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“ " “ SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA. MONDAY, OCTOBER II, 1915.__Ten CentB the Copy
GERMANY BEGINS SUBMARINE WAR ONCE AGAIN
PRESIDENT AND GOVERNOR
MAY BE BOUGHT BY P. A. N. CO.
SEATTLE, Oct. 9.—That the big steamships Presi
dent and Governor will be purchased by the Pacific-Al
aska Navigation Company, to be placed on the South
western Alaska run is now believed throughout shipping
circles in this city and along the coast. President Alex
ander of the Pacific-Alaska Company has already sub- j
mitted a proposal to the Pacific Coast Company which •
owns the two vessels and runs them between Seattle and
San Francisco, and the result of this proposal is now be
ing awaited. The making of the proposal for purchase is
said to ha\e been at the suggestion of Col. D. C. Jackling
who had a long interview with President Alexander last
week. Jackling, who is the head of the great Alaska
Gastineau Mining Company is heavily interested in the
Pacific-Alaska Navigation company and it is assumed
that he is ready to go the limit in supplying steamship
facilities as he is in mining activities. Both vessels can
develope a twenty knot per hour speed and would be the
largest and fastest vessels in the service.
(Note: The steamship President has a gross tonnage
of 5,218. Her length is 392 feet and 48 feet beam. She
and the Governor are modern vessels, having I teen built
in 1907.
The steamship Governor has a gross tonnage of 5,250, a
length of 391 feet and a 48 foot beam. To show more
clearly the size of the vessels by camparison it need only j
l>e stated that the Admiral Evans, the largest of the
Pacific-Alaska Company running here, is 2,685 gross ton
nage, or just about one-half of the President or
Governor.) _’_!
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❖ MRS. GALT WITH THE *
❖ PRESIDENT AT GAME ❖
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Mrs.
Galt accompanied President Wilson at
the game at Philadelphia today and
shared with the pitchers the atten
tions of the great crowds. She wore
the diamond purchased by her in New
York.
President Wilson.
Whether the Northwestern will go
west or not depends upon circum
stances which will arise after her ar
rival here.
CARRANZA RECOGNIZED AS
THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—General
Carranza was officially recognized |
this afternoon as provisional presi
dent of the republic of Mexico by the
American, Argentine, Chilean and
Brazilian governments. This means
that diplomatic relations will be again
established by those governments
with him and that his opponents, so
far as the governments named are
concerned, will be placed on the foot
ing of rebels.
Villa Defiant
EL PASO, Oct. 9.—On receiving I
❖ SATURDAY'S BULLETIN ❖
<• ABOUT S. S. MARIPOSA •>
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The following dispatch was received
Sunday evening by the Gateway and
was bulletined. It was, as can be
seen, dated on Saturday:
SEATTLE, Oct. 9.—The Mariposa
is sinking astern and may slip off
ledge into deep water.
SCANDINAVIAN LADIES MEET
There will be a meeting of the
Scandinavian ladies of Seward at ttu.
home of Mrs. Nicholas Losness, foot
of Jefferson Street, 2 o’clock the af
ternoon of Wednesday.
STEAMSHIP NOTES
The Northwestern may make the
trip to Anchorage this voyage.
The Dora will sail for the west
after the arrival of the City of
Puebla.
The Alameda will sail out of Seat
tle October 18th instead of the 12th
as she was scheduled. The Puebla
takes her place on that voyage.
telegraphic notification of the fact j
that Carranza had been recognized as
provisional president and that he him
self is. therefore, placed by other
American governments in the posi
tion of a revolutionist against estab
lished authority, General Villa de
clares that the war has only just be
gun and that the recognition of his
enemy i» premature and unjustified.
Some of the Villa leaders in the parts
of Mexico adjacent to this place ex
press themselves satisfied with the
action of the United States and the
other countries a3 it will let them
know exactly what to do in future.
❖ CABLES TODAY ARE *
❖ WORSE THAN EVER *
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At 2:30 o’clock this afternoon no
cables had arrived. Dispatches came
to the Gateway on Saturday evening
and Sunday evening but they were
sent Saturday. The cable situation
seems to be worse today than ever
and there is a likelihood that no
further outside news will be received
in time for today’s paper. If the
Fates should send some between this
and press time they will be condens
ed, or the most important ones will be,
and printed but it is thought advis
able not to wait too long.
LINDER BERG LOOKS AT
STRIKE ON STICKINE
PRINCE RUPERT, Oct. 8.—Jafet
Linderberg, one of the discoverers of
Nome, has gone up the Stickine river
to look into the silver, lead and zinc
strike recently reported. J. E. Chil
berg of the Scandinavian American
bank says it is the biggest find on
record of the kind. Sam Silverman
and Jerry Galvin are named amngst
those who are said to be interested.
