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PREPARING TO
ATTACK TURKS
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BRITISH AND FRENCH NOW
SENDING LAND
ARMIES.
TRANSPORTS ON WAV
Tl’RKEY ANSWERS BY CALLING
OIT ALL HER
MEN.
LONDON, April 0.—Gigantic
preparations are now being made to
invade Turkey by land and already a
great fleet of transport ships is on the
way to the Mediterranean carrying a
• strong British army whose purpose it
is said to land on the Gallipoli penin
sula and the Asiatic side of the Dar
danelles and force a way to Constan
tinople. The French will co-operate
by sending an army from their Afri
can possessions and thus will another
great war theatre be created. It is
also announced this morning by the
London newspapers that Turkey has
called out all its available men to meet
the onslaught. One of the chief ob
ects of the British government is to
capture Constantinople so that the
headquarters of Islam may be remov
ed from that place and established in
Delhi. India, so that the religious war
which is now threatening to spread
may be nipped in the bud. There is
rooted in the British people and gov
ernment an iron determination to
reach the Turkish capital whether
such an object has to be attained by
land or water. The fleet now bom- J
barding the Dardanelles forts will act
in conjunction with the armies and
keep hammering away without let or
stay. It is admitted that the land
operations against Turkey will take
away a large part of the new Kitchen
er army which has been intended for
use in France and Belgium bu the
French are recruiting to make up for
it.
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REDFIELD Tl RNS DOWN
A SEATTLE REQUEST, j
Say* Nothing Will be Done to Keep
Canada From the Halibut
Trade.
WASHINGTON, April 9.—Secre
tray Redfield of the department of
commerce announces that nothing will
be done to prevent Canada from se
curing the halibut trade. His excuse
is that a special ruling against a for
eign country cannot be made in such
a matter at the request of any com
munity. He advises the Puget Sound
people to discover new halibut banks
whoso business they will be able to
control. A strong fight had been put
up on the question and some of the
Alaska fishermen had aided Seattle
in the effort, but to no avail.
BIG GAME COMING
VP NEXT SUNDAY, j
Federal* and Seward Will Meet with
Many New Players in
Fine Game.
The Federals and Seward nine will |
meet on the city diamond next Sun
day at 2 p. m. for what is sure to be
one of the best games ever seen here. |
Both teams are getting so worked up j
over the battle that some feeling has ,
been aroused. Hoben says he will
win the first big game or go back to
Portage Bay, and Ennis says Portage
Bay will soon have an increase of
population.
The following are the line-ups:
Seward: Nickerson, S S; Finnegan,
C; Poehlmann, 2 B; Reed, 3 B; Huasch
1 B; Hickey, L F; Taylor, C F; Tol
man, R F; Smith P.
Feds: Campbell, 1st B; Carlson,
L F; Carrington, 3 B; Burley C; Dial,,
C F; Ennis 2nd B; Blake and Allen,
R F; Kridler, S S;Lucas, P.
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Delegate Wiskersham explained to
the committtee that thousands of dol- j
ars should be realized, for the bene
fit of Territorial schools from the
reservation of the sections of land.
“The section 16 or 36 that strikes
the Matanuska or Bering coal fields,”
he said, “will bring cash from the coal
rained in those sections into the Ter
ritorial treasury, amounting to a
great sum. if the richness of those
districts is as a great as predicted.”
❖ FRENCH WOMEN ARE ♦
❖ AGAIN TO FRONT. *j
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PARIS, April 9.—The women of
France are now organizing corps of
ambulance drivers so that they might
release the men drivers to go to the
bring line. Hundreds of applications
are received from women every day
and soon France will have thousands
of its daughters in active service.
KICKING MULES CAUSE
BIG COAL STRIKE.
Miners Say That Kicking of Animals
Near Dynamite is
Dangerous.
WILKESBARRE, April 9.—
Thirteen hundred miners have called
a strike in a coal mine near this place
because the use of kicking mules is
inssted upon by the owners. The
strikers declare that the mules are
used around the places where the
dynamite is used and that their kick
ing is a constant danger to the men
employed there. The company refus
ed to give up using the mules at the
request of the men.
WOMEN HAVE
RIGHTS TO OFFICE.
