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Vol * No .,10 SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA. SATURDAY. JULY 24, 1915.__Ten Cents the Copy
FRENCH OFFICIAL SAYS FRANCE
BLEEDS BUT WILL FIGHT TO END
Austrian Fleet Attaeks Italian
Coast and Italy Claims Vic
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tory on the Frontier—Turks
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Massing on Gallipoli.
WARSAW IMPREGNABLE
PETROGRAD, July 24.—The Russian military
authorities consider Warsaw impregnable and an official
announcement to that effect was published today The
German guns can now be heard booming from the heart
of the city but not until a few days ago did the enemy
reach the really formidable obstacles which confront
him. By the falling back of our lines in Galicia and in the
north our defending forces have been rendered more com
pact while we have great fortifications along our present
line to stiffen our front.
VIENNA SAYS RUSSIANS FAIL
VIENNA, July 24.—The Russians have failed to stop
the Teutonic advance southeast of Warsaw and we are
still advancing northward with the purpose of threaten
ing the rear of the garrison of the Polish capital. The
fighting in that quarter in desperate The enemy is fight
ing with the energy of desperation and is leaving nothing
undone to stop our advance. The Germans are attacking
to the west and north with fierce determination. The
hostile positions are strong and the driving back of the
Russians has had the effPct of concentrating their power.
The task before us is still a serious one but we are confi
dent of winning soon the supreme victory.
FRANCE TO FIGHT ON
WASHINGTON, July 24—That France is one vast
hospital but that it will fight on until Germany is defeat
ed is the statement made here last evening by Emil Hove
laque, French inspector general of public instruction,
who is on his way to the Panama exposition at San Fran
cisco. He is confident that finally the central powers will
be brought to their knees but he candidly admits that the
slaughter of Frenchmen has been frightful.
ITALIANS CROSS ISONZO
ROME, July 24.—The Italian army has crossed the
Isonzo river and has succeeded in blocking the Austrian
communication with Placa. The crossing was effected in
the face of strong opposition but for an operation of such
a nature it was accomplished with remarkable success.The
advance is regarded by military men as marking a distinct
period in the campaign.
TURKS MASS TROOPS
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 24.—Great forces of
Turkish troops are now being massed on Gallipoli pen
insula with the probable intention of making the greatest
effort of the campaign to drive out the invaders. The in
terference of Bulgaria is believed to have been rendered
out of the question by the defeat of the Russians in Galicia
and Turkish troops may be detached without risk from
Adrianople and Constantinople for sen-ice at the front.
The newspapers of this city already see victory ahead and
are gloating over the discomfiture of the arch-enemy of
the Ottoman empire, Russia.
SHIPS LOST
BERLIN, July 24.—The French submarine Joule is
missing and is believed to have been lost- The British
steamer Theresa has been sunk in the Suez canal by a
Turkish mine. Several mines are said to be now floating
in the canal and threatening shippink seriously. The
Canadian bark Dunsyre has been seized by the Germans.
SWISS FEAR WAR
BERLIN; July 24.—General Wille, the commander of
the Swiss army, states that* Switzerland will be lucky if
she does not become involved in the war. He seems to
think that the gravest danger exists of the inability of
his nation to avoid the conflict and it is assumed here that
if the Swiss fight it will be on the side of Germany and its
allies.
APOLOGIZES TO NORWAY
CHRISTIANIA, July 24.—The government of Great
Britain has apologized to Norway for having carried the
war into Norwegian waters when a German ship was
forced ashore on the Norwegian coast and followed inside
the three miles limit by a British warship.
EMPEY ESCAPES AND
KIDNAPPER ARRESTED
: IDAHO FALLS, July 24.—Empey,
the stock raiser who was kidnapped
oome days ago, has escaped from his
jailors and the man who kidnapped
him has been captured by cowboys.
.GOMPERS ENDORSES STRIKERS.
BRIDGEPORT, July 24.—Samuel
Gompers, who has arrived here, has
endorsed the position of the strikers
after having carefully investigated all
the condition*.
FAIRBANKS SWELTERS;
SOL WORKS OVERTIME.
Fairbanks.— June 28.—If the
people throughout the United States
think that the definition of the word
Alaska is “iceberg" they would have
t been disillusioned yesterday, had
they the privilege of spending a few
hours in Fairbanks. Not in the his
tory of the town has the thermometer
been known to reach the point that it
did yesterday, according to old-timers
and records kept by the Northern
Commercial Co.
