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~ ___SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA. FRIDAY. MAY 12, 1916.___Ten Cent* the Copy
ANOTHER RAID DY MEXICANS
ON ONITED STATES TERRITORY
WARN AMERICANS TO LEAVE
WASHINGTON, May 11. — The state department
through the United States consuls in Mexico today issued
a warning to all American citizens to quit Mexico. The'
document in which the warning is contained says nothing j
as to the reasons for so serious a step except that the dis-|
turbed state of the Mexican republic at present is hardly
the kind to foster the hope that full protection of the lives
of foreigners can be obtained.
MAY ASK MORE TROOPS
EL PASO, May 11. — General Funston is seriously!
considering the advisability of asking that the first >
cavalry and the Chicago militia be sent south for service j
on the Mexican border.
ANOTHER MEXICAN RAID
MARATHON, Texas, May 11. —Fifty Mexicans
swooped down last night on the town of Blocker, near
Eagle Pass, and after robbing many stores and a few|
ranches escaped with a number of horses. No fatalities
have been reported. The l nited States authorities arej
convinced now that an organized system of Mexican raids j
against United States territory lias been put into effect
and that the raids on Glenn Springs and Blocker were
part of it. __
AUSTRIAN TRANSPORT
SUNK RY SUBMARINE
SINKS AUSTRIAN SHIP j
ROME, May 12. — A French submarine yesterday
destroyed an Austrian munitions transport in the Adri
atic sea off Albania. It is believed that the crew perished. |
REPULSE GERMANS j
PARIS, May 12—During the night the French with
bayonets and hand grenades repulsed a German attack j
northeast of Verdun, it is officially anounced. West of
the Meuse nothing more than artillery fighting is re
ported.
POPULAR ALASKANS
ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT
The engagement of Mr. James L.
Galen, one of the best known and
most popular Alaskans, who has min
ing interests in different sections of
the territory to Miss Kathryn Mona
han, for several years employed in the J
clerk of the court’s office at Valdez,
has been announced. The wedding
will take place the latter part of this
month.—Ex.
IDITAROD MEN TO GO AFTER
AEROPLANE MAIL CONTRACTS
A. E, Meacham and Earl Byers
have been investigation the subject
of aeroplaning transportation with a
view to establishing a line of air
craft between Iditarod and Seward.
They have been in correspondence
with the manufacturers of aircraft,
and are satisfied with the feasibility
of the plan to carry passengers and
light freight over the route mention
ed.
At a special meeting of the execu
tive board of the Iditarod Commercial
Club, held Thursday evening, the
plans of Meacham and Byers were
explained, and the hearty endorse
ment of that organization was ob
tained.—Ex.
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Guy Whitehead, one of the most
prominent citizens of Seward for
some time and a man who has large
interests here, returned on|the North
western and will remain permanently.
Mrs. Whitehead will return in
August. F. A. -Douse, Mr. White
head’s brother-in-law, also came on
the Northwestern.
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JUDGE BROWN TO
GO TO KETCHIKAN
Unless instructions to the contrary
are received Judge Brown will leave
on the Admiral Evans for Ketchikan
to hold a term of court called for that
place by Judge Jennings, but which
that official will be unable to attend,
owing to the pressure of business at
Juneau. The business before the
court at Valdez has been practically
cleared up, but Judge Brown will
keep the session open until he leaves
for the south.—Ex.
WADA BELIEVED
BEEN MURDERED
SAN PEDRO, Calif., May 10.—
Wada, a Japanese, well know'n in Al
| aska, particularly in the Fairbanks
and Nome sections, where he gained
considerable fame as a runner, has
disappeared from here under suspi
cious circumstances.
Wada has been employed by a fisn
ing company here for some time, and
has incurred the enmity of the Japa
\ nese fishermen. It is said that his
life has been threatened several times
and it is believed here that he has
met with foul play, as there is no
reason for his disappearance.
The police are investigating the af
fair, but as yet have succeeded in un
earthing no clue to the whereabouts
of the missing man.—Ex.
J. R. MacKay, brother of W. B
MacKay, of Seward, and his son ar
rived evening to look the district
over.
Emil Gaupholm, formerly an en
gineer in the Latouche mines, is now
in the city for a short visit.
