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Vo). 9 No. 19
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UNIVERSAL WAR IS NOW TRULY THREATENED
SENATOR RAY IS
NOT CANDIDATE
WOt'LD NOT AGAIN KI N FOR
LEGISLATIVE WHICH HAS
NO POW ER
Senator Ray, president of the last
territorial senate, will not be a can
didate for re-election. He stated this
fact emphatically today when asked
if there wx* any truth to the rumors
that he would again go before the
voters.
•*1 do not see the least use” he said
“in entering a legislature which is
given only the power granted by the
organic act.”
President Kay also declared that
until the First division is separated
from the r**$t of Alaska the business
of the territory cannot be satisfactor
ily transacted as the conditions down
there are altogether different from
those prevailing in the other divisions.
The words given here in quotation
marks may not be the exact words
spoken by Senator Kay but they are
true n substance and they show that
like many others the former presi
dent of the senate does not believe
that Alaska has secured real self
government.
It may be mentioned in connection
with the womens' vote that Mr. Kay
corresponded w'ith Go>ernor Strong
about the matter and the governor
showed the correspondence to Secre
tary Lane, but, although Mr. Lane
wrote to Mr. Ray, he did not give
any opinion on the matter.
MARSHAL HARRY BROWN
TAKES J. Sl'LLIVAN
Deputy Marshal Harry Brown came
from Knik yesterday to tind J. Sul
livan who was reported to have been
badly beaten up in a tight with other
parties at Gird wood. It was stated
to the Gateway that Sullivan had
left for the westward but he was all
the time in a cabin waiting for his in
juries to show some improvement.
CAPTAIN ANDERSON TO
TAKE I P HOMESTEAD
Captain L. B. Anderson left this
morning for Knik where he will take
up a homestead after a strenuous
career all over Alaska. He is one of
the real oldtimers and at Fairbanks
made a big pile of money which, how
ever, attracted the attention of too
many friends. John Harris who ar
rived from Nome is also about to take
up a homestead and the rush for land
continues so strong that the settling
up of this part of Alaska is proceed
ing fast right now before our eyes.
HALLOWE’EN
DANCE TOMORROW
A big Hallowe’en dance will be
given tomorrow night and the fam
ous fete day will be celebrated in
fine style.
MARRIAGE AT KNIK
W'hen the Evans went west this
morning she probably had aboard a
lady who was on the way to Knik to
become the bride of Dr. Carmichael.
Dr Carmichael is the son of the Dr.
Carmichael who formerly practised in
Fairbanks and is now practising in
Seattle. The supposed bridegroom
formerly practised in Ruby and other
place in the interior.
WENT ON EVANS
The following passengers went to
the westward this morning on the
Evans:- A. Boland, Andrew Simons,
N. Nekleson, A. W. Balzimer, I*. B.
Anderson, Victor R’odgett, M»*s. Vic
tor Blodgett, Miss Blodgett, B. Kelly
and H. Widd.
MRS. WHITEHEAD BETTER
Steve Whitehead has received a
cable from his Brother Guy in which
it is stated that Mrs. Whitehead is
much improved. Mr. Whitehead will
wait outside until after the elections
next Tuesday.
HOW WILL THE VOTES BE
DIVIDED THIS YEAR
The Time Has Come For The
Dopesters To Make A Forecast
Of The Result
The election will be here next Tues
day and it is time to begin figuring
out what the result will be. Prophets
are always safe because if they guess
right they can say they told you so
and if they guess wrong they can
forget it. Rut let us pave the way for
predictions out of figures now at hand.
It is seen that the vote in the delegate
election last year was 8277. Out of
these Wickersham received 3335. He
got 604 out of 1.538 in the First divi
sion, 21H) out of 1542 in the Second
division, 750 out of 1775 in the Third
division and 1,602 out of 3422 in the
Fourth division.
At that time there were three can
didates opposed to Wick which many
believe divided the anti-Wickersham
vote. The question now to be solved
is whether the votes that were given
last year to that republican will go
this time to the democrat or to the
delegate.
TRIAL OF COAL CASES
REOINS TOMORROW
Comnr.i.Nsioner Conroy has received
word that the final hearing of the
case of the U. S. vs. The Alaska
Anthracite coal company will begin
tomorrow at Juneau. Much of the
evidence was taken here.
