The Great The Great
ALASKAN ALASKAN
DAILY DAILY
1- PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY LARGEST ALASKAN CIRCULATION
ADVERTISEMENTS BRING RESULTS
\.,l. N(, ,,s SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, ER1DAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1915. _;_Ten Cent* the Copj
JAPAN GIVES RIFLES AND GUNS AND WILL SOON
SEND AN ARMY TO BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE
BRITAIN ANNOUNCES IT
WILL FIGHT ON TO END
NAVAL STATION
SITE PERFECT
GEORGE W. BROWN, GOVERN
MENT REPRESENTATIVE,
\SKED MORE (Jl ESTIONS.
That “Naval Point,” the site reserv
ed south of the city for a naval coal
ing station, is perfectly suitable is the ;
statement made this morning by
George W. Brown, the representative
of the government who is now here
to look into the matter. In answer
to another question Mr. Brown said
that unquestionably the intention in
selecting that site was to run trains j
along the side hill to the blinkers
erected on the Point. He believes that i
the Matanuska coal fields will be op
erated just as soon as the railroad to
them is constructed but as to when ,
construction on the coaling station j
will begin he wa> unable to give an
idea. The policy of the government
recently, Mr. Brown says, is rather to
have fewer and larger stations—to
concentrate. This, of course, might be j
taken as suggesting that the naval
coaling base here will be a very large j
one, supplying all the coaling stations
in other places.
TO STERILIZE !
THE DEFECTIVE;
MRS HARRIMAN. ROCKEFELLER
and carneoie back EU
GENIC MOVEMENT.
NEW YORK. September 3.—Mrs.
Harriman has come out with a state
ment that she has become convinced
of the advantage of the eugenic move- :
ment antf vhat from this tim' forward
ahe will campaign in favor ot prohibi
ting marriages between unhealthy
couples for the improvement of thfc
race. To add to the sensation caused :
by this announcement it has been
learned that Carnegie and Rocke- j
feller have contributed funds for the j
campaign and will aid it by everv J
means in their power. The chief ob
ject of the campaign will be the steri
lization of defectives. The subject is
the chief matter for discussion in the
papers this afternoon.
NEWFOUNDLAND MAY DRY UP.
ST. JOHN, Sept. 3.—Prohibition
will be submitted to the electors of
Newfoundland in November.
OLIVER CASE PROCEEDS.
The divorce suit of Henry Oliver
will not be dropped and Mr. Oliver
has notified his attorney to that ef- j
feet Some time ago the intention of
withdrawing the complaint was ex
pressed but this intention has been
altered.
EIGHT HUNDRED TWELVE
LOST ON THE EASTLAND.
CHICAGO. Sept 3.—The exact
number of people drowned when the
steamer Eastland capsized at the dock
here was eight hundred and twelve
according to the official account just
published. It is belhved that all the
bodies have been recovered with the
possible exception of a few.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—An officer
of the Dutch navy has arrived to pur
chase an unlimited number of aero
planes. He declared on landing that
observation has proven the aeroplanes
in this country to be the best.
JAPS ENTER THE WAR
LON DON, Sept. 3.—That Japan will soon, and practi
cally is now, taking active part in the European war was
announced Here today. The British have already received
hundreds of thousands of Japanese rifles and it is an
nounced that Japanese big guns are now beir.g used by the
allies, but the chief importance of the announcement
comes with the statement that Japan will actually soon
send an army into active service on the European con
tinent. It was announced also today that Hindenburg
took three thousand prisoners at Grodno.
BRITAIN TO FIGHT ON
LONDON, Sept. 3.—The government of Great Brit
ain has announced through one of its highest officials
speaking through the press that its policy remains the
same as that announced in August 1914 by Premier As
quith—the policy to refuse peace proposals and to fight
on until Belgium is restored to the Belgians and militar
ism removed from Europe.
❖ THE ROA1) COMMISSION *
❖ MAY HAVE SITE HERE. ❖
.> _ 9
It is reported on pretty good
| authority that the Alaska Road Com
mission has secured a site here for
its buildings, but if such is the case
the details are not ripe for publica
tion. That the Road Commission
| must move here to bo at hand to
; build systems of roads in connection
with the railroad is an absolute
certainty.
❖ MOHR ESTATE WORTH ❖
❖ HALF A MILLION. ❖
❖ - ♦
PROVIDENCE, Sept. 3.—The |
estate of Dr. Mohr who was killed by j
three negroes at the instigation of i
his wife, is worth half a million dol
lars. The family is so prominent
that the murder continues to be the
sensation of the hour. The confes
sion of the three negroes, told about
yesterday, has probably doomed them.
________
Snapshot of VI illiuni C. Files, Chairman Alaskan Engineering Commission
Taken at Sale of Anchorage Townsite Lots.
CHARLES BROWN SPEAKS
HIGHLY OF ANCHORAGE.
