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v„, „ N„ SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1915._____._Ten Onls the Copy
THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN RESIDENTS OF TEXAS
AAK /Ak iik ilk /Ak g A k iAk
PLEDGED TO REVOLT AND U. S. TROOPS MOVE
KAISER WOULD GIVE
GALICIA TO RUSSIA
WHAT KAISER OFFERED
PETROGRAD, August 12.—The
newspapers here today confirm the
statement that the kaiser offered a
spearate peace to Russia and they
publish what they believe to have
been the terms. They declare that
Germany offered Galicia to this
country and also offered it the free
passage of the Dardanelles in re
turn for Russia's agreement to giving
Egypt to Turkey. The integrity oi
the Russian border would have been
guaranteed if it did not interfere with
settling xxith the allies who remained
in the war. Germany, it is assumed,
intended to either hold Poland and the
Baltic states or to establish in the
former country semi-autonomy under
the suzerainty of the kaiser's govern
ment. The full offer of Germany has
not yet been made known but all Rus
sia agrees that the refusal of th*? of
fer was the right course.
WIN IN DARDANELLES
LONDON. August 12.—The allies
have now trebled their holdings in the
Dardanelles region and are constantly
making headway that promises an
early consummation of their hopes so
far as Turkey is concerned. General
von Sanders has been superseded in
the command of the Turkish army by
the Duke of Mecklenburg as the Ger
man general stall is dissatisfied with
the result of the fighting around the
Dardanelles up to the present. The
encouraging' news coming from that
quarter has tended to relieve the pes
simistic feelings created by the Rus
sian defeat. Lloyd George has now
added an invention branch to the min
istry of munitions as the L nited
States government has done for its
navy department. In the the British
invention branch will be forty scien
tists whose business it will be to im
prove the means of waging warfare.
RAID THE THAMES
BERLIN, August 12.—In the raid
by Zeppelins on England last Monday
the airships bombarded warships in
the Thames, also the London docks,
torpedo boats near Harwich anti
buildings on the Humber. The dam
age inflicted is reported here to have
been very serious and the British are
hiding the facts.
DRIVE TOWARDS KOYNO
LONDON. August 12.—The Ger
mans are now developing a new drive
towards the interior of Russia and as
the first step they have begun to
storm Kovno an important city south
of Riga. In this direction they would
meet the Petrograd-Warsaw railroad
still further east.
GOEBEN SUNK
LONDON, August 12.—'The Turk
ish cruiser Goeben has been sunk by
an allied submarine. She is the form
er German cruiser which escaped
from Italy at the beginning of the
war and took refuge in the Dardan
elles until Turkey declared war when
she was transferred to the Turkish
navy and has since been engaged in
the war on that side.
AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE SUNK
ROME. August 12.—The Austrian
submarine U-12 has been sunk by an
Italian submarine in the Adriatic with
all hands. This is the only fact men
tioned so far in the dispatch and as
to whether the fight took place on the
surface or not is not known.
SEIZE U. S. SHIP
LONDON, August 12.—The British
have seized the American tanker
Petrolite on the grounds that her
cargo was* destined ultimately for
Germany. A protest is expected from
Washington but the vessel will be re
leased if on examination it is found
that the suspicions about her were
not well founded.
ALLIES LAM) 30,000
LONDON, August 12.—Fifty thou
sand additional troops have been
landed on Gallipoli peninsula by the
allied powers and the campaign will
be pushed to the limit until the Turk
ish resistance is broken. Owing to
the natural defenses of the enemy
progress has been slow at times but
victory, complete and overwhelming,
is now in view.
TO KILL KAISER
AMSTERDAM, August 12.—Re
ports that the streets of Warsaw had
been mined to blow up the kaiser on
his entry have caused him to delay
his triumphant march into the Polish
capital. The city has long ago virtu
ally fallen but the Germans have not
yet formally taken possession.
