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AUSTRIAN ARCH DUKE
TO BE KING OE POLAND
GERMANS CROSS NAREW
BERLIN, August 16.—The only
news of importance from the eastern
front this morning is that the Rus
sians made a determined sortie from
kovno in the effort to hold back the
Germans from the Warsaw TVtrograd
railroad but were repulsed. The
Germans have succeeded in crossing
the N'arew* river after a stubborn
lighting hut beyond this fact the
change in the relative positions of
the hostile armies is very small. The
newspapers here are again stating
that the kaiser really offered a separ
ate peace to Russia.
ENGLISH ENLISTING
LONDON August 16.—Yesterday
was the day set aside for the regis
tration of all males between the age
of fifteen and sixty-five and as many
men believed that it was the begin
ning of conscription they hastened to
enlist before being compelled to do so.
Some of them even hastened to get
married believing that they were soon
to be on the way to the continent to
fight anyhow.
COAL MINERS STILL SORE
LONDON. August 16.—The coa<
miners of Wales are again showing
the greatest dis-satisfaction and rest
lessness. They declare that the mine
owners are studiously slow* in com
pleting the wage agreement arrived
at after the intervention of Lloyd
George and many threats of future
trouble are being made.
BRITISH LOST 12.000 OFFICERS
LONDON. August 16.—The total
number of British officers killed dur
ing the month of July was one hun
dred and fifteen. The number wound
ed in the same month was two hun
dred and forty. This number is be
low the average for each month’s loss
during the war and is supposed to be
be due either to a greater care to
prevent the enemy from distinguish
ing officers or to the fact that the of
fensive movements by the allies are
not at present being carried on so
frequently. The number of British
offiecrs killed during the entire war
was four thousand and the number
wounded was eight thousand, a total
of losses which exceeds the total
number of officers in the regular army
at the beginning of the conflict.
SERBIANS BOMBARD
PARIS, August 16.—By hot artil
lery fire the Serbians have prevented
the Austrians from fortifying their
positions on the left bank of the river
Save and on the Danube. Neither
side has attempted an offensive move
ment recently and it is evidently the
intention of the Austrians to remain
on the defensive against the Serbians
who in order to invade Austrian terri
tory must force a crossing of the riv
ers on the frontier.
AEROPLANES BOMBARD
PARIS, August 16.—Nineteen aero
planes of the allied armies have bom
barded German depots all along the
valley of the Spada and inflicted much
damage. All the planes returned
safely. One hundred million dollars
are needed to pay the balances due on
transactions in the Paris Bourse and
the government will introduce a law
providing that the Bank of France
must assist in finding the money.
V. S. ANSWERS AUSTRIA.
WASHINGTON, August 16.—*The
United States in answer to the
Austrian protest against the manu
facture of munitions of war in Ameri
ca for the allies states in a note just
dispatched that the Teutons them
selves supplied Great Britain with
munitions during its war with the
Boors. It emphasizes the fact that
the British, not the Boers, were sup
plied.
TO BE KING OF POLAND
LONDON, August 16.—That the
Arch Duke Stephen of Austria has
been chosen by the Teutonic empires
as the new king of Poland and that
he will be crowned soon in the cathed
ral of Warsaw is the report coming
unofficially today. A member of the
Austrian family has been chosen for
two reasons, one of which is that it
was thought necessary to have a
' Catholic king for a country the vast
majority of whose people belong to
that faith, and the second reason is
that Germany desires to remove the
idea that it wishes to take all the
fruits of the war to the exclusion of
her ally. However, the news has not
been confirmed by official authorities.
It is assumed here that the Teutons
will immediately begin to organize
the new kingdom and try to establish
a Polish army with some Austrian
and German divisions as a nucleus.
To give all Poles the advantage of
the semi-autonomous government
it will be necessary for Germany to
relinquish some of her own territory
and it i* doubtful if she will do so.
No word has been uttered by the Rus
sian government as to its intentions
should a Poland under the suzerainty
of the Teutons be established as a
buffer kingdom between her and her
enemies, and surmises are rife as to
whether the czar’s government will
recognize the new kingdom and decide
not to attack it in the effort to reach
the Germans again. The latest
phase of the war’s results is regard
ed here as most interesting and un
ex pected. The great question now is
whether Poland can stand and shield
Germany and Austria from further
attacks from the east.
