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GERMANS LOSE 120,000 IN THREE
DAYS, BUT SAY ALEIES REPULSED
Tremendous Struggle In the West
Still Proceeds — Three Hundred
Thousand Teutons Reported Ready
to March on Serbia —Eastern Front
Again Flares Up.
DECISIVE MOMENT AT HAND
BERLIN, Sept. 29.—The newspapers of Germany
admit the belief that the decisive moment is at hand and
that Joffre has chosen this time for the supreme effort to
drive us out of France and Flanders. One well known
Leipsic paper says today: ‘The most formidable stage,
and perhaps the decisive moment, has come in the war in
the west. If Joffre is able to force our armies to take up
new positions a new struggle must result all over again,
costing us terrible sacrifices.” Berlin and all Go many
is still waiting for the final outcome of the great western
drive. ... 4_^ . ^-vi lzjva
GERMAN LOSSES AWFUL
PARIS, Sept. 29.—It is officially estimated that the
losses of the Germans in the fighting since Saturday, up
to last night, in the west were one hundred and twenty
thousand men. More than twenty-three thousand were
captured and this is believed to be more than the losses
of the Allies although the latter were on the offensive.
Seventy-nine German cannon were taken in the Cham
pagne region.
TEUTONS MARCH ON SERBIA
ATHENS, Sept. 29.—An army of three hundred thou- *
sand Teutons is now marching on Serbia, according to the
advices from Nish, but the Serbians express the fullest
confidence that the attack will be repelled. The army of
invasion is made up mostly of Austrians but has a large
complement of Germans.
BERLIN CLAIMS VICTORY
BERLIN, Sept. 29—The latest official news this af
ternoon from the seat of war is to the effect that the al
lies have been repulsed at every point along the western
front. For the past twenty-four hours the assaults of the
allied hosts have been proceeding with extraordinary de
termination and with what is truly a magnificent disre
gard for life but the German front still stands firm. The
following is the latest official bulletin posted here this
afternoon: ‘‘We have been unable to eject the enemy
from the trenches captured two days ago northwest of
Souchez village but the constantly advancing F rench are
being mowed down before our resistance and there is full
confidence that their efforts will end in failure.” A second
official statement issued this morning says that several
rows of trenches captured in the early stage of the pres
ent offensive movement by the British north of Loos have
been now retaken by our troops.
POPE WANTS TRUCE
BERLIN, Sept. 29.—The Munich Post reports that
Pope Benedictus is now preparing a letter to the belliger
ent nations asking for a general truce on All Saints Day
in memory of the soldiers who perished in the war. The
Postt while published in a Catholic kingdom, editorially
expresses the belief that the request can hardly be
granted.
GERMANS RETAKE TRENCHES
BERLIN, Sept. 29.—Several rows of trenches cap
. tured by the British north of Loos, France, in the early
fighting at the beginning of the great present allied of
fensive movement have been retaken by our troops, ac
cording to the official information given out today. The
struggle at that point has been fierce and deadly. When
the allied assaults took place on Saturday our forces
guarding the Loos salient were comparatively small in
number but reinforcements have been brought up with
the result stated. All the accounts this morning indicate
that while the vast attack of the enemy has had local suc
cess in a few places the general German line remains al
most unshaken. The losses of the allied armies have been
enormous but the offensive continues. It is admitted that
our losses have also been great but so far the enemy has
failed to attain his object. Operations against the Rus
sians have been renewed with the energy that paceded
a short lull made necessary by transportation difficulties.
❖ BRAVES HAVE CHANCE ❖
❖ NATIONAL PENNANT. ❖
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NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—If the
Braves win from Philadelphia today
there is a possibility that they will
win the National pennant. Otherwise
the Phillies have a cinch. The win
ning of one game for the White Sox
clinches the American pennant for
them.
(Later)
Philadelphia won; five to nothing.
ROLPH IS ELECTED
MAYOR SAN FRANCISCO.
Receives Over Half Total Vote in
Primaries and Law Says
This Means Election.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29.—
Rolph has been re-elected mayor of
San Francisco. In the primaries yes
terday he received more than half the
total votes cast and as the law says
that the man who receives more than
half the total votes in the primary is
elected Rolph is mayor for another
term. Schmitz was second but it is
expected that when the votes are all
j counted he will be found to have been
I a poor runner up.
