SEWARD:—The Gateway to the Land of Opportunity—The Hunters’ Paradise The Homesteaders’ Land of Promise
1
-—--—| "Jf k The Gateway
The Gateway «V#f" to the
to th* (Til I, K 1,1 It i Kenai, Knik, Broad Pass
Great Coal Fields of Gold Fields
Matanuska ....
\ (H1 \TFI> I KFSS___PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY____LARGEST ALASKAN CIRCULATION
SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11. 191L___1 en ( enf the Copy
BATTLING IN SAME OLD PLACE
WAR NOW AFFECTS STEAMER ROUTE TO ALASKA
British Columbia Coast
Preparing For Defense
BATTLE ROYAL STILL ON
PARIS, Nov. 11.—The official news this morning is
that on the left wing of the allies the fighting was resumed
with great severity yesterday morning between Nieuport
and the river Lys where the Germans made violent at
tacks with great forces. Our front was maintained despite
the violence of these terrific assaults which were carried
out after preliminary bombardments with heavy field
guns. The worst of the attacks were directed against cer
tain of our points of support to the north of Nieuport but
there we succeeded not only in holding our own but in re
covering Lembaemyde and advancing for some distance
beyond that town. U nfortunately, towards the end of the
day, the Germans succeded in taking possession of Dix
mude although they did so after frightful losses. We still
hold our positions in the aproaches to that town, however,
along the canal from Nieuport to Ypres. These ap
proaches have been firmly occupied and any attempt by
the enemy to take them will not onlv Ik* unsuccessful but
will result in weakening him.
BRITISH ATTACKED
The fighting has been very severe in those places. The
British troops were also attacked violently at several
places but in all cases the Britishers succeeded in stop
ping the enemy. It had been supposed yesterday that the
Germans would make no further attempts to reach the
coast in that direction but it now seems to be evident that
tremendous fighting is still ahead in the old spots. While
the capture of Dixmude is regrettable it means no more
than that the Germans find themselves once more on the
same old ground from which they attempted to reach Dun
kirk some time ago over the Yser.
INTENTION A MYSTERY
PARIS, Nov. 11.—The purpose of the Germans in
once more opening determined attacks on the allies in the
Yser region is a mystery to the ordinary citizen in this
capital. It had been generally supposed that the enemy
had abandoned the attempt in that quarter and would en-j
deavor to reach the French coast further south. In the
meantime the people are looking forward to the return of
the French government on the Twentieth of the present
month and are confident that no obstacle will come to pre
vent it.
PRINCE ON EMDEN
LONDON, Nov. 11.—Prince Franz Joseph of Hohen
zollern is one of the prisoners of war taken when the Ger
man cruiser Emden was destroyed by the Australian
cruiser Sydney the other day at Cocos island. Captain
Mueller of the Emden is also a prisoner of war. Neither
he nor the prince is wounded although two hundred men
bers of the Emden’s crew were killed and thirty injured.
The destruction of the Emden is very gratifying to the
people of this country as she was the vessel that destroy
ed much shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the one that
bombarded Madras.
GERMAN SHIPS COME NORTH
TALTAL, Chile, Nov. 11.—A steamer arriving here
reports that she sighted four German warships steaming
north off Soguimba three hundred miles south of this
place. These warships are undoubtedly the ones that de
feated the British squadron and their movements are now
watched with absorbing interest.
MEANS NEW ATTACK
LONDON, Nov. 11.—The capture of Dixmude by the
Germans was the first indications that the Germans plan
ed a new course of attack. The former plan has evident
ly been abandoned and the taking of Dixmude probably
means the turning point of the war according to the best
military opinion in Britain. Their intention now is not
obvious unless it might be to use Dixmude as a base from
which they could cover their retreat. The Germans oc
cupied Dixmude on the fifteenth of last month but were
compelled to fall back. On their first movement now at
that point will depend the fate of the great struggle.
