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Vol. A N,.. JM SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, I9l'..__l«-n Cents the Copy
EMPIRE OE CZAR IS PREPARING
NOW FOR A TITANIC STRUGGLE
RUSSIA PREPARING
PETROGRAD. June 2!>.—The government announc
ed solemnly this afternoon that Russia is now preparing
the organization of a titanic campaign which will surpass
any effort made since the beginning of the great war It
is admitted that not a proper conception of the immensity
of the task before it had existed up to the present time,
but that the realization of the requirements has entered
the mind of the government now and Russia will meet the
demand with all her strength and soul. The retiring army
in Galicia will be reorganized when strong positions have
been reached and greater new armies will be placed in the
field as fast as possible. The reorganization of the gov
ernment will probably be accomplished to strengthen it al
so and the empire will start afresh, directed by the mis
takes of the past. The announcement has been received
by the people of the capital with demonstrations of satis
faction and confidence. i
FIVE BILLION WAR COST
LONDON, June 30.—The new war appropriation bill
was introduced by Premier Asquith last night when he
made a survey of the cost of the war in the past and the
probable cost in the future. He declared the cost of the
struggle for the first year to Great Britain would be five
billions. Some of this tremendous amount has been used
to aid the other allied nations and will be returned at the
close of the war. It is an open secret here that the re
organization of the Serbian and Montenegrin armies is
being carried out with British money but the expense is
regarded as not only justifiable but most desirable. The
prime minister hinted rather than stated openly that the
temporary reverses of the Russians in Galicia would have
no effect on the ultimate outcome.
HOTZENDORFF PROMOTED
VIENNA, June 29.—Count Hotzendorff, the chief of
staff of the Austrian army that operated in the Lemberg
campaign, has been promoted to the place of colonel-gen
eral. It was stated some time ago that Hotzendorff was in
command of the campaign against the Italians and that
he had been relieved of it because of his failure but he
never was opposed to the Italian army at all.
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MACKENSEN CROSSES BORDER
BERLIN, June 29—Mackensen has crossed the Rus
sian border from Galicia and thus has carried the war in
to the country of the enemy. He is attacking the Rus
sians near Tomaso but the fight has not developed suffi
ciently to permit of a forecast of its duration, although
another crushing defeat of the army of the czar is regard
ed as assured. The Teutonic allies have been victorious on
every field in Galicia, which means in all parts of that
province, and we look forward to greater successes im
mediately.
SHELL. CATHEDRAL
BERLIN, June 29.—It is officially admitted tha* our
batteries have shelled Soissons cathedral because r rench
observers used the tower of their observations. The harm
done to the famous edifice has not been learned but the
German military authorities declare that however great
the extent of it 'might be the blame must rest with the
French themselves.
PAYS FOR WILHELMINA
LONDON, June 30.—The government announces
that the first payment has been made for the cargo of cot
ton on the American ship Wilhelmina which was seized
by the British authorities while she was on the way to
Germany from the United States.
SAYS TEUTONS LOST 600,000
PETROGRAD, June 30.—General Ivanoff states that
the losses sustained by the Teutonic allies in the Galician
campaign amounted to six hundred thousand men. They
attacked with absolute disregard for the lives of the com
mon soldiers and the slaughter was frightful in most of
the engagements.
COST MONEY TO RECRUIT
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30.—It was learned through
the federal officials today that it cost the British govern
ment one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to secure'
three hundred recruits in this city for the British army- i
It is generally regarded as proven now that the British
were actually recruiting here.
FIRST COPY OF NOME
NEWS NOW IN SEWARD.
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Little Paper Edited by the Present
Governor Contains Some
History.
The first issue of the Nome News,'
dated October 9, 1899, has been
brought to Seward by George Reis
the traveling man and makes most
interesting reading. The editor was
J. F. A. Strong who is now governor of
the territory. In the first story he
speaks of the output of the district
for the year and estimates it at four
millions, two millions of which would
come from the sea beach which was
then being worked to the full and
from which some men were rocking
out ten to twenty thousand dollars in
a few weeks. Another item of news
which recalls the condition of Alaska
was the announcement of a fight to a
finish between Curly Carr and Ed.
