ALASKAN ALASK*AN
-' LARGEST ALASKAN CIRCULATION
ADVERTISEMENTS BRING RESULTS __ _
~ ~ N ,s2 SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER II, 1915. _Ten Cenn the Copy
TREMENDOUS NAVY MADE CERTAIN BY CANVASS
MAYOR BELL ;
IS ACQUITTED
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Jl in IN FFW MINI TKS SAYS
INDIANAPOLIS MAYOR
NOT GRAFTFR.
INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. Pi.—After
having been out just a few minutes *
this afternoon the jury returned with
a verdict of not guilty in the case of
Mayor Bell of this city who was ac
cused of graft and conspiracy in con- |
nection with the late elections. The!
mayor was indicted with lorn lag
gart. the m>!«*d politician, and a hun
dred others for various kinds of fraud
and the evidence was exhaustive but
it was shown that the charge had no
real foundation in fact. The quick
verdict of the jury, it is believed, will
result in the dismissal of the charges
against Taggart and the other defend
ants.
R. R. Kngineering
Men Arrive Today
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One Part) that t ame One From
Which Two Men were
Prow ned.
Fight members of the government
railroad engineering forces that have
ben working on the other end arrived
this morning on the Northwestern
and will remain here to do ortke work
The eight are members of two sur
veying parties that have been work
ing between Broad Pass and Fair
banks. R. J. Weir, in charge of one
of the parties, and F\ H. Bailey, in
charge of the other party. are
amongst those*1 arriving. Mr. Weir
says that the greater part of the
right of way between Broad Pass and
Fairbanks has been permanently
located. It was while they were
members of his party that the two
men. McFaun and McHugh were
drowned in the Ncnana river. Mr.
Weir is unable to say how the ac
cident could have occured. They had
made the trip some times before.
They were dropping down the river
with a light load in the boat when
they met their deaths. One of the
men was only twenty-one years of
age and the other was about fifty.
Mr. Weir expects Commissioner
Riggs to arrive here in ten ar twelve
days.
WANT SEWARD WOMEN
TO ESTABLISH CLUB
Mrs. Thomas V. Connor, president
of the Douglas Island Women’s club j
has sent the Gateway an open letter .
and a set of the Constitution and By- ;
Laws for the purpose of organizing
a Territorial Federation of Women’s 1
Clubs in Alaska and she asks that the
papers be turned over to the local
woman’s club or anyone who would
be interested in the work. The papers
have been sent at the suggestion of
Mrs. William P. Harper, a director of
the General Federation of Women’s
Clubs. Any woman’s organization in
Seward, or its representative, ma>
have those papers by asking at the
Gateway.
BIG WORK VALDEZ CREEK
Tom Tessc who arrived on the North
western, says the Valdez Creek
Placer Mining company had 28 or
30 men working this season and took
out lots of money. Fred Byrant also
came out from that creek and went
back to Boston.
Fred Tracy, general agent of the
Alaska Steamship co., arrived on the
Northwestern this morning on his
way to Anchorage.
Filial Game \\ on in '
liu* Last of Ninth;
Score Tied Twice and Hooper Makes
Home Run that Wins.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.—The
score in the final game of the World
series today was:
Boston—Five runs, ten hits and one
error.
Philadelphia—Four runs, nine hits
and one error.
The game was extremely exciting
and the score was tied twi^e. Boston
won in the hist of the ninth with a j
home run by Hooper. Boston made |
two home runs. The attendance was
twenty thousand.
(Note: This message for the Gate
way arrived in Seward at 3:58 yes
terday but too late to be printed in
yesterday's issue.)
ANCHORAGE ARRESTS
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The follov\ mg are the names of the j
men arrested at Anchorage for alleg
ed “bootlegging” and who will be
tried here:
J. C. Provist, Peter Gilovich, F. P. j
McArthur, Anton Kovacevith. C\ C.
Bush. George GellitT, Nicholas Man
die, Frank Ozich, Peter McGuire .and
Ore Barnhard.
