VoL S. No. 294 Member Associated Press SEWARD. ALASKA, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1914._Member Associated Press_Ten Cents the Copy
THREE BRITISH WARSHIPS SUNK IN NORTH SEA
WILSON WANTS ALASKA COAL BILL RUSHED
GOVERNMENT WILE CONTINUE i
WORK ALREADY UNDER WAV
LOOKS LIKE VICIORt
LOR ALLIES SURE
ANNOUNCE GERMAN REVERSE
PARIS, Sept. 21.—(5:32 p. m.)—The western wing of
the German line has been thrust back seven miles in the
past forty-eight hours and thus has the greatest advan
tage been gained that has been recorded since the begin
ning of the great battle on the Aisne ten days ago. The
Germans fought desperately but the allies had brought up
Iresh re-inf orcements and the fresher troops forced the
enemy to recede. This information has created the most
enthusiastic demonstrations in this city and it is now gen
erally the belief again that the Germans will be forced
back over the frontier and back to their own soil. The
struggle to shove back the right wing was accompanied
with fierce fighting and a tremendous loss ot life but the
troops of this country fought with all the old vigor and
dash and gallantry and could not be denied.
PRESSING GERMANS BACKWARD
LONDON, Sept. 22.—(1:30 p. m.)—The allied armies
are expected to descend on the German positions today or
tomorrow in one last grand assault as the Germans are al
ready bending backward from the persistent pressure to
the north of the Aisne. The allied center is remaining
steady as a rock while both of the German flanks are be
ing pushed hack gradually but surely. Hope is rising high
once more that the end of the great battle is in sight and
that with the ending will come the greatest and probably
the most decisive success of the whole war as the retreat
from their present position will mean nothing less than
that the enemy will be compelled to fall hack close to the
Belgian border and almost outside the borders of France.
The conflict continues with fearful energy and the enemy
is struggling desperately to hold on to the present position
although there is no question any longer that the allies are
sure of winning. There is certainly now no thought en
tertained of the possibility of the allies falling back and all
the people of this country are waiting to hear that the
Germans have receded further towards their home terri
tory.
THREE BRITISH WARSHIPS SUNK
LONDON, Sept. 22.—The greatest naval disaster of
the war occurred today when the three British warships
Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy were sunk by German sub
marines in the North Sea. The vessels were each of 12,000
tons but were built between the years 1901 and 1905 and
were, therefore, of an obsolete type. The Aboukir was
first struck by a torpedo and sunk and the Hogue and
Cressy drew up close to her and were standing by to save
the crew when they also were torpedoed and sent to the
bottom. The British warships Lowestoft and Tirawley
saved many of the crews but as each of the sunk vessels
had seven hundred and fifty-five men aboard the loss of
life must have been terribly large. They were sister
ships, the whole three, and were exactly the same in ton
nage, in the number of their crews and in their armament.
The three vessels were classed among the armored cruis
ers of high speed and were regarded as general service
ships and were used for scouting or fighting as they might
be needed. They had 21,000 horsepower and 1,600 tons
coal capacity. They had a speed of 21 knots, 6 inches of
side armor and each carried over thirty guns. They wero
also equipped w ith two torpedo tubes each.
POPE PROTESTS TO GERMANY
ROME, Sept. 22.—Pope Benedictus telegraphed the
kaiser today protesting against the destruction of cathe
drals such as that of Rheims. The whole world, especially
the catholics, have been incensed by the destruction of
that magnificent edifice which has been associated with
some of the greatest events in history for many centuries
and which was supposed to be one of the greatest in the
world.
NEW YORK, Sept. 21—Passengers arriving here from
Europe insist that Russian troops are being landed in
Great Britain and are being-transported through that
country for shipment to France and Belgium. The fact
that Russians are landing at British ports has been offic
"'lly denied by the British government although rumors
(hat effect have been persistent.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—*That
the government works already start
ed will be continued and that the
president is exceedingly anxious to
pass the Alaska coal leasing bill at
once with a view to the speedy open
ing of the coal fields is the only infer
ence which can be drawn from the
proceedings in congress today. It is
certain that the republican filibuster
against the rivers and harbors bill has
been victorious and the senate com
mittee has reported favorably for the
appropriation of twenty millions of
dollars for the continuation of the
government projects which have al
ready been put under way and for
which appropriations have already
been made by congress.
