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ALLIED FLEET ARRIVES NEAR THE
CAPITAL OF GREECE TO FORCE WAR
GERMANS FLEE FROM ATHENS
LONDON. Sept. 2.—Gentian residents have fled front
Athens following the arrival oi thirty allied warships with
several transport ships tilled with troops at the harbor of
Piraeus which is unit live miles from the Grecian capital.
Athens dispatches report that great excitement has arisen
in political circles over the appearance of the fleets but no
advices have been received to confirm or deny the story
of the abdication of King Constantine. Rome reports
now sav that Constantine is seriously ill but the Greek of
licials are apparently maintaining a strict censorship on
matters connected with their internal affairs. The allied
governments have given out no official reason for Jhe
sending of the fleet and the troops to Piraeus at this time
although from enemy sources the statement has been sent
out that the cause is the desire to force Greece to light on
the side of the Entente alliance. The Greek cabinet is re
ported to be constantly meeting in private sessions and the
result of the discussion mav be learned at any moment.
E V AC l A TE H ERM A N ST A DT
BERLIN, Sept. 2.—An official statement from Vienna
tells that the Austrians have evacuated Hermanstadt, the
former capital of Transylvania, and other towns in that
province before the Roumanian advance. This avacua
tion and withdrawal is not caused by defeats but by a pre
arranged plan to enable the Austrians to take up a more
favorable position to meet the Roumanian attack.
GERMANS TO MEET ROUMANIANS
THE HAGUE. Sept. 2.—Fifty thousand German
troops have arrived in Transylvania to reinforce the Aus
trians in the elfort to stop the Roumanian advance. The
Germans have already arrived at Transylvanian city of
Klausenburg and will soon be in touch with the advancing
new enemy. Military experts are waiting with deep inter
est to see the Roumanians in action as they have never
been tried against a formidable enemy since the country
secured self government. They are advancing in Austrian
territory west of the Carpathians and so do not have to
cross those mountains, thus being is a far better position
for the invasion of Hungary than the Russians.
GERMANS TAKE TRENCHES
PARIS- Sept. 2.—It is officially admitted that the Ger
mans by violent assaults last night recaptured French
trenches which the French took during the fighting on
August 31 south of Estrees in the region south of the Som
me. The counter attacks by the Teutons were exceedingly
violent. No other lighting is reported today on the west
ern front. The Germans have apparently decided not to
press the attack on Verdun at least at present. The entry
of Roumania into the war was marked here by rejoicings
oi a general nature. Crowds still gather and parade sing
ing the Roumanian national anthem.
MORE GERMAN ATTAC KS REPULSED
LONDON, Sept. 2.—Reports from General Haig are
to the effect that the Germans attacked again last night
at .thred’ different points but that all the assaults on the
British positions were repulsed.
ON THE GREEK FRONTIER
ROME, Sept. 2. — Pending the development of
Greece’s intentions with respect to the war the allied
forces at Salonika are apparently content with holding
their positions and the Bulgarians have established theln
selves at Kavala and Karasa and the intervening coast
line. The reported arrival of the allied fleet at Piraeus,
the real port of Athens, is expected here to precipitate
matters and the final decision of Greece is looked for with
dn a few days.
NKW YOKK KAILWAY MEN
AT LAST MEET UNION
i NKW YOKK, Sept. 2.—Three thou
j sand employees of the elevated and
subway rapid transit company with
the corporation’s consent have voted
to meet a committee of the union.
This is the tirst recognition of the
union by these men.
MOKE GUARDSMEN ARE
ORDERED BACK HOME
CALEXICO, Cal., Sept. 2.—The
Second Washington infantry has re
ceived orders to return to their state
mobilization camp. They broke camp
last Friday.
JOE SOLOMON SHOT
TWICE BY ERICKSON
JUNEAU, August 22.—J. Soiomon,
proprietor of a tailor shop here, but
formerly a cook at the Royal Cafe in
Ketchikan, and well known in both
places, was shot last evening on the
Citv dock, bv a man named William
Erickson. Solomon was shoe twice
through the body puncturing the in
testines in four places. He was rush
ed to the hospital but the doctors
state that his chances for recovery are
limited.
It appears that Erickson was under
the influence of liquor and inquired
of a man when the steamer Humboldt
was due to sail. Not receiving an an
swer, he pulled out a gun and com
menced shooting. The man, however,
made his escape. Solomon who heard
the shooting opening his window ask
ed Erickson what the matter was, in
reply, he was shot twice through the!
body. By that time an officer arrived
on the scene knocked the murderer
down, and rushed the injured man to
the hospital where he is hovering be
tween life and death.
A lady stopipng at a hotel in the
vicinity had a narrow escape, a shot
passed over her head. It is said that
her short stature saved her lire.
Erickson is held in jail on an open
charge.—Ex.
