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SOCIAL REVOLUTION PROMISED BY
NEW GOVERNMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN
LABOR IN PEACE CONGRESS
LONDON, Dec. 8.—That Lloyd George has been suc
cessful in making British labor friendly to him is a fact
which is being emphasized by all the newspapers this
morning. It is now taken for granted that George will
accept the proposal to include British labor representa
tives in the peace conference in Europe whenever that
conference comes to he held. Indeed, this is believed to be
a concession demanded bv the labor leaders for their sup
port of tho new prime minister. The la! writes also de
mand government control of mines ami shipping, the dis
tribution of vacant lands to the people, the increase of
food production, conscription of the wealthy for service
just as well as the poor, and the government appropria
tion of war profits. On the whole the people begin to see
with the elevation of George to the premiership an extra
ordinary revolution in British social life already. Up to
the time this was written the new prime minister had;
made no appointments to the cabinet. Lord Xorthcliffe
denies that he has the least ambition to enter the cabinet.
He prefers journalism, he says, and many comment on the
fact that as a newspaperman he has wielded more power
than any member of the government.
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TRY TO CUT OFF RETREAT
VIENNA. Dec. 8.—The Nieuo Erie Presse declares
that the Roumanian army retreating from Bucharest is
in danger of being cut oif by the Teuton and Bulgariajt
forces that occupy the Cernadova-Constanza line in Do
brudja. The paper points out that the Teutons hold the
Cemadova bridge and can cross to take the retiring Rou
manians in the rear. Some military experts believe the
taking of Bucharest is onlv the beginning of the disasters
in store for the Roumanians.
BERLIN CELEBRATES
BERLIN, Dec. 8.—All Germany is celebrating today
the capture of Bucharest in the most enthusiastic man
ner. This city in particular has given itself up to extra
ordinary joy-making and the streets are waving masses
of color. Great crowds parade and cheer, bells are ring
ing and the music of bands is heard on all hands. The
newspapers all circulated free editions telling ofthe c >p
ture of the Roumanian capital and all of them declare t’-at
it is an event of the greatest importance because of the
moral and political effect which it is sure to exercise. All
the papers are unanimous in the belief that Roumania has
now been to all intents and purposes eliminated from be
war and the Lokal Anzeiger expresses doubt that the
kingdom of Roumania will ever be permitted to exist
again. In some quarters the division of Roumania oe
tween Austria and Bulgaria is advocated and no no
doubts that if our final victory over the Entente is as
great as expected Bulgaria will receive concessions of ter
ritory sufficient to make it really a power in Europe.
, BUCHAREST SILENT
LONDON, Dec. 8.—Since the taking of Bucharest by
the Central powers no direct news has come from that city
and information about later events is lacking. All indica
tions point to the fact that the Roumanians voluntarily
evacuated the capital and this means that their army re
mains practically intact and ready for further campaign
ing. There is also good reason to believe that the Rou
manians suffered from shortage of food and this is re
garded as qualifying the Teutonic victory.
STATESMEN IN DANGER
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 8. —Reports received
here say that Premier Bratiano of Roumania and Take
Janescu, the chief cause of Roumania’s entry into the
war, had to be heavily guarded on the way from Buchar
est to Jassy, the new capital, to save them from assassi
nation at the hands of the people who were opposed to the
war and who now see themselves despoiled of their lands
and country. The Central allies are now in possession of
more than half of all Roumanian territory.
TO GET SEWARD
HIGH SCHOOL
CAMPAIGN STARTED TO SECl’KE
ITM>S FROM TERRITOR
IAL LEGISLATURE.
