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AMERICANS THIRTY MILES
EROM STRONG VILLA FORCE
CLOSING ON VILLA
EL PASO, March 18.—Guided by aeroplanes two
American columns are entering the heart of the distiict
that is filled with Villa sympathizers and hard fighting is
expected at any time. The Americans greatly outnumber'
the bands of outlaws and no anxiety is felt. Dodd’s men j
are making a forced march and expect today to pass Janos;
which is a hundred miles south of Nachita- New Mexico,;
where Dodd started across the border last Thursday. The!
feat of making that distance in the time stated is regarded;
as most remarkable. Pershing’s column is skirting all the;
cities and entering none at the request of Guzman, Obre-;
gon and Carranza who believe that the old feeling against
the “gringoes" still exists and may bring about trouble.
Villa’s position is variously reported but the most reliable
report of his whereabouts seems to be that he is about aj
hundred and fifty or two hundred miles further south and |
in the Cusihuiachia district and making for the Sierra;
Madres.
SEATTLE, March 18.—The news was received here;
this afternoon that Dodd’s force is within thirty miles of
a strong Villa band and a battle may take place within a
few hours if Villa decides to make a stand. Dodd has
reached the Galena district, according to Funston’s re-i
port, and is making straight for the Villa command. The |
whole country is now waiting with interest to hear of the.
clash.
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DIAZ MAY JOIN VILLA ]
SAN ANTONIO, March 18.—It is reported that Feliz
Diaz and Villa have decided to affiliate and this is regard
ed.as the most sensational news of the day in connection;
with the Mexican affair. A wholesale deportation of|
Mexicans from the border states and Southern California |
is being carried out by the United States because of the
belief that the Mexicans are plotting to bring about the
union of Diaz and Villa and are preparing to cause
trouble.
FUNSTON WANTS RAILROADS
WASHINGTON, March 18.—Funston has asked Car
ranza’s permission to use the Mexican railroads to supply
the American columns with supplies and munitions.
TODAY'S ODDEST STORY
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
HAMMOND, Ind., March 9.—Frank
Trabtzbas of Chesterton, Ind., reflect
ing in a police jail cell here after a
two days' fling along the gay white
way, wondered how he was going to
pay a dollar fine when he spied a
Robin’s nest in a tree within arm’s
length of the cell window. Reaching
out, he shooed the Robin away and
picked a $5 bill from the nest, sum
moned the jailer, paid his fine and
went home.
CHICAGO, March 9.—Because they
swam tw’o lengths of a sixty foot
tank, in addition to diving and bring
ing up a sandbag, to pass a civil ser
vice examination to get jobs as life
savers at swimming beaches here, a
Central Amateur Athletic Committee
here ruled that Walter Farrell, Ho
bart Olson, Charley Pavlicek and
Lloyd Neff are professionals and bar
red them from amateur meets. All
four men are crack swimmers. They
have appealed to the national body
in New York.
NO THANK YOU CLUB TRYING
TO REGULATE THE DRINKING
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
SACRAMENTO, March 9.—“Well,
i let’s have one more little drink before
we go/’ is never heard here nowa
days. The “No Thank Y’ou Club, the
| largest in the city, put that favorite
| expression of the early spring drink
ers in the discard. Every member of
j the club, and some of the leading
citizens belong to it, is pledged not to
do any treating. The club has no in
tention of whacking the saloon busi
ness. But according to a report of
the organization ^committee, it does
believe that “the substitution of the
non-treating system for the vicious
treating habit would automatically
nullify nearly all that is mishievous,
and therefore illegitimate, in the
liqour traffic and that it would tend
to eliminate the constant political
agitation of the prohibition question
by correcting the main evil now as
sociated with that traffic.”
NORTHWESTERN TOMORROW
The Northwestern left Cordova to
day at noon and is due to arrive here
at noon tomorrow.
ALASKA TO KING’S COVE
On this trip, her first, the steam
ship Alaska will go to King's Cove.
SLOW REGISTRATION
Only 256 people had registered this
morning here for tne municipal elec
tion.
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RAINIER BAR IS
AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT
..—
Messrs. McPhail and McKenzie
have reopened business in the Louvre
Building and were ready to receive
their friends last night just as though
! nothing had happened.
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NO SERVICES AT
ST. PETER’S TOMORROW
Rev. Mr. Maloney has been delayed
at Valdez on account of sickness and
no services will be held in St. Peter’s
tomorrow. Sunday school will be held
as usual.