The house bill provided for the ap
propriation of fifty-five millions for
the work already started but the pres
ident is satisfied with the reduction to
twenty millions and there is now noth
ing apparently in the way to prevent
the passing of the bill.
The president has again expressed
the desire to have the river and har
bors bill expedited in one way or the
other whether it is successful or not
in order that the Alaska coal leasing
bill may have a chance. In accord
ance with this wish of the president
the Alaska bill has already been ta
ken up and it is now being considered
by the senate. All of the facts put
together have made Alaskan people
here believe that haste will be the or
der in the matter of Alaskan develop
ment from this time forward. There
is a hope expressed that the hurry
manifested in the passing of the coal
bill portends quick action in railroad
matters.
OVER HUNDRED
PEOPLE COMING
WITHOUT COUNTING HYTL
CASES COURT WILL BRING
GOOD CROWD I
Without counting the people that
will attend th« court session here for
civil cases the total number will be
between ninety and one hundred ac
cording to Judge Whittlesey. There
will be nine officials and the number
of defendants with witnesses in crim
inal cases will number thirty-five.
The grand jury counts twenty-three
and the petty jury amounts to twc-r.ty
four. There will be also deputy mar
shals and the people interested in the
civil suits.
TO VOTE WAR REVENUE
BILL NEXT FRIDAY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—The
house will vote on the emergency war
revenue bill next Friday and that it
will pass is regarded as certain.
KNIK NEWS ITEMS
Among the arrivals from Broad
Pass the last week are the following:
P. S. Pankey, J. H. Pankey, F. M.
Kelly, John Coffee, Ben Thrasher, Joe
Forsha, A1 Wolf and A. H. Tutt.
The Pankey brothers had some of
their rock assayed in Knik and are
very well pleased with the showing.
Dr. German, the popular dentist of
Valdez, is spending a couple of weeks
in Knik, with offices in the Pioneer ho
tel.
J. H. Finley & Co. and N. W. Pil
ger are both remodeling their stores.
Mrs. R. E. Black has returned from
the Yetna river where with a party
she has been prospecting this sum
mer. They went to locate some rich
pay that was reported, but were un
successful in finding anything of in
terest.
Williamson’s government home
stead survey party returned to town
'ast week and have finished their sea
son’s work. All supplies are stored
in Knik for use next season. Mr.
Williamson will return to Juneau on
one of the early boat*.
CORWIN MAY BE SAFE
SEATTLE, Sept. 22.—The
steamer Corwin grounded Satur
day midway between Nome and
Teller. At last accounts she
was expected to be saved. No
further news was received from
the Tahoma today but her posi
tion is believed to be very dan
gerous. It is expected that the
Tacoma Maru is alongside and
that there is no danger to the
people aboard. The mishap to
the Corwin is supposed to be not
serious.
HASTINGS ABOARD TAHOMA
Senator L. V. Ray has received a
message to the effect that Deputy
Marshal Hastings was aboard the
revenue cutter Tahoma when she
struck the reef. The message states
that the Tahoma was wrecked near
Attu. The people aboard, if saved,
will probably be taken to Nome.
DELINQUENT tax time
HAS BEEN POSTPONED
The time for the taxes becoming
delinquent was put back last evening
from October 24 to October 25 for
this year, the ostensible reason being
that people outside ought to get time
to come in to pay.
TAXES EIGHT MILLS
The martial law government of the
city of Seward has placed the tax for
the coming year at eight mills.
cutterTahoma
RUNS ON REEE
VESSELS GONE TO RESCUE AND
CREW OP SEVENTY-TWO
WILL BE SAVED
SEATTLE, Sept. 22.—The revenue
cutter Tahoma has struck a reef on
Kiska island in the Aleutians and may
become a total loss. Several vessels
are now on the way to the rescue hav
ing received the S. O. S. call and it is
sure that the crew of seventy-two will
be saved even though the vessel itself
may be lost. There is still hope,
however, that the cutter may be
saved.