! FAIRBANKS.—In a telegram re
‘ ceived from E. B. Collins, speaker of
the house of representative of the Al
aska legislature, to Mrs. Ed- Wicker
ersham this city, comes the news that
the women of Alaska have all the poli
tical rights that are enjoyed by men.
The telegram implies that it was due
to the discovery of this fact that a
new bill was not passed at the present
session of the legislature permitting
women to hold office and serve on
juries.
| ORDERS TO CLOSE
DOORS TO SALOONS.
Issued Last Night by l nited States
Marshal Through Deputy
Marshal.
Deputy Marshal Ike Evans sent last
evening instructions to all restaurants
having doors opening into saloons to
board up those doors immediately.
Instructions were sent to Mr. Evans
by United States Marshal Brenneman
who said that closing or locking is not
sufficient. The doors must be nailed
up. It is thought that this order does
not apply to lunch counters in saloons
and that the order only requires that
all booths, rooms restaurants etc,,
which could be called connected with
saloons must be »'n plain sight as part
of the saloons.
RUSSIA SENDS
LATER REPORT
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SAYS SHE NOW CONTROLS |
THE BESKII) MOUNT
AINS.
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PETROGRAD, April 9.—The ac
count came this afternoon that the
Russian army had gained control of
the summits of the Beskid mountains
which are part of the great Carpath
ian range and that the descent into
Hungary from that position will now
I be comparatively easy. Large losses
are admitted in the fight to gain the
summits as our troops had to charge
against strongly entrenched Austrian
forces. The fightfng in northern Po
land is said to be almost at a stand
still. Both sides still occupy the
same positions that they held in the
beginning of the week.
JUNEAU.—Numerous witnesses
have been summoned to appear before
the joint commission on roads and
highways, in order that the complaints
against the Alaska road commission
may l e aired. The charge has been
made that the federal appropriations
obtained by the commission have been
wasted every year on the Valdez
Fairbanks post road.
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Arrivals on the last boat who were
! in Cordova on the day of the election
say that the winning side just painted
that burg red. They celebrated all
night and well into the morning.
Gus SeiflFert will leave on the Wat
son to begin the summer's mining op
erations.
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
GERMANY WILL
PAYJOR FRYE
DECLARES, HOWEVER, THAT
SINKING WAS JUST
IFIABLE.
SEATTLE, April 9.—It was an
nounced here today that Germany will
pay for the ship Frye which was load
ed at this port^and which was sunk in
the Atlantic by the German converted
cruiser Prince Eitel Fredrich because
she was carrying wheat to England.
Germany, however, declares that the
sinking was justiliable although it
admits that an old treaty requires full
identification of a ship before it can
be destroyed. A prize court will set
tle the details as to the price to be
paid for the vessel.
GENERAL BUSINESS
IMPROVES ALL OVER, j
Bank Examiners Say That Maine is
the Only State Not Get
ting Better.
WASHINGTON, April 9.—The
bank examiners report that business
is improving all over the United
States. The Pacific coast states, they
say, are in much better condition and
only state in the union which is not
at present showing signs of better
ment is Maine.
Secretary Lane who has returned
from San Francfisco says good times
are ahead.
SEATTLE SUN TO START.
News has been received that the Seat
tie Sun which went broke some time
ago will re-start publication on April
19th.
SECOND SUICIDE IN
ONE DOUGLAS HOUSE.
DOUGLAS, March 30.—The suicide
of Guiseppi’s at Douglas Sunday, re
calls the Bachie tragedy whch oc
curred in the same house about three
years ago. Paul Bachie returned to
his home one night to find his wife in
company with a man named Luka
Sekulich, Bachie opened fire on the
couple, killing his wife and wounding
Sekulich, after which he retired to the
attic where he killed himself to keep
from being arrested by Deputy Mar
shall MacMillan.
Guiseppi leaves a mother and three
children in Venice, Italy.—(Empire.)
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WOMAN WAS
ONEJOLD-UP
TOOK PART IN ATTACK
ON AN OREGON
STAGE.
BAKER, Ore., April 9.—A woman
has been arrested with two men on
the charge of holding up the stage
some days ago when seven thousand
dollars in gold dust was secured by
the robbers. The money has been
recovered and it is said that eneough
is known to show that the two men
and woman arrested were the parties,
or some of the partes, that held up
the stage. The woman took part as
a principle in the outrage and is re
porter to have held a gun just as the
men did. Of course, it is too early yet
to say positively that the woman un
der arrest is the same woman.
