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Vol 10 No __SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 1916._Ten Cents the Copy
LARGE CROWD HEARS
GRIGSRYROAST WICK.
Probably the largest crowd that
ever attended a political meeting in
A. B. Hall listened last evening to
George B. Grigsby, candidate to* at
torney general, bring up charges
against Delegate W ickersham anti
read apparently unimpeachable evi
dence that the delegate to congress
was lacking in the requirements that
his position called for. Mr. Grigsby,
for once in Alaskan politics, lett out
pended entirely on producing evidence ]
personal matters altogether and de
of the most concrete kind. He spent
two hours reading documents anti
commenting on them anti was warmly |
cheered at the conclusion as he was at
several periods during his speech. He,
probably struck a new note in Alaska
politics when he described what are
culled Seattle-Alaskans as “hyphenat
ed Alaskans.” A most amusing part
of his work was the production ot
photographs showing the Seattle ot
tices anti residences of his opponent.!
George Schofield, anti some of hi>,
supporters. He particularly dwelt on
the fact that Schofield has a splendid I
residence in Seattle. ”A man who j
eoultl own a house like that in Seat
tle.” suit! Grigsby, “does not want the
job of attorney of Alaska. 1 do.”
But Mr. Grigsby devoted very little
time to himself or his campaign foi
the attorney generalship. He seem
ed to be chiefly concerned with the
campaign between Sulzer anil Wicker
sham and ,it must be said, he pro
duced some new arguments altogether
why the present delegate should not
be re-elected.
He smashed completely the charge
made by Schofield, which was tele
graphed to the Gateway, that he hud
persecuted or prosecuted laboring
men at Nome. He showed cleariy that
he had not been attorney for the John
son Lighterage company at the time]
of the disturbance and he proved this
by cabling to Nome for full informa
tion after having seen the Schofield
charge in this paper.
George Phelps, Democratic district
committeeman, introduced Mr. Grigs
by and the candidate at once went into
the Schofield charges. He stated that
as assistant district attorney he bad
STANDING OF CLUBS J
September 14—
NATIONAL LKAC.rK
Won Lost. Pet.
Brooklyn . 78 54 .501
Phila. 77 54 ..*88
Boston . 75 54 .o81
New York. 67 62 .510
Chicago . 61 76 .445 (
Pittsburg. 64 70 .470
St. Louis. 50 70 .428
Cincinnati . 5o 85 .384
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Baseball Results j
Wednesday
American League—
At Washington: Boston Wash
ington 4.
At Chicago: St. Louis 5; Chicago
3.
At Cleveland: Detroit 10; Cleve
land 2.
National League—
Brooklyn shut out, Pittsburg 6.
Second game: Pittsburg 2. Brook
lyn 1.
At Boston: Boston 1; Chicago 0.
Second game called in thirteenth on
account of darkness when the teams
stood three even.
At Philadelphia: St. l,ouis 3, Phil
adelphia 4.
At New York: Cincinnati 2, New
York 3.
AMEBIC \N LEAGl’E
Won Lost. Pet.
Boston . 78 57 .578
Detroit. 80 50 .576
Chicago . 77 60 .565
New York . 71 65 .526
St. Louis . 72 67 .518
Washington. 68 66 .507
Cleveland. 70 60 .504
Philadelphia . 00 104 .221
TODAY’S RESl'LTS—
NATIONAL LEAGl’E
Brooklyn 3; Pittsburg (>. Batteries:
Ruelbach, Gowdy; Vaughan, Premier
gats, Perry, Wilson.
New York 3; Shupp. McCarty.
Cincinnati 0; Tony, Kuhn.
Second game 6 to 4. Smith, Parrot
and Raridan; Schneider, Schulz and
Wingo.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 4. New York 1, Vovaleskie,
Dauss and Spencer; Shockey, Russell.
Cleveland 8, Chicago 9, Beebe, Lam
beth. Debarry ami Haley; Williams,
Faber, Russell. Danforth ami Scharly.
