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V0LUME XII, NUMBER 19. . * SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1918. *_TEN CENTS PER COPT
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I ONDoW July 2b.—The Americans have met the finest regiments of
Germany south of Sergy. The Germans threw the whole Fourth Pivision of
the Prussian guards in a desperate counter attack bid tue Ame> buns stood
like stone wall and brought the Germans to a clean halt then startl'd to
ward" them mtilietiiu.1 the heaviest losses known in the present Allied counter
offensive.
Press dispatches as well as official dispatches give the geatest of praise
to the American forces.
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Steamer Admiral Farragut arrived
in port at P o’clock last night, the;
first passenger steamer for nineteen I
days, the lust one having been the
Alameda which arrived on the morn
ing of July Pth. tl'v Admiral Fjr
lagut brought 2' passengers ’ot
Seward, 40 tons o• freight,
days mail from Sv;a * o ii* da>s n.a>;
w-m Southeastern Alaska potto aiv
h* days accumuPu:on of express from
the states. There are IP passengers ’
aboard for Anchorage from Seattle
and Alaskan ports, also seven tour
ists.
Passenger? for Seward on the Ad
miral Farragut were as follows: Kcv.
Mother Genual, Mother Theresa, Sist
er Francis. Sister StephanV, Miss !».
Smith. H. K. Ellsworth an 1 wife 'Ihc
Ima Ellsworth E. Clamor, O. Scoot -
land, Charles I.echner, Frank Krust.
Mrs. Frank Luckel, Mrs. 1 hayei
Loyns, Miss A. Matzen, L. J. i>ir.een,
Ole Wald. C. B. Secrest, Terras Beach
F. Cdllis, James E. Wilson and one
steerage.
The Admiral Farragut sailed after
midnight for Anchorage and will re
turn via Kodiak.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO
SEWARD NEWSDEALERS
Effective on tne First of August
the Gateway must discontinue iV*e
buying back of papers at either whole
-sale or retail selling prices from deal
-ers or agents; discontinue the pay
ment of salaries or commissions to
agents, dealers or newsboys for the
purpose of securing the equivalent ot
return privileges, this mandate has
been issued by the U nited States \V ar
Industries Board, Thomas E. Donnel
ley, chief of the pulp and paper sect
ion. The economies above mentioned
are supposed to have been effective I
beginning July loth. but the mandate
was not received until the mail on the
Farragut ami is supposed to be ef
fective on the first of the month fol
lowing its receipts. I he rule is not an
arbitary one of the newspapers but is
one made by the L nited Suites gov
ernment and effects every publication
daily, weekly and monthly in the Unit
-ed States or territories. Every night
the Editor of a periodical must make
a written report of circulation and
left over copies and send to certain
government officials.
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NEW YORK, July 20— Major Gen
eral NWS. Brancker, Controller of the
British air ministry, believes that an
aerial offensive to German cities, in
cluding Berlin, is possible in the very
near future.
“Bombing is feasible,” said M:ij.
Gen. Brancker,” when the American
airplane motors are avaibable. I be
lieve that the United States will be
obliged to create a Secretary of Air
Forces as England created her Air
Ministry.”
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AMSTERDAM. July 20— The “nat
-ional collection of fruit pits and
peach stones” has been launched in
Germany under the patronage of the
Fatherland Women’s Union. Stones
of cherries, plums and peaches will
be paid for at the rate of a cent a
pound, but instead of money payment
collectors will receive “Government
Soup Squares” at the reduced rate of
two for a cent. The newspaper an
nouncements say that “these soup cub
-es are lightly in great demand owing
to their large content of fats.”
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STEAMER DOPE. j
'The Northwestern is due from the
south Wednesday morning at 5 o’
clock acceding to cable advices re
ceived by Agent McDonald.
The Alameda is supposed to have*
sailed from Junea yesterday but of
ficial advices have not been received
y <he cable office.
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SOLDIERS TO LEAVE SOON.
The detachment of the 14th Infan
try now stationed in Seward, will
leave here the latter part of next mon
-th according to advices received from
Fort Liscum on the Admiral Faragut.
The detachment here will join the oth
er detachments of the 14th and all
will go south, destination now an
nounced. The oOth Battalion, U.S. In
fantry will relieve the 14th. One capt
ain of the new battalion was aboard
the Farragut last night for Anchor
age to relieve the commanding offic
er there.
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Half the women do not know how
the other half live, hut fifty would
find out if the window^shades were
left up.
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Tonight at the Arctic Brotherhood hall beginning at !/ o’clock the officer
and men aboard the United States navy patrol steamer Kxplorer art? going
to show the citizens of Seward how they appreciate the good time they have
hud while the boat has been in port.
To show this appreciation the officers and men are going to give a dance
and the admittance will be the glad hand a good smile. Mr. and Mrs. SewArd
and all of the Misses Sewards and youi g men are cordially invited to present
ukmselvos at the A. B. Hall tonight and have a good time. Bancing will
start at o’clock and will be kept up just as long as there are dancers on the
door.
