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HALF A MILLION MFN WALK OLIF
LABOR OAF INLESS CONGRESS ACFS
WASHINGTON, August 2tk—Conferences were held
last night both by the railroad brotherhoods and the rail
road executives and it developed that neither side will
yield anything, so now the country is believed to be laced
by the great strike unless legislation by the national legis
lature can avert the danger, immediately after learning
that no hope of a settlement existed President Wilson
went to work on a message which he will deliver to a joint
session of congress today or tomorrow and which will re
commend legislation designed to delay the impending
strike or to bring it to a quick end if it is in lull swing be
fore congress can pass the laws in question, lhe Presi
dent will urge that the law be drawn along the lines of the
Canadian Disputes Act which prohibits strikes and lock
outs pending an investigation by a commission. It is al
so about certain that in the bill will be a provision tor an
eight hour day for railroad employees.
In order lo get these measures through quiCMj it is
probable that they will be introduced as amendments to
the bill which has passed the house and which increases
the interstate commerce commission from seven to nine
members. If, however, the President plans to halt the
railroad strike through a law similar to the Canadian Dis
putes Act he must get it passed before Monday next or
otherwise the railroad brotherhoods will go ahead with
the plan to walk out on Labor Day at 7 a. m. The law pre
vents a strike or lockout within a given period but it is
the view of the railroad brotherhood leaders that if ihe
strike is already in effect on Monday the fact that the law
was not passed until that day will render it inoperative
and the strike will be perfectly legal even in defying such
a law.
In the meantime the war is almost forgotten by the
business people of the country in the contemplation of
the dire results that might come from such a tie-up of the
means of transportation. The very fact that more than
a half a million men will be thrown out of employment is
regarded as a serious danger but the closing down of the
means of transportation is infinitely more serious, it is ad
mitted on all hands.
LATEST
WASHINGTON, August 29.—Later—President Wil
son addressed a joint session of congress today at 2:30
o’clock and admitted that the elforts of the peacemakers
had failed to prevent the threatened nation-wide railroad
strike.
He urged legislation that was outlined in the cables
sent this morning and also legislation that would give the
President the power to operate the railroads of the coun
try in case of military necessity, but the most amazing
proposal of all by the President was that when the rail
roads were taken over by the government power should
be given to draft into service the employees and the oper
ating heads of the roads themselves. This proposal is re
garded as being on a par with the action of the French
government some few years ago when it forced the strik
; ing railroad servants into the ranks of the army as reserve
men and so broke the strike.
HOPE OF PEACE ABANDONED
The opinion is virtually general in Washington that
the Brotherhoods will adhere to the order calling the
strike for next Monday at 7 o'clock. All the employees!
and their representatives have left for their homes with
the exception of the presidents of the four brotherhoods,
the men having apparently come to the conclusion that the
strike is fixed unless the railroad managers surrender.
The railroad heads' however, declare that their position
.is unalterable and the situation looks extremely grave.
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I Baby Contest 8
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The Seward Baby Contest is pro
ceeding today and Dr. Iiomig, city
health officer, is examining the infants
one after the other. It would be im
possible for a profane newspaper to
enter into details regarding this ex
amination without making mistakes
due to obtuseness but the particulars
can be learned from cards which the
committee had printed. The babies
will undergo evidently a most minute
inspection by the doctor who prose
cutes the examination on the most
scientific grounds and the result is be
ing awaited with great interest.
FINK EXPERIMENTAL
RANCH AT MILK 1G
Very few people in Seward know
that at Mile 1G there exists a«t ex
perimental ranch which is being used
to learn exactly what garden products
will best flourish in this region. But
there is such a ranch and it is the
Large ranch, and Derick Lane who
was out that way last Sunday return
ed full of enthusiasm for the work
which Mr. Large has done. Two acres
have been fenced off against rabbits
and although the ranch was only
taken up last Full it is rich with
many kinds of farm produce. It has
four or live kinds of lettuce. The po
tatoes are flourishing. Wheat and
outs are up and currants and rasp
berries are also in evidence. Mr. Lane
says that the turnips, rutabagas and
radishes are perfect. Hoses have been
planted and seem to be doing well.
