GERMANS TAKE OFFENSIVE
PARIS. Sept. 18.—The Germans have been making
some determined offensive movements on their left but
those attacks are being repulsed again and again by the
allies who have progressed somewhat on their western
wing. The battle is still raging, however, without any de
cisive advantage according to the information coming
from the front this morning and there is seen to be noth
ing for it but to continue the pounding at the German
lines until the great struggle has been brought to an end.
The assaults of the Germans are most vigorous not
withstanding their frightful losses and experiences.
ALLIES IN THREE SUPREME STRUGGLES
The efforts of the allies have now probably been divid
ed into three supreme struggles. One of these will be di
rected towards driving the Germans from the heights of
Aisne. the other to break through the fourth and iifth
German armies in the center and the third of the supreme
efforts will be to flank the German right which is under
the command of General von Kluck. The fourth and fifth
armies of the enemy are holding the weakest positions and
there is a strong hope that they can be dislodged. If the
flanking movement is successful the railroads on which
the Germans depend will he cut and in this way the enemy
will be placed in a most precarious position. The general
battle line has been abandoned for the purpose of making
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these three great assaults and will be changed into separ
ate struggles instead of the unbroken line of fighting
which it was formerly.
AUSTRIANS AGAIN ORGANIZING
LONDON, Sept. 18.—The Austrian armies are now
supposed to be once more trying to unite at Cracow. In
the meantime the Russians under General Rennenkamff
are trying to hold the Germans at bay along the frontier
and for this reason the Austrians are given a better op
portunity for the reorganization of their forces than has
been provided for them since their crushing defeats. They
are now entrenched in a very strong position around and
in the fortress of Przemys! and the Russians admit that
the difficulties of taking that fortress are very great.
Cracow where the next battle against the Austrians will
probably be fought is on the Russian-Austrian frontier
and quite close is German territory so that it is really al
most at the apex of a triangle formed by the lines of the
three nations. To the north of it the Germans are said to
be marching on the Polish frontier for the purpose un
doubtedly of carrying the war into the country of the Rus
sians. The great forces required to meet this threatened
invasion has necessitated the taking away of large Rus
sian forces from the Austrian front and the Austrians
may yet have time to reorganize a formidable force. Ac
cording to German accounts the Russians have been com
pletely smashed over most of the soil of East Prussia.
BOYS IN GERMAN RANKS
BORDEAUX, Sept. 18.—Thousands of boys under six
teen are now fighting in the German ranks. It is reported
that all German students over the age of fifteen have been
mobilized as the men have been all but exhausted and Ger
many must fall back on its children. This is only reported
but it is stated on authority that can hardly he doubted.
CAPTURE MORE AUSTRIANS
PETROGRAD, Sept. 18.—The pursuit of the Austrian
rear guard continues along the whole Russian front. The
Russians have captured the strongly fortified town of
Sandemir and have defeated with great loss a part of the
Austrian forces at Jaworow which is only some thirty
miles from Przemvsl the great fortress which the Aus
trians hope to secure shelter in. In this fight the Aus
trians lost all the baggage trains of the Sixth and Four
teenth army corps. Five thousand prisoners were cap
tured, thirty guns and an enormous quantity of artillery
stores.
QUIET ABOUT EAST PRUSSIA
PETROGRAD, Sept. 18.—1The reports from the Rus
sian generals in East Prussia indicate that no fighting has
recently taken place there with the exception of some un
important skirmishes. The Russian government denies
that the Germans have inflicted such crushing defeats on
the Russians in that part of the field of war as the German
government announced. It is admitted, however, that the
troops of this nation were defeated at Allenstein but the
story that seventy thousand troops were captured by the
Germans is declared to be false.
TELLS OF THE
CONDITIONS IN CHISANA!
M. J. McGovern, who arrived on
the launch Chisana, brings news of;
the Chisana camp. He was four days
on the trail from Chisana City to
Snag, and two days from Snag to
Dawson. He says:
“The trail on the way out was soft.
Some new finds have been made on
Bonanza, and grub in the camp is a
little higher. Flour was selling at 30
cents a pound; bacon, 75c, and dried
fruit at 60c.
“The new pay is on claims num
bers 10, 11 and 12 on upper Bonanza.
