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RUSSIANS AND ALLIES IN
WEST CLAIMING VICTORIES
HI SSI A NS 1>KI\ IN(J ON
RONHOX, July !». — The .'Russian drive is in full
swing Irma Sarny to Kovel and the ieutoiiic lesistance
seems to have been overcome in that region. \ on Both
mer's counter attacks east of Klumach have been repulsed
and the Russians advanced on a thirty mile front yester
day. Vienna and Berlin admit a retirement but call it an
orderly one. 1’he Russians claim it was much worse than
an orderly retreat. Berlin, however, officially reports
that von Hindcnburg has repulsed the Russians south ol
Dvinsk and that he mowed down the enemy in thousands,
annihilating several commands near Baranovicit. Be
tween that point and Oorodiseh the struggle is still rag
ing. The district is about in the center of the eastern
front almost directly east of Warsaw and it is supposed to
be the intention of von Hindoiiburjr to hold back the Rus
sians there and so com;pel them to expose their flank if
their southern wimr c*o; tinues to penetrate Galicia. On
the west front the British and French in co-operation
have captured the Reis do Tronns and German counter at
tacks north, and « ast of Mamelon have been repulsed. The
French Sixtoeos have been found to be wonderful destroy
ers ;o ’ far superior to anv irons used by the Germans.
Tin* aTes have now penetrated the German lines half a
mile to the eastward and the enemy's losses have been
very heave. South of the Somme there has been no ac
tivity in the past twenty-four hours.
CLOSING ON KOVEL
PETROGRAIX July 10.—Two separate Russian de
tachments have crossed the river Stochod and are closing
rapidly in on the great railway center. Kovel. General
Brusilolfs forces after crossing the river captured Hul
evitski and are now within twenty miles of Kovel and ap
proaching the city as quickly as possible while the Austro
Germans are continuing their retreat from that place.
FREX( 11 TAKE TRENCHES
PARIS, July 10.—The French have captured a Ger
man line of trenches on a five hundred yard front in the
Somme region after three attacks. The dispatches this
morning show that the great allied offensive is proceeding
with unabated vigor.
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THE SEWARD CONVENTION
At a caucus Saturday evening the
Democrats of Seward nominated and
elected delegate* to attend th<* Divis
ional Convention which will be held
here on ihe 20th of this month to
nominate candidates for the territor
ial legislature, a candidate for terri
torial road supervisor and for other
business. Committees of reception
and arrangements were also elected to
prepare for the convention. A meet
ing of the club was first held after
which Secretary George Phelps ap
pointed Pat Donahue as chairman of
the caucus and Fred Doremus secre
tary.
Tne following were the delegates
selected to represent Seward in the
convention: J. E. Woolley, C. E.
Martin, Claude Mathison, Wayne
Blue, J. J. McGrath. Harry Ellsworth.
Percy Pullen, E. A. Thede.
The committee of arrangements is
composed of H. E. Ellsworth, Percy
Pullen and Fred Doremuu.
The reception committee is T. W.
Hawkins, Dr. Baughman and Jack
Ronan.
FINE WAGON ROAD IS
NOW' BEING BUILT
The wagon road beyond the head of
the bay is now* being fixed in fine
shape and is beginning to look like a
real boulevard. This has been made
possible by using the new grading
machine of the Alaska Transfer Com
pany, which rounds off the surface
perfectly.
WHAT THE STRIKERS
DID TO S. E. ALASKANS
One of the returning passengers
from Seattle on the steamer Alaska
arri .ing yesterday, reports the man
ner in which the Alaskans in the
southeastern part were deprived of
their goods that were accepted and
were to be delivered by the company.
It seems that the longshoremen ac
! eepted, or rather, had been given the
wages they had demanded and had
gone to work. Several boats were
loaded and shipments of goods resum
ed. when some union men discovered
that they should be given the mono
poly of the work and demanded the
discharging of every non-union man.
l»y that time, the Alaska had all her
freight for the westward aboard and
hud just begun to load freight for
Ketchikan, when the men quit. It is
reported that the citizens of Seattle
have taken a hand in the matter and
have transferred their sympathy on
the other side.—Ex.
ARMY SUPPLY BASE
IS WONDERFUL THING
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
LONDON, July 1.—A British army
supply base is a wonderful thing, of
course, but to appreciate it is merely
a matter of multiplication.
Take ary kind of an industrial or
commercial institution—a packing
house, a bakery, a wholesale grocery,
a shoeshop or a foundry, for instance
—magnify it 100 times or so, and
HUNGRY GERMANY
WAITS ON CROPS
By WM. G. SHEPHERD
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
ROTTERDAM, July 1. — Nobody
| ever has anything fried these days in
! German cities and towns unless a
: special feast is on and the house
holder or host has had a remarkable
piece of luck in securing fat of some
sort. Eats of every kind are lacking.
Travelers from Germany'to Rotter
dam say butter is practically un
known. Now and then a householder
may secure half a pound of margarine
! at a dollar a pound.
Lard is as scarce as butter.
