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VILLA AND CARRANZA FORCES
IN BIG EIGHT NEAR JIMINEZ
DESPERATE FIGHT RAGING
EE I’ASO, Juh S.—A desperate light is now ragingj
southeast oi Jnnuiez between a force oi two thousand j
( arranzaistas and eight hundred \ illaisias led by Gen
oral Contreras, according to official advices iioni
Cniluiahua City. The progress ol the battle and its prob
able results are not mentioned.
plot to BERN EL PASO
EL PASO, July S.—A Mexican plot to burn all the El
Paso buildings connected with the l nited States army has
been unearthed by secret service men, it was learned to
day. The responsibility for several lires which occurred
here in the last fortnight in buildings which were supply
ing the army with provisions and automobiles has been,
laid to the operations oi Mexican iirebugs. i he destruc
tion of the Fort Bliss corrals has been laid to the same
source.
MI LA BANDITS COMING
LI. PASO, duly 8.—According to information receiv
ed today Villa bands are rushing towards the Big Bend
country to raid American towns and are now sweeping
across the wastes of the state of Chihuahua from Palomi
er towards Lamula Pass. A band of Yillaistas of un
known strength is also reported to be moving towards
Ojinaga and some small American settlements in the Big
Bend border country.
SOME MILITIAMEN EXCI SED
EAGLE PASS, Julv 8. — One thousand men in our
National Guard regiments here will take advantage of
the new war department order which permits the dis
charge of militiamen with dependent families. The
vacancies will be filled with recruits from the home states.!
VILLA WAS WATCHING
WASHINGTON, July 8. — The authorities are now
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confident that Villa was only waiting to learn whetherj
hostilities would break out between Carranza and the |
Cnited States before again taking the field. His sudden j
activity is taken as meaning that he had lost hope of a
breach between the two governments and is now trying to
create a dangerous situation once again. Nearly all doubt
about Villa being alive has vanished.
SrsiTNA RIVER
CLAIMS VICTIM
ANCHORAGE. July — Kred
Loper, who has a piling contract with
the commission on the little Susitna
river, brought in the body of a 12
year-old Indian maiden yesterday
that he found on Susitna flats. The
body was badly decomposed and was
buried as soon as the coroner’s inquest
was finished. The verdict was that
the young maiden had met death by
accidental drowning, presumably
further up the river and floated
down when the ice broke up this
spring, as she showed evidence of
having been in the water for at least
two months.
So far there are no traces of rela
tives or connections, but it is under
stood that some members of her tribe,
the Matanuska Indians, will be down
today who may be able to explain
more about the case. There was no
evidence of foul play or suspicions
of any character connected with the
case.—Times.
NARROW ESCAPE
“Oolah” Johnson, a Juneau surveyor,
had a narrow escape from death re
cently while working on a survey. He
slipped on a snow field high up in the
mountains and slid down the incline
more than 200 feet before he was able
to right himself and get a foothold.
—Ex.
LUNCHEON GIVEN
RKTTRING MAYOR
ANCHORAGE, July 1. — The ex
ecutive committee of the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce gave a delight
ful luncheon at noon today in honor of
the first mayor of the city, J. A.
Moore. Mr. Moore will leave on the
steamer Alameda for Juneau where
he will assume his former duties with
the land department. The luncheon
' was served in the Green Room of the
Frisco cafe and was perfectly ap
pointed; the table was decorated by
a large centerpiece of ferns and Al
aska wild flowers; flags and bunting
were the overhead decorations and the
whole affair was successfully carried
out and a tribute to Anchorage’s re
tiring mayor.—Times.
McGOWAN TO RUN
Word comes from Fairbanks that
Thomas A. MacGowan, who was de
feated for Territorial senator in the
Fourth division two years ago by
Senator O. P. Gustad, will again be
a candidate for the Democratic nom
ination for that office to succeed Sen
ator Dan Sutherland.—Ex.
TUNNEL CLEARED
No. 1 tunnel on the Alaska North
ern has been cleared and the train will
go through it today. The train is also
going to try to travel over the long
trestle at the big loop near Mile 52.
10,000 Men Called
To Combat Plague
NEW YORK, July 8. — Ten thou
sand New York citizens, members ol
the home defense league, were call
ed out today by Acting Police Com
missioner L. Cod ley to aid in the light
being waged by the government
authorities against the infantile
paralysis epidemic. Eighteen more
deaths and ninety-live cases were re
ported today, making a total ol
deaths for the week of one hundred
and twenty-six. The total number ol
eases reported is eight hundred and
ninety-two. The majority of the
deaths and the new cases are in the
city of Brooklyn.
ELLIN, ILL., IS
BABELY Hl’NXIMi
The name, Elgin (111.) instantly
brings to mind that it is the city
where the famous Elgin watch is
made, and also is the center of the
creamery butter industry. One would
think that Elgin was highly prosper
ous. But a dispatch from Chicago to
the Cincinnati Enquirer says:
“Less than two years ago the
happy, prosperous, law-abiding city
of Elgin went dry. Today the Chi
cago Commission on Liquor Traffic
was told that the old residents barely
recognize the place. It now has a
perpetual grouch; it is hard up and
crime and misbehavior are on the up
grade, it is said.
