VOL. 8. NO. 2««»
HERMANS SWARM OVER Kl’ROPE
LONDON. Aug. 12.—Half a million Hermans are now
lighting in Alsace anti conti: ue to rout the french in
every engagement. In the meantime another tremendous
Herman force is over-running Luxemburg while the Her
man army in Relgium rages on in its career of conquest
and slaughter.
PARIS. Aug. 12.—The French government oilicialiy
admitted this morning that the French have been com
pletely driven out of Mulhausen by the Hermans and that
the French force that long it there is now falling hack
through French territory. It is also admitted that the in
vaders have gained an important advantage.
ENHLISIIMAN PRAISES HERMANS
LONDON. Aug. 12.—The correspondent of the London
Daily Telegraph witnessed t! e lighting around Liege and I
he expressed the greatest admiration for the work ot the
Herman arti';ery. He declares that the loss to the He -
mans in the fighting around that city has been greatly ex- j
aggerated. They used a so.id formation in all their at- j
tacks and as they advanced they hacked fiercely with
swords and : xcs at the wire fortifications that had been
constructed against them. The spirit which they showed
in this hack lg and in all their methods is described as
wonderful.
Another id which the correspondent noted was that
the Germans taken prisoners were mere hoys and e\i
dently were jetting their lirst taste ol powder. In oi e
instance, he savs, while the Germans were breaking down
the wire obstructions a whole battalion was mowed down
by the guns of the defenders. The Telegraph man says
that the work of the (ierman gunners was simply a revela
tion and the guns are splendid ones.
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GIGANTIC BATTLE SOON
LONDON. Aug. 12.—A gigantic battle will be fought
shortly north of the city of Liege in which Germans will j
be opposed by a mixed army ot I' rench and Belgians. I he .
Germans have already started two (lank movements, the
vanguard with several quick firing guns and strongly
supported has penetrated to within thirty miles of Brus
sels. the capital of Belgium. It is therefore much further
north than it had been expected to go but the line ol battle
extends across the country and the intention is supposed
to he to get Namur and the forces of the enemy in a trap
similar to that in which .... French were caught at Metz
in the war of IS70.
News arrived here today that the Russian fleets are
now scouring the Baltic and capturing several German
merchantmen but some time ago it was stated that the
Germans had bottled the Russians at Helsingfors and it is
certain that both of these stories cannot be true.
The British people are looking forward eagerly to the
time when the British and German main fleets will meet
but the officials of the admiralty are maintaining strict
secrecy and the position of the greater part of the fleet is
not known at all.
LUSITANIA SAFE
The liner Lusitania arrived from New 'tork last night
after her remarkable experience. All aboard were well
and no ships of the enemy were sighted during the last leg
of the voyage.
The Western Union Telegraph company is now accept
ing messages in the United States tor England and the ex
citement is gradually calming down although the war
fever itself is unabated. This government is now engaged
almost entirely in the task of preparing for the great
fighting which has not yet begun. No one seems to have
the slightest idea as to the intentions of Lord Kitchener
that he is going about the work of organizing the
forces in his usual methodical and perfect manner is as
sumed by all.
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PLAN IMMENSE WAR TAX
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—A hundred million dollar
war tax is now being planned by this government. The
tax will most likely be placed on malt and spirituous li
quors and, maybe, an import tax will be placed on coflee
and leather.
It is very evident that this tax must be levied as soon
as possible. A resolution was introduced in the house yes
terday asking Secretary Red field to investigate the rise in ,
prices of food stalls.
CHICAGO, Aug. 12.—The federal prosecutor here has
promised to have indicted the people who are responsible
for the increase in prices if he finds on investigation that
those prices have been boosted artilically. The rise i
prices is due chiefly to the belie! on the part of the iai»*»
ers that they will receive more money for their products
when freight to Europe begins to move again. .
STAMPEDE FROM CANADA
MONTREAL, Aug. 12.—The ocean between Montreal
and Liverpool is reported to be clear ol the enemy and a
tremendous movement is expected to take place bei»^~
Canada and England. People who know the conditions
predict one of the most extraordinary stampedes. Some
of the crowds, they say, will be those going to Britain to
light while thousands and thousands of people, particu
larly women and children, are expected to get out ol Eng
land.
