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RUSSIA L0Sf~AT~ bukowina
SHIP WITH FOOD FOR GERMANY REACHES ENGLAND
GREAT BATTLE IN
DUKLA PASS DRAW
Germans Gain Heights Twice
But Are Again Driven
Backward
BLOODIEST OF WAR
PETROGRAD, Feb. 10.—The Dukla pass battle which
has just been fought is a draw. It was the bloodiest of
the war insomuch as the number of lives lost was greater
in proportion to the numbers engaged than in any other
battle. The great losses were due to the attempts of the
Germans to take the heights commanding the pass on
which the Russians were potsed. No less than twenty
two attacks were delivered by the enemy who had to ad
vance up the heights in the face of a hellish fire from rifles
machine guns and artillery. Twice the Germans succeed
ed in gaining the coveted position on the summit of the
hill but each time they were driven back at the point of the
bayonet. They were finally repulsed and both sides are
now at a standstill facing each other yet but each waiting
for the next move by the other.
RUSSIAN REPULSE COMPLETE
VIENNA, Feb. 10.—The Russian repulse in Bukow
ina is complete and the enemy is now evacuating the whole
province as fast as possible so that the danger of their
entry into Transylvania is passed. The losses of the Rus
sians were very heavy. The Austrians are pursuing them
as fast as they can move over the rough country and the
whole empire is celebrating the great victory joyously.
The battle lasted several days and the Russians were
driven back a few days ago but made desperate efforts to
avoid a decisive defeat and again and again the retreating
divisions were brought to a standstill and faced the Aus
trian victors but the latter kept on advancing and today
all doubt was cleared away when it was announced that
the Russian retreat was general and that the Russian
generals had decided to give up the territory. This takes
away the danger of the Russians reaching the Rouman
ian border and so inciting Roumania to war.
RUSSIA ADMITS DEFEAT
PETROGRAD. Feb. 10.—It is admitted that the
Russians have been compelled to fall back from Bukowina
and that they are evacuating that province but the Rus
sian army have been successful in the western Carpath
ians and these successes offset the Austrian victory. It
had been hoped that the Russians could have reached
Transylvania through Bukowina but this campaign must
now be abandoned. It is denied by the military author
ities that the defeat has been so severe as the Austrians
try to make it out to be although it cannot be denied that
the evacuation of the province has been made necessary.
WILHELMINA REACHES ENGLAND
FALMOUTH, England, Feb. 10—The ship Wilhelm
ina which is carrying foodstuffs from the United States
to Germany put in here yesterday. The captain states
that he was not molested during the trip and up to the
present there has been no notice taken of the vessel by the
British authorities. The custom officers visited her yes
terday immediately after her arrival but no action has
been taken yet This is the vessel which is testing the in
ternational law which has hitherto provided that food
stuffs are not contraband of war when they are shipped to
a belligerent country provided they are not intended for
the civilian population of that country. Should the vessel
be permitted to proceed to Germany with her cargo it
means that Great Britain will not object to the shipping
of food supplies to Germany and that all chance of starv
ing Germany will end. The British government has re
cently declared that when the German government took
over the wheat and some other foodstuffs all over Ger
many it made the seizure of foodstuffs intended for that
country really contraband as Germany by the taking over
MANY DROWNED
NEAR NANAIMO
R C. MINE FLOODED AND TWEN
TY ONE LOSE
LIVES.
NANAIMO, B. C., Fob. 10.—Twen
ty-one miners were drowned yester
day when the British Columbia mine
was flooded. The mine is near this
city and a frightful gloom has been
thrown over the people by the catas
trophe. The loss of life was due, it
is said, to the unexpected coming of
the flood which caught the men at
work in a part of the workings from
which it was impossible to escape the
onrush of the waters. It was feared
in the beginning of the flooding that
the loss of life would be far greater
but scores of men succeeded in mak
ing hair breadth escapes. The damage
to the mine is very serious.
Job printing of every description at
The Gateway.
MASTER BAKERS FEAR
>. SHORTAGE OF BREAD.
Ask President Wilson to Place Ninety
Days Embargo on Wheat
and Flour.
CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—The Master
Bakers of the United States have peti
tioned President Wilson to place a
ninety days embargo on wheat and
flour. They declare that the continued
exportation of wheat will cause a ser
ious shortage and will result in pro
hibitive prices and much suffering.
The price of bread is growing con
stantly and the very poor are said to
be feeling the consequences.
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SOME CLOSE GAMES
IN TOURNAMENT.
Eleven games in the Northern
tournament were pulled off and some
of them were close. The two closest
were between Peel and Badger and
Torry and Mauvais. Badger had only
four to go and Mauvais was five be
hind. Burley beat Mauvais 100 to 62.
Hausch beat Mauvais 110 to 78. Cot
ter beat Lane 100 to 112. Koontz beat
Torry 100 to 97. Smith beat Hausch
90 to 97. Koontz beat Badger 100 to
95. Johnston beat Parker 110 to 69.
Koontz beat Lane 100 to 81. Koontz
beat Peel 100 to 144. The handicaps
were published a couple of days ago
and can be referred to. The games
are going an today and the interest
is increasing.
