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If 8 HOUR LAW PASSED SATURDAY
STRIKE WILL BE CALLED OEE
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WASHINGTON, August 31—Continuing his driving
tactics to force congress to action to avert the lailioad
-strike the President today again swung the executive,
whip over the house and senate leaders. Appealing in
person at the Capitol he told the members that informa
tion was at hand show ing that the strike could be pi event
ed by immediate action on the eight hour proposal and he
suggested the calling ot a joint session ot congress foi
Tuesday. He also requested that the hearings be speeded
up as much as possible and that action on a measuie pio- j
viding for an eight hour day bo pushed through by Satur
day.
Upon leaving the Capitol the President said:
“1 havg just been keeping in touch with things to see
if they were moving, and they are moving. 1 think we are
progressing sa t isfacto rily."
W. G. Lee, the leader of the trainmen, told the mem
l>ers of congress that the Brotherhood chiefs could flash
the mere message “satisfactory settlement and hif?c the
strike, and he further said that this would lie done if the
eight hour day law is passed by Saturday night at mid
night. The men, he said, are willing to submit to “collat
eral” investigation of wages and the iike matters involved
in the measure.
hurry legislation
WASHINGTON, August 31.—In conference with
Postmaster Burleson today the house leaders made hur
ried plans to put through the house tomorrow under a
special rule emergency legislation intended to avert the
threatened strike. Burleson is directly interested owing
to the chaotic condition into which the mail service will be
thrown should the tieup take place.
COMES TO FIND
A RADIO SITE
INDICATIONS ARE THAT SEW
ARD WILL HAVE A RADIO
STATION THIS YEAR.
Lieutenant C. H. Maddox, assistant
superintendent of the United Slates
naval communication service, arrived
on the Evans last evening to make in
vestigations with a view to choosing a
site for the erection of a radio s'.ution.
.eadquartera are at San 1 rau
cisco but he came to Cordova last
month on business connected with the ;
service. While at Cordova he receiv- j
ed orders to come to Seward to make J
the examination and he expressess the 1
belief that the very fact that the j
orders were rush orders indicate.
that the intention of the departm nt
is to erect the radio station heio at
once. Mr. Maddox will first examine
the ground at the head of bay and he
has reason to believe that Lieutenant
O’Drien who came on the Saturn had 1
already located that place for a site.
N’o experiments will be necessary and
Mr. Maddox says he can make the
selection of the best place merely by
taking into account the hills and gen
eral topography. After the examina
tion he will make his recomemlations.
FLOCK GOES CP IN
PRICE HERE ALREADY
Flour has jumped from two dollars
to three dollars a sack here in Seward
already owing to the danger cf the
great railroad strike. The price has
been rising outside for some days
owing, probaly, to increased orders by
those who fear a shortage in case the •
atrike takes place.
SPECIAL TRAIN TO 34
TOMORROW MORNING
A special train will leave tomorrow
morning at 6 o’clock for Mile 34.
YEW APPROACH EG
DOCK AE BROADWAY
Will be Built This Winter and Will
be Ten Feet Wider.
A new approach to the dock from
Fourth avenue, now Broadway, will be
built this winter and will be ten feet
wider than the present approach.
Plans are now being made for the
building of a spur from Adams street
to the permanent approach to the new
dock and on to the hill. Another ad
ditional spur will be built behind the
warehouses. The intention is to clear
the beach and leave the space made
available to the business interests for
warehouses.
The commission now expects to
have reached Kern creek within tldee
weeks. The first station gang started
work at G ini wood this morning and as
soon as the road is through to Mile 71
other contracts will be let from
Gii(K\ood to Kern creek.
CALLING THE NATIONAL
GUARD HOME AGAIN
WASHINGTON, August 31.—
Orders for the return to state mobi
lization camps of fifteen thousand na
tional guardsmen from the Mexican
border have been issued by the war
dt partment. The order includes a
regiment each from California, Ore
gon ?td Washington.
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WENT ON EVANS
The following went to Anchorage
this morning on the Evans:
E. R. McFarland, Edna McFarland,
Chas. Williamson, J. D. Meenach,
Percy Phillips.
