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Vo, 10> No. 272 | ” SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDN1 >AY, OCTOBER 4,1916 __Ten Cents the Copy
SEWARD WATER CO.
ADDS $18,000 WORK
The addition to their water service,
which has now about been completed
by the Seward Water Company has
cost that company $18,000. a fact
which shows the b\g strides being
taken by this city on the road of pros
perity. The pipe* are now being laid
and the whole thing will be completed
in a few days. A fine reservoir has
been constructed at Canyon creek
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which is just about two miles, ten.
thousand feet to be exact, north of
the government tract and the pipe line
from this will connect up with the
main system in the city. One rm
mense advantage to the city from the
addition to the water supply comes
from the fact that a much better sup
ply than ever is now assured for fire
fighting.
Brooklyn to Meet
Boston Saturday
All Clear Now Cor the Greatest
Event in Sport World.
NEW YORK. Oct. 4.—Boston won
its double header yesterday and will
meet Brooklyn, the champion of the
American league, in the world’s series
next Saturday.
YESTERDAY’S RESCLTS
NATIONAL LEAGCE
Brooklyn 9, New York t».
Philadelphia 3, Boston t».
Second gume: Philadelphia 1.
Boston G
AMERICAN LEAGCE
New York 9, Washington 9; Called
by darkness at the end of the eleventh
Boston 3, Philadelphia 5.
Second game; Boston Philadel
phia 7.
McGKAW MAKES CHARGES
NEW YORK. Oct. 4. — Tener says
he will not investigate the charges
made by John Med raw that the team
crawfished. Tener says this charge
was made only because Mcdraw could
not win twenty-seven games consecut
ively.
ITTTER IS BRINGING
McLEAN CASK WITNESSES
A revenue cutter is now bringing
additional witnesses from Nushagak
for the trial of Alexander McLean
who is charged with murdering his
wife at that place. When the case
waa called at Valdez the attorney for
the defense asked that time be given
to get more witnesses and the unusual
expedient of sending a cutter for
them was used. Dr. L. H. French wh°
is now in Seward is a witness in the
rase. McLean has been known by Dr.
Romig of Seward for years. Dr.
Romig was the family physician and
says McLean has been in charge of a
post office as well as having been
government teacher and holding other
government positions.
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TAKE STEP TO APPEASE
AM ERICA N MAX l FACTl’R ERS
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—Lloyd George
has sent an invitation to the Ameri
can Manufacturers’ Export Associa
tion to send a commission to England
to investigate foreign trade opportun
ities. This invitation is believed by
many to offset the effect of the British
blacklist and other facts which have
created suspicion in American busi
ness minds.
NORTHWESTERN DELAYED
The steamship Northwestern has
postponed her sailing from Seattle to
October 7.
MERGED S. S. COMPANY
HAS NEW ESCl TCHEOX
SEATTLE, Oct. 3.—The new
escutcheon of the Admiral Line is
constituted by the placing of the Ad
miral Line’s name above the name of
the Pacific Coast Steamship Company.
PAR VI.YSIS EPIDEMIC
COST C ITY A MILLION
NEW YORK, Sept. 25. — Delayed
since the regular opening date the
first of the month, by the infantile
paralysis epidemic which has claimed
about 10.000 victims of whom i-,000
died; and which cost the city a million
dollars, school opened here today.
A goodly percentage of New Y..rk
cit>’> boys and girls did not attend,
however, because their parents still
fear the disease which has batTled
city, county, state and federal author
ises until the last few weeks.
It is now believed the blood infusion
method has shown the way to the con
trol of the disease. Every precaution
will be taken to prevent a repetition
of the epidemic next year.
ADMIRAL LINE OFFICIALS
The principal officers of the new
Admiral Line are as follows:
H. F. Alexander, president.
E. C. Ward, vice-president.
H. J. Ring wood, vice-president in
charge of traffic.
William Jones, treasurer.
Admiral E. B. Rogers, secretary.
A. F. Haines is the new manager of
operations. The new company will
begin under its new heads in about
one month.
PIONEERS INITIATE
William Weimer, John McTaggart
and B. T. James were initiated mem
bers of the local Igloo of Pioneers of
Alaska last evening. Mr McTaggart
celebrated the occasion by treating
the Pioneers to a bean feast.
