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DAILY l L •* 1
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^ ” ItKINO RESULTS I'UUI.ISHED DAILY EXCM I SUNDAY _ ^ ^
GERMANY STILL CLAIMING GAINS IN
GREAT STRUGGLE AROUND VERDUN
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FIGHTING AT VERDUN i
PARIS, March 8.—Heavy artillery fighting took place
last night on both banks of the Heuse some distance from
Verdun. The situation north of Veruun is unchanged butj
it is believed that the Germans are preparing to capture j
Geose and Headmans hills. ^
GERMANS WIN POSITIONS
BERLIN, March 8.—The capture of Forges, Regne
ville, Rabin, aiuj Cumieres heights has been officially an-1
nounced. The last named place is seven miles from Ver
dun. Ten cannon. 3,300 men and 58 officers were taken
prisoners.
awful explosion
NIAGARA FALLS, X. Y., March 8.—One is dead and
several are missing as the result of a series of explosions;
in the plant of the Niagara Falls Electro C ompany toda\.
The plant was manufacturing large war supplies for the
allies and the explosion is believed incendiary. The ex
plosions rocked the country for miles around. Massive
iron girders were shot a hundred teet in the air and a steel
tank twenty feet high and fifteen feet wide was hurled
through a three foot brick wall and sank in the river a
hundred feet distant.
REPORT ENVER PASHA DEAD
ATHENS, March 8.—An unconfirmed report has;
been received that Enver Pasha, Turkish minister of war
and the moving spirt in the war has been assassinated.
GERMANY ANSWERS U. S.
WASHINGTON, March &—Bernstorff has handed
Lansing an eight thousand word memorandum contain
ing Germany’s full explanation for ordering the submar
ining of belligerent merchant ships without'warning.
McLEMORE LOSES
WASHINGTON, March 8—Late last evening the
house voted on the McLemore resolution to prevent
Americans from traveling on the merchant ships of belli
gerent nations and the resolution was lost by 276 to 140
votes. The previous voting that day showed that the fate
of the resolution was sealed but so large a majority
against it was not expected. Both houses have thus en
dorsed Wilson’s foreign policy. Half the Republicans in
the house voted with the Democrats and the rallying cry
of those opposed to the motion was: “Is it Wilson and
Lansing or Bernstorff and the kaiser?"
BRITISH NAVY BIGGER
LONDON, March 8.—In a speech here yesterday
Winston Churchill, formerly first lord of the admiralty,
declared that the admiralty now lacks driving force and
must be revitalized before it is too late. Arthur J. Bal
four, the present first lord, answered last night in the
house of commons by declaring that since the outbreak of
the war the personnel of the navy has been increased ten
fold and that the tonnage has been increased over a
million. Churchill is home from the front on leave of
absence.
TRAINS SNOWBOUND
SEATTLE, March 8.—All eastern trains are again
snow bound in the Cascades. Four feet of snow fell on
the summit on Tuesday. Warm rains have now succeed
ed and serious slides are threatened.
TONGS FIGHTING STILL
SAN FRANCISCO, March 8.—The Tongs are con-j
tinuing their warfare and three Chinamen were shot yes
terday.
BAKER CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON, March 8.—Baker, who was appoint
ed secretary of war, was confirmed today by the senate.
SITKA AIRSHIP AGAIN
JUNEAU, March 8.—For the tenth time almost a
mysterious airship is reported seen near Sitka. The Re
publicans of the Gastineau Channel cities will hold their!
caucuses tomorrow night to nominate delegates to the
convention at Seward. The grand jury will be in session
Monday and also the petit jury. The weather has been
cold for the past ten days with a high wind.
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RATHENAU, MOBILIZER
OF GERMAN INDUSTRY
DR. WRITER RRTHEnJhJ
(Dr, Walter Rathinnu. one of Colonel
House's hosts In Berlin. Is a very im
portant figure in the German capital. He
is called “the wizard of the German
empire” and is credited with mobilising
German Industries for the war ami with
finding substitutes for many of the sup
plies which before the war Germany had
to obtain from other countries. i»r
Kathenau Is an engineer and economist,
very wealthy and u personal friend of
Kaiser Wilhelm He visited America In
1912.]