COURT AGAIN ADJOURNS
Clerk of the Court Wcver called
the distrit court to order this morning
but adjourned until tomorrow. He
adjourned it first from the 21st to the
28th and then from day to day until
the court returns from Anchorage,
COLONEL REVELL
GETS HOMESTEAD
Hoard of Review on Appeal by Judge
Morford Gives It All.
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in the mail last evening came a no
tification to Judge S. O. Morfc d from
the department of the mterioi tnat a
patent would be issued to Colonel Re
velle for his full homestead at the
head of the bay on the signing of
some affidavits that were forwarded
with the comunication. Some time
ago the homestead was about to be
taken from the colonel on some tech
nicality but on appeal he was allowed
thirty acres by the secretary of the 1
interior. Judge Morford took the
matter up again ansi the result Yas
the letter of last evening saying that
the full homestead, two hundred and
eighty acres, will be patented. The
final decision was arrived at by the
board of review of the department,
before which the matter was brought
ONLY 30 DAYS’ GRUB
ON PACIEIC COAST
Grocery Traveling Man Says Alaska
Will Teel Strike Severely.
The Pacific coast has only thirty
days’ supplies, according to Gus Gilles
the well known grocery and cigar man
who represents a large Seattle house,
and he believes that if the great rail
road strike comes conditions on the
•coast and Alaska will become very
bad. He believes that supplies will be
so short that even traveling men will
have to be laid off. Kven the crops
of eastern Washington cannot be
moved west and the fruit crop Ts in
cluded, only one road leading over
the mountains and that a miserable
one. The goods shippetl ordinarily
from the Pacific coast cities down be
low to Alaska cannot be secured by
Alaska in the event of the strike as
they will be required right there.
This will make all eastern canned
goods and various other sorts impos
sible to get up here. Mr. Gilles be
lieves that the strike would probably
mean the laying off as great a number
of traveling men as railroad men so
great will the effect be on business
throughout the country.
DID YOU KNOW THAT
MARYLAND WAS SETTLED
BY A PUGILIST
MONTROSE, Colo., August 22.—
Miss Emma Full, county superintend
ent of schools, today culled the follow
ing from the answers in an examina
tion for teachers here:
A republican form of government
is one that is governed by a Republi
can.
Maryland was settled by a pugilist.
The tendon is what divides the ab
domenal and the thoradic cavity.
A dynamo is an animal that carries
its young in a pouch.
Mammal is a plant that gets its
food from another plant, like moss.
Plema is the rapping of the lungs.
Rain is evaporated air that rises
and then falls.
NEW BUNGALOW GOING
UP AT WOODROW PARK
Brown and Hawkins have taken
ground and have arranged for the
erection of a nice bungalow at Wood
row Park, Mile Six.
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WANT ALL TO HELP
THE CIVIC FAIR
This Years Attempt is an Experiment
For Future Times.
The ladies who have taken on them
selves the severe task of instituting
the Civic Fair here wish it to he fully
understood that they consider the
prizes offered by no means one of the
chief considerations. They consider,
indeed, that the prizes are rather
small but the Fair this yeur is rather
an experiment and the patronesses
wish to make sure that indebtedness
will not be incurred. Next year and
the year after that and for many
years to come, maybe for all years,
the Fair will be carried out on a more
elaborate scale and the prizes will be
richer. They ask the aid of everyone
in the city to make this Fair a suc
cess and they are asking only what
all should more than willingly give.
The ladies are doing this for Seward.
By the way, Mrs. Hill’s hours to
give out the tags will be from 2 to 4.
not 2 to 7 o’clock as was stated.
SEVERAL PEOPLE COME
ON ADMIRAL EVANS
The Admiral Evans arrived last
evening with a large amount of
freight and a considerable number of
passengers. She was unloading al:
night and got away about 7 o’clock
this morning. She had the following
passengers for Seward from Seattle
and way points:
Max Harding, J. H. Eagle, Mb'?
Louise Perry, J. W. Reed and 2 steer
age. Wm. darn, L. R. Lott, Ed.
Christie, C. R. Johnson, R. L. Micnael
son, J. McCrimmon, J. Rudeen, An
drew William, J. H. McFarland, J.