Although More Interested in Seward
He Says Newr City Looks
Very Prosperous.
Charles E. Brown, of Brown &
Hawkins, who returned on the Al
|
j lianee last night speaks in the high
| est terms of the outlook at the new
railroad city. “Anchorage looks
| very good” he said “and is being built
up rapidly. It has an air of real
prosperity in every respect.”
While Br. Brown is convinced that
Seward will be the greatest city in
Alaska and although his interests in j
this town are greater than anywhere
else he believes that Anchorage has
a fine future and that its prosperity
will aid the prosperity of Seward.
; The railroad commission is doing
splendid work, he says, and everyone
is satisfied, not one complaint having
been heard by him from workingmen
or anyone else.
TWO MORE BODIES IDENTIFIED.
HONOLULU, Sept. 3.—Two more
. bodies of the victims of the sinking
of the submarine F-4 have been ident
ified. They are the bodies of Frank
j Hertod of Salt Lake and Charles F.
(Welles ot Norfolk.
J
MRS MOHR THREATENED
MISS BERGER BEFORE.
Letter Secured by Police Shows that
Doctor’s Wife Intended
. Shooting.
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Sept. 2.—The
police this afternoon secured a letter
signed with the name of Mrs. Mohr
and addressed to the brother-in-law
of Miss Berger in which it was stated
that Miss Berger would meet a sad
end if she continued to visit the house
of Dr. Mohr at Newport. “She will
never come out alive some day if she
keeps on against me” concluded the
note.
The murder has created a tremend
ous sensation owing to the promin
ence of the people. The confession
of the three negroes has been accept
ed as absolute proof of the guilt of
the unfortunate woman but the fact
that she would have used such people
and so many of them to commit the
deed and so make her chances of
secrecy less has given the impression
that she had been driven mad by
jealousy.
PROVIDENCE, Sept. 3.—Mrs.
Mohr has been allowed her liberty on
the furnishing of ten thousand dol
lars bail. Miss Berger is recovering
from the wounds inflicted.
BIG ADDITION
TO ANCHORAGE
! PRESIDENT WILSON GIVES 1,3J5
ACRES TO NEW R. R.
CITY.
_
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Presi
dent Wilson this afternoon added
thirteen hundred and fifteen acres to
the Anchorage townsite. The reason
has not yet been given out but the ad
dition is assumed to be to secure
ground, which may or may not be
needed, as a precaution.
THREE BIG FIRES AT
ONCE IN SAN JOSE.
SAN JOSE, Sept. 3.—Three big
tires occurred here simultaneously
last night. One occurred in the Osen
and Hunter garage and a score of
autos \v;»re destroyed. The second
was in the Johnson warehouse, and
the third was in the Averill Machine
works where the damage was two
hundred thousand dollars.
B. C. STRIKE OVER.
VANCOUVER, Sept. 3.—The trol
ley men of this city have made an
agreement with the companies ami
this agreement will last six months,
so that for that period the strike has
been averted.
FIVE MEN BUTCHERED
BY LAW WITHIN HOUR.
OSSINING, N. Y., Sept 3.—E ve
men were executed by electricity in
this prison this morning within an
hour. Arrangements had been made
to get the executions over as rapidly
jfc possible and one victim was placed
in the chair and the current turned on
almost before the body of the pre
ceding victim had been taken out of
sight.
CHINESE liUCK JAPS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—The
local and Oriental Chinese have come
to the decision to compete with the
Japanese for the trade of the Pacific.
It is within the possibilities that the
Chinese will construct ships for the
Trans-Pacific trade.
' ___
GREAT LONGSHOREMEN'S
STRIKE IS EXPECTED.
SEATTLE, Sept. 3.—The local
longshoremen express the belief now
that the great strike is unavoidable.
It will tie up the work not only along
the Pacific coast states but will also
affect Alaska and every effort is be
ing made to avert it.
•> ❖ <• <• ❖ ❖ •>❖❖*><•<*
♦ ROTTERDAM FIRE •>
<• LIKELY PUT OUT. •>
* . - ♦
LONDON, Sept. 3.—Advices arriv
ing this morning indicate that the fire
on the great Holland-American liner
Rotterdam has been extinguished.
The Rotterdam is more than six hun
dred and fifty feet long and has a
gross tonnage of twenty-four thou
sand.
NO ONE INDICTED
FOR FRANK MURDER
Plenty of Clues Obtained by Grand
Jury but Identification of
Lynchers Not Made.
MARIETTE, Sept 3.—The grand
jury has finished its deliberations on
the lynching of Frank and has failed
to bring in any indictments. It is
known that several clues existed but
the jury failed to identify any of
those present at the lynching.
MOOSE MEETING TONIGHT.
