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SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, august 18,1916. Ten Cents the Copy
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FRENCH RECAPTURE FLEURY AND
TURKS FIGHT WITH AUSTRIANS
FRENCH RECAPTURE FLEURY
PARIS, August 18.—By a powerful attack northeast
of Fleury last night the French have completely recaptur
ed the village of Fleur\ driving the Germans from the
part of the village which they sull held, it is officially an
nounced. The Germans still retain a tew ruins outside
and east of the village near Champitre forest.
RUSSIANS THREATEN HUNGARY
PETROGR AD August 18.—Threatening the early in
vasion of Hungary the Russians have pressed forward in
to the -hiL onitza pass region and are approaching the
summits of the mountains in the region ol Korinezo,
Hungary, it is officially announced.
TURKS FIGHT WITH AUSTRIANS
BERLIN, August 18.—Turkish troops have been
rushed into Galicia to reinforct the Austro-Gennans and
have been in action on General Bothmer’s front lor the
first time. It is also officially announced that the Turkish
troops in that region have repulsed the Russian attack.
AUSTRIANS ADVANC ING
BERLIN, August IS.—An official statement from
Vienna dated August 15 and received today says that the
Austrians are advancing in southwestern Bukowina and
are continuing their advance. The statement also says
that they have repulsed six massed Russian attacks north
east of Stanislau. This official announcement also claims
that all Italian attacks have been repulsed on the other
front where the Austrians are bearing the brunt.
THE DEUTSCHLAND AGAIN
BOSTON, August IS.—A large submarine which is
believed to be the Deutschland was reported seen oil’ the
grand banks last Saturday by the crew of the Warren lin
er Sachem which arrived iast nigiu from Liverpool. If
this vessel was the Deutschland, it is assumed, she is prol>
ably making north to get around by the north of Scotland
and home by the North Sea instead of by the English
channel. . |
01.1.IK ASHBY RECEIVES
YKKY SEVERE INJURIES
OUie As by, a very popular boy and
a brother of Mrs. Horace IMine. is
suffering from severe injuries due to
a fall from a speeder at Mile 2-> to
day and was treated this afternoon in
Seward General Hospital by l>rs.
Romig and Sloan. He received' an
ugly cut over the eye, both hands
were so badly cut that they had to
be stitched, a bone of one wrist is
broken, and bruise." were received in
the knees and other portions of the
body. The left w rist is cut right to
the bone. The accident was due, he
thinks, to the fact that while riding
on the speeder his foot was caught by
a tie which threw him from the ma
chine. He says he was not traveling
very fast at the time. His brother
in-law is just recovered from the ef
fects of an accident also received by
a speeder accident on the railroad and
the doctors see no reason why OUie
should not recover quickly also.
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MONEY AND OFFICIALS
OF TEXAS BANK CONN
LONGVIEW. T*‘\.h. August 1$.
Cver a hundred thousand dollars to
gether with G. N. Campbell, the
c ashier, and G. A. Bodenheim, a heavy
stockholder, are missing from the
People’s State Bank of this city. The
bank has been closed by the banking
commissioner.
Hoy A. Dye. a clerk in the office of
Federal Mine Inspector Smith, has
been appointed chief clerk for the
Alaska Mine Experimental Station to
be established at Fairbanks.
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No advertiser can afo»rd to omit
the Seward Gateway.
(Spcxia to Gateway by United Press)
XKW YORK, August l>. — The
shoreline and pier lengths within
greater New York harbor, including
Jersey shore, are longer by 71 miles
than the c stance to Chi ago via Pen
nsylvania railroad, says the Chamber
of Ct i.oervc »•>» rt avai!a'»V today.
O ’.l ial 1st* ires give Greater New
York a direct waterfront of 578.4
mile . On the New Jersey mainland
the water;'root, extending from Sandy
Hook to the Hudson River opposite
New York City’s northern limit, af
fords W'l.'X. miles more, making a
total direct frontage of 771.33 miles.
This is more than the lineal distance
from NVyv York to Charleston, S. C.,
or to New York to Cincinnati.
Measured around piers and along
the heads of the slips, the length of
the developed waterfront brings out
some astonishing facts of capacity for
handling maritime ami inland trade
at this Port. The five boroughs have
a total frontage of 260.2 miles. This
with the New Jersey improvement of
I miles makes 393.65 miles, or a
lineal foot length of 2.078,456 feet.