A small force has been working all day decorating the hall which will be
a mass of dags, etc.
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i’lio diking work on Lowell ere 1;
- 1; ii lomplelod and the driver -s
being dismantled.
James K. Y\ iison, road commission
ci ior iiu> division, arrived on tile Ad
-inirid l arragut from Valdez and is
. igi*iered al the Overland.
L.,J. Dineon came over from La
i’ouche on the Admiral Karragut and
ts stopping at the Overland.
IJ.Miiitii is registered at the Over
land Having arrived from McC arty o i |
the Admiral Larragut.
'Hie train came in last night shortly !
before midnight with only a few nasr
engors from Mile 52 and intermedia* ' ,
points. ,
George M. Martin, of Mile 23, who
.ms been stopping at the Seward for
several days, returned to his station
yesterday on the train.
I ii il ” Dayman, purser of the Dora,
is making his land headquarters at
the Seward during the stay of the
little craft in port.
William Dry an came in from Mile
il last night and is registered at the
Seward.
Frank F. Towle and wife, and Mrs.
Cora Jenkins, from kenai Lake, arc
registered at the Sexton having ar
rived on lasts night’s train.
1>. killigrew and W.L. Lodge are
registered at the Sexton from MilelV.
Otto Pochlmann has sent a cable
gram to the local draft board asking
or release for the board’s jurisdiction
so that he can join the navy in San
Francisco.
Jack McPhail, a former young man of
this city, is now conductor of a street
car in Seattle.
The regular Tuesday lumheon or
the Seward Chamber of Comma*-?
will bo held tomorrow at 12:30 o'clock
it the Seward Grill. Several*promin
ent mai will he guests.
Miss Petellin formerly of Hope,
who has been to the states to com
plete her education, was the busy
little lady around Seward last night
-ailing on all her old friends. Xo mai
cr if her friends had retired, Miss
Petellin routed them up and chatted
The young lady is bound for the west-,
vard to teach school.
Rev. Mother Genual, head of the
hospitals, which the Seward General
hospital is one, arrived on the Ad
miral Farragut from the east on a
business trip. 1'ov. Mother Genual
will return south on the Farragut.
Miss Helen MeGillivray, daughter of
Capt. MeGillivray of the Admiral
Farragut is one of the round trippers
on the present voyage of that steam
er.
f nrles Hocb.nov, wnc 1 a* been on a
trip t* JuceWii and Cordova, r»iu»ned
! v|- night ;>r the Admiral Farragut.
Mrs. Frank Luckel, wife of the com
-mander of the U. S. Saturn, and
Mrs. Thayer Lyons, wife of tho pay
master on the same navy boat, arrived
on the Admiral Farragut last night
and will remain hero for several
months.
Many station men, who have been
in Seward for the past week returned
out the line on yesterday’s train. 0
Dr. 0. J. Keating expects to leave
on the Dora for a professional trip to
the westward.
Chairman Edes, of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission, accompani
ed by his wife; Char]es L. Mason and
wife, William Gerig, Miss Breck and
A. Christensen left for Anchorage on
the Admiral Farragut.
IIAKIJISOX, N.J., July 21)— Jack
Dempsey, of Salt Lake City, put Fred
Fulton out after ob seconds of ligat
ing Saturday night by a right hook to
the jaw. An immonce crowd was pres
cut to witness what was going to la
an eight round bout and hardly be
came settled in their seats when it
was all over. .
This fellow Jack Dempsey must I* •
some fighter. On July 1st. Dempsev
knocked out Tommy McCarty, of Lew
-iston, Mont., in the first minute <•
fighting. On July 4th Dempsey knock
ed out Dob Devore in the first ro jiu
at Joplin. Dempsey was also to meet
Porky Flynn at Atlanta (la., and po
dblv lie followed up the same streak
of Knockouts in this fight.
LARIS, July 29— Acres and acres
>1 gardens located near the American
base hospitals are now beginning to
bring forth their harvests ot vegetal'
All were cultivated by American
• oaiuied. convalescents, who attended
10 the growing of the produce.
Not alone has the venture been one
»1 great economy for the hospitals.
The work of cultivation has been done
upon the prescriptions ot the medical
surgeons so that a double purpose is
accomplished. The garden work pro
vides relaxation for the men after
their strenuous times on the battle
front and their painful anxiety in the
hospital wards. The diversion acts as
a recreative agency in bringing back
the men to normal mental and physi-,
cal state.
The gardens are worked entirely Tiy
convalescents. Not a single dollar has
been spent for hired labor. The army
lias undertaken a comprehensive plan
of army provisioning along these
lines. The American Red Cross also
is cooperating by the establishment of
smaller plots in the centers where con
-valescents are sent.
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SAT CRN HERE THIS WEEK.