Kelly. The paper also speaks of the
formation of a company to supply
Nome with a monthly Winter mail
sendee via Cook Inlet. A profession
al card in the issue is that of Whittle
sey and Fink, Attorneys at Law, one
of whom is the present assistant dis
trict attorney in Seward. In the first
and second issues of the News appear
stories of, two murders and one
suicide.
One editorial remarks of the pres
ent governor in the first issue is:
“Nome is neither wild or lawless.
Good order is maintained and “gun
plays” are seldom seen. And yet it
is a “red hot town.”
The News at that time was a four
column, four page paper which when
spread out in its entirety is not as
large as one page of the Gateway.
LINE BUILT TO 78.
The telephone line has now been
built out to Mile Seventy-eight and a
half.
PETITIONS COME
FROM ANCHORAGE.
The protests against the sale of
town lots in the city of Anchorage
were wired out this afternoon. The
copies of the messages arrived here in
charge of Gus Gelles of the National
Grocery Company who traveled over
land. The protests are sent to Secre
tary Lane, Governor Strong and
Senators Chamberlain and Key Pit
man.
The cables read:
“One thousand fourteen residents
Anchorage sign petition against sale
town lots to highest bider. Shuts out
poor man and is undemocratic.”
It is also known that sealed mes
sages to be cabled from Sewaid were
sent by the government officials thpre
and they probably deal with the same
matter.
BANDITS ROB EVERETT
INTERURBAN CARS.
Force Passengers to Shell Out and
Escape Clear With All
Sorts of Booty.
SEATTLE, June 30.—The Everett
interurban train was robbed by band
its last night and the robbers manag
ed to get away clear with a large
quantity of loot. The passengers
were forced forward in the cars and
compelled to give up their valuables
after which the thieves escaped in the j
darkness without leaving any clue,
that has yet been discovered.. The
amount secured by them is not known j
exactly.
COPPER MINES CLOSE
TO PREVENT STRIKE.
Owng to Rise in Price of Copper Two
Thousand Men Wanted
Wage Increase.
JOPLIN, June 30.—The copper
mines at Webb City and Carterville
have been closed down rather than
meet the demands of the men for an
increase in wages. The two thousand
miners employed demanded the in
crease because of the rise in the price
of copper caused by the war. They
declared that they had refrained from
making the demand before owing to
the cheapness of copper and that they
are now entitled to compensation.
HOQUIAM ENDS STRANGE
CAREER OF SCHOONER.
Had Ammunition For Europe and
Mexicans Tric'd to Seize
Her.
HOQUIAM, June 30.—One of the
Strangest sea talcs on record came to
a climax here today when the schoon
er Larsen was detained with her cargo
of rifles and ammunition. The cargo
cleared from San Diego ostensibly for
Mexico but her cargo was meant for
Europe and was to have been tran
shipped at sea to a larger vessel that
would have brought the munitions of
war across the Atlantic. The plans
went wrong, however, and the schoon
er failing to meet the other ship sail
ed for Mexico to obtain provisions.
While in a Mexican port the officials
of the Carranza side attempted to
seize her but she succeeded in escap
ing. She put into this place for pro
visions.
OTTO BERGSTROM HAS
RECEIVED HIS PATENT.
Remarkable Events Recant'd by the
Issuing of the Final
Receipt.
Final receipt has been issued by the
United States Land Office at Juneau
to Otto Bergstrom for 320 acres of
land near Mile 3 on the line of the
Alaska Northern railway. Bergstrom
first settled on the land in the month
of April 1904 and after eleven years
of residence and cultivation secures
final crtificate.
This is believed to be the first final
This is believed to be the first final
certificate issued since the government
made its own surveys of the various
homstead tracts in and about Seward
and in the Matanuska valley.