TWO MORE NATIONS PREPARE
SOFIA. Aug. 12.—The Bulgarian government has de
clared martial law throughout the nation and the Bulgar
,an army will he mobilized once more. The reason given
for this move by the government is that Bulgaria wishi
to protect her neutrality. It is not believed in this
that the country will go to war although it is assumed
that her future actions will depend on the stand taken by
Turkey. Greece and some of the other little Balkan
nations.
BASLE, Switzerland. Aug. 12.—The whole army of
Sw itzerland is now massing on the border to protect the
neutrality of Swiss territory.
At least a quarter of a million men of all grades of
service have been notified that they might lie called to the
colors if necessary although the government is careful to
state that there is no immediate reason to believe that
Switzerland will be embroiled at all.
PRICES STILL SOARING
NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Prices of nearly all kinds of
goods show an upward tendency in this city now'. Hats
hy.ve advanced 15 per cent in price, tea has gone up 25 per
cent, dress goods are up 10 per cent, and cheese has gone
up 10 per cent. In other commodities a rise is also appar
ent hut it not so noticeable.
A small number of German reservists left New York
today to go back home by way of Italy to fight for the
fatherland. A huge number of others who want to go
back are stranded here and cannot find a means of making
the journey.
BELGIANS STAGGERED
BRUSSELS, Aug. 12.—All the Belgian people are sim
ply staggered at the frightful losses that occurred in the
ranks of the Belgian troops during the fighting around
Liege. Two thousand were killed outright and twenty
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SURVEY OF ROUTE WILL
BE MADE IN SEVENTY DAYS
That all the work of surveying the route of the govern
ment railroad from Fairbanks to tide water will be finish
ed within seventy days is the statement which Chairman
William C. tides made this morning. After the finish of
the field work, when all the data has been secured, a small
office force will he put to work and during' this winter the
report of the commission will he made to President \\ d
son. t .
Mr. tides arrived in the city yesterday with lus secre
tary, Benjamin R. Tillman Jr., and W. H. Foglestrom, the
engineer of bridges with the commission. I he journey
was made for the purpose of examining the local railroad
and Mr. tides stated this morning that he was very pleas
antly surprised at the appearance ol the line. He had
heard that engineering mistakes had been made in the
construction of the road but he says he considers that the
road is far better than he was led to believe. Mr. Fogle
strom has examined the bridges on the railroad, \\hen
Mr. tides was asked his opinion about the feasibility of
the Seward route he could only say if he were building a
road from Seward to the interior he would follow the
route of the present road. He has not yet made the sur
vey of the Portage bay co ntry and, of course, is unable to
make any definite statements. Next summer, he thinks it
possible, the commission will be sent to other parts of
Alaska but at the present time they are only concerned
with the one trunk line to Fairbanks, or wherever iu the
interior the terminal will be.
Except that the survey will be finished in about two
months Mr. tides was unable, of course, to give any defi
nite information. He is a genial gentleman and stands for
all kinds of questioning. At the close of the interview a
twinkle came in his eye when he expressed the hope that
he would not be quoted as saying that Seward is the only
route for a government railroad or anything like that. He
was told that such a quotation would be known by every
man, woman and child in Seward to be a lie and he seemed
to be satisfied.
He has been described as a man who will get a dollar’s
worth for every dollar of the government’s money spent.
When he talks he has that constant twinkle and is always
smilingly on guard.
“Only the president of the United States could answer
some questions”, seemed to be the substance of his opinion
expressed or suggested.
He and his party will leave on the Sampson and return
to Ship Creek to continue the work. This visit was merely
to look over this railroad and this inspection is now con
cluded. It may be repeated that Mr. tides did not hesitate
to say that heWas “very pleasantly surprised" by the ap
pearance of the road. The work being done now is not, of
course, the actual work of location but the report will be
ready for the president as soon as the office work has been
completed following the survey.
ALBATROSS OFF
AND GONE AGAIN
HAD TO HASTEN TO WASHING
TON AND OREGON COAST
FOR WORK
The U. S. ship Albatross, Captain j
L. B. Porterfield, arrived in Seward
yesterday afternoon but, contrary to
expectations, had to sail again today
as she has received instructions to
proceed with some work down the
coast of Oregon and Washington. '1 he
Albatross received orders when she
was here before to go to the PribilofT
Islands. She coaled at Unalaska and
took I)r. Jones on at St. Paul Island.