CLEANING UI\
The cleanup period began today and
will continue tomorrow. The people
went to work with a will this morning
and the result became noticeable be
fore noon.
WATSON CORDOVA SUNDAY.
Agent Wayne Blue received word
this morning that the Admiral Watson
left Juneau at 10 p. m. Thursday and
will arrive at Cordova on Sunday.
MARIPOSA FOR KNIK.
Alaska Steamship Company starts
their Knik anchorage service with the
Mariposa sailing from Seattle April
18th.
WANTED.
Smart boy at the Gateway office.
ANCIENT FOES '
IN FATAL GRIP
GERMANS AND FRENCH GRAP
PLE FIERCELY ON
BLOODY FIELDS.
LONDON, April 0.—The French
and Germans are now engaged in the
bloodiest conflicts of the war in vari
ous fields along the western lines.
The French have increased their of
fensive on the Meuse while the Ger
mans are delivering furious counter
attacks. Both sides are losing fright
fully but are fighting with a fierce de
termination’. In Alsace and Cham
pagne the French are especially active
and on those fields also terriflic
struggles are taking place for the
mastery. One thing is becoming evi
dent during this war and that is that
the French now meet their ancient
foes with greater confidence than they
were able to command in 1870. This
confidence is increasing as the war
continues and as the.French come to
learn that the supposed superiority of
the German war machine is not so
great as they had come to suppose.
Military experts here believe that if
France had possessed the same con
fidence at the beginning of the war
the conflict would now be proceeding
on German territory instead of
French.
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❖ NOTES FROM THE ♦
•> ALASKA CAPITAL. •>
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On the •'lOth of March, Delegate
Wickersham was quoted by the Ju
neau Empire as being in favor of “full
territcrial government” and the Em
pire wrote an editorial to show that
its opinion* were endorsed by Mr.
Wickersham. Before the editoria*
was printed the delegate was quoted
in the Juneau Dispatch as being in
favor of “statehood.” The two pap
ers have opposite views as to the two
different governmental forms and
each, of course, was pleased with the
delegate’s support, but the Empire let
the editorial run with the note append
ed reminding the people that it ap
peared on Fool’s Day.
A man who was a policeman in
Douglas up to the first of the month
was arrested in that city the other
day for kicking up a row.
Senator McGann of Nome, will
probably draw full pay for the session
although he did not arrive in Juneau
until this month.
FRANCE TO RELEASE
A MAN FROM SEATTLE.
WASHINGTON, April 9.—France
agrees to release August Piepenbring
who was taken off the American
steamer Windber in November on the
ground that he was a German reserv
ist. The prisoner says that he has
filed his first citizenship papers in
Seattle in 1910. The United States
government has been working for the
release of the man since a time short
ly after his arrest.
FAIRBANKS. March 22.—Upon
telegraphic authority from Washing
ton, Marshal Erwn opened the deten
tion hospital last Tuseday for the use
of the insane patients held here pend
ing their being sent outside.
AGAIN VILLA
INFIGHTING
BATTLE SAID TO BE PRO
CEEDING NEAR
CELAYA.
VERA CRUZ, April 9.—An import
ant battle is now reported to be rag
ing between Villa and Carranza near
Ceiaya. The Villa forces apparently
have not been disorganized by the bat
tle against Obregon of a few days ago
when the Villaistas were said to have
been defeated. No information as to
the manner in which the present bat
tle is proceeding has been received
although the accounts coming this way
seem as a rule to be colored in favor
of the Carranza side. This fact leads j
to the belief that Villa is faring bet
ter than the reports indicate.
* Job printing of every description at
The Gateway.
NO CHANGE IN
CARPATHIANS
PETROGRAD FOR ONCE DOES
NOT CLAIM
VICTORIES.
PETROGRAD, April 9.—No change
has occurred in the fighting in the
Carpathians according to the official
announcements made today. There i
is no reason to believe that the lack
of news means that the Russian offen
sive has failed as the authorities de-1
claro that everything is proceeding
satisfactorily. People are waiting;
anxiously to hear what Bulgaria’s i
next step will be but not a word has ,
been published as to her intentions
since she made the raid on the Serv- j
ian borders. It is admitted that Rus- j
sia has abandoned the attempt to at- j
tack Constantinople from the Ros- ;
phorus side but the defeat of Turkey j
will moan the possession by this na
tion of the Turkish capital wherever
victory is accomplished.
