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BRITAIN CALLS EVERY CITIZEN TO TAKE UP ARMS
GREAT BATTLE RAGING
IN EAST OF FRANCE
—1, A T E R—
GREAT NAVAL RATTLE FOUGHT
LONDON. Sept. I.—(3:23 p. in.)—'That a great naval
battle has at last been fought is believed here because ot
the otlicial information given out late this afternoon that
seven German destroyers and torpedo boats have arrived
in a damaged condition at Kiel and that others have been
sunk in the vicinity of Kiel canal. Further details have
not yet been received but it is generally assumed that the
British fleet has gained a great victory although the goy
eminent hus not given out any more news, lhe people
are now awaiting the derails with feverish anxiety.
GERMANS 20 MILES FROM PARIS
LONDON, Sept. 4.—It has been made only too evident
today that the advance ot the Germans has not been ap
preciably checked notwithstanding the favorable reports
sent yesterday and the invaders at one point have reached
within twenty miles ot the outer fortifications ot the
French capital. The advance has been evidently very per
sistent and all the obstacles w hich the world was led to be
lieve existed in their path have been overcome with appar
ent ease by the German armies. The details of the great
battling which has been proceeding during the past day 01
two have not been given out but the advance ot the Ger
mans clear!v shows that the allies have been again driven
backward. ‘.The allied armies will now probably occupy
the lines of siege to the east and west ot Paris and the
greatest siege of the world’s history will probably be com
menced within twenty-four hours, lhe mobility ot the
Germans is simply extraordinary. They seem to be able
to advance as quickly as it they were only on parade in a
sham battle, l he reports from the scene ot war state,
however, that the allies will he able to tall back on the
capital without being demoralized and that they are still
intact as a fighting force. Much will now depend on the
nature of the fortifications which the French have raised
around the city. Should they be strong enough the siege
may he prolonged sufficiently to enable the Russians to
advance into Germany and draw away the Germans for
the defense of Berlin.
RUSSIAN VICTORY CONFIRMED
LONDON, Sept. 4.—The story of the Russian triumph
in Galicia has been amply confirmed by the later dis
patches arriving here. In addition to the destruction of
six Austrian army corps in the battle of Lemberg there
was a simultaneous victory by the Russians near Tomas
70w over the Austrians who had invaded Russian Poland.
Tomaszow is in Russian Poland itself and the victory
there is expected to have the result of clearing Russian
territory of the invaders. These victories mean that the
attempt of the Austrians to effect a junction with the Ger
man forces from East Prussia has failed completely and
that Galicia is all practically now in the hands of the Rus
sian troops. . It is regarded here as impossible to exagger
ate the importance of the triumphs. It is believed that
the Russians will soon be able to concentrate for an offen
sive movement towards Berlin and that the German
armies are about to be confronted with the most terrible
opposition of the war. It is fully recognized at last that
the Russians have been fully prepared for the conflict and
that their armies have been raised to a high state of effi
ciency. It is admitted that before reaching Berlin the
Russians would have to reduce some powerful fortresses
near the Russian frontier and these fortresses are proba
bly depended on by the Germans to stay the advance of
the invaders until Germany can send powerful armies
against them.
TURKEY VEILED IN SILENCE
BUCHAREST, Roumania, Sept. 4.-—The silence re
garding the intentions of Turkey during the last day or
two has caused many conjectures as to the cause of it and
there is a feeling abroad that under the guidance of the
German officers she is waiting until she is ready and until
a propitious moment arises to strike the first blow. That
the Turkish government will declare war there is no doubt
and the declaration is expected to come very quickly. The
report that Russia is dispatching troops and ammunition
up the Dani.be to Servia is denied by this government.
Such a procedure would be a violation of this country’s
neutrality as that river runs through it.
HOUSE DEBATES
LEASING BILL
IMPORTANT ALASKA QUESTION
IS NOW NEARING THE
FINAL STAGE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—The
house last evening resumed the de
bate on the Alaska coai leasing bill
and the important question is
now, therefore, nearing its flnat
stages. There has been a hope ex
pressed that the leasing of the coal
fields might hasten railroad construc
tion work in the territory as the open
ing of the coal lands would be prac
tically useless until the means of
transporting the product is provided.
It is generally assumed by those who
are interested that the bill will go
through the house without any diffi
culty.
CANNERY MEN HAVE
VERY BRIGHT PROSPECT
W. G. Whorf passed throuph Sew
ard last nipht on the Mariposa, bound
for the outside. Mr. Whorf states
that the past year was the most suc
cessful in the history of the Seldovia
Salmon company and in fact in the
history of all the canneries to the
westward. With scarcely an excep
tion they were all able to pet a limn
pack of fish and this coupled with the
hiph prices that are sure to prevail
>n account of the war, make the can
nery men look forward to the lonp
.vinter with an easy feelinp.
KEN AI LAKE HIGH
The recent rains have raised Kenai
Lake waters hipher than ever before.
