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Xo| M N<> ___SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1915.___Ten Cents the Copy
RUSSIANS WIN GREAT VICTORY AT DVINSK, HALT
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THE GERMAN HOSTS AND MAY YET SAVE ARMY
TEUTONS MASSING
BORDERS FOR
Russian Triumph Expected To Save
Riga and Petrograd -- Germans
Weaken Forces in Russia For
Balkan Campaign -- Wi Ison and
Bryan Confer On Latter’s Propos
ed Mission—Austria Recalls Dumba
at Request of United States.
RUSSIANS DEFEAT GERMANS
PETROGRAD, Sept. 22.—The Russians have de
feated the Germans in a trench battle before Dvinsk
and for the present at least our army in that quarter is
safe from being entrapped. It was learned yesterday
that the Teutons had withdrawn great forces of troops
to the south for the coining drive against the Balkan
states and our troops took the offensive with the result
that the German advance has not only been checked but
the enemy has been driven with severe losses so saving
the left of our army of Riga. It is claimed by the military
authorities that as a result of this victory Riga and Petro
grad are saved and the morale of the German armies has
been seriously affected. The enemy's vigor today has de
creased perceptibly. It is noticeable, however, that the
official statement issued here is silent about the operations
around Vilna where the great danger was evident yester
day and the conclusion is formed hv many that our forces
there are still in a bad predicament although the news
from the front shows that escape from the Teutonic trap
is by no means impossible.
MASSING NEAR BALKANS
LONDON, Sept. 22.—Flashes from all parts of
Europe this afternoon indicate that the Germans and
Austrians are massing immense forces near the borders
of Roumania and Serbia in preparation for an attack in
tended to force the way through to Turkish territory.
Athens declares that Bulgaria has been offered large ter
ritorial concessions for her participation in the fight with
the Turks and Teutons and this territory will probably
be taken from Serbia. The news is expected to result in
a grand final offensive by the allied forces in Gallipoli pen
insula to force the way to Constantinople before the
Teutons can hope to reinforce the Turks around the
Dardanelles or supply them with munitions.
BRYAN MEETS WILSON
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—William Jennings Bryan
and President Wilson are conferring today after an ar
rangement made yesterday and the subject is almost un
doubtedly connected with the proposed mission of Mr.
Bryan to Europe for the purpose of ascertaining the
chances of bringing about i>eace. The two men appear to
retin their old relations of friendship and it is qiute pos
sible that when Bryan reaches Europe he will be sup
ported in his efforts by more than his own prestige. In
deed, it is an open secret that he will be able to tell unof
ficially the heads of the European governments that the
president of the United States is willing and ready
to use his offices for the furtherance of Bryan’s wishes
with respect to a restoration of peace.
BRITISH TAX MANY THINGS
LONDON, Sept. 22.—Chancellor of the Exche : ler
McKenna reported to the house of commons l'-.t night
that the anticipated revenues for the year will be one bil
lion three hundred and sixty million and that the expendi
tures will be seven billion nine hundred and fifty millions.
The debts of the empire at the end of the year amount to
eight billion. The navy, he reported, co§t nine hundred
and fifty million and the army cost three and a half billion.
The daily war expenditure is twenty millions.
To meet this vast expenditure McKenna proposes to
tax incomes and raise revenue taxes so as to raise six
hundred and fifty million a year. He also proposes to
abolish half penny postage and raise the price. Other
proposals are to raise to fifty per cent the duties on coffee
and tobacco, one hundred per cent on patent medicines,
and to place a tax of two dollars a quarter hundred on
sugar. The proposals have made many wince but the
general feeling is that the empire must take its medicine
if the war is to be brought to a successful conclusion.
ON BALKAN
DRIVE TO TURKEY
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❖ ANTHONY COMSTOCK *
<• HAS PASSED AWAY. *
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Anthony
J Comstock, the famous antagonist of
all things tending to impurity and ob
scenity, passed away here this morn
I ing at the age of seventy-one. His
illness was brief. Some days ago he
was stricken with pneumonia and aid
ed oy his great age the attack soon
sapped all his strength. He was fam
ous as a leader in movements against
crueity to animals, against suggestive
dressing by women, against the nude
in art ami various other practises
which he honestly believed to be im
moral.