At McIntosh & Kubon’s drug store
yesterday morning at 7 o'clock their
guaranteed thermometer registered
82 degrees above zero. During the
day the mercury went upward until
87 degrees was reached. At noon,
during the shower that fell, the ther
mometer showed a drop of 22 de
grees.
On June 22, 1913, the thermom
eter at the Northern Commercial Co.
registered 90 degrees above zero.
The maximum temperature at the
Red Cross drug store yesterday after
noon was 94 degrees above zero.
At his residence on Cowles street
Romeo Hoyt put a thermometer in
the sun yesterday morning and within
a short time the mercury jumped to
115 degrees above zero. This prob
ably is the highest ever recorded in
interior Alaska within the memory of
the oldest sourdough.
HORRIBLE.
TACOMA, July 24.—Three hundred
physicians and their -wives ran the
gauntlet of forest fires yesterday to
visit Mount Rainier. Tho physicians
have been attending a convention
here.
WILSON GOES tO CORNISH.
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WASHINGTON, July 24.—Presi
dent Wilson departed this morning
for Cornish and will be absent for a
Week.
- TENSION IN MEXICAN
► AFFAIRS IS GROWING
WASHINGTON, July 24.—The sit
uation around Mexico City is very un
certain and the tension is growing.
; President Wilson is urging the Red
Cross to persevere in its efforts to
i get supplies into the capital, but, al
though six cars of provisions are
ready, there is no means of getting to
the city and much suffering may
i occur.
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BECKER MAY SECl RE ONE
MORE CHANCE FOR LIFE
State Must Show Cause Why Con
demned Man Should Not Have
Another Trial.
NEW YORK, July 24.—The court
has decided that the state must show
cause next Monday why Becker
should not be granted a new trial.
The order has been based on new evi
dence just obtained. The execution
was fixed for the week beginning to
day and within seven days the ex
lieutenant of police would have to
face the electric chair if the new trial
were not granted. It is believed by
his lawyers that this trial cannot now
be refused and the whole matter may
have to be gone over again.
HATCH DYNAMITE PLOTS
AGAINST WAR FACTORIES.
CLEVELAND, July 23.—The Fed
eral officials have formally warned
the Peerless and White automobile
companies and the American Wire
company that plots are now being
hatched to blow them up with dynai
mite. All the companies named are
manufacturing munitions of war and
the supposition is that the alleged
plots are being directed by German
sympathizers.
WILSON TO RESUME VACATION.
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Presi
dent Wilson has decided to resume
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his vacation at Cornish as there is
nothing in international affairs which
is believed to demand immediate at
tention.
GOVERNMENT RAISES
MACHINIST WAGES
WASHINGTON, July 24. — The
navy department' has raised the
wages of the machinists working in
the arsenals to equal the wager- paid
the same class of workers by private
concerns. Owing to the tremendous
increase of such work wages have
risen to an unprecedented status.
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BALTIC CARRIES MUNITIONS
NEW YORK, July 24.—The liner Baltic has sailed
for Liverpool with fifty aeroplanes and a large cargo of
general munitions of war for the Entente allies. That
her departure is known to the Germans cannot be doubted
and submarines are almost certain to seek her destruc
tion. It is hoped that she will be convoyed near the Brit
ish shores by warships but this is doubted.
NOTE PUBLISHED
WASHINGTON, July 24.—The text of the note sent
by this country to Germany has been published but it is
found to contain nothing remarkably worthy of note
which has not already been stated. It is a briefer docu
ment than usual as most of the detailed explanations have
been included in former communications.
AUSTRIANS DESTROY RAILROAD
ROME, July 24.—The Austrian fleet visited the
Italian shores yesterday and succeeded in destroying part
of the railroad that runs from Ortona to Pedaso but the
Italians have been victorious again on the frontier at a
place called Cara. The opinion of the military authorities
here is that Austria will not detach greater forces from
the eastern front unless she can afford to lessen her forces
now operating against the Russians.
THUNDER CLAP
SHAKESJUNEAU
BUILDINGS ROCK AND LIGHT
NING FLASH RINGS FIRE
BELL AND KILLS TREE.