FAIRBANKS MAN ACQUITTED
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 26—Sam Bar
ber, the well known old timer in in
terior Alaska, who was arrested on
the charge of shooting with intent to
kill Anthony Christopher, a saloon
keeper of Tolovana, was acquitted by
the jury here yesterday.
Barber had been brought from
Tolovana to Fairbanks for trail by a
U. S. Deputy Marshal and after the
trial said that he had intended to
enter a plea of guilty and take his
medicine as he had been drunk at the
time of the assault and did not know
what he was doing.
The defendant was represented by
Cecil H. Clegg, former assistant dis
trict attorney here, who got his client
off on the grounds that the gun had
been accidently discharged.—Ex.
IDITAROD MINER SUED FOR
$30,000 BY ALLEGED WIFE
SEATTLE, Feb. 25.—Robert Spen
cer McMillan, a well known mine op
erator of the Iditarod district, Alaska,
was today sued for $50,000 heart
balm by Oliva D. Larson. The papers
tiled today state that Miss Larson
met McMillan while he was working
on Engineer • Creek near Fair
banks. He is claimed to have wooed
and won. The “pretended” marriage,
according to Miss Larson,, was per
formed at Iditarod. Later Miss Lar
son learned that McMillan had a wife
in Canada.—Ex.
FIGHTING FOR
ROAD MONEY
NOME APPEALS THROI’GH i
G ATEWA Y, COM M ERCIA L
CU B AND OTHERS FOR
CO-OPERATION.
NOME, Afarch 7.—The Nome
Chamber of Commerce and all Sew
ard Peninsula is now engaged in an
effort to secure half a million dollars
for road building in the territory and
it has been decided by the chamber to
ask the Seward Commercial Club
through the Gateway to join with all
other commercial organizations in
Alaska to aid the work. The effort is
to be made to prevail on the secretary
ot war to present a supplementary re
port to congress for money. There is
good reason here to believe that quite
a tot of money can be obtained for
the work if a strong effort is made.
The local chamber is now waiting to
hear from Seward and the other
cities.
NEW SLED UKAKE
Billy Allan has completed a new
type of sled brake for use on dog
sleds that promises to fullfill all ex
pectations in the matter of holding
down a headstrong dog team. The
contrivance is of unusual strength and
is so designed that the dogs will have
to dig up about a foot of snow in
order to go ahead. The brake was
designed especially for Henry Brugh.
—Nome Nugget.
THE COAL LEASES
“When an individual or a corpora
tion takes a lease on coal land he will
not ho bothered by any regulations for
interpreting the terms of the lease.
It wiU all he in the lease itself,” said
Secretary Lane, of the department of
the interior. “After many months of
study and investigation, we have now
determined upon a form of lease, and
have rejected the idea of having ex
tended regulations go with it. The
form is not long, hut it gives the
lessee the exact knowledge of what
he may and may not do. In framing
it, we have had the advice of private
operators as well as government of
ficials."—Ex.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 1.—War
ren Hasty, of Hasty, Minn., never
wanted to let folks think he was
hasty. So at 73 he was married to
Mrs. Lydia Theil here. Hasty never
has been married before.
FISHER MAY COME BACK
LONDON, March 8.—Sir John Fisher, former sea
lord, attended the British war council yesterday and it is
believed that this foreshadows his recall to his former
position. He quit because of trouble with Winston
Churchill.
ENGLAND SEE U. S. IN MIX
LONDON, March 8.—The newspapers here today de
clare that it will be almost impossible _ for the United
States and Germany to avoid a break. It is known that
the bitterness against the United States in Germany is
increasing.
GARY INDICTED
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March 8—The county grand
jury has indicted Judge Elbert H. Gary and the officers ■
of six * steel companies for violating the anti trust law.j
The indictments are the outgrowth of the East Youngs- j
town strike riots.
GILL WINS AGAIN j
SEATTLE, March 8.—Gill has been re-elected by six,
thousand majority. " , .