BRY VN TO TURN
TO RELIGIOUS WORK
LINCOLN, Neb.. Oct. 13.—That j
William Jennings Bryan is fully
aware of the extent and scope of his
present unpopularity, but that he is
buoyed up by confident belief that he
will be vindicated by future events,
became known to the ex-secretary of
state’s close friends during his recent
visit to his Lincoln home.
It is well understood here that
Bryan intends to turn more and more
toward religious work, not becoming
an out-and-out evangelist like Sun
day, but using his great gifts on the
platform in a somewhat re’ated line
of work.
While the arrangements have not
yet been announced it is pretty well
understood that Bryan is to be the
forty-two centimetre gun in the
Nebraska prohibition campaign in
1916.
NORTHWESTERN ARRIVES
The Northwestern, Captain Hunter,
arrived this morning about seven
o’clock from the south with 43 pas
sengers and 150 tons of freight for
this place. Those coming from Seat
tle are: F. M. SoupcoiT and wife, L.
D. De Saussure, J. H. McGinty, Sam
McDonald, Helen Slater. From Alas
ko ports: Gus Sundbcrg, H. Johnson,
William Morris, C. H. Wiley, D. K.
Kristner, Frank ParrifJi E. J. Barry,
A. P. Brown, Chris Olson, J. F. Em
mett. F. H. Bailey, R. ,T. Weir, G. W.
Colwell, G. Gill, F. Waller, D. Large,
G. B. Richardson. Capt. Lathrop, J.
Boynton, W. Wright, William Kask
I ing, R. Agnew, Tom Tacy, C. H.
Sickles, Mrs J. B. Oliver, Mrs. H. C.
De Line and daughter, Fred Tracy, A.
Anderson, Dave Fenton, A. J. Swan
j son, D. Mosser and three steerage.
NORTHWESTERN BRINGS
130 TONS OF FREIGHT
The Northwestern brought 150 tons
of freight for this place, being about
an average shipment for Seward. Of
this tonnage 20 tons was for the Al
askan Engineering Commission.
ICE CREAM BOOTH ALSO.
In telling of the coming bazaar in
! yesterday’s Gateway mention of the
ice cream and coffee booth was omit
ted. This booth will be conducted by
| Mrs. Frank, Mrs. F. Santer and Mrs.
| Hickey.
LONDON RAID
LONDON, Oct. 14.—Th£ most des
tructive raid yet took place oil London j
last night. Forty were killed in Lon- j
don and over one hundred injured in- j
eluding fourteen soldiers dead and
thirteen injured. This is official.
At STRIA WINS
BERLIN, Oct. 14.—It is officially
announced that the Austrians have
driven the Russians again across the
Stripa following Russian sucesses of
the past few days. The British at
tack on our whole front from Ypres
to Iajos has failed.
CONVENTION FOR FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14.—A
strong effort is being made to bring
the republican national convention to
this place. I
EXPLOSION KILLS THREE
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Oct. 14.—
Three are dead at least and nine
frame business houses are destroyed
by an explosion of a gas stove and a
resulting lire which occurred here
last night.
BIG SIM ASKED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Presi
dent Wilson will ask for au appropria
tion of four hundred million for de
fense, he stated today.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Orville
Wright has sold his interests in the
aeroplane company for a mlilion.
SEATTLE, Oct. 14.—His attorneys
have sued William J. Burns for twen
ty-five thousand for fees said to be
due over the Blethen libel suit.
BLOODY SERBIAN BATTLE
VIENNA, Oct. 14.—The Teuton ad
vance in Serbia continues despite
desperate resistance. The Serbian
counter attacks were heavily repulsed
In a terrific battle at Lipa the T eutons
claim victory but at a tragic cost.
The battle field is strewed with
Teuton dead and the latest advice of
ficially received is that we are unable
to renew the advance at that point
because of the enormous loss.
ANCHORAGE MEN
ON TRIAL HERE
HALF A SCORE OF CASES OF AL
LEGED BOOTLEGGING
FOR SEWARD.
The half score or so of trials in
connection with the arrests of An
chorage men on the charge of selling
liquor without licenses will take place
here at the term of court beginning
on the first of the coming month.
These trials are to be separate, of
course, and quite a lengthy term of
court may be expected while a large
number of witnesses will probably be
brought from the new railroad city.
