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Vol. 9. No. 109 . SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1915. _Ten Cent, the Cop/
ALLIES PROGRESS IN WEST AND TEUTONS IN EAST
AUSTRIANS SURROUND RUSSIAN
ARMY IN THE PROVINCE OF
BUKOWINA-GERMANS TAKE PLOCK
ALLIES PROGRESS IN WEST FRONT
Submarine Sinks British Collier—Ger
many Declares it Impossible to
Distinguish Neutrals in Danger
Zone.—Russia Building Railroads
From City of Warsaw.
GERMANS CAPTURE PLOCK
BERLIN, Feb. 17.—'The German army, following the
two defeats of the Russians east of Tilsit and the Mazur
ian lakes, has now captured the city of Flock on the Vis
tula about sixty or seventy miles northwest of Warsaw.
This city was occupied by the Germans formerly but they
retired when their left was threatend by the advance of
the Russians toward Thorn. The capture of Flock at this
time probably means that the defeats in the north have
compelled the Russian center to fall back to avoid a Ger
man advance from East Prussia towards the Polish capi
tal by way of Mlawa along the railroad connecting the two
points. The defeated Russians are now being driven be
yond the East Prussian border and by this time it is be
lieved the enemy has been cleared out of its last foothold
in German territory. It is hardly likely that the German
victors will again venture to follow into the Russian prov
ince of Suwalki as they did earlier in the war as the clim
atic conditions are too severe but it is believed here that
the enemy can be held there now by a smaller force while
re-inforcements can be dispatched for further attacks on
Warsaw iteslf.
BRITISH COLLIER SUNK
HAVRE, FRANCE, Feb. 17.—A British collier was
sunk off this coast yesterday by a German submarine but
all the members of the crew were saved. The occurrence
shows that the German submarines which sank two Brit
ish ships near the same place a couple of weeks ago are
still active in the vicinity. Where the collier was sunk
is part of the danger zone lately declared by the Ger
man government. The saving of the crew was due to the
fact that several ships were in the neighborhood at the
time and the quick call for help by the collier was answer
ed. The submarine was not sighted.
CLAIM RUSSIANS SURROUNDED
VIENNA, Feb. 17.—It is officially announced this
morning that the defeated Russian army which was re
treating from Bukowina province has been surrounded by
the Austrian victors. The condition of the Russians, as a
consequence, is such that the surrender of the whole force
is expected unless they can find some means of breaking
through the encircling lines. Military authorities here
declare that if the enemv in that quarter can be forced to
surrender en masse it will leave the right of the main Rus
sian armies open to a flanking movement. The news is so
important that further information is being awaited be
fore becoming too confident.
ALLIES WIN ALL OVER
LONDON, Feb. 17—That the allies have been suc
cessful all along the western front is the statement by the
official bulletins this morning. While the exact nature of
the successes have not been mentioned it is declared that
progress has been made at Ypres, La Bassee, Argonne,
Rheims, Vosges and elsewhere. The news is most wel
come coming as it does after the rather depressing news
of yesterday. It is also announced that the German count
er offensive in Alsace has been checked by the French and
that the enemy is at a complete standstill in that quarter.
At not one point in France or Belgium or Alsace have the
Germans advanced a foot while, on the contrary, they have
been compelled to evacuate several trenches.
ALLIES RAID GERMANS
LONDON, Feb. 17.—Allied air crafts raided Zee
brugge, Ostend, Middlekerke and Ghisteller yesterday
and dropped many bombs that inflicted much damage on
the enemy. The total results of the raid are declared to
be very satisfactory. The bombs were mostly dropped on
fortified German positions and care was taken to avoid
injuring the property of the Belgian people within the
zone of attack
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WHAT SECRETARY LANE
SAID TO COMMITTEE.
Verbatim Account of the W'ords Used
Dealing With Purchase
of Roads.
In the Seattle Post Intelligencer of
February 6 appears the following ac
count of what Secretary Lane said to
tho appropriations committee of the
house when he was asking for the two
millions appropriation:
The stenographic report of Secre
tary line’s testimony before the ap
propriations committee last Monday
was made public today. This signifi
cant passage occurred in the testi
mony:
“What we want to do is to be in a
position to begin operations in June,
wherever we are going, and we want
to have some leeway so that whatever
road we determine to purchase, if we
determine to purcahse any, will have
some kind of a deposit to make on it."
Chairman Fitzgerald said: “So that
your purpose now is after the route
is determined, if you decide to pur
chase one of the roads, to purchase
it and then be able to go ahead with
the construction work in addition?"
Coal the First Consideration.
“Yes," said Secretary Lane, “so as
to get our coal available as sopn as,
possible; that would be my idea." And
then he emphasized the thought that
the first consideration is to get out
coal.
