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. SEWARD. ALASKA. THURSDAY. JUNE 15. 1916. T« Cant, the Copy
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GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER
SUNK IN BALTIC SEA BATTLE
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GERMAN CRUISER SUNK
AMSTERDAM, June 15. — The following statement
has been given out as coming from Berlin regarding the
reported attacks by Russian warships in the Baltic:
“During the night of June 13 the German auxiliary cruis
er Herzmanu was attacked by four Russian destroyers
southeast of Stockholm and after a courageous resistance
the vessel was set afire by shells and blown up by her own
crew. The commander and most of the crew were saved.
STORY OF ENGAGEMENT
NEW YORK. June 15.—Thirteen German merchant
men while coming from the north towards the German
coast and convoyed by an auxiliary cruiser, torpedo boats
and armed trawlers were attacked Wednesday morning
by a squadron of destroyers, torpedo boats ar.d sub
marines near the Swedish coast. The German convoy was
dispersed and the merchantmen fled towards their home
ports. It is reported that som of the vessels were sunk.
SERBIANS EAGER
ROME. June 15.—The Serbian portion of the allied
forces at Saloniki is said to have grown to nearly one hun
dred thousand men who are eager to march once more
against the Bulgarians and into their native land. Thou
sands of men of Serbian nationality have arrived at1
Saloniki from all the countries around the Mediterranean'
to enlist. The feeling here is that the allied offensive in
that quarter will not be long delayed.
WILSON ROASTS FOES
ON FOREIGN VOTES
GERMAN AMERICANS AGAIN
ST. LOUIS, June 15.—President Wilson’s plank in the
Democratic platform on Americanism condemns and
practically charges conspiracy on the part of some foreign
born citizens to influence the foreign and internal affairs
of the United States for the benefit of other governments.
He is apparently hitting at others than German Ameri
cans and the German citizens are now accusing pro-allies
of conspiracies just as bad as they themselves were accus
ed. Wilson condemns all who countenance such conspir
acy and the political party which by failure to repudiate
such practise receives the benefit of that failure at the bal
lot box. This plank was telegraphed here last night from
Washington and was placed before the leaders today. The
President’s intention evidently is to show that Hughes
and his party are seeking the pro-German vote by keeping
quiet on German activities and so letting the Democratic
party suffer because of the present administration’s al
leged sympathy with Great Britain. This question seems
to be growing in importance as the campaign proceeds,
and it is conceded that unless Wilson gains votes from the
pro-allied element to offset the pro-German opposition he
will be seriously handicapped.
BRINGS ANTIMONY
HI RE FROM KAFMAI
C. Huelsdonk Arrived on the Dora
with several splendid samples of An
timony ore which he discovered
Around Katmai while he was prospect
ing along the beach. He found quite
a large ledge of the ore about fifty
feet above the tide level and has every
reason to believe that the discovery
is an important one.
W VSHINGTON SEN VTORS
W ILL BATTLE FED-BROW NS
Dl KING THE CONVENTION
ST. LOUIS, June 13.—Automobile
rides around St. Louis, a steam boat
excursion on the Mississippi, and
rides through Forest Dark, the largest
natural park in the United States ex
cept Yellowstone, is part of the en
tertainment prepared for delegate-*
und visitors to the Democratic Na
tional convention in St. Louis, June
14.
Shaw’s Garden will be another point
of interest. The reception committees
will include it on the sight-seeing
tours.
Clark Griffith’s Washington Sena
tors will be here during the conven
tion days for a series with Jones’
Fed-Brown aggregation, and special
arrangaments have been made to have
large delegations visit Sportsman’s
Park to see them battle.
Visiting newspapermen and the Na
tional committee will be entertainel
at a dinner at Sunset Inn a beautiful
lodge in St. Louis County. A special
cabaret program is being arranged.
THEY GOT CRABS
EAGLES AND RABBITS
A party of Mr. and Mrs. Heyne.
Mr. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, Jr.,
and Miss Selma Wilson crossed the
bay last evening on a hunting trip.
Miss Wilson’s spoil \sas a bald head
ed eagle measuring 4 feet, 7 inches,
from wing to wing, which she killed
by shooting it just below the right
eye on her first aim with Mr. Heyne’s
30 U. S. Mr. Heyne killed one meas
uring larger.
Mrs. Allen was prize winner of a
rabbit six inches long. Eleven crabs
trapped the evening before were
brought over and the party claimed
that they were very good eating.
FOR SALE
« New range. Apply Gateway office.
