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‘--“* THE ALASKA EVENING POST
XI. *Number is,:. SEWARD, ALASKaT^EDNESDAY, AUGUST 1,1917. Ten Cnl. the Copy
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THREE LIN 3 OF
TEUTON TRENCHES
TAK N AND HELD
. ' (By Associated Prcsa Dispatch)
PARIS, Aug. 1, (Official).—After yesterday’s mag
nificent success in Belgium the Allies, in a torrential lain
storm, consolidated the captured positions, including the
former first, second and third line German trenches. Prac
tically all positions on these lines were taken yesteiday be
tween Boesinghe and \\ arneton, the Allies with a very few
exceptions accomplishing all the objectives planned for the
first day. The casualties for the day were surprisingly
light. /
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COUNTER ATTACK BREAKS DOWN
(By Atioci»tfd Prcsa Dispatch)
LONDON, Aug 1. (Official). — German counter at
tacks yesterday afternoon and last night on the Belgian
front broke down under artillery and machine gun fire.
Another counter attack launched south of the area of the
greatest activity in an effort to break the British line in the
neighborhood of the Ypres-Roulers railway was crushed
completely by heavy artillery fire.
Heavv rains falling during the night hindered oper
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ations today. i
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MAY BE GREATEST BATTLE OF WAR
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PARIS, Aug 1—The battle of Flanders may develop
into the greatest in the war, according to military observ
ers here. It may last for a week or continue for months.
Results already obtained so seriously menace the
German line to southward that the Germans may be forced
to withdraw from French and Belgian Flanders.
BLOW ON BLOW IS ALLIED PLAN
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Aug 1.—It is expected that the al
lied drive in Belgium will be renewed when the heavy guns
are moved up to position. The plan of attack is to force a
wedge into the German attack by successive strokes until
a point is reached where a general retreat by the enemy
over a wide front will be forced. Continued pushing along
the present line of advance will shake the security ot the
German coast line defense positions and submarine bases.
The desperation shown in resistance by German units
and manifesting itself in furious counter attacks, testifies]
to the importance which those high in command attach to
the retention of ground on the Belgian front.
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COUNTER ATTACK AT VERDUN FIZZLED
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PARIS, Aug. 1. — The German attack on Verdun
launched on the left bank of the Meuse today after several
days’ artillery preparation failed, all charges being re
pulsed.
This attack was evidently started as a counter offen
sive to the British Flanders’ attack, as the bombardment
commenced after the British bombardment was well under
way. The Teuton infantry attack lacked force, however,
and went to pieces under shrapnel fire.
ROUMANIANS MAKE GOOD SHOWING
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
JASSY, Roumania, Aug. 1.—Russo-Roumania forces
advancing between the Casin and Putna valleys have at
tained considerable success. During the past four days
this force has captured 98 guns and 4,500 of the Bulgar
Turk-Teuton force, which was routed from well-establish
ed positions.
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ONE HUNDRED AND TWO DIE OF HEAT
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
CHICAGO, Aug. 1. — Twenty-one deaths are attrib-'
uted here to the record-breaking heat wave during the
past twenty-four hours.
Philadelphia reports 26 additional deaths, making 39
there from heat in the past twenty days.
New York reported 25, Pittsburg 15, and Cleveland 15,
deaths today. {j ^
SEWARD DROPS
THIRD GAME
Close Struggle Marks Last Game, But
Home Team look Two Out of
Three, Winning Series
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 1.—After an
up and down game lasting eleven in
nings, Anchorage managed to capture
the last game of the series from Sew
ard yesterday, by a score of 6 to 5.
The Anchorageites had their batting
clothes on and took kindly to the of
ferings of both Hood and Chamber
lain, who replaced him in the fifth in
ning.
Seward fought to a finish and it was
an even game to the last. Both teams
scored a run in the tenth inning and
the tension of the fans was about at
the breaking point at the finish.
The'line-up:
Seward—Bainbridge, ss; Campbell,
lb; Beem, 3b; Hood and Chamber
lain, p; Coughlin, 2b; McGuire, rf;
T. Finnegan, cf; Ryan, If; Hemenway,
c.
Anchorage—Nichols, 2b; Stenberg,
rf; Kertis, ss; Worth, If; Casad, lb;
Steiflc, cf; Kulman, c; Dutton-Mills,
3b; Young, p.