Plans have now been formulated
for a campaign to secure from the
territorial legislature funds to estab
lish a divisional high school at Sew
ard and as the first step in this direc
lon eight acres of ground have been
offered at Woodrow Park for the pur
pose. The idea is to get some of the
idle territorial funds for the purpose
and a resolution is now being drawn
up by Dr. Romig and Curtis Morford
which will be the first shot in the
campaign. With the establishment of
such a school, duly accredited, Alaska
parents, the movers point out, would
be spared the great expense of send
ing their children out to attend high
school. Fairbanks is also making a
similar move and in each case the
intention is to have a high school for
each division that would be a board
ing school and so enable parents from
vtlin p»i*t.** of cttch division to have
their children cared for. as well as the
children of the town where the school
is located.
WHITTLESEY MAY
BE COMMISSIONER
Known to Have the Support
of Democratic Organiza
tion for the Office.
That Judge W. H. Whittlesey will
be the next United • States Commis
sioner In Seward may now almost be
taken for granted. It is known that
he has the support of the local Demo
cratic organization and from Demo
cratic sources comes the information
that he is a candidate. At the time
Woolley was appointed Judge Brown
stated the belief that a Democrat
ought to have the place and he told
the local Democrats that he would
appoint anyone recommended by them
Leading Democrat* now state that
Whittlesey has received the organiza
tion recommendation. Attorneys
say that while it is not necessary
to have a lawyer as Commissioner it
is advisable to have one in the posi
tion. Frank Ennis, the popular in
cumbent, has never made an effort
to hold the job as he is a believer in
the spoils to the victor theory, and j
Frank is an out and out Republican.
NEW ELLSWORTH STORE
FULLY READY ON MONDAY
The fine new store of Mrs. Ells
worth in the new concrete building
will be ready for business next Mon
day. Business is already being car
ried on in it but not in a fully pre
pared way. Some new stock has al
ready been received and some of the
stock injured by the fire will be sold
off cheap. Part of the stock that
went through the fire and water has
onlv been injured in a slight degree.
BURNSIDE NOW
WORKS ON CABLE
OFFICIAL SAYS WIRELESS STA
TION HERE WOl'LD NOT BE
AS GOODS AS CABLE.
The cable ship Burnside is now at
work on the cable and has picked up
one of the broken ends.
An official of the Signal Corps who
saw a criticism in the Gateway some
time ago has informed this paper of
many facts which go to show that
really the government should not t)c*
criticized for faults in the sending of
messages. In the first place, he
states that Atlantic cames DreuK
down frequently. Crossing the At
lantic between the United States and
the British islands alone are thirty
three cables which make it possible to j
have continuous service. Alaska, of
course, would not support more than
one and this one was laid long before j
halibut fishing became so large an in
dustry in these waters. In objecting
to the ridicule heaped on the excuse
made that halibut boats break the
entile this official ‘Mints out that in
one half mile of the Alaska cable
alone were found 1*>7 halibut hook,
when it was being repaired. The most
interesting fact mentioned by this of
ficial is that a wireless station ai
ward could never give a service like
the cable gives. The messages com
ing by wireless would be just as sub
ject to delay as the messages coming
now. The government has twenty
one wireless stations in Alaska and d
fas been found through them and by
experience all over the world that
cables are far more efficient and will
be until wireless is developed uiiinoi
The Signal Corps officials seem to
be irritated by the complaints made
by newspapers in the territory and
after a careful explanation of the
conditions it really looks as if the\
had reason to be so.
Patrolman Was
The Pepper Thiel
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8. — Patrol
man A. Griffith confessed today to the
robbery of twenty thousand from the
Wells Fargo messenger yesterday,
when pepper was thrown in the mes
senger's eyes. The patrolman, it was
discovered, had purchased an auto
mobile and had made a large deposit
in a bank. This caused suspicion and
w hen he was summoned to headquart
ers he confessed. He has returned
thirteen thousand in checks of the
booty.
Gl lLl) NOT TO MEET
UNTIL NEXT YEAR
No moping of St. Peter’s Guild will
be held until after the first of the
year.
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The baseball and football paraph
1 ernalia for the schools arrived on the
| Watson.