•This latter total, with the total length
of water front on the same shores, of
4,072,600 lineal feet, shows that bare
ly half of, the length available for
trade is as yet within the developed
frontage of Greater New York.
Measuring waterfront both around
piers and along shoreline. Greater
New York has a total length of 729.3
miles, or $.903,504 lineal feet. Add
ing the Jersey stretch of riverside op
posite the City’s length on the Hud
son gives 240 miles more, making a
grand total by this mode of measure
ment of 979.3 miles, or 5,169.504 lineal
feet. That is 71.3 miles longer than
the entire distance from New York to
Chicago by way of the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
TWO MKN MNKU FOR
HILARIOUS ACTIONS
Mr. James Farrell, the gentleman
who busteu me aiurpny window last
evening, was lined *id unlay l>%\ City
Magistrate uooiver and was compelled
to pay lor me uamagc. He came
across with the cash. A striking lad
connected with the trial was mat a
u>>ul partner of Air. Farrell swore the
tatter never touched the window*.
Hozcns ol people who saw me occur
ernce were all mistaken. Another
member ol the Crook crew, a t Jipino,
was also lined lor bv ui£ intoxicat
ed. The evulence showed that he was
found lying in sweet oblivion on the
street. The cause tor the unusual
hilarity of the visitors is explained by
the fact that the ship left San Fran
cisco straight for Seattle, a dry town
on Puget Sound, went to Anchorage,
another desert, and first saw life in
Seward.
WOMAN'S CLUil TO MFKT
AT MRS. ROOT'S HOMK
The Woman’s Club will meet at
Mrs. Root's next Monday instead of
at the hull. There will be no program
but special work in dowers will be
done for the Fair and all the ladies
are requested to bring their scissors.
ALASKA TRADE REFORM
WASHINGTON’.—-The predominant
feature of the year’s tratio, according
to an analysis made Wy the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, De
partment of Commerce, was the rise
of copper to first place among Alas
ka’s export staples, thereby supplant
ing salmon and gold as the leading
items. Receipts of copper in ore.
matte, and regulus from Alaska ag
gregated 117 million pounds valued at
26 1-2 million dollars. This is four
times the average for the preceding
three years and exceeds the combined
imports of that class from Chile,
Cuba. Canada, and Mexico, the lead
ing foreign sources of this form of
copper.
Canned salmon shipped to the
United States in the last fiscal year
amounted to 216 million pounds valu
ed at 18 1-3 million doldars, an in
crease of 24 million pounds over 1913
and of 40 million over 1914.
The shipment of $16,200,000 worth
of Alaskan gold to domestic ports was
.larger by $1,000,000 than the total for
1915 and by $4,000,000 than that for
1914. Silver shipments, valued at
$760,000 in 1916, were $500,000 more
than in 1915 and $600,000 more than
in 1914.
The regular meeting of the Loyal
Order of Moose will take place this
; evening at A. B. Hall.
The movie, Burning Daylight, which
was shown here last night is the pro
duction in which Al Chamberlain was
invited to take part for a tee of a
thousand dollars. Mr. Chamberlain
■ declined because the expenses of him
' self and team would be too great.
The picture was taxen at Truckee,
California, but a lot of it looked rath
er like Alaska in some respects.
There were some little things, how
ever, that made the Alaska audience
smile.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller will leave
for the outside on the Farragut but
will return to Alaska, probably, in
Spring.
Joe Morris is here on the way to
Anchorage where he is about to estab
lish a cold storage and produce house.
He secured the building material dur
ing his recent visit to Seattle and
everything is ready to put up the
building.
UNION MAN CAUGHT
WITH PHOSPHORUS
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Attempt Again Made to Destroy
Seattle Dock; This Time Alaska
Steamship Company.
SEATTLE, August 18. — Still one
more attempt has been made to de
stroy a dock here and this time a man
named James Murphy, a union long
shoreman, has been arrested by Pa
trolman Colby. This attempt took
i place last night when, Colby says, ho
saw Murphy throw a bottle of phos
phorus through a window o*f Pier 2,
the terminal of the Alaska Steamship
Company. Murphy, the partolman
states, ran as he threw the bottle ami
offered a battle with a revolver but
Colby overpowered him and took him
into custody. Guards are now being
increased all over the waterfront as
the efforts to destroy property are
evidently due to widespread feeling
if not to widespread conspiracy.