With the exception of the secret in
dictments brought in against the An
chorage men none of the other secret
indictments have been divulged.
Some of the passenger;, coming on the
Northwestern did not learn at Valdez
what the other secret indictments
might be. Wrhen the Anchorage
cases are taken out, and when it is
said that the Tilicum Club matter has
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been arranged, as it is said, the only
guess that one could make would
bring in the fisheries men.
Mrs. F. W. Small leaves on the
Northwestern for a two months’ trip
to the States. While out she will take
in the fair and spend some of her
time in Seattle, returning to Seward
before the holidays.
How Northwestern
Touched the Beach;
No Harm Dime to Big Ship by Her
Experience in Fog.
The steamship Northwestern arriv
ed this morning after an eventlul
trip. With an unusually large cargo
for Seward and other ports as well
as a good list of passengers, all of
which required getting through on
schedule. The ship met with a succes
sion of fogs or bad weather which de
layed everything. At Bella Bella the
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same conditions as to fogs and tides
prevailed which a little later proved
| so disastrous to the Mariposa.
It was at Ketchikan, however,
where the only possibly serious in
cident occurred but this, fortunately,
turned out with the only damage of
any consequence being a delay for in
vestigation to assure the captain that
the ship was perfectly safe for navi
gation.
At the entrance to Ketchikan har
bor a short turn must be made in the
vicinity of rocks which are marked
by bell buoys. It was at two o’clock
in the morning that Captain Hunter
shut down the engines. Fog was
so thick that it was impossible to see
l the bow of the boat, let alone seeing
a boll buoy a hundred yards away.
At this particular point the coast line
on each side is low and echoes from
a fog whistle are uncertain. A heavy
tide runs at this point and with the
ship stopped this tide carried the
Northwestern broadside on a reef
from which no echo was, of course,
possible. Such a position is always
serious, but by getting out anchors in
the face of the heavy tide the ship
was worked off even before the fog
lifted to disclose the shore line. A
few minutes after the ship was dock
ed at Ketchikan, by chance, there
happened to be passing through
Ketchikan, a marine diver with full
apparatus. His investigation of the
ship’s bottom required less than an
hour and disclosed that the only
damage was the loss of five rivets
which were pulled out by the strain
and one plate of the garboard strake
next to the keel on the port side op
posite the after mainmast was sprung
about one-quarter of an inch. Tem
porary repairs were made to stop the
flow' of water, which is now' insignifi
cant. It is estimated that the boat
will be delayed at Puget Sound for
repairs less than twelve hours.
PUEBLA PASSENGERS
The following cable was received
this afternoon but was sent yesterday
and is mighty hard to understand
but is given as it comes:
SEATTLE, Oct. 13.—The City of
Puebla Tuesday. Meyer Mercury, al
so R. C. Hanbers and baby, Mrs. E.
Mauray. Knik; G. Gaines and Rose
Allison.
VALDEZ MAN INJURED
Chas. Johnson, a well known miner
who has been employed in the Ram
say-Rutherford mine, is a patient in
the Red Cross Hospital, suffering
from a badly lacerated cheek which
may disfigure him for life as the re
sult of a gun shot. It appears that
Johnson was lying in his bunk watch
ing Louis Peterson, who was fixing a
shotgun which had become jammed.
In some manner the shell was explod
ed and the shot passed Johnson's head
so close that the concussion ripped
the flesh from his cheek and tore
the curtain of his eye, which may im
pair its sight.—Prospector.
R. H. Koch will return to Anchor
age on the Admiral Evans.
T. M. West, representing M. Seller
& Co of Seattle is an outgoing pas
senger on the Northwestern for Seat
tle.
BOTH HOUSES
FOR BIG NAVY
.
CANVASS MADE THAT SHOWS
LEGISLATORS FAVOR
DEFENSE PLANS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—A can
vass has been made of the members
of both houses of the legislature
which shows that the majority in each
is in favor of the largest defense
plans of the administration. This
means that the program will be car
ried out of building an immense navy
as stated in yesterday’s dispatches
and that the United States will soon
have on both oceans some of the
greatest ships of war and many of
them.