BOM BA R D CON ST A NTI NOPLE
LONDON, August 16.—A fleet of
allied airships bombarded Constantin
ople yesterday and started many
fires in the Ottoman capital. The
anti-airships guns of the Turks fired
several shots but none of the bom
barding airships was injured.
BOMBARD BELGRADE
LONDON, August 16.—The bom
bardment of Belgrade, the capital of
Serbia, has been resumed by ( the
Austrians while the Serbians have
commenced the bombardment of
Semlin - and Pancsova. The three
cities are close together * near the
place where the Save river enters the
Danube and divides Austrian from
Serbian territory.
CAPTURE RUSSIANS
LONDON, August 16.—Von
Buelow has captured two thousand
Russians at Kubisco but the number
of captures reported is by no means
as great as had been expected from
the manner in which the Russians
had been entrapped.
BERLIN, August 16.—The gather
ing in of Russian prisoners by the
victorious Teutons is now apparently
beginning as a result of the strategic
success of our armies. Von Hiclez has
just captured a thousand Muscovites
ami von Gallwitz has taken four thou
sand. Smaller numbers of men who
became detached from the main forces
in the retreat are being reported tak
en but a hope had existed that the
whole Russian force would have been
encircled and virtually destroyed.
This hope is now growing less but
that the losses to the enemy will be
enormous is assured.
SAYS WORKERS COULD
NOT SUPPORT FAMILIES.
Conditions in Rockefeller Plant at
Bayonne Reported to In
dustrial Relations.
BAYONNE, August 16.—In a re
port to the Industrial Relations com
mission on the Bayonne strike of the
Standard Oil men, it is charged that
while Rockefeller was reaping im
mense profits he paid low*er wages
than any other plant in the neighbor
hood. It is stated in the report that
| the wages are not sufficient to sup
port the families of the workers.
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♦ AND MAKES ESCAPE. ❖
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GRANTS PASS, Oregon, August
16.—To overpower and disarm the
sheriff who had him in charge and to
lock the sheriff up in his own cell and
then make his escape is the feat per
formed here yesterday by John Hoop
er who was about to bo brought up
for trial for highway robbery. Hoop
er is now at large but officers are hot
in pursuit.
WILL BRING OFFICIALS
TO PRIBILOFF ISLANDS.
VALLEJO, August 15.—Tho collier
Saturn has been ordered to Bremer
ton and thence with officials to the
Pribiloff islands. Tho collier Justin
which is now at Dutch Harbor has
been ordered to Mare Island.
FINANCE COTTON
GALVESTON, August 15.—The
southern bankers have decided to
finance the harvesting and the grad
ual marketing of cotton. The Euro-;
pean war has injured the cotton
states immeasurably and the recent
agitation in England to make cotton
contraband of war is a serious threat
to the cotton interests. All this has
made the action of the bankers neces- i
sary to save the growers from ruin.
TAFT TO PRESIDE.
NEW YORK, August 15.—William
Howard Taft started west today to
preside at the Unitarian convention
at San Francisco. He will also ad
dress the Red Cross conference which
is fixed for that city.
NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES.
PITTSBURG, August 15.—
First game—
Pittsburg . 4
Cincinnatti .5 j
Pitchers—Adams, Kantlehner; Dale,
Lear.
Second game—
Pittsburg . 0
Cincinnatti.6
Pitchers—McQuillan, Conzelman,
Kantlehner; Toney.
ST. LOUIS, August 15.—
St. Louis.12
Chicago.2
Pitchers—Ames; Pierce, Stand
ridge.
BROOKLYN, August 15.—
Brooklyn.5
New York.1
Pitchers—PfefTer; Schauer.
PHILADELPHIA, August 15.—
Phildelphia . 9
Boston.9
Pitchers—Demaree; Nehf, Barnes.
AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES.
NEW YORK, August 15.—
New York . 9
Philadelphia.&
Pitchers—Fisher; Nadors, Fil
lingim.
CHICAGO, August 15.—
Chicago.2
Detroit . 3
Pitchers—Russell; Dubuc.
BOSTON, August 15.—
Boston.4
Washington . 3
Pitchers—Ruth; Johnson.
CLEVELAND, August 15.—
First game—
Cleveland . 3
St. Louis.4
Pitchers—Mitchell, Harstad, Jones; j
Kood, Lowermilk.
Second game—
j Cleveland . ^
St. Louis.2
Pitchers-^Jones; Lowdermilk.