Some months ago, when the short
I age in fats became definite, a few
| good cooks discovered that olive oil
j might be used for frying meats and
! within a short time many foresigh tod
civilians had laid in supplies,of olive
oil. At present the olive oil supply is
exhausted.
| The government experts In their
efforts to obtain fats, commandeered
all the peanuts in Germany.
“Pm very fond of peanut candy,”
said a German from Munich, who had
come to Rotterdam to feed up, as he
explained, “and every afternoon l us
ed to drop a few pennies in a penny*
in-the-slot candy machine near my
office.
“One afternoon 1 ran out to the
machine and found that the peanut
candy slot had been sealed up with a
government seal.
”1 couldn’t break it of course.
Later on a policeman came and col
lected all the peanut candy in the
machine. He said the government
was going to take the peanuts out of
it and extract the oil from them.”
The one greasy food that can be ob
tained in limited quantities in certain
districts of Germany is the little can
ned French sardine. How it gets in
to Germany no one seems to know.
“My grocer always had some sar
dines,” explained a neutral lady, who
>vas going back to the United States,
“where 1 can eat all 1 want to.” He
doled them out sparingly without any
government regulation she said, but
a beefsteak fried in the fish oil was
very unlike a beefsteak.
There has never been a shortage of
lemons and oranges, according to
various persons from various parts of
Germany. The ally blockade it ap
pears has not yet shut off the supply
of citrus fruits, which reach Germany
by dev’ous routes from various warm
climes.
Of sugar the Germans, of course,
have an immense supply owing to
their beet root industry. Salt abounds
but pepper is scarce. Ham, bacon or
pork in any form is unknown to civi
lians.
Eggs in April were sixty cents a
dozen and laying hens were so valu
able that no chickens were killed for
food until their laying capacity de
clined.
you've got that particular detail of a
supply base.
A hospital ship is interesting like
wise, but after all, it’s merely a float
ing hospital and everybody knows
what a hospital is like.
The hospital ship visited by the
three correspondents and the foreign
office official was chiefly remarkable
for a wonderfully spick-and-span
director with a single-barreled eye
glass so firmly fixed that it appeared
to be rooted in his eycsoeket.
“He takes it out and puts it in eye
ball and all,” the captain mentioned.
NAVAL TENDER
INVESTIGATES
COMES TO SEWAUl) IN DELA
TION TO PETITION TO ES
I TAULISU RADIO STATION.
Next week will arrive in Seward
the naval radio station tender Saturn
to investigate conditions with, prob
ably, the view of reporting on the ad
I vusabiiity of installing a radio station
here. The following message was re
ceived Saturday evening by f*ia>or
I .dyers from the captain of the
Saturn:
“Naval radio tender Saturn will
probably arrive at Seward week com
i meucing July 1G relative petition
| location of naval radio station at
Seward. Will inform you of more
definite date of arrival later.”
The message also asks that the
president of the chamber of commerce
| be notified.
It is probable that the Saturn will
! be able to make experiments to prove
| the feasibility of wireless communica
tion between Seward and the outside
and the day of the busted cable may
be draw ing to a close.
WILSON TO SPKAK
WASHINGTON, July D.—President
Wilson and Mrs. Wilson are off for
Detroit where the President will ad
dress the World’s Salesmanship con
gress on Monday.*
TWO MKN fil in'
John Montgomery is sutlering from
a severe cut in the knee as the result
of an accident while working on the
railroad at 22.
L. G. Maitland had his great toe
crushed by a falling timber while
working on the railroad at Mile 8 last
Saturday. Both men are under the
care of the doctors.
UNITED STATES MAY
BUY EERRITORIES
FROM OED MEXICO
TO BUY PART OF MEXICO
WASHINGTON, July 10.—Representative Caldwell
introduced a resolution today calling for the appointment
j of a commission of five,'including a senator and a repre
sentative, to open negotiations with Mexico ioi the pui
chase of Lower California and some of the northern states
of Mexico. The government of Mexico, if the resolution
1 carries, is to be invited to name a similar commission. An
| appropriation of $25,000 is asked for with the provision
i that the report be submitted at the next session. Although
nothing is said about it in the resolution some are of the
; opinion that the proposed purchase has in view the neces
sity of protecting the Pacific coast from some Oriental
enemy. v • 5
NEGOTIATIONS COMING
WASHINGTON, July 10. — Ambassador Arredondo
has expressed confidence that he will receive instructions
immediately from Carranza empowering him to enter in
to negotiations for the settlement of the border troubles
and the ending of all the controversies between the two
governments.
VILLA MUTILATES MEXICANS
Eli PASO, July 10.—That Villa is cutting off the tops
of the ears of each Villaista and that he is branding in
other ways men who refuse to join him against the de
; facto government, the state depart meat has been inform-j
ed by General Gonzales who states that several hundred
men have already been mutilated in this manner. Small
Carranzaista garrisons are reported to be deserting Car
ranza and joining Villa in order to avoid mutilation.