CONGRATULATES BULGARIA
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 8— Emperor Charles of Austria
^oday wired congratulations to King Ferdinand of Bul
garia on the capture of Bucharest and expressed the be
lief that in the near future the Central powers will con
duce the hostile alliance of the futility of further efforts
on their part or of further bloodshed.
NEARLY 400 MEN STILL WORK ON
THE RAILROAD IN THIS DIVISION
SILZER SENDS GREETINGS
TO HIS SEWARD FRIENDS
George Phelps, secretary of the
local Democratic Club, received a let
ter from Charles Sulzer on this morn
ing’s mail, in which the probable
next delegate to congress asks to ! c
lemembered to all his Seward
friends. The writer of the letter says
nothing about politics in the note and
is evidently waiting for the official ro
' turns.
The dream that work wouTd be car-j
ried on at Seward in Winter has been;
realized. On the ruilroad at the pres
ent time, the ninth day of December,
more than three hundred and fifty
men are still working in this division
and apparently will be busy drawing
pay checks for a long time to come.
Large numbers, it is known, will be
at work all winter until the big work
opens again in Spring. Of the three
hundred odd men in this division
about two hundred are engaged in
the Kern creek district. About a
hundred and eighty of them are sta
tion men who have been getting to
work since la>t September. Of aP
the men who were at work during the
summer some two hundred have been
laid ofT but the payroll at present on
the railroad at Seward is consider
ably more than a thousand dollars a
day.
URGING ACTION BY COMMERCIAL
BODIES AGAINST ALEXANDER BILL
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IAI»TI KIND TliOl SANDS
DKKL1N, Dec. 8. — The flight of
the Roumanians continues, it was ad
mitted today, and the Teutons have
captured an additional eighteen thou
sand. Apparently the Russians ami
the Koumnaians are retreating to the
• i •*i! westward instead of east and it
is expected they will make a stand
when the Ruzeu river line is reached.
ITISLISi! CABINKT Tl’KSDA V
LONDON, Dec. 8. — The cabinet
personel is expected to he announced
by Premier George next Tuesday.
George is said to lie negotiating with
Redmond, leader of the Irish party
about the immediate grant of home
rule. The Chronicle says Asquith has
refused the king’s offer of an earldon
out was decorated with the order ot
the Garter yesterday. It was an
nounced officially' today that Germany
has made an agreement with Holland
to permit her to trade with England
without molestation. This agreement
has been reached by the permission o!
England to let Holland supply Ger
many with foodstuffs without being
held to account.
SAYS INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
SHOl’LI) HAVE ALASKA FISH
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—The chief
portion of Secretary Lane’s annual
report on Alaska was taken up by
recommendations regarding the fish
eries and Jiis most striking state
ment in this respect was that the in
terior department and not a bureau
should have control of the fishing in
northern waters. This is taken here
to mean that Lane is opposed to giv
ing the territorial legislature control
of the fisheries. His suggestion that
the territorial legislature should have
enlarged powers is said to have been
made at the urgent request of promi
nent Alaskans.
WENT ON WATSON
The following went out on the Wat
son: G. G. Boe, F. G. Sweet, Geo.
Campbell, Percy Pullen, G. F. Gill,
William Morse, Herman Nelson, F.
M. Kampfer, H. Edwerson, John Ro
den, A. Williams, E. Larsen, N. G.
Scott.
UNIQUE PROGRAM TONIGHT
FOLLOWED BY A DANCE
The program to be rendered tonight
is probably one of the most unusual
ever seen in a territory like this.
Some of the items are described as
wonderfully attractive and no one
should miss the opportunity. After
the program a dance will take place.
The time is 8 o’clock.
SEATTLE, Dec. 8.—It is reported
here that the cannery companies of
Alaska are now engaged in a cam
paign all over the Pacific coast to se
cure the aid of the coast states con
irr»'shinal delegations in support of
the Alexander cannery hill which
would take taxes on fisheries from the
power of the Alaska legislature.