When the steamship Mariposa ar
rived at Seward last night it brought
news of the accident to the Tahoma.
It was said on the Mariposa that the
cutter is a total loss and that she was
completely submerged. The above
message comes from the Associated
Press which may not have received
news as late as the wireless on the
Mariposa, but one of the reports is
evidently not similar to the other.
CACHE CREEK DISTRICT
PAYS WELL THIS YEAR
KNIK, Sept. 12.—A party came
from Cache Creek today over the
summer trail. Among them is A. J.
Paign, who has been with M. A. Ellis
in the Cache creek country on Thun
der Creek. He reports that the dis
trict has paid well this year and
everyone seems well -satisfied with
their summer’s work. Mr. Ellis wi'l
be out in about two .’neks. There has
beer a shortage of provisions in the
district which has curtailed the out
put considerably. Bud and Henry re
port a very good season. Doc Hern
den on Nugget Creek has very good
ground and the Ellis ground on Falls
Creek prospected well.
There has been quite a little pros
pecting on quartz in the district this
summer and some good find* r:e re
ported.
CYANIDE PLANT CLOSES
KNIK, Sept. 12.—The cyanide plant
of the Gold Bullion mine has closed
for the season and A. T. Terry who
has had charge of the plant left for
the outside over the Sunrise Seward
trail today.
Letterheads, envelopes, billheads,
cards, posters, announcements of fill
kinds at The Gateway Job Printery.
PRESIDENT WITHDRAWS TRACI
FOR IOWNSIIE AI NENANA
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Presi
dent Wilson hns withdrawn a tract
three miles square at the confluence
of the Tanana and Nenana rivers as
a townsite under the Alaska railroad
bill.
The Nenana river runs into the Ta
nana about sixty miles below the city
of Fairbanks. The withdrawal of
land for a townsite at that place is
significant to say the least and can
hardly be called a pleasant bit of in
formation for the people of the Ta
nana capital. The decision to with
draw the townsite is no doubt due to
reports sent in by member-? of the
government commission and this fact
is also significant a$ going to snow
that the project is advan i>.g all the
time without the advance showing on
the surface.
BROAI) PASS STRIKE
WIDELY CIRCULATED
X. S. Winder, formerly conductor of
the assay department at James R.
Hayden’s mine, has sent a message to
Frank Cotter stating that the srtike
at Broad Pass has caused a big ex
citement along the Southeast Alaska
coast. He is now in Ketchikan and
to that place in answer to an urgent
request Mr. Cotter has telegraphed
the full details and4?as also sent some
of the rich rock discovered.
PRESIDENT WILSON VOTES
PRINCETOWN, Sept. 22.—Presi
dent Wilson voted nere in the primar
ies and will return to Washington to
night.
WHISKEY ALLY
OF POLITICIAN
ROOSEVELT SAYS BOOZE AND
CROOKED POLITICS STAND
SIDE BY EACH
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 21.—'T«:at
whiskey is usually the ally of crook
ed politicians is the statement made
today by Theodore Roosevelt in one of
the series of speeches which are nou
being delivered by him. He particu
larly complimented the progressive
party of Jackson county, Missouri, for
having the courage to face the whis
key issue while other parties side
stepped it. The colonel is making
speeches with almost all the old vigor
of his presidential days and draws
large crowds notwithsatnding the
fierce opposition to him among many
political circles.
EVERY CAN FILLED
KENAI, Sept. 10.—Both sailing
ships which have been at anchor here
for the fishing season left for the
south today, carrying the salmon
pack and cannery crews. Every can
was filled by the canneries this year.
HORSES TO SHIP CREEK
KNIK, Sept. 16.—The Deyo rail
road survey party arrived in Knik to
day, having finished their survey from
Chitina to the Matanuska coal fields
The horses and outfit are being taken
to the general camp at Ship Creek.
T. R. TALKING
LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 22.—Theo
dore Roosevelt speaks here tonight.