MUCH MINIM
IN KUSKOKWIM
CAPTAIN LUKENS SAYS IM
MENSE MERCURY DEPOSIT
HAS BEEN FOUND.
Captain R. R. Lukens and the crew
of the Coast and Geodetic Survey boat
Yukon arrived on the Dora this morn
ing on their way to the States for the
winter. The Yukon has been doing
survey work on the Kuskoquim river
this summer. Captain Lukens states
that the work for that portion of Al
aska has been completed A channel
has been surveyed up as far as Bethel,
from which place H. A. Cotton, cMef
officer of the Y'ukon, made a trip of
inspection up the river to Tokotna.
The Y'ukon was brought to King’s
Cove ami left there for the winter,
where Captain Lukens expects to
work next summer.
Captain Lukens reports favorably
along the line of mining in the Kus
koquim country. About $75,000 was
taken out of Canyon creek this seas
on, and next year it is thought two
dredges will be taken in for that min
in district. The quicksilver discovery
reported some time ago has been
found to be of the best in the country.
An immense mercury deposit having
been discovered right on the water*
edge, accessible to steam boats, at a
camp called Parker’s Place. Mining
in the Good News Bay has also taken
a decided turn for the better. It is
thought the mining activity in the
Kuskoquim next summer will be by
no means small.
OAKLAND MAY
HAVESTRIKE
VOTE WAS TO HAVE TAKEN
PLACE THE 9th AMONGST
THE CARMEN.
OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 9.—The
| carmen of this city will vote this af
| ternoon whether they will go out on
strike or not. All the carmen in the
city will be involved if the leaders de
cide on a cessation of work and the
traffic of the city will be completely
demoralized. The employes msk high
er wages and some minor concessions
which the employers declare positive
ly they will not grant.
TELEPHONE SERVICE
INTERRUPTED DAY OR SO
The telephone service between this
place and Anchorage has been inter
rupted since Saturday noon. The
trouble will be repaired any time now
and service resumed.
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❖ ALL-ALASKA REVIEW *
♦ OFF THE PRESSES *
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The All-Alaska Review for October
is off the presses and will be on sale
! tomorrow evening or Wednesday
! morning. Owing to the Richardson
| Wickersham letters and the stories of
i the discoveries of several camps it is
probably the most interesting issue
yet published. As an indication of
the way in which the Review is catch
i ing on it need only be said that its
agent on the steamer Dora now here
sold all his copies and secured four
yearly subscribers in addition. The
story of Seward, by Frank Cotter,
with a fine new cut of the city ought
to make this number worth keeping
by Seward people.
SLAUGHTERED THE
MEN LIKE RABBITS
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Details of the Horrible White Pass
Tragedy Told in the Gateway
of October 4th.
WHITEHORSE, Oct 8.—The man
who murdered the foreman and three
other men of the White Fass section
gang here was not an Austrian, as
stated in the cable to the Gateway
October 4, but was a Russian named
Alex GagofT. The gang consisted of
five men altogether and four out of
the number were killed by the 30-30
rifle fired by GagofT. The develop
ments of the story show that the fore
man, Fat Kinslow, and his five help
ers were standing around the hand
car on which they had lunch when
GagofT was seen approaching. He
immediately began firing, according
to Arthur Wilkins, the only man to
escape, and a3 the gang knew that
GagofT accused them of making fun
of him and was hostile, they knew he
was firing to kill, fo they all tried
to run to cover. Wilkins hid behind
some brush and escaped. After the
killing GagofT took the handcar and
came into the town with his gun still
with him and he entered stores and
told several of the murder. He gave
up the gun finally and was arrested.
When the authorities reached the
scene of the tragedy they found that
the foreman had been shot through
the heart and death was probably in
stantaneous. Another member of the
gang, George Lane, an Englishman,
was first shot in the leg and he tied
up the wound with a handkerchief
but GagofT returned later and blew
the top of his head ofT. Tom Bocon
ich, lived to be taken to the hospital
but soon succumbed. Foreman Fat
Kinslow was a Yukon Pioneer and j
was in Dawson in ’98. GagofT work- j
ed on the railroad before but went
outside for a time, returning this
; spring. He is said to have been a
Cossack. He is believed to be insane.