ESKIMO SLAYERS CAUGHT
OTTAWA, Ont., August 21.—News |
from Nome was received that Canadi
an mounted police have captured the
two Eskimos who in November, UK3,
in the copper mine country of the
Arctic region, are alleged to have
murdered the Rev. Fathers Leroux
and Rouvier. They are now at Hei
schell Island and will be brought out
for trial.—Ex.
ALASKAN PIONEER DEAD
JUNEAU.—Word has been received
rt the Governor’s office that San Hill,
of Seward, an inmate of the Pioneers’
"Home at Sitka, dbd at the Home cn
August 15. Funeral services were
held at Sitka.
Word has also l?en received that
August Peterson, cf Farragut bay
near Petersburg; Charles A. Lock
heart, of Kotzebue, and James Car
penter, of Ruby, have recently been
admitted to the home.—Empire.
BANKS CLOSE AND NO
GATEWAY ON MONDAY
Monday will be Labor Day and a
National holiday so that the banks
will be closed. The Gateway will not
be published on that day but if any
very important news comes it wilT be
given out by bulletin.
VEGETABLE SHOW TO
BE BEAUIIEIII ONE
Ranchers I’rged to Bring Their ( hoic
esl Specimens It* Civic Fair.
Tlie Civic Fair which will be held
next week promises to mark a new
phase of the life of this part of Al
aska as it will be used for a compre
hensive exhibit of the garden and
farm produce this district can boast
of. Every rancher in the region is
invited to make an offering of some
of the stuffs produced by him and
prizes, nominal in value, no doubt, j
but prizes, will be given. They are
asked to bring their own exhibits on
Friday morning to the government
building or they could send them
through Mrs. Chambers of that com
mittee or some other of the members
of the Woman’s Club. Exhibits ol
vegetables, hays, grains, wild or cul
tured berries ami all else will be wel
comed. The ladies are afraid that
they cannot reach each homesteader
personally and they want them to un
derstand that they are looking for
their co-operation. This exhibit ought
to be of real help to Alaska.
One more prize has been offered by
the Club in the fancy work line. It
is for Hardanger work and the first
prize will be a dollar and the second
fifty cents.
It was decided last night at the
meeting of the Club to issue season
tickets for fifty cents each which will
entitle the holders to visit the Kail
as often as they wish—to go in and
out at will*—but these tickets are not'
transferable and will have the names
of the purchasers written on them.
They can be secured at the drug store,
candy stores, groceries and from Mi's.
Hill.
The work of preparing for the Fair
is now showing its results in the fine
shaping of the preparations and Sew
ard is in for a most pleasant and in
teresting time.
MADDOX EXAMINES POINT
Lieutenant Maddox went up to
Naval Point yesterday afternoon on
Captain Johnson’s ship Hannah to
look over the ground as a pos
sible site for the radio statTon. There
is good reason to believe that Mr. Mad
dox considers a site at the head of the
bay as the best.
GEORGE PHELPS GETS
GOVT. SALE AGENCY
George Phelps received his commis
sion empowering him to sell Geodetic
Survey printed matter in Seward on
the last mail. He has been trying for
this privilege for years but although
Cordova and Valdez had agencies
•Seward never had a look in until now.
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WATSON SAILS SEPT 5
The Admiral Watson will saiT on
September 5 instead of September 3
as had been scheduled.
JEHOPHAT STALIN SKY
WINS BABY PRIZE
Jehophat Stalinsky is the baby to re
ceive the first prize offered by the
Woman’s Club to the best proportion-1
ed baby in the city. The examination
was made by Dr. Romig, city health
officer, and was made scientifically by
the standard methods.
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HOUSE PASSES THE BILL AND
SENATE WILL PASSIT TONIGHT
MAYOR StBASlIAN
IS DOWN AND Oil
Head of Los Angeles Municipality
Resigns I’nder Serious ( barges.
LOS ANTILLES, Sept. 2. — Mayor
Sebastian of this city resigned last
night and his resignation became ef
fective immediately. The cause of the
fall of the mayor is a further expos
ure in connection with the case in
which he was involved before his
election as mayor and while he was
chief of police, a case in which a wom
an and he were charged with a serious
offense. Recently a Los Angeles
paper published three notes alleged to
have been written by Sebastian to
Lillian Pratt with whom he was joint
ly indicted on a statutory charge
about a year ago. He and the woman
at that time were acquitted and Se
bastian was later elected as mayor.
After the recent publication by the
paper of the notes to the girl Sebast
ian brought a criminal libel suit
against the managing editor of the
paper but after he appeared as the
complaining witness in the case
against the editor enough was shown j
to cause Sebastian to reach the deci
sion that he could no longer stay at
the head of the city’s affairs.
