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_____SEWARD, ALASKA, SA 11 Jl 1^ 1916._________
BELIEVE GERMAN LIGHTING SUBS.
WILL ATTACK WAITING SHIPS
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naval battle near u. s.
BALTIMORE, July 22.—After the German submar
ine Deutschland failed to take advantage of the terrible
lghtning and rain storm to get away early toda\ the be
lief has grown that she is awaiting the coming of her
sister ship, the Bremen, and will later sail with the
Bremen convoyed by lighting submarines. That a naval
battle at the very doors ot America may he looked tor is
the opinion ol navy experts jusi now as a lesult of the
sending of German submarine freighters to this country.
Two big armed ocean going submarines are reported to be
convoying the Bremen to the Capes and intend also to take
the Deutschland out. This has been particularly stated
to the United Press by a naval expert and it may mean
that the allied patrol ships off the Gapes will clash with
the submarines. On the other hand, this expert points
cut. the Germans may intend the bold stroke of torpedoing
the allied ships in the cordon outside the three mile limit
in order to let in the Bremen and let out the Deutschland.
WAITING FOR DEUTSCHLAND
NORFOLK. Va., July 22. — Allied warships which
have been lying off the capes for several days last night
drew in closer to the three mile limit and have begun a
rigid patrol. The ships are constantly moving along a
fifteen miles course across the waters which the Deutsch
land nuioi s«il and .« never etiuut& «au;n is ot-mg main
tained to avoid letting t he submarine slip out. Captain
Koenig maintains absolute silence as to his intentions but
smiles when asked questions as to his chances for getting
awav. He has secured his clearance papers and loaded up
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and everything is ready. _
BRITISH ASK MORE MONEY
LONDON, July 22. — The Treasury department has
issued a supplementary estimate tor a vote of the cabi
ileTfor two billion, two hundred and fifty million dollars
which Premier Asquith will ask the house of commons to
vote the government next Monday. The amount is the
largest asked for since the beginning of the war and
brings the total vote this year to five billion two bundled
and fifty millions. The total appropriated up to now since
the beginning of the war is fourteen billion one bundled
and sixty millions.
GOOD BALL GAME
SIRE 1 OMORROW
At one-thirty P. M. tomorrow will j
line up on the city diamond probably
the two best ball teams seen in Sew-j
art! for many a long day. They will
be a team representing Seward and a!
team representing all strangers of all
sorts now in the city. The strangers j
will be culled the Frank Ennis l ed*
erals after the team that did duty last
year. They will be made up of the
best players of the Saturn, some
traveling men anil a few local men.
Glenn Carrington will be their pitcher
and a traveling man named Beck will,
be behind the bat, and Carrington
thinks he is one of the best men ever
teen here.
MEN INJURED FOR
Information of the following will be
gladly received at the governor’s of
fice: Sholom A. Steinzeig and Routo
vsky (Russian subjects). Informa-1
tion desired as to their whereabouts,
if living, and date and circumstances
of their death, if dead.
The Aroline .eturnod from the
westward last night on the way out
side.
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Mr. Daniel Ernest Large and Miss
Mali Emma Smith were united in
marriage m.?t evening at the residence
oi Mr». Hellricli by Kev. C. i- Cook
of tire Methodist church. The bride
came on tile Alaska yesterday from
Eugene, Oregon, accompanied by Miss
Heteu Large ol the same place, a
j sister o; the bridegroom and brides
maid at tne interesting ceremony ot
I last evening. The lady principal in
the event looked lovely in a dress of
white crepe meteor and carrying a
! large bouquet of Bride s roses and
Maidenhair fern. Mr. Waller, Uso a
recent Bendict, acted as best man
and a bridal bell crowned the whole
scene. Dinner was served after the
marriage at which the guests were:
Kev. Mr. Cook, Mrs. Cook and
Master Claude Cook, Mr. and Mrs.