WHY NEW YORK MAGNATE
BECAME DISGRUNTLED
In the cables for the past couple of
days it is shown that John McGraw of
the New York Giants has been very
sore and this soreness can be easily
understood when it is pointed out that
he was beaten for the pennant by
the very men he let go last year. He
got rid of Kube Marquard the pitcher,
Merkle the first bagger and Chief
Meyers the Indian catcher and all of
these three Nyent to Brooklyn with the
result that Brooklyn by the aid of
this very three has now made Mc
Graw an also ran.
CALLS EIGHT HOUR DAY FRAUD
GREAT FALLS, Oct. 3.—Speaking
here last night Senator Harding des
cribed the eight hour day law’ the
greatest fraud ever prepet rated in
politics in the United States.
FRANK ISHIHARA
BUYS CAPITAL CAFE
Frank Ishihara has taken over the
Capital Cafe and will conduct it in
the most attractive style. He has
lots of experience in the business and
is a well know n resident of Sew’ard.
SEW ART HORSE WINS
Joe Buckley, the horse ow-ned by
Commissioner Frank Ennis of Sew’ard,
won his race at North \ akima and a
purse of $500. Won! was received by
Mr. Ennis on the last mail but it is
also possible that the horse won an
other race or tw’o which w’ere pulled
off since on the Northwest circuit.
FIGHTING CENTER NOW SHIFTED
TO SOUTHERN ROUMANIAN RORDER
BRYCE CALLS FOR PEACE
BIRMINGHAM, England, Oct. 4. — Viscount Bryce,
formerly a leading member ot tbe British cabinet and lat
er ambassador to the United States, addressed the Con
gregational Union here last night and made a warm plea
for sanity on the part of the nation. He decried the bit
ter hatred for the Germans and the threatened trade war
against the German empire alter the war. He ad\ ocated
the formation of a world league to restrain aggression on
the part of any nation and to compel all disputants to set
tle their troubles by arbritation. “We may well despair it
the world has to have recourse to war in the future,” he
declared. Lord Bryce also lauded Wilson and Hughes,
candidates for the United States presidency, for their ut
terances in favor of permanent peace and he concluded by
saying that the sooner hatred between nations ends the
better it will be for mankind. Bryce while in politics was
one of the great Liberal group of the most highly cultivat
ed statesmen who tried to bring about the emancipation
of the oppressed of all kinds. Lord Morley, who resigned
from the cabinet because Britain insisted on war, was an
other. The two men were the greatest forces in the em
pire against toryism and reaction and they still have many;
followers.
HEADS NEW GREEK PARTY
PARIS, Oct. 4.—Former Premier Gounaris is now at
the head of the new war party which is being formed in
Peloponnesus and which is supporting the demands of
Venizelos. It is admitted that some disappointment isj
felt in the allied capitals over the failure of Greec’s ex-,
pected entry into the war. King Constantine still seems,
tote able to prevent it but a change is expected when the
new war party has had time to organize.
HINDENBURG’S BIRTHDAY
BERLIN, Oct. 4. — Field Marshal von Hindenburgj
was 69 years of age last Monday and the famous conqu
eror of the Russians in East Prussia and Poland received
many marks of the empire’s gratitude. The fourth cabin
et formed in Luzembourg since the beginning of the war
is now dis-solving.
ATTACK IN DOBRUDJA
LONDON, Oct. 4. — The Germans, Bulgarians and:
Turks along the Varna road have begun a general assault
on the Dobrudja positions held by the Roumanians and
Russians and the battle is reported this afternoon to be in
creasing in violence. It is apparently the supreme effort
to crush the allied forces there and to attempt to entrap
them between themselves and the river. No anxiety is
felt either here or in Bucharest as to the outcome although
the enemy army under Mackensen has made tremendous
preparations. It is now known that large Roumanian J
forces have crossed the Danube for the invasion of Bui
garia.
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BULGARS TAKE TOWN
SOFIA, Oct. 4.—The Bulgarians have occupied the
Roumanian town of Matakkafatat near the Danube, it is
officially reported, and it is also reported that Bulgarian
monitors have destroyed Roumanian pontoons on the riv
er. The papers here belittle the Roumanian invasion of
this country and declare it has only been done for effect as
the invading force is small and preparations are made
for retreat across the river again.
EXAMINE ALASKA’S
GREAT NATIONAL DISH
ST. PAUL, Sept. 29. — The lowly
bean was honored today when peered j
into, dessicated and analyzed by a'
lot of highbrow chemists and bo
whiskered food experts working for
the State Board of Control.