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❖ A FLORIDA ENCHANTMENT •)
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*’A Florida Enchantment” is the
name of the beautiful production to be
seen this evening at the Empress. In
adit ion to the human interest of the
piece there are beautiful scenes of
the tropical verdure of the state. In
addition will be shown some splendid
scenes of real life, including a glance
at the immense work of the Ford
factories.
Sh YGWAY AND
LlQl’OR TRAFFIC
Skagway Alaskan, June 7. — The
election held in this city yesterday to
determine whether or not liquor li
censes should be granted in the City
of Skagway voiced the majority opi
nion that licenses should not be grant
ed for the ensuing year.
One hundred and ninety-three votes
were cast by the drys and one hun
dred ami fifty three cast by the wets.
Twenty-nine were sealed votes.
These votes will be counted by the
judge. There were also thirteen
which were taken, but according to
the law of political procedure will un
doubtedly be thrown out by the Judge
as they were proxy vtoes.
At times during the election the
scene was almost thrilling, down the
street would come a prancing pair of
horses, a big sign tacked on the
vehicle of conveyance. “Vote Dry and
Protect Your Home.” it would whirl
up to the polling place, out would
dart some one rushed to the polling
place, the whip would snap on the
horses back and up the street pell
mell it would gft after another vote,
resembling a brilliant dash on one of
Chicago’s crowded thoroughfares at
the noon hour.
BURNSIDE WORKING
ON CABLE TODAY
The Burnside was working again on
the cable today and the messages
were delayed. It is very doubtful* if
all the outside telegraphic service will
be received this afternoon.
MANUEL OLIVER BUYS
THREE LOTS IN CITY
W. P. Henry, acting for Ben Laba
ree, sold lots 21, 22 and 23 today to
Manuel Oliver. The consideration u|
not given out but it is known to nave j
bem cash down. Mr. Oliver arrived
this morning on the Dora and lost no
time getting down to business.
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❖ MANY ARRIVE *
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The steamer Dora arrived this
morning with the following passen
gers from the westward: Mrs. T. R.
Glass and child, Mrs. Corrine Call,
Anna Nelson, August Toyra, W. R.
Polke, Mrs. Hammond, John Bleie,
Miss Ruth Spence, Viola Sjoberg, l..
Simson, S. Chadwick, A. Grosvold, C.
Huelsdonk, \V. McGibbon, H. Lam
bert, Chris Hastofsen, M. Oliver, C.
Carlson, Mike Hansen, C. J. Ander
son, C. Madsen, Dick Stenson, A.
Galany, A. G. Sanell, A. J. Buzard, VV.
R. Wright, A. H. Smith and W. A.
Wallis.
Mrs. Corrinnc Call is the teacher at
.mum, Bristol Bay. She is going
outside for a vacation.
Mrs. Hammond is the teacher at
Sanak and is also going outside for
the holidays. She owns property m
Seward.
Miss Ruth Spence is the daughter
of District Attorney Spence, is the
teacher at Unga and is going to Val
dez for her vacation. She is taking
Miss Viola Sjoberg of Unga with her
for a visit.
TOOK PICTURES OF
GREAT BROWN BEARS
A1 Smith, who went to the west
warti to get moving pictures of brown
bears secured several. He was ac
companied by W. A. Hillis, the crack
shot, who returned with Mr. Smith on
the Dora today. W. E. Wright who
was also west and came on the Dora
got two brown bears. The animals
ran away invariably and one was seen
that was about as large as a cow and
made a track 18 inches long. Leslie
Simson, the hunter of African lions,
got the limit while west. He is from
San Francisco and came on the Dora
today.
LEASES 1TH ST. STORE
A. J. Lawrence has leased the
Brownell building where the 0. K.
Barber shop was formerly located and
he will open about July 10 with a
stock of marine and electrical sup
plies and fixtures.
Bennett James is due to arrive in
town on the train this evening. He
was at Mile 29 this morning.
The flowers and vegetables planted
by the children in the corner plot at
Third and Adams are now beginning
to make quite a “showing.”
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'SMALL BOV WANDERS
AWAY AND 1$ LOST
Little Will koso, aged seven, has
lost his life at Sanak and the manner
of his death is still a mystery. With
in the past two months he wandered
away from the home of his father, a
white man, and has never since been
seen. Mrs. Hammond, the lady who
arrived on the Dora today llom
Sanak, says the only explanation that
can be offered for the boy’s total dis
appearance is that he might have fal
len into one of The numerous little
lakes on the island.