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❖ AN EXPLANATION. * j
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❖ The steamer Northwestern •>
•> met with her accident five miles •>
❖ south of Ketchikan, not seven ❖
❖ miles as stated. The dispatch to ❖
❖ the Gateway Saturday said “five ❖
❖ miles” but this was changed to *>
❖ “seven miles” intentionally be- ❖
❖ cause the Gateway had reason to ♦>
❖ believe that, when it gets out •>
•> early, its news is being—well, ❖
❖ copied—there is no use in using <•
❖ a stronger word—and it wanted *
❖ to catch the “copier” in the act. •>
❖ Sure enough, the ruse was sue- ❖
❖ cessful. *
❖ The Gateway, pays immense * j
❖ telegraph tolls, for a town of •>
❖ this size and it believes it justi- *
❖ liable to draw attention to this ♦>
❖ “copying.” But as'it is, the mat- •>
❖ ter would hardly be mentioned ❖
❖ were it not for the rather nasty ♦
❖ actions of the few opponents of ❖
❖ this paper in the city council •>
❖ and elsewhere. The Gateway ❖
❖ asks its readers to excuse it for ❖
❖ bringing up such a matter and it *
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FOSTER MAKES
BIG RECORD
BEATS PHILADELPHIA IN
EVERY PHASE OF HIS
WORK SATURDAY.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9.—Boston
beat Philadelphia today by two to one.
Boston had two runs, ten hits and no
error. Philadelphia had one run,
three hits and one error. The pitch
i ers were Foster and Mayer.
Foster pitched the most remarkable
game in the history of world’s series
games. He also made three hits, one
being a double which drove in the
winning run in the ninth. The
Phillies made no hits in four innings
and then Cravath and Luderus
doubled. Foster is the smallest pitch
er in any of the leagues.
Adleman & Quilty, the dairy men,
received a fine three year old Gallo
way bull on the Dora this morning
from the Kodiak Experiment Station.
TWO MORE BRITISH SHIPS
- TORPEDOED BY GERMANS
SUBMARINE WAR REOPENS
LONDON, Oct. 9.—Germany has again begun her
submarine warfare on merchant vessels just when the
world had come to believe that she had abandoned such
j tactics for ever, today two British vessels of four thou
sand tons each were sunk near the English coast under
conditions similar to those which prevailed before. The
resumption of this class of warfare has puzzled the public
j mind here and much difficulty is experienced in trying
to find a reason for the cessation of undersea work. Some
are inclined to account for it by the suggestion that the
German government stopped submarines against the
wishes of Tirpitz and that Tirpitz has again forced his
will on the kaiser. No details of the sinking of the two
; ships have been told.
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KAISER FOR SERBIA
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 9.—The German kaiser is now
on the way to the Serbian frontier to supervise the
| Teutonic drive towards Constantinople. The opinion of
i neutral Europe is that the Serbians must go under and
that Serbia must suffer a fate similar to that of Belgium
las enemies surround her and her former allies stand bye
! idly to watch the sacrifice. Military observers now de
! clare that Germany and Austria now intend to invade
| Russia from the south after reaching the Turkish capital
as winter operations can be carried on there and Russia
be thus prevented from securing the winter resipte so
necessary for her recuperation.
APPEALS TO U. S. GERMANS
LONDON, Oct. 9—The nation was mildly astonished
this morning when it read an appeal from Arthur J. Bat
four to German-Americans to use their influence with the
German government to put a stop to the massaeies o!
Armenians by the Turks. Balfour was foimeilj prime
minister of Great Britain and is now first lord of the
admiralty in the coalition government and his appeal is
taken as showing a remarkable and unpleasant necessity
for a British minister to make an appeal to an unofficial
body of any kind.
BRITISH SUCCEEDING
LONDON, Oct. 9.—The British are now gaining
northeast of Loos and the fighting in that quarter is pro
ceeding'without let or hindrance. The Germans have re
sumed their attacks in the manner in which they waged
trench warfare before the great allied offensive was un
dertaken and conditions have gone back to where the}
were a couple of weeks ago. The most sanguine are now
inclined to think that another winter’s campaign is ahead
in France. The German attacks are resumed chiefly in
Champagne.
HINDENBURG AGAIN ADVANCES
LONDON, Oct. 9.—The latest news today from the
Russian front is that General von Hindenburg is again
advancing towards Dvinsk but very slowly. His delay
was apparently caused by the need of ammunition whit ■
was found difficult to bring up because of the long dis
tance of the German front from its base. If the Teutons
take Dvinsk the belief is that Hindenburg will make it his
winter headquarters and base and will rest there.
SAYS TURKS ARE RIGHT
BERLIN, Oct. 9.—In a statement in the Tagszeitung
today count von Reventlow declares that its treatment of
the Armenians is “Turkey’s own affair as the Aimen
ians, he says, have revolted and whatever measures are
adopted against them are a military necessity and not
massacres as the enemies of Turkey try to make the world
believe.
GERMAN LOSS ENORMOUS
PARIS, Oct 9.—The German losses in the fighting
against the British near Loos are enormous. The Bntisn
are maintaining their offensive in that quarter with the
greatest determination and their artillery and infantry
are almost constantly engaged.