A meeting of the Loyal Order of
the Moose will be held tonight in the
A. B. Hall at 8 o'clock.
LUSITANIA AND ARABIC
DECISION UP TO HAGUE
L. E. SMOOT IS
LANE’S AGENT
MAN WHO ARRIVED LAST NIGHT
IS REALLY EXAMINING
HARBORS.
L. E. Smoot, who returned from
Anchorage last night on the Alliance,
is really the agent of Secretary
Franklin K. Lane and is really here
to study harbor conditions. This is a
fact which the Gateway discovered
soon after the departure of Mr. Smoot
from Seward to Anchorage a couple
of weeks ago or so. When he was
here the paper had only an inkling of
the truth and Mr. Smoot did not ap
parently at that time desire the publi
cation of the fact. The positive in
formation was secured by the Gate
way by communicating with the out
side. On his way here Mr. Smoot in
spected the harbor at Cordova, not
withstanding the hasty statements to
the contrary made in the sister city,
and he made not only a careful ob
servation of harbors, etc., there but
he has done likewise in this region
and Cook Inlet. It is now a positive
fact that Mr. Smoot has been sent
here by Mr. Lane for the purpose
stated.
Mr. Smoot stated today that when
he told the Gateway on his last visit
that he “came here at his own ex
pense” he told the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, but
he admits now that he came on gov
ernment business and that he paid
his own expenses merely because he
wished to be at liberty at any time to
go back to see his father who has
been ill.
MEXICANS KILL
TWO AMERICANS
THREE DEAD IN SKIRMISH AND
IT. S. TROOPS ARE IN
HOT PURSUIT.
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 3.—Two
Americans and one Mexican were
killed in a skirmish which occurred
after the attack on San Benito and
the burining of the bridge at Browns
ville yesterday. The Mexicans con
tinue in United States territory and
the American cavalrymen are in hot
pursuit so that a hot figth may be
looked for pretty soon. The gieat
danger believed to be threatening is
that the Mexicans will soon make a
general raid across the border and
that we may not have enough troops
to save this and other towns on the
frontier. Considerable property has
been burned in the recent raids and a
large amount of stock stolen.
NO MORE LIVES LOST
IN MANITOBA CYCLONE.
Seventy per cent of Crops and Great
Area of Territory Com
pletely Destroyed
, »
WINNIPEG, Sept. 2.—The reports
this afternoon from the parts of the
province affected by the great cyclone
show that no lives were lost except
that of the engineer of the Grand
Trunk train which met disaster be
cause of the carrying away of a
bridge by the storm. Seventy per
cent of the crops have been destroyed
in the district and in one place a
whole stretch of territory fifteen
miles long was completely cleaned
I out
GRODNO FALLS
BERLIN, Sept. 3.—Hindenburg has captured the
forts and the city of Grodno after desperate street battles
in which the Russians fought with a determination which
has been lacking in their recent campaigning. They
crowded the houses and retreated from one block of build
ings to the other as they poured out a terriffic fire. As
stated before, this is the last stronghold of the Russians
on the Warsaw-Petrograd railroad so that the line is now
completely on our possession.
VON TIRPITZ SORE
LONDON, Sept. 3— It is rumored here that Grand
Admiral von Tirpitz of the German navy has left in a
hurry for headquarters of the kaiser to protest against
the action taken by the German government in accepting
the American demands and so binding itself to modify
submarine warfare. The Grand Admiral is said to be so
wrathful that his resignation may result.
WANTS HAGUE TO DECIDE
BERLIN, Sept. 3.—Germany has offered to submit
the Lusitania and the Arabic incidents to the Hague
tribunal and a note has been sent to Washington to that
effect. In the meantime the precautions provided for will
be taken to prevent a recurrence of such events.
NO FIGHTING WEST
PARIS, Sept. 3.—No fighting has occurred on the
western front within the past twenty-four hours. This
is believed to be the longest period since the beginning of
the war in which no fighting whatever has been reported.
The losses caused by assaults by either sides are so tre
mendous that it is quite possible no further serious at
tempts will be made by either side for a general advance
until some weakness in the opposing side is discovered.
The delay is all in favor of the allied armies as Russia and
Italy are sure to be able to keep very great forces of
Teutons from coming from the east.
HUNDREDS OF BRITISH DROWN
BERLIN, Sept. 3.—A British transport ship, crowded
with soldiers, was mined and sunk yesterday at the en
trance to the Dardanelles. Three hundred and twenty
officers, twelve hundred and fifty soldiers and three hun
dred members of the crew were either killed by the ex
plosion or drowned when the vessel went to the bottom.
Six hundred men were saved.
BULGARIA OUT OF IT
PARIS, Sept. 3.—The concessions of Serbia to Bul
garia are unsatisfactory to the latter and Bulgaria has
decided absolutely to keep out of the war. The allies have
abandoned hope of her participation.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—It was announced this af
ternoon that the state department has accepted the offer
I of Germany to submit the Lusitania and Arabic matters
1 to the Hague.