SEATTLE MAN’S SON
DEAD OF THE PLAGUE
SEATTLE, Augflst 18.—Frederick
A. Churchill, Jr., son of Dr. F. A.
I Churchill of this city, died last Wed
nesday night in New York of infantile
paralysis. The young man was
I twenty-six years of age when the
scourge caught him.
1 CROOK WILL SAIL AWAY
TOMORROW MORNING
The government ship Crook will |
sail for Seattle tomorrow morning at j
8 o’clock. During her stay here the
line vessel has been visited by nearly i
everyone in the city.
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COLLINSON IS DEAD
MURDERER NOT CAUGHT
SEATTLE, August 18.—Eranciscus
von der Senior, the murderer of Mrs. |
J. A. Collinson, his former wife, has
not yet been located. Collinson, the
husband of the woman, who was also
shot by von der Seider, died of his
wounds yesterday morning.
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TELLS EITECT COLOR
HAS ON THE HUMANS
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CLEVELAND, August 0.—If your
little girl tells a fib or hops the ice
wagon, buy her a pale blue pinafore.
If your small boy disobeys and has to
J be taken out to the woodshed by his
fond papa regularly,—have his bed
i room papered a sky blue. It you
want to do some hard mental concen
tration hang a yellow curtain across
the window. This is the advice of
Rev. J. F. Grumbine, of the Psycho
Science church here.
“Clear red makes folks alTectionate
and dark red makes them emotional,”
Dr. Grumbine stated. “White makes
folk feel spiritual and pure. Every
| color has its affect on the human
mind.
TWO STEAMERS DUE
IN COUl’LE OF DAYS
Nothing had been heard from the
Northwestern or the Watson at noon
today both of w.hich left Seattle last
Sunday. It is expected that the
Northwestern will make a quick run
C
; to Seward as it is supposed most of
j her freight would be for Nome. The
Watson has twenty round trip pas
sengers aboard and the Northwestern
is likely to have several tourists as
well as returning Nome people. The
Victoria ought to be here in four days,
or so. j
The steamship Victoria is advertis
! ed in the Seattle papers to leave Seat
! tie again for Nome on August 25, so
she may be expected here soon from
the Bering Sea city. Aboard her is
George B. Grigsby, Democratic can
didate for attorney general, wh^> will
make a speech in furtherance of his
candidacy.
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R. R. PRESIDENTS REFUSE RUT
MEN ACCEPT PRESIDENT’S IDEA
Must Have A Bond
Issue Over Mexico
Finance Committee Says Congress
Must Soon (live More Money.
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WASHINGTON, August IS. — A
bond issue of one hundred and thirty
million dollars to meet the extraordin
ary expenses of the expedition to
Mexico and the dispatch of the Na
tional Guard to the border was un
| expectedly recommended to congress
today by the majority of the members
of the finance committee with the con
currence of the Treasury department.
The committee, it is noted, is Demo
, cratic. It has also been learned that
! in addition to the postponed issue and
; the revenue bill the finance committee
asserts that a further appropriation of
eight-six million dollars will be neces
sary after December 111.
I’KF.SIDFNT VHTOKS A KM V
AITBOPBIATION BII.I
WASH!NT,TON. August 1S.-The
president today vetoed the army ap
propriation bill. His action resulted
from the clause exempting retired
army officers from liability to service
and discipline under the articles of
war. The exemption provision itself
grew out of objections made by cer
tain retired officers when they were
masked to serve at the outbreak of the
Mexican trouble wiflh recruiting of
fices and mustering stations. Within
an hour after the veto reached the
House, Chairman Hay re-introduced
the measure minus any mention of ar
ticles of war. Chairman Chamber
lain, chairman of tin* senate military
affairs committee, declared the senate
would insert the old article of war
when the new house measure reaches
the senate.
‘PILE DRIVER CREWS
C,0 OUT THE LINE
Two pile driving crews will go out
the line tomorrow to start important
work at Mile 54 and Mile ‘54. At 54
they will drive seventeen hundred feet
of wing dam and a double shift will be
kept going. Amongst the well known
men going out with toe crews are lorn
MeConaty, C.us Manthey, Jim Moy,
W. M. Reed and Captain Doolittle.
AUTHOR OF BILL SAYS
SECTION MAY BE INVALID
In relation to the story published
yesterday w hieh said that Attorney
General Cobb has declared one part
of the Territorial mining law invalid,
Representative VV. W. Getchell, from
Nome, the author of the bill who is
now in Seward, says that the attor
neys in Juneau at the time the bill
was passed did not consider the clause
in question could be upheld. This
clause provides that a mine owner
could charge surveying expenses up to
a hundred dollars against his assess
ment work. Mr. Getchell says the
clause was included at the request of
the Alaska Mining Engineers’ As
sociation.