Umpires—Hamilton and Williams.
Innings— 123456789 1011
Seward. 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0—5
Anchorage 0021000101 1—6
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TWENTY-TWO NATIONS
BREAK WITH GERMANY
LONDON, Aug 1.—An official state
ment from the Foreign Office recently
informed the British public that
twenty-two countries had severed
diplomatic relations with Germany.
“Of these/* the statement added,
“thirteen are at war with Germany
and may be considered in alliance for
that purpose.” The list of the twen
ty-two is as follows:
Russia, France, Belgium, Great Bri
tain, Serbia, Montenegro, China, Bra
zil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras,
Nicaragua, Japan, Portugal, Italy,
Roumania, United States, Cuba, Li
beria, Hayti, San Domingo.
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MARIPOSA ON HER WAY
NORTH AGAIN
SEATTLE, Aug. 1.—The S. S. Ma
riposa sailed from Seattle this morn
ing with the following passengers for
Seward: M. L. Parrish, Mrs. C. E.
Martin, Mrs. C. P. Hubbard, Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Earnshaw and Robert Ash
land.
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FISH AND SPUDS FOR
FORT SEWARD SOLDIERS
If worst comes to worst the offi
cers and soldiers stationed at Fort
Wm. H. Seward will have some reaf
cats this winter. With hundreds of
salmon bellies, ten thousand bushels
of potatoes and hundreds of pounds
of strawberries and other fruits put
up, the commissary at the fort will be
well supplied this winter if the pres
ent plans of Lieutenant-Colonel M. A.
Saville, commander of the fort, mate
rializes.
Lt. Col. Saville informed the Dis
patch of Juneau recently that cultiva
tion of the post potato patch is an im
portant job these days. Also he is
prepared to send his crews out with
nets after salmon as soon as the run
is fairly on in Lynn Canal waters.
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MINERS IN LOWER
KUSKOWIM WERE
SHORT ON FOOD
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SEATTLE, July 21, (By Mail).—
The gasoline schooner Bender Broth
ers arrived this morning from the
Kuskowim river and brings the report
1 that a serious shortage of food sup
plies prevailed along the river last
winter but no deaths from starvation
were reported.
The majority of the river tamps
ran entirely out of flour, sugar and
canned milk and other staples, but the
abundance of game helped the miners
to live. Indians subsisted almost en
tirely on game during the winter.
ALIEN SAILORS
TO BE TIRED
Aluskan Boats to be Americanized—
All Fishing Boats Over Three
Tons Must Register
Orders have been recived by com
panies operating steamers to Alaska,
to discharge all alien members of the
crews. The managers were also in
structed to ascertain how many of the
crews would be willing to accept ser
vice in event of the vessels being com
mandeered for service over seas.
W. J. Manahan, naval radio officer
in charge of the Juneau office, has re
ceived orders that gas boat owners
must register their boats. All boats
over three tons measurement must be
registered and at once. This is com
pulsory and was embodied in an order
issued by the War Department.
Owners should send names and de
tails of their boats to Manahan at Ju
neau.
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SECRETARY OE
MISSIONS DUE
Member of Episcopalian Board Making
Tour of Alaskan Mission
Establishments
John M. Wood, secretary of the
Episcopalian board of missions of the
United States, with headquarters in
New York city, will be a guest of
Seward at an early date.
Secretary Wood is now making a
tour of the missions of the Episcopal
church in Alaska and will probably ar
rive on the Victoria after going down
the Yukon to St. Michael and visit
ing Nome.
He is one of the strong men of the
church and is vitally interested in Al
askan affairs.
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ASHLAND COMING TO'
START WORK ON BLOCK
Robert Ashland sailed for Seward on
the Mariposa this morning to com
mence work on the two-story build
ing to be erected by him on property
at the foot of Broadway. Small build
ings on the property are being cleared
away to make room for the new con
1 struction.
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YOUNG WOMAN HAS
FEARFUL FALL AND
MAY NOT RECOVER
JUNEAU, July 24, (By Mail,—Mrs.
Anna Oberg, 27, a pretty Norwegian
woman who has been working in the
cannery of the Alaska-Pacific Herring
company at Port Walter, was brought
to the General hospital last night suf
| fering injuries that may mean her
death in spite of the fact that not a
bone in her body is broken.