After the meeting of the council
last evening one of the officials of that
body made some remark to the effect
that because a representative of the
Gateway was present at the meeting
some things were hidden connected
with the proceedings but were later
admitted. That’s the statesmanship
that’s running Seward.
Harold N. Nuzum, attorney at law,
has moved into his new offices in the
Daggett block.
CORWIN REPORTED LOST
NEAR CITY OF NOME
Said to Have Cone Asore Near Tishou
River OH Point Douglas
That the steamship Corwin has
gone ashore at Point Douglas near tne
mouth of Tishou river some fifty
miles above the city of Nome is the
news brought in last night by the
Mariposa. The complete story of the
occurrence has not been made known
and if the ship were in danger the
outside correspondents would proba
bly have heard about it and telegraph
ed it to this paper. The Corwin is
the famous little vessel that usually
gets to Nome first every year. She
nas recently been purchased b> Sew
ard Peninsula people including Jafct
Linderberg, Walter Johnson, the
dredge man, and some others and has
been under the captaincy ot Captain
Dick Healy who is well known in
Nome shipping circles. During the
summers now she plies between Nome
and the points to the northwards. She
met with an accident last summer on
Puget Sound when her boilers were
taken out causing her to get top heavy
and turn over.
GAS SCHOONER
BEATS RECORD
does thousand miles east of
POINT BARROW AND MAKES
EXPLORERS LOOK CHEAP
NOME, Sept. 22.—The gasoline
schooner Teddy Bear has arrived here
after an absence of five years on a
trading trip in the Arctic and during
that time she has established a record.
She traveled one thousand miles east
of Point Barrow and visited the
blonde Eskimos. The trip was mado
so easily that she would have at
tempted to go all the way around to
Hudson Bay if she had gasoline and
in this way would have accomplished
a feat that would Eiave made her fa
mous. The trip was most successful
from the commercial as well as from
other points of view and some valua
ble exploration work was done.
200 BRITISH SHIPS WATCH GERMANS
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Two hundred British war
ships are now lying in close battle line oil the German,
naval base at Heligoland according to the report brought
here by the captain of a tank steamer which had recently
been engaged in carrying oil to the (leet. The g1 eat ves
sels are constantly kept clear lor action in preparation
for any sudden movement on the part ol the German fleet
which is inside the island and the approaches to the Kiel
canal.
TROOPS EXHAUSTED
PARIS, Sept. 22.—The battle of the Aisne opened this
morning with diminished violence showing that the limit
of human endurance has about been reached. This fact is
said to be particularly noticeable around Rheims where
the most fierce fighting has been going on for several days
under conditions that were terrible tor the combatants.
The soldiers have been soaked with the rains constantly
and have in many cases been compelled to fight in the
night time so that they are completely worn out. But,
strange to say, the fighting now in the neighborhood of a
little place called Craonne is fiercer than ever and the
struggle is being maintained there today with the same
fury that distinguished the first days of the war. For
more than a week the opposing hosts have been facing
each other while the limbs of every soldier ached and
while every stomach longed for something warm. All the
time death has been close to every man and, perhaps,
never before in the history of mankind have men been put
through such an awful ordeal.
THREATENING EACH OTHER
The allies have advanced at points where the danger to
the Germans is greatest and in this respect at least the
battle may be said to be going in the favor of the allied
armies. Their advance west of Noyon in the department
of the Oise threatens the Germans right seriously while
the advance of the Germans between Rheims and the dis
trict of Argonne seems to threaten the allied lines of re
treat and communication.
SAY GERMANS FORTIFY AT REAR
The Germans are reported to be feverishly fortifying
a line along the river Sambrc from Maubege to Namur
and across the German frontier indicating preparations
for a new line of defense when the present line has to be
abandoned. That they must retreat from their present,
position thrc is no doubt here and the only question which
remains to be solved is how long they can hold out For
about ten days the struggle has been proceding with hard
ly a change in the relative positions of the combatants al
though in that time thousands of lives have been sacri
ficed. So carefully are the generals on both sides operat
ing that a defeat for either army would mean probably at
worst only a retreat to some other line.