NORTHWESfERN AT CORDOVA
The Northwestern will probably be
here sooner than had been expected as
she was due noon today at Cordova.
In the account of the firs: game
with Anchorage the Anchorage l im^s
says through its correspondent that
the Anchorage team was more than
pleased with the reception it got here.
The paper says Seward did every
thing in its power to give the visitors
good time.
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WASHINGTON, August 18.—The danger of the na
tion wide strike that will tie up all the railroads of the
country loomed up again this afternoon when thirty-one
presidents of railroads left the White House determined,
they said, not to accept the proposal made by President
! Wilson to avert a ‘‘national calamity." Fifteen minutes
later the 610 representatives of the employees announced
; that they had voted to accept the proposal. What is ex
peeled to be the linal conference at the White House will
be held tomorrow morning when the railroad heads have
agree! to give a definite answer. , _
WASHINGTON, August 18.—President Wilson was
asked today by the heads of the railway brotherhoods to
modify the proposal he submitted to the members "of the
general committee as a basis for the settlement of the dis
pute. It is understood that the employees have suggested,
to satisfy the companies, that the President fix some
method whereby there could be no excessive overtime
under the eight hour day scheme.
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EPIDEMIC ALARMS CHICAGO
CHICAGO, August 18.—Infantile paralysis is now in
creasing in Chicago to an alarming extent. Eighty cases
were reported this month and the spread of the disease is
continuing.
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TO STOP DISEASE SPREAD
WASHINGTON, August 18.—The health authorities
of 10 states in response to the request of the U. S. General
Public Health Service have bound themselves to “closer
surveillance” of infantile paralysis cases. They will in
future require health certificates for all children under 10
in inter-state travel.
PHILIPPINE BILL PASSES
WASHINGTON, August 18.—The Philippine bill has
passed the house and is now ready for the President’s
signature.
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| AVERAGES OF THE
| TWO RALE TEAMS I
Seward Batting Average—
AB H R Avge.
Lucas .. 1 1 0 1.000
Williams . 8 4 2 .500
T. Finnegan .7 3 1 .428
Campbell .13 4 1 .307
Reed . 8 2 0 .250
Taylor . 0 2 ? .222
Manthey.5 1 0 .200
Lee .10 2 1 .200
Nickerson .*4 0 2 .000
J. Finnegan. 2 0 0 .000
Ryan .10 0 0 .000
Adams .11 0 0 .000
Totals .89 19 10
Team batting average, .211.
Anchorage Individual batting aver
age—
AB H R Avge.
Powery.8 3 1 .375
Amundsen .12 3 1 .250
Linn .'. 4 1 0 .250
Nofscar .* • • 0 2 0 .222
Rochon .11 2 0 .18J
Nichells . 8 1 2 .125
Mills .11 1 1 -090
Levine .12 1 0 .083
Tiffany .11 0 1 .000
; Nourse . 4 0 1 .000
| Duncan. 3 0 1 .000
Vandervere . 3 0 0 .000
Costello . 3 0 0 .000
Totals .100 14 9
Team batting average, .140.
Anchorage Individual Fielding
Average—
Chances F.rrors IVtge
Hochon .13 0 1.000
• Mills . 10 0 1.000
Duncan .12 0 1.000
Nofscar. 2 0 1.000
Levine ., 1 0 1000
Costello .( 4 0 1.000
Vandervere . 3 0 1.000
Powery .28 1 .964
Nicholls .16 1 .937
Amundsen .21 3 .857
Tiffany . 7 1 .857
Linn .7 2 .714
Nourse . 3 1 .666
Totals .127 9
Team Fielding average, .938.
Seward Individual Fielding Aver
age
Chances Errors Pctge
Ryan. 4 0 1.000
Poehlmann . 2 0 1.000
Reed .20 1 .950
Manthey .19 1 .940
Lee .30 2 .933
Campbell .12 1 ’ .910
Williams .11 1 -909
T. Finnegan .10 2 .87;>
Taylor .13 3 .769
Adams . 4 1 .750
Nickerson . 0 0 .000
Lucas . 0 0 .000
J. Finnegan. 0 0 .000
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Totals .131 12
Team Fielding Average .915.
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