Seward, Alaska.
March 18, 1916.
To The Editor of the
Seward Gateway,
Seward, Alaska.
Gentlemen:
Will you please publish the fol
lowing explanation in regard to
the missing coupling.
Tho coupling was not missing
as stated by a local paper. This
fitting has been hanging on a cop
per wire close to the hydrant at
the station and waiting for a
chance to do the service that it
was intended for.
Citizens of this town should be
informed that the fitting that had
to be made was for a two inch
pipe at tho railway machine shop,
in order to connect up the city
hose. The hydrant at the rail
way warehouse was dead, and
could not be used. The nearest
place was the machine shop.
The nearest place that a con
nection could be made conse
quently was the machiie shop.
The Light eo. and this little
fitting were ready at all times to
connect up with the city at a
moment’s notice, and which was
promptly done at this fire. Citi
zens should give credit where
credit is due, and they can thank
this little fitting and the Light
company's water that our town is
standing today.
At the time of the fire in
the Tecklenberg block the hy
drant at the warehouse had been
brought back to life and in short
er time than it takes to tell the
two hydrants were connected and
the fire fighters had the weapons
to fight with.
Yours very truly,
G. G. BOE.
GLEASON WINS THE
ANCHORAGE DOG RACE
Three Thousand Dollars Change
Hands Over the Big Event
at New City.
ANCHORAGE, March 18. — The
bird-dog team, driven by Gleason, won
the first big Anchorage race yester
day by thirty-four minutes. He mai
the distance of a hundred and eight
miles in twelve hours, “forty minutes
and fifty-five seconds. Spencers
team was second, doing the course in
thirteen hours, twenty-six minutes
and five seconds. The combination
team of Gustafson was third in the
time of thirteen hours, fifty-three
minutes and thirty-five seconds.
Three thousand dollars changed hands
in the betting.
SEATS SOLD FOR BIG
FIGHT WILL PAY ALL
NEW YORK, March 18. — Tex
Rickard, the promoter of the Willard
Moran fight, announces that he has
sold enough seats to guarantee all
expenses. He says the advanced
sales so far total a hundred thousand
dollars.
R. R. GIVES BIGGEST
ORDER FOR MANY YEARS
SEATTLE, March 18.—The Great
Northern Railroad has asked bids for
thirty million feet of lumber for the
construction of snow sheds in the
Cascades. It ii the largest order for
many years.
Billie Butts is back again from An
chorage. The Gateway received a
telegram from that city on the arrival
there of Mr. Butts that he intends to
open a store there but he has nothing
to say about it himself yet
I PERU IS VERY “SHORT;" ’
RECALLS HER ENVOY
\FiMM9JMONioWzET]
(Federico Alfonso Pezet, Peruvian minis
ter to the United States, has been re
called from Washington bv hla govern
ment because of financial difficulties In
the South American republic He Is the
last of Peru a dlplomata to be recalled In
the Interest of economy, all the others
having be«-n retired some tun j ago. Mon
etary stringency because of the wai was
the reason for discontinuing the t’eru*
vlan diplomatic corps |
❖ FAIRBANKS WOMAN *
❖ DROPPED DEAD *
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FAIR BANKS, March 18.—M rs.
Alma Wilson dropped dead on the
street here today. The cause was a
hemmorhage. She was an oldtime
bath house proprietor.
ENGL AN D’S N EWSPA PEKS
FACE PAPER SHORTAGE
By WILBUR S. FORREST
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
LONDON, Feb. 22.—(By Mail)—
British newspapers are alarmed about
the impending shortage of paper on
account of the government’s partial
import prohibition of wood pulp.
Practically every large daily in Eng
land is engaged in a systematic
campaign of public education against
wasting paper. At the same time the
public is being prepared for smaller
newspaper editions which are bound
to result.
The British housewife is the chief
paper waster of the nation, the news
papers agree. Shop keepers come
next, occupants of business houses
and offices rank third. The housewife
is implored to use more gas and less
coal, thus saving the paper ordinarily
used to light fires; to write fewer let
ters and to use both sides of the pap
er; to insist when shopping on having
all articles purchased wrapped in one
bundle and above all to save old
newspapers. The shop-keepers arc
requested not to wrap their sales at
all unless the customer insists; to re
fuse to wrap articles that are natural
ly dry; and business houses and of
fices are asked to use less stationary.
