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Vol. <i. So. tts SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1915. ___T«n Cent* the Copy
GREAT ARMIES CHOOSE POSITIONS
TOR TITANIC STRUGGLE IN SPRING
Allied Fleets Continue to Hammer Turkish Torts in Dardanelles, But
London Reports that Results Are Admittedly Not Great.
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British Report Repulse of Attacks
by the French and Russians and
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Germans Capture Trenches Near
Arras, But Austrians Evacuate
Czernowitz and German Submarine
is Sunk. _
BERLIN REPORTS VICTORIES
BERLIN, March 4.—An official announcement was
made this evening to the effect that the new Russian at
tacks on the East Prussian border have completely failed
and that the enemy has been hurled back on the positions
which formed the bases of the assaults. The announce
ment also declares that the French were easily repulsed in
their attacks in the Champagne district. No information
of importance has been given out officially regarding the
progress of the attack by the allied fleets on the Dardanel
les although the news has filtered through private chan
nels that the warships are seriously menacing Constantin
ople. The newspapers seem to think it impossible for the
allies to reach the Turkish capital and some of them dis
miss the matter by saying that even if the Turks have to
leave that city temporarily they will be reinstated after
the conclusion of the war, and that in the meantime Turk
ey can carry on the war from-Asia Minor and its new
capital. The secrecy being maintained with regard to the
Turkish movements on the whole seems to suggest that
there is some particular reason for not publishing the full
facts.
HAMMERING TURK FORTS
LONDON, March 5.—The situation in the Dardanel
les is unchanged. The allied battleships continue hammer
ing the Turkish force with all their great guns but the re
sults are admitted to be few. The officials are slow about
promising too much from the attack. The narrowness of
the channel, the probable strength of the forts and the
possibility that the Turks can bring up powerful land bat
teries to oppose the attack are facts pointed out to indicate
the tremendous difficulty which the warships are faced
with. No loss to the fleet has been reported. The story
that a fleet of destroyers and other ships had left the
Austrian coast to aid the Turks in repelling the assault
is not credited here as it would only mean that the Aus
trians would be overwhelmed by the allied ships scattered
in Mediterranean waters. It is supposed that the Turks
by this time must have brought up heavy land artillery at
the Marmora sea end of the Dardanelles to oppose the
fleet and the allies at best cannot hope to reach the open
sea opposite Constantinople without serious losses. No
official confirmation has arrived of the story coming from
Athens to the effect that an allied force has been landed
but it is possible that such a step might have been taken
without its being - publicly announced as the war officials
would only thus be following up the policy which they
have adopted during the whole course of the conflict.
GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK
LONDON, March 5.—A German submarine has been
sunk by a British collier and a French torpedo boat at a
point near the eastern entrance to the English channel.
The details of the affair have not been published but it is
stated that the submarine sank with all hands under the
combined fire of the two ships. The collier had been re
cently supplied with guns for just such a purpose. Ac
cording to the reward offered by the British government
the crew of the collier will now' have some thousands of
pounds distributed amongst them.
PREPARE FOR THE FINAL
LONDON, March 5.—Both sides are now choosing
f. the best positions obtainable for the opening of the spring
campaign which will probably begin soon. The climatic
- conditions are now becoming more and more pleasant and
the great final struggle will not long be postponed. It is
certain that either one side or the other will in the near
future make the grand final effort to overcome the op
position and the most frightful battle in war’s annals will
soon be raging.
SLOT MACHINES STOPPED
BECAUSE OF DISPUTE.
Story Told that Quarrel Between Cor
dova Paper and Commissioner
Brought About the Order.
Travelling men who have arrived
here from the towns below us on the
coast declare that the order to re
move slot machines from operation is
due to a quarrel that occurred between
the Cordova Alaskan and the United
States commissioner of that town. It
is said that the Alaskan accused Com
missioner Adams of having a slot
machine in operation in his drug store.
The charges were heard by Judge
Brown while the latter was at Cor
dova a few days ago and the charges
were declared by him to have no
foundation. The story goes, however,
that after the whole matter became
known the authorities made the order
to have slot machines cut out alto
gether all over the division.