WATSON AT CORDOVA TODAY.
The Watson is due at Cordova this
afternoon at 6:30 o’clock.
MAN BROUGHT IN FOR
STABBING ANOTHER.
Chilian Prisoner from Kenai says
Knife in His Country all Same
Fists.
Enrique Nantuy, a Chilian, was
brought in this morning by Bill Daw
son from Kenai and will be charged
with stabbing L. Caveillo. The two
men are of similar nationality and had
been quarrelling for some time. In
the course of one of their fights some
days ago the man who is now a pris
oner is said to have stabbed Caveillo
in the side with a butcher knife.
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I Caveillo is declared not to have been
' seriously injured but he was not
brought to town. Nantuy is now in
the federal jail here. When speaking
of the affair the prisoner seemed to
think there was too much fuss made
about the little unpleasantness alto
gether.
“Ah" he said deprecatingly “knife
in my country all same fist in your
country. You sabe." Indeed, judging
by his manner, it was ridiculous to
have taken any notice of so trivial a
matter as inserting a butcher knife
in a compatriot’s anatomy.
PANAMA CANAL AGAIN
HAS AN ACCIDENT.
Part of Breakwater Protecting East
ern End is Taken Away by
Storm.
COLON, Feb. 10.—One thousand
feet of the breakwater for protecting
the entrance to the Panama canal was
destroyed yesterday by a great storm.
The breakwater was only in course of
construction at the time of the ac
cident and the engineers declare that
if the work had been completed the
storm could not have had such a dis
astrous effect.
This occurrence is only one of the
many which seem to follow fast and
faster. It is stated in some quarters
that in part of the canal the bottom
rises and the task of keeping it clear
will be a stupendous one. This is not
postively known but it is certain that
much work will be required before the
sliding in the Culcbra cut can be over
come finally.
TWO GOOD VAUDEVILLE
MEN APPEAR TONIGHT.
Ira Robertson, one of the best
comedians that ever came to Alaska,
and Thomas F. Gillis, a fine tenor
singer, both of whom arrived last
Sunday will appear at the Casino to
night and tomorrow night. Both have
travelled in the best company on the
outside and it is safe to say that a
really good piece of work is certain.
In addition to the vaudeville program
fine moving pictures brought in by
them will be shown. Tonight it will
be “Oliver Twist” with Nat Goodwin
in the title role.
of civilian food showed that all food going to Germany
must be regarded as belonging to the government and not
to the people. The action in connection with the Wilhelm
ina is being awaited with tremendous interest as it prom
ises to be of the most momentous consequence.
GERMANS GO TO PRUSSIA
PETROGRAD, Feb. 10.—The Germans have ceased
their attacks on Warsaw so that they might send their (
strongest forces to East Prussia to try to check the Rus-j
sian advance in that quarter. Great German forces have
been sent into the Mazurian lakes district to defend their
positions there where the Russian offensive is very dang
erous. If the Russian movement in East Prussia is suc
cessful the way to Koenigsburg will be open and the in
vestment of the great fortress will be carried out. This
fortress is the chief German base in East Prussia and is
of tremendous advantage to the enemy as it stands on the
right of any possible Russian advance in the effort to turn
the German left
OH! YOU WOMEN
LISTEN TO THIS
KANSAS' MAY STOP POWDER,
PERFUMES AND FALSE
HAIR.
TOPEKA, Feb. 10.—A bill was in
troduced in the state legislature to
day to make it a misdemeanor for wo
men under the age of forty-five to
paint or powder, wear false hair or
earings or use perfumes. The spon
sor of the bill is a man of middle age
who is well known. With him are
said to be several other mebers of the
legislature who have used him while
hiding their own names for the pres
ent.
The introducer of the measure de
clares that a woman who uses paints
and powders, perfumes, false ha«r and
earings is no better that the sa /ages
whom we affect to despise for prac
tices which are altogether similar.
He further declares that when she
uses such “aids to beauty” she is no
longer herself but a doll dressed up
out of all resemblance to what she
would be without them. He expressed
the opinion that when a woman gets a
husband by recourse to such methods
she is obtainig something under false
pretenses. It is said that he himself
got bitten and had his life embittered
from the first morning after marriage
when he saw his wife in her 4,«rue
colors.”
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RAILROAD GOSSIP.
Says Report Dealing With Line to
Ship Creek is Already
Completed.
A telegram from Washington to the
Seattle Post Intelligencer of January
31 says that $600,000 of the first ap
propriation still remains. It also de
clares that there is strong opposition
in congress to the purchase of the
Copper River and Northwestern rail
road. The report of the Alaska en
gineering commission was due the
first week of February, according to
that correspondent who further says
that the part of the report dealing
with the construction of a line from
the Matanuska coal fields to a summer
water terminal has been completed.