Reinforcing their argument, a number
of newspapers announce that economy
of paper may soon be mandatory' by
government order.
Some of the largest of the London
newspapers already have imposed up
on themselves their economy cam
paign. Less pages are appearing
than before the supply of print papet>
was threatened.
METHODIST SERVICES
Tomorrow at the M. E. church, ser
vices will be held at 11 a. m. and 7:30
p. m. The following subjects will be
used: “Finding Truth” and “The
Prodigal Son.” Sunday school at 12.
Mr. Moses will sing at the evening
service. We invite all to attend,
especially the strangers that may be
in the town.
J. H. Nichoalds of the Armour
Packing Company is one of the visi
tors in Seward at present.
One institution Seward can’t get
away from is the Dee Sing Noodle
joint and, therefore, it has been start
ed up again opposite the old location.
Seward Has Best
Amateurs in Alaska
Show Last Night Just Proved That
This City Has Heal Talent
After All.
After last night’s show it is safe
| to say that Seward has easily the best
1 amateur talent in Alaska. Everyone
in town saw that affair last night
pretty nearly and those who didn’t
lost a treat. Indeed this is one time
at last when a reporter can say from
his heart and without feeling like a
prevaricator that a show pulled off by
local fellows was a ripping one. Some
of the best vocalists in the Territory,
Mosee, Lucas, Bruner and others were
heard and the acting of the boys we
all know and see every day was really
gratifying, showing as it did that w.'
are not dead yet by a long shot.
You must first take off your hat to
Lee James, the managing director.
The rumor was spread this morning
that he intended going baek to New
York and quit the law business, may
be, yet. Before his name is mention
ed, though, you should think of Mrs.
McNecr, one of Seward’s most pleas
ant and indispensable institutions, and
when you think of the music at all
you must think of Bert Denny. Have
you ever heard better singers than
Otto Moses or Erich Lucas in a town
of this class.? Then come Johnny
Kacerosky and Bryce Howard to
prove to all of us that you might be
the close acquaintance of people that
might be real genii if the truth and
the whole truth were know'n. J. J.
Ryan, Heinie Haasch and Alex Mc
Donald also helped to make it clear
that Seward is or ought to be the
metropolis of Alaska, but what car
one say about Sam SoupcoflF and Steve
Shumann? They ought to be put in
moving pictures or salt or something
and preserved to all posterity for
ever and ever, amen.
It is difficult to call anyone “mister
when you speak of that show last
night but it is also hard to speak of
Mr. C. E. Sinclair without the title*
The painting of the scenery was his
and the training of the chorus was
his also. What more can you say ex
cept to propose a vote of thanks and
pass it standing up? And then to
cap the climax comes little Hale
Schaleben, the cleverest kid one could
wish to find. The whole thing was
good and rattlingly good and that is
the first time in memory when one
can say so without the slightest res
ervation in the newspaper of the place
about a local production.
NEWS NOTES
J. B. Woolas and T. Callahan, old
timers who hit the trail in famous '98,
arrived on the Farragut and will
probably stay around here.
Josiah Dawson, his nephew, Hart
man Daws<*i, ami C. Kitzmiller left
this morning for Crow creek where
the Dawsons will operate on a very
large scale this season. Tr.cy have
rccen’ly taken over a quartz property
there and will bring in a mill.
'"kruzna and Zinko returned from
Russian lake last night. They brought
1 in 9 lynx skins, 2 wolverines and 1
I otter.
Forty-nine passengers went out on
the train yesterday morning and
pretty nearly as many went out this
morning.
The camp for the force to build the
Resurrection river bridge has been
started.
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Andersor re
turned from their honeymoon trip to
I Cordova on the Farragut.
J. H. Sears has written to say that
| he will return to Sew ard this spring,
j Mrs. Sears recently went on a trip
to Europe and is now somewhere
across the Atlantic.
B. M. Stone, the Lord Northcliffe of
Seward, fired the dramatic critic this
t afternoon because he failed to men
tion the name of Frank Ennis in the
.! Cake Walk last night
GERMAN ATTACK ON
VERDUN GETS SLOW
SAY TUBANTIA TORPEDOED
WASHINGTON, March 18—A message from the
American consul at Amsterdam says that two officers on
the look-out on the Tubantia swear that she was torpedo
ed and that she was not sunk by a mine as reported.