MORRISON IS DEAD
BUT NOT BOLAND
Mistake Made Owing To Fact That
Name Was Not Mentioned
Word has been received here that
W. J. Boland is not the man connected
with the railroad who died outside.
| Colonel H. E. Morrison is the one who
has passed away. His home was at
Fairfield, Spokane, but his death oc
curred at New York of heart failure.
Colonel Morrison is said to have had
some interest in the local railroad and
was a friend of Mr. Labaree and
Senator Turner.
POLLS OPEN 8 TO 7
The polls will be open next Tuesday
from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m.
TWO YEARS FOR
INSULTING AUSTRIANS
VENICE, Oct. 28.—A news-letter
from Vienna tells some remarkable
j instances of the censorship in the
I Austrian capital and pays a compli
ment to the consideration shown to
| foreigners who are still in Austrian
Hungary*
“That the warning from the police
against adverse comment on the mil
itary operatons is to be taken ser
iously”, says the letter, ‘ is evident
from the fact that a man who had
remarked casually in a Vienna cafe
that the Austrian soldiers were
cowards, was promply arrested and
sentenced to two years imprisonment
with hard labor, with a fast day once
a week, and a day’s confinement in
a dark cell once a month. Another
man who had been overheard saying
that the Servians would be victorious
received exactly the same sentence.”
Newspapers from America have
been held back at the post-office for
more than three weeks, according to
the letter, and telegraphic communi
cation has proven so difficult that the
people have practically given up try
ing to dispatch messages. For cor
respondence with the soldiers at the
front special postcards and envelopes
are provided, and each man may be
addressed by a code number, but his
whereabouts are not divulged, and
the news exchanged is subject to such
a rigorous censorship that only a few
commonplace matters are w'ritten.
PRESIDENT ENJOYING
HIS FIRST VACATION
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Presi
dent Wilson is enjoying his first rest
since entering the whitehouse. The
cabinet officers are all campaigning
ami travelling over the country. The
president sees few visitor but he
golfs, reads and rides autos constant
ly. He is however, keeping in close
touch with business and with the sit
uations in Mexico and Europe.
COAL LEASES MAY BE LET
BY COMPETITIVE BIDS
Conference Reports provides for $100,
000 For Surveys Of Coal Lands
Into Tracts
The conference report on the Alas
ka coal leasing bill has reached Sew
ard and shows that the leases are to
be granted by the secretary of the
interior either by competitive bids or
otherwise as he sees fit. It also pro
vides for $100,000 for the government
survey of the Bering, Matanuska and
Nenana coal fields, it is also provided
that »n case a company takes over
leases the majority of the stock in
that company must be owned by cit
izens of the United States. No one
may have an interest in two leases
each comprising 2,560 acres. By
violating this regulaton a fine and
imprisonment may be inflicted. As
stated in the telegraphic dispatch to
this paper before the leases will each
be for forty acres or in blocks of
forty acres up to 2, 560 acres but no
more. *
BUNNELL WILL COME TO
SEWARD QN ALAMEDA
Held Meeting Last Night At Valdez
And Spoke For Two Hours
VALDEZ, Oca. 30.—Charles E.
Bunnell spoke for two hours last
night at Eagle hall to the largest
meeting ever held in this city. The
hall was packed to the doors and sev
eral people were turned away. He
advocated the construction of more
roads and trails, the establishment of
a central power plant at Fairbanks
and the institution of more aids to
navigation. He asked the people to
show they are supporting the admin
istraton by electing a delegate of the
same political party as Wilson who
has done more for Alaska in two
years than all other parties combined
have done since the purchase of the
territory. Bunnell leaves today for
Seward.
TO TAKE OUT BERTHA
George Banbury went west on the
the Evans to take the Bertha outside
from Knik. The vessel will be taken
out under its own steam.
MOOSE LODGE MEETS
THIS EVENING
The Seward Moose Iiodge will meet
this evening at the usual hour, 8
o’clock sharp. Recent arrivals from
other parts of Alaska include so many
members of the Moose that the order
apparently is very strong. Fred
Weiler, the vice dictator of the Nome
lodge, came on the Corwin and says
that they have between three and
four hundred members up there.