GREAT ACTIVITY IN
U. S. SHIP BUILDING.
EITett of the War is Already Bein*
Shown to this Country’s
Advantage.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Great activ
ity is being shown in ship building
along the Atlantic coast owing to the
necessity for providing ships for the
increasing trade. Ten ships are be
ing built here and enquiries are being
made preparatory to the construction
of many others. This is due in a great
measure to the inability of the ship
building firms of the belligerent na
tions to turn out vessels fast enough
for the American demand.
MARCH 17 DANCE TO
BE MASQUERADE.
The baseball boys have decided to
make their dance on March 17 a mas
querade and the occasion of a royal
time. Preparations have already been
begun although the intervening time
is considerable, but not too much to
make the celebration, what they want
it to be.
W. M. Putnam arrived on the Dora
from Bear Cove, Katchnek bay and
will go outside on the next boat on 9
business trip.
EXTRA SESSION MAY
BE CALLED MARCH 5
President Wilson Sends Out
Threat to Filibustering
Senators
..WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—It is re
ported that the president is think
ing of calling an extra session for
March 5 if the filibuster against the
ship purchase bill continues much
longer. The senate has now been in
continuous session for forty eight
hours which is a record since 1893.
Many of the speeches have been for
hours and hours and the limit of the
republican filibustered seems to be
further off than ever. The present j
congress goes out of existence on
March 4 so that the calling of the
HOLD UP FRISCO BAR
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
Robbers Unmasked Although Scores
Were Passing the Door at
the Time.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.—Three
unmasked men walked into a hotel
bar in this city today, held up the bar
tender and got away with a fifteen
hundred dollar diamond and two
hundred dollars in cash. At the very
moment when the holdup took place
scores of people were passing by the
door but none had the least idea that
such a thing was occurring and the
robbers got away scot free.
WEEK’S FOREIGN TRADE
BEATS ALL RECORDS.
Exports Thirty-Seven Million in Ex
cess of Imports in First Week
of February.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The for
eign trade of the United States for
the first week in February, that is the
week ending February 6, shows a
balance in favor of this country of
thirty-seven millions of dollars. This
is a record for any week in the history
of the nation’s trade. The exports for
the week were sixty million and the
imports were twenty-two and a half
millions in round figures. The tre
mendous increase in the export trade
is regarded as a good lesson to show
the wisdom of neutrality as the in
crease is taken on all hands to mean
that if this nation can only keep from
war it must become more and more
the market for the purchases by the
nations that cannot supply their own
wants and fight at the same time.
SIXTEEN ON MARIPOSA.
SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—'The following
passengers are on the Mariposa for
Seward;
Mrs. Spalding; Willianm Springer;
Major Ransom, Miss Gibson; Mrs.
Martin; I. Hensler, Miss Clark; Miss
Martin; Miss Morrison; Al. Sull’van
and six steerage. A. Johnson is
aboard for Cold bay.
Of the two men fined yesterday
Harry Brown paid his fine and costs,
I the total being eighty two dollars,
j The other man is still in jail.
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printing done in the states. Do not
forget that.
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Visiting cards, invitations, anything
pretty i • done by the Gateway just as
I well as outside.
extra session will bring the new con
gress into active service on the very
first day of its existence. The threat
may bring the filibusterers to time
but they give no indication of that
outcome.
PACKERS GET
HEAVY FINES
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOL
LARS EACH UNDER
TRUST LAW.
JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. 9.—'/he
packing firms of Armour, Swift, Ham
mond and Morris were fined larenty
five thousand dollars each today by
the supreme court for violation of the
Missouri anti-trust law. The sentence
entails the necessity for the companies
to pay the fines by the eleventh of
March or get out of the state. The
offence of the companies was commit
ted in conjunction and, according t>
the court, was a direct violation of the
anti-trust law in iti essenCat point.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
GETS ANOTHER ROASTING.
Let Him Cut Out the Talking Says
Representative Mondell of
Wyoming.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Repre
sentative Mondell of Wyoming severe
ly scored Secretary of State Cryan in
a speech delivered in the house. Mr.
Mondell declared that the secretary
ought to able to find something else
to do in these critical times besides
making speeches and lecturing tours
throughout the country. He suggested
that foreign matters of the most vital
kind were being neglected while the
department of state is left for long
periods without a head.
SENATE IS STILL
IN SAME SESSION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The
United States senate is still in session
this afternoon and there is no indica
tion that the sitting will end at all
today. Preparations are being marie
by both sides for an all night sitting
and the speechmaking by the republi
cans is continuing apparently without
a sign of cessation. In answer to the
threat of the president that he will
call a new se sion for March fifth the
republicans have uttered defiance
Some overtures have been made by ihe
democrats in the hope that they could
overcome the republican opposition to
the shipping bill but all the attempts
have proved failures.
. J. E. Riley, the Iditarod operator,
and Dick Hyland left this morning
with two good dog teams for the in
terior camp. The shaft being taken
in by them will be picked up at
Beluga.
Try our Melba Brand Sweet Red
Peppers for salads and sandwiches.
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