While great secrecy surrounds all
matters connected with the Alaskan
railway subject, and orders have ap
parently gone out in the last ten days
to all officers of the government to
give no information, it is known that
personal representatives of the bond
holders of the Alaska Northern have
been in consultation with Secretary
Lane this week. It is believed that
counter propositions have been sub
mitted and are now under considera
tion.
Postmaster Phillip Hickey has left
for a trip of a week’s duration or so
and Al Casey is in charge of the of*
fice during his absence.
MME. BERNHARDT
LOSES HER LEO
KNEE TROUBLE COMPELS DIV
INE SARAH TO UNDERGO
AMPUTATION.
BORDEAUX, Feb. 17.—Next .Mon
day Madame Sarah Bernhardt, the
greatest actress of the present gener
ation, will undergo the amputation of
one of her legs. The loss of the limb
is due to knee trouble from which she
has been suffering for a long time.
Recently the trouble has been growing
w’orse and so keen had the anguish be
come that an amputation wfas decided
upon. For some time she has not ap
peared on a public stage. She is grewr
ing so advanced in age that fears arc
entertained that the operation may
have a serious result on her general
health but she is facing the ordeal
with the greatest fortitude.
DUNKLE CAME HERE TO
GO TO BROAD PASS.
No longer Any Doubt that the Gugen
heims are Getting to Work
in that Field.
From outside sources it has been
fully confirmed that W. E. Dunkle
came here specially to go to th<* Broad
Pass country. He left Seward a few
days ago after arriving here and is
now at Knik or in that neigh
borhood. With him went a young man
named Cooper who was with Engineer
Newsome in this district during the
Summer. Harry Hicks is another who
joined the party here. Outside papers
and Alaska papers havo followed in
the wake of this paper and have final
ly decided that the Guggenheims are
tho real purchasers of the Wells pro
perty.
GERMANY WARNS NEUTRALS
ROTTERDAM, Feb. 17.—An official communication
has been received from the German government notify
ing all Dutch shippers that German submarines will be
unable to distinguish between neutral and British ships
and that all vessels, therefore, will be in serious danger
if they enter the blockade zone. This blockade zone in
cludes all the seas around the British islands and part of
the north sea near this country as well as the waters off
the northwest coast of France. The communication is
evidently sent as a preliminary warning before the Ger
mans begin their real campaign against the allied mer
chant ships. Rumor has it that the German government
has been indefatigably at work since the beginning of the
war building submarines for this very purpose and it is
very likely that the real war is about to commence.
RUSSIANS BUILD RAILROADS
PETROGRAD, Feb. 17.—Five lines of strategic rail
roads are being built by the Russians from Warsaw to
facilitate the movement of troops from one part of the
great eastern theater of war to the other. One of these
lines, and the most important, will be completed this
month. The greatest advantage has been secured by the
enemy by the fact that he had prepared strategic rail
roads which enabled him to move an army from one point
to another with greater speed than could be attained by
our forces. No information has been published for the
past couple of days as to the progress of the war in the
places where the Russian armies are engaged
MASSACHUSETTS TO
VOTE ON WOMEN.
Legislature Casses Suffrage Amend
ment to the State
Constitution.
—
COSTON, Feb. 17.—'The legislature
today passed the suffrage amendment
j and the question will go to the voters
of the state in November. The op
1 position in the legislature was very
small and this is taken to portend that
suffrage will carry when it is present
ed to the people.
Along the Line of the Alaska Northern—Mile 12
PRODUCTS OF CHILD
LABOR ARE BARRED.
House Passes Bill to Save the Children
From the Greed of
Employers.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The
house last night passed a bill barring
the products of child labor from inter
state commerce. By this bill it is
hoped to put a check on the practice of
employing children in factories. It has
been found practically impossible to
pass legislation to prohibit child labor
entirely but the bill passed last night
is believed to be a long step in the
right direction.
LOUIS ROTH STARVES
HIMSELF TO DEATH.
PALO ALTO, Feb. 17.—Louis Roth
died here last night as the result of
a fast which had lasted nearly two
months. He was suffering torture
from his stomach when he decided to
fast for sixty days with the hope of
curing himself.
ROME FLOODS STILL BAD
BUT THE RAIN IS OVER.
ROME, Feb. 17.—The rains have
stopped and early relief is promised
from the floods. The flood conditions
are, however, still bad and the city is
still threatened but a day or two of
dry weather is expected to bring about
a great change for the better.
CALIFORNIA PRISONS
ARE FILLED UP.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1 i.—The j
prison board of the state urged the(
judges yesterday to give suspended^
sentences whenever possible to offend
ers as the prisons are crowded and
there is little room for any more. The
filling of the prisons is said to be due
chiefly to the dullness of the times
which has driven many good men to
break the law’s.
