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>ol. 9. No. I HI_ SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1913. Ten Ccntg th(, Copy
ITALIANS MAINTAIN
STRONG OFFENSIVE
Rome Government ExplainsWhy
II Abandoned Alliance With
Germany and Austria.
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ITALY EXPLAINS
WASHINGTON, May 26.—This and other neutral
governments have received a note from the Italian gov-1
eminent explaining the causes for its failure to support;
the other members of the Triple alliance and its entry in
to the war against its former allies. The note declares
that Austria violated the Triple alliance treaty by attack
ing Servia without consulting Italy. King Emmanuel’s
government asserts that the treaty made such a consulta
tion under such circumstances imperative and it concludes
that not Italy but Austria was the first to break the
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alliance.
NEW YORK, May 26.—France has offered to buy
the cargo of cotton which was seized on the American
ship Dacia when that vessel was seized by a French war
ship: France also offers to pay demurrage. The ship was
carrying the cotton to Germany when seized.
ITALIAN OFFENSIVE CONTINUES
ROME, Mav 26—The Italian offensive movement
against Austria continues on the border Several prison
ers have been captured by our troops in Trentino. An
Italian aviator bombarded Monfalcode on the Gulf of
Trieste yesterday and inflicted some damage. The en
gagements so far have not, of course, been of a general
nature but sufficient fighting has been done to show that
Italian troops have nothing to fear from the enemy.
ANOTHER U. S. SHIP SUNK
LONDON, May 26—The American-Hawiian freight
steamer Nebraskan was torpedoed yesterday off’ Fastnett,
Ireland, and is now proceeding to Liverpool with a chance
of being saved. She was bound from Liverpool to Dela
ware when she was hit.
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WASHINGTON, May 26.—It is believed here that the
Nebraskan hit a mine and was not struck by a torpedo
from a German submarine as was at tirst reported from
London. She was under ballast-when she received the in
jury. There is a strong hope that she can reach Liverpool.
SEATTLE, May 26.—The steamer Nebraskan which
has been hit by a mine or torpedo oil the Irish coast was
formerly a Seattle vessel. She was engaged in the west
coast trade from 1902 until last fall.
WASHINGTON, May 26.—The British government
has announced that the trial of the cases of the American
meat boats detained by the British navy will be rushed by
the prize court as fast as possible.
ROTTERDAM, May 26—Berlin reports say that
Germany and Italy have come to an agreement by which
both countries are bound not to interne the civilian resi
dents in either nation. It has also been decided, according
to report, that each nation w ill not seize the property be
longing to the other. __
MANAGER FOR ALASKA
S. S. COMPANY COMES.
Alexander H. McDonald, manager
at Seward for the Alaska Steamship
Company, arrived on the Northwest
ern to take up his duties. He was
formerly a superintendant for the
company with offices at Seattle and
his appointment at Seward is an in- j
dication of the importance attached
to the business of the company here |
from this time forward. G. B. Gup
till, the popular and efficient agent
here, remains with the company and
may be stationed at Seattle on pro
motion.
Visiting cards, invitations, anything
pretty is done by the Gateway just as
well as outside.
See us before sending outside ?Dt
your job printing.
INDl STRIAL RELATIONS
ENDS ITS ENQUIRIES.
Member of Commission and the Chair
man Again Clash in
Warm Argument.
WASHINGTON. May 26.—The ses
sion of the Industrial Relations com
mission will conclude today. The en
quir into the Colorado strike situa
tion has ended. McKenzie King, one
of the members of the commission,
and Chairman Walsh clashed again to
day and some bitter words were ex
changed. They first drifted apart
when Walsh treated Rockefeller with
severity in examining the magnate.
FIREMEN TO MEET.
Tho regular monthly meeting of the
Seward Fire department wilt be held
1 in Fire Hall at 8 o’clock tonight
COMES TO LOOK
OVER THE ROAD
—
IcOLONEL W. P. RICHARDSON,
CHAIRMAN OF ROAD COMMIS
SION, ON NORTHWESTERN.
Colonel W. P. Richardson, chairman
of the Alaska Road Commission, ar
rived today on the Northwestern and
will remain over for another steamer
to give him an opportunity to study
the road conditions here. The sum of
$165,000 has been appropriated this
year by congress for road work.