JUNEAU, July 23.—A lightning
flash of such frightful intensity visit
ed this city today that it rang the fire
bell. It was followed by a j>eal of
thunder that shook the buildings of ■
the city to their foundations and scar- I
cd many of the residents. One bolt |
struck a tree about a mile south of j
the city and killed it, and struck the j
earth above the cemetery, only half
a mile from the heart of the town.
Had either hit the city itself the con
sequences would probably have been
awful but as it was no damage was
inflicted except that the fuses blew
out.
FORMER JUNEAU MAN
IN BATTLE OF YPRES.
JUNEAU, June 15.—Charles L.
Hunt, former Seattle reporter, and at
one time stationed at Juneau, on the
United States revenue cutter Rush,
I went through the thick of the recent
lighting at Ypres, when the Canadian
troops suffered so severely, according
to a brief letter received from him by
a friend in Seattle. Hunt is a lance
corporal in No. 3 company fifteenth
battalion, forty-eighth Highlanders of
Toronto. The forty-eighth is a part of
the third brigade.
START TO SURVEY THE
OLD TERMINAL TRACT.
All Doubt Put at Rest as to the Place
Which Will be Divided
Into Lota.
The party of engineers who came to
survey the ground which will be used
for railroad purposes, and also for
city lots if there is any left, started
to work yesterday and the start was
made in the Terminal tract wtv h
Chairman Edes of the Engineering
Commission said was the place meant
to be withdrawn by President Wilson.
J. F. Warner, who is in charge of the
surveying party, stated last night in
answer to a question that the Termin
al tract is the place, sure enough, al
luded to in the telegram which stated
that the president had signed the
withdrawal of eight-seven acres. The
tract contains about sixty acres and
the remainder is made up of ground
to the north of the tract.
MISS SYLVIA WOLD IS
NEW HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER.
At a meeting of the school board
yesterday morning at the residence
of Mrs. F. L. Ballaine the matter of
next year’s teachers came up. Miss
Sylvia Wold who has taught in Val
dez, is a graduate of the University
of Washington and has good recom
mendations, was chosen as high
school teacher. It will be remember
ed that Miss Wold spent the Christ
mas vacation in Seward three years
ago as the guest of Miss Jeannette
Dali, who was then the High school
teacher. Mrs. Forgy was elected to
teach the higher grades. Miss
Frances Root was re-elected to teach
the Primary grades.
COL. SLEICHER ARRIVES.
Colonel Sleicher, president of the
Leslie-Judge Publishing Company, ar
rived on the Watson last evening and
was met by a committee of the Com
mercial Club. He and his boys were
shown around the city by the com
mittee and the Colonel expressed the
greatest interest and pleasure at all
he saw. Leslie's Weekly has recently
done splendid work for Alaska. In
the July 15 number of that publica
tion pictures of Seward are to ap
pear, or have appeared, according to
information received by the Gateway.
► SEWARD PEOPLE ARE
► FRIENDLY TO GATEWAY.
• A Cordova paper recently pub
• lished a statement to the effect
♦ that some of the people of Se
• ward had become hostile to the
* Gateway and some other papers
* in the territory copied the
► “story.” It is all a mistake,
* dear colleagues of the press.
» The Gateway delights in the
* friendship of the vast majority
• of the people of this city and dis
trict, and the statement from
Cordova, no doubt, emanated
from one of the negligible few
from whom praise were blame
indeed. In all communities the
the existence of a few disgrunt- '
ed individuals seems to be re- 4
garded as indispensable by the *
Providence which gives $very *
town that varied sprinkling of '
peculiar mental specimens that •
aid in keeping mankind humble *
by holding constantly before its •
eyes the limitations of poor *
humanity. Have you ever notic- •
ed that no town is without even •
its village fool ? *
The enemies of the Gateway *
could be counted on the fingers •
of one hand. The people gener- •
ally have most generously stood •
by it, do so still and, let us pre- •
sume to sa>*, will continue to do •
so in spite of a few little wire- 4
pullers who were unable to use it 4
either to publish their fads or H
uphold their political schemes. 4
Once more, let it be said, *
Strangers, that the Gateway re- •
joices in the friendship of all '
that is best in good old Seward. *
VALDEZ BUILDING UP,
SAYS WM. KINGSLEY
That the people of Valdez are full
bf ambition and determined to create
b better town out of the ashes is the
^statement of William Kingsley, the
architect, who came from that city
last evening on the Watson. The
debris is nearly all cleaned up, Mr.