The U.S.S. Saturn is at Cordova
unloading wireless supplies and will
be in Seward within the next couple
of days according to private advice
reaching here on the Admiral Karra
gut.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 29— Labor
meetings were held here, last night in
Seattle, Butte, Denver and other cit
ies, protesting against the execution
of Thomas Mooney for participation
in the bomb outrages here in July,
1916.
Alex Fraser, • formerly of the
Branch cigar store, left on the Ad
miral Farragut for Seldovia w’here
he will engage in business.
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LONDON, July 21).—'(Official) T..» (Inna •« «■; i.- < *:r rriii
the whole line wi h 0 e Allies n c < sc p suit, rhe Gcimans have
ceeded in slightly check ? the 1 reach but not stopping them. 1
on the bank of the Ourc«| have sect.mi il - io.td i>* •*.
The Germans are stubbornly itsbJng and In ’ming viiages. Fighting tin
forenoon is south oi the Soisson. n . Cucz< b fai the > rench have
not progressed there.
The Germans nr** h i ? vi
Mai Dazouches leading t»» in* >■
Allies have advam ed
It is believed here t: tiv <!< rn\.a . e r»
thirty miles long between Kheims ami Fe s.-ions whieh is probabi) catr.*iu:hol
With good lines oi communications ii»«* *>• m m‘. vn * * • ■ > <
delilierate.
The Americans are pi (•• 11
denois sector.
HERMAN' RASE IS OIVLTIED
WITH THE AMERICAN'S. duty 21).—The French : nd Ameiaan** are
clashing vigorously at the .till* ning r a . u vs of \
prospect of advancing the line eiose to tin* river Ard •*. a '« \ kilotiietei
away, before night. It is reported that ‘.he German 1» .« near I «' ntuf
denois is occupied.
AMERICANS GIVING HEN'S HARD RA .'TI.K
WITH THE AMERICANS Ju v ~•< Oifici:. • 1* M.« Rem mo‘«I l»»
•"o crack Havanan Gun ds, the I* it >» - t*' gv nng the hardest resistance
vet displayed against the Americans n< rth of i ureq. Ahao.gh heavily ham
.cored the Americans are replying in iike lighting and th« battle is shifting
buck and forth through Sergy, three mii«s smith a. i i eitMotiurdenois. At
noon the Germans unsuccessfully attempted to recross at Ourcq.
STREET FIGHTiNG AT FEREKNTAKl>ENOiS
\\ i Hi 1 HE l REN< H, J P. ' The A
picsshre has been uninterrupted. The advance? since Saturday lias been
•xtremely rapid with slight opposition. The G- rnians everywhere have how
ever demonstrated their powei of determined resiaia#** which is still very
severe.
•Fighting is now in progress in the streets of Percent ard* nois. hand to
hand fighting. The Allies are shnvh gaining the uppo; hand for the po
session of the city and other forces are endeavoring *>» capture Yi’lentaidpois.
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HULLETIN — WASHINGTON, July 2!>.—8 I\ M. —C ommander Persh
ing reports that the American^ have crossed Oumj and captured the towns
>f Seriangeetnesles, Sergy and Ronch.
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OFFICERS IN A CTO
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WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE, July 29 An American
lieutenant colonel and two other oi *
iicers had a thrilling experience Fri
day night with a German airplane.
The Americans were traveling along a
road in an automobile when the en
emy aviator fired on them with his
machne gun. i
The chauffeur increased Ins speed
to the limit in an attempt to outrun
the enemy airplane, while bullets rain
-ed all about the automobile. The lieu
tenant colonel found a way out of the
ticklish situation by turning off the
lights and stopping the automobi’e.
Before this could be done, however,
one of the other officers was wounded
slightly. The enemy airplane finally
flew off.
CLYNES CUCCEEDS RHONDDA.
LONDON, July 29— John Robert
Clynes, parliamentary . secretary to
the control department, has been
apointed to succeed the late Viscount
Rhondda as food controller. •'
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GENEVA, July 20— It is officially
announced that 32 American prison
ers, including several officers, have
been lodged near the Mannheim rail
way station in Baden to prevent allied
air raids.
This information has been sent to
Allied headquarters from here.
M l IK—MATZEX Nl PTlALS.
Miss Agnes Cecilia Matzen. of Sea
ttle, and Albert Elvin Muir, time keep
-or at Mile 71,.were united in marri
age this forenoon by United States
Commissioner W.H. Whittlesey. Fred
C. Knowlton and Dr. Sloan were the
witnesses and E K. Tarwater also
looked on to see that everything \va i
attended to properly.
The bride arrived on the Admiral
Earragut last night from Seattle. Mr.
and Mrs. Muir will leave this week
for Mile 71.
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The Masons and Odd fellows expect
to move into the new hall on Adams
; street the latter part of this week.
, For a time the lodges have been meev
1 ing in the Van Gilder Hall.
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