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y ( ~ N i ___SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1915.______^ C*"t---—
GOVERNMENT PREPARES TO BUILD BIG HOSPITAL
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HERE, AND TO MAKE SEWARD A PORT OF ENTRY
SITE FOR QUARANTINE STATION
ALREADY SURVEYED NEAR BEACH
WASHINGTON, Dec. A—That a large detention
hospital will be built soon at Seward, the ocean terminal j
of the government Alaska railroad, and that Seward will
unquestionably soon be designated a port of entry is the
announcement made today through the l nited Press As
sociation for the benefit of the Seward Gateway, a mem
ber of the Association
This statement is official and it is also announced that
the ground for the hospital has already been surveyed.
This ground is described as being near the beach south of
where the town stands, and not in the government tract to
the north of the city. The survey has only recently been
completed as the idea of building the hospital has l>een
accepted but a short time. The size of the hospital and the
amount of money it will cost have not been mentioned al
though it is stated that the building will cost several thou
sand dollars. It will be used as a quarantine station after
the establishment of a port of entry at that port.
(Note: The above cable from the United Press can
lie accepted as one of the best bits of news since the selec
tion of Seward as the Terminal as it shows this to be the
real choice of the government, not only because it is about
to be made a port of entry but because of the fact that the
detention hospital for the district and the quarantine sta
tion, will be established. The Gateway has had the story
verified locally since the message 1 rom outside. That is,
it has it verified so far as the intention of erecting the
hospital is concerned, also in relation to the fact that the
survey of the sites has already been made, but
the paper is not at liberty to give its authority. It can only
say with respect to the site that it will be, as stated, south
of'the town near the beach. As it will be used for a quar
antine hospital its location near the beach is accounted
for. Looking along the beach close to the city one is
tempted to guess that the present baseball ground will be
the chosen spot. At the present time there is no port of
entry between Juneau and Nome and the establishment of
this port as a port of entry will entail the establishment of
a customs office here. It will be remembered in this con
nection that the people of Seward through the Com
mercial Club asked some months ago for the establish
ment of Seward as a port of entry).
• VILLA LAYING
► WASTE COUNTRY
DOUGLAS. Dec. 9.—The Vilimistas
are now burning bridges, dynamiting j
rails and generally laying waste the
whole country in the vicinity of F ron
te nas.
GO TO FIX TRAIL
Anton Eide. superintendent of the
Road Commission, and Jerome
Hatchey left on the train today with
a dog team and outfit for Bird creek
where they will look into the condi
tion of the trail between that place
and Kern creek, which is reported to
be dangerous to travelers. They will
join Tom Bust at Kern creek and
Messrs. Hatchey and Bust will remain
there to fixe up the road. Mr. Eide re
turning in about a week after in
specting the trail.
DON’T DOLL UP FOR
SATURDAY’S DANCE
The Seward Entertainment Club is
giving a “Tack” dance next Saturday
evening which promises to be a
novelty. Any gentleman appearing in
a white collar or “Sunday” clothes
will be thrown out. Ladies are asked
to dress accordingly. Refreshments
and punch will be served. The officers
of the club urge all members to be
present, dressed just as “tacky4’ as
possible.
GOOSE BAY IS A
DUCK OF A BAY
ANCHORAGE, Dec. D.-O’Reilly.
Locke and Vause have returned from
Goose Bay and have announced that
a steamer can unload there. The
wharf which the cannery people had
expected to go out with the ice is
still standing. (That helps some.)
HALF UTROPRIATION
COMES TO THIS END
It will be noticed by the figures of
the estimates for the railroad appro
priation that just about half of the
total amount of something over
eight millions goes to the road be
tween Seward and Anchorage. Near
ly three millions go for the connecting
up, six hundred and fifty thousand
for the final payment on the Alaska
Northern, a little over three hundred
thousand goes for repairing the Al
aska Northern and sixty thousand for
buildings here. The total is just
about four millions.
HERE AND THERE IN
THE NEWS OF THE DAY
LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 8.—Twenty
seven hundred dollars’ net profit from
five acres of apples was made by G.