PETROGRAD, August 12.—It is
now generally believed that this city,
the capital of Russia, is the objective
of the German armies. The latest
drive inaugurated by the Germans in
to the interior near Kovno has creat
ed this belief. This capital is be
tween 600 and 700 miles from War
saw but from Kovno it is only some
100 miles to the capital of the em
pire. From Riga to Petrograd the
distance is about otH) miles and as the
Germans have now established a firm
base at Riga the conception of an at
tack on this has come to appear not
so extraordinary as it would have
seemed a few months ago. Much
would depend on the ability of the
German fleet to clear the Baltic of
our fleets as that sea would provide
the enemy with the most perfect
route.
LONDON, August 12.—Allied air
ships have bombarded Sweibruecken
and St. lngert and inflicted much
damage on property.
BERGEN, August 12.—The Ger
mans have captured the Norwegian
ship Iris and detained her.
GERMANY READY FOR PEACE
MILAN, August 12.—It is reported
here that Germany is ready to negoti
ate peace on the basis of withdrawing
from Belgium. This report comes
from sources which give it great
weight. It does not say, however,
what Germany would demand in re
turn and it is doubted that the
kaiser’s government would agree at
this time to leave Belgium and let
matters go back to the status existing
at the beginning of the war and at the
same time give up her colonies and
Poland. That some steps are being
taken in a diplomatic way to sound
the different nations on the subject
can hardly be doubted as rumors to
that effect are constantly arising.
LONDON, August 12.—It was
learned today that Hindenburg and
not von Buelow is in command of the
German armies in the Baltic seat of
war. It was also learned that his
troops have now actually reached the
Dwina river south of Riga so that
they must be making remarkable pro
gress towards the interior of Russia.
Nothing very positive has reached
London, or has been given out, about
the conditions now prevailing around
Riga. There is also a peculiar lack of
knowledge, at least on the part of the
public, regarding the progress of
events to the east of Warsaw.
COMMISSIONER RIGGS
LEAVES ON EVANS.
Thomas Riggs, Jr., member of the
Alaska Engineering commission, will
leave on the Evans for Cordova and
from that city will proceed to Fair
banks to finish up the season’s en
gineering work. He will then come
buck for a short time and will later
go to Washington.
The visit of Mr. Riggs has given us
one more chance of finding out how
remarkably happy a choice of com
missioners was made by President
Wilson and Secretary Lane. The
Evans will get here, probably, before
another issue of this paper, so “Au
Revoir.”
HOKE SMITH CONDEMNS
THE BRITISH BLOCKADE.
NEW YORK. August 12.—In a
speech to the convention of importers
last night Senator Hoke Smith de
clared that the blockade by the Brit
ish is a violation of the rights of
neutrals and he suggested that steps
be taken by the United States to
have it modified at least.
VILLA AGREES
TO LONG TROCE
SAYS HE IS WILLING TO STOP
FIGHTING FOR THREE
MONTHS TO TALK PEACE.
WASHINGTON, August 12.—Gen
eral Villa has notified the state de
partment that he accepts the proposal
to declare a truce to the lighting in
Mexico in order that a conference ma>
take place to try to reach a means ol
ending the war. For this purpose he
will declare a truce for three months
if the Carranza side agrees to do
likewise. The news arrived this
morning that the Zapataistas have
dynamited a train at Culpia and kill
ed fifty of those who were aboard.
The members of the escort traveling
as a guard with the train were all
murdered.
GREAT VOLCANOES AGAIN
BELCHING FORTH LAVA.
Cities are Threatened and People are
Fleeing for Safety in
Thousands.
ROME, August 12.—The volcanoes
of Etna, Vesuvius and Stromboli
have become active and are now
belching forth great streams of lava
which are threatening not only the
towns on the island of Stromboli but
also the city of Naples itself. The
people are fleeing in thousands and
trying to carry with them their
worldly goods so that the roads are
blocked for miles and miles.
