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DANGER AGAIN IN
GERMANS SINK MORE SHIPS
AND ARE SHEELING VERDUN
ANOTHER LINER SUNK
LONDON, March 27.—The British liner Minneapolis
was sunk in the Mediterranean last Thursday by a sub
marine and eleven people were killed. The nationality of
the submarine has not been determined but it is assumed
to be a German. The liner, which was of four thousand
tons, is believed to have been carrying British troops to
Saloniki. This is the fourth liner hit or sunk by sub
marines within a week.
AMERICANS DROWNED
LONDON, March 27.—It is now believed that eleven
Americans were drowned from the channel steamer Sus
sex when she was hit by a torpedo near the French port of
Dieppe last Thursday, and that four Americans were
drowned when the Dominion liner Englishman was sunk
on the same day. Both were struck without warning, all
the evidence now seems to indicate, and the fact is expect
ed to give rise to serious international complications. It
has since been learned that the Englishman was sunk off
the coast of Scotland. According to all the reports fifty
people were lost on the Sussex and twenty on the English
man.
TURKS CLAIM WINS
ATHENS, March 27.—Advices from Constantinople
are that the Turks have repulsed the latest attempts of
the British under Aylmers to advance to the relief of Kut
el-Amara, and that the latest efforts of the British to ad
vance from Aden have also been checked. Activities in
the Saloniki area have been confined to air attacks, most
of which are being earired out by the allied airmen against
the Bulgarians to the northward.
SKIRMISH IN ALBANIA
VIENNA. March 27.—Another skirmish has been
fought between our troops in Albania with a force of
Italians who advanced towards the interior with Avlona
as a base.
SUSSEX TORPEDOED
WASHINGTON, March 27.—A piece of bronze metal
similar to that used in German torpedoes was found in the
wreckage of the steamer Sussex which was struck in the
English channel last week. The state department made
this announcement this afternoon and it suggests the most
grave possibilities in the relations between the United
States and Germany. That the vessel was attacked with
out warning and that several Americans were drowned
there is no longer the least doubt.
WAR WITH GERMANY LOOMS
WASHINGTON, March 27.—It is now a certainty
that the diplomatic relations with Germany will be broken
off if it is proven that a German submarine really torpedo
ed the Sussex; but the startling information has also been
given out that the president has known for weeks that if
he severs relations the kaiser intends to declare war
against the United States.
AMERICANS MAY BE SAFE
LONDON, March 27.—The American embassy re
ports this afternoon that the Americans who were aboard
the Sussex have been saved and are all accounted for.
FRENCH TRANSPORT SUNK
BERLIN, March 27. — A French transport with
troops from Saloniki has been mined and sunk somewhere
in the Mediterranean and the number of casualties is very
large as the ship was crowded with troops and very few
were saved. An Athens dispatch says that only seventy
three people were saved.
SHELLING VERDUN
PARIS, March 27.—The Germans guns continued to
hurl shells against Verdun throughout the night last
night but no infantry attack was attempted.
THREE MORE SHIPS SUNK
LONDON, March 27.—Three more vessels have been
sunk during the past twenty-four hours by hostile sub
marines. They were the French steamer Hebe, the Brit
ish ship Cerne and the British fish carrier Khartoum.
Nine of the crew of the latter are missing.
R. R. Will Soon Be
Over at Eklootna
,V. J. H. Fogelstrom, the Bridge En
gineer, Says Work is
Splendid.
The track has now been laid on the
Government railroad out of Anchor
age to Mile 26, according to W. J. H
Fogelstrom, the bridge engineer of
the Commission, who arrived in town
from Anchorage las- Saturday even
i ing. Mr. Fogelstrom also says that
’ the track will be over to Eklootna
| temporarily within a week and he
j seems to he quite elated by the man
! ner in which the work is proceeding,
i In three weeks, he says, the road will
i be up to Knik river. Mr. Fogelstrom
insists, by the way, that the proper
spelling is Eklootna, not Eklutna, and
he also says that the right name for
Knik river is Skidina river, which
means Tent river.