Wednesday the waters of the lake
rose 18 inches in 24 hours. The river
;s correspondinply hiph, makinp it an
easy matter to drop down to the lower
lake but almost impossible to line a
boat up as far as Cooper creek.
Henry Lucas of Mile 18 came in
last nipht on the car after a winter’s
supply of provisions.
NELCHINA PAY
MUCH BETTER
OWNER OF ORIGINAL DISCOV
ERY SAYS GROUND PANS OUT
BETTER THAN EXPECTED
KNIK, Aug. 31.—Fred Getchell,
>vho with Odin Olsen owns the orig
inal discovery ground on Albert creek
in the Nelchina camp is in town for a
few weeks. He reports that thfeir
ground has proven better than they
thought it and the ground that has
been worked this year has run $17
per yard. They had poor luck how
ever with their outfit and after their
hose busted several times they return
ed to working the ground with shov
els. A payment of $50,000 is due
them on the ground this fall. M. A.
Williams and J. Springer also arrived
from the camp yesterday and say that
a great deal of prospecting will be
done this winter and they believe the
Nelchina still has a chance to make a
paying camp.
William Reynolds, who has been
mining near Knik since last May, left
on the Mariposa for Reno but will re
turn next spring.
MILITARY WILL
TRY PRISONERS
MONTANA TAKES LEAF FROM
THE ROOK OF RULES OF EU
ROPEAN AUTOCRATS
BUTTE, Mont., Sept, n.—The mili
tary’ are now in full sway and have
not only arrested several of the lead
ing union men but will have them
tried by a military court instead of
*y the civil courts.
Among those arrested today was
Alexander McLain, bodyguard of
Muckic McDonald, president of the
new miners’ union. Edward Evans
and Joe Shannon were also two prom
inent participants in the recent dis
turbances who have been taken into
custody. These two and four others
who were arrested yesterday will be
tried by military commission. In ad
dition to these seven leaders of the
I. W. W. will also be tried by mili
tary courts.
Strenuous objections are bein'*
made, naturally, by some of those at
f cted against1 having the military
try the cases. They assert that such
a course is an admission of the fail
ure of popular government and the
beginning of a tyranny which would
hardly be tolerated in Russia.
SEWARD’S WAR CABINET
AGAIN IN SESSION
Another Meeting of the Powers of
Our Beloved Municipality
There was a meeting of the city
council last night. There is a meeting
of the city council pretty nearly every
night and they will probably have to
continue holding meeting after meet
ing before they can transact any bus
iness. D. A. Quinn was given the
contract for the building of the foun
dation, or something, of the school
building. His price was $500. An
other bid over $800 and yet another
bid over $1,200.
The piece de resistance of the meet
ing came when a member of the coun
cil insisted on having placed on the
records the statement by the mayor
that he, the member, was drunk at
the last meeting. He also insisted
that his reply to the mayor’s accusa
tion should also be placed on the
minutes.
This was done and so at the read
ing of the minutes next meeting the
clerk will read out that the mayor ac
cused a colleague of being drunk and
that the member called the mayor a
“pin-head”.
The Gateway does not like to print
this. For the fair name of our town
this paper has suppressed many of
the things said in meetings of the city
council. If the Gateway only pub
lished the verbatim accounts of the
meetings—just only said what the
councilmen said—it would disgrace
poor old Seward. But now that the
matter is placed on record the Gate
way is forced to let vulgarity appear
in its columns. You cannot hide that
Big Four much as you might wish to.
PEOPLE WHO WENT
OUT ON MARIPOSA
SUSITNA STATION, Sept. 2.—
Miss J. Graham of St. Louis, Mo.,
who has spent the summer with her
nephew, E. T. McNally, left on the
Mariposa.
Marshal H. R. Brown is a passenger
out on the Mariposa, bound to Valdez
on official business.
Anton Standcr and wife and chil
dren who have spent the summer at
Knik are leaving on the Mariposa. Mr.
Stander recently returned from a
prospecting trip in the Broad Pass.
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Jack Johnston, who has been in
charge of the erection of the trestles
built to carry the flume line on the
Kenai Mining & Milling company’s
property on Cooper creek arrived in
Seward last night and reports mining
in full blast on Cooper Creek at pres
ent.
PRESIDENT WILSON ASKS
FOR GREAT WAR TAX
CHAIRMAN EDES I
ON MARIPOSA
- I
PASSES BY WITH SECRETARY
TILLMAN TO CARRY Ol'T
SOME SURVEYING
Chairman Edes of the government
railroad commission and his secretary,
15. R. Tillman, passed by on the Mari
posa last evening on the way down
ne coast to perform some geodetic
surveying in connection with the rail
road work. Before taking the Mari
posa they visited the Matanuska coal
fields which Mr. Tillman described as
istonishingly great. They went to the
coal fields from Ship Creek. Before
returning they will take a trip over
an extensive part of the country.
