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BELIEVED GERMAN NOTE MEANS
CHANCE TO END GREAT WAR
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WASHINGTON, May 6.—The following is Ger
many’s concession to the United States as expressed in
the reply received from the German government yester
dav:
“The German government notifies the government
of the United States that the German naval forces have
received the following orders:
“ ‘In accordance with the general principle of visiting
and searching and the destruction of merchant vessels
recognized by international law, such vessels, both within
and without the area declared to be a naval war zone,
shall not be sunk without warning and without the effort
to save human lives unless the ship attempts to escape or
offer resistance.’ ”
The final paragraph refers to Germany’s request
that the United States force Great Britain to abandon its
blockade or Germany’s food supplies. It is as follows:
“But neutrals cannot expect that Germany, forced to
fight for existence, shall for the sake of neutral interests
restrict the use of every weapon if the enemy is permitted
to continue to apply at will methods of warfare which
violate the rules of international law.”
ALL IS FRIENDLY AGAIN
WASHINGTON, May 6.—The whole trouble between
Germany and the United States is at an end. In the view
of President Wilson the whole submarine issue is closed
and neither he nor his advisors have any other comment
coming. So completely do the officials in touch with the
situation consider the issue disposed of that it has been
stated, almost officially, that there will be no reply sent
to Germany to its reply. Germany and the United States
today, indeed, seem to be more friendly than ever.
MAY MEAN PEACE STEPS
WASHINGTON, May 6.—A conference which is pro
ceeding this afternoon between the German emperor andj
the American ambassador to Berlin, Gerard, looms large
in the minds of the officials of this government as this dis-j
patch is sent. It is thought that the kaiser has desired to
discuss with Gerard the full details of the submarine issue
and other questions. There is strong belief since the ar
rival of the German reply that the possibility of peace is
playing an important part in the conference which is go
ing on.
WHAT BERLIN THINKS
BERLIN, May 6.—In American circles it is pointed
out today that in the German reply to the American de
mands there is a tone which suggests th» possibility of
peace and it is believed that President Wilson has a great
opportunity to bring the war to an early end if he takes ad
vantage of the carefully worded suggestion. It has been
openly stated that the time is ripe again for Colonel
House to visit the European capitals.
ENGLAND DISAPPOINTED
LONDON, May 6.—All the newspapers here express
disappointment because the United States appears to be
ready to accept the reply of the German government to
the American demands. The feeling towards the United
States, as a consequence, is by no means over friendly
today. _
^ ❖ WEDDING BELLS ♦
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Mr. Sol Barnet and Miss Rose
Coh&lan were united in marriage last
evening by Father Vanderpol, S. J.
The bride is a sister of Mrs. Stotko
and the groom is a young business
man of the city. Miss Tiny Davis
was bridesmaid. The happy couple
► reside in the Butts building.
THINKS HE CAN FOOL
ALL THE CHICKENS
ALL OF THE TIME
MILAN, 0., ^pril~28.—S. E. Ewell
says his chickens are laying two eggs
every day. “I turn on the lights for
aix hours,” says Ewell, “and then
keep them in darkness six hours. The
hens think two days have passed and
they lay every twelve hours instead of
•very twenty-four.”
WOMEN’S 'TEAM PLAY POLO
AT SAN FRAN. HORSE SHOW
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 27.—Polo
ponies which have won plaudits for
their owners on many a speedy turf
were exhibited here today in the
Second Annual Horse Show.
Society was out in force. As the
blue blooded equines pranced around
the arena amid a clatter of hand
clapping it was realized that the
motor still had a long road to travel
before it could shove the horse en
tirely out of the limelight,
i An indoor polo game attracted
great attention. One of the principal
features of the three day show will be
a polo game between teams composed
of women.
Job printing of every description at
Hie Gateway.
