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ITALIAN ARMY HAS INVADED
AUSTRIA AND TAKES TOWNS
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leire Engagements Take Place
Along Several Palis ol
Both Fighting Fronts.
ITALY INVADES AUSTRIA
ROME, May 25.—The Italian army crossed the
Austrian border last night near the Gulf of Trieste and
captured four towns. A destroyer at the same time at
tacked the port of Huso, sank a few small boats, captured
fifty prisoners and wrecked the docks and depots. The
king left for the front today and as he passed through the
streets thousands of people lined the way cheering loudly.
LONDON, Mav 25.—The Austro-German offensive in
Galicia is now slackening and the Russians are easily
holding their own. Przemysl is apparently safe from
danger for the present and will continue to strengthen
the Russian line.
. THE HAGUE, May 25.—The Netherlands govern
ment has protested the sinking of the Lusitania on which
some citizens of Holland lost their lives.
WASHINGTON, May 25.—The German government
announced today officially that it will give its answer to
the United States government's protest on the sinking
of the Lusitania in a few days. Persistent rumors are
afloat to the effect that the answer will be satisfactory.
ATHENS, May 25 —Thousands of wounded Turks are
arriving in Constantinople and causing a feeling some
thing akin to terror in the population.
ODESSA. Russia. May 25.—It is reported that the
Italian consul at Constantinople has been killed by the
Turks. War between Turkey and Italy is expected within
■ twenty-four hours.
SAYS ROUMANIA PREPARES
LONDON, May 25.—Reports from Bucharest are to
the effect that Roumania is getting ready to enter the
war with the Allied nations. Some hundreds of thousands
of men are now under arms. Since the declaration of war
by Italy a restlessness has become apparent all over the
Balkans which is expected to culminate in a general con
flagration having chiefly for its object the changing of
the frontier lines in that part of the continent to the dis
advantage of Austria.
ITALIANS TO LEAVE
CHICAGO, May 25.—Thousands of Italians will leave
this city for the war within a few days. Thirty thousand
Italians are on the consul’s list in this city alone and most
of them will probably go home to fight, so relieving the
labor situation. It is feared that labor will become too
scarce in some industries which Italians follow.
BATTLE SOUTH OF PRZEMYSL
PETROGRAD, May 25.—The Germans have launch
ed fierce attacks south of Przemvsl with the obvious in
tention of relieving the pressure on the Teutonic ranks on
the San river. Our forces are still pressing forward in
the last named region and are inflicting severe losses on
the enemy. The war office denies that we have been
driven out of the Carpathian passes although it is admit
ted that our retirement from Gorlice and Tarnow has
made it necessary for strategical reasons to fall back from
some of the positions in those passes that we took during
our great offensive movement towards Hungary. Seveie
engagements are now proceeding all the way from the
Baltic to the Roumanian frontier almost.
VIGOROUS IN WEST
PARIS, May 25.—Vigorous fighting is now proceed
ing all* along the western line from Arras to the sea but
nothing decisive has to be recorded. The fighting around
Ypres is still reported to be proceeding fiercelt. . The
Germans apparently have concentrated most of their ef
forts on the breaking of the Allied lines in that quarter
with the ever recurring hope of bursting a way to the
French coast cities.
RUSSIANS REACH VAN
PETROGRAD. May 25—The Russians have entered
Van in Asiatic Turkey and have relieved the Assyrians
and Armenians who are being slaughtered by the Turks
and Kurds. Thousands of those people are reported to
have lost their lives at the hands of their enemies but the
region has now been all but cleared of the Turks and con
ditions will soon be very much improved.
BERLIN, May 25.—The racing season opened here
today with large crowds in attendance. Betting was per
mitted but the subjects of nations fighting against Ger
many were barred from being present.
EAST ST. LOUIS. May 25.—French agents are buy
ing twenty thousand horses and Great Britain has a
standing order for twelve hundred weekly.
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BECKER MUST
MEET^ DEATH
POLICE LIEUTENANT’S APPEAL
TURNED DOWN AND ONLY
governor can save him.