Mrs. Jafet Linderberg, wife of one
of the discoverers of Nome was a pas
senger on the Victoria yesterday.
ITALIANS WAR
IN NEW YORK
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EIGHT POLICEMEN WITH RE
VOLVERS REPULSE THIRTEEN
HUNDRED RESERVISTS
NEW YORK, August 16.—Eight
New York policemen with revolvers
■ in hands repulsed thirteen hundred
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Italian reservists at the docks here
! today when the reservists became
riotous. The reservists were gather
ed at the dock preparing to board the
' liner Canopic which was to take them
to Italy to enter the war. While at
I the dock some of the men threw
stones at the custom house and at
I some of the interned steamers of the
Hamburg-Ameriean line. When the
police attempted to stop the lawless
ness the Italians became nasty and
threatening. The small group of
policemen found it advisable to draw
their revolvers and with the guns
pointed at the mob they drove it back
after a rather severe light. Three of
the policemen were injured and ten
of the Italians were arrested.
PRIEST BRINGS ABOUT
END OF A STRIKE.
ST. LOUIS, August 16.—Father
Dempsey of this city has managed by
bringing the striking teamsters and
employes together to put an end to
the strike which began a few days
ago. He persuaded the men and
bosses to confer yesterday and the re
sult was that the employers have
granted an increase of wages and
better conditions all around. Work
was resumed by the men today.
WATSON COMES AND GOES.
The Admiral Watson arrived from
the south Saturday evening at 6:30
and sailed for the west again at 0
o’clock. From Seattle she brought
for Seward; Catherine A. Trankly,
Mrs. J. W. Wright, Arthur Wright,
Mrs. Frank Sweeney, J. W. Barnes, J.
E. Mighill, Mrs. Lyons and D. J.
Singer.
The round trippers were; Lucy
Armstrong, Fanny Blount, Margaret
Bouth, Claire LeGrand, Mary Rich
ardson, Minnie Agee, Helen Bosh
mary, Mrs. J. B. Gorham, Mrs. C. M.
Dickens, M. Lawton, Lucy Shatwell,
Mrs. S. Ashbrons, Robert M. Hopkins,
Mrs. Hopkins, Dr. and Mrs. Callist,
Miss Grave, Miss Wapler, M. Berry
man, Mrs. Berryman, Rose Peterson,
Miss Walters, Mrs. and Miss Henroit
and Mrs. V. E. Pfern.
Going west she took the following
from Seward to Anchorage; Mr. and
Mrs. David A. Quinn, John Strom and
R. Baker.
SANTA ANA LEAVES.
The Santa Ana sailed Saturday
afternoon at 4:30. This will be the
last trip of the Santa Ana for Bristol
Bay this year. She had aboard a
large shipment of freight for Nusha
gak and Dillingham, as well as for the
other ports. She took the following
passengers from Seward.
For Unga: Miss Ruth Spence, Miss
Bennett, Mrs. I. Van Slyke and Ed
ward Pearson. For Nushagak; Mr.
and Mrs. Glass and two children, Mrs.
Louise Neilson and Miss Amelia
Blondo. For Kodiak; Miss Martha
Tape and Miss Margaret Denuoff. L.
E. Carr for Unalaska.
MARIPOSA COMES AND GOES.
The Mariposa arrived from the
west at 1:30 p. m. yesterday and sail
ed again at 2:30. She brought no
! passengers from the west and took
the following east:
For Seattle; T. J. Kane, L. E.
Tood, Chas. Meyers, Otto Anderson,
G. W. Uzzel, J. R. Davis and William
Francis.
For Valdez; R. E. Murphy and
Thomas Riggs. Robert Scott for Cor
dova, Victor Effendahl for Juneau,
Larelt Jensen for Ketchikan and 6
1 steerage.
SALE TODAY.
The second sale of the lots at An
chorage is scheduled to begin today.
MATANUSKA
ABOUT READY
SURVEY NEARLY FINISHED AND
FORMS FOR LEASES HAVE
BEEN DRAWN UP.
WASHINGTON, August 16.—It is
announced that the survey of the
Matanuska coal fields will be com*
pleted this fall, and it is also announc
ed that Secretary Lane has completed
drawing up the forms for the leases.