THE SAME IN WEST
LONDON, August 12.—The west
ern conflict continues without decisive
change. Minor battles take place
from time to time at various parts of
the front but without positive gains
or losses. The military experts ex
press the belief that before winter
sets in the Teutons will put forth
their most extreme efforts in that
theatre. At present the German at
tempts are mostly confined to com
pleting the circle around the fortress
of Verdun but, although they have
gained some temporary advantages,
the French are holding them, general
ly speaking.
HOBEN LAUDS THE
INLET BALL TEAMS.
Manager Harry Hoben, of the vict
orius baseball team cannot find words
enough to prasie the gameness and
general qualities of the Knik and An
chorage teams. He also has a partic
ular word of praise for the people of
Knik who showed our boys the most
marked friendship and courtesy in
every way. When Seward left Knik
to play at Anchorage nearly all Knik
went with them and rooted for them
like thunder. Harry says Anchorage
has some swell players but their
team work was a drawback.
Amongst them were oldtimers who
formerly made the Seward bunch look
like thirty cents. Those were Amund
sen, Kerwood and Spike Malone, who
have played ball for a long time on
this coast. A pitcher named Brown
who was said to be a big leaguer was
put on against Seward on what was
expected to be the big game. A big
lot of money went up on that exhibi
tion but it resulted in Seward winning
by about a dozen to one single run.
The captain of the Anchorage bunch
is Powie whom Hoben calls a blank
of a good fellow like his men. The
homesteaders usually managed to
hold down the visitors until the sixth
or seventh innings but then team
work told. Of the five games played
Manthey pitched two, Carrington two,
and Nickerson one. Strange to say,
Carrie was the beaten one but there
by hangs a tale which the laws of
hospitality forbids us to unfold. Crit
Tolman caught for Seward in four
of the games and van Houten caught
the fifth.
One of the remarkable things about
the games was the pitching of Gus.
Hoben says he was back to his old
style and did wonders. Captain
Campbell was, as usual, brilliant in
the handling of the men and in his
individual work, but Harry says that
if he had to pick out one man from
the team who had particularly dis
tinguished himself that man would be
Phil Hickey. “He found everything”
says Harry. Indeed, whenever aliall
flew towards Hickey the crowd mur
mured “It’s all ofT. Stamps has it.”
Home Run Reed got one three bagger
and played well at first. Finnegan
played fine but was knocked out by
a fast ball from the pitcher that
blackened his eye. Otto Poehlman
was incapacitated by a blow on the
arm in one game. Harry also has a
good word for Taylor and Adams.
If any other accidents besides those
to Finnegan and Poehlman had oc
curred the result might have been dis
astrous. The lineups are coming by
boat. In telling of the tour Harry be
gan by boosting the teams opposed to
his aggregation, and the people ot
Knik, and he finished up by boosting
the teams opposed to Seward, and the
people of Knik—always, though, the
people of Knik—eternally the people
of lyuk. There must be a pretty girl
or something in Knik.
Well, the Seward boys did splendid
ly, and here’s to them! Some day
Seward may tackle tnat Juneau,
Douglas and Treadwell bunch.
BANK TELLER CONFESSES
HIMSELF THE BANDIT.
Locked Himself in Vault and Pretend
ed He had been Put
There by Force.
CEDAR RAPIDS, August 11.—
Bank Teller Perrin confessed today
that he himself was guilty of the rob
bery of the local bank in which he
was employed. Some days ago the
bank was found to have been robbed
and Perrin was discovered locked up
in the safe. He declared that bandits
had put him in the safe by force after
rifling it of its contents. Several
circumstances tended to direct sus
picion on him and under a severe
searching he broke down today and
made the confession.
FUNSTON HAS 14,000
TROOPS NEAR BORDER
ELEVEN SHIPS SUNK
AT ONE FELL SWOOP.
LONDON, August 11.—The official
reports of ships sunk by German sub
marines today include seven British
trawlers and two British steamers as
well as one Russian bark and one
Norwegian bark. The day has, there
fore, been probably the most dis
astrous of the whole war for allied
merchant shipping but it is hoped
that the great number of vessels lo>t
means only that the enemy was lucky
and not that he is becoming rpore ef
fective in that class of warfare.
