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AMERICA WILL ALSO DEMAND
USE OL MEXICAN RAILROADS
EL PASO, April 29.—General Scott and General Fun
ston have arrived at El Paso to hold a conference with the
Mexican consul, Garcia, with a view to arrange a date and
place for the first conference with General Obergon, the
Mexican minister of war. The conference will be chiefly
for the purpose of settling military questions arising be-|
tween Mexico and the United States. The results of the
first excitement caused in Mexico by the entry of the
American troops appear to be not so threatening now as
they were and the feeling that the whole matter will end1
quietly is growing. It is thought that the withdrawal of
our troops will soon lie ordered. 1
VILLA MI ST BE CAUGHT
EL PASO, April 2D.—That General Scott will inform
General Ohregon when they meet that the United States
troops will not be withdrawn from Mexico, and that he
will demand the use ol the Mexican raihoads foi the
American troops is the information which was received
this afternoon from sources on which full reliance may be
placed. Scott is said to have received instructions from
Washington that the administration has no intention
whatever of giving up the chase of the bandit leader until
he is killed or captured and that the Mexican government
must be warned of the fact at once. 1 his sudden decision,
is assumed here to have been brought by the promise that
the trouble with Germany will be amicably settled.
V erdict of Guilty
In The Krause Case
After Eleven Days Trial on the
Charge of Kidnapping
Christie.
JUNEAU, April 28.—After a trial
which lasted eleven days and after the
jury had been out three hours a ver- \
diet of guilty was brought in this
afternoon against Edward Krause on
the charge of kidnapping William
Christie, the former amalgamator of
the Treadwell mine who has disap
peared. The next charge on which
Krause will be tried is that of forgery
and whether he can ever be proven
guilty of murder or not it now seems
certain that he is faced by many long
years of imprisonment. The search
for the body of Christie has not
yet had any results although a diver
has been at work.
TO PAINT BUILDING
The Engineering Commission is
calling for bids today for painting the
Railroad building.
ANCHORAGE STRIKE DECLARED OFF!
The strike at Anchorage has been declared off and
information to this effect came to Engineer-in-Charge
Weir this afternoon, the Gateway receiving it at 2:30 p.
m. The information coming to Mr. Weir is that the men
have decided to return to work on Monday.
ANCHORAGE, April 29.—(From Special Corres
pondent)—(Received at 2:14 p. m.)—The Labor Commis
sion agrees to raise the minimum wage scale to forty-five
cents an hour. This was the chief bone of contention.
The union is now in session and it is now almost certain
that the increase will lx? accepted and that the strike will
be called off.
(Note : The information to Mr. Weir came later than
this.) _
GERMAN AND AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN
DIPLOMATS FIND POSTS DIFFICULT
BARON ZWIEDINEK. O 0 COUNT BERNSTORFF\
Should the cases of the Sussex and the other vessels which met disaster re
cently by torpedo or man* cause the breaking off of diplomatic re! t ions with
Germanv and Austria-Hungary, the German ambassador. Count Johann liein
rteh von Bernstorff, and the* Austro-Hungarian charge d’affaires, Baron Erich
Zwiedinek von Suedenhorst, will depart for Europe. Von Bernstorff has been
German ambassador to Washington since November, 130%. Zwledinek took charge
of the Austro-Hungarian embassy when Dr. Dumba was recalled at the request
ol the United States government^
NEWS NOTES
James & Woolley have been retain
ed by Mr. Murphy to fight the ease
in which the city seeks to oust him
from his house at the approach to the
dock on First avenue.
Letters from Chairman Edes of the
Engineering Commission shows that
he is uncertain as to when he will
leave Washington for Seward.
George Madsen has purchased the
“Sick Horse,” the power boat former
ly owned by Joe Badger. The new
owner will use it for fishing and will
start out on his first trip tomorrow.
Fishing is now' so profitable in these
waters that one man brought in
enough red snappers today to rush the
growler three times in quick suces
sion.
Five hundred creosote piles are ex
pected to arrive soon for the new
dock. It is more than likely they will
come on the Wellesley.
The conviction of Krause on the
charge of kidnapping means a sen
tence of not less than one year or
more than ten years in the peni
tentiary.
A1 Taylor is laid up in bed with an
attack of Grippe and tonsilitis.
COPPERNOLL BUYS
A FISHING BOAT
William D. Coppernoll, the city
attorney, has decided to go into the
fishing business independently and
has purchased the gas boat Helen for
the purpose. He intends to put up a
thousand barrels of fish to start w ith.
He is also engaged in the minipg
business and has sent two men to
Cache creek. Mr. Coppernoll will
soon ask for leave of absence to take
a trip outside and L. V. Ray will be
asked to Like his place as city at
torney during his absence.