He has submitted the forms to men
who operate coal mines to secure their
opinions of them before publishing
them or distributing them. The sur
veyors have been working all tne
summer in the coal fields and have
divided the ground into plots of the
size to be leased by private individ
uals. It is thought likely that some
leases may be taken this fall and
winter but it is the general belief
that no operating will be carried on
until the railroad reaches the fields.
F. G. CARPENTER
NOW INSEWARD
WRITER WHO HAS THREE MIL
LION READERS COMES TO
TELL ABOUT US.
Frank G. Carpenter, probably the
most widely read newspaperman in
the United States, is now in Seward
and is securing facts about the gov
ernment railroad portion of the ter
ritory to present to his readers who
number three million in the United
States. He is accompanied by his
daughter, Miss Frances Carpenter.
Mr. Carpenter has a syndicate of
thirty-five papers. He is the owner
of the syndicate on whose list are
many of the greatest newspapers of
America. Commencing on the first
Sunday of 1916 he will begin the pub
lication of a series of articles on Al
aska and this series will be continued
for a whole year, so that at the rate
of three million readers a w?eck it
means one hundred and fifty million
pairs of eyes reading about Alaska in
a year from one source alone. He
came from Nome on the Victoria after
having visited the southeastern part
of the territory and after having gone
down the Yukon. He will go to An
chorage overland and return to
Sew’ard.
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SEATTLE, August 15.—1The Brit
ish steamer Tarethybius which has
arrived here states that the freight
recently shipped in by the Russian
government to Vladivostok is piled in
a heap that covers forty square miles.
It has been shipped in from all parts
of the Pacific.
ALASKA EXPORTS DOUBLE.
SEATTLE, August 15.—The Alas
ka exports this year are double those
of last year. The figures arc now be
ing made up and will be ready later.
ALAMEDA PASSENGERS.
SEATTLE, August 16.—The fol
lowing passengers left on the Ala
meda last Friday for Seward:
E. Wagner, wife and baby, Mrs. S.
Sheim, Mrs. E. McCudder, C. Faulk
ner, F. Whitmore, J. Gyard, Wm.
Freeman. For Knik: C. Chapman,
C. Reynolds, Mrs. M. Bacon, R. Long
erman, Mrs. J. Nestor, P. Bates, Mrs.
R. Coombs and twelve steerage.
PRESIDENT AMERICAN
DREDGE CO. HERE.
Ben Bernard, president of the
American Dredge Building and Con
struction company, arrived on the
Victoria from Nome where his comp
any and its subsidiary operating
companies are busy installing dredges
and working ground with dredges al
ready built. He is here on business
connected with a lawsuit recently filed
by the Sunrise Dredging company .
MEXICANS DRIVEN
ACROSS IDE BORDER
DRIVE MEXICANS OUT
NOGALES, August 15.—Mobs com
posed of hundreds of people began a
fierce riot against the Mexicans today
and drove all the people of that na
tionality across the border. As the
mobs gathered some shouted to “drive
the Greasers out and scatter before
the soldiers interfere." The scene was
one of fierce disorder for a time but it
is declared that no serious injuries
were inflicted on anyone. It is re
ported that one American was mur
dered just across the line in reprisal
but this story has not yet been sub
stantiated.
BLAMES CARRANZA PEOPLE
SAN ANTONIO, August 15.—Gen
eral Funston announces that he is
convinced that the Constitutionalists
are responsible for the recent viola
tion of United States territory. He
has affidavits to show that a date had
actually been set for the sacking of
Brownsville and that the Carranza
LARGEST VESSEL THAT
EVER CAME TO SEWARD.
Sinalao Arrives at Anchorage and
Will Unload Four Thousand
Tons There.
The government ship Sinalao ar
rived from Panama at Anchorage last
Saturday morning about five o’clock j
according to word brought on the '
Mariposa. She has four thousand
tons of freight for that place and will
come here after unloading. She is
described as the largest vessel that
ever came to these waters. She made
the trip from the canal in about 16
days. It is said that she was compel
led to anchor away off from the new
railroad town, and in this respect it
may be mentioned that a persistent
rumor has gained currency that the
tests made of the sea bottom over
there have caused the authorities to
give up the idea of dredging a chan
nel, at least for the present. It must
be admitted that no positive informa
tion to this effect has been secured
and the statement is made only fro
what it is worth.
NOTED HUNTER ARRIVES.