RAISED HIS OWN FLOWER
SEED HERE NINE YEARS
Work of Local Man Shows That Alas
ka Climate Is Second to None
That Way
Ten years ago Ole Martin brought
in flower seeds of many varieties and
*ver since that time he has raised his
own seeds and today he is producing
■anno of the most beautiful flowers
ever seen in any country or any cli
mate on earth. His success in this
•espect is regarded by authorities as
proving a fact which is of the most
supreme importance to this territory
and its development, and a fact which
will be undoubtedly brought to the at
tention of Washington.
TAKING GOOD PAY
KNIK, Aug. 21.—Frank Brown and
his wife, who are located on Alfred
■reek, report that they are taking out
better than $20 per day. He has one
•nan working with him.
SURVEY AT CARIBOO
KNIK, Aug. 21.—The railroad sur
vey party who are working from Chit
na are now at the mouth of Cariboo
and expect to be in Chickaloon in
about two weeks.
INDICTED FOR
HIGH PRICES
THIRTY-TWO AMERICAN FIRMS
MUST STAND TRIAL FOR
OVER CHARGING
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Thirty
two indictments have been returned
here by the federal grand jury
against people who are charged with
raising the prices of food stuffs arti
ficially. The grand jury made a care
ful and exhaustive investigation into
! the matter and received strong evi
dence that the prices had been raised
when there was no necessity for so
doing by people who wished to use
the excuse of the war to feather their
j nests.
After having looked into the sub
I jcct the administration came to the
: conclusion that the raising of prices
was illegal and that the federal laws
have provided against such practices.
The trials are expected to be most re
markable and some of those indicted
are said to be merchants of very high
standing.
Dr. Babcock and J. C. Tolman have
j left for a hunting trip.
PRESIDENT CALLS FOR TAXES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—President Wilson personal
ly addressed a joint meeting of the houses of congress to
day and urged the passing of registration to raise one
hundred millions of dollars a year additional revenue
through international taxation to meet the treasury de
ficit caused by the great war. He made no recommenda
tion as to how the taxes should be raised.
Immediately after the address of the president the
ways and means committee of the house met to devise a
method by which the internal revenue taxes could be in
creased. The chances are that the tax will be rasied en
tirely from foreign imports and from commodities a raise
in whose price would not have a severe effect on the
masses of the people. That some means must be found to
increase the taxation is very evident now although the
majority of the members of congress are opposed to any
increase, or, rather, were opposed to it before it was clear
ly shown to them that it will be absolutely necessary.
ARMIES AROUND PARIS MANEUVRE
PARIS, Sept. 4.—The official announcement this after
noon is that the opposing armies around Paris have not
yet come in contact. They are continuing their move
ments taking up their positions for the coming struggle.
The appearance of the Germans opposite the city’s forti
fications is looked for momentarily but a great battle will
probably be fought before the defenses themselves can be
attacked. As very little information is let out from this
city at the present time owing to the desire not to let too
much be known no further information is now available.
CONCENTRATE IN EAST FRANCE
PARIS, Sept. 4.—The Germans in the east of France
have been concentrated at \ erdun in great force while the
French are concentrated in Lorraine and near the \ osges
mountains. The situation in that part of France is prac
tically unchanged and the French are reported to be hold
ing their own. It is possible that a great battle will be
fought there at any time.
CALL BRITISH TO THE FIGHT
LONDON, Sept. 4.—Prime Minister Asquith opened a
great crusade in the guild hall today lor the purpose ot
getting a tremendous number of troops to continue the
fight against Germany. He called on every able-bodied
Briton of military age to come to the help of the country
in the hour of its need. Nearly three hundred thousand
Britishers have already responded to the call of the pre
mier and soon all Britain will be an armed camp. The fev
erish agitation which has been started to raise troops
shows that the need is indeed great but the British people
are determined to fight to the end. The army sent to
France is with the French falling back on Paris and the
British government feeis the necessity for landing an
other great force on the continent to prevent if possible
the humiliatoin of having the first army surrounded and
captured in the French capital. As this country has no
law compelling its citizens to serve the appeal is found
necessary. Lord Kitchener has called for the enlistment
of every man who can bear arms.
ITALY FORGETS WAR
ROME, Sept. 4.—For the past few days this city has
been more interested in the election of a new pope than in
the war. No information has been given out by the gov
ernment as to its intentions. The people generally believe
that if this country enters the war against her former
allies Turkey with the aid of the Austrians would attempt
to regain Turkey’s conquered territory in Tripoli. Since
the election of the new pontiff the greatest satisfaction
has been manifested by Italians. Most of the people of
Italy are confidently hoping that the country can avoid en
tering the war at ail.
HARWICH, England, Sept. 4.—A British submarine
today brought in a, German airman and his mechanician
who were found floating on their fallen aeroplane sixty
miles from the coast. Both had a narrow escape from
death. It is assumed that they were bound for the Eng
lish coast when they met with an accident.
CHICAGO, Sept. 4.—May wheat closed today at one
dollar, thirty cents and a quarter and is expected to keep
mounting. Rye sold at a dollar spot cash.