HAWAII MONEY
INVESTED HERE
ARTHUR JETT ARRIVES FROM
HONOLULU AFTER INTEREST
ING PROMINENT CITIZENS.
With a big bunch of Hawaiian
money at his back Arthur Jett, the
well known mining man of this dis
trict and formerly of Nome, arrived
last night on the Mariposa and pro
ceeded on the same vessel to the west
warti to make preparations to install
a dredge at East Fork and Granite
creek near Sunrise. After leaving
this place some months ago Mr. Jett
went to Honolulu and succeeded in in
teresting some of the most prominent
people of the islands in the mining
outlook for this district. On the Mart
posa he brought in a thorough pros
pecting outfit, including a drill, and ’
the dredge is on the way. The com
pany’s name is the Hawaii Dredge
i Company of Honolulu.
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❖ HIGH OFFICER *
<* I. 0. 0. F. HERE *
P. S. Hunt, District Deputy Grand
Sire of the Independent Order of
Oddfellows, arrived on the Mariposa
last evening for the purpose of in
stituting a lodge of Oddfellows here
in Seward, which will be the seventh
lodge of the order in Alaska. A large
number of active Oddfellows and a
good class of candidates assure the
new lodge success. The institution
will take place on Monday the 15th
inst. The Independent Order of Odd
fellows was instituted in 1819 and
j now the membership is over two mil
lions and the total revenues of the
Order have been over two hundred
and seventy-five millions. Over one
hundred and thirty-six million dollars
have been spent in the relief of mem
bers in the past eighty years.
MAYOR ROLPH MAKES
AN IMMENSE FORTUNE
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11. — By
selling the steamer Annette Rolph,
which was in course of construction,
and a shipment if iron work building
materials to a Scandinavian concern
Mayor Rolph of this city has just
made a huge fortune. The ship was
supposed to be worth about a million
dollars and the material was valued
at eight millions. The whole was
sold for eighteen million five hundred
dollars. This is the fourth steamer
sold by Rolph last month.
l\ S. READY TO PAY
$203.92, DUE TO AUTHOR
OF “HOME, SWEET HOME”
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
WASHINGTON, May 4. — After
sixty years the United States is pre
pared to pay to the heirs of John
Payne, author of “Home, Sweet
Home,” money remaining due to him
from the Treasury on his death at
Tunis April 9, 1852, while stationed
there as American Consul. The sum
is $205.92. The Treasury Department
is seeking information as to Payne’s
heirs.
C. H. Fuqua, a contractor and
builder, has arrived in the city and
will size up the prospects here for
business.
Sydney Anderson, vice-president of
the Bank of Seward and the Bank of
Anchorage, returned on the North
western after having made arrange
ments outside for the establishment
of the Anchorage institution.
IMMELMANN IS ONE
OF GERMANY’S HEROES
fTr IMMCLMflNH
(To add to his numerous other honors won
In the war. Lieutenant Immelmnnn. the
famous German army aviator, received
a decoration from the kaiser a few days
ago at Verdun. The brinKln#? down of
the thirteenth enemy aeroplane by Im
melmann was recorded recently At his
throat In this picture he wears the hl^h
est German military decoration, the Or
der Pour le Merited
By WILBUR S. FORREST
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
LONDON, May 9. — The war has
developed the “human falcon.”
Aerial fighters and aeronautical ex
ports throughout Europe today arc
discussing Germany’s super-hawk.
Lieutenant Immelmann.
Advices just received in Engl ana
from the vicinity of Lille, France,
and from Germany tell for the first
time the falconish methods of the
champion Teutonic Fokker Flyer
whose total bag to date is officially
announced as fifteen allied aeroplanes.
Immelmann’s secret of offensive air
fighting is extremely simple. He
sights his quarry—an Allied aero
plane bent on reconnaissance duty or
aerial photography, somewhere over
the German lines near Lille. The
Falcon leaves the ground and wings
to a great height, an altitude of 13,
000 feet or more.
When he has maneuvered over his
adversary, he sets his planes and
makes one long, terrific, downward
swoop. The plan is to pass diagon
ally behind his opponent at the rate
of perhaps 200 miles an hour. His
machine gun is primed and ready.