The board has to feed all the stat*
institution patients and beans, once
$2.50 a bushel, now sell for about
$7.50. The state board wants t«
know what's in the bean and what
could be used as a suitable substitute.
MARIPOSA LEAVES JUNEAU
The Mariposa left Juneau at 5 p.
i m. yesterday.
FAIRBANKS TEACHER
SUPPOSED INSANE
Suffering from some form of in
sanity which has not yet been diag
nosed, Miss lone Jones, one of the
teachers in the Fairbanks public
school, has been taken to the deten
tion hospital until an examination as
to her sanity can be made. She is .11
years of age.—Ex.
FARRAGUT DUE FRIDAY
The Admiral Farraffut is due from
the westward on Friday.
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EPISCOPAL GUILD MEETS
The ladies of the Episcopal Guild
will meet at Mrs. A. H. McDonald’s
t
tomorrow afternoon.
Hl'CHES MEANS WAR
DECLARES MARSHALL
EAST ST. LOUIS, Oct. .*!. — That
the election of Hughes would mean
that this country would be plunged in
to war is the declaration made by
Vice-President Marshall here last
night.
SMOOT SAYS HIS PARTY
WILL CONTROL CONGRESS
WASHINGTON. Oct. :i. — Senator
Smoot who has just concluded a visit
to the doubtful states says he has be
come perfectly convinced that the Re
publicans will control the next con
gress.
WOULD JAIL FOR
TAKING A DRINK
Arizona, climatically and prohibi
tionally speaking, is said to be the
“dryest” state in the union. In ad
dition to their efforts to prevent the
shipment of liquor into Arizona, the
prohibitionists are trying to put a bill
through the legislature, making it an
imprisonable offense to drink liquor.
T'lie result of the “dry” law adopted
by Arizona in 15)14, is told in this
story from Tombstone, Ariz. to the
Douglas, Ariz. Daily International:
The county jail at the present time
contains more prisoners than it has
for a number of years. There are
fifty-two now on the register ai that
institution. Of that number eighteen
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are serving time sentences of from
:!0 to 00 days, five for violation of the
prohibition amendment, two for
simple assault, and one for gambling;
eight for petty larceny; one for carry- ^
ing a deadly weapon, arid one alleged
insane. Of those held to await the
action of the superior court there art'
three for highway robbery; three for
burglary; two for statutory rape;
sixteen for violation of the prohibi- \
tion amendment; two for resisting an j
officer; one for grand larcency; one
for an assault with a deadly weapon
and one for passing a bogus check.
The other five are held under j
charges of murder.
WARDEN OSBORNE OF j
SING SING SEEKS
CONSPIRACY INDICTMENTS
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
SALEM, N. Y., Oct. 2. — The at
tempt of his enemies to blacken his
moral character and oust him as Re-1
form Warden of Sing Sing Peniten
tiary having failed, Thomas Mott
Osborne is planning to bring them to j
book with some conspiracy indict- j
ments, which are being considered by J
the Washington County Grand Jury,
which reconvened here today.
It is whispered that eight men, one
of them a forrher state official, will ■
be indicted, charged with political
conspiracy against Osborne. Convicts
and ex-convicts, some of whom testi
fied against Osborne when he was in
dicted for alleged prison mismanage
ment, in Westchester county, will tes
tify in his favor today, it is said, tell
ing how they were threatened with
punishment if they didn’t testify
against him before the other jury.
The fight against Osborne originat
■ ed it is said, because his efficient ad
ministration of Sing Sing affairs cut
out a lot of graft.
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LADIES AID MEETS
The Ladies Aid Society will meet
tomorrow afternoon at the residence
of Mrs. M. A. Martin.
CAN PAY TAXES
Everything is now open in the office
of the city treasurer for the payment
! of city taxes.
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JAPAN MAY ATTACK
CHINA FOR CONQUEST
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TOKIO, Oct. 4.—Field Marshal Terauchi has been ap
pointed prime minister in the place of Count Okunta and
it is now certain that Japan is about to assume an aggres
sive attitude and to take a stand for the furtherance ot
he expansion idea. The new prime minister was forme r
y governor genral of Korea and held the highest rank in
the army. It is known that his idea has always been to
adopt an aggressive policy on the question ol expansion at
the expense of China and that new things are about to
occur in the Orient is generally the opinion. One news
paper of the capital city today actually predicts that a
Japanese army will soon be marching on Peking.