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Alaskan Imports
Break All Records
SEATTLE, May 6. — The exports
from this port to Alaska for last
month, April, 1916, amounted to $3,
863,115, which means a record. The
largest figure previously was in June
of last year but the April figures are
greater by $1,319,437. The exports
for April last year were $2,453,161.
Fifty-nine vessels cleared for Alaska
| lust month.
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❖ BASEBALL GAME *
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At two o’clock tomorrow afternoon
i the teams of Captain Hoben and
Captain Ennis will line up for what
may be regarded as the real opening
game of the season, if nothing comes
to interfere. Both sides say they
have a strong team and each of the
skippers thinks he has the winning
buneh. With fine weather like that
which we are having today the game
ought to be a pretty one.
Delegates Hold
Juneau Meeting
More of the inside story of the Re
publican convention held here was
shown at a meeting held in Juneau on
April 27 when several of the most
prominent delegates to the convention
spoke. The most remarkable speech
was delivered by Ed. Russell, who
represented Wickersham here. He
stated that Mr. Wickersham refused
to answer his telegrams on the day of
the convention and he placed the
blame for it on the busybodies who,
he believed, had been writing to
Wickersham. Others who were pres
ent at the meeting were Shackleford,
Murane, Schofield, Irving and others
who were very prominent in the con
vention here. From the speeches it
seems to be a fact that the majority
of the delegates to the convention
were against nominating Wickersham
but veered around to be in favor of it.
Shackleford in his speech apparently
says that he is no longer opposed to
Wickersham and that he only got into
the convention and its work to stand
by hie friends. He says the methods
adopted by the majority at the con
vention were used to enable Alaskans
to choose their ow n officials and knock
out carpet-bagging.
Russell stated that Wickersham
would probably regret his action fail
ing to answer the cables and this Is
probably the most interesting state
ment of all, coming from the Wicker
sham representative. The following
is a part of the statement as reported
in Mr. Russell’s own paper, the Ju
neau Dispatch:
“The platform was telegraphed to
Delegate W’ickersham at the expense
of the members, but no reply was re
ceived. The convention, Mr. Russell
said, was prepared to give Mr. Wick
ersham a practically unanimous en
dorsement, upon his acceptance of the
platform, but no wrord was ever re
ceived from the delegate, although
several wires were sent.
Mr. Russell frankly stated that too
many busybodies had been getting
busy wiring to the delegate and he
* believed that Mr. Wickersham would
regret his action when he learned the
true facts.”
The Alaska Northern has been
given until May 15 to file its bill of
exceptions. In the paper yesterday
the “1” did not show up before the
“5” and it looked like May 5 instead
of May 16. Six months was the time
given first for the filing.
CARS TO RUN
BAILYJ1N R. R.
PREPARING NOW TO REBUILD
FIVE MILES FROM
MILE 18.
The small motor car has now been
put in daily service by the Engineer
ing Commission for the convenience
of passengers until such time as the
read will be fixed properly to permit
of the running of the big steam
locomotive.
W. H. Daub is now establishing a;
camp at Mile 23 in preparation for
quite a considerable amount of work
to be done out then*. A Aoss section
party is at work between Miles 18
and 23 where the line for the whole
five miles will be straightened out.
The steamshovel at the head of the
bay is operating constantly and most
successfully. It dug out no less than
175 feet in distance yesterday.
The pile driving at Resurrection
river will be completed today.
ANOTHER NEW
BRIDGECOMING
HOAD COMMISSION WILL HAVE
TO RE-BUILD AT RES
URRECTION.
Owing to the fact that the Engi
neering Commission is bu ding the
new Resurrection bridge with large
spans the Road Commission will prob
ably have to build a new structure
where the wagon road bridge novr
stands. Lieutenant Mehaffey believes
that as the wide spans of the railroad
bridge will let logs through some
change must be made in the wagon
road bridge to save it from destruc
tion. Mr. MehatTey cannot yet give
any idea of the amount of work to be
done here this summer as everything
depends on whether the rev' appro
priation for wagon roads will go
througn. He rays o.>me repair work
will be done, anyhow.