HOW THE DELEGATE VOTE
WENT IN LAST ELECTION
Herewith is printed the vote of each
candidate for delegate in the last el
ection. Owing to the fact that the
delegate election is held this year in
November it is certain that the total
vote will not be as large this time.
This fact will probably aid the socia
lists but whether it will have any ef
fect on the votes of the other candi
dates or not is something that each
will have an opinion about. The fol
lowing is the vote by Divisons:
Wickersham First 604 Second 290
Third 750 Fourth 1691 Total 3335
Gilmore, First 191 Second 685 Third
539 Fourth 311 Total 1726
Jennings, First 336 Second 2(6 Third
281 Fourth 281 Total 1174
Harrais, First 24 Second 4 Third 96
Fourth 157 Total 281
Krauczunas, First 227 Second 271
Third 192 Fourth 998 Total 1688
Scattering, First 13 Second 2 Third 0
Fourth 1 Total 16. Total 8220
COMMITS SUICIDE WITH
— AN AXE AT. VALDEZ
Wint Helt committed suicide Wed
nesday in Valdei by striking himself
on the head with an axe. It is said
the cause must have been despon
dency. He killed himself ne&r his
cabin and manged to inflict a fatal
wound by drawing the blade across
his head while it was embedded in it.
GERMANS DRIVEN BACK BY FLOOD.
TURKISH SHIP SINKS RUSSIAN.
ALLIES ADVANCE ALONG THE LINE.
GERMANS DROWNED OUT
PARIS, Oct. 30.—It is officially announced this after
noon that the Germans, after succeeding in crossing the
river Yser, have been compelled to withdraw by the in
undation of the low country by the Belgian army. The
latest accounts say that by opening the sluices of the Yser
canal thousands of Germans were caught by the floods.
Those who escaped drowning were harrassed by the artil
lery and they were unable to withstand the frightful
slaughter. The flooding has been most opportune.
RUSSIA TELLS OF TURKS RAID
ODESSA, Russia, Oct. 30.—The Russian gunboat
Doneb was sunk and a part of the crew was drowned
while others were killed and wounded by the Turkish
torpedo boat which raided Odessa yesterday. In addi
tion to the loss of the Doneb the Russian steamer Laza
reff, Wamposa and the French steamer Portugal were
damaged by the shell fire from the Turkish vessel. The
firing of the Turks was so accurate that it is believed
the guns were served by Germans.
FRANCE GETS LOAN IN U. S.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—A loan by the French govern
ment has been arranged with the national City bank and
other New York banks for ten millions. The money will
be used to purchase supplies in this country and this is
expected to prevent the loan from being regarded as a
breach of neutrality. The money will be lent at six per cent
interest and all of it must be sent to the United States for
spending here. Norway has also borrowed three millions
from the National City bank and Switzerland has also
sought a loan here and may be provided with one. The two
latter countries need the money to meet the expenses of
their mobilization and the losses in revenue caused by the
war. Some objection on the part of Germany is expected
in connection with the loan to France but strong preced
ent is said to exist to justify it.
TO FIGHT TURKS AT SEA
LONDON, Oct. 30.—It is expected that the allies
will engage Turkey in naval battle exclusively. Greece
aione with the battleships recently purchased from the
United States is expected to be able to handle Turkey
alone on equal terms. It is now known that the Goeben
and the Breslau are still manned by Germans. They are
the chief ships of the Turks and upon them they must
depend to meet their enemies’ ships. It has been suspect
ed for a long time here that Turkey would eventually en
ter the war but when the news came that without de
claring war the Turks attacked the Russians it created
a tremendous sensation.
RUSSIANS PROGRESSING
LONDON, Oct. 30.—The Russians are now making
steady progress towards the Germans’ entrenched posi
tions west of the Vistula and have already re-occupied
Czernowitz in Bukowina to the west of Galicia. The in
formation coming from that part of the war theater is
most satisfactory from the allied point of view and a
tremendous Gennan disaster is hoped for in many
quarters.
COLD STOPS GERMANS
PARIS, Oct 30.—The situation in Flanders is regard
ed as so highly favorable that the government officials
display an unusual air of satisfaction. The weather has
turned very cold particularly at night and this fact is
regarded as most unfavorable to the enemy. Snow is fall
ing in the Vosges mountains and has stopped the German
operations there. As a result it is expected that the allies
can concentrate more power in the west and at this time
re-inforcement of the western armies would be most
advantageous.