Colonel Richardson has often express
ed the opinion that many and good
wagon roads will be required as feed
ers for the railroad so it is assumed
that he will now look over the situa
tion with that idea in mind. He was
quoted some time ago by an outside
newspaper as stating that a small
amount of work will be done on this
peninsula this year. The Colonel has
only recently returned to Alaska after
a winter during which he worked tor
the securing of large road appropri
ations.
FORMER COFNC1L CITY
MAN KILLS PARTNER.
SEATTLE. May 26.—W. L. Scigle.
formerly a mail carrier at Council
City, near Nome. Alaska, shot and
killed his partner, VV. Wolf, here to
day. The trouble arose over the divi
sion of profits of the business in which
the two men were partners.
WANT RATES RAISED.
WASHINGTON, May 26.—A peti
tion from the railroad companies for
a rate raise is now being heard by the
Interstate Commerce commission.
The increase asked for would raise
the revenues of the companies three
and a half per cent.
CH IN ESE-J A PA N ESE
TREATY IS SIGNED.
WASHINGTON, May 25.—The Jap
anese-Chinese treaties 1 avc been sign
ed and have been exchanged. The
signing of the treaties ends toe
trouble which came so near tj bring
ing war.
MAN WHO WAS PLAYING
BILLIARDS IN JUNEAC.
The Juneau Dispatch of May 18 has
(he following to say of a man who
was in Seward some time ago ami
created a quick reputation as a wond
erful billiardist:
“\V. Grant Johnson is the latest sen
sation in the line of billiards in Ju
neau anti is giving all the wielders of
the cue something to think about.
The most difficult shot or masse to
him so easy that all those who play
billiards wonder why they ca»’’t do the
same. Mr. Johnson plays 100 or no
count.
Mr. Johnson holds the balkline
championship of the northwest. He
defeated Portland’s expert cueist, W.
C. Dunniway, with an average of 10.2
for 1000 points, being played in blocks
covering three nights, and is owner of
a beautiful trophy presented by the
Brunswick-Balke Callande Co.
Mr. Johnson has sent for his family
and will make Juneau his home. For
the present he is associated with
Burford’s place, and will immediately
inaugurate the balk line game.”
ONE ARMED WONDER.
Lock and gunsmith, expert on safes,
typewriters, cash registers, sewing
machines and keys of all kinds. Stop
ping at the Fairbanks Rooming house.
W. A. Miner. 5-2G
The finest kind of job work as well
as the plainest is done by the Gate
way.
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❖ NOW BUYING RAILS. ❖
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SEATTLE, May 26.—The Alaska
Engineering commission has asked
for bids for the supply of eight hund
red tons of railroad rails and for fifty
tons of provisions and sundries. More
large rail orders are expected to be
given in quick succession.
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The All-Alaska Review is now on
sale. It has not teen previously men
tioned that the first issue contains the
new mining law which brings the law
within reach of all the people of the
territory at less cost than it could
otherwise he obtained for. The illus
trations of Seward are expected to aid
outsiders in seeing just what Seward
looks like, and that is all Seward
needs.
INJURED ATHLETE LEAVING.
JUNEAU.—Earl Blossom is expect
ing to leave tonight on the Mariposa
for his home in Seattle.
Blossom was injured in a collision
at the Alaska Juneau mine last winter
and as a result lost one of his legs
just below the knee and had the other
foot badly crushed.
Blossom was a former athlete of the
Lincoln high school of Seattle, and
played a star game at center in the
Thanksgiving Juncau-Treadwell foot
ball game.
JUNEAU.—Howard Malone, better
known as Spike, left on the Alameda
for Ship creek,
Malone has been working at the
Perseverance for several years and is
going west to join Paddy O’Neil, who
passed through Juneau recently.
They will have charge of a bunch of
the rock work on the railroad in the
vicinity of Turnagain Arm.
That every hotel room in Seward is
full, every bed in the bunk houses oc
cupied, every house rented, and sever
al hundred are living in tents along
the beach is the report brought from
the westward on the Northwestern.—
(Juneau Dispatch.)