CARPENTER’S STORIES
OF THE NORTH
The business of the Alaska can
neries is enormous. 1 went through
one in Ketchikan that will put up
seven and one-half million cans of
salmon this year, anTI, in addition will
freeze hundreds of thousands of
pounds to be sent to the east, says
Frank G. Carpenter in the Christian
Herald. The buildings of the can
neries cover several acres and the lish
pre brought in by the boatloads and
dumped out by the thousands. When
they reach the wharves they are so
fresh that they are still kicking and
they fairly fly through the “iron
chink,” a machine which cleans each
lish, cutting off its head, tail and fins
and taking out its insides within the
time of a watch tick. It used to be
that all this work was done by hand,
ana those hands were usually owned
by a Chinaman. When the machine
was invented to take the place of the
Chinaman it was nicknamed the “iron
chink,” and so it is known to this day.
The inventor was a cook of Seattle
named Smith, \\Tto made a fortune out
of his invention. The machine will
clean 30,000 fish in a run of 10 hours,
as much as was formerly done by 30
of the most expert Chinese. Nevet
theless the whole machine is not much
bigger around than a flour barrel and
not more than eight feet in height. It
consists of a number of knives so ar
ranged by machinery that as the fish
fly in, one knife cuts off the head, and
at the same time another chops off the
tail.
A millionaire named Thorley is re
ported to be coming on the North
western for a hunting trip.
The van Gilder residence is going '
up on Second avenue above Adams.
BIG STAMPEDE STARTS TOR
BUILDING PERMITS IN S WARD
Since the present city council came | ment , on the Jack Stotko building. These
into office its city clerk, Otto Poehl-! ings likt that of the Electric Com- improvements will include sheeting
mann, has given more building per- i puny, the twelve thousand Harriman the building with iron on three sub -
mits than his predecessor was asked Hunk building, the fourteen thousand and a new roof. Mayor Meyers n> to
for during his whole term of a year, dollar van Gilder building and others make an addition to his residence and
Just now and for some weeks past re-! several have secured permits recently has already secured the permit. Louis
quests for permits are coming thick for smaller buildings. Harry Hoben, Solsnes has also received a permit to
and fast. Last month approximately for instance, has begun the construe- build and in addition to his large
twenty-five building permits were tion of three buildings on First and business block Mr. van Gilder has got
granted. In this first half of the Adams, facing Adams, or at least a permit to erect a small residence
month of June quite a few are being some of the three will be there. J. building. Several others may be
asked for but just now there is ap- j T. Harvey is erecting a line building, mentioned in addition to these and all
i parent an inclination to wait for the Mrs. YVaggonner has received permis- have begun building in a period con
j placing on the market of the govern- j sion to make extensive improvements siderably less than two months.
SEA DISASTER
JUST AVOIDED
SHIP ASHORE WITH 182 PEOPLE
BETWEEN FRISCO AND
PORTLAND.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.—'The
steamer Rear which plies between
Portland and San Francisco went
ashore last night in a dense fog at
Sugar Loaf cape, Mendocino, but one
hundred passengers and the eighty
two members of the crew got away
safely in small boats. She belonged
to the San Francisco and Portland
Steamship Company and was south
bound at the time of the accident, j
The order to abandon the ship was
not given until midnight but the
landing was easily made. The total
loss of the ship is expected.
PEMBERTON-BILLING SAYS
WE WILL HAVE TO
WATCH THE JAPANESE
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD
(United Press StalT Correspondent)
LONDON, May 25.—(By Mail)—
Pemberton-Billing, who is trying to
awaken England in the matter of the
mastery of the air and who made
the charge in the British parliament
to which he has been recently elected
that British airmen were being mur
dered wore a purple dressing gown
and called me “old iport” as he sat at
his breakfast tabic being interviewed.
Ho believes the U. S. will have to
watch Japan.
Pemberton-Billing has laised such
a tumult, conversationally, in Eng
land about the air service that his
ideas of how great and extensive the
air service should be made are of in
terest.
His idea is to have the air service
the greatest aim of the British forces.
He believes that it can be made more
powerful than any navy.
“I contemplate a force of 100,000
aeroplanes soon, and a force of 250,
000 within the next ten years. In
general there ought to be five differ
ent kinds of acropla’nes. First there
will be a scout, small and very fast.
Another will be a heavier machine, for
bomb dropping, carrying, perhaps, ono
bomb.
“The third sort will be a cheap and
large machine, njade in vast quanti
ties, for ordinary battle purposes.
“A transport aeroplane will rank
next in importance. It will be capable
of carrying from 15 to 25 men from
one part of a battle line to another
and also of moving guns, ammuni
tion and other supplies; it will prob
ably have five or six decks. Such a
machine would rank as the army
motorbus.
“There are going to be huge battle
planes in the future that will carry
batteries of perhaps four-five-inch
guns or three six-inch guns with fTre
control like battleships and with a
captain and crew.
