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DRIVE GERMANS FROM WOOD
LONDON. July 28.— The British troops have driven
the German Brandenburger forces from Dellville Wood.
General Haig reports to the war office. The light for this
wood has been proceeding lor some time with success and|
failure alternating. At times the British occupied one
part of it while the Germans had possesion of the other!
part and awful slaughterTias been recorded in the many
lights under the trees. The report of General Haig now
indicates that we have full possession ot the little Guest
which supplies a splendid strategic position.
BREMEN NOTCACTI RED
OTTAWA,Canada. July 28—There was an unfound-j
ed report circulated yesterday to the effect that the Gel-,
man submarine Bremen had been captured off Halifax
and it was stated that the naval department had so an
nounced. but the department today declared there is no
foundation for the report. Quite a lot of excitement was
created for a time but the origin of the report is a mys
GERMANY SAYS ALLIES REPULSED
BERLIN, July 28.—"The enemy cannot boast that he
has made any progress” is the phrase used in the othcial
communication of the war oliice today in referring to the
British attacks in the Pozieres region. The statement
goes on to say that the enemy attacks in that sectoi and
southeast of Foureaux woods were completely broken
down. "Bitter hand to hand fighting occurred at Long
ueval and in the Delleville woods, the statement con
cludes.
RUSSIANS REPORT GAINS
PETROGRAL), July 28. — The Russians have made
advances in the regions of Stonicvki and Boldurcvka riv
ers and are continuing their advances there successfully.
The war oHice also announces that successes have been
achieved against the Turks in the Caucasus. It is admit
ted that the advances are not as great as they were in the
beginning of the drive but this was not expected. The re
treating Austrians have had a chance to choose strong
positions and as many rivers intersect the country ad
vance is necessarily slow.
IRISH MAP. SENTENCED
LONDON, July 28.—Lawrence Ginnell the Irish
member of parliament who was the center yesterday of
stormy scene in the house of commons was today offered
the choice of paying a fine of one hundred dollars or serv
ing six weeks. This sentence followed his conviction on
the charge of making false representations by which hv
succeeded in gaining admission to Knuttsford military
barracks where some of the Irish Sinn Fein prisoners are
confined. He is the only Irish member of the house of
commons who comes out openly in favor of Sinn l ein and
separation from Great Britain.
ROUMANIA RESTLESS
ATHENS. July 28.—Reports coming from Bucharest
bv indirect channels indicate a stormy condition of aitairs
arising from the split in Roumanian opinion as to the ad
visability of declaring for the Entente allies or not. The
division seems to l>e so acute as to which side Roumania
should aid that continued neutrality is looked for. While
the Russian drive was at its height the pro-Slavs of Rou
mania agitated for an immediate declaration of wat
while the other side reminded them that war on the allied
side would leave Roumania with the Austrian foe on the
north and Bulgaria on the south.
ITALIAN VESSEL SUNK
VIENNA, July 28.—An Italian patrol ship was sunk
vesterdav bv an Austrian submarine in the Adriatic,
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Seven Insane Men
Brought From West
lied Me Lean, Charged With Murder
Of Wile, Is Also on l nalga.
Seven insane men and other prison
era were tnougul in loiiuy n> me
t mted Slates cutter t nalga iroin
different points in the west. Among
the prisoners is "lied" McLean who
is charged with the brutal murder 01
m* wife at Nushaguk. Two other
.prisoners are Simean Be reskin, a
native who is accused of shotting Jim
Harris at Cold Lay. Emil Anderson
and Jesus Hurdado were also brought
down to answer the charge of assault
with intent to kill.
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The Cnalga will leave for Valdez,
tomorrow morning and all the pris-1
oners will be taken to that town.
The prisoners are in charge of t
Deputy Marshal Paul Buckley.
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POLITICAL ITRFOSES
The cable to the Gateway yesterday I
telling that J. H. Cobb, ot Juneau, is
about to be a candidate for attorney;
general is borne out by information!
from other sources. Mr. Cobb passed
by the other day for Anchorage where*
it is said, he will look for the support1
of the adherents of Wickersham. He
w as formerly a regular Democrat but i
has apparently decided to cast his lot;
with the Wickersham bunch and this;
willpl ace three candidates in the field
*r the position, Schofield, Grigsby,
and Cobb.
CASES GROWING OCT OF
COAL STRIKE DISMISSED
DENVER. July 28.—Attorney Gen
eral Farrar announced today that the
majority of the 84 strike cases aris
ing from the 1913 coal strike and
i
pending in the lower state court will
be dismissed. flhe case of John Law-'
son and others who were given life
sentences will not be effected, how
.
ever.
(Candidates Are
Now About Sure
Democratic Divisional Committee
.Met Again This Afternoon.