RUSSIANS SHIP PRISONERS
HARBIN, Russia, Nov. 11.—The Russians are now
shipping their prisoners of war far to the east. Some of
them are being sent as far east even as Vladivostok and
the assumption is that this is being done to render it
easier to guard them as they could never find their way
back even if they managed to escape.
WAR COMES TO ALASKA
OTTAWA, Nov. 11.—The Canadian government to*
day officially announced the western portion of Brough
ton strait, north of Vancouver Island, has been closed to
all navigation for purpose of defense. \ essels between
Johnstone strait and Queen Charlotte Sound must take
the western passage and Blackfish sound vessels going
by the way of Ella Point channel are in danger of being
fired on. the order obliges vessels using the inside pas
sage to Alaska to abandon Broughton strait. 1 he Black
fish sound channel is perfectly feasible for navigation.
The only reason that can be assumed for these precautions
is the fear that the German ships now in the Pacific may
make a raid on the Canadian Pacific shores. Since the bat
tle off Chile the Pacific has no British ships to oppose those
hostile vessels and unless tne Japanese fleet can handle
them there is a danger that British Columbia might be
made the object of attack.
LONDON REVIEWS SITUATION
LONDON. Nov. 11.—The government gave out a re
view of the war situation this morning covering the whoie
matter. It declared that on the hundreth day of the war
the Teutons were found practically on the defensive in
both areas of hostilities. This role is more pronounced in
the eastern field where the Germans have been thrown
well back behind their own frontier lines in East Prussia
and near Posen. Although the successes of the last few
weeks enabled the French, British and Belgians to inaug
urate vigorous offensive movements the Germans still dis
pute every foot of the ground with bloody hand to hand
fighting. In general, the announcement states, the out
look is most favorable.
ASQUITH OPTIMISTIC
Prime Minster Asquith spoke today in parliament
which has just re-assembled. He declared that he doubted
the war would last as long as the Germans predicted and
he looks for a successful conclusion for this country in
good time. About one hundred members of the house of
commons are fighting at the front but all the others were
in their places when the house reconvened and the state
ment of the premier was listened to with breathless in
terest.
JAP SHIPS VS. GERMAN
HONOLULU, Nov. 11.—The Japanese battleship
Hizen and the cruiser Asama left this port today for some
unknown destination. It is generally understood, how
ever, that they have arranged a rendezvous with the Jap
anese fleet which is now off the coast of Chile and that
after joining the other vessels they will proceed to search
for the German warships that fought the British ships
some time ago. Should the two squadrons come together
a thrilling fight may be expected. The Japanese vessels
are more powerful than the Schnarnhorst and the Gnei
senau but the efficiency of the last two as proven in the
recent battle is expected to enable them to make a good
account of themselves. •
RUSSIANS ADVANCE
LONDON, Nov. 1.—The Cossacks are reported to be
approaching Cracow. It is also reported that the invest
ment of Przemysl, from which the Russians were driven
some weeks ago, has again been effected and that the fort
ress cannot last very long. Nothing of a very definite na
ture from that part of the war theater has been obtained
today but that the Russian advance still continues is as
sumed. It is also assumed that Hindenburg will give bat
tle before falling back into German territory so that the
struggle may come at any moment.
FORTRESSES STILL STAND
LONDON, Nov. 11.—The result of the attempts to
take Verdun and Przemysl are now being awaited with
keen interest. Both occupy about similar positions with
relation to the armies which are operating around them.
The Germans are putting forth tremendous efforts to re
duce Verdun as it forms a strong support for the allied
right and the Russians, effort to take Przemysl is of simi
lar consequence as that fortress stiffens the Austrian line
in Gallicia immensely. Both are what is known as fortres
ses of the first class. The news from South Africa is very
meager only that it is known that General Botha, the
prime minister, who was formerly commander in chief of
the Boers, is exerting all his great.influence with his com
patriots to remain loyal to the British crown. No infor
mation has been given out as to the amount of troops De
Wet and Beyers have under their command.