SEVERE BLIZZARDS RAGE
IN THE MIDDLE WEST.
CHICAGO, March 5.—Severe bliz
zards are now sweeping over the mid
dle western states and are interfering
seriously with traffic and business
generally.
CALIFORNIA GIRL IS
DECORATED BY FRANCE.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5.—
Josephine Redding of this city has
been decorated with the cross of the
Legion of Honor by the French gov
ernment for her services as a Red
Cross nurse with the French army.
WILSON SIGNS THE
NEW SEAMAN'S BILL.
WASHINGTON, March 5.—Presi
dent Wilson today signed the new sea
man’s bill which is, therefore, a law
in spite of a tremendous opposition all
over the country from the owners of
ships. Some of the shipping com
panies declare that the bill will add
so much to the running expenses that
the shipping interests are faced with
failure.
MOOSE NOMINATE OFFICERS.
The Seward lodge of the Loyal
Order of Moose will have its nomina
tion of officers this evening 30 that
every member is expected to be pres
ent. The election of officers takes
place twice a year. At the installation
the new officers a big time will be#
given for the whole city. The enter
tainment will be in the form of a bam
dance.
Jack Ronan left for the Grant Lake
mine this morning with a seven hun
dred pounds outfit. He will be away
a couple of weeks examining the
property.
Louis Harding of the revenue serv
ice left on the Watson.
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B. F. Watson left on the Watson
on one of his business trips.
A telegram was received this morn
ing from a wealthy man in Denver by
a prominent Seward man to purchase
two good lots for him here at once.
L. W. Turner and Gus Renner left
this morning for Ruby.
Al. Williams took out M. and Mrs.
Jones this morning for Sunrise.
NEARLY FORTY PEOPLE
COME ON THE EVANS.
Rush to Seward Shows Further Signs
of Getting Larger and
Larger.
SEATTLE, March 5.—The follow
ing passengers left for Seward today
on the steamer Admiral Evans.
S. L. Carter, Hugh Dougherty, Mrs.
Cora Carroll, Fred Sinclair, Hal. El
liijgwood, Fred Vaughan, Joe Cum
mings, VVm. Mason, J. W. Leonhard,
G. Kennedy, A. G. Anderson, H. Nev
een, Pat Callohan, Wm. Buckmore, Al.
Shed, L. Kohler and twenty-one steer
age.
SAYS SHIP CREEK IS
CLOSED TO PUBLIC.
Leo Margules received another
cable from Ed. Whittemore today in
wihch Mr. Whittemore states that no
one will be permitted at Ship creek
for the present but those engaged in
work connected with the governement
railroad.
LOOKS AS IF SEWARD WINS.
WAY SHI NGTO N.—Seward has
been picked as terminus of the U. S
Aaskan line, and the Susitna valley
as the route to the interior, if capital
conjecture is worth anything. Presi
dent Wilson has made no announce
ment to this effect, but there are
many indications to support the
theory.
John E. Ballaine’s testimony before
the house committee and his personal
talks with administration leaders ap
parently have spiked the well-develop
ed plan to palm off the Morgan-Gug
genheim Copper River line on the gov
ernment. Even the latter’s lobby
seems to have thrown up the sponge.
—Seattle Times.
TURKS PLAY POSSUM
TO FOOL THEIR ENEMIES.
LONDON, March 4.—“We are here
very near Adam and Eve.'s abode, the
Garden of Eden," writes a lance cor
poral with the British forces fighting
the Turks in the country back of the
Persian gulf.
“It is very hot, and the country is
no place for a white man. We live on
bread, tea and dates. The greatest
hardship is the scarcity of water. I
have not had a shave or a wash for
seventeen days.
“We captured two forts and a tele
graph office yesterday without the
loss of a man. The Turks lost forty.
Some of the methods of the Turks in
action are curious. A favorite trick
of theirs is to fall down in close action
as if dead, and then, after the line of
British has passed them, they get up
again and fire at them from behind.
“While retreating, the Turks fre
quently discard numerous articles of
clothing, lest they should impede their
flight. Before their retreat has lasted
long, they have on nothing but their
shirts and ammunition belts. No mat
ter how hot the fighting is, one can
not refrain from laughing at the
spectacle of several hundred men run
ning at top speed with their long .
shirts flapping around their bare
legs."