The Democratic divisional conven
lion met again at 2 this afternoon li
near lac repict of the committees. It
is saiil that the delegates have it I ready •
fixed on the men who will be the j
candidates for the territorial legisla
ture. Most likely Seward will have
the candidate for the senate while
Valdez and Cordova will each have a
candidate for the house, and Anchor
age may have two. The convention
may conclude its work today.
• Din " SIC*It; l*ATKNT
MK DICIN' KS VKin men
There is an article fen* Prohibition- J
ists. It concerns patent medicines,
which contain a large proportion ot‘
alcohol and is ve y popular in dry"
territory.
The New York American says:
“Spring medicine’is ‘up’ owing to
the war. The patent medicines that j
sold for 75 cents are now offered at
$1. Kven cod liver oil emu -no -.'
that were 00 cents are now cents.
Alcohol, which enters into most
patent medicines, sold at $2.5J a
gallon in August, 1014. Today the
price is $7.20. Opium, used in its- der
ivatives in a great many remedies,
was $0 a pound in 1014 and is now
$11.50.
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SI VC ESS IN treating;
INFANTILE PAKAIASIS
NEW YORK, July 28.—Marked
success has attended the treatment o',
fifty infantile paralysis cases. in
transpinal injections ot Adrenalin
caused the symptoms to completely
subside in thirty-five cases while in
1 the other fifteen the infants are said
to be speedily recovering.
The two Romig young ladies are
now rusticating at the Bungalow.
FIGHTING ON DVINA
PETROGRAD, July 28.—The war office reports that
southeast of Riga our troops have gained some slight suc
cesses under General Kuropatkin. During the long lull,
it is admitted; Marshal von Hindenburg has fortified his
positions with great strength but a retirement of the
Teutons further south would make his own retirement
necessary.
NO MORE CASUALTY LISTS
PARIS, July 28. — The Freneh and British govern
ments no longer publish their casualty listsv 1 he relatives
of killed and wounded men are notified directly by the war
office. It is admitted that the allied losses in the great
drive are severe but the losses to the enemy are believed
to be as great notwithstanding the fact that the Teutons
are on the defensive.
POURING IN TROOPS
LONDON, July 28.—Lloyd George stated this after
noon in answer to a Question in the house of commons that
the gaps in the British ranks in France are not only being
kept filled but that the-British forces in the field are being
increased constantly.
QUIET IN GREECE
VIENNA, July 28.—The war office reports no fight
ing in Greece. The Bulgarians have not left their posi
tions on the northern border.
(11 VS. V. Sl’LZER, DEMOCRATIC IVNDIDA'IE TOR CONOEC.SS
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OIVMPIA LOOTER IS
CAIXiHI lit FLORIDA
OLYMPIA, Wash., July 2s,—J. L.
Gillies, the man who broke jail after
having oeen imprisoned on the .harge
of looting the Washington State In-:
dust rial fund.', has been arrested at
Key West, Florida, on the tip of a
girl. Gillies wired for some funds and
the message was thi* first clue re
ceived by the authorities of the
whereabouts of the escaped prisoner
since he broke jail on July 8 with an
other prisoner named Henry Roberts, j
The girl who received the request for j
funds gave Gillies away to the police
who imediately telegraphed the Key
West authorities to take Gillies in
charge, which they <lid.
SALMON SEASON IN
ALASKA IS DELAYED
C ATCH TO BE SMALL
Prolonged cold weather this spring
has made the Alaska salmon season
much later than usual and may pos
sibiy decrease the total catch, says
,J. L. Smiley, cannery man of Maine,
on his return from a trip into the
north, says the Seattle Times of last
Friday. Smiley visited many of the
leading canneries of Alaska during his
trip, lie is a guest at the Seattle
hotel.
“It is not generally known that cold
weather in the spring will delay the
fish season just as easily as it does
the fruit and vegetable yield,’ said
Smiley yesterday. “When the .voter
is too cold at spawning time the fish
do not go up the stream, hilt remain
in deep water. When the season is
exceptionally late the total cat* h is
much smaller.
“Alaska cannery men are not male
ing any predictions on the coming
j season. They hope for a large catch
because of an apparent good market,
hut are unwilling to state that they
see prospects for the capture of man\
fish."
Smiley said the Puget Sound catch
this season as far as appearances at
present go will he nearly normal.
He expects great activity in fish can
ning in Washington this year.
BILLINGSLEYS HAVE A
HARD TIME BEFORE THEM
SEATTLE, July 28.—Orders have
been issued by Chief Beekingham for
the re-arrest of Fred and Logan
Billingsley, who are charged with
murder in connection with the deatn
of Sergeant J. F. Weedin, wheneve?
they obtain release on the other
charges pending against them.