Since 1910 Senator Ray has repre
sented Bergstrom; in 1913 the Com
mercial club and Rev. Mr. Pedersen,
shortly after Bergstrom nearly lost
his life by an attack made upon him
by a conservation brown bear, sent
photographs and made a special ap
peal to Secretary Lane on behalf of
Mr. Bergstrom, but nothing could be
done until the office work connected
with the government survey of 1910
could be completed. The late General
Distin as surveyor general of the Ter
ritory took an active part in an effort
to hurry along the delayed surveys
and the approved surveys were being
forwarded to him on the ill-fated
State of California. This wreck
necessitated the duplication of the
work and resulted in further delay.
Receiver Boyle and Register Walker
of the land office, Mr. Ray states, have
done all in their power to facilitate
matters in their office relative to Mr.
Bergstrom’s application and entry.
MRS. FISH LEAVES MILLION.
NEW YORK, June 30.—The estate
of Mrs. Fish, amounting to a million
I dollars, has been divided up equally
between her thee children.
PAYMENT FOR
R. R JELAYED
COUNSELOR FOR LANE SAYS
GOVT. WILL NOT PAY OVER
MONEY UNTIL AUGUST 20.
WASHINGTON, June 30.—The
court has denied the motion of the
American bondholders to have a
tenth of the purchase price for the
Alaska Northern railroad withheld
from the Canadian vendors but the
Canadians have been given until
August 20 to defend themselves from
the accusation of fraud. Under the
contract for the purchase of the rail
road the government has sixty days
after July First to take up the option.
It must pay six per cent on half a mil
lion for the time intervening between
the first of July and the time the op
tion is take up. Cotton, the counselor
for Secretary of the Interior Lane, as
sured the court that the half a million
which is payable on July fifth will be
withehld until August twentieth. The
court has continued the case to per
mit the Canadians to appear before
August twentieth.
TO ENTERTAIN THE
CHILDREN ON FOURTH.
Arrangements are now being made
to provide the children of the city
with a celebration of their own for the
national holiday. The Terminal band
will treat them to a concert, and ice
cream, cakes and other nice things
will be served to them at the Metho
dist church. The committee having
charge has already recived liberal
donations of ice cream, fruits, candies,
etc., and the kids are promised a
royal time. Further announcement
will be made later.
NORTHWESTERN
LEAVES SKAGWAY.
The Northwestern left Skagway at
5 p. m. yesterday and Agent McDon
ald expects her here on July 2. The
Mariposa will leave Seattle on JuV
1 instead of July 30.
MEXICAN SAYS HE IS
PEACE INTERMEDIARY.
EL PASO, June 30.—Jose Robles, a
very prominent Mexican, has arrived
here and says he is a peace intermedi
ary between Carranza and Villa. If
he has any credentials he has not yet
shown them but the important posi
tion which he occupies in Mexican af
fairs tends to create a belief in his as
sertion.
GIVES DETAILS OF SOME
OF THE R. R. LITIGATION.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer of
June 16 contains a story from its
Washington correspondent regarding
the first suit to enjoin the government
from paying the price for the Alaska
Northern. The facts given are same
as those received by and printed in the
Gateway but the following clipping
goes more into details:
“The Labaree contract, by which 0.
G. Labaree was given $65,000 cash
and a first lien for $265,000, is at
tacked as being made secretly and
without the knowledge of the parties
in interest, and,the assertion follow
ing that while these payments were
for ostensible services in financing the
reorganization, no sudb services were
rendered.
The G. T. Clarkson committee of
Canadians, which made the deal witu
the government for the sale of the
property, is charged with having made
a secret arrangement to pay August
Heckscher, of New York, $200,000 for
assistance in promoting the sale, thfs
$200,000 to come out of the proceeds.”
GERMAN SUBMARINE
SINKS U. S. SEEAMER
SINK AMERICAN STEAMER
WASHINGTON, June 30.—1The American steamer
Armenian, loaded with horses for England, has been tor
pedoed and sunk by a German submarine. The news has
just been received and no steps have been taken in the
matter but it is feared that the occurrence will complicate
seriously the difficulties which already exist in the re
lations between this nation and Germany. It is said that
no lives were lost.