JEALOUS OF MOTHER
MAN KILLS HER CHILD
LANSING, Kansas, April 29.—Fred
j Bissell, the Topeka baker, has con
fessed to the murder of Edna Dins
; more, a child ten years of age, at
i Topeka last Tuesday, and he declares
’ that the murder was committed be
cause the child’s mother refused to
marry him. Many of the details are
I so revolting that they are unfit to
' print
R. R. WORK SOON
AT FAIRBANKS:
"
POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT To|
THAT EFFECT IS MADE
AT LAST.
SEATTLE, April 29.—The positive
j announcement that work will soon be
! gin at the Fairbanks end of the gov
I ernment railroad, which will mean the
! opening of the Nenana coal fields and
j the resumption on a large scale of
| gold mining in the Tanana valley, was
! made today by F. G. Cramer, the dis
bursing agent of the Alaska Engi- j
' neering Commission in the interior. J
Cramer is here from Washington en- j
! route to Fairbanks and is accompani-,
! cd by his assistant, J. C. Williams,
| and by F. H. Bailey, division engineer
| and twenty-three men.
R. R. STRIKE I
MAY BE OVER
BOTH SIDES MAKING CONCES
SIONS AND FVRRAGIT
LEAVES FOR SEWARD.
ANCHORAGE, April 29.- The Kar
ragut sailed from here at 9 o’clock
last night.
The strike situation now looks more
hopeful. The union is holding a meet
ing as this dispatch is sent and it is I
believed that a satisfactory scale will j
be established as both sides are mak
ing concessions. The result should be
known at l o’clock and it will be re
ported to you immediately.
(Note: The above was received by
the Gateway this morning before 11
o’clock.)
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD WINS
SOUTHEAST CHAMPIONSHIP
JUNEAU, April 28. — The cham
pionship of southeastern Alaska in
basket ball was won tonight by the
Arctic Brotherhood when the team of
that organization beat Treadwell in
the third annual game for that cham
pionship. The score was 27 to 22.
CAUSES OF ERWIN’S
SUIT FOR DIVORCE
In the office of the cle.rk of the dis
trict court last Monday afternoon
United States Marshal Lewis T. Er
win, through his attorneys, McGowan
& Clark, filed the complaint in a suit
for divorce from his wife, named in
the complaint as Willie Haynes Er
win. The complaint is a voluminous
document, covering several type
written pages. Shortly ufter it was
filed the attorney for the complainant
appeared in court and asked that a
special officer be appointed to serve
the summons. W. F. Whitely was
named.
The chief reasons given in the
complaint as to why the divorce
should be given the plainiff are
adultery and desertion, although sev
eral other charges are made. There
are two separate charges of adultery
on the part of the defendant named,
the adulterous acts being alleged to j
have been committed at two different
times and with two different men.
The co-respondents, as named in the
complaint, arc George Marshall, a
young man who recently returned to
Fairbanks from a trip to the outside j
but who was formerly employed by
the Pacific Cold Storage in their of
fice here and was later an employee of
the Northern Commercial Company at
one of their lower river stations, and
i Hugh McDermott, a former resident
| of Dawson. One of the adulterous
acts, that with Marshall, is alleged to
I have been committed here between
January 18, 1913, and June 21, 1914.
The other, with McDermott, is alleged
to have been committed in Dawson in
i
1902.—Fairbanks Citixen.
BRITISH GARRISON SURRENDERS
TO TURKS AT KUT-EE-AMARA
Another Station
Joh Given Out
Station Men Get 80 Cents For Solid
Rock and 25 Cents For Com
mon Excavation.
E. Nass & company have signed for
more station work at Mile 8 and the
force will be ten men, the amount of
the contract being about live thou
sand yards. The work consists of
making two small cuts. 1 he rate
paid by the government engineering
commission is the same in all station
contracts. Eighty cents a yard is
given for solid rock, forty-live cents
for loose rock and twenty-five cents
for common excavation. Clearing and
other matters vary according to the
conditions.
HUNDREDS OF MILES
OF ROADS DISAPPEAR
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
SALEM, Ore., April 29. — The
mysterious disappearance of 220 miles
of highway in Lincoln county as shown
in the biennial road report of Oregon,
causes the Department of Agriculture
at Washington to wonder.
When Malheur, the biggest county
in the state, showed an increase of 2,
000 miles of highway in two years, the
department demanded an explanation
from State Engineer Lewis.
Today Lewis made this explanation
to Washington: The 1914 road re
port from Lincoln county was made
when the tide was out. When the
19*6 report was made the tide was in,
and 220 miles of coast highway were
under water and couldn’t be counted.