C. E. HADE FILES SUIT
AGAINST C. T. DAGGETT j
Asks Lien on Daggett Block and
Building for Money Alleged
to be Due for Work.
C. E. Bade this afternoon fded suit
claiming a lien upon the Daggett
block and lot because of alleged fail
ure to pay for labor and material
said to have been supplied by Mr.
Bade to Dr. Daggett. The money said
to be due to Mr. Bade by Dr. Daggett
was paid in part but Mr. Bade claims
$518 as still due and in that amount
he claims a lien upon the property.
L. L. James, Jr., represents Mr. Bade.
A. B. Hall to Have
First Show Tonight
Appropriately Enough the Great
Story of the Sea Wolf to
be Shown.
The fine Arctic Brotherhood hall
which has just been built will be the
theatre in which Jack London’s pow
erful work, the Sea Wolf, will be
shown this evening. It will be the
first moving picture show ever seen
in the new hall and the great work
with the splendid opportunities for
seating a large audience ought to
make certain a worthy beginning for
what may well be called a new era in
the development of the city. Captain
Lathrop arrived this morning on the
Northwestern to start things going
and Seward people from this time
forward will have every chance of
spending most pleasantly the long
evenings. The Sea Wolf is one of the
great stories of English literature
and appropriately enough it will be
the first shown in the new hall of the
Arctic Brotherhood in the ocean term
inal of the government railroad.
NORTHWESTERN PASSENGERS
Among those who w?.!l leave on the
Northwestern this afternoon will be;
For Seattle: C. W. Speer, C. E.
Bade, J. P. Barnes, Fred Du Bois,
Mrs. F. W. Small, James Woods, Mrs.
Woods, Mrs. T. M. Pierce, Fred
Schafer, J. J. Sullivan, Jr., Miss Ruth
Sull'van, C. C. Harmon, Mrs. Gus
Borgen, ^Miss Emily and Hazel and
Edward Borgen, Paul H Moore, Mr.
and Mrs. F. E. Parks, George W.
Brown, R. R. Lukens, H. A. Cotton,
Jack Senior, B. Ohleson, E. E. Sevlins,
A. Anderson, M. S. Morrison, E. H.
Whittemore, J C. Clarkson, George
Alberts and Mrs. E. Anderson.
For Ketchikan: Sam Anderson,
Peter Jorsteard, Barney Lokker, Ole
Sandvick, Hans Danielson, Iver Sol
heim and Michael Harris.
For Juneau: C. E. Petersen, T. M.
West and Jack Kissel,
For Valdez: Frank L. Ballaine and
S. 0. Morford.
REPORT ANCHORAGE
MEN HAVE BEEN FINED
That some of the men arrested at
Anchorage have been tried in the
United States Commissioner’s court
over there and sentenced is the report
current on the streets of Anchorage.
Arrivals from tho railroad town who
landed in Seward on the day before
yesterday say that this rumor is go
ing the rounds. It is to the effect
that at least some of the men charged
were fined $750 each and, or with the
alternative of, three months in jail. It
NEWS NOTES
Roy Anderson came overland from
Anchorage on the car yesterday on a
business trip and will return to the
railroad city on the Alliance.
W. A. Miner came in from the rail-1
road construction camp at Mile 52
i
yesterday afternoon and says he Is
going to stay in the city the rest of
the fall and winter.
A big load of hay and wheat went \
out on the car this morning for Chas.
G. Hubbard, of the Blue Bell mine,
as winter supply for his stock.
Capt. A. E. Lathrop came over on
the Northwestern this morning to
start the moving picture show here
tonight.
Deposition of Mae Kelly, together j
with depositions of witnesses in her ;
behalf, in her suit against Walter H. j
Kelly were filed yesterday with the !
Deputy Clerk of the Court.
Fannie M. McLean, of the Royal j
Bakery, filed application for a license
for a restaurant yesterday with the j
Deputy Clerk of the Court.
A. M. Deiringer, the Valdez trans- J
fer man, was a round trip visitor on
the Northwestern.
Someone asked George Phelps this
morning why he signed the “petition
to sell the Terminal tract lots. “Send
one round” says George “asking not
to sell them and FU sign it too. I'll j
oblige anyone by signing any old i
petition they want, so bring ’em
around.”