McDonald, Irene Jacobson, Mary
Jacobson, W. Jacobson, Rob Jacobson,
Robert Scott, C. llellende, A. H. Mc
Neer, Lieut. MehafTey, and 17 st-er*
age.
“MYSTERIOCS MI SHER”
WILL TAKE A BRIDE
Deming Wheeler, who comes from
a family of Indiana bankers, and
whose love of adventure has led to
his traveling all over interior Alaska,
where he is generally known as the
“Mysterious Musher,” will take unto
himself a bride next week, according
to the following articles from a San
Francisco paper:
From the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Seth Deming, of Santa Cruz, comes
the announcement of a second engage
ment this week. Their daughter,
Mrs. Helep Jospehine Pond, will be
come the bride of Henry Warner
Sherwood of Berkeley next Thursday
at the home of the bride’s parents.
The marriage of Miss Dorothy
Deming, the younger sister of Mrs.
Pond, will take place on August 28,
\vhen she will become the wife of
Deming Wheeler and go at once to
Alaska to live.—Ex.
CHRISTIANSEN COMING
TO SELL THE LOTS
Andrew Christensen has wired that
he will leave Fairbanks next Saturday
for Seward and will be here in tinu
to carry on the sale of lots in the
government tract on September 1*,
the day decided upon.
BRIDGE CLUB SATURDAY
The Bridge Club will meet at Missj
Root’s on Saturday instead of Friday.1
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THE KING OF GREECE REPORTED
FLED FROM CAPITAL TO GERMANS
NEARLY LYNCHED
FOR DOING DlllY
Noose I Maced Around Sheriff’s Neck
Because He Saved Negro.
LIMA, Ohio, August 31. — One of
the most amazing outrages in the an
nals of lynching was committed last
night when a mob nearly lynched
Sheriff Sherman Kley because he did
his duty by spiriting away a negro
whom the mob sought to lynch for an
assault on Mrs. John Barber, the wife
of a prominent farmer. When the
mob found that Kley had got the
negro out of their reach they wound
ed him and then placed a noose around
his neck and compelled him to lead
them to the place where the negro
was hidden. The crowd travelled in a
hundred automobiles. The sheriff s
wife with a baby in her arms and
other women fled from the mob’s
anger.
l.KKHKY COMES TO KOOK
UP COAL MINING LEASES
Maurice D. Leohey, the prominent
Seattle lawyer and publicist,
came on the steamship Admiral
Evans last evening and will proceed
to the Matanuska coal fields to look
into matters connected with a contem
plated leasing of coal lands by him
self and some people with whom he
is associated. George Watkin Evans
is their consulting engineer and is
now in the Nenana but may come to
Mat inuska overland. Mr. LcePfcy
will be in the district a month or six
week's.
SURVIVORS OF ADMIRAL
CLARK ARE WELL KNOWN
SEATTLE, August 30.—(Delayed)
—Amongst the survivors of the wreck
of the Admiral Clark which was lost
in a storm while enroute to the West
Indies are Garland Rotch, chief offic
er, of Seattle, Call Johnson, second of
ficer, C. H. King. Steward, W. Robin
son, third engineer ,Pete Anderson,
sailor, and Fred Cusick, oiler.
The vessel foundered on August lf>
with the loss of twenty men out of a
crew of twenty-six. The six survivors |
were adrift on a raft in the Carribean j
•sea for six days and twelve hours be- j
fore they were picked up in a serious
condition from lack of food.
CHARGE WHARFAGE
SUNKEN STEAMER
SEATTLE, August 25.—The Port
Commission here presented a bill to
the Admiral Steamship line for $400
dockage on the steamship Admiral
Watson, which was sunk last fall at
one of the commission docks at this
city by being rammed by another
steamer. The Watson went down
alongside the wharf, and remained
several weeks while efforts were made
to raise her. The commission charged
up the wYiarfage for the entire time
she was there at the regular rates.
The company refused to pay the
charge, but tendered the commisflon
$200 in full settlement of all claims,
and it is announced today that thrs
amount has been accepted by the com
mission.—Ex.