“Philip Ereiler was the witness
who described the changes that have
i taken place. He once owned an Elgin
* saloon he valued at more than $55,
000, and now he is interested in a dis
tillery at Louisville, Ky.
“Among the more startling of his
statements were these:
“ ‘Saving accounts in the banks
have decreased $110,000.
“ ‘Theatre attendance is poor.
“ ‘The police have all they can do
to handle the ‘blind pigs.’
“ ‘Burglary, gambling and social
evil complaints are multiplying.’
“Ereiler came fortified with sta
tistics. He took up the 34 saloons one
by one, told what their proprietors are
doing now and what has become of
the space they formerly occupied.
According to his figures, buildings oc
cupied by saloons are now either va
cant or are renting from 65 to 75 per
! cent less than they were before the
drys gained control.”
HOSPITAL EXEMPT
Judge Jennings of the First divi
sion, has rendered a decision to the
effect that the St. Ann hospital, run
by the Sisters at Juneau, is a chari
table institution and is exempt from
city taxes. This decision was render
ed in an action to collect $54t> as
sessed against the institution by the
city.
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SOME BEAR STORY
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While Pete Rasmusson, a prospector,
was busily engaged in sampling a
ledge in the Chinana country, a big
brown bear come up behind him and
stuck his head over his shoulder to
see what Pete had discovered, pre
I sumablv. Pete made tfie first mile in
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ten minutes less than nothing and set
his shirt afire from air friction. He
has petitioned the governor for a
jfuard now so that he can prospect in
peace.—Ex.
Freight Kates Co
Up on Alaska Run]
SEATTLE, July 8. — Advance of
freight rates of one dollar a ton on
all freight between Seattle and all
ports in southeastern Alaska is an
nounced by the l’acilie Alaska and
Pacific Coast steamship companies.
The changes in the Admiral line be
come effective immediately and in the!
Pacific Coast company they will bej
effective on July 11. It is explained
that the new rates are the result of
the enormous handling changes duej
to the strike of longshoremen and to
the increased cost of operating the
ships because id’ the increase of the
wages to members of the crews ot
Alaska ships.
(Note:--This message speaks only!
of southeastern Alaska, it is to be
noted.)
500 NEGROES IN OLD
TIME Jl'RILKE DOW N SOUTH
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
DALLAS, July 1.—“The Dallas j
Rlues,” a song just chuck full ot ,
minors; “Roll, Jordan, Roll, and j
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot are j
some of the songs 500 trained negro
singers will recall to Dallas tonight j
when the Southern Negro Folk Song'
Festival begins in an open-air theatre.
With camp-meeting settings, the
dusky vocalists will sing camp-meet
ing songs that never have been writ
ten; songs which have been handouj
down from ante-bellum days, while
white delvers into negro folk lore j
have vainly tried to record them.
The negroes have been training for
weeks in anticipation of the festival, j
Former slaves will sing the plain
tive plantation melodies by which
they worked in the cotton fields half,
a century ago and younger negroes:
will interpret real ragtime, the songs
which musical authorities say are the
root of the cabaret songs of today.
The white population of Dallas will j
patronize the festival freely, accord
ing to the advance sales. Sections ol
seats are set apart for whites and
negroes.
NOME MAN DEAD
Gov. Strong has been advised by the
management of the Morningside
sanitarium that Axel Anderson of
Nome died June Pith. Anderson was
committed to Morningside on August
129, 1907. Interment was in Portland.
liiUi.E Min v* EKE LO.Vl
i*> Li.r.Vi 1 KUi'lC Alt STOlOl
NEW ORLEANS, July b. — it is
1 reported that three ships were lost
oil dnip Island during the tropical
storm mat raged on the Gulf this
weeK. file late ot tne crews is nut
known, it is now safe to say that
the damage indicted by the storm in
Mississippi and Alabama alone was
$4,l»0U,0Ud.
LOSS OI’ LIFE IN
STORM OVER HUNDRED
BILOXI, Miss., July b.—The loss oi
life !>} the hurricane last Wednesday
is expected to reach over a hundred,
according to reports received today.
A score of schooners carrying over a
hundred and twenty people are still
unaccounted for.
(JENER VL O’BRIEN OI MEXICO
(Henry H. Dunn in Cartoons)
Ninety-live years ago an Irishman
was sent by the king of Spain to rule
as viceroy over Mexico. His name
was John O’Donahue—or Juan
O’Donoju in Spanish. His closest
friend and constant body-guard was
one Mickey O’Brien, renamed by his
adopted Iberian brothers Miguel
Obregon, and it was to him that Juan
O’Donoju turned when Iturbide and
his army, Hying the banner of the
“first empire,” decreed the end of the
three hundred year rule of the Mexi
can viceroys.