When he enters a prescribed area the
bullets begin to fly.
Just like, the falcon, that member
of the hawk family which tries once
and strikes its mark or misses, Im
melmann either bags his “bird" at
one swoop or wings back to his aero
drome a failure. He never returns to
attack. He empties one drum of bul
lets, and hit or miss, continues his
dive until it takes him home.
In Germany Immelmann is a na
tional hero. He is called ‘The Eagle
of Lille.”
More graphic details of Immel
mann’s method of attack are contain
ed in a letter just received in Lon
don from Lieutenant R. J. Slade of
the British Flying Service.
Slade is one of the German Falcon's
i fifteen victims and now a prisoner at
Furstenberg.
Slade and his pilot, Captain Darley,
Royal Flying Corps, were on recon
naissance duty over the German lines
near Lille. The Falcon saw them.
Suddenly from somewhere out of
the air, Immelmann swooped down
behind us,“ declared the British
officer. “He opened fire with his
machine gun before we were aware
of his presence.”
The stream of lead from the Fokker
riddled the Briton’s petrol tank. Cap
tain Darley, in charge of the controls,
j tried to escape by a 6udden nose dive.
The Falcon followed with accuracy.
A steady stream of lead found its
mark. Captain Darley was shot j
through the right arm, while the
thumb of his right hand was reduced
to a pulp.
In midair, thousands of feet above
the earth, the letter explains, Slade
WICK FEARS R. R. COMMISSION
ARE TO RE MADE AOTOCRATS
Flag Ship Mariposa
Returns Once More
—
Celebration Held on Vessel Which is
Now Finer Than Ever.
Not so long ago all of us had given
up our old friend, the steamship
Mariposa, for lost but she looked very
much alive last evening when many |
of the people of Seward sat down at
her tables to enjoy a line repast in
celebration of her return once more
to Alaskan waters. It was the first!
trip since ;ast October when the ac
cident took place. Since that time
she has been renovated at the Yar
row shipyards at Esquimalt, B. C.
All the interior and the two after
houses are entirely new. New car
pets, beds, and upholstering have been
put in throughout, and the dining hall
and cabins have been painted most
prettily with white and gold trim
mings.
Captain C. J. O’Brien is still in
command, Earl Raymond is chief en
gineer and Teddy Taylor, the popular
chief steward, still occupies his old
position. Ed. Morgan is purser. In
addition to those, most of the old
crew, including Chef Cabanas and
Baker Simpson, are staying by the
Mariposa.
Open house was kept last night for
the citizens of Seward until after
midnight and the occasion was really
pleasant.
U. S. SOLDIERS IN
MEXICO BEWHISK ERED
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
FIELD HEADQUARTERS, near
Namiquipa, May 9. — The United
States army in Mexico is the most
bountifully bewhiskered body of men
on the North American continent.
The expedition carries no shaving
equipment, you know. The boys have
come to cherish and brag about their
beards.
/n this camo may be seen every
variety of whiskers known to human
ity, and several kinds never before
classified.
There are carefully trimrr.eu Van
Dykes, fierce mustachios, pert Charley
Chaplins, bristly adornments of the
George Sidney type, and even a few
good old Galways; Red, white, grey,
black, pink, bay, sorrel, mottled, etc.
The states arc due for a treat when
“Johnny comes marching home” and
if there be wife or sweetheart who
can pick her man out from behind the
hirsutic undergrowth, it will be a case
of pure luck.
A shooting scrape took place at La
touche a few days ago and one man
was hit with three bullets, but, it is
supposed, not seriously.
was forced to lean over and amputate
Darley’s shattered thumb with his
penknife. It was an easy operation,
as only skin and shredded flesh held
the member.
Throughout that time the German
aviator continued his steady fire.
Slade’s clothing was riddled with lead
but he miraculously escaped. The
pilot was again wounded in the left
hand, but with his injured right arm
he manouvered his machine toward
earth and made a perilous landing.
Immelmann, by this time, had
winged out of range and, performing
a circle, he landed his machine to
render what assistance he could.
Lieutenant Slade’s letter described
how the German airman behaved in
such a kindly manner toward his
captives that he won their admiration.
