The Great The Great
ALASKAN ALASKAN
DA I L Y _DAILY_
ADVERTISEMENTS BRING KESULTS LARGEST ALASKAN CIRCULATION
voi. i-», no .it __Seward, Alaska, Monday, July 81, 191(i._ivn cvm. the copy
VAST STORES OF THE ENTENTE
ALLIES LOST IN GREAT FIRE
NEW YOKE, July 30.—Thirty-three Jersey City tire
men are reported killed and damage to the extent oi twen
ty-live millions is believed to have been inflicted by one of
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the most terrible explosions and tires in the history ol tne
United States, which occurred in the National Storage
Company’s plant on Black t orn Island, near ( ommuni
paw. New Jersey, at 2 this {Sunday) morning. The ex
plosion shook all Manhattan, Brooklyn ami Jersey ( ity
and shattered thousands oi panes ol glass so that the
streets were strewn with glass for blocks and blocks. En
ormous shipments for the Entente Allies were stored in
the plant which was entirely wrecked. Nine carloads ol
ammunition went up in the explosion. President Edmond
Mackenzie, at his Plainfield home, declares that the ex
plosion occurred in the powder trains and that the facts
suggest incendiarism, there were thirty warehouses and
the plant alone is valued at seven million dollars, two am
munition barges alongside Ellis Island failed to explode
but are drifting down towards Staten Island. Seven hun
dred immigrants are located in the main building on Ellis
Island which was severely damaged but the casualties
there are unknow n. A revenue cutter signalled all vessels
to remain outside as great danger would accompany an
attempt to enter. A heavy pall of smoke covers the
whole city and the telephone wires are down to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn V>vUgv * e»* y ;y
Hundreds of people were knocked down on tie x m x
and some of the residents of the Hast Side a.most oeeame
crazed with fear. Hotel guests and hospital I'-uan x
many instances gave way to panic and the conditions were
almost unbelievable for a time.
ANOTHER A< ( 01 NT
STAY YORK. July 31. — The property loss resulting
from the terrific explosions and fire yesterday morning on
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DUE EOR LOT SALE
NOT YET DECIDED
•Christenson Will Soon l.ea\e For
Aenana to Sell Townsite
There.
Andrew Christensen of the Land
Department is unable yet to decide
when the sale of the lots in the gov
ernment adition to Seward will take
place as the regulations have not been
received from Washington. Judging
by the fact that Mr. Christensen in
tends to leave in 10 days or two weeks
for tlie interior to sell the townsite
■ots at N’enaria it is probably safe to
say that no sale can take place here
until the Fall. He arrived this morn
ing after a second sale at Anchorage
and after having sold sixty lots at
Matanuska townsite. The sixty lots
there brought ten thousand dollars,
or about $166 a lot. The place is
situated about thirty-five miles from
Anchorage. Mr. Christensen also
Moose creek where Dick Dougherty
has mined about two thousand tons of
coal for the use of the Cimmiasion.
I* YTROLM YN WOl'NDED
IN SEATTLE DIES
SEATTLE. July ni.—Tatrol Driver
Robert R. Wiley, who was shot last
Monday night in a revolver duel with
the Japanese porter ot the Billingsley
Brothers died last night. This is the
third death recorded over the afTair.
ANOTHER MEXICAN RAID AND
TWO D. $. SOLDIERS KILLED
El. PASO, July 31. — Two troopers of the Eighth
United States Cavalry were killed in a running tight with
Mexican bandits early today near Eort Stockton. One
other cavalryman was wounded and live of the Mexicans
were killed. The bandits were surprised by the eava.ry
patrol and fled towards the Mexican line. About two hun
dred shots were fired. It is supposed that the bamho
were Villaistas on the way to raid some American ranch.
SLOCUM EXONERATED
WASHINGTON. July 31.—Colonel Herbert J. Slocum
of the Thirteenth cavalry who was in command at Colum
bus at the time of the raid by the \ ilia 'Kind has been ex
onerated from all blame in the report of the war depart
ment. ______
HUNDREDS DIE
CHICAGO CITY
ONE Hl’NDKED VM> FIFTEEN
killed by heat in
twelve hoi ks.