BERLIN REPORTS A
BRITISH CRUISER SUNK.
Say German Submarines Destroyed a
Warship off the Coast of
Sweden.
BERLIN, August 11.—The British
cruiser India has been sunk off the
coast of Sweden by our submarines,
according to the official announcement
made here today. The details of the
event have not been given as they have
not been officially received but it is
said that a large number of the crew
of the warship went down with her.
DECISlUT
FOREST FUND
J U DC.E J ENN1NG S SUSTAI NS
DEMURRER AGAINST THE
FIRST DIVISION.
JUNEAU, August 11.—Judge Jen
nings has sustained the demurrer of
the territory in the ease brought by
representatives of the First division
to prevent the division of the forest |
funds equally over all Alaska. The
First division holds that most of the
forest funds are received from lands
in that division and that the other
divisions have no right to their use.
The decision of Jennings gives the
rest of Alaska first blood. In an
opinion on the case the court refused
to declare constitutional the action of
the legislature in dividing the forest
funds as it did.
SEWARD MAN FILES
SUIT FOR DIVORCE.
In the office of Deputy Clerk
VVever, Henry Oliver has filed suit
for divorce from Jessie B. Oliver to
whom he was married at Nome on
August 16, 1003. Charles Polk
Davies is named as co-respondent and
the charge is the obvious one. Mr.
and Mrs. Oliver have been living
for some time in the tent colony near
Lowell creek and have a little girl
who was born the year following
their marriage. Mr. Oliver has re
cently advertised in the Gateway
that he will not be responsible fo*
further debts incurred by his wife.
<?APTAIN OF EASTLAND
INDICTED FOR THE LOSS.
Engineer and Four Others also In
dicted and Bail is Fixed
at Twenty Thousand.
CHICAGO, August 12.—Captain
Stevenson, the chief engineer and
four others have been indicted for
manslaughter because of the loss of
the steamer Eastland. Bail has been
fixed at twenty thousand dollars and
the likelihood is that the indicted men
will have to stay in jail while the
trial is pending.
TO CAPTURE TEXAS
WASHINGTON, August 12.—That
the aim of the Mexicans is to create
an uprising amongst the Mexicans in
Texas and to capture that state and
add it once more to the Mexican re
public is the amazing fact which has
now been fully proven. President
Wilson is preparing a statement to
the Mexican factions which amounts
to nothing less than an ultimatum. It
will probably be the last step taken
by this government before it orders
an attack on Mexican territory.
MEXICANS TO REVOLT
BROWNSVILLE, August 12.—
General Eunston reports that three
thousand Mexican residents of Texas
have been pledged already to begin
the uprising which has for its object
the taking of Texas from the United
States. One company of the Ninth
infantry enroute to Brownsville has
been ordered to detrain at Kingsville
where the disturbance is spreading
and where brisk fighting is expected
immediately. One Mexican rancher
in the neighborhood has notified the
authorities that eighty Mexican raid
ers are concealed on his ranch ready
to begin the attack when the time
comes. It is reported that Carranza
and his officials are partially respon
sible for the raids and have given the
raiders every encouragement. It is j
certain that many of the men now j
turning the state into another Mexico
have guns usually used by the Car
ranza army and have been lighting
under his command. The United
States cavalry has already succeeded
in driving several bands of the raid
ers across the frontier into their own
country and the rest of the state is
now' being scoured.
MERCEDES, August 12.—The
Texas Rangers have captured a flag
belonging to the Mexican revolters
that gives away the w'hole object of
the disturbances. On the flag is the
inscription “Army of Liberation of
Mexicans in Texas.”
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FLEET ORDERED TO MEXICO
WASHINGTON, August 12.—The
Atlantic fleet was ordered to Mexico
this morning and will soon set sail.