> MEXICANS AGAIN ♦
•> FIRE OVER BORDER. *
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BRQWNSVILLE, Sept. 29.—‘The
Mexicans fired five hundred shots
>ver the border at American territory
today. No casualties have been re
ported but the temper of the people
at this side is at the breaking point.
GOVT. BUYS OCT THE
KMK-SCSITNA COMPANY.
Is Now Operating All the Vessels of
the Maitland-McNally Out
fit at Anchorage.
The government has purchased all
the boats and the entire holdings of
che K nik-Susitna Transportation com
pany of which William Maitland and
Edward McNally were formerly the
proprietors. Amongst the crafts in
cluded in the sale are the barge
Sperm, the M and M barge No. 1, the
lighter Susitna, the lighter Knik, the
stern wheeler Jane and the gas boat
Alaska. The company was the term
| inal of the Pacific Alaska Navigation
company and handled all the freight
etc. of the big steamship company in
Cook Inlet but the government will
nowr act in the same capacity. The
government formerly handled the
business of the Alaska Steamship
company at that place but will now
handle the business of both the big
lines.
EPIDEMIC OF WEDDINGS.
FAIRBANKS,"^pt. 29.—A veri
table epidemic of weddings has taken
hold of Fairbanks and hardly a day
passes without a marriage. No less
that four brides arrived from the out
side yesterday.
ALAMEDA FRIDAY.
The Alame<la sailed from Skagway
at 9 o’clock last night ami should
reach Seward on the evening of next
Friday.
Improved Telephone Service.
Tomorrow morning the new cables
which have been installed by the Al
aska Electric Company for the tele
phone service of Seward will be “cut
in.”
The cutting over has required a
radical change in numbers. Sub
scribers to the telephone should be
particular to consult the new direct
ory- before calling for a number.
This change marks one more step
in the progress of Seward and should
be appreciated by everyone.
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❖ INDICT MRS. MOHR <•
❖ FOR THE MURDER. ❖
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PROVIDENCE, Sept. 29.—Mrs.
Elizabeth Mohr has been indicted as
accessory to the murder of her hus
band, Dr. C. F. Mohr. The three
negroes arrested soon after the mur
der have been indicted for murder di
rect. tyrs. Mohr and the negroes ane
accused of the killing of Mohr while
ho was driving in an auto with a girl.
ON ARSON TRUST.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29.—William
A. Traux, hotel proprietor of Calex
ico, California, has been arrested on
suspicion of being the leader of the
“coast arson trust.” He is well
known here.
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* ALASKA GREEKS GET *
❖ NOTICE TO PREPARE. •>
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SEATTLE, Sept. 29.—The Greek
consul for the Northwest and Alaska
has received official instructions from
the government at Athens to notify
the Greek residents of the northwest
ern states and Alaska who are reserv
ists of the classes from 1892 to 1911
to prepare for a call to the colors.
Seven thousand such reservists are
residents of the state of Washington
and several other thousands reside in
the ether northwestern states and the
Northern territory.
J. E. Ballaine Has
Half Million Suit
MAKES CANADIAN BOND HOLD
ERS AND SWANITZ THE
DEFENDANTS.
SEATTLE, Sept. 29.—John E. Bal
laine has brought suit for five hun
A
dred thousand dollars damages again
st W. J. Boland, F. G. Emmett and W.
E. Stavert, of Toronto, and a separate
suit against Colonel A. W. Swanitz of
Alameda. The first three are the
committee of the Canadian bondhold
ers of the Alaska Northern railroad.
The suit of Mr. Ballaine grows out of
the suit filed some time ago against
him and his brother, Frank L. Bal
laine of Seward.
(Note) Mr. Frank Ballaine has
heard nothing of the suit except what
is contained in the above message to
the Gateway and he declined to make
any statement regarding it. The
people here know that the defendants
in the present suit brought by Mr.
John Ballaine represent the interests
that brought suit against the Bal
laine brothers some months ago. It
is supposed that Colonel Swanitz has
been made a defendant in the suit
brought by Mr. Ballaine because it
has been alleged that the colonel was
the instigator in the filing of the suit
against the Ballaines.