N. Titus at his Nemaha County
orchard this year, Nebraska Horti
culture Secretary Duncan announced.
The Nebraska apple crop is a bump
er this year.
COLUMBOUS, 0., Dec. 8. — Two
performances of the home talent
ministre! show in which 70 convicts
will take part, will be presented at
the Ohio state penitentiary here to
morrow. One burglar who used to be
a circus strong man, will give his old
ring performance.
CINCINNATI, 0., Dec. 8.—On the
heels of Prof. Fa>g’s recent prediction
at the university here that the auco
of the future would be run with a
coaled engine, comes William C5.
Miner of Fernbank, 0., with a pat
ent on just such an engine.
The train left this morning at 11
o’clock with several passengers and
considerable freight.
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Captain Now Says
There Was No Plot
Minnesota Expected to Land About
Wednesday Next Week.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 9.—The
first direct message from Captain
Garlick of the steamship Minnesota
was received last night and contains
the intelligence that the injury* to the
ship is merely an ordinary mechani
cal one and that there has been no
plot nor mutiny. He says the tugs
are now towing the vessel at the rate
of four miles an hour and that she
will land here about Wednesday of
next week. Th'V: statement is not
given much credence as the silence of
the captain previously seemed to
prove only' too clearly that he had
some good reason for hiding the facts.
It is now assumed that he has some
particular reason for coming ashore
without letting the whole etorv come
out. Indeed, the message of Garlick
seems rather to have deepened the
mystery. There are some inclined to
believe, however, that the captain's
silence was due to a desire to have
the matter thoroughly investigated
before sending any positive message,
and that he has found no ground for
suspecting a plot.
BERN’S RIVAL'S EYES OCT
BY THROWING NITRIC ACID
Horrible Occurrence in California Be
cause of Supposed Love
For Girl.
HOLTVILLE, Calif., Dec. 9. — As
Thomas Potts, a druggist, lay sleep
ing on the porch of his home early
this morning an unkonwn horseman
galloped up and threw nitric acid in
his face, completely burning out the
eyes of Potts and frightfully mutilat
ing the whole face and breast. The
horesman immediately after the out
rage. galloped away and no trace of
him has yet been found. It is sup
posed that the act was due to jealousy
over a girl.
BANDITS HOLD UP CASHIER
CHICAGO. Dec. 9.—Three bandits
held up and robbed a cashier of the
Prudential Insurance Company here
last night and got away with seven
thousand dollars in cash. The rob
bers have completely escaped.
WENT ON EVANS TO
START A BIG RANCH
Ranch Which Gateway Told Its Read
ers About Before Is Now
Established.
The outfit for establishing the first
really big ranch in Alaska passed by
on the Evans on her way north. Mr.
Bell, who is starting the ranch
brought up with him a large number
of cows, horses, chickens, hogs, etc.,
and will operate on a large scale.
Readers of the Gateway will remem
ber the story of the ranch which was
published in this paper some months
ago when it was first decided to es
tablish it. The ranch will be at or
near Homer.
EVANS ARRIVES
The Admiral Evans arrived from
the west at 10 o’clock this morning
with the following passengers: Oscar
S. Gill, Frank G. Johnson, J. A. Mc
Laughlin and W. E. Ludy.
The Admiral Evans has aboard of
her 400 barrels of salt salmon bellies
from W. J. Erskine of Kodiak.
TRIES TO KILL
IN TOLOVANA
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I FIREI) AT SALOON KEEPER BE
CAUSE HE REFUSED TO
GIVE WHISKEY.
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 8.—The first
I shooting affair has taken place in the
new Tolovana camp. Sam Barber is
the man who made the attempt to kill
and the intended vicitim was Anton
Christopher, a saloon keeper. Barber
asked Christopher for whiskey but
| the latter refused. Barber fired at
him with a high power twenty-two
but missed and Christopher was able
; to get out of the way before the gun
man could get in any more work. A
i by stander named Swanson jumped at
Barber when he fired and grappled
with him but Barber in a frightful
: rage threw Swanson on the floor and
' kicked him in the face savagely. It
i is thought that Barber had been driv
en mad by dring and the failure to |
secure a further supply. He has been
taken in custody.