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RUSH FOR SEWARD; NEARLY
EIGHTY COMING ON ALASKA
❖ CANNOT HEAR *
❖ THE FIRE#BELL ❖
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A complaint was made to the Gate
way today by a couple of business men
on Fourti. Avenue near Washington
street that they never can hear the
fire bell ringing and they asked to
have attention drawn to the matter.
TICKETS SELL LIKE
WILDFIRE FOR 17TH
In Honor of the Day It is Expected
Irish Songs Will be Feature.
The tickets for the grand Minstrel
show on March 17 are selling down at
the Alaska Pharmacy like wildfire.
It has been rumored that one of the
surprises in store are some Irish
songs and music of a high class in
honor of the day so that Irish resi
dents can regard the event as a spec
ial celebration as well as a royal good
time. The reserved seats are now
selling so quickly that all who want
them had better hurry up.
Baker Favors Lots
of Strategic R. R.’s
New' Secretary of War Has Well De
fined Ideas About Pre
paredness
CLEVELAND, March 7.—N. D.
Baker, the secretary of war elect, has
come out with a statement that he
favors the construction of strategical
railroads for use in moving troops and
supplies in the event that the United
States might ever be invaded. The
railroads of the nation at present, he
says, are so built that they go out
of their ways to tap large cities.
What he wants are railroads that do
not ake population centers into ac
count but which are built solely with
a view to quick transportation both
transcontinental and coastwise. “I
believe in peace and the proper en
forcement of peace laws by force if
necessary,” he said.
Pioneers Meet at
the Festive Board
Songs, Speeches and Reminiscences
Fill in a Pleasant Evening.
The members of the Seward Igloo
of the Pioneers of Alaska had a most
interesting time at the dinner last
evening and spent some hours list
ening to good singing, good stories j
and to the relation of some weird ex-j
periences of pioneers in the “dear,
dead days beyond recall," as all
pioneers would have you think them.
Dr. J. M. Sloan occupied the place of
toastmaster and carried himself with
the savoir faire, to use an Eskimo;
phrase, which always distinguishes
him. L. L. James, Jr„ president of
the Igloo, closed the evening with a
few neat remarks welcoming the visi
tors. He stated that the dinner would
become an annual affair and he ex-'
pressed the opinion that next year the
Igloo will have even a more ambitious
entertainment. The singing was aid- J
ed by Messrs. Moses, Sinclair, Ash-j
croft and Bruner, not forgetting John!
Noon at all. Mr. Lindblad read a j
poem specially written for the
pioneers. The others who responded
to the invitation of the toastmaster
were Mayor Myers, A1 Chamberlain,
Judge Lindley Green, William Sauers,
Pistol Pete Anderson, Alex McDonald,
Leon Booker, Matt Button, Sam Soup- j
coff, Judge van Pelt and J. J. Me- j
Grath. More than eighty people were
present.
ALASKA LEAVES CORDOVA
AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT
Alex McDonald has received word
that the Alaska will leave Cordova at
midnight tonight. 1
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BIG CROWD ON ALASKA
CORDOVA, March 8.—The following are the pas
sengers for Seward on the Alaska which will leave here
at midnight: N. P. Clarberg, E. J. Uhl, R. M. Geodle, J.
E. Riley, J. H. Vanderiderstine, E. A. Zincles, J. R. Her
man, E. A. Norman, G. S. Proule, L. 0. Annable, R. M.
Foran and wife, E. Wickstrom, D. Ward, S. Duckstad, J.
Sholler, H. T. Davidson and wife, 0. H. Poehlman, J. M.
Elmer, C. Williams, T. A. Dray, F. P. Graham, J. I-'rice,
D. McKenzie, Carl Blucham, H. Simonson, C. H. Kidd and
wife, 0. L. Larson, C. W. Morris, M. H. Schulz, Ira Mc
Lean, Mrs. C. A. Brown, Mrs. W. G. Clark, W. R. Solibok
ke, 0. H. Solibokke, H. Lane, J. Hanson, Geo. A. Brooke,
J. B. Davis, M. P. Fitzgerald, H. D. James, F. Pederson,
C. Oscar Nord and 25 steerage.
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Billiard Contest
Soon To Come Up
Good Contest Being Arranged For
the Northern Parlors.