CHICAGO, July Ml. — l'»> to mid
night last night approximately two
hundred and sixty-four people ha
died of heat during the present hoi
spell in this city and Nur hundred
prostrations are reported. The heat
reached its climax yesterday and from
one o'clock yesterday morning unti
the same hour last night one hundi**«
ami fifteen deaths took place. Ha
suffering is simply appalling. Hun
dreds of horses are lying on tin
streets where they had I alien. Thi
204 deaths attributed to the heat oc
i curred in four days.
It is expected that the summit o
: the hot wave will be reached today
The thermometer now eight door
! above the street level registers 10:
and on the rtroots the tom pc rat ire i
from 100 to 112. This is the secon
hottest day in the history of Ch cage
the previous record being h?M by Jul;
21, 1901,- when the ♦emperature wa
one degree greater. At < oclock la*
night the officials reported t at n
more room could be found for bodies
in the county morgues. Prostrations
by tbes core are constantly being re
ported and according to the coroner
and police records the rec mis for
deaths for, the day in the various
I cities affected are 115 for Chicago, 2.»
for Milwaukee, 20 for St. Louis and
6 for Detroit.
MORE HEAT SITE HR I NO
TOPEKA, July 81.—The longest
dry spell in the history of Kansas is
now recorded.
DES MOINES, July 81.—Three
| deaths have occurred here and four at
| Muscatine from the heat. The tem
I peratur^is a hundred in the shade.
DOLLY VAUDEN SKIRTS
ALL THE RAGE
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
ATLANTIC CITY, July 21. — The
! Boardwalk, most frivolous and cos
mopoHtan of all thoroughfares, today
I bears a distinctly colonv. appear
5 ance as the result of the Dolly \ arden
i skirt rage which has just hit it. I hose
, pretty, flowing, flowered skirts have
been fashionably extinct for many
years. The flowered figures upon
t them often are five times the size of
» the original.
RUSSIANS CLAIM El ER
ADVANCES IN THE SOUTHEAST
FISH SEASON
IN WEST GOOD
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J ALL C ANNERIES TAKING IM
MENSE CATCHES EVERY
W II E R E.
The latest reports from thf canner
ies to the westward, which reports
came on the Watson, show that the
season is infinitely better than had
been expected from the late start.
At Eyak the season is reported \ cry
good and at Karluk they have more
fish than they can handle.
Captain Blodgett of Kodiak shipped
S.OOl* cases on tin* Watson and i> get
ting all the fish he can handh
Slitter, at Port Graham has put upj
35.000 cases ami is runni*. g full!
capacity.
The Columbia Salmon Company at
Soldovia has put up 27,000 cases and!
has all the fish its two line* •>*'
Libby, McNeil and Libby at Kenai j
have put up 35,000 cases. The iish is
very plentiful there.
Superintendent Bushman of the
Deep Sea Salmon Company has put up
10.000 cases.
The Northwestern Fisheries ( om
pany at Kenai is putting in a founda
tion for a new plant in the place of j
the one recently burned. The steam-1
ship Wellesley has been chartered to j
bring in the plant.
The Alaska Packers Association at
KasilolT have put up over 30.000 cases.
All the canneries on Cook Inlet are
getting full packs. Red fish are late
but are still running and the per vent
age of the packs will be over M) i>
cent Reds.
! HUNDREDS DIF IN
(MAI F(MSI FM
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MONTREAL, July HI. A report ,
! at noon todav from North Lav i.- to
v.
the effect that one hundred and k
eighty-four bodies have been recover- ^
l ed from the district in which the for- j
J est lire has been raging f<*r some
| days. There is no means yet of sc
i curing full oVails of the catas* ''•‘he p
j but they are expected u. w app: ^
! (Jreat rains came last nigl'.t provi
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j dentially and drenched the district so
| that no further fires are looked for.
CHEAP FARES
FOR R. R. PEOPLE ;■
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J-rom the first of August, about, j
employees of the Engineering com-1
mission and the dependent member.'
(if th«i»’ !
to Seattle for $27.b0 each way. * ••• ' j ,
baggage and freight will he carried j'
i(jr half the regular rate, 'fhese iheap "
rates will be on the government trans-1 Si
port Crooks which is about to l>< j {[
placet I on the regular run hot.v. or
“Seattle and Anchorage via Seward."
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THE COLCMBIA CANNERY
CO. HAS lilt; ( A I t II |
The Columbia Cannery company i
has had a full catch this year and | S|
Manager E. F. Randolph has actually
sent out for more cases to make tin*
catch still greater. Mr. Randolph ar
rived from the westward on the Wat ^
son this morning on business and
brings the best kind of news gener
ally of conditions at Soldovia.