SIX DROWNED
VALLEJO, Calif.. March 27.— Six
people were drowned at midnight last
night when a launch was run down
by the Standard Oil steamer Coalinga
in Vallejo Bay.
GRANDDAUGHTER
FOR PRESIDENT
PHILADELPHIA, March 27. — A
daughter was borr. to Mrs. Francis B.
Sayres today and the mother is doing
well. This is the second grand
daughter for President Wilson.
GREAT FLOODS CONTIUE;
TWO PEOPLE DROWNED
CHICAGO, March 27. — Two men
were drowned today in floods that
are sweeping northwestern Illinois
and southern Wisconsin. Dozens of
towns have been inundated and Win
slow is under several feet of water.
The citizens of Galena, Illinois, are
using boats on the streets.
• SECOND LENTEN
• TEA TOMORROW
The second of the senes of Lenten
Teas being given by the ladies of St.
Peter’s Guild will be. held in the
church parlors tomorrow afternoon
with Mesdames Balderston, McDon
ald and de Sherbinin as hostesses.
The reading of “Twice Bom Men”
will be continued. A silver offering
for the benefit of the church building
fund will be taken, the amount not
to exceed twenty-five cents for each
person attending.
LOW JINKS TONIGHT
WITH THE A. B/S
At 8:30 this evening the Low Jinks
of the Arctic Brotherhood will begin
in honor of the people who took part
in the Minstrel Show. A fine time is
in store for the visitors.
TOM WARD TO BE
BRIDGE BUILDER
Engineer Thomas Ward has taken
charge of the work of building Resur
rection bridge and all the other work
connected with it. Today marks the
beginning of the actual work on the
structure.
EVANS AT FOUR
The latest today from the Evans Is
that she is due here at 4 p. m.
WILLARD WINS
BUT BROKE BONE
gets decision in ten rounds
but MORAN ENDS IN
good shape.
NEW YORK, March 26. — Willard
won on points in the tight of ten
rounds here last night In the third
round he broke a bone in his right
hand and this is believed to have
handicapped him rather seriously, but
whatever the reason was Moran stood
up to him to the end and made a game
tight in spite of a rather serious lot of
punishment.
(Note: The Gateway asked for a
report of the fight by rounds but at
the time of going to press that report
had not been received for some reason
that cannot be explained. It may
come later.)
Leslie Cramer To
Take Seattle Place
Popular Paymaster of the Engineering
Commission Lost to Seward.
Leslie Cramer, the paymaster of
the Engineering Commission here, a
man who can be called a most popu
lar official without any mental reser
vation whatever, has been promoted
to the oflice at Seattle and will soon
go outsfde to take up his duties in his
new sphere. The duties there will be
the same as here but on a more im
portant scale. The time of his leav
ing has not yet been f;xed.
SIX BURNED TO DEATH
IN COUNTRY C LUB FIRE
SAX ANTONIO, March 27. — Six
people were burned to death in the
fire which destroyed the fashionable
San Antonio Country Club yesterday.
The identification of the dead was
completed today. They are Mr. and
Mrs. J. Walthall, Judge J. E. Webb
and Homer Jones, of San Antonio,
Mrs. Mary Stewart of Galveston and
Helen Cockrell, a maid. The fire origi
nated in paints in the basement and
spread with such rapidity that those
who escaped had to jump from the
second floor.
WELL KNOWN ALASKA
CHINESE IS KILLED
IN NORTHERN BLIZZARD
JUNEAU, March 16. — Charley:
Fink, a Chinese, weH known in Al
aska, was killed in a blizzard near
Solomon, about thirty miles from
Nome, a week ago today, according
to a telegram received by William A.
Gilmore, former mayor of that city.
Advices to this effect were received
in Juneau today.
