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LORD KITCHENER LEAVES ENGLAND AND RUMOR
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SAYS HE HAS RESIGNED AS SECRETARY FOR WAR
FORTY THOUSAND BRITISH
TO ATTACK BULGARIANS
KITCHENER ABSENT
LONDON, Nov. 5.—Prime Minister Asquith is now
temporarily acting as war minister in the absence of Lord
Kitchener who has left London and whose absence has
caused rumors to the effect that he has resigned. This
rumor has been officially denied but it is persistent. His
absence has also given rise to minors that he has left
for the continent to confer with Joffre and the French
minister of war with the possibility of peace as the sub
ject for discussion. The vast majority believe, however,
that differences have occurred between himself and other
members of the cabinet on matters relating to the con
duct of the war and that if he has not resigned he has left
London in protest.
BRITISH ARMY ON MARCH
ATHENS, Nov. 5.—A British army of forty thou
sand men is now marching from Saloniki towards Bul
garia to offer resistance to the Teuton advance on Con
stantinople. The Greek government has entered another
protest against the violation of its territory but it has
been unheeded. One newspaper here stated that the Al
lies landed in Greece with the tacit permission of the
Greek government but this has been denied.
MORE PEACE TALK
ROME, Nov. 5.—Long reports which are believed to
be concerned with peace proposals have arrived at the
Vatican by special courier from the Quirinal and it is be
lieved that the Italian government and the pope are now
engaged in long distance negotiations with the represent
atives of the powers. It is also stated positively that a
representative of the Italian government is now confer
ring with Prince von Buelow in Switzerland but nothing
official has been given out.
SERBIAN WOMEN FIGHT
LONDON, Nov. 5.—Two thousand Serbian women,
dressed in the regulation men’s uniforms, are now fight
ing with the Serbian army against the Teutonic invaders.
They are members of all sorts of regiments and the pro
posals to make a special woman’s corps was frowned
down. In addition to the women small boys and old men
are also in the ranks.
CHARGE TEUTON CRUELTY
GENEVA, Nov. 5.—Swiss papers declare that the
Teutons are practising barbarities on the Serbians that
are even worse than tne cruelties against the Belgians.
The German and Austrian generals excuse the acts with
a plea that the Serbian civilians are indulging in sniping
and that the only cruelties were the executions of such
snipers.
FRENCH AND BULGARS BATTLE
PARIS, Nov. 5.—A battle has been proceeding be
tween the French and Bulgarians since last Wednesday
and is still raging. Our side claims to have captured im
portant bridges after severe fighting and to have advanc
ed northward. It was rumored this morning that Nish
had capitulated but no official confirmation has been
given.
VESUVIUS ERUPTING
ROME, Nov. 5.—Mount ‘Vesuvius has broken out in
to violent eruption and the people are flleeing from the
towns and vineyards for miles around the mountain’s
base. The latest reports from Athens indicate that the
eruption is one of the most violent on record and is
threatening the whole countryside.
“AFFINITY” MARRIED AGAIN
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—“Affinity” Ferdinand Pinney
Earl was married again today here for the fourth time.
LOUIS BUNDY HANGED
SAN QUENTIN, Nov. 5.—Louis Bundy was hanged
this morning for the murder of a Los Angeles messenger
boy.
Frank Aldrich Put
On Some Big Stunts
Alaskan Senator Stopped Watch Bo
Cause Women Wear
Ankle Watches.
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SEATTLE, Nov. 5.—F>ank Aid
rich, senator for Nome, in the Alas
ka Legislature, has let his watch run
down as a protest against the wear
ing of ankle watches and short skirts
by women. The senator arrived a few
days ago from New York which he
had visited after a stay of twenty
three years in Alaska. While in New
York he became a curiosity and was
lionized but he could never get over
the wonderful customs which had
come into vogue since he last saw
civilization. Lotting his watch run
down, he says, is the only way that
occurred to him to show' his utter dis
gust at the idea of carrying a time
piece on a female ankle. He believes
the Eskimo squaws up around Teller
city, who tell the time of day by look
ing upward at the sun, make the
society dames of the effete east look
like white chips.
MILLIONS GO TO SEE
THE MIKADO CROWNED
Great Palaces Erected Temporarily
For the Great Occasion.
TOKIO, Nov. 5.—Millions of Jap
anese people are now on their way to
attend the coronation of the emperor
at Kioto on November 10 and so
great is the movement through the
streets of this city that it looks for all
the world like the movement of vast
armies. Special buildings that rival
in grandeur European palaces have
been erected for the great event but
all will be demolished after the cor
onation ceremonies.
TWO MORE DELIVERY
AUTOS COMING SOON
Two more Ford auto delivery wag
ons will soon be seen on the streets
of Seward. Brown & Hawkins have
placed an order with Roy Ashland,
the local Ford agent, for an auto de
livery wagon. The order was wired
to the Seattle branch yesterday and
should leave that city on the next
trip of the Alliance, and will arrive
here in about two weeka. The Sew
ard Commercial Company has order
ed one of the carriers, to be delivered
next April.