A billiard tournament is being ar
ranges! by the Northern which is
creating great interest among the
players of Seward. A new method of
handicapping is being discussed which
is meeting with favor as it promises
to remove the principal objections to
handicap play. Generally speaking
the players will be divided into three
classes, all members of each class
playing on approximately an €qual
footing. The winners, of the turee
classes will then play a final series
of three games for the principal
prize. In addition a prize will be
given to the winner of each class.
The handicap in the final between the
winners of the three classes will be
based on their scores as played in
their individual classes.
A partial list of those eligible has
been prepared and can be seen at the
Northern. All players are invited to
call and examine the list and suggest
any additions as it is the desire to
give every player who desires to en
ter the tournament the opportunity to
do so..
Dividing the players into three
classes reduces the expense to the in
dividual player as each player will
only have to play the number of
games corresponding to the number
of members in his class instead of
playing all the members in the tourn
ament. Accurate scores will be kept
officially and all play will be strictly
according to rules.
An entrance fee will probably be
charged in which case there will be no
charge for the games. This will make
the total cost to each player less than
l if he paid for individual games.
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MEET AT MRS. SAUERS’
TOMORROW AFTERNOON
The Ladies’ Aid of the Methodist
! church will meet tomorrow afternoon
at the residence of Mrs. Sauers. This
I is the evening for the regular social
! at the Methodist church. It will be a
I very pleasant evening.
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I SCHOOL CHILDREN GET
INVITATION TO SHOW
Manager Roy Ashland has extended
an invitation to the teachers ar.d
children of the public schools to at
tend the show tomorrow evening
when the fine wild animal pictures
will be shown. The school board has
given full approval.
❖ WAR VETERANS TO *
❖ ORGANIZE TOMORROW ❖
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The city hall is now being decorated
in preparation for the meeting of the
Spanish American War Veterans
which will take place tomorrow even
ing and at which the purpose is to
organize a camp of the veterans in
this city. Several men who fought in
the war either in the navy or army
are residents of this locality and a
successful ana interesting organiza
tion is assured.
FAIRBANKS NOW
HEARING CASES
TRIALS BEGIN ON SERIOUS
CHARGES AGAINST WELL
KNOWN MEN.
FAIRBANKS, March 7. — The
Woolridge trial started here today
and two other triaLs will follow.
Woolridge is charged with the rape
of a half-breed girl under age. Dan
Callahan, for several years a concil
man here and a candidate for the ter
ritorial senate last election, will be
tried after Woolridge on a similar
charge. The cases are attracting
tremendous attention owing to the
fact that political factors are said to
be connected with them.
SOCIAL TONIGHT
There will be a social at the Metho
dist church tonight for the children of
the Sunday school and thei^ parents,
beginning at 7 o’clock. An informal
program is being arranged by the
children themselves and refreshments
will be served. The parents, especi
ally, and those interested in the well
fare of the children of the school are
cordially invited to be present.
Seward - Anchorage
R. R. Teams Meet
Bowling Contest Tonight Between
Outfits of Commssion at
Both Ends.
The big bowling contest between
teams representing the Engineering
Commission at Anchorage and Seward
will begin this evening at the North
ern. The games will be played “over
the phone" as in the case of the games
between the teams representing the
two cities some time ago and the same
.conditions prevail. Throe games will
be played each night for three nights
to complete the series. The following
are the teams:
Seward: Montgomery, Tarwator,
Daub, Large and Manthcy.
Anchorage: Moore, Greggs, Moses,
David and Monson.
Gam^ opens at 8 o’clock.
SHINGLES AFIRE
Some creosote fell from the stove
pipe on the roof of the store building
A W. W. Butts this morning and a
little blaze came from the shingles
that caused a fire alarm to be sent
in. L. C. Bates with the aid of a little
Pyrene and another man extinguished
the little flare-up before more than a
few shingles had been burned.
CABLE O. K. TODAY
Operator Murphy was informed
this morning that the break in the
cable between Cordova and Sitka will
probably be fixed this afternoon.
Since the mending of the break be
tween Seward and Valdez the mes
sages have to be relayed over the
wireless.