General Funston has fourteen thou
sand troops under his command near
the Mexican border and this number
is believed to be sufficient to enable
him to keep the situation well in
hand but the force will have to be
augmented considerably, it is believ
ed, if the decision is arrived at to in
vade Mexican territory. The general
feeling here is that war cannot be
avoided this time and that this gov
ernment must take steps immediately.
TROOPS FOR BORDER
LEAVENWORTH, . August 12.—
The Fifth covalry has received orders
to entrain for the Mexican border im
mediately on its return from a
practise march on which it is now en
gaged.
LAREDO, August 12.—General
Funston has ordered the Ninth
cavalry from Fort McIntosh to
Brownsville to be ready and other
regiments are on the move elsewhere.
HOUSTON, August 12.—Governor
Ferguson has telegraphed to Presi
dent Wilson asking that the troops be
doubled in the Rio Grande valley as
a precaution against the threatening
of the Mexicans.
CITIZENS ARM
BROWNSVILLE, August 12.—
Every citizen of Cameron, Hidalgo
and Starr counties is armed in pre
paration for the uprising of the Mexi
cans living in Texas. These three
counties will have to bear tin; brunt
if the uprising reaches any importai .
proportions as they have Mexico on
lone hand and the revolting Mex < .m
! residents of the state all around
1 them. It is now fully under ’ >od
that the Mexicans intend to attempt
to restore Texas to Mexico if the*
possibly could.
CALL I'OK CONFER KM I
NEW YORK, August 12.—The Pan
! American conference has issued a de
mand to all the Mexican factions to
call a peace conference in the name
of humanity and patriotism, 'liie al
ternative intention of the conference
is reserved until the answer of tho
Mexicans is received.
WILSON HURRIES TO ( A PIT A L.
WASHINGTON, August
President Wilson reteurned to Wash
ington today and immediately went
into conference with the secretary of
state. He had been expected tomor
row to confer with the cabinet but he
cut. his vacation short owing, no
doubt, to the Mexican muddle. The
entire Atlantic fleet wiR leave soon
for southern waters but it is de
nied that its departure is connected in
any way with the danger of war with
Mexico although no other reason ha
been assigned.
NEW SCHOOL PLANS ARE
ADOPTED BY COUNCIL.
Municipal Governing Body Again
Forced to Back Down by
Lack of Funds.
New plans for the improvement of
the school building were adopted last
night and the plans formerly accept
ed were abandoned. The plans of
Architect Kingsley were accepted be
fore and bids were actually called lor
and received on those plans, but the
city council has finally had it ham
mered into their heads that their con
duct of the city’s affairs has brought
it to the edge of bankruptcy, and it
was found necessary hist night to
adopt new and cheaper plans which
were the same plans offered previous
ly but refused. Architect Winstedt’s
plans are the ones now' accepted.
They embody the idea of using the
low'er floor of the school building, or
the basement as some people call it,
and they will save the city something
like two thousand dollars. At the
time the architects presented their
plans before, the city fathers said
hang the expense, but talking and
writing and shouting has finally
showm them where the city has been
placed by them financially. The plans
of Mr. Kingsley which have now been
turned dowrn are said by the council
to be perfoct and they have been forc
ed to give them up only because of
the depleted state of the city treas
ury, and after the council bosses
found that the taxpayers were going
to stand for no inflated taxation to
enable the council to meet the out
rageous bills due to its almost inex
plicable extravagance. Even as it is
the change of plans means the loss of
the fees paid to Mr. Kingsley, but,
gracious, the city is lucky if that’s all
it will have to meet before the change
of council comes.
NEW BOAT ON SEWARD RUN.
That the Alaska Steamship Com
pany has bought the steamship City
of Puebla from the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company, was the state
ment made by Agent A. H. McDonald.
Mr. McDonald says that the new boat
is of almost the same tonnage and
Speed as the Mariposa and the Ala
meda. In the near future it will com
mence running from Seattle to An
chorage.