TO TEST ENGINE
Steam was up today in the new
locomotive brought in by the En
gineering commission and she will be
tested out today or tomorrow.
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Just before the Farragut passed i
by* the last time a schooner with a
cargo that included a barrel of
whiskey was sailing into Kodiak with
two men for crew. The man who was
steering during the daytime threw
over the anchor but kept the sails
hoisted and the other man came to
steer for the night The wind was
fresh and the waves beat around the
stationary vessel so that the steerer
in the dark thought he was making
good headway until day broke and he
found he was still the same distance
from shore. Then up came the day
pilot with a large quantity of the
whiskey stowed away inside his belt
and with alternate shifts to port and
starboard. This story has been given
to the Gateway with the names sup
pressed.
CHARGED WITH
KIDNAPPING
WARRANT FOR ARREST OF MAN j
OVER DISAPPEARANCE OF
TREADWELL ASSAYER.
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JUNEAU, Nov* 5.—A warrant has
been sworn out for the arrest of Ed-,
ward Krauz, of Petersburg, on the |
charge of kidnapping William
Christie, the assayer of the Treadwell
mine who mysteriously disappeared
this week. Krauz was a suitor of the
woman who became the wife ol
Christie about a month ago and it is
believed that he was guilty of foul
play to get revenge cn the man who
won the woman. All the towns of
Gastineau are excited and large sums
are being raised to bring about his
capture. Th wherebauots of Chri6tie
is not yet known and Krauz has ap
parently decided to keep out of sight.
It is feared that Christie will never
again be seen alive.
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AFIREAT SEA
BELIEVED TO BE BRITISH
STEAMER AND IS BLAZING
SOUTH OF HALIFAX.
HALIFAX, Nov. 5.—A vessel
which is believed to be the British
steamer Riolages is reported to be
afire three hundred miles south of
Halifax. The wireless message re
ceived from the vessel indicates that
she is in serious danger but no de
tails as to the number of people
aboard have been given. The call
was so imperfectly received that even
the identity of the ship is not certain.
It is assumed that the fire is of in
cendiary' origin.
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❖ BUILD COTTAGES *
❖ AT LAKE KENAI <•
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Cottages will probably soon be
built on tracts of ground which have
recently been taken up around Kenai
lake under the new regulations al
lowing people to lease such tracts.
Lumber is being got out at Mile
Twenty-three and, although nothing
is positively stated by the people who
are cutting it, the use to which it
will be put is generally understood
to be that stated here.
BIG CAR BREAKS UUWW
The large car broke down this
morning on its daily trip out the
line and the railroad management
thinks that it will be probably Mon
day before it can be repaired suffici
ently to allow its running out. Some
of the gearing and other parts gave
out near Mile Nine and the car with
its many passengers coasted back to
the city.
LATOUCHE COMING HERE
WITH STEAM SHOVEL
The freighter Latouchc is due here
tomorrow morning at 1 o’clock from
Anchorage with a steam shovel for
the Engineering commission. It is
one of the implements used in the
digging out of the Panama Canal and
will be used here on the local rock
i work.
Pictures of local people arc now
being thrown on the canvas at the
moving picture show every night.
The picture of Mayor Myers, by the
way, was received with applause last
night
No reader can afford to omit the
Reward Gateway.
EDES MAKES STATEMENT
ON LEAVING FOR OUTSIDE
Committee to Meet
Visiting Delegate
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MAYOR APPOINTS MOSTLY HIS
SUPPORTERS BUT SOME
OK OTHER PARTIES.
Mayor Myers has appointed a com
mittee of citizens to receive the Hon
orable James Wickersham, delegate
from Alaska, when he arrives here
from Valdez and Cordova. The com
mittee is apparently made up in
greater part of political supporters ol
the delegate but some Of its members
have other political affiliations. The
committee is really not a political one
but a committee of citizens. The del
egate will likely arrive on the Evans
next Monday or Tuesday. The fol
lowing is the reception committee ap- j
pointed by the mayor:
Frank L. Ballaine, chairman, John
Noon, William Sauers, George Sex
ton, J. J. McGrath, Gus Borgen, Hugh
Dougherty, Derick Lane E. 0. Saw
yer and C. T. Daggett.
BELIEVE DEFENSE PROGRAM
WILL AID THE DEMOCRATS
Political Opinion at Washington Says
Wilson’s Speech Foreshadows
Election Issue.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—The gen
eral trend of editorial opinion in the
newspapers of this and other cities
regarding the speech of President
Wilson last night in Now York is
that it foreshadows the principal
plank of the democratic platform
next year. It is admitted that Wil
son spoke in a manner that invited
all parties to take part in the national
defense campaign but the very' fact
that the campaign was launched by
the democratic administration is re
garded as quite an effective piece of
political strategy in favor of that
party. It is thought possible in some
quarters that the campaign started
last night may have the effect of
splitting the parties into those favor
ing preparedness and those opposed
to keeping a large army and navy.