Air Mail Service
Here Next Spring
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. — Uncle
Sam's aeroplane mail route into Al
aska, contracted for some time ag<».
cannot start because the Kuropean
war is gobbling up all the aeroplanes
as fast as they’re made.
Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Praeger, who is in charge of the
new air route between Seward and
lditarod, is in high hope that the route
will be in operation by Spring, Tie
said today. The air line will take the
place of the old malannite trail and
instead of listening for the postman’s
whistle as most persons do, the Alas
kan folk will strain their ears for the
whirl of a 200 horse power motor
high up in the air.
Karl L. Byers, an Alaskan capital
ist, made a bid for the aeroplane ser
vice contract that was acceptable to
the government, and he is trying l ard
to get the aeros.
C’HISAN A OlTi’lT TO
BE A BO IT $S0,00o
Lee Catching, a placer miner ot
nearly forty years experience, who
was one of the first stampeders to the
Chisana district, reports that the dis
trict will produce in the neighbor
hood of $80,000 for the year, which
amount would have been much larger
had there not been a scarcity of wat
er on the creeks. Among those who
made good cleanups are McClellan
and Taylor on Bonanza; Carl Whit
man on Little Eldorado, and Bring
ham and McCabe on Big Eldorado.
There was also considerable actfv
ity on Notch creek, where a number
of claims have been staked and the
ground looks promising. Mr. Catch
ing estimates that there will be from
tU) to 80 people winter in the camp.
15.000 OF 800,000 NEW
YORK SHOOK CHILDREN
HAVE HEART DISEASE
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Heart di
sease among school children here is
becoming a serious menace to public
health, according to figures available
today in a report by the Health De
partment. Fifteen thousand of the
800.000 New York school children
suller today from it.
Infectious diseases, intoxication and
improper methods of living are direct
ly responsible, the department be
lieves, adding that the rheumatic
group of infectious diseases is the
most prevalent cause. The depart
ment plans a campaign to check the
progress of the disease among the
children.
The department’s report also shows
that 10,000 persons die from heart j
disease in New York every year.
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A man named P. Berrow was
brought in by the train from Mile C.r>
yesterday to have some slight injury
attended to.
The new cemetery is to be laid out
in small plots which will be sold to
the people and in this manner the
' price of the ground will be recovered.
Wilson Oil lo Me
His (ireat Speech
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4.—President
Wilson has passed here speeding his
way to Omaha to make the greatest
and most important speech of the
whole campaign. The speech, it
said, will be a plea for* “preparednc.-s
for peace” and in it he will ask the
vote's of the people of the nation on
his “foreign policy of peace.” Omaha
has been chosen for the speech be
cause of its more or less central posi
lion with respect to all parts of the
country.
SACOFF KILLED ACCIDENTLY
AXCHOKAiiE, Sept. 27. — The
first accidental death on the govern
merit railroad occurred thi* morning
at 11:15 o’clock when Nick Sacoff fell
between the cars and was instantl\
killed.
The accident occurred on the Turn
again Arm branch about six miles
from Anchorage and was purely acci
dental and no blame i." attached t<» an\
of the train crew. He was one of the
large crew of laborers working in this
district and his hotly was horribly
mutilated.
Nick Sacoff was a native of Russia.
22 years of age and unmarried and
has several relatives in the city.
Times.
SPLENDID VAI DF.YILLE
SHOW ON rot UTEEMII
New faces ami new stunts altogeth
er will be seen at the Arctic brother
hood show on October 14 ami a royal
time is being prepared. During the
performance the audience will m at
small tables where ice cream and cake
will he served, all same cabaret, and
afterwards the whole tiling will
break up into a joyous dance. The
managers are rather secretive about
their new stunts and new perfum ers
but they are evidently something
good.
McGRAW SORE
BROOKLYN, Oct. 4.—John Mc
Graw is a very sore man today. “I
worked too hard,” he said, “to be
connected with such playing.” Ebbets
is now ready to retire.
125 MEN AT ONE MESS
HOUSE AT KERN CREEK
One hundred men are now sitting
down to table daily in one mess house
at Kern creek and new camps are be
ing put in. Contracts are being con
stantly let.
WOLGAST TO MEET NEFF
SEATTLE, Oct. 4.—Wolgast is
here to box Neff and says he is con
I fident of regaining the title and forc
ing Welsh to fight him.
WILSONS DEPART
LONGBRANCH, Oct. 4.—President
Wilson and Mrs. Wilson departed to
day after a long sojourn here.