In this morning’s mail came a let
ter from Paul J. Horgan, of Clinton
avenue, Rochester, N. Y., to tell the
Gateway that he believes Colonel
Sleicher of Leslie’s missed the real
spirit of Alaska life in his recent
articles. Mr. Horgan believes he
could do better and he says of Colonel
Sleicher: “The author did not mingle
with the people. Surely there must
be some red-blooded humans up there
that are interesting.’’
Jack Kissel, of the Brokerage firm
of Kissel, Hart & Cosgrove, will re
turn to his headquarters at Juneau on
the Northwestern.
It is thought the mail clerks on the
steamships running in this part of
Alaska will soon be required to work
letter mail acording to post office box
arrangement for each post office, thus
greatly facilitating the mail service.
This afternoon about 2:30 young
Richard Shelhom attempted to get
aboard the Borgen auto from the
rear at it was going down Fourth
Avenue and failed to make connec
tions, falling down in the street. He
tried to ruiwfis fast as the auto and
when he saw he couldn't make it
he let go, and the momentum threu
him rather severely in the mud, the
only damage incurred however, be
ing that his wind was knocked out
for % minute or so.
Besides the names mentioned in
the outgoing passenger list of the
Northwestern Mrs. James Wallin will
leave for Seattle and 23 steerage will
also leave on this steamer.
Mrs. Karl Vaughan and daughter,
Hope, and Mrs. W. F. Weimer came
in from Kenai Lake on the car yes
terday to spend a few days In town.
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has also ben stated that their proper
tics in the town were ordered confi. -
cated but this is an absurdity appar
ently as there is no one in Alaska
with the authority to confiscate the
property of anyone, unless after a
trial in the higher court or som
other procedure beyond the power of"
anyone at Anchorage. It is stated, by
the w'ay, that the rumor which .-aid a
lady w'ell known in Seward had b* n
arrested with the rest is not true.
SNOWING IN
ANCHORAGE
It is snowing hard today in Anchor
age and the temperature is cold.
This information was received
through an official source this aftei
noon. Quite a snow fell then* some
days ago also but it was supposed to
be an abnormal fall which might have
no bearing as an indication of th>*
difference in climate. Without in the
least trying to help Seward by com
parison it might be of interest to An
chorage people and others not living
here to know' that the weather here
today has been exceedingly pleasant
and mild.
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A few' dispatches, dated yesterday,
arrived last etening and today for the
Gateway but none of today's mes
sages came owing to the break in t e
cable. The Gateway regrets this a
much as its readers but it cannot be
helped.
LESLIE'S WEEKLY SPEAKS
OF ALL-ALASKA REVIEW
Colonel Sleicher Mentions Review
Particularly and Also Compli
ments the Gateway.
I In the issue of September
; Colonel Sleicher has another long
ami interesting write-up about
Alaska in which he mentions the All -
Alaska Review and the Seward Gate
way. The following is the paragraph
in which he speaks of Alaskan
papers:
“The press of Alaska, considering
all the draw-backs of the business,
the high price of material and labor,
the cost of news by cable from Seat
tle, is enterprising and ably conduct
ed. Among the leading papers that
: I read enroute were the Ketchikan
! Miner, Juneau Empire, Cordova
1 Times and Seward Gateway, and The
All-Alaska Review, the last named a
very interesting monthly.”
NEWS NOTES,
The hunting party, made up ot
John Dubreuil, Andrew Novak, W. W
Alderman and E. W. Province, who
have been out in the Mile 18 country
for the past five or s^x days returned
' this afternoon about 3:15 with three
moose. One quarter weighed 165
pounds.
Fred Shafer came in from Gulch
creek on the car yesterday afternoon
and will leave on the Northwestern
for the States, returning here in the
spring. Mr. Shafer owns some valu
able placer ground in the Gulch creek
and has been doing development work
this summer preparatory to real
mining next season.
G. G. Boe arrived on the North
western this morning from Valdez.
Hats, coats, shoes, waists, skirts
and dresses, at cost. This week only,
for cash.—At Ellsworth’s. 10-14-3