MRS. C. E. BUNNELL
JOINS HER HUSBAND.
FAIRBANKS.—Mrs. C. E. Bunnell
and daughter Jean arrived on the
Delta Wednesday, having joined her
husband at Ruby before his departure
for Fairbanks.
Mrs. Bunnell has come to this city
to make her home during the tenure
of the judge’s office at least, and will
add a great deal to Fairbanks society,
as she is an exceedingly bright and
charming woman.
When Judge Bunnell received his
appointment as judge of the l*ourth
division. Mrs. Bunnell went to t4i%»
Outside on a visit until such time as
she cculd join her hu^jand.
The Bunnells have not yet chosen
the site of their future habitation in
Fairbanks.—Citizen.
MARIPOSA HERE AT FOUR.
The Mariposa is due from the south
at 4 o’clock this afternoon according
I to a cable received this morning.
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INDICTED TOR
THE EASTLAND
GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS AND
COMPANY OFFICIALS
MUST STAND TRIAL.
CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—George
Arnold, William Hull and Walter
Steele, all officials of the Chicago and
St. Joseph Steamship company, Capt.
Harry Pederson, master of the East
land, J. M. Erickson, engineer, and
Charles EcklifTe and Robert Reid,
government steamboat inspectors,
were indicted today by the grand jury
on the charge of manslaughter be
cause of the sinking of the steamer
Eastland at a dock in this city when
hundred of lives were lost. The jury
ignored the announcement that the
government inspectors were outside
its jurisdiction and that the inspect
ors should be made amenable as they
were probably more to blame than
the captain or officials or anyone else.
GOING ON MARIPOSA.
The following will leave for An
chorage on the Mariposa:
Cleo Williams, Ana Garden, A. S.
Dautrick, Alaska resident agent
Great Northern R. R., D. J. Singer,
Mrs. A. F. Davis, Miss Nellie Shea,
Geo. Campbell, F. B. Tracy and Lieut.
Mehaffey.
J. T. Harvey has started the con
struction of a four or five room
Bungalow on Second avenue below
the old school building. The building
is being erected for speculative pur
poses and should be finished in about
four or five weeks.
RECOVER LEAD
IN MOOSE PASS
RONAN AND JAMES GET THE
PAY AGAIN ON THE SKEEN
STEVENSON GROUND.
Ronan anil James have picked up
the lead again on the Skeen-Steven
son property in Moose Pass and it
has been found to carry the same
good values found on the surface.
Messrs. Jack Ronan and Bennett
James took over the property after
the discovery by Messrs Skeen and
Stevenson and paid down cash, the
amount of which has not been told.
The new owners immediately began
to sink and went to a depth of twenty
five feet where the lead faulted.
They then drifted and on that level
picked the lead up again and found it
to be similar in value and otherwise
to the lead as it was on top. Mr.
Ror.an came in last evening and went
back again this morning to the Pass
where he is using the arrastre of John
Gilpatrick to test the ore. About the
first of the month he will bring the
cleanup to Seward/ The opinion of
people who know that district now is
that its future is extraordinarily
bright.
WIFE OF ABE ATTELL
HAS SUED FOR DIVORCE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.—Mrs.
Attell has sued her husband, the not
ed prize fighter, for divorce. They
have no children but a large amount |
of property. Unfaithfulness is the
charge.
TELLS ABOUT
THE NOME OIL
OIL DISCOVERY REPORTED BE
FORE IN GATEWAY DE
SCRIBED BY FINDER
SEATTLE, Sept. 22.—W. B. Van
valin, the discoverer of the lake of
oil near Wainright, north of Point
Barrow, on the north coast of Alaska,
has arrived here with samples of the
oil d'scovered by him. The locality,
he says, is four hundred and fifty
miles from Wainright. The speci
mens in the possession of the finder
show that the oil is of high con.
mercial value. It flows consta'.t'y
from four springs into a Like which
it has formed at the foot of the hill
and can be run by gravity to tide
water which is nearby. For three
months of the year ships can go right
to the spot, Mr. Vanvalin declares.