Played Ten Innings
Chicago Americans today also beat
St. Louis, 9 to 8 in a ten innings
fcame. Batteries: Hamilton, Devan
port, Koob, Weilmann and Hartly.
obeyed orders of his superior in the
prosecution of two men but with this
performance of Ids dtuy his connection
with labor troubles began and ended.
Speaking of the alleged refusal to
prosecute a witness for perjury, Mr.
Grigsby showed that no such perjury
had been committed. He referred
to former Nome people sitting in the
hall who could bear him out in all
that he stated and some of those men
‘had actually been members of the
longshoremen's union at Nome at the
time. Schofield during the trial ask
ed Grigsby to get this witness, Bell,
to tell the truth and Bell actually did
go back on the stand and admit that
he had told a lie. so relieving ffcn
from the charge of perjury. Mr.
Grigsby completely knocked this
charge also by showing that he was
not in charge of the district attorney s
office at all at the time. ‘it only
shows that Mr. Schofield wants to be
unfair." said the speaker. He de
clared that the accusation that he hail
been attorney for the Johnson Light
erage company during the trouble
would be “a joke at Nome," but that
it was expected to do some good iu
other places to his opponet. He read
Ul grams received from Nome in an
swer to ones he sent from here show
ing that he was not attorney for the
company at that time and never did
represent that company untfl a year
later when he was their attorney in a
mining suit.
Hut after that he devoted ffcs time
to Mr. Wiekersham.
He admitted that Wiekersham is a
religion to some people and they stick
by him like the itch but he read docu
ments showing that the present dele
gate was opposed to home rule and
was in favor of the commission torm
of government. He also touched
lightly on the fact that Wiekersham
after deciding a case in favor of the
Guggenheims immediately asked them
for a job as their attorney. In this
connection he mentioned the historic
telegram of Wiekersham: “I am go
ing to run for congress. Where is
Steve Birch?” “Quick work,” said
Grigsby when he mentioned the ITrst
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SERBIANS ONCE MORE FIGHTING
HARD AGAINSTBULGARIANS
LABOR LEADER IS IN
DANCER IN SEATTLE
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SEATTLE, Sept. 14.—Menaced by a
mob of two hundred and fifty long
shoremen as he was leaving the
Central Labor council Andrew Foru
seth, president of the International
Seamen’s Union, had to be escorted
to safety last night by policemen.
The demonstration was the result of
a speech in which he expressed sym
pathy for the San Francisco branch
and praised them for settling the
strike against the opposition of some
pf the unions in the north. In the
! speech he suggested that “longshore
men should use their heads instead of
their feet" in settling the differences
with employers.
BRADY SAYS CANADA IS
TRYING TO GRAB TRADE
SEATTLE, Sept. 14.—Former Gov
ernor Brady of Alaska, hi*» wife and
daughter are here enroute to Alaska
and will sail on the Alki. Brady says
Canada is trying to grab the Alaska
trade from Seattle, especially the fish
trade, and it is up to the Americans
to combat the effort. He thinks the
situation is serious.
MAINE RESULTS GET
DEMOCRATS THINKING
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—The re
sults of the elections in Maine has
caused the Democratic leaders already
to speed up. The results on the Paci
fic coast are regarded, however, as
encouraging. Senator Hamilton Lew
is ami W. J. Bryan start on a cam
paign tour of the western and central
states in a few days.
BILLINGS TRIAL IS ON
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14 -The
trial of Billings for murder in con
nection with the bomb explosion dur
ing the preparedness parade began
hen* yesterday. The court room was
crowded. The most remarkable event
in connection with the first day of the
trial was that Judge Dunner refused
to admit an infernal machine as evi
dence.
BOMB IS FOUND ON THE
INTER BOROUGH TRACK
NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—The Brook
lyn police are now investigating a iv
ported dynamite plot to wreck the In
terbourough line. A track walker
found a bomb on the track and report
ed it to police but no more is known
about the circumstance. The carmen
have refused to stop the strike and ac
cept arbitration. Traffic is becoming
more demoralized and automobiles are
ebing commandeered.