BAND CONCERT
NEXTJUNDAY
SEWARD MUSICIANS ALL READY
AND MAY PLAY CHAIRMAN
E1)ES INTO THE CITY.
The Seward Band will give its first
concert next Sunday afternoon in pub
lie at 2 o’clock. It has been decided
to give the concert somewhere in the
middle of Fourth avenue between the
wharf and the flag pole which rises
from the Adams street crossing.
For some time the members of the
band have been practising conscient
ously and those who have heard them
rehearse have expressed surprise at
the efficiency shown. The directors
of the band now have it in contempla
tion to meet the steamer that brings
Chairman Edes of the Engineering
commission to Seward and serenade
him as a method of showing that his
arrival will mark the beginning of the
real railroad construction aj'ivities
in this city. From outside sources it
has been learned that the band musi
cians produce really nice music artd
that a treat of a new kind is in store
for all of us next Sunday. A band
stand will be erected somewhere on
the street for the occasion. The in
tention is to have it in some position
centrally located.
Red Crown Gasoline, forty cents
per gallon. Brown & Hawkins.
“Quality First.”
JACKLING MAN
COMING HERE
STOPPED OFF AT VALDEZ FOR
SHORT STAY BUT FAM
ILY ARRIVES.
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J. M. Elmer, representative of the
Jackling interests, was a passenger
on the Northwestern. Mr. Elmer got
off at Valdez for a short stay there
and will come on to Seward in a few
days. Mrs. Elmer and the two child
ren came to this city and it has been
learned on good authority that when
Mr. Elmer himself comes he will stay
here for quite a while. The Jackling
people are the controllers of the
famous Alaska-Gastineau and other
mines near Juneau and the supposi
tion is that they are now contemplat
ing investment in this part of the ter
ritory.
DUTCH LINER BADLY
DAMAGED IN COLLISION.
NEW YORK, May 26.—The Dutch
liner Ryndam, bound for Rotterdam,
with seventy passengers, was badly
damaged in a collision with a freight
er oir Nantucket Light yesterday.
The battleship Carolina took off the
passengers anil the Ryndam is com
ing, back to port.
BECKER TO DIE IN
MIDDLE OF JULY.
ALBANY, May 26.—The court of
appeals has set the week beginning
with Monday July 12 as the one in
which Lieutenant Becker will be ex
ecuted. The fate of the condemned
man now rests entirely with the gov
ernor whose view’ of the matter has
not been expressed.
TORNADO IN NEBRASKA.
SPALDING, Nebraska, May 26.—
INvo people were killed and an im
mense amount of damage was done to
property by a tornado which visited
this part of the state today.
NEARLY 130 PEOPLE
ON THE NORTHWESTERN.
Seventy Were Steerage and the Rest
First Class on Boat Arriv
ing Today.
The Northwestern arrived during
noon hour today with about one hund
red and thirty passengers for Seward.
The following is the list:
0. E. Fisch, Mrs. L. Koehler, J. B.
Harsh, A. Ncurn, jr., Geo. De Lion J.
0. Hillman, I. E. Forest, H. M. Hamill,
J. J. Ryan, A. Anders, L. Cramer, B.
H. Barndollar, A. Somerville, A. E.
Reed, J. McDonald, N. A. McLeod, B.
C. Pilcher, G. W. Adams and wife, A.
Gilleson, A. W. De Long, F. N. Bab
cock, Marie Wilson, Mazie Coles,
Mamie McKeon, D. Thomas, Mr. Ash
croft, wife and daughter, J. M. Elmer
and wife, Lewis and Marie Elmer, F.
Smith, F. T. Hope and wife, C. J.
Alexander, J. B. McKee Wm. Hass,
Mrs. Hass, E. J. Witcher, W. Law
rence, John Enland and wife, A. H.
McDonald, R. G. Prosoll, Ed. C. Smith,
F. Wagner, Geo. W. Garland, L. C.
Heath, S. Haynes, A. Brooks, H.
Dukenfield G. McAllister, Gus Stan
decker, Wm. Britt, Col. W. P. Richard
son, Rev R. J. Crimont and <0 steer
age.
EVANS PASSENGERS.