KRAUSE LED
CHRISTIE AWAY
man accused of murders
HELD OVER TO THE
GRAND JURY.
JUNEAU, Dec. i).—Edward Krause
was bound over yesterday to the
grand jury on the charge of kidnap-i
ing William Christie. The murder
charge has not yet been made but it
will come later. At the hearing
Krause was identified as the man who
led Christie to the boat at the time
•the latter was last seen and when, it
is alleged, Krause represented him
self to be a federal officer who went
to summon Christie to the court at
Juneau. During the proceedings in the
court yesterday the prisoner showed
signs of extreme nervousness and he
watched the crowd in the court room
carefully, apparently fearing that an
attempt might be made to do him
harm or lynch him. There was no
demonstration, however, and his fear
was evidently due to the fact that
when he was brought from Seattle the
officers took him secretly from the
steamer and probably gave him reas
on to believe that danger at the hands
of the mob was threatening. The
people here are rather angry that
such precautions were taken as no
one ever thought for a moment of
taking the matter out of the hands of
the law.
John Kapsimalis arrived yesterday
from Falls creek.
thinks war nearly over ,
LONDON, Dec. 9.—Berlin advices 'say that the
kaiser is about to postpone the marriage of his youngest
son Prince Joachim, to the end of February as he believes
the war will be ended by that time. The marriage was to
have taken place at Christmas. The bride is Princess
Marie of Anhalt.
WANTS AUSTRIA TO EXPLAIN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Secretary Lansing has dis
patched a note to Austria asking for a disavowal of the
sinking of the Ancona and also to give assurances that
there will be no repetition of the act. Lansing also de
mands reparation for the lives lost and punishment for
the commander of the submarine which sank the vessel.
It is not expected that Austria will accede and it i> believ
ed almost certain that diplomatic relations will be severed.
CHANCELLOR SAYS GERMANY’S
EOES MUSE EIRSE ASK PEACE
Fatal Fight With
Holdups in Seattle
Merchants* Patrolman Hatties With
Two, Kills One and Catches
the Other,
SEATTLE, Dec. 9.—One highway
man is dead and another is in jail as
a result of an attempt to hold up H.
Halveston, a merchants’ patrolman, j
last night. The attempt to hold him j
up was made in an alley, Halveston
pulled a gun and opened fire after ,
which a desperate pistol duel proceed- j
cd. Later one of the robbers was,
found fatally shot, the other wa- cap
tured but Halveston remained unhurt.
The light took place right in the busi
ness district.
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ROBBER GETS OFF BRAND
NEW STUNT IN SEATTLE
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SEATTLE, Dec. 9.—A local butcher
received a telephone call last even
ing ordering him to send some chops
to a certain adress and also to make
sure to send change for a twenty
dollar gold piece as the customer had
no coin of less value. The butcher
sent the boy with the chops and
change and when the boy arrived at
the address the alleged customer rob
bed him of the twenty and another
ten dollars besides, and locked up the
kid in the house. W’hen the matter
was looked into it was found that the
house has been vacant for some time
and the thief merely used it for the
robbery purpose. The robber has
escaped.
POST’S WIDOW GETS A
BIG SLICE OF ESTATE
All Had Been Left to Daughter but a
Settlement in Arrived
At.
BATTLE CREEK, Dec. 9.—By a
new arrangement the widow of C. W.
Post, the cereal millionaire, receives
six million dollars of the estate left
by her husband. When Post commit
ted suicide he left all his property to
a daughter by a former marriage and
left the widow nothing. The latter
however, threatened legal proceedings
and had commenced them when the
agreement was arrived at. For the
consideration she relinquishes all
claims on the estate. The balance of
the estate is worth twenty millions,
including the plant, and all goes to
Mrs. Close, the daughter.
ALL INVITED
• TO RECEPTION
The reception for Rev. Mr. Molony
and Mrs. Molony will be held from
8:30 p. m. to 10 p. m. tomorrow and
not from 8 p. m. as had been intended.
