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Vlll ,, N„ _M, _ SEWARI). THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1915.__ __len Cent» the Copy
ALL SIDES CLAIM VICTORIES
ON THE VARIOUS WAR FRONTS
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EXPECT GOVT COLLAPSE
LONDON, Oct. 20.—Horatio Bottomley, Liberal
member of parliament and editor of the newspaper known
as John Bull predicted the immediate collapse of the coal
ition government in a speech delivered by him at New
castle last night. He declared that Asquith may be re
garded as practically out of power and that he will be
succeeded by Andrew Bonar Law, the leader of the
Unionist party in the house of commons and a member of
the coalition cabinet himself. Bottomley expressed the
belief that the change will l>e found to be useless and
that the government will have to be taken out of the
hands of the politicians altogether before the end of the
war and be placed in the control of a “National Commit
tee of business men.” The whole country now confidently
expects that a great political crisis is imminent and will
alter the whole aspect of governmental affairs in the na
tion. In the meantime the labor party and its followers
are displaying an alarming restlessness with the heads of
the government and some of the extreme radicals openly
express the belief that incompetency at home is threaten
ing the very existence of the empire.
SAYS CAMPAIGN A BLUNDER
LONDON. Oct. 20.—A correspondent of the London
Times declares that all now recognize the fact that the
Gallipoli campaign was a blunder of the first magnitude
and that nothing remains but to get out of it in the best
manner possible. It has become a matter of public knowl
edge that the allied governments are paying Greece the
cost of mobilizing her army although the Greek govern
ment is firm in the statement that it will not declare war
unless the Bulgarians invade Greek territory. In the
meantime no information is being given out as to the
progress of events on Gallipoli peninsula and it is assum
ed that both sides are content with holding their own.
Anxietv is expressed on every hand as to the possibility
of withdrawing the allied troops from that arena without
frightful losses amounting almost to annihilation. It has
been rumored that some of the allied troops have already
been removed off the peninsula to reinforce the troops be
ing landed to meet the Teutons on Bulgarian soil but no
official confirmation has been given in this respect.
FRENCH CLAIM SUCCESS
PARIS, Oct. 20—The official statement issued last
night claims definite successes about Boisenhache where
several positions have been wrenched from the Teutons
and the French repulsed three German attacks with hand
grenades last night. The allied guns also silenced the
Teutons batteries at Parges after a severe bombardment
but the most noticeable success is reported by the aviation
corps some of whose members bombarded the German
aviation field and headquarters known as Bulincourt on
Sunday night and Monday night. The German hangars
were demolished by the bombs from the airships.
TEUTONS CLAIM PROGRESS
BERLIN, Oct. 20.—The German and Austrian gen
erals claim progress on all fronts today. The Germans
have advanced against the Russians northwest of Miau
and south of Linsington. Fighting along the Styr is still
proceeding. In the west the Germans shot down a Brit
ish aviator and on the Italian front the Italians have suf
fered a severe defeat
SERBIANS WIN
GENEVA, Oct. 20—The Serbian army has heavily
repulsed the Teutons north of Shabatz, according to a
message from Bucharest, and the invaders are retreat
ing in disorder.
ASQUITH BETTER
LONDON, Oct. 20.—Prime Minister Asquith passed
a satisfactory night Lloyd George announced this after
noon that the prime minister is progressing favorably
and will be able to take his place in the house of commons
within a week. He is really ill, however, and the reports
that the sickness was a diplomatic one are without truth.
GERMANS REPULSED
PARIS, Oct. 20.—We have repulsed German attacks
everywhere along the western front $nd the enemy has
suffered severely in the past two days. An official sum
mary has been published of the attacks of the past couple
of weeks and it shows that the Germans have lost eight
thousand killed outright at Loos and Souchez alone.
PARIS FACTORY EXPLODES
PARIS, Oct. 20.—A munitions factory exploded for
some unexplained cause in this city last night and scores
of people were killed. Fifty bodies have already been tak
en from the ruins. The explosion occurred in a populous
section. President Poincare visited the scene this after
noon. I
New Jersey Turns
Down Woman Votes
IN SPITE OF PRESIDENT’S SUP
PORT EVERY COUNTY
VOTED AGAINST SEX.
JERSEY CITY, Oct. 20.—Woman |
suffrage was defeated by sixty-fiva j
thousand votes in this state yester
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day in spite of the support given the
women’s cause by President Wilson
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himsolf. Every county in the state
had a majority against the women,
and this has been a surprise as no
one seemed to dream of so complete j
a snowing under. The president not ’
only voted for the women but came ’
out openly in favor of giviiig them ■
the vote.