KNIK TO HAVE
BIG CANNERY
AUGUST BUSHMAN TAKES SITE
AT GOOSE BAY ANI) HAS
EMPLOYED
A salmon cannery will be putting
up salmon next spring at Goose bay,
Knik, and will employ at least fifty
men. Goose bay is about eight miles
Lelow Knik and there August >*ush
man has secured a site and has al
ready put men at work getting out
timbers and doing other preliminary
work for the establishment of the can
nery. Mr. Bushman has a cannery
now in southeastern Alaska and on a
recent visit to Goose bay became con
vinced that the place is an excellent
one for the purpose. The cannery will
, be in full swing next summer.
TWO LADIES OVERCOME
uY GASOLINE FUMES
Bride of Dr. Carmichael of Knik Had
Unpleasant Landing at That Place
| _
When the lady who recently became
the bride of I)r. Carmichael at Knik
landed at that place she and another
lady anil a child had a most unpleas
ant experience when they were over
come by the fumes of the gasoline on
the launch Sea Lion which took them
ashore from the steamer. As the boat
was going ashore a leak must have
occurred in the apparatus. The other
lady was over come and fell over in
a faint. The lady who is now Mrs.
Carmichael went to her assistance and
was also rendered unconscious. The
rhild of the first lady was overcome
soon afterwards and all three had a
most disagreable experience but were
later brought to and said to be none
the worse for the occurrence!
CREW COMMENCES WORK
ON MILE 4 PROPERTY
A crew of six men commenced work
on the Mile Four property today. In !
addition to assessment work develop-:
ment work of a more extensive kind
will also be undertaken by the original j
locators who have the crew’ engaged, j
The crew consists of six men.
MORE ORE BROUGHT FROM
GRANT LAKE PROPERTY
Harper Brothers and Case Expect
Rock to Prove as Rich as the
Last Shipment
On the car last evening three and
a half tons of rock were shipped in
from the Grant Lake property by
Harper Brothers and Case and will be
crushed at the Ellsworth mill. This
rock is from the property which made
such a splendid showing some weeks
ago when crushed here at the same
mill. Messrs. Harper and Case
freighted the rock to the railroad with
dog teams. They expect to continue
the work during the winter and after
the cars stop running will bring in
the ore with dogs on the tracks. Char
ley Harper will be here this evening
to help in the milling.
HUNT CLUB DINNER TAKES
PLACE THIS EVENING
The Outing club dinner will take
place this evening at Cooper’s cafe.
After the dinner a show will be given
at the Casino and later a dance will
be held in the railroad building. Yes
terday was the day appointed for the
dinner but the absence of several of
the leading members of the club made
a postponement necessary.
The dinner will take place at six
o’clock sharifr
ii. s. moors soon
10 LEAVE VERA CRUZ
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—The
American troops will probably soon be
ordered to leave Vera Cruz owing to
guarantees which have been secured
from both sides in the Mexican om
broglio. It has been decided by this
government to let the Mexican fac
tions deal with their own interna!
affairs entirely provided that all
other interests will be protected and
that a stable government will be pro
vided at the conclusion of the present
I discussions. To bring about these de
sirable facts the Washington govern
| ment demanded the guarantees some
time ago when the Mexican national
convention requested the American
government to withdraw its troop?
| and the guarantees have now been
! obtained so that President Wilson an<
' Secretary’ Bryan feel it to be quite
j safe to leave the country to itself.
TAKING HOMESTEADS AND
MINES AT ILLIAMNA
Mr. Parks of the Land Department
Says Many Men Are Going into
That Section
Many people are now going into the
lliamna lake and Clarke lake dis
tricts and taking up homesteads or
prospecting according to George
Parks of the land dept. Two home
steads have been taken up at Oil Bay,
ten miles from lliamna, within the
past two months and most of the
people who have ben living around
that region are now going on farms.