ALBANY, May 25.—The court of
appeals has refused the appeal of
Lieutenant Becker and he must go to
the electric chair unless the governor
intervenes to save his life. A strong
light was put up to have the convic
tion by the lower court reversed but
the court of appeals announced its
decision today and stated that it could
seen no good reason for saving tne
life of the former lieutenant of police.
WATSON TOMORROW.
Agent Blue expects the Watson to
return tomorrow afternoon from the
westward.
NORTHWESTERN COMING.
Agent Guptill has received word
that the Northwestern was to have
left Cordova today at noon.
CHAIRMAN WM. EDES
IS ON THE MARIPOSA.
Sixty-one Passengers Left Seattle
Last Night, Including Chair
man of Commission.
SEATTLE, May 25.—The Mariposa
left last night with Chairman W. C.
Edes of the government railroad com
mission and his wife for Seward.
The passenger list for Seward is:
E. W. Bach, John Canfield, C. Bade,
A. Estes, Mrs. W. Lucas, Mrs. Geo.
Lear, Colonel O. Onokheim, E. Mc
Phce, B. Ballard, Marie Halley, Inez
Adams, Mrs. Anne Leo, Miss Jennie
Crawford, Mrs. Joe. Mantell, Mrs.
James Walters, C. Brunson, J. Hann
on and wife, J. Watts, John Liern, H.
Hall, Ed. Carlson and wife, William
Edes and wife, Miss Helen Burnham,
Carl Moot, Jo* Brossel, H. Workman,
H. Keesmose, R. Hartug, Fred Debon,
George Carrol, Etto Erickson, Ruth
Chandler, Dave Newman, Tom Col
lopy, Roy Solomonson, J. Solomonson,
R. Fleet, T. G. Dayton, Wm. Way and
19 steerage.
SAN RAMON TAKES
LUMBER FOR GOVT.
The steamer San Ramon, Captain
Jamieson, arrived at 6:30 o'clock this
morning with 912,000 feet of lumber
which she loaded at Everett for
Anchoruge. She left Seattle last
Wednesday at 10 p. m. and came
direct, bringing also fourteen pas
sengers. She left for Anchorage at
8 a. m. to unload the lumber for the
government. She belongs to the
Dodge steamship company of San
Francisco. A. S. Abernethy, the
agent of the company stopped over in
Seward on business.
APARTMENT HOUSE
FOR LAUBNER ADD.
At the city council meeting last
night J. T. Harvey asked that the
question of putting water into the
Laubner addition be taken up. He
declared that several buildings will
soon be erected here, one of the buihl
ings under contemplation being a
thirty thousand dollar apartment
house.
KILLS FIRST BROWN BEAR.
Henry Oliver made a trip to Ayalik
Bay last Saturday and returned Sun
day morning with a brown bear meas
uring about 7 feet. Oliver got him
with the first shot, hitting him direct
ly behind the ears. This is the first
brown bear reported killed within
forty miles of Seward this season.
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WETS WIN THE
JUNEAU DIST.
all towns in first division
SEEM TO HAVE DECLARED
FOR THE SALOONS.
The election on the liquor question
held in the First division yesterday
shows that all the towns have likely
voted “wet.” Juneau has voted wet
by a majority of 600 or 650 over the
drys. The wets polled 974 and the
drys 334. The votes sworn in by
those not registered number 370.
These arc not yet counted but it is
estimated that 300 of them are wet.
In addition the wets have signed and
witnessed letters from 198 registered
voters who were not able to vote giv
ing consent to licenses. The total
number of registered votes not cast
was 630. The total number entitled
to vote was 2360. The wets were
more active than the drys throughout
the campaign.
The Haines result was 87 for wets,
32 for drys and 15 sworn in.
Douglas wets won by 496 to 208.
The number registered was 905.