TELEGRAPH SERVICE
COMMENCES MONDAY.
Instruments for telegraph service
between Seward and Anchorage are
on the Alameda, due to arrive Friday
evening. They will be installed im
mediately and regular service for the
public is expected to commence at the
latest Monday. Only a short time is
required to install the instruments
and it is quite possible that every
thing will Tte ready by Saturday. The
line from Seward and the line from
Anchorage are expected to be con
nected at Mile 34 by that time.
Change in telephone numbers. See
ad.
No reader can afford to omit the
Seward Gateway.
Big Company For
Matanuska Mines
Milliofl Dollar Corporation to Build
Town on Government
Railroad
SEATTLE, Sept. 21).—John L.
Fulton, of Portland and Indiana, P. C.
Ellsworth, a lawyer of Seattle, It. L.
Hatcher, an Alaskan prospector, and
E. H. Bartholf, a prominent mining
man of southwest Alaska, have incor
porated the Talkeetna Mining com
pany, chiefly for the development of
gold prospects in the Matanuska val
ley. The capitalization is a million
dollars and the headquarters will be
at Seattle. The holdings of the com
pany are described as adjoining the
property of William Martin. One ot
the intentions of the company is to
build a town on the government rail
road Fifteen miles from the mines and
it is expected that development work
will be carried on all next year and
that ore will be taken out in the year
following. The prospectus states that
the ore carried values in gold of Fifty
dollars to the ton, eighty-five per cent
of which is recoverable by using
plates. Fulton will go to Alaska in
July to investigate reports of oil
showings and also the gold prospects.
PRESIDENT TO VOTE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Presi
dent Wilson left today for Princeton
to cast his vote in the state and
county primaries.
BARS ANKLE WATCHES.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28.—The
superintendent of schools has put a
ban on the use of ankle watches by
the girl students of the public schools.
He calls the fashion “disgraceful.”
RUTH TANZER FOUND.
SEATTLE, Sept. 29.—Ruth Tanzer,
the girl who so mysteriously disap
peared on the way home from a movie
show, has been found in a suburban
hotel. The cause of her stealing
away was pique because her father
,had taken her sister to see the Pan
ama exposition and refused to take
herself. She declares she is not in
the least sorry for what she did as
she wanted make her parents suffer.
CANADIAN COMMISSIONERS
INVESTIGATING GRAFT.
Dominion Government Believed to
Have Been Robbed in Pur
chase of War Supplies
SEATTLE, Sept. 29.—Canadian
commissioners are now enroute to
British Columbia to investigate
charges of irregularities against ofli
icals in connection with the purchase
of munitions of war, principally in
the cities of Puget Sound. One of
the chief matters to be cleared up is
connected with the purchase by
Canada of submarine vessels that had
been built for Chile in Seattle. The
contract price for the construction
of these submarines was five hundred
thousand dollars each but it has been
found that Canada paid over a million
each for them. Graft is also suspect
ed in the purchase of horses and vari
ous sorts of munitions and a big
scandal is expected to be brought to
public view.
ALLIANCE COMES AND GOES.
The Alliance arrived from Anchor
age this morning at 6:30 and sailed
again for the south at 8:30. She
brought the following passengers
from Anchorage: J. H. Nicholas, A.
Van Marven, Charles H. Hill, M.
Herman, F. Colicough, D. M. Mc
Quester, C. W. Felch, Thomas King,
A S. Dautrick, R. R. Hunter and
Charles E. Brown.
Outgoing passengers were: For
Seattle; John House, F. Frank, Mrs.
F. Frank, Mrs. H. Long, Milton Long
and Paul Myl. For Juneau; Sanna
Plokki.
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❖ AMERICAN’S HEAD ❖
1 ❖ STUCK ON POLE. ❖
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BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 29.—A
Mexican prisoner reported here to
day to the authorities that the head of
an American trooper, named Richard
J. Johnson, was stuck on a pole by the
Mexicans and that the pole was plant
ed with the ghastly head crowning it
on the Mexican shore of the Rio
Grande river. The head and pole
were left standing as a trophy of the
Progresso battle in which Johnson
was killed. The story has created a
sensation and if it is found to be ab
solutely true some terrible reprisal
may be expected.