He is now on the way to California
to interview oil men with a view to
raising money to develope the dis
covery and believes that the result
of the development will have a re- j
markably beneficial effect on the
future of Alaska. Vanvalin is a
member of the United State.: Bureau
of Education and has a fine reputa
tion so that his story of the diirovery
is accepted and has caused tremend
ous interest. He refuses to tell the
exact location of those springs and
lak* of oil and will give only the ap
proximate idea mentioned abov*. The
papers here give the story of Mr.
Vanvalin and, although your cor
respondent knows that the Gateway
has published-the story of the dis
covery before, he believes that any
details arc worth repeating as the
discovery promises to have an extra
ordinary influence on Alaska’s future.
VILLA FLEES
TO NORTHWARD
CARRANZA CAPTURES CHIHU
AHUA AND WAR IS
ABOUT OVER.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Car
ranza has captured Chihuahua and
marched in victoriously while Villa
and his army are in full flight to the
northward where he is expected to
try to join the forces of Governor
Maytorena who still adheres to the
defeated chief. That the war is now
virtually over is generally conceded
as the forces still at the disposal of
Villa are so small and so much coun
try is under the banner of Carranza
that the former has hardly the slight
est opportunity of recuperating. The
victory of Carranza is almost certain,
according to the opinion of officials,
to hasten his recognition as head of
the provisional government of Mexico.
FOUR KILLED IN A
WRECK NEAR PORTLAND.
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 22.—
Four people were killed eight miles
from this city today when a Southern
Pacific train ran into an auto truck.
From what has been learned it is evi
dent that all the casualties occurred
to the occupants of the truck but the
details are not yet clear.
MAN AND WOMAN FOUND
BATTERED AND DEAD.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 22—The bodies of
Mrs. Marguerite Favar, an actress,
and of J. C. Crowell, a cotton mill
man of Greenwood, Mississippi, were
found here today in a room battered
and cut with a razor. Both were
dead. Revenge for some cause or an
other is believed to be the motive for
the murders as a large amount of
jewellry was found untouched in the
apartment.
A MILLION DOLLAR FIRE
AT LOS ANGELES TODAY.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22.—The
Union warehouse building was
destroyed by fire this morning with a
loss of fully a million dollars. All the
contents, including great stocks of
groceries and provisions of all sorts,
were completely destroyed. The
cause of the fire has not been learned
but it may have been a spark.
REALTY MAN ARRESTED
FOR BIG TRAIN ROBBERY.
Woman and Well Known Bellingham
Man Accussed of Murder
of Three People.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash., Sept.
22.—John Brooks, a well known real
estate man of Bellingham, and D. J.
Hennessy and M[rs. Eliza Pierce, of
Oregon, are in jail on the charge of
robibng the train on the Great North
ern railroad in February 1914 when
three passengers lost their lives. The
woman is noly charged with being an
accessory because she harbored
Brooks when she knew that the offi
cers were on bis trail for the robbery
and murder.
JOE WILSON ILL.
Joe Wilson, of Canyon crock, was
reported to be very ill at his camp
and Dr. Sloan was sent for to at
tend the case. Dr. Sloan left here
last night about 6 o’clock on a special
car and no doubt started for the camp
early this morning. As^it is 21 miles
off the track no word will be had of
the seriousness of the case till this
evening or in the morning.
EVANS TONIGHT.
The Admiral Evans is due from the
south at 9 o’clock this evening.