“Get your army and your navy, too,
into the sky. Make your enemy come
into the sky to fight. Move your
troops in the sky; feed them in the
‘.sky; let them live in the sky. Just
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as Napoleon used to force his oppon-*
LOTS NOT TO BE SOLO
UNTIL R. R. PAIOIFOR
R. R. Bought With
Emergency Money
The final payment to be made on
the Alaska Northern railroad in l e
beginning of next month will be paid
out of the emergency fund of two
millions which was passed soire time
ago. This has been discovered by
questions asked for the purpose of
ascertaining how the two millions
have already been expended in so
short a time. It was stated at %e
time the emergency appropriation bill
was passed that $650,000 of that fund
would be used for the final payment
but this fact was about forgotten un
till now when it is pointed out again.
KNOWN IN THE NORTH
Jeremiah Lynch, the American who
was tried, convicted and executed in
England for participating in the L’ish
uprising, was a well known character
in Dawson in the early history of the
Klondike, where he at one time owned
valuable mining property on Bonanza
creek. He was one of a committee of
three selected by the citizens of Daw
son to present a souvenir of the Yu
kon to Lord and Lady Minto when
they visited Dawson in 1900, I>ord
Minto being then Governor-General of
Canada. Although Col. “Jerry”
Lynch was a native of the United
States, having been born at Fall Riv
er, Massachusetts, he was frequently
referred to in Dawson as the “VVTld
\ Irishman.” He was unmarried and
was 67 years of age last March. He
left Yukon in the fall of 1900 and
nothing had been heard of hini by
any of his old acquaintances of the
north until his recent escapade in Ire
land which cost him his life. He was
a warm-hearted and very likeab.e|
man.—Dawson News.
MADAME GADSKI TO
SING IN YALE BOWL
DESPITE PROTEST
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 7.—
Dutch Carter, who registered an ob
jection to Mme. Gadski’s appearing in
“Die Waulkuere’’ in the Yale Bowl to
day because of her husband’s Gentian
activities, stirred up considerable of a
rumpus several weeks ago, but
Madame will sing today, just the
same.
President Hadley said he would
make no comment, but that the action
of the university in asking Mme.
Gadski to sing at the opera spoke for
itself. Prof. Hiram Bingham said he
thought Mr. Carter was mixing up
Prussian militarism with German
singing.
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ents to give battle on fields which he
himself had selected, so let the gener
als of the war-to-be force their
enemies to come up into the sky to
meet them.”
This is the philosophy of Pember
ton-Billing’s campaign.
The day for the sale of the lots on
the government addition to the city
will not be announced until the linul
payment is made by the government
on Uie Alaska Northern railroad on
| July o, according to a statement given
j out by Andrew Christensen this morn
ing. The payment to be made on that
date is six hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, but as the appropriation
will be available at that time the pay
ment will be easy. In the meantime,
Mr. Christensen will proceed to An
chorage on the Northwestern to sell
some more lots, and in addition to
selling lots in that town he will also
sell one-acre tracts in the neighbor
hood of Anchorage City. That sale
will take place in the week beginning
on the 2Gth of this month. As the
date of the sale here will not be an
nounced until the money is paid on
the Alaska Northern it is likely that
the sale will be later than expected
Mr. Christensen did not say so but it
looks that way as the sale must be
i d* ertised. Some people look for the
passing of the appropriation in the
next few days.
NOME SUFFERS AGAIN
BY FLOOD AND ICE
NOME, June 4. — All of the
mosquito fleet, the Snake River bridge
and scores of bulkheads on the banks
of the stream were destroyed yester
day when the ice on the river rose
several feet above its normal eleva
tion. The lift was caused by a com
bination of warm weather in the in
j tenor, which sent a tremendous
amount of snow water down the valley
under the ice and the anchored
ice which prevented the river ice from
escaping.—Ex.
GUN CLUB TO HOLD
A MIDNIGHT MEET
At the meeting of the gun club last
evening it was decided to hold a shoot
at midnight on the 21st of this month,
the longest day. It is requested that
it be stated that the meeting had
nothing to do with the singing heard
about town last night. Rev. C. T.
Cook is president of the gun club.
The club members are all most en
thusiastic and a big success is cer
tain.
tain. The shoot will be from 10 to
12 o’clock.
SEASON FOR CANNERYMEN
VERY LATE TO WEST
Arrivals on the Dora report that
the fishing season to the westward is
remarkably late. Some of the can
nerymen say their catch is hardly a
tenth part of what it was at the same
time last year, but they expect better
after a while.
The big game hunters who came
back on the Dora had a most suc
cessful time after the brown bears.
One of the hunters has killed many
African lions. They will go out on
the next boat.