Charley Fink was American born
and was taken to the territory by Al
bert Fink, a prominent Nome lawyer,
now defending William A. Lorimer,
former United States Senator, under
indictment in Chicago for bank
wrecking. Charley ad ways took a
prominent part in Alaska politics and
held many public debates on political
questions, his opponent being Christ
opher Colombo, a naturalized West
Indian.
Several years ago Charley learned
that his employer’s house was to be
invaded by the emissaries of legal
opponents looking for evidence in a
mining suit involving large sums.
Charley armed himself with a big
pan of pepper and a meat cleaver and
gave them such a warm reception that
they beat a hasty retreat after forc
ing the door open.
EVANS TO BE HERE
THIS AFTERNOON
The Admiral Evans left Valdez
this morning at three o’clock and will
come direct to Seward so that she
ought to be here before dinner time.
VILLA GETS CLEAR AWAY AND
RECRUITS MANY NEW MEN
Industrial Union
is Organized Here!
To Be Nucleus of New Alaskan
Federation of Labor.
At a very well attended meeting of
the workers of Seward held last even
ing in the City hall, Industrial Union
No. 1, expected to be the nucleus of
the coming Alaskan Federation of
Labor, was organized and fifty-six men
signed the roll. C. S. Fatten occupied
the chair and a committee was ap
pointed to carry ou the preliminary
work and to wait on Kngineer in
Charge Weir of the Railroad Com
mission with a view to securing his
aid in having an investigation made
of labor conditons here by the Gov
ernment Board of Conciliation and
Arbitration. The committee is com
posed of C. A. Myers, the mayor, C.
S. Patten and David Miller. Quite a
discussion took place during which it
was learned that one of the chief ob
jects of the meeting was to have the
investigation carried on here by the
board. It was stated that the Board
expressed the lack of power to carry
on an investigation any place but at
Anchorage unless it received further
instructions from Anchorage. The
formation of the Alaskan Federation
of Labor is a new move.
NEWS NOTES
Joe Badger hit the trail this morn
ing for Hope to take a place with the
operating force of Gus SeifTert who
has his foremen already on the
ground preparing for the Summer's
work. The particular nature of Joe’s
activities on the ground has not been
revealed but he stands ace high whei
it comes to shovels and picks and
spades.
The dignity of the Government
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
was slightly impaired last Saturday
while on the way to Anchorage when
the sled upset and ditched two of
them. When Bridge Foreman Fogel
strom met them they were laughing
at their misadventure.
Eleven ladies voted at the Demo
cratic primaries last Saturday and the
local members of the party are quite
proud of the fact. They are also
boasting that the votes polled at their
primary were greater by two than the
number polled at the Republican pri
maries.
NEW HOMESTEAD
LAW MAY PASS
Delegate Wickersham is confident
that the new homestead bill for Alas
ka will surely be passed by this Con
gress, says a Washington special in
the Seattle Post-lntclligciK er of
March 9th. Favorable report was
made on the measuie the other day
by the house committed on public
lands, it having been approved by the
Secretary of the Interior, and the bill
is now on a calendar which is not
crowded.
The bill reduces the maximum area
of homestead entries from 320 to 160
acres and permits second of addition
al homesteads in Alaska by those
otherwise qualified who have hereto
fore exhausted their homestead
rights. In other words, a citizen who
has taken a homestead in the States
may take another in Alaska.
At the request of the Secretary of
the Interior a provision was added ex
cepting from homestead entry and
settlement lands on Annette and Pri
bilof Islands, the islands leased or oc
cupied for the propagation of foxes,
and such other lands as may have
been reserved or withdrawn from en
try.—Juneau Empire.