Daniel J. Singer, grandson of the
founder of the Singer Sewing
Machine Company, arrived in town on
the Watson on a hunting trip to this
part of Alaska. Mr. Singer has made
a hunting trip every summer and is
now getting material for a book
which he is writing. The book will
deal with the animals on the Kenai
Peninsula, in the Arctic and those of
India. Mr. Singer made a trip up
here in 1913, with Judge Ford, and se
cured specimens of all animals with
the exception of the mountain sheep
and the brown bear. Tomorrow’ he
will leave for the lower Kenai lake
where Tom Towle will aid him in se
curing some good sheep. After a
stay of three weeks out there he will
proceed to Knik where Nate White
will take him in his power boat to
Snug harbor. At that place there
are many brown bears.
SCOW WENT ADRIFT
IN A BAD STORM.
The scow which was being used by
C. E. Bade for bringing sand and
gravel for the street work is now
drifting somewhere outside the bay
unless the search which was taken up
last night has been successful. The
scow was taken out four or five days
ago in tow of the tug Columbia under
Captain W. King. Before being
twelve hours out a storm came up
and, to make matters worse, a rope
got entangled in the Columbia's pro
pellor so that the scow had to be cut
adrift at a place about four fifties
northeast of the seal rocks. Being
short of fuel the tug had some dif
ficulty in getting home but managed
to do so with all well. J. P. Mantell, ]
the former street contractor, was
aboard at the time of the trouble.
Captain King has again gone out in
search of the scow.
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general, Nafarette, had boasted tha!
he would plant the Mexican flag over
the postoffice building in that city.
PAN AMERICAN APPEAL
WASHINGTON, August 15.—The
Pan-American appeal to the Mexico:,
has been published and is found to
contain no threat of interference* will
i the Mexicans by force of arm>. The
! note simply calls for a meeting on
neutral ground at which the con
stitutional reconstruction of Mexico
j might be discussed and arranged, af
1 ter which elections should be held. If
Carranza refuses this proposal it
is believed that the convention will
proceed without him.
| SAN DIEGO, August 10. The
Yaqui Indians who were reported to
be again threatening the foreigner,
are now reported to he quiet. Two
hundred Mexican soldiers have left
for Guaymas to protect the foreign
ers.
j. l. McPherson
FOR ALASKA Ul REAl
Pays Short Visit to Seward as Part
of Tour with Plan for 1917
Celebration.
.f. L. McPherson, secretary of the
Alaska Bureau of the Seattle chamb
er of commerce, passed by on the
Victoria yesterday having concluded a
tour through Alaska whose object it
was to get the Alaska cities to com
bine with Seattle for the celebration
of the semi-centennial of the terri
tory’s purchase in that city and in Al
aska cities. He had to keep going to
Seattle this time but may return. He
stated while here that the principal
object of his visit was to learn at first
hand from the people of Aia-sku how
Seattle could help to make the 1917
celebration a success. The plan is to
hold a festival in Seattle for a few
days prior to the dates set for the
celebrations in Alaska and to bring
people to Alaska by the advertising
the territory will receive from the
celebrations. At the conclusion of the
Seattle celebration the visitors would
be invited north to attend celebra
tions held in the various Alaska
towns on dates so arranged that the
tourists might take them all in. Mr.
McPherson says that Seattle has no
desire to take away the interest of
the people from the Alaska celebra
tions and only wants to assist so that
all the celebrations may be success
ful.
CUT IN ASSESSMENT
INCLUDES IMPROVEMENTS.
The cut of twenty-five per cent
made in the valuation of real estate
in the city includes improvements.
The council will meet this evening
and will meet again tomorrow even
ing to receive bids for the work on
the school building. In the meantime
the school board and the school com
mittee of the council is discussing the
matter.
COMMISSIONER RIGGS GONE.
Commissioner Thomas Riggs got
away on the Mariposa. He will go
into Fairbanks via Valdez.
JUDGE TUCKER GOES OUT.
Judge Tucker of the district court
of the Second division passed by on
the Victoria yesterday with Mrs.
Tucker and will visit his home in the
south. He was appointed to the bench
at Nome nearly two years ago by
President Wilson. Miss Grace
Gamble, a young lady who has been
teaching school at Nome for the past
couple of years, was also a passenger
to the outside. Judge Lomen and his
son Ralph were also prominent Nome
ites aboard. Judge Tucker will take
in the Panama exposition beforo re
turning. He says Nome is having a
most successful season this year. It
has plenty of water.
Today the Seward Gateway is the
greatest established daily and weekly.