LABOR SHORTAGE NOW
OVER Al ANCHORAGE
Commissioner Frodeiick M«*ars wir*
! ed the Gateway this morning to an
t
' nounce that there is a shortage ol
labor over there now. He refers to
the message sent by him on July (> in j
which he declared that a surplus ol j
I labor existed and he asks that the
1 message today be regarded as cancel
ling the previous ora*. In other words,
Anchorage is getting into the same
lix as Seward because of the lack ol
men to work on the railroad.
SENATOR TANNER
AGAIN IN I IEI.H
1 OR RE-ELECTION
The Democratic convention con
vened at the City Hall last night for
the purpose of selecting the Demo
cratic Division Convention to be held
in Juneau on August 1st, says the
Daily Alaskan at Skagway. The .Ju
neau convention will elect one Senator
and four Representatives for the
Territorial Legislature.
Col. W. L. Stevenson was the un
animous choice of the convention tor
chairman of the meeting. Phil Ab
raham was selected as secretary of
the meeting. Pefore electing the del
egates it unanimously carried by the
convention that the delegates chosen
be instructed to cast their ballot for
J. M. Tanner, who is out in the field
for re-election.
K. J. Shaw, H. C. Putnam and Ed.
Foreman were unanimously chosen to
be the delegates to the convention
representing Skagway. The written
instructions call for the support of
Senator Tanner.
COURT PROCEEDINGS
The time of the District court was
taken up entirely this morning with
the hearing of the case of 'i. W.
Hawkins vs. Napoleon Wells.
FALL OF JAPANESE
CABINET IMMINENT
TOKIO, July 28.—The resignation
of the Okuma cabinet is said to bo
imminent and it is believed that Field
Marshal Seika Terrauchi is slated to
succeed Count Okuma as premier.
WAYNE BLUE BUYS THE
McCOY HOUSE ON 3rd
Wayne Blue has purchased the
house formerly occupied by the Mc
Coys on Third avenue and will move
in there with his family about Sep
tember 1.
CHICAGO CITY
REALjURNACE
TWENTY-SIX PERSONS HIED
THERE EAST NKiHT AS RE
silt or terrieic heat.
CHICAHO, July 2S.—Twenty-six
persons died here during the night a>
a result of the terrific heat wave that
is sweeping the Prairie states. The
reports to the coroner for tfife la A two
weeks bring the total number of
deaths in Chicago from lb** heat up
to over a hundred. l.aA night wa»
| (he hottest in the history of the city
I'hi* weather Bureau stated that at 1
a. m. the mercury was at ami at
7 o’clock the Bureau stated that Chi
cago, St. Louis and Milwaukee were
the hottest places in the Cnited
i States.
IEURIBLE HEAT WAVE
IN SEVERAL STATES
COLUMBUS, O., July 28.—Eleven
deaths and two score prostrations as
a result of the heat wave are reported
in this city. The temperature ut
Capitol Park stood at 104 degrees.
CHICACO, July 28. While the
North Plains States, including Ne
braska, the Dakotas and Minnesota
will enjoy a slight relief from the
present hot wave next Saturday there
is no indication of relief for Mis
souri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin or
Kansas, the weather forecaster an
nounces.
t Kill I ARRESTED
FOR FATAL BOMB
Billings Identified As Man \N li«> C ar
ried Suit Case Near the
Scene.
SAX FRANCISCO, July 2d.—
Thomas Mooney, a labor agitator, and
his wife are the latest to be arrested
on suspicion of being connected with
the bomb throwing during the pre
paredness parade. Fight are now in
custody in connection with the event
of last Saturday. Warren K. Billings,
the ex-convict who is in custody here,
is the man whom the police believe to
nave planted the bomb. He has been
identified by a Miss Kstelle Smith as
the man she saw carrying a suitcase
and sitting on the roof of a house
near the scene of the explosion just
a few minutes before the bomb burst.
EXPECT RUSSIAN TO
BECOME FAMILIAR
LANGUAGE IN EUROPE
(Special to Gateway by United Presd)
LONDON, July 21. — The Russian
language, hitherto almost unused in
Western Europe, promises to become
a well-known tongue of the future.
German, French and Spanish were
the three leading tongues taught in
Great Britain before the war. Ger
man has been almost abandoned,
French and Spanish, respectively, now
rank second and third to Russian,
which is eagerly sought by persons
looking to vast commercial Inter
course between Russia and the Allies
after the war.
On the other hand, Spanish leads in
Germany, according to reports here.
The" Germans see a temporary loss of
trade with the Allies but intend to
breach the gulf with a greatly in
creased South American trade.
The Gateway ha3 received word
that the second territorial convention
of the W. C. T. U. will meet at Ju
neau on August 24, 25, 26 and 27,