❖ ALL-ALASKA REVIEW «
❖ COMES NEXT WEEK ❖
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The November number of The All
Alaska Review will be issued next
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week, tl would have been issued a
few days earlier but for the fact that
some important correspondence is ex
pected on the Evans and the long in
terval between boats made its coming
sooner impossible. Owing chiefly to
the courtesy of the Juneau Empire
the Review will bo able to tell its
readers in the next issue, by illustra
tion, more about the capital city of
the territory than was generally
known before.
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FIX ROAD NEAR CITY
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A gang of men is now at work
under Superintendant Eide of the
Road Commission repairing the road
a couple of miles north of the city.
MOOSE MEETING
A meeting of the Seward lodge,
Loyal Order of Moose, will be held
this evening.
Mrs. W. M. Sauers is hostess this
afternoon at a farewell party given
in honor of Mrs. Frank L. Ballaine.
Mr. and Mrs. Ballaine will soon go
outside for a visit of three months or
so.
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Fuller of optimism than ever with
respect to the great government rail
road, the advantages which it will
confer on Alaska ami its future as a
commercial enterprise pure and sim
ple, William C. Edes, chairman of the
Engineering Commission, consented
to make a parting statement today
before leaving on the Evans for
Washington to confer with Secretary
Lane and to prepare for the work
coming in congress.
“I fell more encouraged than ever,"
said Mr. Edes, ami he went on to de
clare the positive belief that, no mat
ter what anyone else might think,
the government railroad will be pay
ing soon after its completion. Mr.
Edes stated this after saying that he
has spent many years in frontier
work and had every opportunity to
study conditions in districts which
have been opened up by railroads.
The chairman seems to desire very
earnestly the united aid of the peo
ple of Alaska for the railroad and for
those who have done so much for the
territory.
He expects to reach Washington on
the First of December, or, rather, he
is due there at that time. He will
spend a few days in Seattle on the
way. After going outside he will
look up a car for operation on the
road here next Spring and the inten
tion is to secure a car that will carry
fifty or sixty passengers. He reiter
ates the expression of intention to
make things lively here next sum
if the appropriation meets no ob
stacle, and he has no idea that it will.
Indeed, he has no doubt whatever
that a large appropriation will be
secured without difficulty and, that
once accomplished, big work will
proceed. When asked to give an idea
as to when the railroad will be com
pleted to Fairbanks Mr. Edes rather
suggested than stated that it would
be “three or four years.”
The new railroad has now been
graded for a distance of thirty-four
miles out of Anchorage. The lack of
rolling 9tock has been a great draw
back to the prosecution of more work.
Mr. Edes states that the commission
still has some money in its possession
and that work will gp on around Se
ward as long as the weather is fine
and the money lasts.
Finally, although it may be taking
too much liberty to quote the chair
man of the commission in this
respect, he declared as a sort of part
ing admonition that the people of Al
aska should remember that nothing
can hurt the government railroad
project and the whole territory so
much as to let the idea get outside
that Alaskans are not united behind
President Wilson and Secretary Lane
in their efforts to open the country,
and that they are not perfectly con
fident of the tremendous benefits
which the railroad will confer.
“The people of the diiferent towns
should stand together,” said Mr.
Edos. “If they make this railroad
the success that it ought to be the
government will build other roads and
continue to build. Say nothing
against the other town and the other
towns can take care of themselves.”
Thousand Villa Men
On Way to Nogales
NACO, Ariz., Nov. 5.—A thousand Villa troops went
through Naco, Sonora, today enroute for Nogales whcic
they expect to reorganize. Villa designated the exact
location of the graves of the two doctors and two chauf
feurs, Americans, who were said to have been killed
while attending the wounded in the Carranza army.
Villa said they had been struck by shells accidentally but
it has since been learned that the four men are alive in
jail in Cananea and now it is thought that \ iJla intended
to execute them and pretend they had been killed in bat
tle. The four men are Doctors Miller and Thigpen, and
E. Wilson and Joe Hyland. Measures for then telease
will be taken at once.
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 5.—Strong efforts are now
being' made to have Huerta released from jail on the
grounds of ill health but the real cause is believed to be
that his friends fear that if he is held Carranza will ask
for his extradition to Mexico to execute him for the
death of Madero.
GALVESTON, Nov. 5.—Ten thousand Carranzaistas
are now enroute to Guaymas to oppose the Villa ami\ in
that region. It was stated today on high authority that
Great Britain has decided to recognize Carranza and that
other European powers will follow suit. Villa has still
large forces under his banner in spite of the repulse at
Agua Prieta and the war’s end looks further off now
• than it did a few days ago. __
EARL LOOMIS HANGED
FOLSOM, Nov. 5.—Earl Loomis was hanged here
this morning for the murder of a woman in Sacramento.
Every effort was made for some time to ha\ e the sentence
commuted but in vain.
QUIET ON ALL FRONTS
LONDON, Nov. 5.—Small engagements have taken
place at various points on the French front but neither
i side claims any advantage in today’s reports. The Ger
mans are still being held by the Russians along the Dvina
river but further south von Gallowitz claims some slight
I successes.