EXPLORER RETURNS AFTER
SEASON ON COOK INLET.
The U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey boat Explorer, Captain R. S. Pat
ton, arrived this morning about 8:20
after spending the summer on Cook’s
Inlet doing survey work. They report
splendid weather on the Inlet th;>
summer and in consequence accomp
lished all they set out to do and more
too. Surveys were made of Port Dick,
Port Graham, Port Chatham, around
Cape Elizabeth and from Port Grah- j
am to Barren Island and the upper
part of Cook’s Inlet. The Explorer |
left Seattle for Cook’s Inlet on May
29th and has thus far been just four
months out of her home port. She
will sail for Seattle tomorrow morn
ing, stopping at Haines and Juneau
on her way down.
LAST BOATS TO OUTSIDE.
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 29.—The last
boats for the outside will leave Fair
banks next Friday. •
FIND BODY OF
R.R. SURVEY MAN
Escaped Fairbanks Prisoner is Cap
tured After an Excit
ing Chase.
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 2'.).— The body
of George McFaun, one of the two
members of the government railroad
survey party drowned in the Nenana
river, was recovered on a bar of that
river yesterday. The body o. .Me
Hugh, the other victim, has not been
found. .McFaun’s body was found
some miles below the place where the
accident occurred. Had it not struck
the bar it would probably have travel
ed a great distance and McHugh's
body is supposed to have gone bun
dreds of miles by this time.
Sprunger, the prisoner who escaped
here some days ago, has been re
captured thirty miles down river at
an Indian camp and was brought
here in irons last night. He surrend
ered quietly although he was expected
to put up a light. He had been sen
tenced to two years in the penitenti
ary for sending poison through the
mails. An Indian who informed the
authorities of the whereabouts of
Sprunger has received fifty dollar^
reward.
RIVER R. R. SI RVEY ON ER.
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 20. The river
railroad survey work of the Alaskan
Engineering commission at this end
is over for the present year and the
members of the surveying party will
leave soon for the outside.
GERMANS ATTACK IN EAST
LONDON, Sept. 29.—Petrograd advices this morning
are to the effect that the struggle on the eastern front is
proceeding again with the same fierceness as that which
marked the previous fighting there.' The Germans have
again apparently secured great ammunition supplies and
thousands of shells are constantly bursting in the ranks
of the Slavs. The contest for the possession of Riga and
Dvinsk is the most fierce and bitter of all. Von Hinden
burg has evidently once more put forth his utmost
strength and his artillery activity is of an extraordinary
nature.
THOUSANDS GERMANS DROWNED
LONDON, Sept. 29.—The Times this morning con
tains a dispatch from its correspondent with the Russian
army in which he declares that a “good third of the Forty
First German army corps,., of forty thousand men, was
overtaken by the flooding of the F'insk marshes and nearly
all were drowned.” The Times goes on to say that the
Teutonic losses in .the marshes have been frightful,
especially during the retreat of Mackensen who had at
tempted to emulate the feat of Hindenburg in the East
Prussian marshes but failed completely. The great
swamps, the Times correspondent says, are a more formi
dable defense for the Slavs than their greatest forti
fication.
TO STOP TURK MASSACRES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—President Wilson is now
considering the advisability of requesting the German
government to put a stop if possible to the massacres of
Armenians by the Turks. The request would be made in
the most friendly manner on humanitarian grounds. The
reports from Asia Minor seem to be convincing and de
nials of the massacres are not credited.
FRENCH MAKE BIG GAINS
PARIS, Sept. 29.—According to the official reports
this morning the French have made important gains in
Artois and Champagne. Furious attacks were delivered
by our armies yesterday and last night and the great
struggle is proceeding with terrific intensity. I rom the
brief reports received it is made evident that the assaults
by the allies are proceeding on a colossal stage and the
whole western line remains aflare. One of the most thrill
ing feats of our troops yesterday was the storming of Hill
One hundred and forty, east of Souchez. The French
batallions went up the slopes in the face of a terrible fire
with all their old dash and after a bloody hand to hand
conflict the Tricolore was, planted on the summit. Three
thousand German prisoners were taken in the charge.