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❖ WAS JOE JOURDEN •>
❖ FROZEN TO DEATH *
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The Valdez Prospector is authority j
for the statement that Joe Jourden ;
of Nome was frozen to death, and i
that he did not die of R right’s disease
as the cable to the Gateway said.
The following is the story as told by
the correspondent of the Prospector: !
“NOME, Oct. 18.—Joseph D. Jourd- :
I en a pioneer merchant of this city was j
frozen to death Saturday night on
the river, having wandered away !
from the road during a storm which
suddenly blew in from tho north.
Jourden had been on the creeks look
ing after some mining property in
which he was interested and was
caught in the storm while returning
to town. Ho had been in the river,
as his clothing was frozen when the
body was round yesterday morning
after daylight.”
There is likely some mistake about
this but an inquiry will be sent as
“Joe” Joumden was one of the best
known men in the north. '
DORA SAILS SEVEN
The Dora will sail for the west
this evening at seven o’clock with
sixty tons of freight and capacity of
passengers. Among those leaving on
the Dora will be Rev. and Mrs. D. A.
Holovitzky and son, Miss L. Livsoflf, ,
and E. M. Ball. I
POSSE KILLS
TENBANDITS
SIXTY MEXICANS WERE IN THE
BAND THAT HELD UP THE
AMERICAN TRAIN.
BROWNSVILLE, Oct. 20.—Ten of
the Mexican bandits that held up the
train and killed and wounded several
Americans on the night before last
have been slain by pursuing Ameri
can posses. Sixty Mexicans were en
gaged in the murderous attack on the
train altogether, and the majority of
the attackers are now traveling as
fast as possible to escape over tho
boundary line. When the band was
| caught up by the pursuers it showed
fight but no Americans are reported
to have been shot.
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MORAN KNOCKED OUT
COFFEY IN THE THIRD
Winner is Now 'Eligible to Meet
Willard for the Big
Championship Event.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Moran
| knocked out Coffey last night in the
third round and is now eligible to
meet Willard for the world’s cham
; pionship for which last night’s fight
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was a sort of preliminary. The win
ner of the fight was easily superior to
Coffey in almost every respect.
THIS IS EDISON DAY
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19.—To
! morrow, Wednesday, will be Edison
Day at the Fanama Pacific Exposi
tion and will be observed chiefly by
having this city and all the bay cities
1 ablaze with electricity. Mr. Edison
is accompanied by Ford, the manu
facturer, and by Luther Burbank.
GERMAN OFFICERS ESCAPE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Three
| more German officers who were in
, terned on the Prince Eitel Frcdcrich
1 at Norfolk escaped today while on
parole. This makes six missing since
Sunday. It is believed that they have
j put to sea in the yacht Eclipse and
have landed somewhere on the Flor
ida c<*ist. Paroles wiil probably be
refused in future.
The Cook Inlet Pioneer has not yet
! been issued daily according to word
j received by the Gateway from that
| paper the other day.
WANTS BRITISH AUTOCRACY
LONDON, Oct. 20.—That King George should dis
solve parliament, abolish for the present all popular gov
ernment and himself take personal command of the
armies in the field is the proposal which has just been
made by a brother of Lord Decies and which is receiving
endorsement in high quarters. The proposer of this ex
treme measure is Setton Robert Beresford who was
formerly an army officer and who made the proposal in a
speech delivered here last night. Many of the audience
cheered the statement and the reactionary element
throughout the country seems to favor it, while the Radi
cals ridicule what they call the last resort of the people
who want to see England another Russia.
ITALY CALLS OUT MORE
ROME, Oct. 20.—Italy has called four classes of re
serves to the colors and it is believed they will be used for
service in the Balkans as an official statement has been
issued that no more troops are needed on the Austrian
front.
BULGARIANS WIN
LONDON, Oct. 20.—The Bulgarians have captured
Serbian positions fifty miles inside the Serbian borders
according to dispatches from Athens.
BULGARS BEAT SERBS
BERLIN, Oct. 20.—The Bulgarian army has defeat
ed the Serbians in a pitched battle near the frontier and
captured two thousand prisoners and twelve cannon.