PART or NEW YORK
CUV FALLS THROUGH
[ NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—A most
extraordinary occurrence took place
here this morning when an entire city
block above the Seventh avenue sub
wav, between Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth streets caved in and
fell through into the subway. Fol
lowing that c ave in another occurred i
south of Twenty Third street. In the
latter case a water main burst and for
a time the people who had fallen with
the street into the hole were threat
ened with drowning. Just as the first
cave in occurred a crowded street car
came along and plunged into the im
mense cavity with a fall of thirty
feet. The car was flattened into the
shape of a mushroom and four people
were killed outright, the remainder :
escaping miraculously with only seri- |
ous injuries. The others killed are
estimated at about half a dozen but
only lour have yet been positively ac-1
counted for. The street was crowded
with pedestrians at the time of the J
occurrence and many of them were
drawn into the great hole from the ;
sidewalks. Two hundred, at least, I
I
were in the most appalling position
for a time and the number of deaths
is regarde as amazingly small. Many
were rendered unconscious and were ,
rushed to the hospital. This all hap
pened in the first cave in and as the
excitement was at its height the
second subsidence took place creating
almost a panic in the neighborhood.
Owing to the rather slow tall many
of the people who found themselves
at the bottom of the great hole were
fully conscious when the water main
bur»t and began to till tin? cavity.
1 nen came heroic efforts on the part
of the firemen and police and fortun
ately the great majority of the parti
ally entombed people were taken out
alive.
(Later.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—The num
ber of people more or less seriously
injured by the cave-in over the sub
way is about two hundred as nearly
as tan be learned b\ the newspaper
reporters. Many of the injured are
in such a serious condition that a
fatal termination may come but
others only suffer from broken limbs.
The cave-in had a similar effect on
the houses to that of a violent earth
quake followed by a subsidence of the
foundations.
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Investiga
tions this afternoon into the cave-in
showed that it was caused by a blast
of dynamite put in by the workmen.
The charge is believed to have been
greater than permitted.
PUBLISH ARCHIBALD LETTERS
LONDON, Sept. 22.—Seventeen of the letters found
on Archibald, the American newspaperman, have been
published here but it is found that none of them contains
anything sensational. The British government secured
information that Archibald when he left New York was
on his way to Vienna and Berlin with letters from Ambas
sador Dumba and Bernstorff and he was immediately ar
rested. Some of the letters, the ones that were not dis
covered, are believed now to have been contained in an
empty walking cane which was overlooked. Of the seven
teen letters published only one or two contain anything
worth mentioning. One of them signed by Dumba con
tained the statement that President \\ ilson is self-willed
and that Lansing’s arguments were very weak. One of
the letters was from Ambassador Bernstorf but it con
tained nothing except a commendation of Archibald as a
friend of Germany.
GERMAN TRICK SUSPECTED
THE HAGUE, Sept. 22.—That Germany now has in
view a great attack on the British coast and that she is
massing her submarines for the purpose is the statement
made in one of the leading newspapers of Amsterdam this
morning on what is claimed to be the best authority. The
pretended recall of the submarine captains to Berlin for
consultation and instructions is said to be nothing but a
trick to hide the real reason for the supension of sub
marine .warfare. The plan is said to be to send out the
German fleet preceded and surrounded with submarines
which will attack from under water the British fleet
when the German men of war engage them.
DUMBA TO LEAVE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Ambassador Dumba
notified Secretary of State Lansing late this afternoon
that his government had instructed him to leave the
United States in complance with the request of the Ameri
can government. Dumba then made a formal application
for a safe conduct for himself and his wile and the am has
sador will leave as soon as possible.
SWISS EXPENSES GREAT
PARIS, Sept. 22.—The mobilization of the S viss
army for the defense of the borders cost twentj-eight
million dollars up to September 1 according to a statement
made by the minister of finance yesterday. The army is
still being maintained at its full strength and the drain on
the little republic threatens to be almost disastrous.
BRYAN COMES OUT SMILING
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Bryan came out from the
White House this afternoon smilling and apparently very
happy after his conference with the president. He re
fused to talk about the conference but it was very evident
that he was perfectly pleased by his reception and the re
I suit of the conversation.