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SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1916. Ten Cent, the Cap?
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CRISIS IS PASSED
BERLIN, April 27.—(Bulletin)—The crisis in the re
lations between the United States and Germany has pass
ed and there will be no rupture. The United Press is now
able to make this assertion positively on the highest
authority but for the present it cannot go into the reasons.
(Note: Charles \V. Ackerman, the United Press staff
correspondent in Berlin, enjoys, it is well known, the
closest confidence of the officials of the German govern
ment and his predictions in the past have invariably been
confirmed by later developments. The present statement
that a nipture has been avoided may be taken almost as
official.)
KAISER DISCUSSING QUESTION
BERLIN, April 27.—A momentous conference, with
the continuance of the relations between this nation and
the United States in the balance, is now in progress at the
field headquarters of the kaiser himself. He has received
the views of the Imperial Chancellor, von Bethmann Hol
weg, General von Falkenhayn, chief of staff of the army,
and Admiral von Holtzendorf, chief of the admiralty
staff, and is now weighing the whole matter. The men
named have defined the American demand more accurate-;
lv and it is generally understood that the German reply
will not meet the American demands fully. How far Ger
many will go is not known but it is supposed that it will
go far enough to prevent a break. The kaiser is said to
be on the eastern front and von Hindenburg is reported
to have been consulted by him on the subject but the views
of the famous field marshal have not been mentioned.
MEXICAN FEELING
AGAINST U. S. GROWS
AGITATE AGAINST U. S.
TORREON, April 27.—Coen, the American consul at
Durango City, has issued advice to all Americans to leave
the city and he himself is considering the advisability of
leaving for the border as a serious situation has been
created through the violent anti-American agitation car
ried on by the Durango newspapers since the American
soldiers and the Mexicans clashed at Parral. Similar
agitation is going on in other places throughout the re
public and the relations between the peoples of the two na
tions are constantly growing worse. _
LABOR COMMISSION
FIXES THE WAGES
ANCHORAGE, April 27. — The
Labor Commission announced the new
wage schedule this morning and the
Union is now in session considering
it.
Common labor wages are fixed at a
minimum of forty-three and one third
cents an hour and a maximum of
forty-seven and a half.
Longshoremen are to get fifty-six
and three-fourths cents an hour.
Carpenters, machinists and other
skilled labor get seventy cents an
hour.
Cooks get ninety to a hundred and
twenty-five dollars a month.
Teamsters get eighty-five and board
a month.
LATEST
UNION NOT SATISFIED
ANCHORAGE, April 27.—The .
Union ie satisfied with only a portion
of the wage scale fixed by the labor
commission. The chief objection is to
the common labor scale. The union
meeting adjourned until this after
noon pending a report from a commit
tee of each class of labor who are in
terviewing the labor board to seek an
increase. It does not, admittedly,
j look good for a settlement and it is
believed if the increase is not granted
the union will vote to reject the whole
scale. In this event all railroad work
will stop indefinitely. Business men
are holding a meeting this afternoon
to see about unloading the steamers
in the harbor and it is believed they
will unload the boats themselves if
they cannot get men to do so. •
Thirty Thousand
Munitions Men Out
PITTSBURG, April 27.—Two small
plants connected with the Westing
house industries were closed today on
account~of a strike and the resulting
inability to secure men enough. The
leaders of the strikes estimate the
number of men out on strike in muni
tions plants to be thirty thousand.
TO APPOINT ELK US
WASHINGTON, April 27. —Presi
dent Wilson has decided to nominate
Abram Elkus to succeed Morganthau
as ambassador to Constantinople.
POPULAR YOUNG
COUPLE MARRIED
Mr. Frank Bigford, a popular young
business man, and Miss Anna Nelson,
a pretty young Seward lady, were
joined in marriage last evening at
the home of l)r. H. 0. Sehalaben at 8
o’clock by Rev. C. T. Cook of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Mr
Herbert Tozier acted as best man and
Miss Evelyn Carlson was bridesmaid.
The ceremony was exceedingly
prettily arranged. Mrs. E. 0. Saw*
yer played the wedding march under
a wedding bell which hung in a decor
ative arch, and Mr. Brice Howard also
contributed to the musical accompani
ment by the rendition of “0 Promise
Me.” The bride’s dress was of crepe
meteor. She carried bride’s roses
The bridesmaid was gowned in old rose
charmeuse and carried pink carna
tions. Thirty-five guests were pres
ent and the presents were many and
beautiful. The happy young couple
will make their home in the Vaughan
Flat.