VILLA CLEAR AWAY FOR HILLS
EL PASO, March 27. — Unconfirmed reports that
Villa snipers had wounded six United States troopers near
Namiquipa and that several Mexicans had been killed and
wounded by return fire were denied today by J. 0. Crock
ett, vice-president of the Mexico and Northwestern rail
road. According to the army advices Villa is now fleeing
towards the Sierra Tarahumares mountains and appar
ently has got clear away from the net set for him by the
Mexican regulars and the Americans. A censored report
from the expedition states that Villa is impressing peons
into his service and that all who refused to join him were
executed. It is known that thirty-five were conscripted
by him at Elvalle. The most disquieting rumor of all is
that half the Carranza garrison at Namiquipa has disap
peared and may join the Villa force. On the other hand
it is known that the Villa horses are poor and no match
for those of the American cavalrymen who are only two
days behind the bandits and hope to head them ofT before
they can reach the sierras and obtain refuge there. Much
disappointment is felt at the escape of the fugitives, par
ticularly as all the reports sent out indicated that the net
had closed in on all sides.
CARRANZA HESITATING
SAN ANTONIO, March 26.—The hesitation shown
by Carranza in granting the request of the United States
government for the use of the Mexican railroads for the
American troops and supplies is seriously annoying Gen
eral Funston who says he cannot believe that such a re
quest can be denied. The head of the Mexican govern
ment, however* seems to give no indication of a desire to
grant the request for some reason which is not quite
evident.
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WILSON WARNS PEOPLE
WASHINGTON, March 26—In a statement to the
American people President Wilson warns against baseless
rumors about the Mexican situation that would tend to
create the impression that we are preparing for war with
Mexico. He asks the public to remember that the Persh
ing expedition is merely a punitive one and he charges
that sinister influences, as usual, are seeking by rumors
to inflame the people of this country against the Mexicans
for the purpose of bringing about intervention, which the
president declares would be a great mistake.
THOS. J. PENCE
PASSES AWAY
WASHINGTON, March 27. — i
Thomas J. Pence, secretary of the
Democratic National Committee, died
last night after a lingering illness.
OREGON SHORT LINE IS
HELD UP AND ROBBED
OGDEN, Utah, March 26. — An
Oregon Short Line passenger train
was held up near Roy last night by
three masked men. It is known that
the express safe was blown up but the
details are lacking. The pursuit of ‘
the bandits is proceeding.
James R. Hayden has recovered
from the rheumatism and he and Mrs.
Hayden will soon come to the city to
reside.
Mrs. Schaleben has gone to Valdez
to meet Dr. Schaleben- and they ''ill
return on the Evans this afternoon.
In the Farragut passenger list pub
lished today are the names of John
Ronan and “James Bennett." The
latter name undoubtedly stands for j
Bennett James, rather Bennett James
standing on his head. The name of (
Gaston Hardy is also included in the ;
list.
Joe Cummings was a Seward visi
tor from Anchorage recently.
Bill De Witt and P. Olson are ar
rivals in the city. The former came
from the interior and the latter from
the fox island.
Mrs. Fred Bunce went out on the
Watson.
DELEGATES TO
GO TOJUNEAU
LOCAL DEMOCRATS HELD PRI
MARIES SATURDAY AND
ELECT TWO LADIES.
Two ladies were amongst the dele
gates elected by the Democrats of
Seward last Saturday to attend the
territorial convention at Juneau. I he
two ladies were Mrs. W. E. Root and
Mrs. Jessie Ellsworth. The others
elected were Jack Ronan, T. W.
Hawkins, J. W. Hamilton, Derick
Lane, George Phelps and B. F.
Swesey. Mrs. Ellsworth, Mr. Phelps
and Mr. Ronan tied for high place
with a vote of thirty-three each.
FARRAGUT PASSENGERS
The S. S. Admiral Farragut sailed
from Seattle yesterday. The follow
ing are the passengers aboard for
Seward:
John Ronan, James Bennett, Mrs.
A. Kyle L. Johnson, W. Wagner, W.
i Hoffman, Gaston Hardy, H. Bolman,
M. Morris, Geo. Gub, Chas. Landgren,
Mrs. D. Wilkie, H. Chalfranm and
wife, A. Monroe and sixty steerage.
ALASKA AT CORDOVA
The steamship Alaska ^as due to
arrive at Cordova today at noon. She
has a remarkably large number of
1 ladies in the first class passenger list