DID ASQUITH SEEK PEACE
LONDON, March 18—The Exchange Telegraph says
that Prime Minister Asquith will be asked next Thursday
in the House of Commons whether it is a fact that he par
ticipated in a conference of the powers to discuss peace
terms. The publication of this story seems to have given
rise to the belief that peace is actually being talked of.
The name of the man to ask the question has not been
stated but it is assumed that he is a prominent member of
the House when the big telegraph service mentions the
fact at all.
ALL SAVED
AMSTERDAM, March 18.—An investigation into the
sinking of the Tubantia shows that all aboard were saved.
The lifeboat which was missing has been accounted for.
BERLIN, March 18.—The war office announces offici
ally this afternoon that the attacks around Verdun hav e
ceased because of the unfavorable weather conditions.
This information was received with some misgivings that
the great offensive has not been proceeding as well as had
been expected but the war office declares that the weather
alone is responsible for the hesitation.
SEVERAL AIR FIGHTS
PARIS, March 18.—French airmen raided five Ger
man cities last night and inflicted quite a lot of damage.
Some important military positions were also raided. The
war office announces that thirty-three air duels have oc
curred over Verdun in the past three weeks. The results
of the duels has not been mentioned.
SUBMARINES IN REICHSTAG
BERLIN, March 18.—A bill opposing an agreement
with other nations to limit submarine warfare in connec
tion with passenger ships was introduced in the Reichstag
today by the National Liberal party. The Conservative
and Central, or Clerical, parties have introduced similar
measures. _
PRINCE JOACHIM, KAISER’S
YOUNGEST SON, MARRIED |
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(Special to Gateway by United Press)
POTSDAM, March 11. — Putting j
aside for the moment the “spear andj
helm” of Mars which he is helping
his father, Kaiser Wilhelm, carry
through the world war, Joachim,
youngest son of Germany’s Emperor,
succumbed to a tiny shaft from
Cupid's bow and was quietly married
to Princess Marie Augustine of An
halt in the Royal Church here today.
The Princess is a niece of the pres
ent Duke of Anhalt, ruler of one of
the smaller Teutonic possessions of
the German domain. The Duchy of
Anhalt comprises 888 square miles of
land with 331,000 population, where
as the state of Rhode Island, U. S. A.,
has more than 1,000 square miles and
more than 500,000 population.
Prince Joachim, when the war
started, joined the colors as lieuten
ant in the First Regiment of the
Royal Guards. His regiment saw
sendee in stemming the Russian drive
against the Teutons in September,
1914, and it was during one of man?
engagements in which he participat
ed that the young prince was wounded
by a splinter of shrapnel.
Joachim, invalided to Berlin, re
covered and rejoined his command
Oct. 11, 1914. The following day he
was promoted to the post of Captain
of Cavalry, in which capacity he ha*
served ever since.
The engagement of the Prince and
Princess was announced in Berlin just
one year and three days after Joachim
rejoined his command, or on Oct. 14,
11915. Joachim was 25 last December
17th, is a captain in the 14th Regi
ment of Hussars, in the Foot Guards,
Grenadier Guards and several other
military organizations. He was the
only remaining unmarried son of
Kaiser Wilhelm. The princess was
born June 10, 1898. It has been re
ported that her father Duke Frederick
II of Anhalt, is fighting under Crown
Prince Frederick William, brother of
the bridegroom.
The ceremony was exceedingly
simple. It was performed with the
Luthern service in the Royal church
here, in the presence of the Kaiser
and Kaiserin and the immediate roy
al family and relatives of the bride.
Even the more pretentious royal
marriage, such as that of Crown
Prince, is not overburdened with
ceremony even in peace time. The
bride is escorted by her parents to the
royal castle, where she spends the
night before the wedding. Next
morning she is escorted by the bride
groom into the city and to the royal
church where she is greeted by her
royal parents in law to be, after which
the ceremony is performed.
GIBBONS WINS
ST. PAUL, March IS.—Mike Gib
bons got the decision last night over
Jeff Smith.
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Henry Fathers arrived on the Far
.ragut from Port Angeles, Wash., and
will remain in this city. Mr. Fathers
will open a store on Fifth avenue
with a fine stock of paints, wall
papers and general fixtures.
F. Obriket, the big fur man of Los
Angeles, and son, will leave on the
Dora for a business trip to Dutch
Harbor.