All people are cordially welcome.
CHANCELLOR’S SPEECH
BERLIN, Dec. 9.—All Germany, and it is not too
much to say all Europe, waited with tense nerves today
until von Bethmann-Hollweg, the imperial chancellor, de
livered to the Reichstag the speech which it was believed
would foreshadow' the fate of the continent, but instead
of stating, as had been expected, the terms on which the
empire would accept peace proposals the chancellor again
threw down his glove to the allied nations and declared
that it was not for a triumphant Germany to propose
terms but that it was the task of the alliance which he
declared had failed to conquer her and her friends. The
speech came in answer to interrogations which had been
prepared. The house was crowded and the scene will ie
main as one of the most remarkable in the history ol the
world. Following the interrogation as to what Germany s
position is with respect to peace the chancellor rose and
delivered a carefully weighed speech which was all the
more powerful because of its calmness and dignity. Hr
opened by declaring that Germany is ready to discuss
peace with its enemies provided “that it would be com
patible with Germany’s dignity and safety " This was ap
! parently a preliminary statement to show that the empire
is not opposed to peace, but then came the statement that
Geramny feels it to be folly to make overtures herself at
a time when the statesmen of the hostile nations “either
through ignorance or guilt” are entangled in confusion
and are confusing the peoples whose alfairs they are sup
posed to direct. \ on Bethmann-Hollweg scoiled at tin
idea fostered by the enemies that Germany can be starved
into submission and he expressed the greatest wonderthat
with the German armies triumphant everywhere the hos
tile nations do not propose a halt and save themi-ehes
from worse. The chancellor proceeded to go into details
tending to prove the hopeless position of the Entente al
liance and the unassailable position of the Teutonic allies
and their friends. Following this came a reiteration ol
the statement that Germany is willing to entertain terms
of peace proposals from her enemies and then he finished
with a thrilling announcement that “henceforth no guilt
will rest upon Germany for the continuation ol the
struggle.”
Although many were disappointed because the chan
cellor declined to mention terms all parties have approved
his stand even to the extent of threatening the enemies
that if the war is allowed to proceed Germany will annex
territories which she has never desired.
RUSSIANS FOR BALKANS
ZURICH, Dec. 9.—Thousands of Russian troops are
reproted to be arriving at the Russo-Roumanian frontier
and it is also reported that great military activity pre
vails in Bessarabia, the nearest Russian province to the
Roumanian line. This is accepted as proof that Russia in
tends to force a passage through Roumanian territory to
aid her allies by attacking Bulgaria.
BRITISH GRANT U. S. REQUEST
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—Great Britain has inform
ed the state department that it has acceded to the request
of the American government not to seize any more trans
Atlantic liners pending the prize court decision in the
Hocking and other cases.
GERMANS WILL LEAVE U. S.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.—The German consul gen
eral von Bopp, has become exceedingly bitter in his feeling
against the United States for its alleged prosecution of
Germans and its pro-British activity, and he declared in
an interview today that he will be glad when he can lea\ e
the country. He also declared that many natuialized
Germans are preparing to renounce citizenship and ie
turn to Germany because of the prejudice of America and
its government against the Fatherland.
ADMIT ALLIES RETREATING
LONDON, Dec- 9.—It is officially admitted that the
allied Anglo-French army in southern Serbia is retreating
towards the Greek border and that the pui suing Bu ■
garians have reached a point that is onl} twenty miles
north of Greek territory. The French army, it is admit
ted is rushing for refuge to Greece and it is also admit
ted’that some of the British forces have been taken pris
oners, but the number captured is said to be small. I he
allied armies were defeated near Petros (is it Petntch)
but the fact was officially announced only today. The war
office declares that the retreat was rr ide necessary owing
to superior forces brought up by the Bulgarians. Thei o
is some anxiety now as to the probable attitude of the
Greeks towards the retreating armies as it was stated
bv the Greek government before that any attempt of the
French and British to retreat through Greek territory
.would mean their internment.