THOUSAND LAWYERS KILLED
BERLIN, Feb. 17.—More than a^
thousand German lawyers had been
killed in battle up to December 28.
The number officially given in the re
ports is 1,071. Six of these jurists;
were professors of law, 236 were
judges, state attorneys, or other offi-;
cials of the judicial department of
government.
Meet mt at The Branch.
HOUSE PASSES
SHIPPING BILL
HAS BIG MAJORITY AND GOES
TO THE SENATE AT
NOON TODAY.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The
shipping bill passed tho house at one
twenty o’clock this morning after four
hours of a severe strugg’e. The vote
in favor of the bill was two hundred
and fifteen to one hundred and twenty
one. It goes to the senate at noon to
day and many believe it has a good
chance of passage there. This meas
ure is a compromise which has for its
purpose the removable of the opposit
ion of the upper house which has balk
ed at the thought of government own
er ship of an unlimited kind. The bill
as it passed the house would plact the
purchased ships under the control of
a commission to be appointed and
which would have forty million dollars
as a sort of capital to work on. Two
years after the close of the European
war the ships would come under the
control of the secretary of the navy.
STOP SALE OF LOTS
IN LAUBNER ADD.
Robert Ashland wired to G. B.
Poindexter todya to stop all sale of
lots in the Laubner addition. The
stoppage of sale is supposed to be due
to some information that has just
leaked out about the railroad and its
coming to Seward. The sale of the
whole addition which wae reported
some time ago has been turned down
by Ashland.
REPORT SANTA ANA ON WAY.
From indirect sources it has been
learned that the Santa Ana was
scheduled to leave Seattle on Feb
ruary 12 and that she would commence
her first trip westward from Seward ■
on next Monday, February 22. No
word has been received directly from
the correspondent of this paper.
DEADLOCK BROKEN IN
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 17.—j
David Shanahan, a republican, has
been elected speaker of the house af- ^
ter a deadlock which had lasted for,
nine weeks. I
GUGGS TO ASSAY
IN BROAD PASS
OUTFIT TAKEN OVER THIS
MORNING FOR GREAT
SMELTING PEOPLE.
That the Guggenheims were really
the purchasers, through Tom Aitken,
of the property of the Wells boys in
Broad Pass and that they sent over
an assaying outfit this morning to be
gin testing the ores are facts which
are now perfectly well established.
„ohn Reichart left this morning with
sjme of the assaying outfit which is
consigned to Engineer Dunkle, who is
now at Knik and who represents the
Guggenheims. Mr. Reichart left Sew
ard about ten o’clock this morning by
made between the Wells and Aitken.
was about to return to Seward and go
into the Broad Pass country and this
report caused many to believe that he
himself had purchased the property of
the Wells but Mr. Aitken is gone to
the interior by way of Skagway and
this fact, coupled with the knowl^lgo
that he never saw' Broad Pass, con
firmed the belief stated in this paper
some time ago that the Guggenheims
were the actual purchasers in the deal
made between the Wells and Aitkens.
The assaying oumt taken out from
Seward this morning for Dunkle will
bo taken to Broad Pass immediately
and the rock in Broad Pass will be
tested carefully during the summer.
It is stated that the Wells received a
fine cash payment on the deal.
DIPLOMATS IN MEXICO
CITY IN A QUANDARY.
So Many Presidents Happen that For
eign Ministers are Kept Busy
V'isiting Them.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The
taking over of the reins of govern
ment by Carranza has placed the dip
lomats of the foreign nations in this
capital in a most unusual position.
Only a short time ago they presented
themselves and their credentials to
President Gutierrez and after h;*
flight they waited on the man who
acted in his stead temporarily. Now
the same ceremonies must be gone
through w'ith Carranza even while
Villa poses as president in arother
part of the country. Should Villa get
the upper hand once again he will
probably march on the capital. The
United States is without an accredited
representative in Mexico City at pre
sent but the Washington administra
tion is in direct touch with Carranza.
No new developments have taken
place within the past few days.
BECKER'S COUNSEL TO
SEEK A NEW TRIAL.
Colored Witness Confesses to Perjury
In First Trial and Gives C hance
to Becker.
NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—'The counsel
of the condemned police lieutenant,
Becker, is about to make an attempt
to secure a new trial for the prisoner
following the confession of a negro
witness that he had given false testi
mony in the previous trial. The gov
ernment attorney will try to prove
that the negro has made the confes
sion, if it could be so called, at the
instigation of the condemed man’s at
torneys and it is hinted that bribery
may have been used for the purpose.
The Traveller has not yet left on
its journey to Knik because of the un
favorable weather. Captain Cramer
is in the greatest possible hurry as he
has aboard the shaft for the Riley
dredge which Mr. Riley will have to
wait for.