AMERICANS DIE OF
DISEASE IN SERBIA.
Awful Epidemic in Stricken Country
Carrying Off Our
Doctors.
WASHINGTON, April 9.—Dr.
Earnest MagTuder of this city has
died in Serbia of typus which with
other diseases is now epidemic in that
unfortunate country. He had been
workng on the Red Cross force to
stem the tide of destruction brought
on by the disease. Dr. O’Donnell, an- j
other American mamber of the Red
Cross in Serbia died of the same epi
demic a few weeks ago. The people
of the little nation are now said to
be dying almost like flies.
BRIEF IN RAILWAY
MAIL CASE FILED.
Railroads Declare that Change of
Weighing Methods
Causes Loss.
WASHINGTON, April 9.—The
brief in the railway mail case has
been filed. The suit affects eight hun
dred roads which declare that they
are losing thirty-five million dol
lars annually by the new regulations.
These regulations chiefly affect the
roads because they include a new
method of weighing.
LORIMER MUST
STAND TRIAL
COURT OVERRULES MOTION
IN BANK WRECK
CASES.
CHICAGO, April 9.—The court to
day over-ruled the motion to quash
the indictments against “Senator”
Lorimer and the other officials for
the wrecking of the LaSalle Street
Trust and Savings Company. This
means that the charged men must
stand trail on the charge. This trial
will begin probably in a few days but
the exact day has not been fixed.
Lorimer has secured the best counsel
obtainable and declares that he can
not be convicted.
MOOSE INSTALATION.
j
The installation of the new officers
of the Moose will begin this evening
at 8 o’clock sharp.. All are requested
to be present on time.
MAIL ARRIVED
Word was received this morning
tht the Iditarod mail left Mile Thirty
four and gets in this afternoon.
ATTENTION LADIES. *
SPECIAL.
Ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five and
thirty dollar switches less than half
price. Puffs, curls and all hair goods
less than half. Scalp and facial treat- j
ments a reduction. For a limited
time only.—Beauty Culture Parlors,
Adams St., Opposite Railroad Bldg.
See us before sending outside for
i your lob printing.
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❖ TO MAKE DYE STUFFS *
❖ IN NEW ENGLAND. *
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WASHINGTON, April 9.—Six
plants are being built in New England |
to be used for the manufacture of dye
stulTs to make up for the lack of im
portations of dyes from Germany.
The manufacture of the stuffs has
been found to be absolutely necessary
to save great numbers of people from
unemployment.
WARNED THAT VESSEL
WAS DEFECTIVE.
Commander of Submarine F-4 wrote
a Week Before Accident to
That Effect.
LOS ANGELES, April 9.—Lieuten
ant Ede, commander of the ill-fated
submarine F-4 that was lost at Hono
lulu, wrote just a week before the ac-1
cident to the effect that the vessel was
defective and that her defect might
be the cause of a catastrophe. The
submarine was built at Seattle but as
to whether the defect was in the con
struction or came afterwards is not
known.
GERMANS ARRESTED
IN LONDON CITY.
Accused of Sending Invisible Writing
and May Be Shot
as Spies.
LONDON, April 9.—Three Germans
were arrested today and charged with
being spies. The authorities say that
they have been sending messages to
Germany written in invisible ink and
should the offense be proved they will
unquestionably be shot as the feeling
against spies has become very bitter
owing to the belief that spies directed
the German raids that caused the loss
of life to women and children.
WHY HUME WAS SHOT.
The following is the story of the
lawsuit, appearing some time ago,
which led to the shooting of Attorney
Hume, as related yesterday:
SAN FRANCISCO, March 18.—
Mrs. Ella Heim has started suit in this
city in an effort to secure an interest
in the rich Ophir mines in the Nome
country, which she claims have a val
ue of $6,000,000. The feature of the
action is the charge that W. T. Hume,
former district attorney of Portland,
Oregon, who is representing the plain
tiff, is attempting to influence testi
mony. The charge was made by
Joseph Wright, former Nome post
master, and is vigorously denied by
the attorney.
LANE TALKING
AFTERJETURN
SAYS RECENT TRIP CONVINCES
HIM PROSPERITY
HERE.