SEATTLE NEWSPAPERS
CALL BALLAINE NOISY
SEATTLE, Sept. 14.—Commenting
on the nomination of Miller for con
gress the Seattle morning paper says
the community owes Landon a vote of
thanks for running as he took votes
away from Ballaine and Barman and
so “head off too noisy self seekers,”
thus relieving the electorate from an
impossible alternative in November.
: hitches ends 14,000
MILE political trip
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. — Hughes
ended today a fourteen thousand mile
, itinerary and is going to Bridgehamp
ton for a rest of four days. He will
then resume the campaign until elec
tion time.
MARIPOSA 5 P. M.
The Mariposa is due at 5 p. m. to
day.
FIERCE FIGHTING IN BALKANS
PARIS, Sept. 14. — The Teutons are resisting stub
bornly in the Greek front but their stubborness is appar
ently unavailing as it is otiicially announced that the
Serbians are making important gains in the Lake Ostrovo
region. The Italians are also attacking in the Strumna
region but conditions there are unchanged. The allied
artillery is now bombarding the Bulgarians on both sides
of the Vardarna and Makukovo regions. The Serbian
army is also reported to have occupied important positions
northwest of Kovel. The losses of the enemy in that re
gion last night were heavy.
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BULGARIANS WINNING
BERLIN, Sept. 14—The Bulgarians have made
further gains in eastern Roumania and are advancing
north and west in the province of Dobrudja. Sofia reports
that the whole province will soon again be under the Bul
garian flag.
ZAIMIS GIVES UP
ATHENS, Sept. 14.—After stating last evening that
he would remain as premier Zaimis stated this aftei noon
that he had again decided to resign and King Constantine
has called in Dimitra Cupalos to form a cabinet. The lat
ter is a supporter of \ enizelos and he is expected to be in
favor of war against the Central Povveis. Giecce is novv
making her censorship rigid to prevent details from leak
ing out about the internal situation.
FRENCH MAKE GAINS
PARIS, Sept. 14. — Official news from the western
front is to the effect that we have enlarged our positions
opposite Combles and that our troops have stormed new
trenches south of the Tieapriez farm. 1 he Gei mans yes
terday took Bois wood and Hill 76 but the French have re
captured them and are maintaining them. The allies yes
terday captured 3,000 Germans and 40 machine guns. We
also made some progress in the Verdun region, north of
Vaux and Champitre. Artillery fighting continues at
Fleury but elsewhere conditions are quiet.
SINK RUSSIAN DESTROYER
BERLIN, Sept. 14.—A German aeroplane has sunk a
Russian destroyer in the Baltic sea olT Riga and other nav
al planes have attacked Russian ports on the Black Sea.
CRITICIZE GERARD
BERLIN, Sept. 14.—The press here has begun to criti
cize Gerard, the American ambassador, for his alleged
sympathy with Great Britain and some trouble is expected
as a consequence.
SURPRISE GERMANS
PARIS, Sept. 14. — The advance of the French on
Thursday completely surprised the Germans and the re
sult is, it is stated, that the enemy is somewhat demoraliz
ed. It is reported here today that the Turks aiding the Bul
garians are murdering and pillaging in Greece and Mace
donia. The forts at Kavala were amongst the places
pillaged.
WANT CONSTANTINOPLE
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14.—M. I. Tchas, a member
of the Russian Duma, and also a parliamentary deputation
have arrived here enroute to England where, it is said,
• they will have a conference with allied representatives
regarding the promise of the allied nations to let Russia
have Constantinople in the event of a decisive allied
victory.
SEVERAL ALLIED GAINS
LONDON, Sept. 14.—The reports this afternoon from
the various fronts show several allied gains. The British
artillery is active south of Ancre and we have made addi
tional .gains at Ginchy. Rome reports that the allied of
fensive in the Balkans is developing fast and that Ger
many has contributed two hundred thousand men to the
defense in that region. Austria has a hundred thousand
men there and Turks and Bulgarians make up the rest.