DAN CALLAHAN UP
IN ARMS IN COURT
A recent issue of the Fairbanks
Citizen shows that Dan Callahan de
fied the court and roasted all the of
ficials severely before and after the
sentence of twelve years was passed
on him by Judge Bunnell. When the
court sentenced him to that term Cal
lahan said:
“You can make it 20 years if you
want to. It don’t make any differ
ence.”
Bunnell declared however that noth
ing Callahan could say or had said
affected the decision he had come to
after going into the case.
Concluding his remarks before sen
tence was passed, Callahan said, In
part:
“Now' you needn't give any of them
goody goody sermons of yours to me.
Everybody in this country knows Dan
Callahan, and anything you will say
w'on’t make them feel a bit w’orse or
any better towards me. Why! If I
hadn’t been in jail the chances are I
wrould have been up to the city hall
last night sw'orn in to represent all
you people the same as I have for the
past nine years. (He wras referring
to the swearing into office of the city
council on Monday night.) And I am
kind a heavy on my feet and don’t like
to stand up long. That’s all I have
to say.”
RAILROAD NOTES
A new “Y” is now being built near
this city a short distance north of
the machine chops.
At Anchorage a new switch track
is being built across the creek to con
nect the terminal yards with the
wholesale warehouses and lumber
yards. This will permit the barges
to unload on to flat cars without mak
ing it necessary for them to go up the
creek.
No reader can afford to omit the
' Seward Gateway.
LONDON, April 29.—'The British garrison of Kut-el
Amara has surrendered to the Turks, the war office an
nounced this afternoon. It consisted of 2,970 English
troops and 6,000 Indian troops, making 9,000 in all. The
siege lasted for 140 days and it had been known for some
time that the British were in serious trouble from lack
of food. It is pointed out by the officials that this is the
first time in the present war and one of the very few oc
casions in more than a century in which a besieged Brit
ish garrison surrendered. It was thought at the time
Townsend was forced to retreat from Bagdad, that he had
about 15,000 men and it is now supposed that his losses
previous to the siege were very severe. The most serious
effect of the surrender is that a large Turk army will now
be let loose against the forces of Generals Lake and Ayl
mers which had been trying to force their way to the re
lief of Townsend. It is admitted that the Mesopotamia
campaign will now probably end up in another failure like
that of the Dardanelles.
IRISH SURROUNDED
LONDON, April 29.—The Irish rebels, whose number
is estimated all the way from two thousand to ten thou
sand, are cornered and surrounded in the heart oi Dublin
city by the British and the officials believe the revolt has
been virtually crushed. Advices from Dublin today are to
the effect that the British troops are besieging the post
office building in which the Sein Feiners have established
their headquarters. Several nearby buildings have al
ready been captured and the troops are closing in on the
main position. Light artillery has been trained on the
postoffice building but the commanders of the troops hope
to seize it without being forced to destroy it. 1 he revolu
tionists are firing from the windows and loopholes. It is
declared by officials that outside the city but close to it
the revolutionists have made overtures of surrender but
this is not given as official information. The most severe
fighting occurred yesterday when the British troops cap
tured strongly entrenched positions in St. Stephens
Green. The revolters had dug trenches in the park which
occupies the center of the square. They had also barri
caded the streets leading into the Green and occupied the
great buildings surrounding it. The houses of Lord Ardi
laun and Lord Iveagh, owners of Guiness brewery, St.
Vincent’s hospital and a great hotel building, all of which
face on the park, were made strongholds by the revolu
tionists. One detachment of the rebels was cut off and
three hundred of them are reported to have laid down
their arms when all hope of resistance was banished.
Fires are now burning in several parts of the city and the
greatest fear prevails that destruction of the capital mu\
result. Revolts on a more or less important scale have oc
curred in Killarney, Enniscorthy, Gorey, Glocomel and
in parts of Galway county but elsewhere the situation is
reported to be calm. Strong squadrons are said to be
patrolling the Irish coast constantly to guard against a
landing by the Germans who are reported to be making
preparations to that end. The majority of the people of
Ireland and the parliamentary representatives are still
reported to be intensely opposed to the outbreak and only
the Sinn Fein society seems to have taken part. No in
formation has yet been given out of the casualties but in
the severe fighting yesterday, it is assumed, the losses on
both sides were considerable although the houses inter
vened most of the time.
ONE HUNDRED KILLED
DUBLIN, April 29—The official report is that only
about a hundred people have been killed in Dublin in the
first couple of days’ fighting. The details of the affair
canot be sent out for the present but it can be said that
only a small minority of the men of this city have taken
part in the revolution. The majority considers the upris
ing as hasty and a serious mistake.
FEAR OF BREAK PASSED
WASHINGTON, April 29.—There is a marked re
laxation of the tension noticeable with respect to the Gei
man-American situation today. Officials make it mani
fest in many ways that the most favorable result of the
controversy with Germany may be expected.