Elgin Vaughan left Mile Thirty
four with the mail from Sunrise at
2:15 this afternoon.
ROBBERS RAID j
windy city;
[get LOOT FROM SIXTY-TWO
STORES IN SPITE OF
POLICE ARMY.
CHICAGO, March 5.—The most ex
traordinary raid of robbers in tnc
history of this city took place today
when four daring thieves held up six
ty-two stores in different parts of
Chicago and terrorized the whoe pop
ulation. The men first stole an auto
mobile and racing from one part of
the city to the other at a terrific speed
held up one store after the other.
Forty police on motor cycles chased
the marauders but failed to reach
their men and the thieves are now
free. For three hours the robbers and
their auto sped from point to point
and with a dexterity and nerve that
was nothing less than amazing they
did just what they liked. If the city
had been entered by the advance
guard of an invading army the sen
sation could hardly have been greater.
To make the occurrence all the more
remarkable the slightest clue has not
been found to the whereabouts of the
robbers and there is every' likelihood
that they will never be apprehended.
RAILROADS CANNOT MAKE
EVEN SEVEN PER CENT.
CHICAGO, March 5.—The railroads
were heard before the Commerce com
mission today and the evidence of
their representatives went to show
that the recent action of the commis
sion prevents the companies from
making the seven per cent that they
had looked for from their investments.
The members of the commission seem
ed to be deeply in earnest to secure
the full facts to prove this statement
and it is quite possible that if the
railroads can show their word to nr
true greater latutude will be given
them.
NEW YORK'S ANTI ALIEN
LAW HAS BEEN SUSPENDED.
Supreme Court Sees Danger in Re
fusing to Let Aliens be Engag
ed in Public Works.
WASHINGTON, March 5.—The
supreme court of the United States
today suspended the New York law
prohibiting the employment of aliens
on public works. The law was passed
as a precaution against spying by the
agents of foreign countries. The
supreme court suspends it merely to
give time- to the New York legislature
to reconsider its position. The man
ner in which spying is carried out by
military powers has been revealed m
the present war and shows a remark
able condition of affairs in the great
military nations. The sponsors of the
bill mentioned amongst other in
stances that when the Russians re
cently captured a Zeppelin at Libau,
Russia, two of the German crew were
found to be men who had worked as
barbers in Libau before the w’ar.
ASKS PROTECTION.
LONDON, March 5.—The British
Government's scheme for creatng a
national aniline dye industry is al
most certain to lead to tariff protec
tion for the infant industry, according
to the Express.
“Unless some kind of protection is
included in the plan," says this news
paper, "the manufacture of these dyes
can scarcely be expected to survi\e
German competition after the war.
Unless this tariff watt is set up, cap
italists cannot be induced to put their
money into an enterprise which can
have no chance against the powerful
tariff-protected German combine when
peace comes."
MEXICO CITY
FEARS FAMINE
STATE OF CHAOS EXISTS THERE
UNDER LEAD OF
OBREGON.
WASHINGTON, March 5.—Reports
from Mexico City received here show
that the capital of the so-clalled re
public is now in a state bordering on
chaos. It is declared that Obregon
himself is actually inciting the Car
ranza people to loot the property of
their opponents and the people as a
whole are facing famine. Some of the
accounts describe a condition so ter
rible that it is hard to give them
credence. It seems to be apparent,
nevertheless, that never has a city
been reduced to such abominable
straits. The trains are said to have
stopped running for the use of the
public and are being used only on offi
cial business. Ccrowds of civilians
are being forced into the Carranza
army and are going through a com
pulsory training. Civil law is really
a thing of the past and a tyranny
exists that would be a disgrace to a
nation of savages.
LOST TWENTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS PLAYING POKER1
Los Angeles Justice of the Peace in
Trouble for Using Fines to
Pay Gambling Debts.
LOS ANGELES, March 5.—George
Melrose, former justice of the peace,
has been indicted for embezzelement.