There is a flower garden and even a
strawberry bed. Most of the straw
berry plants were spoiled coming #up
but quite a number are showing above
and are doing well. Mr. Large i>
really creating this miniature Eden
to try a little of everything and Tie
hopes to have ten acres under cultiva
tion next year. Mr. Lane is also en
thusiastic about the work that has
been done on the railroad out there.
He says a person who has not seen it
cannot understand how far the road
has progressed.
ANCHORAGE TO HAVE
A RIG LABOR DAY
ANCHORAGE. August 29. —The
Alaska Labor Unioi has made elabor
ate plans for a big celebration on
Labor Day. Business houses will be
represented in the parade with flo?ls
the number of which will be very
large. One of the big items on the
program will be a rock drilling con
test for which there will be a prize
of two hundred dollars. There will
also be a tug of war, a horse race,
foot races, a ball game and the day
will close with a dance in Labor Hall.
COMING ON ALAMEDA
SEATTLE, August 28. — The Ala
meda left Sunday with the following
passengers for Seward: Miss Esther
McConnell, W. R. McDougall, J.
Wichter, Ed. Whittemore, Mrs. E.
Thompson and baby, J. P. Campbell, j
Mrs. L. Moore, Mrs. R. Kerr and j
baby and two children. Five steerage. ?
EVANS LEAVES CORDOVA
The Admiral Evans left Cordova
this morning at 11 o’clock.
PRESIDENT OF A BANK
SHOOTS THE EXAMINER
TEAGUE, Texas, August 21).—John
| S. Patterson, of Austin, state com
missioner of insurance and banking.
: was shot and fatally wounded yestcr
j day Jn the lobby of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank where he started to
post a notice stating that the bank
should be examined. After the shoot
, ing the officers arrested T. R. Watson,
the president of the bank, but it seems
; to he evident that they have no direct
I evidence that he committed the act,
| although no other motive for the
shooting can he imagined except
anger on the part of someone interest
ed in the institution.
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TAFT WALKS UNRECOGNIZED
THROUGH CHICAGO STREETS
CHICAGO, August 2!). — Former
President Taft told the reporters to-;
day that Chicago has convinced him
that he is out of politics for over. “I
walked four blocks through the down
town streets” said the ex-president
“and I made purchases in stores and
not a living soul recognized me.” The
former executive of the nation smiled
as one who could realize without sor- j
row the fleeting quality of the world's'
fame.
BERG WINS 1
The case of the Columbia Salmon
Company vs. Berg has been decided
i)y Judge Brown in favor of the de-J
fendant who was represented by Mor
ford and Finnegan. The case arose
from the question of a fish trap near,
Kasilotf.
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HOSPITAL HELPERS MEET
The Hospital Helpers will meet to-,
morrow and all the helpers are re-,
quested to attend as the meeting will!
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be important.
MEXICAN BOARD TO
MEET AT PORTSMOOTH
WASHINGTON, August 29. —The commission that
will confer on the question of means to settle the difficul
ties between this nation and Mexico will meet at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire. The preliminaries are being ar
ranged there today and the conference will soon be in firll
swing. The Mexican representatives are quoted as hav
ing expressed the opinion that there is no insurmountable
question between the two nations by any means. They
are also said to have declared that peace has been restored
to Mexico and that Americans are too prone to expand
small disturbances which occur near the American border.
FRENCH MAKE ADVANCES
PARIS, August 29.—The French troops made consid- 1
erable advances last night on the Verdun front, it is of
ficially announced. No reports from other parts of the
western front were published and it is assumed that the J
relative positions have not undergone alteration.
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GREEKS BECOME MORE RESTIVE
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ROME, August 29.—Advices from Athens show the
Greek population to be gradually getting out of hand in i
their insistence on a declaration of war against the Cent- 1
ral Powers. Meetings are being constantly held in the i
public squares calling on the government to march tne ]
army against the Bulgarians who are threatening to over
run more Greek territory. I
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EIGHTY THOUSAND ROUMANIANS
MARCHING TOWARDS THE DORDER
$5,000 More For
Renui Lake Road
Anton Eide received word yesterday
from Colonel W. I*. Richardson that
he is authorize*! to spend a further!
sum of live thousand dollars on the
Seward-Kenai lake road and the work
will he proceeded with immediately.