SEATTLE, May 26.—The Evans
left last night with sixteen first and
thirty-one steerage passengers for
Knik. For Seward she had twenty-five
steerage and the following first class:
Paul Cox, C. Cox, Robert Mullin,!
Mrs. N. Watson, Mrs. Jean Sayre, H.
Sothern, Walter Doolittle, Gertrude
Allen, G. Bullan, Curley Welch, T.
Kane and M. McMullen.
MANY CHANGES MADE
IN BRITISH GOVT.
Germans f ire Gas Bombs at
the Allies Along a Whole
Five-Mile Front.
GERMANS THROW GAS BOMBS
PARIS, May 26.—It is announced here today that
the Germans are now using gas bombs along a whole five
mile front near Labassee. The bombs are emitted from
cylinders of an ingenious description which are so con
structed that continuous clouds of gas rise and float over
the Allied lines. The enemy is also using asphyxiating
shells. The effect of these new implements of war is not
stated but it is assumed that they give an important ad
vantage to the army using them and the French and Brit
ish governments will probably have recourse to the
same methods- The chamber of deputies demonstrated
enthusiastically its reception of the news that Italy had
declared war. Italy’s entry is regarded as sounding the
death knell of the opposition although much bloody light
ing is still expected.
KITCHENER REMAINS
LONDON, May 26—The names of the members of
the new cabinet that will govern the affairs of the British
empire were published today* Lord Kitchener retains the
portfolio as minister of war in spite of the agitation
against him by the papers and many of the people. Prime
Minister Asquith declares unofficially that the public have
been too harsh with the field marshal and are too much
inclined to place the blame for the country s unprepared
ness on his shoulders. Winston Churchill, as expected, has
fallen and Arthur J. Balfour, formerly prime minister and
nephew of another prime minister, the Marquis of Salis
bury has taken his place as first lord of the admiralty,
Lloyd George, the famous chancellor of the exchequer,
also remains as a member oi the government. He will be
minister of munitions, a new post created for the conduct
of the war. Herbert H. Asquith remains as the prime
minister and Sir Edward Grey retains his place as minist
er of foreign affairs. The only man who refused a place in
the cabinet is John E. Redmond, the chairman oi the Dish
party. Redmond was specially asked to accept an import
ant place in the government but declined. He declares
that his refusal is not due to any opposition to the war or
to the empire but to the vow taken by all Irish membeis
of parliament not to accept any place in the Liiti>h
government until Ireland has its own parliament. 1 lie cab
inet as it now stands is composed of twelve Liberals, eight
Unionists, one Laborite and one independent. 1 hirteen
of the members of the old cabinet remain in power but
the remainder have been relegated to private life.
HOPES MUCH FROM ITALY
PETROGRAD, May 26.—The foreign minister of
Russia gave expression today to the belief that the entry
of Italy into the war will shorten the conflict considerably.
He believes it almost an absolute impossibility for Austria
to continue very long a warfare in which she is attacked
almost on all sides and his views are shared b\ the majoi -
ity of the people of this empire.
ERUPTION IN CALIFORNIA
HAS RUINED MANY HOMES.
REDDING, May 26.—The residents
of Hat Creek valley who have been
forced out of their homes by the erup
tion of Mount Lassen have decided not
to return. Their homes and farms
have been destroyed by the floods of
mud and the danger of having the
work of years again ruined by future
eruptions has caused them to come to
the decision to abandon their homes.
MRS. FISH DEAD.
GARRISON, N. Y., May 26.—Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, New York social
leader, died today of cebral hemorrh
age at her summer home here. She
had reached the age of sixty.
30 x 30 Windows, $3.00 at Brosius
& Noon’s.
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WASHINGTON, May 25.—The
trade balance in our favor for the
week ending May 22 is nineteen mil
lions. The balance in our favor since
last July is nine hundred millions.
Much of this profit is due to the war.
REP. BRITT COMES.
Representative William Britt of Ju
neau arrived on the Northwestern to
day. He is Norwegian consul at Ju
neau and is a successful druggist of
that city and Skagway where he was
formerly city magistrate.
New consignment of Tobaccoes,
eight ounces Tuxedo, forty cents.
Brown & Hawkins. “Quality First.”
Meet me at The Branch