SUB COMMANDER SAYS MORE
UNDERSEA BOAES WILL COME
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I 111 HUES ASKS FOR
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JOHNSON SlTPOKT
BRIDGE HAMPTON, July 9.—
Hughes has wired to Governor John
son asking him for the support of the
Moose party in that state. This wire
was intended to reach Johnson before
he had committed himself one way or
the other so that he might he influenc
ed towards the Republican side by an
evidence of the Republican desire for
his co-operation.
CALIFORNIA MOOSE
SPLIT IT BADLY
SAX FRANCISCO, July 9. — Fif
teen hundred Moose acclaimed John
son as a candidate for the senate here
today. Chester Powell presented a
resolution endorsing the candidacy of
Hughes for the presidency but the as
' semblage was so split up on the ques
tion that he was forced to withdraw
' the resolution. Following adjourn
1 ment, however, the Hughes supporters
met and passed the resolution.
VSK MONEY TO \II> IN
STOPPING EPIDEMIC
\V A SHI X ('.TO X, July 10.—The
Public Health Service Commission has
decided to ask congress for one hun
dred thousand dollars to draft physi
cians in civil life to the work of com
batting the infantile paralysis epi
demic which is raging in New York
and other cities.
LADIES’ AID TO MEET
The Methodist Ladies’ Aid will meet
at Mrs. M. A. Martin’s on Thursday
■afternoon when a Silver 'lea will be
| served. All the ladies are invited.
SUBMARINE ARRIVES
BALTIMORE, July 10.—The German submarine
merchantman Deutschland arrived here last night with a
carg6 of seven hundred and fifty tons of dyestuffs and
chemicals and will return to Germany with a cargo of
crude rubber and nickel which it requires for military pur
poses. The question which is now being debated is wheth
er this government will consider her in the light of a war
ship or not. If the former she will be required to leave
in twenty-four hours but it is assumed that as she is not
armed and is traveling as a merchantman the fact that
she travels undersea instead of on the surface will not
make her a warship. She left Heligoland on June 23 and
had an uneventful voyage. Her arrival here came as a
real thrill. It is evident that Germany purposely adver
tised her sailing long before the real date for some pur
pose or another.
SUB IS NOT WARSHIP
WASHINGTON, July 10.—The submarine Deutsch
land is not a warship and is not even an armed merchant
man. She has aboard not even one gun nor the least bit
of armament of any kind, says the report to the Treasury
Department of the customs officials. This report is ac
cepted as establishing the submarine’s status and she will
not be interfered with and will be permitted to stay as
long as she likes and to take any cargo she desires.
MORE COMING
• BALTIMORE, July 10.—(Bulletin)—Captain Koenig,
commander of the German submarine Deutschland which
has arrived here declared this afternoon that his vessel
will be followed soon by others. The next to come will be
the "Bremen” which is larger than the Deutschland and
has a displacement of two thousand tons, the size of a good
sized steamship. Naval experts declare that if Germany
has many of these super submarines and can run them as
successfully as the Deutschland the effectiveness of the
allied blockade will be destroyed.
CROWDS WATCH SUBMARINE
BALTIMORE, July 10. — Strong guards have been
placed at the dock where the German submarine will tie
up. These guards are said to have been placed there at
the request of Captain Koenig who seems to fear a plot
on the part of allied sympathizers to destroy his vessel.
Crowds have traveled to the waterfront to get a view of
the now world-famous ship which made the voyage from
the other side of the North sea in the amazing time of
sixteen days or so. Koenig has not yet given out any
statement teling of his voyage and it is not expected that
he will do so lest it might tell the enemy too much. The
speed necessary to make the trip in the time stated causes
seagoing men to believe that the voyage for the far great
er part must have been made on the surface. The news
papers today speak of the vessel’s arrival as a history
making event because of its significance when taken in
relation with the possibilities which it opens up.
OLYMPIA EMBEZZLER
ESCAPES FROM JAIL
OLYMPIA, July 10.—John F. Gil
lies, the looter of the state industrial
insurance fund broke jail last night
and has disappeared. It is known
that he was helped to get away by an
automobile and it is positively sure
that he was dressed in woman's
clothes but no clue has been received
to lead either to the discovery of his
helpers or his re-arrest.
OUTTITCARS GO OUT
TO MILE EIGHTEEN
Five outfit cars have been sent out
to Mile 18 for work on the road there.
They are old railroad cars which have
been converted into construction cars.
The steamshovel is also now operating
at Mile 18.
ANCHORAGE DELEGATES
TO G. O. P. CONVENTION
ANCHORAGE, July 10.—‘The fol
lowing have been elected delegates to
the Republican divisional convention
which will be held at Valdez: J. A.
McLaughian, A. M. Barnes, William
Maitland, A. S. Koch, M. L. V. Smith,
E. J. Warner, Ray C. Larsen and Jack
Sutherland.
COLORADO MOOSE TURN
DOWN THE REPUBLICANS
DENVER, July 10. —The Progre*
sives of the state of Colorado through
their representatives have decided to
turn down Hughes. It is not yet
learned what their alternative action
will be.
A1 Roberts is in the city on business
from Mile 23.