RUSSIA DEFIANT
PETROGRAD, June 30.—Not until the enemies of
Russia have been crushed and the Russian empire rises
triumphant will the government of the czar entertain any
proposals for peace, announced Premier Goremykine this
afternoon in a statement issued to the people. The an
nouncement followed the announcement of yesterday re
garding preparations for the renewal of the campaign
and was supplementary to it. After the doubtful and
gloomy days of the retreat in Galicia the words of the act
ing head of the government have come like a clarion call
and the capital is responding with new enthusiasm
TURKS EXHAUSTED
PARIS, June 30.—The news has been received here
that the Turks are exhausted on Gallipoli peninsula and
cannot hope to keep the allies in check much longer. Evi
dence of various kinds has been obtained that bears out
the truth of the statement.
LONOND, June 30.—A German submarine has sunk
the Norwegian steamer Cambuskenneth. This is the
only information of shipping disasters arriving today.
SOCIALISTS WANT PEACE
BERLIN, June 30.—The socialists of Germany are
now demanding that the German government start peace
negotiations in the name of humanity. In making the de
mand the socialists declare themselves not influenced at
all by any doubts of the ultimate victory of any side but
by the sole consideration of the suffering inflicted by the
war on all armies and peoples.
FAIRBANKS AT WAR
ON SCHOOL MATTERS.
According to advices from r air
banks that city has recently passed
through a warm fight because of ac
cusations levelled by Principal Karrer
of the public schools aganst a teacher
named Miss Paddock. A big meeting
was held at which some of the ladies
and men of the town insisted on Kar
rer coming out with a specific charge,
but the only satisfaction given was
that a member of the school board em
phasized the word moral when speak
ing of the principal’s idea of the lady
teacher. The majority of those pres
ent semed to be in favor of the lady
and the whole thing recalls the time
when Karrer was principal of the
Nome schools and a brother of a girl
pupil hit him while they were in the
Arctic Brotherhood club rooms be
cause the brother believed Karrer had
been unfair to her. Mr. Karrer is a
candidate for superintendent of Alas
kan schools under the territorial gov
ernment and is surely getting lots of
advertising. The majority of the
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Nome board and the majority oi mt
Fairbanks board took his side, how
ever, although the people seemed to
be opposed to him. One lady in the
Fairbanks meeting expressed her
opinion of having the majority of the
people over-ruled by using the phrase
“the public be damned.”
TO BUILD NEW CHURCH.
The erection of a new Methodist
church is now in contemplation here
and a meeting was held last night to
discuss the plans. The matter is still
in the preparatory stage but the
church has lots near the parsonage
ready for a building.
REV. BLACKWELL TO SPEAK.
Rev. Mr. Blackwell will speak at the
Methodist church on Thursday even
ing at 8 o'clock.
FELIX DIAZ IS
AGAIN M HAND
Ul’ERTA AND OROZCO WILL HE
TAKEN TO SAN ANTONIO
TO STAND TRIAL.
EL PASO, June .SO.—Felix Diaz,
nephew of Former President Diaz and
the man who once captured Vera Cruz,
has arrived here and is believed to be
a party to the alleged conspiracy in
which Huerta is charged with being
concerned. Huerta professes ignor
ance of the aims of Diaz and even de
clares it as his opinion that Diaz is
not here and that it is a case of mis
taken identity. In this some of the
government agents are inclined to
agree. Diaz, while said to be here,
has not been seen in public and is sup
posed to be in hiding. Zoyaya, a
wealthy Mexican, has been arrested
here on the charge of buying the war
munitions intended for Huerta’s cam
paign.
SAN ANTONIO, June 30.—Huerta
and Orozco wi.l be brought to this city
for trial on the charge of conspiracy
to violate the neutrality laws of the
United States and also to get them
away fom the boarder where their
presence might give rise to some ser
ious occurrence.
DAWSON AND NUTTER ARE
SLUICING SUCCESSFULLY.
The most jubilant people met by
Jay Spencer during a recent trip
around the country are Dawson and
Nutter on Crow creek. They have
been operating with the finest kind of
success since their arrival and had a
splendid cleanup just before Mr.
Spencer’s arrival there. They had
just turned on their big ^iant and
have plenty of water and pressure.