MEXICAN GENERAL EXECUTED
GALVESTON,. Oct. 20.—Gustavo Navarro, superin
tendent of the Mexico City arsenal, was executed yester
day for complicity in the Huerta usurpation.
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* SEATTLE BANDIT *
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SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—Fred Starr,
the man who held up the Everett in
terurban cars, was sentenced last
evening to a term in the penitentiary
of from tweny-eight to sixty years.
If he is released at the expiration of
the mininmum term he can be sen
tenced to life imprisonment as a
habitual criminal.
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❖ RENTON ROBBERS *
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SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—The Renton
bank robbers arc still at large but a
stern chase is being kept up for
thorn. An investigation shows that
they got away with fourteen hundred
and sixteen dollars.
WOMAN KILLS AND CUTS
UP BODY OF ANNOYER
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20.—Mrs.
Mary Tamias, wife of a motor man,
killed Michael Weinstein here yester
day, dismembered the body and hid
the pieces in a box couch in her resi
dence. Weinstein was a crippled
peddler of twenty-three who, the wo
man says, had continued to annoy her
with proposals of eloping. She ad
mits the killing and says he came to
her house last night with the same
proposals when her husband was ab
sent. She first felled him with a
hatchet and then cut up the body.
CHARLTON CASE POSTPONED
COMO, Italy, Oct. 20.—'The murder
trial of Porter Charlton has been
postponed until Firday owing to the
illness of one of the counsel.
SEATTLE DOCTOR JAILED
SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—Dr. H. G.
Gillissie has been arrested and placed
in jail here on the charge of stealing
a suit case full of narcotics and a
hundred dollars from a local phar
macy.
court tostay
FORTHE TERM
ARRIVES TO TRY TOWNSITE
CASE AND WILL REMAIN UN
TIL NOVEMBER SESSION.
Judge F. M. Brown and the district
court officials arrived on the City of
Puebla last night to hold a special
sitting ofthe court to try the Seward
townsite case. Court will be held in
the Pioneer hall for the time being, j
until the rooms in the Railroad build
ing have been fixed up. It will com
mence this afternoon at 2 o’clock. In
this case against Frank Ballaine and
John Ballaine, W. J. Boland, corpora
tion attorney for the Alaska Central
Railway, and F. C. West, will repre
sent the plaintiffs and the
council for the defense is James A.
Haight, of Seattle, and S. 0. Morford,
of this city. Col. A. W. Swanitz
comes as a witness for the plaintiff.
Other officials of the court besides
Judge Brown are: Arthur Lang,
clerk of the court; Miss K. L. Mona
han, deputy clerk of the court;Clar
ence Mossman, deputy U. S. marshal
and Isaac Hamburger, court steno
grapher.
Judge Brown says that at the con
clusion of the townsite case the court
will take a recess to resume again at
the regular term commencing Novem
ber the First. The docket of cases for
the term of court has not yet been
prepared but it is probable that the
Anchorage and McCarthy liquor cases
will be tried, as well as several
others.
$72,000 FOR SEAT
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—A seat on
the stock exchange was sold yester
day for seventy-two thousand dollars.
❖ THE TOWNSITE CASE ❖
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The case which begins this after
noon here in the district court and
which is known as the Townsite ease
arises from a question as to the pos
session of the townsite property held
by the Ballaines. The defendants in
the present suit bought the property
from Mrs. Lowell who had it as a
homestead and the Plaintiffs claim
that the money paid was money that
belonged to the railroad company.
The defendants claim that the money
was their own and on this question
the case rests. This much is told
merely for the purpose of letting
newcomers know what it is all about.
It is hardly advisable to go any
further into the matter while the case
is sub judice.
BOLAND DEPOSITIONS
TAKING THIS AFTERNOON
The Ballaine townsite case began
this afternoon at 2 o’clock with the
taking of the depositions of Win. J.
Boland. Mr. Boland went in detail
into the whole story which is so well
known. He was solicitor, he said, for
the Sovereign Bank of Canada which
went into liquidation. In its papers
were discovered bonds and a record
of a suit brought by John E. Ballaine.
It was decided to form an Alaska
Central syndicate and all the bond
holders were invited to join. About
May 1914 he got a letter from one of
the attorneys connected with the mat
ter in which it was stated that the
townsite belonged to the railroad
company. As a result of that letter
he, Mr. Boland, wrote to Judge Mor- !
ford and Colonel Swanitz asking for
information but Judge Morford re
ferred him to Mr. Haight. The de
position had not been finished at the
time for closing the forms.