Bill McKay and Billy Williams are
working on 11. Billy Campbell is on
10. He first was on a fraction, and
also brought 750 feet of the upper
end of 10 from Lem Gates. Campbell
has six or seven men working for him.
McKay had seven. They had some
thing like $1.50 to the foot on 10, and
better on 11. I do not remember the
• names of the others on the new pay.
“Morgan got pay on his ground on
Gold Run. Baxter also Is working on
Gold Run. ‘Dune' McPhail is wroking
on his Gold Run ground with a long
tom, and getting a little money.
George Cordery is working with Dud
McKinney.
“The claim at the mouth of Skoo
kum is being worked by Range on a
lay from Sargent. One box length
yielded 196 ounces. No one is work
ing above No. 1 Skookum. Tommy
Doyle owns the claim next to No. 1.
“Hamshaw keeps busy. He is work
ing 50 men. He had 140 men for a
time earlier in the season. He is
working on 4 and 5 on Bonanza and
on 2, Eldorado. Carl Whitman is
busy on his Eldorado ground, and
seems to be doing well.
“The Baldwin brothers are taking
two Keystone drills into the camp.
They have some old-time prospectors
working for them. The prospecting
this winter will be extensive, and new
pay may be opened. t
“William Steinberger Is on No. 7,
Bonanza, with McCabe. I understand
they are getting wages or better. I
was on Canyon for quite a while on
my own ground, but could not get bet
ter than $4.50 a day, and that was not
enough to cover expenses. I was on
2 below.
“Dutch Moore and Shelly Huntley
made a strike on a bench on the right
limit, opposite five Bonanza, and got
better than creek pay.
“I plan to return to the Chisana,
but probably not before winter/*1—
Dawson News.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
ELECTS ITS OFFICERS
The following officers were elected
last night by the Arctic Brothorhood:
Aritc chief, Derick Lane, vice, Percy
Pullen; Arctic chaplain, S. L. Colwell;
keeper of nuggets, Leo Margules; re
corder, M. J. Conroy; trustees, L. V.
Kay, S. L. Colwell, John Noon, Charles
Crawford and Chas. E. Martin.
These officers will be installed on
the first Thursday in October.
Janies R. Hayden and Derick Lane
have about completed the construction
of their hunting lodge which has been
christened The Oasis, which, the books
of our dear childhood tell us, is a
place in the middle of a dry desert
that aint dry itself.
Colonel Swift is the name of the
officer who is accompanying General
Murray. On the way up in the boat
the passengers got the idea for some
reason or another that the general
was looking over places wiht a view
to possible fortifications. The opin
ion is general that when the govern
ment railroad is built from Seward its
icean terminal would be fortified. A
railroad to tho coal fields would cer
tainly bo fortified according to the
best informed people.
There is a persistent rumor around
this town at present that some man
is going to marry some woman, or
vice versa, tomorrow but who they
are or what they are is a bigger mys
tery than the number of Germans that
were lost at the siege of Liege. There ;
are several unattached members of j
both soxes in this here towfn who have j
secured a most unenviable notoriety
by having their names connected with
the scandal as being parties thereto
but all of those mentioned plead not
guilty. Five thousand dollars to the
one who can tell exactly what General
Murray came to Alaska for and who
are the parties who are accused of
preparing for the Hymeneal halter.
H. H. Hildreth of this city has left
for Crow creek to perform assessment
work on his property there. Since the
publication of the fact that a bill was
introduced to exempt peoplo from as
sessment work several other people
! havo expressed htemselves as opposed
to the measure.
It has been stated on the very best
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authority which, however, cannot be
quoted that a certain prominent en
gineer has estimated after a careful
survey that a railroad from Portage
Bay to the present rial road would cost
eleven million dollars. He declares
that four miles of tunnels would be
required at least.
It is only along the Alaska coast,
according to J. W. Wright, that one
hears of any other place Ilian Seward
cor the ocean terminal for the rail
road. Kven the people of Haines have
the bee in their bonnet notwithstand
ing the fact that a railroad from that
point would pass through British ter
ritory. But then foreigners might
7*ve us no more chilly reception than
fhe beautiful glaciers that stand over
the other places that claim a terminal,
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