COMMISSION TO I j
HAVE BALL TEAM
Operator Moyer of the Engineering
Commission’s telegraph service says
the Commission can supply a baseball
team from the ranks of its own em
ployees that will play any team in
this city for a purse of $200.
CEMENT WALKS
FOR R. R. BLDG.
TROUBLE FOUND TO MAKE
GRADES BECAUSE NO OR
DINANCE PASSED. ;
The Engineering Commission has
decided to build cement walks around |
the headquarters building but an of- j
fieial of the city, who is authority
for the foregoing statement, also says j
that the council cannot go through!
with such work legally until an or- j
dinance is passed establishing the city J
grades. Even the grading which;
has been done on Fourth avenue, he
says, has been done without an ordin
ance to make it legal, but, of course,
it will stand as the people themselves
are the final arbiters. The work on
the new Harriman building will prob
ably not be pushed until the question
of grades nearby has been settled.
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BEN WELCH, G. A. K.
BOOSTER, IS DEAD
Special to Gateway by United Preis.
NEWBURYPORT, Mass., April IK
—When the Grand Army of the Re
public goes into camp here next fall,
one of its most gallant f.ghters will be
among the missing for Benjamin
Welch, known to G. A. R. veterar.r
throughout the country, is dead here
from the mTo.: s of concussion of the
brain. Welch seiwed during the war
in the famous Mozart regiment, and
had the best retold of his company.
He was one of the most active and
enthusiastic boosters for the coming
encampment.
BUILDING AND IMPROVING
Kemp & company have received the
contract to erect the van Gilder build
ing near the Bank of Seward. It is
understood that the word “company"
stands for Charles Krefting, the well
known builder of Seward.
Jay Spencer is making several im
provements in the Louvre buidling on
Fifth avenue.
The store formerly occupied by the
Palace of Sweets is now being altered
to hold the offices of Dr. Romig.
City Engineer Dunlap has moved
the office of engineer under the Bank
of Seward with Leon Booker, magis
trate.
COLONEL DODD, CHASER OF BANDIT VILLA,
GENERALLY GETS WHAT HE GOES AFTER
I PHOTO fiV F*MQ*f*QUIk4~r
tp/CTua.es corporation
CAVf)LfZYM£H Id MEX/CRH DESERT.
[COLONEL GEORGE 800001
[Colonel George A. Dodd, the commander of the cavalry brigade of the punitive
expedition Into Mexico which defeated Villa's band in a fight near Guerrero,
Mexico has seen in the forty years of his service In the regulars as much hard
fighting as nnv officer of the service He was graduated from the Military acaa*
emy at West Point in 1876 and was immediately assigned as a second lieutenant
to the famous Third cavalry, the command that has performed more hard serv
ice on the border in the past four years than any other regiment In the a™1?*
Colonel Dodd has now fought Indians, Spaniards, Filipinos and Mexicans. W en
President Wilson ordered General Funston to send a punitive expedition into
Mexico Funston promptly gave an Important command to Dodd, for he knew,
as an army officer put it the other day, "that old Dodd was the man who could
Villa if anybody could.” There are a lot of army officers who 10
congratulateDodd. He will be alx.y-four year, old on July K of thl.
vear rffcd It Is expected he will be retired at that time The colonel himself le
one of the best liked meg in -the army among the troopers. He Is quiet, more
than six feet tall, slender and rawboned, with hair that was blond a f«w veura
ogo. but le now turning gray. The Seventh and Tenth cavalry regiments w^re
understood to be the nucleus of the column picked for thechase of V”a_ The
Seventh cavalry le famous as the regiment which was wiped out In the Cuatei
massacre. The Tenth Is composed of negro troopers and has a flne servlee reo
ord. Army men think Colonel Dodd will get his brigadier sura for his fine work
in Mexieo,] . .
SIR ROGER CASEMENT IN TOWER
AND MAY HAVE TO MEET DEATH
Steamers Cannot
Unload Freight
Farragut and Aroline May Leave An
chorage at Noon Today.
ANCHORAGE, April 27.—The
steamships Aroline and Farragut arc
in port but not a pound of frieght has
been unloaded from either. The re
port now is that they will wait until
noon and if the strike is not settled
by that time they will pull out and
carry their freight back to Seattle.