She returned to Unalaska for repairs,
went back to PribilofT, took Dr. Jones
aboard again, returned to Unalaska,
inspected the whaling station at Aku*
tan, stopped at Unimak Island, Unga,
Sand Point, Coal Harbor, Balboa Bay,
Chignik, Karluk, Uyak, Whale Island,
Afognak, Kodiak and back to Seward.
She takes Dr. Jones from here to
Juneau and then will go as fast as
possible to Union Bay, B. C., where
she gets coal for $5 a ton instead of
$12 or more as at Unalaska. Alter
coaling the Albatross will proceed to
Seattle to take aboard fishermen to
conduct investigations in halibut fish
eries on the coast of Oregon and
Washington.
The officers and men of the ship
were ashore last evening, and whether
they are playing ball or anything else
they are all, from the genial captain
down, a bunch which Seward would
like to have with us longer.
NEW OFFICIALS
IN THE PRIBILOFF
Three officials in the Pribiloflf Isl
and have been arrested and are now
waiting trial on the charge of de
bauching natives. The story of the
occurrence was published before and
has been confirmed by Dr. Jones who
arrived on the Albatross after hav
ing made the investigation which re
sulted in the arrest of the officials.
The arrested men are the govern
ment agent, the government store
keeper and the wireless operator.
There are no charges of robbing the
seal placed against the men and only
the charge mentioned above will be
brought. H. C. Fassett, who was
formerly assistant agent of the Alas
ka fisheries, has been appointed agent
in the islands and E. M. Ball, inspec
tor of fisheries, has been appointeq
storekeeper.
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MARIPOSA COMING
The Mariposa left Juneau at 4:30
o’clock yesterday morning.
BIG BUNCH GF
NOME VISITORS
VICTORIA HAS 111 NOM KITES
BI T ONLY 12 ROCND
TRIPPERS
When the Victoria arrives here to
night or tomorrow she will bring 114
people from Nome who are prorably
on the way to the outside for a holi
day. The number of round-trippers
aboard is only a bare dozen but it is
hoped that the ship will be left here
for some time to give the people from
tin* Seward Peninsula capital a chance
to look around the country where the
government railroad will be con
st ructed.
The following telegram has been
[ received from the Nome Nugget re
i garding the Victoria:
Nome, Aug. 12—There are 12 round
trippers and 114 people from Nome
on the Victoria which is now on the
way to Seward. Captain Tom Ross
of the Nome life saving station sa
ed a man from drowning when the
man was overturned in the surf hi’o
he was rowing a small boat.
TENDS TO CONFIRM
LOSS OF RAINBOW
Message Picked I’p By Albatross
Tells About Expected Fight Off
California
In yesterday’s dispatches the story
was told of the probable destruction
of the British ship Rainbow by a Ger
man ship and now comes a story from
the Albatross which tends to confirm
the fonrer one. The Albatross pick
et! up a story that two German war
ships had bottled the two British war
ships, the Algerine and the Shearwa
ter, in Magdalena bay and that the
Rainbow and a Russian warship had
been dispatched to reinforce the hot
ted ones. The opinion on the Alba
tross now is that the Rainbow and the
Russian did meet the Germans alright
and that the former came to grief.
The Rainbow is said to have been only
an old ship and not by any means re
garded as worth much.
HUMIDITY KILLS PEOPLE
IN NEW YORK CITY
Only 85 In the Shade But the Damp
ness With the Heat is Causing
Suffering
NEW YORK, Aug. II.—The intense
humidity of the atmosphere here at
present has caused the deaths of three
people within the past 24 hours. The
temperature is only 85 in the shade
but the dampness is such that people
are suffering more than they have
suffered when the temperature is
very much higher.
ROOSEVELT WANTS
CHANGE OF VENUE
OYSTER BAY, Aug. 11.—Theodore
Roosevelt has asked for a change of
venue for the trial of the suit brought
against him by William Barnes, Jr.
He grounds his request for a change
on the fact that under present condi
tions the trial would take place in the
home county of Barnes and he be
lieves that this fact would militate
against him severely.
Very great interest is being mani
fested in the coming trial. Barnes is
asking for $50,000 damages for libel
and the colonel will undoubtedly go
the limit to prove that Barnes has
taken part in crooked politics. The
attempt to prove this is sure to result
in the production of a lot of evidence
of a sensational kind.