Waller, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Ryan, Miss
Helen Large, Mr. Mel Horner and
j Mrs. Hell rich. Mr. Large is a most
popular young member of the Engi
' nee ring Commission staff.
TRAIN TOMORROW
The shot fired at Mile 8 yesterday
cuts out the bridge at that place. The
train will be able, though, to get out
tomorrow sometime.
MYS1ERY SURROUNDS
OFEICERS MURDER
alJiny -2. — Mystery sur
round* tin* motive of Harry J. pan
ned for shooting ami kilting his wile
ami Lieutenant Colonel *U. C. Lutiei
of the Sixth l mted States cuvalr>
while the three were motonng. Span
ned has refused to discuss the case
and an investigation has disclosed no
reason for the act. It was assumed in
*,ne beginning that the husband had
caught the others in some compronus
ing position but the investigation in
dicates that this idea is almost ridicu
lous because of certain circumstances
SFTHKKLAND IS NOMINATED
FOR SENATOR ALAIN
FAIRBANKS, June 20.—The poli
tical pot has started to boil in Fair
banks. The Independents, a group oi
men who will alliliate themselves with
no party of national prominence, who
are known throughout Fairbanks,
some as Republicans, some as Demo
crats, still others as Progressives, got
! together in the residence of William
Kenyon night before last anti nomi
nated Dan Sutherland, of Ruby, for
senator and Andrew Nerland, of Fair
banks, for representative. At the
same time, Honorable K. B. Collins
was endorsed as a candidate for re
presentative.
Dan Driscoll is the chairman of the
committee which shall decide who the
candidates shall be. It is believed
that after Delegate Wiekersham is
communicated with, the Independents
will endorse his candidacy for dele
gate. At least so Dan Driscoll stated
when interviewed last evening by a
representative of the Times.
Dan Sutherland is a candidate for
re-election. Mr. Driscoll stated that
the Ruby gentleman who for the last
two sessions of the legislature served
as senator from the Fourth division,
has written friends here stating that
he would again be a candidate for the
position. Dan Sutherland’s petition
will be circulated in a few days, ac
cording to Mr. Driscoll. There is no
doubt of his being able to get the
necessary number of signers, so that
he will be a candidate.
Andrew Norland will be the can
didate of the Independents to repre
sent Fairbanks in Juneau. The meet
ing endorsed Hon. E. B. Collins but
could not nominate him for the reason
that he had not yet got the necessary
endorsement signed by the residents
of the creek.
Mr. Driscoll stated that it was the
purpose of the meeting to formulate
some plans, but that another meeting
would be held in the near future. Pe
titions of candidates from the creeks
that the Independents will endorse
must be sanctioned by the residents of
| the creeks of which they are a resi
j dent.
The candidacy of E. B. Collins will
be endorsed by the Independents with
out doubt, according to Mr. Driscoll.
Mr. Driscoll likewise stated that
James Wickersham would be endorsed
as candidates for delegate from Alas
ka. But the Independents are waiting
! to hear from Mr. Wickersham.
Col. McPhee, W. E. Kenyon, Dan
Driscoll, 0. P. Gustad, Henry T. Ray
and other followers and supporters of
Mr. Wickersham were present at the
meeting. Another meeting will be
held in a few days.—Ex.
The United States ship Saturn will
not get away before Monday.
SlILZER’S DELEGATE j
COMES TO SEWARD
Harvey Sellers arrived yesterday in
Seward to make a canvass of the situ
: ation here in relation to the campaign
1 of Charles Sulzer, of Sulzer, for dele
t gate to congress. Mr. Stdlei's comes
from Sulzer anti spent some time at
Valdez. He was formerly president
of the Sulzer branch of the Western
Federation of Miners and is traveling:
particularly with a view to ascertain
ing the opinions of workingmen. He|
also carries with him copies of the
resolutions passed by the Sulzer union
men which show that Sulzer was the
first man in Alaska to give an eight
hour day to his employees.