The charge is that he used the fines
received from prisoners in his court
to pay his gambling losses. He is
said to have lost twenty thousand
dollars playing poker in two years.
There seems to be not the slightest
loophole of escape for him and he will
probably plead guilty. It has been
known for some time that he gambled
for large sums but he carried so good
a reputation that the discovery of his
predicament was delayed.
ASKS THAT ED. CHISHOLM’S
BODY BE SENT OUTSIDE.
The local Masonic lodge this after
noon received the following telegram
from Truro, N. S.:
“Received telegram. Have a Ic
ed Masonic lodge, Norchester,
Mass., to send you information
asked for. Want body to be em
balmed to be sent home soon as
you hear from me.
Angus Chisholm.”
This telegram was an answer to
one sent by the Seward lodge asking
for information as to whether poor
Ed. Chisholm was a member of the
order.
ED. CHISHOLM TO BE
BURIED TOMORROW.
Masons are Still Waiting on the
Chance of Hearing From
His Wife.
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The funeral of Ed. Chisholm who
was killed by a falling log Wednesday
will take place here tomorrow at elev
en o'clock unless word is received
from his wife in the meantime to alter
the plans. The funeral has been post
poned specially in order to give plenty
of time for the receipt of an answer.
BROWN AND HAWKINS BUILD.
* Messrs Brown and Hawkins began
work today on the erection of an ad
dition to their building, The new
building it to go up at the rear of the
hardware department and will be used
as a tinning and plumbing depart
ment. The first section of the ad
dition will be thirty by twenty-four
feet.
SAYS RAILROAD
HAS BEEN SOLD
MESSAGE COMES TO GATEWAY
FROM UNIMPEACHABLE
SOURCE.
The Gateway has received word
from a source that cannot be doubted
to the elTect that the government has
already made final arrangements to
take over the Alaska Northern rail
road. This word comes from Wash
ington, I). C. direct but the paper is
bound in honor not to divulge the
name of the informant. Ir the rame
were given no doubt would longer ex
ist in the minds of anybody. The
exact words of the message are:
“The administration is now in full
possession of the Alaska Northern
terminal of the government railroad
and Seward is already virtually the
terminal of the government railroad
system."
It was even doubted that telling
this much would be proper but the
paper is not bound by anything con
tained in the communication to re
frain from saying so much.
| SAYS SEAMAN’S BILL
WILL RUIN COMPANY.
President Pacific Mail Line Declares
New Law Means Bankruptcy
for Them.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5.—The
president of the Pacific Mail line de
clares that the enforcement of the
Seaman’s bill which has been signed
by the president means the ruin of the
company. It adds, he says, two hun
dred per cent to the expenses of the
company and the same is true of sev
eral others of the shipping companies
throughout the United States. Ihis
mans, in his opinion expressed in the
papers today, that the most se-ious
results will come soon.
ENGLISH CANON NOT
TO PRAY FOR VICTORY.
Another Objects to Praying for
Animals.
LONDON, March 4.—Dr. Wiliam
Carnegie, Canon of Westminster, an
nounced to his parishoners on “Inter
cession Sunday” that he would not
comply with the request that had been
made of him to pray for the success
of British arms. He said: “Among
the things which I hold should not be
prayed for—I mention it with great
hesitation, but feel it my duty, since
it is set forth in the seventh section of
the authorized form—is the triumph
of our cause. We hold that our cause
is righteous, but our foes are equally
convinced that righteousness in on
their side. God is the judge, and we
must pray for submission to his will,
whatever be the issue.”
The movement of animal lovers to
introduce a special prayer for animals
into the service also has no support
in the higher clergy, if at all in the
clergy of the English Church.
“I cannot sanction for use in church
the Litany which contains a prayer
for the animals and speaks of them
as offering their guileless lives/ says
Dr. Gore, Bishop of Oxford. “It has
never been the custom of the church
to pray for any other than those we
think are rational. It is a complete
mistake to suppose the orthodox
churches would countenance any such
prayers. We can, of course, pray for
men that they may be kind to
animals.”
WENT ON WATSON.
The following went out on the Wat
son: Louis Harding, D. Sanders, E.
Hardy and 4 steerage.