center o* the
sporting life of the whole country.
WHEAT ONE FORTY SEVEN.
CHICAGO, March 1.—Wheat closed
today at one forty seven and three
quarters. A sudden rise may be look
ed for in case the allied fleets fail to
negotiate the passage of the Dar
danelles. Should Russia be opened
from the south a tremendous flood of
wheat may be expected.
ALAMEDA ARRIVED.
SEATTLE, March 1.—The Alameda
arrived here Sunday morring.
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