Owing to the flattering manner in
which the colonel alluded to the road
and to the work done on it while he
was here a new appropriation had al
most come to he looked for and it is
now evident that the chairman of the
road commission meant what he said.
BENEDICTINE XUX
KILLED BY AX AUTO
LEWISTON. Idaho, August 21).—
Sister Rose of the Benedictine order
was instantly killed, another sister
was seriously injured and two others j
were badly bruised in an automobile
accident here last evening. Wdliam
lloordsman, a retired farmer who was
driving the car, received injuries also
that may prove fatal. The accident'
was caused by the car leaving the
road. It turned over completely and
the neck of Sister Rose was broken.
ROBBERS BREAK INTO
TWO ILLINOIS BANKS
HOMER, 111., August 2!>. — Saf.
blowers broke into the Citizens Bank
ami into the Raynor and Babb Bank
here last night, blew the doors otT the
vaults and escaped in an automobile
with eight thousand dollars. They
have not been captured. No one was
injured.
PRESIDENT SIGNS RILLS
L WASHINGTON, August 2!>.-The
President today signed the Army and
Navy bill, the Philippine bill and the
Ladin Bills bill. The Army and Navy
bill is the one vetoed by him some
time ago.
ROUMANIANS ATTACKING
LONDON, August 29. — Dispatches from Bucharest
state that the frontier forces of Roumania opened hostili
ties yesterday with success along the Teutonic front.
Large forces of the Roumanian army had been mobilized
near the frontier for some time and were in close touch
with the Austrians. Eighty thousand Roumanian troops
are reported moving towards the Transylvanian frontier
for the invasion of Hungary and some of tiie advanced
guards are supposed to have already crossed the line in a
swift forward move.
MACKENSEN AGAINST IlOUMAMA
THE HAGUE, August 21).—Berlin admits that Field
Marshal von Mackensen will be in command of the Ger
man-Bulgarian armies operating against the Roumanians.
He has been chosen because of his quick success in dealing
with Serbia. Reports from the various European capitals
now show tremendous interest in what is likely to be fhe
result of Roumania s entry into the conflict. In Teutonic
quarters it is hoped that the campaign will be a sharp
and short one such as that against Serbia but there ap
pears to be no attempt to belittle the strategic advantage
which the allies have gained by Roumania’s participation.
The Bulgars are now placed between it and allied army of
Saloniki while the Roumanians in the west are placed be
tween the Bulgarians and the Austrians. To the east lies
the Roumanian-Russian frontier over which vast hordes
of Russian troops can be poured to reinforce the Rouman
ian army.
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GERMANY DECLARES WAR
LONDON, August 29.—Germany issued his pass
ports to the Roumanian minister and, according to Berlin
dispatches, declared war last night. Unbridled jubilation
is made evident here in the news that Roumania has decid
ed to cast her lot with the allied nations. The terms on
which Ferdinand’s government consented to light have
not been made known but the best informed people believe
that Russia has offered Bessarabia to Roumania as a
price, the Bessarabian population being mostly of the
Roumanian race. It is also fully believed that Transyl
vania, which contains a very large Roumanian population,
has also been promised to Roumania in the eve*:t of allied
victory.
WHAT GERMANY THINKS
BERLIN, August 29. — The opinion of the leading
German financiers and diplomats of Berlin is that the en
try of Roumania will prolong the war but will not change
the result. The addition of the Roumanian army is not
regarded here as the most important circumstance but it
is admitted that Roumania’s alliance with Germany’s
enemies gives them a strategic advantage owing to the
geographical position of Roumania with respect to the
[)ther belligerent nations.
GREECE EXPECTED NEXT
LONDON, August 29.—Germany is now preparing
for the entry of Greece into the war as a member of the
entente alliance and a number of Greeks have already left
aermany and the others are preparing for their depart
are. From all accounts it is made evident that Berlin be
ieves war with Greece inevitable since the Bulgarians in
sisted on advancing into Greek territory and taking
fireek strongholds and important ports.
REPORT MINISTERS QUIT
THE HAGUE, August 29.—A report is in circulation
;oday that the German foreign secretary, von Jagow, and
;he under secretary, Zimmerman, have tendered their res
ignations as a result of Roumania’s action and that the
resignations have been accepted. The declaration of war
ay Koumania is universally regarded as a tremendous dip
omatic victory for the allies.