Mrs. Oberg, while climbing a moun
tain Sunday afternoon near the can
nery, sat down to slide on the snow
and lost control of her speed and di
rection, so that she slid several hun
dred feet over snow banks and inter
vening rock beds and finally plunged
over a hundred foot precipice and thru
a snow hole into running water in
the bed of a gorge. That her death
was not instantaneous is considered
little short of a miracle and if she re
covers at all it will be a wonderful
thing, according to those who saw her
after the accident.
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BOATS AND TRAINS
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The Alaska is due from westward
tomorrow.
The Admiral £vans is due South
bound tomorrow night.
The Mariposa sailed north from
Seattle this morning.
The train will arrive from Kern
Creek late this evening.
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MO AT BUTTE
LYNCHES RABI
I.W.W. LEASER
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 1—Following a radical speech in
which he referred to United States soldiers as “scabs” and
urged the men to shut down the mines in the Butte district,
Frank Little, member of the executive board of the Indus
trial Workers of the World, was taken by a number of
masked men and hanged from a railroad trestle on the out
skirts of the city early this morning.
L^ter the body was cut down by the chief of police of
Butte and taken to a morgue.
After Little’s body had been identified, local members
of the Industrial Workers telegraphed appeals for aid. A
message was sent to Secretary William D. Haywood, a per
sonal friend of the dead man, and others to I. W. W. or
ganizations in the Southwest and along the Pacific Coast.
During the morning it was reported that Haywood had
sent a message assuring the Butte members that the re
sources of the organization would be employed to bring the
members of the lynching party to justice.
Little was a cripple but was a most active and forceful
speaker and was prominent in the recent labor troubles in
Arizona which resulted in the deportation of some 1200
I. W. W. members and sympathizers from Bisbee.
The lynching was the outgrowth of several events
which wrought up local people and resulted in the frenzy
which led to a mob, the principal factor being Little’s own
speeches. The contributory cause was a telegram sent to
the President yesterday from Chicago by Secretary Hay
wood of the I. W. W., in person, in which he threatened to
call a strike of 250,000 miners, harvest hands and lumber
workers throughout the Middle West unless the deported
I. W. W. members now in New Mexico were at once re
turned to their homes in the Warren district near Bisbee,
Arizona.
Since Little’s arrival from Globe he has made a num
ber of rabid speeches to striking miners, always attacking
the government and urging the men to shut down all the
mines in the Butte district. In a recent speech he went so
far as to call the United States soldiers “scabs in uniform.”
People of Butte outside of those taking part had no
warning of the impending lynching. At 3:30 o’clock this
morning masked men took Little from his lodging house
and rushed him to the edge of town where he was bound,
and hung from a trestle. He had been dead some time
when cut down.
Little was 38 years of age, a miner by profession, and
was suffering from a broken leg. In going about town he
walked with crutches.
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LABOR’S FRIEND, SAYS HAYWOOD
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
CHICAGO, Aug 1.—On learning of the lynching of
Little, Secretary W. D. Haywood showed the greatest emo
tion. He said the dead man was his close personal friend
and an earnest, active advocate in the interest of the work
ing classes.
AUSTRALIANS SUFFERED
HEAVY CASUALTIES
MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug 1.—
The Australian casualties from the be
ginning of the war up to May 21,
1917, were 60,793, according to a state
ment issued by the Defense Depart
ment. They were divided as follows:
Dead, 24,106; wounded 31,585; miss
ing 5,102. It was explained that the
men listed as wounded did not include
those who had gone back to the
trenches.
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Juneau is now in the position to
handle a million pounds of fresh hali
but and cod daily. Recently it was
announced that the Glacier Fish Co.,
one of the largest fresh fish concerns
of Puget Sound was in the Juneau
market to stay.
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STILL PLENTY OF HORSES
IN GREAT BRITAIN
LONDON, Aug. 1.—A summary of
the census returns of horses in Great
Britain gives the total number of all
ages and classes as 2,310,000.
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THE WEATHER
Yesterday.
Maximum......60
Minimum .49
Current.,.50
Precipitation.. .32
Cloudy. South wind.
WEATHER TOMORROW
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Fair. South wind.