- ALLIES PROGRESS
Some points of extra strategic importance have been
occupied by the allies on the left wing while along practi- j
cally the whole remainder of the front as far as the
French frontier the progress of the Allies continue. The
losses of the Germans have been terrific and it is believed
that they cannot longer maintain the awful struggle. The
flooding of the country around the Yser canal will be a
most serious obstacle to their advance towards Dunkirk
and Calais and the feeling is growing that they will be
forced to relinquish their purpose.
WILL BE SURE WORLD WAR
The coming of Turkey into the war will cause the
stretching of the battle array almost in an unbroken
diagonal line across Europe and may yet reach from the
Atlantic to the Indian oceans. Greece, Roumania and
Bulgaria are practically certain to be brought into the
conflict now, then Italy will probably take the field and
there is a belief that Persia, although under Russian
control, will still take a hand. Turkey is, indeed, the
spark that will probably set the rest of the world afire
as lands further east than those mentioned are expected
to take advantage of the upheaval to gain their indepen
dence or capture new territory. At least this is the opin
ion of all the papers and people here since the news came
that Turkey had begun fighting.
TURKEY GETTING READY
CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 30.—The British ambass
ador to Turkey, Mallet today formally notified the govern
ment of the Ottoman empire that if Turkish troops cross
the Egyptian frontier it will mean war with the powers
forming the Entente. This warning came after it had been
fully realized that Turkey is now actually preparing not
only to enter the war as an ally of Germany and Austria
but to cause the whole Mohammedan population of the
countries under the British flag to start a holy war.
Proofs of the strongest kind are forthcoming that Tur
key has already been tampering with the population of
Egypt in the effort to get them to throw off the British
yoke. • ,
The London Times declares this morning that Tur
kish troops are now undoubtedly massed along the fron
tier of Russia although the problem of feeding them there
must be a tremendous one unless they are receiving aid
from some other power. To the south, the Times says,
the Ottoman forces are believed to be stationed through
southern Syria and Palestine with forces actually on the
Egyptian frontier at Rafa on the Mediterranean and also
at El Akaba on the Red Sea.
The allies are, however, it is stated here, quite ready
for the expcted Turkish onslaught. All preparations have
been made by England in Egypt to meet the Turkish in
vasion as well as to put down with a strong hand any at
tempt on the part of the disaffected Egyptians to rise in
revolt. Along the banks of the Suez canal British forces
are stationed in strength and also in different parts of the
Sinai Peninsula. Greece is also ready to take arms at the
first sign of Turkey’s entry into active hostilities and it
is the general opinion here that if the Sublime Porte opens
warfare the Turkish empire in Europe will soon be noth
ing more than a memory and the Turks will be relegated
to the obscure valleys in Asia Minor.
It is not denied here that with the support and pro
mises of Germany the Turks are at last going to attempt
to open the long expected holy war to create a new Mo
hammedan empire that would embrace Egypt, most of
Asia and several important countries in northern Africa.
It is even supposed that an attempt will be made to wean
India from her allegiance but the people of this country
are satisfied that the idea is only an idle dream.
TURKEY OPENS WAR
BORDEAUX, Oct. 30.—It is officially announced to
day that Turkey has already started fighting against
Russia even without the formality of declaring war. Two
Turkish torpedo destroyers have entered Odessa in the
Black Sea and have sunk a Russian gunboat and damag
ed the French liner Portugal. The Turks have also bom
barded the city of Novorosuskaia, a seaport of Caucasia
so that war with the Ottoman empire has come at last.
It is assumed here that Turkey under the direction of
German officers has been only preparing all the time that
she was supposed to be lying calmly watching and that
she has managed to send her warchips into the Black Sea
and up to the Russian ports hundreds of miles away with
out having been discovered. The flight of the German
warships Goeben and Breslau to Turkish waters is now
fully explained according to official opinion here. It is
deemed sure that these two powerful ships will now be
used in the Black Sea or elsewhere for the attack on Rus
sia and that this move was deliberate and had been in
tended from the first even when it was declared that the
vessels had been purchased by Turkey only to make up for
the loss of the Turkish ships which the British govern
ment seized while they were under course of construction
in British yards.