This is the last day of office for
Commissioner Frank Knnis an^l while
success is cordially wished for Com
missioner Woolley, regret must be ex
pressed that Mr. Ennis could not al
ways have whatever he wanted. When
the petition was signed asking for
Mr. Woolley’s appointment Mr. Ennis
was game. “Sign it by all means’
said he. “He is a Democrat and I am
a Republican, and to the victor it be
longs to get the goat of the outsider.’’ i
GREECE THROWN INTO CHAOS
LONDON, August 31.—The Greek government has
been thrown into chaos by the resignation of Premier
Zaimis today and by the rumor that King Constantine has
lied from the country. A dispatch from Athens indicates
that the country is almost reduced to a state of anarchy.
The flight of the king is believed likely as he has often
been known to express the belief that he would rather
abandon the throne than remain at the head of a nation
that fought the Central powers. Zaimis, who became
premier on June 23 last, resigned because of Koumania’s
entrance into the war. He informed King Constantine
1 two weeks ago that he would not attempt to direct the af
! fairs of the country if the Roumanians joined the Allies.
The report of Constantine’s flight from Athens is not
confirmed. It was to the effect that he had taken refuge
with a squadron of German Uhlans at Larrissa, loO miles
! north of Athens and there is every reason to believe that
he has left the capital as no contradiction has come.
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REPORT AUSTRIANS FLEEINU
LONDON, August 31.—A Central News dispatch
from Rome saws advices from Bucharest report that the
: Austrians are fleeing before the Roumanian “avalancrt?"
, and abandoning the villages and passes. More than a hun
! .(red thousand Roumanians are now driving ahead in the
northwest region of Roumania towards Transylvania and
i other great forces are following in the interior.
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AUSTRIANS DESTROY PORTS
BERLIN, August 31.—An Austrian flotilla operating
! on the river Danube has shelled and destroyed Roumanian
| transport boats, port magazines and military establish
ments near Turnu Severinu and Giurgevo and also on the
lower Danube. An official message from Vienna to Ber
lin states that the Austrian general staff plans to evacuate
all southeastern Transylvania and abandon it to the Rou
manians in roder to shorten the Austrian lines. The Dan
ube separates Bulgaria from Roumania throughout prac
tically their whole length so that the Austrian gun boats
l^can always have one bank of the river friendly. Bulgaria
and Roumania have not yet declared war against each
other but the declartion is believed to be only a matter
of time as Bulgaria can hardly avoid allowing Austria to
use its territory as a base for operations against Rou
s mania.
ITALIAN OFFENSIVE STOPPED
BERLIN, August 31.—The Austrian war office de
clares that the Italian advance has been completely stop
ped and that the Austrians now occupy stronger positions
on that front than at any time since Italy declared war.
AT STANDSTILL IN WEST
LONDON, August 31.—Not since the war began has
the western front been quieter than for the past twenty
four hours. Only artillery lighting is reported from any
part of the allied front from Belgium to Switzerland.
ADMIT FIRING ON U. S. SHIP
WASHINGTON, August 31. — The German govern
ment in a note to the state department admits having fired
on the American steamer Oswego three weeks ago, but the
Berlin government declares that the steamer ignored the
submarine’s signal to stop and continued her course. For
this reason the shot is justified under international law.
GOING TO KODIAK ,
The Admiral Evans brught the fol
lowing pasengers for Kodiak:
C. Suggett, Mary A. Moore, Miss
N. Petellin, Mrs. M. Niblack, E.
Wentworth, Wm. Henderson.
Sam Soupcoff will go out on the
Alameda on business but will return.
Mrs. Soupcoff will remain till he
comes back.
Miss Teresa Doster has returned
from a vacation in the country
WANTED
! Smart boy at Gateway office.
HOGS ALREADY SHOW
RESULT OF STRIKE
CHICAGO, August 31.—Hogs have
jumped ten cents to the highest level
since 1865. The railroad embargo is
responsible for the sudden rise and
this is taken as the first indication of
what might be expected should the
great strike take place.
ALAMEDA LEAVES JUNEAU
The Alameda left Juneau at 11
o’clock this morning.
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