KILLS MAN ON THE
BUSIEST CITY CORNER
PETALUMA, Calif., Oct. 20.—H.
D. Haley, a civil war veteran, shot
and killed Andrew McPhail, head of
the McPhail Telephone company, on
the busiest street corner of the city
at noon today. Haley is believed in
sane.
DUNCAN CAPTURED
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20.—Harry
Duncan who shot and killed Superin
tendent Toolan of the city police was
captured at a R. R. station today.
BRESNAHAN ARRESTED
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Bresnahan,
the famous baseball player, was ar
rested last evening on the charge of
driving an automobile while in an in
toxicated condition. He was also
charged with an assault “with an
automobile” because he is said to
have attempted to force his car by
the policeman who arrested him.
ALLIANCE ARRIVES
The steamship Alliance, Captain
McKay, of the Independent Steam
ship company, arrived today at noon
with 100 tons of freight for this
place. Charles E. Martin and Mr.
Yates were the arriving passengers.
The next trip of the Alliance will be
the last for Anchorage, and probably
this one will be if the weather gets
colder on the Inlet. The Alliance
will sail for Anchorage at 5 o'clock
this evening.
PUEBLA WESTWARD
The City of Puebla took the follow
ing passengers for Anchorage from
this city: George Cotter, J. E. Boyn
ton, August Anderson, Walter
Wright, Edward Bittner, Mrs. Bit
tner and George Bittner.
EVANS EARLY A. M.
The Admiral Evans sailed out
from Anchorage last night at mid
night and is due to arrive here about
4 o'clock tomorrow morning.
FAIRBANKS HAS
MORE SHOOTING
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ONE MAN COMMITS SUICIDE IN
SALOON AND TWO OTHERS
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 19.—Charles
Skofland, a Norwegian miner, com
mitted suicide today in a .saloon here
by shooting himself through the
head. Ho lived for three hours after
inflicting the wound. No cause can
be discovered for the deed.
Another case of shooting, but this
time accidental, occurred last night in
the restricted district, when a Hus
sion was shot in the lower region of
the abdomen and a woman named
Louise Lohr shot her finger off at the
same time. So far as can be learned
the woman was holding the gun when
it exploded and had no intention of
firing it. The wounded man, who.*'
name is Elii KadzofT, will probably
live.
❖ MRS. GALT IS *
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—The an
nouncement of the president’s wai
ding date is expected this week. Mrs.
Galt is now buying her trousseau but
is doing so in a most economical man
ner.
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TO CATCH CRIMINALS
BY MOTION PICTURES
CHICAGO, Oct. 20.—A new system
for aiding in the identification of
criminals is now being brought into
use. This is the taking of motion
pictures of all prisoners while they
are standing, walking or seated. The
result of some of the experiments
have been remarkable as in several
instances the little characteristic
movements of the men while they are
sitting arc brought out clearly.
HOW THEY FOUND
NEW NOME BEACH
DIGGING CELLAR FOB CABIN AT
SOLOMON UNCOVERED
THE PAY.
NOME, Sept. 24.—(Special by
mail)—Solomon will experience a
boom this year because of the dis
covery of the Third beach line at that
place. The strike was made by fel
lows who were digging out a cellar
under the cabin. From the sand
taken from the cellar they got eighty
dollars in gold and the whole section
has now been staked from h- to
breakfast! The find of the Third
beach was made at Ora Fina and at
Jerome creek. Lots of work will be
done there this winter, and the strike
might bring about the development
of a big camp but this winter’s pros
pecting will tell the story.
CITY OF PUEBLA ARRIVES
The City of Puebla, Captain Cann,
of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany, chartered for this trip by the
Alaska Steamship Company, arrived
last night at 9:30 from the south.
She brought the following passengers
for this place:
From Seattle; Marcus Mayer, Mrs.
R. G. Chambers and daughter and
Mrs. E. Mauvais. From Cordova; E.
L. Whittemore, Mrs. Whittemore, M.
J. May, J. E. Erickson and E. M. Ball.
From Valdez; Miss K. L. Monahan,
Clarence Mossman, Mrs. M. A. Fern,
Judge F. M. Brown, A. W. Swanitz, F.
C. West, W. C. Boland, F. L. Ballaine,
John E. Ballaine, S. 0. Morford,
' James Haight, Isaac Hamburger,
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Arthur Lang, R. H. Chadwick, Geo.
P. Reily, William H. Whittlesey.