The letter concludes:
“He is a gentleman, and if we ever
capture him, I hope he will be treat
ed as such.”
That Delegate Janies Wickersham fears that the ad
ministration is about to place the people along the line of
route of the government Alaska railroad under a sort
of martial law is the only inference which can be drawn
from a copy of a bill recently introduced in congress and
from a note appended by the delegate himself, both of
which came to the Gateway from Mr. Wickersham last
evening. The bill in itself hardly seems to bear out the
belief of the delegate but as he is right on the spot he must
be credited, at least, with having given attention to the
subject. The best thing to do is to print the bill itself and
the comment of Mr. Wickersham. His allusion to the
“full territorial form of government” is unquestionably
sarcasm.
The typewritten comment of the delegate is as
fohows: *
“This Tull territorial form of government* bill was
prepared by Secretary Lane’s office and introduced in
congress at his request. Its effect will be to give the Al
askan Railroad Commissioners autocratic power to sup
press labor organizations and other free people. Do you
j want it?”
The following is the text of the bill which was intro
duced April 28 by Representative Houston:
“A BILL
| To confer additional authority upon the President of the
United States in the construction and operation of
the Alaskan Railroad, and for other purposes.
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, that in connection with and during the con
struction and operation of the Alaskan Railroad, under
the provisions of the Act of Congress approved March
twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled "An Act
to authorize the President of the United States to locate,
construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Al
aska, and for other purposes,” the President is hereby
authorized and empowered to make and promulgate such
police, quarantine, and sanitary rules and regulations as
shall be necessary to preserve order and to preserve the
public health along and in the vicinity of said railroad or
railroads constructed, being constructed, or located by
survey, and within town sites established or to be estab
lished, under and pursuant to said Act of March twelfth,
nineteen hundred and fourteen.
“Sec. 2. That such rules and regulations shall become
effective on a date to be named in proclamation of the
President promulgating same, and any person violating
such rules or regulations, or any of them, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction there
of in the courts of Alaska, be fined not more than $500
or be imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”
❖ ALL THE MINES IN *
❖ ALL-ALASKA REVIEW ❖
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In the April issue of The All-Al- j
aska Review appear the names of all
the well known mines and their mana
gers in Alaska. It is taken from the
exhaustive report of the Territorial
Mining Inspector, William Maloney,
and provides a record which is inter-;
esting now and will be still more in
teresting as the years go by. ri he
issue this month will begin the
second year of the Review’s existence.
It has now become fairly well adver
tised throughout the east and goes to
all *hc organizations in Alaska and
on the Pacific Coast. The April issue
also contains an exhaustive account of
the Republican convention with com
ments by other newspapers and peo
pie. The Review is now on- solid
ground and will begin to advance
further from this time forward.
LOOTERS GET AWAY WITH
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
SAN BERNARDINO, May 11.—
Cracksmen escaped last night with
ten thousand dollars after looting the
store of James Ellingsworth at
Randsburg. The money was in the
shape of cash and pay checks and was
in the place in preparation for paying
off employees.
❖ FINE SHOW AT *
❖ THE EMPRESS •>
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“The Governor” last night at the
Empress theatre brought out a large
1 crowd which was more than satisfied.
The most elaborate care had evidently
been taken to produce the picture and
, some most thrilling scenes marked it
| throughout. The story was that of a
man elected governor who found after
election that he had some negro blood
in his veins. The Empress is to be
congratulated for pictures of that
sort.
WIDOW OF NOTED ARCHITECT
WEDS GEN. WEBB’S SON
NEW YORK, May 10.—Mrs. Wil
; liam Hamilton Russell and Alexander
S. Webb were married quietly today
at her home, No. 271 Lexington
j avenue. Mrs. Russel is the widow.of
| the well-known architect and was
i Miss Florence Sands. She is the
daughter of the late James W.
! Sands.
Mr. Webb, who is president of the
Lincoln Trust company, is a son of
the late General and Mrs. Alexander
S. Webb, and a brother of Mrs. John
E. Alexander. He belongs to the
Union and Manhattan clubs, the
Society of Colonial Wars and Society
| of the Cincinnati.