400,000 TURKS IN ARMY
ROME, Jan. 7.—The estimates made here as to the
size of the Turkish army now under arms seem to average
about four hundred thousand men. Most of these, how
ever, will be retained in Turkey in Europe to guard
against an attack on Constantinople. The large part of
the remainder are supposed to be operating in Caucasia
so that the number available for an invasion of Egypt
must be far less than one hundred thousand. It is ex
ceedingly difficult to form an opinion as to what is oc
curring in Asiatic Turkey and the surrounding territories
where hostilities are proceeding as there are no telegraph
lines nor other means of communication. Railroads are
also very few and far between so that the movement of
great bodies of troops is a matter of exceedingly great
difficulty. On the whole the opinion is general here that
Turkey has not really begun its real campaign yet
LITTLE EPIDEMIC same malady. Many do not call in
VISITS THE C ITY, doctors. Young Francis Ballaine and
_ Andy Rasmussen are reported today
Several people have recently been t0 complaining. Harry Whittemore
attacked in the city by a malady which s(H*ms to have been the most seriously
is described as a mild form of dysen- attacked by the unwelcome visitation.
tery. Several are recovering from the -—-—
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NEWS NOTES
J. W. Stevenson writes from Glen
dale, Oregon, that he is now’ in that
part of the world and touring that
state and California in an automobile.
C. S. King who was here hunting
with l)r. Thees writes from New’ York
to ask for all the friends he made
here.
Gus Manthey is walking on crutches
as a result of a swelling which is due
to a rupture which, he says, h^ did
not give proper attention to. The
| swelling began in the body and has
left there and gone to his knee. The
doctor says he may look for relief
about Saturday.
A good market for dogs is expected
this spring owing to the many people
who will go over the trail this way to
the Iditarod and other interior camps.
High tide has washed away part of
the foundation of the house on Joe
HotTman’s ranch across the bay. .
A gentleman brought into this of
fice today an elder branch that is al
ready budding, all same spring in less
favored climates. He went and cut tht
thing down specially to prove a
statement he made.
The Gateway can do any sort of
printing done in the states. Ho not
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PROF ESSOR S A Y S (i LACIER
NEAR SEWARD MAY SLIP
INTO SEA.
—
There is an inspired genius who
calles himself Professor Martin of
Wisconson university who is quoted
as saying that he discovered the
1 route from Portage Ray to the inter
ior and that there is a Rear glacier
at the mouth of Resurrection Bay
which might advance a quarter of a
mile and send icebergs into the path
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of ocean steamers. All this is contain
ed in a story sent by some other
i Washington correspondent to some
paper and reproduced in the Valdes
Prospector of December 23.
The Prospector does not £*vc ^e
name of the Washington correspon
dent or of the paper to which he
wrote and this fact in itself is strange.
Here is the wind-up of the story;
“It is claimed by Prof. Martin, and
he seems to have so convinced the
new Alaska railway commission that
the harbor in Passage or Portage ca
nal is quite as good for ocean steam
ships as Resurrection bay, upon
which is Seward. Prof. Martin says,
too, that partically no icebergs float
into Passage canal or Port William
Sound from Port Wells, which is the
center of the glacial formations on
that side of Prince William Sopnd.
“In any event, he says, the possible
disadvantage of the Portage canal
harbor in this respect could never
be as great as that which will come
to Seward, of the Bear glacier, at the
south of Resurrection bay should ad
vance a quarter of a mile and send
icebergs into the path of ocean steam
ers.”
SUES GUGGS.
DENVER, De,\ */4—The Georg? W.
Elder estate ba3 ommcnced suit
against the Guggeni.eims charging
tnat the Guggenheim interests had
taken out $6,000.0U) worth of ore
from the Elder mine after the lease
had expired. The Guggenheim* have
not answered the complaint, but it is
expected they will enter a general de
nial.
It is charged that ore valued at $0.
000,000 was taken from the min* af
ter the lease ended and that the own
ers of the mine wer* defrauded.
Experienced fishermen who have
spent several months prospecting the
coast of Alaska for shrimp of mar
ketable size have announced that
they have been successful in their
efforts. They claim to have located
a shrimp bed near the south end of
Wrangell narrows.
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
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SHELLS MAKE
DEAF AND DUMB
LONDON MEDICAL JOURNALS
TELL OF REMARKABLE EF
FECT OF GUNS.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Jan. 6.—The extraordinary
effects of shell fire upon those who
are forced to undergo it, are being
discussed at length in the British
medical journals.
An English surgeon now attached to
a Paris hospital reports the cases of
four men who show absolutely no
trace of bodily wounds, but who are
now under his care. Two of them
were struck deaf and dumb by shell
explosions; but neither of them has
anything wrong with his organs of
speech or hearing, but is suffering
simply from shock. A third cannot
see, caused by a nervous shock. There
is nothing the matter with his eyes
and complete recovery is promised
after a period of quite and rest. The
fourth man’s experience left his mind
blank.
Field surgeons contribute accounts
of the manner in which death comes
from shell fire. In some cases men
are found stiff in death in life-like
attitudes, so that the stiffness char
acteristic of a corpse must have come
on at the very moment of death,
whereas under ordinary circum
stances a man dies first and slowly
stiffens afterwards. Some of the field
surgeons have attributed this to the
action of a poisonous gas, given off
by the new explosive, “turpenite.”
One of the pathologists at Guy’s hos
pital, however, contradicts that
theory.
The finest kind of job work a? well
as the plainest is done by the Gate
way.
SCHOOL CHILDREN TO
HAVE DANCING CLUB.
The Seward schools are about to
inaugurate a dancing club for the
benefit of the children. No one will oc
permitted to enter those classes or be
present except the parents who will
appear as, let us say, chaperons. The
time for the commencement of the
classes has not yet been decided upon
but it will be soon according to Mrs.
Forgy the principal. But let it be
known to everybody far and wide
there will be no ragging or nothing
iike that. The principal and the others
have very rightly come to the con
clusion that dancing ought to be just
as much part of a school curriculum
as anything else.
One of the chief reasons for the
establishment of the school dancing
club is to keep the children off the
street.
PIONEERS ELECT.
The Pioneers of Alaska at their
meeting last night elected the follow
ing officers for the coming term;
President, J. Lindley Green; hirst
vice-president, J. 0. Putten; Second
vice-president, Frank Nickerson; Sec
I rotary,Ike Evans; Historian and Chap
j lain, Dr. J. H. Eomig; Trustee C. h
Hewitt.
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