The Duryea brothers who have a
ranch at the head of Cottonwood bay
at the head of lliamna bay have sent
out exhibits of vegetables to the
Panama Fair at San Francisco. These
exhibits consist of several boxes of
potatoes, carrots and other farm pro
duce. Others have also sent out ex
hibits. Mr. Parks has been in that
district for some time classifying the
mineral lands and taking notes of the
argicultural matters.
CREW ON PRIMROSE
A crew leaves tomorrow to work on
the Primrose mine. It will be in
charge of Jake HoefTler and will do
some extensive work.
Two men are now working on the
Seward Alaska mining property down
the bay.
PUTTING UP CYANIDE
PLANT AT UNGA
• Captain 0. W. Carlson who is now
in Seward is putting up a cyanide
plant at Unga to work the tailings o»
the Apollo mine. The tailings are all
down the creek but will be conveyed
to the tanks by means of a «onve>or.
Five of these tanks are 7 feet by 36 in
size, and in addition there are se/en
others not so large. The amount of
tailings to be worked is estimated at
four hundred thousand tons.
MINING JOURNAL WANTS
NEWS FROM SEWARD
The Mining and Engineering jour
nal has written to the city clerk ask
ing him for information concerning
this district which will be used Jin a
special edition. The Journal gets < ’it
a special edition at the beginning of
each year in which it reviews the
mining work of the year previous. It
says it will devote several pages to
Alaska this time as it believe* the
future of mining in this territory will
be tremendous.
.ALL CITIES
VOTE LARGER
BIG INCREASE NOTICED IN
VOTING EVERYW HERE THIS
ELECTION
One remarkable fact noticeable in
the election returns is that all the
cities polled much larger votes than
.hey polled in the last election. The
ncrcase is so great in most of the cen
ters of population that the addition
of the womens’ vote cannot account
for it. This is all the more remark
able considering the differences of
.he season on which the two elections
were held.
The vote for Nome last year wa3
310 and this year it is 870. The vote
for Chitina is 118 compared to 109.
The vote for Ketchikan has doubled.
It is 314 to 161. The vote in Douglass
also doubled. It is 332 to 167. Skag
,vay had 160 this time as compared to
i37 last election. Katalla has 76 com
pared to 60.
NATIVES VOTED IN
AFOGNAK PRECINCT
The vote published yesterday from
Afognak also included the natives
who by the treaty with Russia are
regarded as having the privilege. The
juestion that all Alaska natives were
made citizens by the treaty was
cashed out some time ago but nothing
iias been concluded about it. It is said
that Delegate Wickersham believes
them to be citizens, or that, at least,
he did while he was on the bench. It
is also stated, however, that a native
woman who marries an American cit
izen becomes a citizen. In Afognak
the natives may enter saloons like
white people.
NORTHWESTERN LEFT
VALDEZ TEN O'CLOCK
The Northwestern left Valdez this
morning at 10 o’clock.
JAPAN PEACE SOC1FTY
EXPRESSES VIEWS ON WAR
TOKYO, Nov. 11.—The Japan
Peace Society has given an expres
sion of its peace policy .in a letter to
the Central Bureau at Bemo of the
International Peace Conference. It
reads:
“The great war w'hich has broken
out in Europe threatens to involve the
whole world in the struggle, and we,
the members of the Japan Peace So
ciety, earnestly hope that the of
ficials of the Central Bureau at
Bemo of the International Peace Con
ference and the peace societies of
each bellicose country should do all
in their power for the restoration of
peace in Europe."
NEWS NOTES
Senator L. V. Ray will leave on the
Northwestern for Valdez where he
will attend the court for three weeks.
Herbert Tozier has been subpoenaed
before the grand jury at Valdez as a
witness. It is assumed that he is sum
moned to appear on some business
connected with the Alaska Northern
railroad.
There is fine skating now in the lit
tle lake Just above the city.