Up the mountain wall from Vera
Cruz went these two sons of Ireland
to where Cordoba clings like a swal
low’s nest to the seaward side of the
sierra. And there Jack O’Donahue
and Micky O’Brien agreed to repudi
ate their emperor and allow Iturbide,
the Morelian Indian, to rule until a
king of Mexico could be chosen.
Ami so well did Mickey serve the
first empire that he became (loneral
Miguel Obregon, and was placed in
control of the western coast of the
I land of Mowuahtesuma, where, with
his wife who came from the land of
his fathers, he left sons to lay him to
! rest when his last day came.
A few weeks ago a stubborn presi
dent of Mexico, almost at the end of
his rope, sent a great grandson of that
same Mickey O’Brien (Alvaro Obre
gon) to the rim of his country, bear
ing arrogant demands, ungrantable
requests, but with an army of some
40,000 troops supposedly to back up
those demands if it came to blows.
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\V. I'. Henry has been appointed a
notary public.
WHAT LONDON THINKS
LONDON, July 8.—The papers and officials here are
now pointing out that Germany is meeting the supieme
test of her power on defensive. Never before has she
been called upon to meet two great offensives, one in the
east and one in the west, so that her full ability was nevei
previously tried. All the information given out this morn
ing shows that the Russians are driving hard in the east
in conjunction with the allied western armies. General
Everts, the Russian, is attacking on a hundred mile front
which runs from the Vilna line north to Baranovich. The
seriousness of the crisis in the south for the Teutons is
reflected in the paucity of the information given in Ber
lin’s official bulletins which only just now admits the loss
to the Germans of Hem and Belloy on the western front,
ticket.
FORD FOR PRESIDENT
CHICAGO, July 8— Henry Ford, pacificist and auto
mobile magnate, is urged for the presidential nomination
on the Prohibition ticket by Eugene Chafin, of Tucson,
Arizona, formerly candidate for the presidency on that
FRENCH CLAIM SLIGHT GAINS
RUT BERLIN SAYS LOSSES BIG
FRENCH MAKE ADVANCES
4 PARIS, July 8.—The French troops broke the lull in
the lighting south of the river Somme last night and re
sumed the offensive with heavy attacks which enabled
them to capture more German positions southwest of Per
onrie. It is not claimed that the advances made last night
were more than slight ones but our assaults are continu
ing with the greatest energy.
SUPER OFFENSIVE RENEWED
LONDON, July 8.—The super offensive of the allied
armies entered its second week today with the Allies
everywhere attacking and maintaining their early gains
practically at every point despite heavy enemy counter at
tacks, according to the war office report today. The fight
ing is bitter and bloody, both sides fighting to the very
limit of their strength and resources. The Germans are
reported to have apparently decided not to wait entirely
on the defense and they are constantly delivering counter
assaults vigorously.
| FIVE THOUSAND GUARDS KILLED
LONDON, July 8. — Five thousand of the kaiser’s
famous Prussian guardsmen have been killed in the fight
ing around Contalmaison east of Albert, according to a
special dispatch from Paris. The fighting in that quarter,
which is north of the Somme, is reported as terrific and
bloody.
NOT TO HELP CASEMENT
WASHINGTON, July 8.—The decision was arrived
at today by the committee on foreign relations of the
senate not to report the resolution introduced in the
senate urging President Wilson to intervene to save the
life of Sir Roger Casement. The committee believed the
passing of such a resolution would be an unwarranted in
terference with the president and with a foreign country.
BERLIN SAYS ALLIES REPULSED
BERLIN, July 8.—The official bulletin today suites
that “at both sides of the Somme numerous repeated
enemy attacks were repulsed with sanguinary losses. In
speaking of the great allied oflensive this afternoon the
war office announced: “The heroism and tenacity of our
troops proves them invincible and has prepared the enemy
for the day of confusion.” In relation to the lighting in
the Verdun region the war office reports that “on the
Verdpn front the French made several fruitless attacks
on Froide Terre. Weak attacks on Damloup were also re
pulsed.”
ADMIT AUSTRIAN RETREAT
BERLIN, July 8. — A statement from the Austrian
war office sums up the results of the Russian ollenshe by
saying that the Austrian troops have retreated from
their advance lines in the bend of the river Styr, V olhynia,
before greatly superior Russian forces.
ET TU QUOQUE, SAYS BERLIN
BERLIN, July 8. — A submerged enemy submarine
attacked nine peaceful German trade steamships on the
2nd of July and tried to sink them without warning, says
the admiralty today. The ships were enroute to Swine
munde when attacked and narrowly escaped destruction.
This official statement is meant to show that the enemy
nations are adopting the very tactics which the United
States prevented Germany from following.
ALL WATCHING FRANCE
GENEVA, July 8.—A lull has fallen all over the bat
tle fronts except in France where both sides are evidently
concentrating their energies for the final joust. The
Austrians in Trentino are reported to have taken up de
fensive positions again and a new deadlock is suspected.
Reports arriving from all the countries surrounding
Switzerland indicate that the adherents of the Central
Powers see in the great allied offensive the last chance to
overcome Germany, while French advices indicate that
the Allies have only really begun the great struggle. Both
sides appear confident as ever.