IMMENSE MERGER
OK MOVIE HOl'SES
NEW YORK, April 27.—A merger
! of seven moving picture corporations
involving between twenty-five mil
lion and a hundred million dollars was
announced today. The merger in
cludes the Triangle, Keytsone,
Majestic, Reliance, Famous Players,
Jesse Laske and New York corpora
tions.
EXPERIMENT 7 YEARS ON
1,000 RATS TO FIND
IDEAL HUMAN FOOD
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
MADISON, Wis., April 19.—After
experimenting for 7 years on 1,000
rats, to find the ingredients of the
food that will make human beings
live the most efficient lives, Prof. E. V.
McCollum, it was learned today, has
just obtained his first satisfactory re
sults and expects to be ready to pre
scribe the perfect food before long.
McCollum still is in search of the
chemical parts of two unknown com
pounds that he must have. He
chooses the food for his rats as care
fully as though they were dyspeptic
millionaires. Some of the long tail
ed boys and girls have grown to be
quite chummy with the professor.
ALASKA DUE MIDNIGHT
The steamship Alaska is due to
night at midnight.
The de Sherbinins have moved into
•a new residence at First and Adams.
CASEMENT IN THE TOWER
LONDON, April 27.—Sir Roger Casement, the chief
instigator of the Irish revolt, has been conveyed to the
Tower of London and will probably be placed on trial for
; high treason soon. Strong efforts will be made to save
j him from execution and Redmond himself is said to be
j using his friendship with Asquith to save his life. Case
ment was first placed in Brixton jail but was removed
to the Tower last Tuesday. Owing to the fact that he was
once an official of the British government the feeling in
England against him is bitter and the government is be
ing exhorted to execute him.
IRISH STAND BY BRITISH
LONDON, April 27. — The loyal friendship of the
Irish Nationalist leaders and the masses of the Irish peo
ple to the government of Prime Minister Asquith has re
sulted in the collapse of the revolt engineered by the
society of Sinn Fein. The situation in Dublin is compara
tively quiet today but possibly there will be more fighting
as the British troops are trying to capture the revolution
ists and the latter are fighting to the end as well as their
poor supplies of munitions will permit. The arrival of
strong reinforcements of government troops from Eng
land and the lack of machine guns disheartened the Sinn
Feins, while the Germans evidently failed to give the sup
port expected. John E. Redmond, chairman of the Irish
parliamentary party, is credited with the real work oi
rendering the uprising abortive as he called upon the
1 Irish people not to betray the trust imposed in them when
he assured the British government on their behalf at the
beginning of the European war that Ireland would not
seek to take advantage of England’s difficulties to break
away from the British empire. Scores of other men in
leading positions in Irish public life have also offered their
support to the British government and declare that the
revolt is only the act of one small section of the people of
Ireland.
WAS CAPTURED ASHORE
CALEE, Ireland, April 27 *-The scene of the capture
of Sir Roger Casement is near Callee and about twenty
five miles northwest of Cork city. Two men accompanied
him ashore from the filibustering steamer and one of them
is still at large. When the filibustering steamer was cap
tured a British patrol vessel started to escort it to Queens
town as a prize but the crew of the captured ship while
on the way suddenly hoisted the German flag, scuttled her
and sent her to the bottom. It is reported that the crew
themselves were drowned.
LATER NEWS IS BAD
LONDON, April 27.—'This afternoon just as the peo
ple had come to the conclusion that the revolt in Ireland
had been virtually ended Premier Asquith announced in
the House of Commons that all Ireland has been placed
under martial law and that the situation in the island i>
still serious. The rebels still hold some of the most im
portant buildings in Dublin and indications of disorder
are spreading to the western parts of the country. Sti cot
fighting continues in the capital this afternoon and the
task before the government-troops is evidently still a big
one.
BRITISH SUBMARINE SUNK
LONDON, April 27. — The British submarine E .22
has been sunk in the North Eea, the admiralty announced
today. It was one of the newest submarines and carried
a crew of twenty or thirty. The manner of its sinking is
not stated.
BERLIN, April 27.—It is announced officially that
German naval forces sank the British submarine E .22 in
the North Sea last Tuesday. It is also officially announced
that a German submarine hit with a torpedo a British
cruiser of the Arethusa type on the same day. The crew
of the British submarine was rescued by the Germans.
NEW YORK, April 27. — A communication received
by the Bohemian National Alliance reports that Miss Alice
Mazaryk, a former university of Chicago settlement
worker, has been executed in a Vienna military prison be
cause she sympathized with the movement to make
Bohemia independent