WASHINGTON, April ^—Secre
tary Lane has returned after his trip
to San Francisco and states that the
observations made by him on the
journey have convinced him that pros
perity has returned to the country.
This is the first statement made by
! him since he got to Washington. He
has said nothing about the govern
ment Alaska railroad but there is a
feeling that what was meant by the
report that the announcement would
be given out this w'eek was that it
would be given out when the secretary
of the interior got back.
NORTHWESTERN ARRIVES.
SEATTLE, April 9.—The North
western arrived today at noon.
H. H. Wood, formerly of the freight
department of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company, will have charge
of the lighterage business of the Knik j
Susitna Transporation Company, j
which will operate from the head of |
Cook inlet. Mr. Wood will sail for the j
North on the steamer Bertha, which
leaves Seattle on April 1.
Walter S. Milner, editor of the Seat
tle Daily Bulletin sent to William
Sauers on the Mariposa congratula
tions for having guessed Seward as ■
the terminal.
Whitehead and de Sherbinin havej
erected their portable house pn the
lot opposite the Gateway office as an
example of the fine new methods of j
securing a comfortable home quickly.
ITALY STILL
FOB PEACE
ACTION OF GREECE DEPENDS
ON DARDANELLES
FIGHT.
ROME, April 9.—The feeling re
mains today that peace between this
country and Austria will continue. It
is reported that negotiations are still
proceeding with a view to settling
what concessions the latter nation
will make as a price for Italy’s friend
ship but those taking part in t ie con
ference are silent. If peace is main
tained it can only bo regarded as a
remarkably eminent diplomatic
triumph for Count von Buelow, Ger
many’s ambassador at Rome. The ac
tion of Greece with relation to the
war will depend almost entirely on the
outcome of the fighting around the
Dardanelles. The king of Greece is
still entirely opposed to war and the
cabinet selected by him agrees with
his views, and yet there is a large
body of Greek public opinion that
favors the immediate declaration of
hostilities.
SYRACUSE ELECTRIC
LINES TIED UP.
Fight Between Unions Cause*. Strike
That May Affect All West
of State.
SYRACUSE, April 9.—Because of
a quarrel amongst the unions them
selves a strike has occurred on the
electric lines of the city of Syracuse
and not a car is running in the city.
Most of the intcrurban lines have also
been tied up and the strike now
threatens to affect the whole western
part of the state.
CUTS TAIL OF ONE
HUNDRED SIXTY HORSES.
j Spokane Thief Hits on a Fine New
Scheme For Raising
Funds.
SPOKANE, April 9.—A tnief cut
the tails from no less than one hund
red and sixty horses here last night
for the purpose of selling the hair.
The identity of the man has not been
learned but several clues are supposed
to have been secured that will lead to
his apprehension. The work was ac
complished with such dispatch that
the robber is supposed to have been
aware where the horses could be
found and when they would be most
easily approached without detection.
NEWLY ELECTED MEN
MEET INFORMALLY.
Nothing Done Given Out but 1 hey
Were Probably Just Get
ting Acquainted.
The newly elected members of the
city council met last evening. They
give out nothing that was clone, but
they say that no actual business was
transacted and that they were “only
getting acquainted." They will take
their seats tomorrow evening at which
time they may transact no business,
unless they may take it into their
heads to electe the president, who will
then be ex-officio mayor. None of the
salaried offices will be filled to-morrow
unless it is found necessary.
COMES TO GET READY
FOR BUILDING BOOM.
J. C. Carrington of the Central
Door and Lumber company, which
sells the famous Bishopric Wall
Board, is now in the city representing
the firm to be prepared for the build
ing boom.
The head offices of the company are
in Portland, but Mr. Carrington is
from the Seattle office. The Bishopric
wall board is a remarkable invention
that makes a house warm as wool in
any kind of weather. He is staying at
the Overland hotel where he will be
pleased to talk with anyone regarding
the board. He also has Bishop stucco
or plaster board. Both of these come
in sheets ready to nail on and are
another great aid to fast and perfect
building.
DAWSON, N. W. T., Apr I 2.—Fire
yesterday afternoon gutted the Roch
ester hotel, one of the largest hotels
in this place, causing a damage of
$10,000 and suffocating in his room
Charles Ingram, a miner.
Hot waffles at the Commerce Cafe,