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The following Is the line of the
Frank Ennis Federals for tomorrow’s
game: Beck, catcher; llaaseh, lb.;
Hointon, Taylor A., 21>.; Kucerosky,
ss.; Sullivan, «”*b.; O’Hara, rf.; Isador
A<ller, cf.; Linkeowski, If.; Carring
ton, Glenn, and Spencer, pitchers.
Frank Ennis, manager of the Feder
als.
HOPE HAD A BIG
FOURTH OF JUIA
HOPE, July 15. — Hope celebrated
the National Holiday in great shape.
Athletic contests were held and A. H.
Modine, well known in Seward, won
the big evnt of the day, the 100 >ards.
(The correspondent gives the time as
11 minutes.)
All the camps on the river closed
down for the day and about three
hundred people were in town. Other
events were as follows:
Child’s race under 7, Carl Clark 1st.
Thirty yards race, Pearl Houn.
Pearl Houn and Eltha were in the
finals of the girls’ race.
Free for all for girls, Louise Burns.
Cracker eating contest for girls,
Manuel Darien.
At a rousing meeting of Republi
cans A. G. Plwoman was elected dele
gate to the Valdez convention.
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SEWARD WINS IN A
careless GAME
In seven innings last evening Sew
ard won from the Saturn nine by 4 to
o. It is hard to know what to think
of the game. The boys from the boat
have been aboard all summer and had
no chance to play ball but for a time
it looked as though they were going
to put something over on the cham
pions. One pudgy and unpromising
looking Saturn player who sailed un
der the name of “Jew Adler” hit a
couple of big wallops, one of which
would have netted a homer had not
he been found guilty of passing up
the third base. Sullivan for the visi
tors fielded well and the pitcher would
probably have made a very good
showing if he had some more practise.
The way it looked to an outsider was
that Seward was very cocksure in the
beginning. Glenn Carrington was
either not up to form or didn’t think
it necessary. The weather was cold,
the crowd small and so many varieties
of costumes were in the diamond that,
somehow, the game didn’t look right.
Batteries: Seward, Carrington, Tol
man. Saturn, Gee, Bushelman,.
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William Drewitt, formerly of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, Skagway, has
arrived in Seward.
STILL VAIN SLAUGHTER IS
PROCEEDING ON ALL FRONTS
GREAT NAVAL
BILL PASSED
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DREADNAUGHTS AND MANY j
OTHER TERRORS OF THE
OC EAN TO HE IU HJ BY
UNITED ST VTES.
WASHINGTON, July 22.—The
naval appropriation bill which pro
vides for the building of tremendous
increases to the United States navy
and which involves for the purpose
the expenditure of the sum of $319,
816,843 passed the senate last even
ing. This bill carries a three years’
building program including the im
mediate construction of four dread
naughts, four great battle cruisers
and lifty-eigth vessels of other des
criptions. It passed by 71 to 8, show
ing an almost unanimous desire on
the part of the senate to prepare this
nation for future defense on a tre
mendous scale.
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MEN OF MILLIONS FIND
WAY TO DODGE PAYING
INCOME TAX TO UNC LE SAM
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(Special to Gateway by United Press)
WASHINGTON, July 14.—The
rich, it was learned here today, have
found a way to dodge paying their
federal income tax. The poor pay for
them.
The treasury department has infor
mation that well to do persons will
not buy stocks and bonds unless the
corporation they buy them from con
tracts to pay income tax on them. The
corporation selling the stocks or bonds
agree to do this, then just adds the
income tax to the retail price of its
goods to the public. Thus the $10,
$20 or $30 a week citizen, when he
buys an article of wearing apparel,
food, tools, instruments, machinery or
what not, may be paying the income
tax of his plutocratic neighbor.
birth control women may
SPEAK IN ST. PAUL, BUT
CANNOT HAVE EXHIBIT
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
ST. PAUL. Minn., July 14.—With
out the police interference that has
marked meetings of the birth control
advocates in other cities, Mrs. Robert
Liggett of Duluth today lectured here
on birth control, before several hun
dred Minnesota woman and girls.