MORE THAN A HUNDRED
COMING HERE NOW
SEATTLE, May 5.—On the steam
ships Northwestern and Mariposa
which are now on the way more than
a hundred passengers are aboard for
Seward. The Mariposa goes by the
inside passage and has the following
for Seward: Miss K. Meldrumm,
Mrs. Fay Bell, Mrs. J. Duffy, Miss A.
Edin, Mrs. E. Hansen, Miss F. Guy
eth, Joseph Nagle and wife, Ed.
Kalenzahui and twenty-four steerage.
The Northwestern goes by the out
side passage and has the following
for Seward: Guy Whitehead, F.
Douse, Fay Jess, Mrs. G. Hansen, S.
Dray, O. Elken, C. Reynolds, Sidney
Anderson, M. Martin, D. Brown amt
wife, D. Donnelly, John Chism, E.
Rossetter, Joe McClure, John Nor
man, B. Schwartz, Emil Hansen,
Herman Hungekes, F. Maxwell, L.
Olson, Geo. Sevetza, Fred Shafer and
thirty-six steerage.
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FOX IS APPOINTED TO
POSITION CHIEF CLERK
JUNEAU.—Arthur Fox, a well
known resident of Alaska and Juneau,
has been appointed as chief clerk in
the office of territorial secretary by
Charles E. Davidson in place of E. T. |
Lindner who resigned to accept a
! position with Andrew Christensen.
The latter was recently appointed
chief of the bureau of land and in
dustries of the government railway
commission with headquarters at
•Seward. Many expressions have
been heard from local people about
the selection of Mr. Fox as a case of
the office seeking the man and one
whose ability is well known.—Dis
patch.
GERMANS MAKE ANOTHER GAIN
AT VERDUN, THE FRENCH ADMIT
Motor Companies
To Be Great Trust j
DETROIT, May 6.—Plans have
been announced for the consolidation
of several famous motor and wagon
manufactories, with a capital of two
hundred millions. The companies to
be in the consolidation are the Gen
eral Motors Company, the Buick,
Oakland, Continental, Maxwell, Cadil
lac, and the Studebaker company,
Olds Motor works and Genera! Motor
Trucks company.
ANOTHER DAILY PAPER
NOW FOR ANCHORAGE
The paper known as the Weekly
Alaskan at Anchorage is about to be
converted into a dai’y* according to a
statement in that paper itself.
Robert R. Hunter, the present pub-!
Usher, and John W. Frame, formerly,
of Valdez, are the organizers. This j
will mean two daily papers for that
town. In addition the 49th Star,
formerly published in Valdez, will be
published at Anchorage in future.
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Keeping Liquor
From Anchorage
Even Private Supplies in Staterooms
Are Held Up.
The government warehouses over
at Anchorage are just now' filled with
all sorts of liquor taken by the gov
ernment authorities from the boats
and held there. H. S. Wilson, the
Wells-Fargo agent, says that even
private supplies of liquor kept by pas
sengers in their rooms on the w'ay to
Anchorage w’er$ held by the authori
ties so that they might not reach the
town itself. All stocks sent in from
outside have been held. Two days ago
it snowed rather heavily at Anchor
age but the Inlet is absolutely clear
of ice, Mr. Wilson says. There seems
to be w'ork for all the unskilled
laborers over there but the “white
collared labor” supply exceeds the de
mand.
SOME FARM
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
CORVALLIS, Ore., April 29.—Dick
Kiger, a farmer, made a mistake and
mixed wall plaster instead of a ferti
lizer called “landplaster” with his
clover seed when he seeded a 60 acre
field. After the field was seeded he
discovered his mistake and asked the
experts at the Oregon Agricultural
College what he should do.
“We would advise that you now
tint the field or put on some neat,
rural design of wall paper,” w’as the
answer.