The Pope has sent Monsignor Ponzo to Vienna with the
request that the Central powers spare the churches in the
attacked cities as much as possible. Another report from
Rome is that the Serbs have captured a whole line of Bul
garians on the Greek front _ .
MEXICAN CONFERENCE
PROMISES SUCCESS
STRIKE DEMORALIZES
N. Y. CAR SYSTEMS
NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—The sur
face system is all but demoralized as
a result of the strike and tin* ears are
so crowded that traveling is impos
sible for many. This state of all'airs
is due to the inability to run all the
ears because of the shortage of labor.
kvidknct: a(jAixsr bilmmis
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14. — In
the trial of Billings today for bomb
throwing at the preparedness parade
evidence was introduced to prove that
ball bearing bullets found in his room
are similar to those used in the bi*nb.
WILSON’S SISTER BETTER
NEW LONDON, Sept. 14.—Presi
dent Wilson has left this place as the
physicians say his sister is better and
will probably linger several days.
They have no hope for her recovery.
WATSON IN MORNING
The Admiral Watson is due at 7
tomorrow morning. She has 344 tons
of freight for Seward.
, NEW LONDON, Sept. Iff. — 'Hie
commissioners representing the Unit
ed States and Mexico in the interna
tional conference here all express tin*
hope that the result of the conference
will be of great advantage to the citi
zens of both countries. The Mexican
commissioners declare that Carranza
is sincere in efforts to make Mexico
a country with a stable government
and prosperous. They also say that
the taking of the mining properties of
Americans in Mexico is nece.-sury
under the Mexican internal revenue
laws but that a change can be made
if it is required. The question is now
being studied by both sides. On the
whole there is a feeing that .Mexico
is near a period of development.
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(JUMPERS ADDRESSES
NEW YORK STRIKERS
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. — Samuel
| Gompers will address a meeting >f the
striking carmen tonight and his
speech may open a new phase of the
disturbance. It is thought likely that
he will suggest mean.' by which the
j strike may be settled.
IIKIDGE ( El R MEETS
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The K ridge Club will meet Satur
I day afternoon at Mi's. Sloan’s.
Late Wednesday Cables
ZAIMIS STAYS IN POWER
LONDON, Sept, 13—Premier Zamis lias withdrawn
his resignation, cables from Athens, state this afternoon,
and his friends are now urging him to form a new cabinet.
If it is a fact that he is staying in power it might mean
that Greece will not enter the war.
H1NDENRURG HAS PLAN
LONDON, Sept. 13—Military experts declare that
Hindenburg has now formed a new plan of campaign
which involves a defensive attitude on the western t rout
while the Central Powers are concentrating a large force
to conquer Roumania as Serbia was conquered. It is even
said that an important army is now being gathered to at
tack Roumania in overwhelming force. In the meantime
the allied generals are advocating that all the main leu
tonic forts on all fronts be attacked to keep the enemy
busy. Lloyds has officially reported the sinking of the
Dutch steamer Antwerp.
GERMANS ADMIT LOSS
BERLIN, Sept. 13.—’The war office admits the loss of
Bouchasnesnes after heavy fighting but announces that
the French have failed in attacks on sectors in the Verdun
region. Gerard, the American ambassador, is contemplat
ing a vacation to the United States and may leave at an\
time.
RUSSIANS REPULSED
BERLIN, Sept. 13.—The Russians have been repulsed
over a long front in the Carpathians and have suffered
severely. German reinforcements are also aiding the
Austrians now in Transylvania and have engaged the
Roumanians at Hermanstadt.
PETROGRAD SAYS NO
PETROGRAD, Sept. 13.—The Russians are holding
their positions in the Carpathians in spite of heavy attacks
by the Germans. The war office announces that German
aeroplanes are active near Riga and this has led to the
belief that the Germans may be about to attack in the
north.
ITALIANS TAKE PASS
ROME, Sept. 13.—The Italians have captured Tran
enanzes pass and have cut the Austrian communication
so that an important victory is expected in a very short
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