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DRIVE TO BE MAINTAINED r
LONDON, July 31.—In answer to several questions t
today touching on the operations of the Britsh troops in r
the west, Secretary for War Lloyd George declared that
the present offensive will lie maintained to the end. He
pointed out that it would be impossible to expect that the
tremendous advances made in the first days of the often- I
sive could be maintained constantly as the artillery bom- 1
bardment which preceded the offensive was not possible of
continuance and would not be expedient under the pi esent ^
circumstances. In a survey of the present conditions he f
reminded the house of commons that the Austiian ad
vance in Italy had been rolled back, that the Russians had
made vast advances, that the British and French had gain
ed considerable ground and that the siege of Verdun had
been brought to standstill. This, he declared, was the re- ^
suit of only a few weeks’ fighting. j
DEUTSCHLAND STILL THERE
BALTIMORE, July 31.—The Deutschland is still here
and nothing further has been heard of the Bremen.
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REPULSE AND WITHDRAW I
VIENNA, July 31.—The Austrians have withdrawn 1
from Rovno and Kovel “after repulsing the Russians.” i
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DENIES TURKS IN HUNGARY
VIENNA, July 31.—The war office has issued a state
ment denying that Turkish troops have arrived in Hun
gary and declaring that there is no necessity for the use i
of the Ottoman allies for the defense of the empire. [ (
RUSSIANS AiA AN( E AGAIN
PETROGRAD, July 31.—The war office statement to
lay says that our troops, after lierce lighting, around
»rody iiave thrust their wav forward again and have
a ken ground from the Teutons up to Asars, Graberki and
>eret.
FRENCH MAKE BRILLIANT CHARGE
PARIS, July 31.—The French troops have brilliantly
etrieved a temporary German gain in which the Teutons
or a time secured a footing around Monacu farm. To
ny’s communique says the enemy had taken a slight hold
here but the French counter attacks drove them out.
BRiTiSh MAKE FURTHER ADVANC E
LONDON, Jul\ 31.—Further liritish advances at
i>ints north of Ba/.entine and Lepelit are announced by
eneiai iiaig. “As a result of local encounters he re
nds “our positions have been advanced at a point north
L‘ Bazentine and Lepelit.
SAY GERMANS LOSE HEAVILY
jlilliRy Ai'v a.... i . . » i . 4' . i. i . . i . „ * i
ith terrible losses to the enemy. 1 in* official suiUmuit
iv s that the f rench are consolidating and strengthening
ie positions won yesterday north of the Somme in a
veep forward which carried the German positions along
mile front.
ALL ALLIED ATTACKS REPULSED
BERLIN, July 31. — According to the statement is
,ed by the war office today the Anglo-French attacks
long a front from Longucval to the Somme have been
a row he re repulsed with sanguinary losses to the Ln
mte Allies.
NEW IRISH SECRETARY
LONDON, July 31.—Henry Duke is the new chief sec
eary for Ireland, Premier Asquith announced today. He
akes the place of Bin-ell who was forced to resign as a
esult of the rebellion in Dublin.
CRUSH TEUTON RIGHT WING
LONDON, July SO.—'The Russians have crushed von
lothmers’s right wing southeast of Stanislau and thirty -
ve thousand of the enemy have been captured. Berlin
dmits defeat at Trystin, east of the Stokhod but assorts
hat the Russians were repulsed at Hulequiche. It is eer
ain that this great Russian success will force the evacua
ion of Lemberg and Kovel.
ANNIHILATE GERMANS
LONDON, July 30. — General Sir Douglas Haig re
iorts the annihilation of three German regiments at Del
ille Wood. Intense artillery lighting is proceeding now
n that region.
FRYATTCASE CAUSES ANGER
LONDON, July 30. — The American ambassador to
Jerlin, Gerard, it is announced, asked the German govern
ment for a postponement of the execution ol Captain
■Yyatt of the liner Brussels and had apparently succeeded
,ut later Germany declared postponement impossible. The
iress and people are demanding reprisals. It is thought
lot impossible that some German prisoners may be shot.
FRENCH SUCCESSFUL
PARIS. July 31.—The French have made successful
ittacks at Vermandovillers and have attacked also south
if Fleury in the Verdun sector.