VIOLATORS OF DRY
LAW TO GET JAIL
SEATTLE, May 6.—Jail sentences
will be meted out in future to violat
ors of the dry law, Police Judge
Gordon announced today. Hitherto it
has been customary to inflict a fine of
$100 but this has been found to be al
most useless as many can make that
amount of money in a few days sell
ing liquor ilicitly.
WENT ON WATSON
The Watson left last night about
midnight with the following passen
gers: Mrs. John Noon and child,
Martin Banbury, Rev. E. H. Molony,
Mrs. Molony and family, Nels Winter,
Elmer Kane and wife, Mrs. J. R.
McDonald, C. W. Winstedt, F. E.
Walker, J. A. Hawkins, J. J. Fin
negan, Mrs. Holt, Miss McKean, Mrs.
W. A. Baldwin.
GERMANS WIN TRENCHES
PARIS, May 6—It is officially admitted today that
the Germans have gained another success in the Verdun
sector. According to the official announcement the
French have been forced to evacuate pai t of the trenches
on the northern slope of Hill 304 and the worst feature
of this news is that this position is regarded as the north
west key to the Verdun fortress. The success of the
Teutons was gained after the most violent attack of the
Verdun battle. Just as the French people had come to
believe that the German offensive in that quarter had
failed it is learned that the attacks all day yesterday were
the most determined of the whole siege. The French
troops fought desperately all through the whole day and
last night and were still struggling when this dispatch
was sent, but, evidently, we are getting the worst of it.
ANOTHER IRISHMAN SLAUGHTERED
DUBLIN, May 6.—It was officially announced today
that John McBride, a leader of the Sinn Fein society, was
shot this morning. This execution makes the eighth of
the Irish rebel chiefs who faced the British firing squads.
Two others who were condemned to die have had their
sentences commuted to life imprisonment. All the men
executed were men of prominence and education. Pearce,
the president of the short-lived Irish republic, was the
head master of a famous school in this city. McBride,
who died this morning, was a strong character and a
highly cultured gentleman.
LUSITANIA AGAIN
LONDON, May 6.—A demonstration commemorat
ing the sinking of the Lusitania will be held in Hyde Park
tomorrow, the first anniversary of the sinking of the
liner.
AMERICAN TROOPS
AGAIN IN BATTLE
South America Has Full Con
fidence in United States
Intentions.
ANOTHER FIGHT
SAN ANTONIO, May 6—The American troops of
the Eleventh cavalry and a force of forty-three Villaistas
have had a battle at Ojoazules but no American casualties
are reported. The news of the fight was sent by Colonel
Howze to General Pershing.
SOUTH AMERICA SPEAKS
WASHINGTON, May 6—An agent of President Wil
son Returned from South America today and it is stated
officially that he declares the South American states have
the greatest confidence that the United States is acting
in good faith towards Mexico. Any action taken by this
country has been received without question, this envoy
says, as merely meant to preserve the rights of American
citizens. _
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❖ BIG DANCE TONIGHT •>
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So many people have bought
tickets for the big Hospital dance to
night that there is no necessity for
advertising the affair any more. It
will be one of the greatest evenings
ever seen in Seward or anywhere else.
Here is a bet of twenty-flve cents,
quiet as the times might be, that no
man or woman who can dance will
be absent.
Erich Lucas, M. D. Snodgrass and
H. S. Wilson returned last night on
the Watson.
B. F. Watson of the Admiral Line
went south on the Watson last night.
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BIRTHDAY OF PALMER COX
(Special to Gateway by United Press\
CRANBY, Quebec, April 28.—This
is the 76th birthday of Palmer Cox,
King of Brownieland, the man who
created the brownies and made many
a winter’s night by the fireside a veri
table adventure for hundreds of thou
sands of American “kids,” who are
not “kids” any more. Cox is not at
Brownie Castle, that great rambling,
mysterious stone pile he came back
to this village and built after he won
fame and fortune with his saucer
eyed and spindle legged elfs. Cox is
at his New York residence; and hale
and hearty as ever, he says.
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