Governor Strong and Attorney (Jen
cral Grigsby are now working hard
to ofiVec this campaign and will fight
it to the end. It is urged, and the
u i respondent of the Gateway has
teen requested to state the faet, that
immediate action be taken by the Al
aska commercial bodies to aid in th *
fight to have the Alexander bill de
feated.
SAY DEMOCRATS AID
TROY FOR GOVERNOR
SKATTLK, Dec*. 8.—It is now gen
erally rumored here that John \V.
1’roy, owner and editor of the Juneau
Kmp’re, will be a candidate for tin*
g.)verrorship of Alaska in the event
of governor Strong’s retirement and
that 'I roy has already secured the
support of the Democratic organiza
tion of the territory. The story here
is that Strong is tired of the job and
has decided to retire and recommend
Troy as his successor.
(Note:—lie to re this cable was re
ceived today the (iateway printed a
little story which appears under the
head of news notes in this issue, that
leading: Democrats declare Troy is out
for the governor’s job. The cable
it issage above was received hours af
ter the local news note was written.
Troy is the man who was recently
married to Mrs. Forgy.
ALAMEDA COMING
SEATTLE, Dec. 8.—The Alameda j
left this morning with the following)
passengers for Seward: Miss Lom
bard, J. Johnson, A. Sullivan, T.
Brenneman, Ed. Williamson, Frank
Joslin, John Nelson, J. Colman and
G. Meeks.
ARREST CECIL MANAGER
SEATTLE, Dec. 8.—The wrecking
of the Cecil Hotel bar by the Dry
squad, it is estimated, cost the hotel
not less than $40,000. Manager Sav
age has been arrested.
MINING MEN MAY VISIT
MEXICO TO INVESTIGATE
EL PASO, Dec. 8.—Local Ameri
can mining men are now planning on
a trip of investigation to Chihuahua
City to ascertain the real conditions
prevaling there.
PULP MILL FOR ALASKA
KETCHIKAN, Dec. 8.—The people
of Ketchikan have bepun a movement
to establish a pulp mill in southeast
ern Alaska and the people of other
Alaska towns are reminded that the
startinp of such an industry mipht
mean pulp mills in different parts of
the territory. Senator Heckman has
pone outside to further the project.
- 'fTtJGG-coi nseT DEAD
SALEM, Ore., Dec. 8.—John Car
son, who was from 1905 to 1910
council for the Guppenheim-TTavem
eyer interests in Alaska has died at
the home of his cousin, the Irish
statesman of the same name.
IUNNKLI. TO (10
TO v u.dkz SOON
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 27.—Yesterday
Judge Charles E. Bunnell, ot the dis
trict court, said that he is not sure
when he will go to Valdez, as con
templated. However, if he does go,
he thinks that it will be about Decem
ber V or 10. There are a number of
cases to be disposed of on the local
utlcndar, and it will therefore be
some time before he is free to go.
He has been requested to sit for
Judge Brown, of the Third division,
who is disqualified in one of the cases
that comes before his court. For a
time it was thought that Judge Bun
nell would be able to get away about
the fust of next month. However, it
has tidtcn longer to dispose of some
of the cases than the court expected.
MAYORS LEAVING
G. G. Roe, former mayor of Seward,
left on the Watson this morning and
W. A. Myers, the present mayor, will
also soon depart. When Mr. Roe was
mayor of the city he and the Gateway
were not exactly bosom friends and it
is, therefore, all the greater pleasure
to be able to say that when he lef'
the old antagonism had disappeared
and the paper wishes to express r^
gff*t at his toss to the city.
NEW ELECTRIC PLANT
WORKING THIS MONTH
The splendid new plant of the Elec
tric Light and Power company will be
in commission towards the close of
this month. The plant is so big and
the work of instainpjr it so compli
cated that its preparation took a lit
tle longer than had been expected.