ALASKA COMING AND
HAS GRIGSBY ABOARD
SEATTLE, Sept. 2. — The Alaska j
sailed Thursday night with the follow- j
ing passengers for Seward: Miss J. >
Anderson, B. A. Grier, G. B. Grigsby, j
Airs. A. Broborg, Miss B. L. Hallett.
Miss B. Wallace Henrv Ballinger and
one steerage.
(Grigsby is the Democratic candi
date for attorney general. Miss Hal-j
lett is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Hallet of Seward and Miss Juanita
Anderson is the teacher at Seldovia.) j
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—(Morning Dispatch)—The
prevention of the threatened railroad strike through act
of congress seemed assured after the house had passed the
Adamson eight hour law late yesterday and when the
senate had agreed to take the tinal vote not later than this
afternoon. Although the senate amendments may make
conferences necessary it is generally believed that when
the test comes the house bill as it stands will be accepted
and rushed to Shadow Lawn, N. J.* where it will be signed
by President Wilson. The moment it is signed messages
will be dispatched, it is assured, by the leaders of the rail
road brotherhoods calling oil the strike.
LONG BRANCH, N. J., Sept. 2. — President Wilson
: has been informed by telegrams from Democratic senat
; ors today that the eight hour law for railroad workers will
! pass the senate by an overwhelming majority before night
and so will avert the threatened railroad strike. Mr. Wil
on, it is stated, regards the strike danger as passed for
the present.
ALL ALASKA REVIEW
I READY NEXT MONDAY
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The August number of the All-Al
aska Review will be oHT the presses on
Monday. In addition to the usual
i features, a review of all the hapif n
ings of all parts of the territory for
the month, it will contain two special
articles, one on prohibition by Mi's.
Ella A. Roole, vice-president at large
of the National W. C. T. U., and an
other by a former well known Alaska
newspaperman on the work of a news
paper in the territory. A big bunch
of new cuts have been secured for this
issue, including photographs of peo
ple and places, amongst them a well
known local member of the territorial
house of representatives. A feature
this month and for each month until
the elections will be the reproduction
of the various political opinions in
Alaska.
THREE BUILDINGS
COST $50,000
For the benefit of outsiders it may
be stated that three buildings alone
which are now in course of construc
tion in Seward will cost more than
fifty thousand dollars when completed.
The mere buildings without furnish
ings or finishings will cost about $40,
000 and the remaining $10,000 wiir
easily be expended in addition. Be
sides these three buildings several
smaller ones are in course of con
struction, have just been constructed
or are about to be constructed.
STEWARD OF THE ADMIRAL
EVANS DEAD IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, August 21.—James
Orant Barrett, steward for several
years on the steamer Admiral Evans,
running to Southeastern and South
western Alaska, died this forenoon of
heart failure.—Ex.
WILSON ACCEPTS RENOMINATION
AND ANNOUNCES HIS PLATFORM
SPLENDID RESTAURANT
OPENS HERE TOMORROW
The Broadway Cafe, a restaurant
which would do credit to a city o*> ten
times the size, will open its doors to*
morrow morning at 7 o’clock. The
proprietors are Joe Tadin, formerly of
the Palace, and H. J. Murphy, a form
er Juneau restaurant man. Every
thing in the cafe is perfectly new and
the arrangements are all up to first
class standard. Pretty and cozy pri
vate boxes have been installed for
ladies and parties and the quick lunch
patrons have been fully looked after
as well. The Broadway Cafe is here,
its proprietors say, to cater in city
fashion to £.11 comers.
HOLDS FIRST SERVICE .
Rev. H. C. Munro of the American
Christian Missionary Society will hold
his first service in the Pioneers’
Hall on Sunday evening from 7:30 to
8:30. The subject of the sermon will
be; “Building the Church.” Every one
in Seward is invited regardless of de
nomination or Christian profession.
WANTED
Smart boy at Gateway office.
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LONG BRANCH, N. J., Sept. 2. — President Wilson
I came out today to take part in the campaign for the presi
dency and addressed an immense crowd. He opened by
accepting his renomination as candidate of the Demo
cratic party and outlined the achievements of his admin
istration in a most spirited manner while scoring the Re
publicans as “a party of masterly inactivity standing pat
to resist change.” The Democratic party, the President
said, holds to very definite ideals. “We believe the energy
and initiative of our people should be set free as we have
-set to free them not to concentrate them in the hands of
a few powerful guardians as our opponents have again
and again sought to concentrate them.” After dealing
with other subjects the President went on to the days of
“little Americanism with its narrow horizon when the
methods of protection and industrial nursing were the
chief studies of our provincial statesmen.” These days the
President declared past and gone. Mr. Wilson declared
that his former policy was built upon two fundamental
principles; That property rights can be vindicated by
claims for damages but that the loss of life is irreparable.
In dealing with war agitation in this country he stated:
“I neither seek the favor nor fear the displeasure of
that small alien element amongst us which places loyalty
to any foreign power before loyalty to the United States.”