Kingsley says, and several are al
ready preparing to build. Some
whose properties were not insured
are heavy losers. One lady, Mrs.
Blackwell, had no insurance, and lost
her house, money and jewelry. The
ashes of her place are now being
sluiced for whatever is left of her
valuables. The approach to the dock
was burned, but a new approach has
been improvised.
WILL NOT EXTEND THE
COPPER RIVER R. R.
Steve Birch Says the Government in
Its Wisdom Saw Fit to
Pass Up Cordova.
That the Copper River railroad will
! not be extended to the Bering coal
fields and that the Alaska Syndicate
will not build a smelter at Cordova (
is the bad news received by the Cor- ,
dova Times from Stephen Birch, j
managing director of the Syndicate. ;
The times quotes Mr. Birch as saying, j
“It was our original plan to build a j
spur to the coal fields with the pos- j
sible extension of the railroad to the
interior but the government, in its |
wisdom, saw fit to stop development j
of the Copper River valley and dis
courage capital from furtheisrailroad
building. Now it is up to the govern
ment to open up and develope what
ever section of the territory it sees
! fit.”
| The Times continues by calling on
| the people there not to “allow Cor
| dova to be the football in the political
| game that is being played at Wash
ington,” because the government did
not build there.
Rev. Father Van der Pol has re
turned to Seward after a short ab
sence and will hold services tomor
row as usual. ,
SKEEN REPORTS
RICH STRIKE
SAYS SURFACE OF LEIHiE VT
MOOSE PASS PANS 3 TO
1 DOLLARS.
What is probably the richest quartz
strike ever made in Alaska has just
! been made by Frank Skeen and J. VV.
Stevenson in the Moose Pass. The
strike was made on the eighth of thi.~
month and the two lucky tinders r»*
turned yesterday afternoon with t v.*
ounces of gold which they panned
from the ledge on the surface. The
extraordinary richness of the ore may
be judged by the fact that they
washed several pans worth two to
three dollars and did this in a small
twelve inch pan while part of the
dirt panned was solid rock that of
course, could not be washed. Mr.
Skeen says the rock is the richest he
has ever seen in a long career dt
voted to mining. The ledge is four
teen inches wide at its greatest width
and has been traced for sixty feet.
The discoverers estimate the value o:
the rock for all that distance at V1
000 to $2,500 a ton and they believe
that the amount of rock exposed
carries not less than $150,000.
The claims owned by Messrs Skeen
and Stevenson are known as the
Champion and the Gladiator. Another
indication of the richness #f the
ledge is that one man can mortar out
an ounce a day from the solid rock.
Some of the ore was brought in by
the discoverers and shows free gold
all over it. Dr. Baughman who has
been visiting the place came back also
yesterday and coincides with the view
that the find is of amazing richness
and of the most extreme importance
to the whole district.
EMPLOYEES’ HOUSES TO BE
BUILT BY COMMISSION
Architect Already Retained by l hair
man of Engineering Com
mission.
Chairman Edes, of the railroad
commission, has issued orders for the
erection of four houses to be occupied
by employees, construction to be
begun as soon as material can be
brought up from Seattle. The houses
will be frame, a story and a half, with
entrance hall, living room, dining
room, kitchen, pantry, etc., on the
first floor, with two bedrooms, bath
room, linen closets, etc., on the attic
floor.
The houses will be equipped with
modern plumbing and wiring and will
be built on the tract of land recently
cleared on the west side of Fourth
avenue on the- sixty-acre tract now
being surveyed.
However inexpensive, the houses
will be of a very attractive design
and substantial construction. A fea
ture in the living room will be a large
brick fireplace.
C. W. Winstedt, the well-known ar
chitect, has been retained by Chair
man Edes as architect and superin
tendent of construction for the four
cottages, which are expected to be oc
cupied before October 1st.
WATSON ARRIVES.
The Watson arrived last night and
proceeded to Anchorage at 1 o clock
this morning. She had from Seattle
eight first class passengers for Se
j ward, eleven ftr Anchorage and about
! twenty-five round trip passengers in
addition to a large number of steer
age.
LEFT ON WATSON.
The following went out on the
j Watson this morning:
| L. L. Nelson, Jeannette Sanders,
Mr. Koch and son, J. H. Nichold, C. C.
Weir, George Degnan, Miss Ethel
Bennett, A. C. Taylor, J. F. Coffee
and fifteen second class.