Mrs. Margaret Sanger of New York
assisted in distributing literature on
birth control. The Minnesota law
! does not prohibit the dissemination
of information on this subject. But
a clinic at which the subject was to
have been discussed more generally,
with maps, charts and wax figures,
was declared contrary to law. The
exhibit was abandoned.
Mrs. Liggett recently got her name
in the papers by advocating at Seattle
that women of the lower classes be
segragated as breeders, that no high
strung woman of the upper classes
should be subjected to motherhood
and that no child in the world is worth
the pain it takes to bring it into ex
istence.
Mrs. Sanger recently went free
from a federal indictment in New
York charging her with sending ob
^ scene matter through the mails in her
birth control magazine, “The Women
Rebel.” New York society men and
women, Miss Fola Lafollette among
them, publicly supported what Mrs.
Sanger had done.
GERMANS REINFORCE LINES
LONDON, July 22.—The Germans are now bringing
mases of troops from Verdun and guns from other points
in the endeavor to stem the advance of the Allies in the
Somme region. Some idea of the huge forces engaged at
the Somme is given in an official statement from Berlir
which states that more than two hundred thousanc
French and British troops attacked the German lines
north and south of the Somme last Thursday on a front o!
twenty-seven miles. Today's news from the battle grounc
which has been contested bitterly since July 1 shows tu
great change in the relative positions of the French, Brit
ish and German forces. All accounts indicate clearly thai
the struggle is most intense, both sides using all theii
available resources in men and guns to reach a decision.
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GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL
PARIS, July 22. — Unsuccessful German attacks ai
various points in the Verdun region are reported today ii
the official dispatches. One attack was delivered at Moul
ainville and Soustouent in the form of a reconnaissanct
and were followed by an artillery bombardment neai
Fuminand and Fleury. A German attack also developet
out of Damloup and a strong assault is recorded north ol
Saint Die, but all were repulsed.
FRENCH SHELL METZ
PARIS, July 22.—A French air squadron last Frida}
dropped 115 heavy shells on the famous German fortress
of Metz and on Sablon in the department of Vosges. Greai
damage was inflicted.
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GERMANS LOSE ADVANTAGES
LONDON, July 22.—For the first time since the be
ginning of the great allied offensive the Germans aie los
ing the advantage of the defenses furnished by nature
The official dispatches from General Haig indicate tha
with the impending capture of Foureaux and Dellvilh
woods the German forces in this particular sector will lx
swept out of the last vestige of their natural forts. Gen
eral Haig also reports the progress of an intense artillen
combat along the British front for the past twelve houi:
during which time the guns of both sides have roared witl
unusual violence. The Germans, in addition to pouiiiu
shells on the Britsh lines, are also sending forth grea'
volumes of gas, An assault by the enemy is looked for.
RUSSIANS GET FEEBLER
BERLIN, July 22.—The Russian attacks are growing
feebler on the east front, according to official reports fron
headquarters. General von Hindenburg reports tha
southeast of Riga the enemy’s attacks hacve been entirely
frustrated. The Russians in that region atempted t<
cross the Dvina river on both sides of Frederichstadt bu
they were repulsed all along the line.
MEN ON BLACKLIST PROTEST
NEW YORK, July 22.—A nation-wide movement ti
arouse the business men of the United States to the sign!
ficance of the British government’s action in blacklisting
American firms was begun here today at a conference o:
fifty members of the firms which appear on the latest
British blacklist. The blacklist is a list of the business
houses in all neutral countries which are supposed to b<
“trading with the enemy” and which by being placed oi
the blacklist are deprived of the trade of the allied na^
tions and receive hardly greater consideration than i
they were German firms. American houses appeared or
the last blacklist published for the first time and thos<
blacklisted now declare the British action to be nothing
more or less than an effort to ruin American trade for th<
benefit of Great Britain itself.