Ketchikan results: Registered 888,
396 for wet and 192 for dry. Forty
were sworn in but are not yet count
ed. Two hundred and ninety votes
registered were not cast. The wets
will require 48 additional votes some
of which will come from those sworn
in. It is believed that the rest will be
secured from the 299 not voting so
that Ketchikan is about sure to go
wet.
Petersburg registered 185, the wets
voting 89 to 50. The wets however,
need five more votes. Five votes
were sworn in.
The number of votes registered at
Wrangell was 277. Wets got 128 and
the drys 78. The wets must get
eleven more votes to win.
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ATTACKS PRES. WALSH. *
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WASHINGTON, May 25.—Mc
Kenzie King, a director of the In
dustrial Relations department of the
Rockefeller Foundation severely scor
ed Chairman Walsh of the Industrial
Relations Commission today while giv
in testimony before the commission,
His attack on Walsh was due to the
severe treatment meted out by the lat
ter in his examination of Rockefeller
before the commission.
CREEK THROUGH CITY
NOW TO BE FLUMED,
Property Owners Start to Put in Five
Feet by Seven Flume to
Take Water.
The property owners have begur
the work of fluming Lowell cree*
through the city. This is the creek
which has received the misleading
name of the glacier stream. It will
be flumed down Jefferson street as far
as Fifth, at least, and will probably
be flumed to the sea. The flume will
bo five feet by seven wide.
gang goes to work.
Eight section men went out yes
terday under the charge of Fred Dorfl
to work on the railroad beyond the
summit. This gang w;ll prepare the
road from Mile 12 to Mile 34.
FAIRBANKS, May 20.—Captair
Francis Rotch, Jr., has been busily
engaged for the past three weeks ir
overhauling the little government
launch Midnight Sun. The engine bee
has been removed, some of the mach
inery repaired or replaced and the
boat repainted. It will be ready foi
the water in a few days now. Skip
per Rotch had charge of the Midnighl
Sun last year and operated betweer
Fairbanks and points on the Tanam
and Nenana rivers carrying surveyor!
and supplies. This year the launcl
will be busy in about the same ter
ritory and a busy season is looke d for
ward to. The boat was formerly
owned by the boundary' commissiot
but by it turned over to the engineer
i ing commission.
WORK SOON TO BEGIN ON
ALASKA NORTHERN RAILROAD
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Auditor and Paymaster of All Operations On
Northwestern and Will Make
Headcjua rters 11 ere.
CORWIN GETS
TO NOME SAFE
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BUCKED ICE FOB ONE HUNDRED:
AND SEVENTY-FIVE MILES
OF JOURNEY.
NOME, May 25.—The steamship
Corwin has arrived safely after hav
ing bucked ice for the last one hun
dred and seventy-five miles of the
journey. Captain Healy says he met
the ice first olT Point Romanoff and
that he had to work through it ever
since. The passengers have all got j
ashore and the freight is now being i
unloaded on the ice. The navigation
season is now almost commenced al
though the sea opposite Nome has not
yet cleared. The Cutter Bear left St.
Paul island for Nome yesterday.
PAN AMERICAN CONGRESS
MEETS AT WASHINGTON.
President Wilson in Speech Suggests
Rivalry Without Ag
gression.
WASHINGTON, May 25.—The
Pan American Financial and Commer
cial congress convened here today.
‘All countries in the two American
continents were represented except
Canada and Mexico. President Wil
son delivered a speech at the opening
of the meeting and suggested that the
different American nations could car
ry on a trade rivalry without: agres
sion. He also urged uniform laws and
the building of more merchant ships
for the mutual benefit of the different
peoples on the continent.
GERMAN CONSUL GOES
DOWN TO ATLANTA.
SEATTLE, May 25.—German con
sul Mueller, who was arrested some
time ago on the charge of conspiracy
has exchanged posts with Doctor Zop
fell who has been stationed at Atlanta.
Mueller will not say whether or not
the charges against him had anything
to do with the change.
MONE\vSTOLEN FROM THE
STEAMSHIP MARIPOSA.
SEATTLE, May 25.—Eighteen
hundred dollars were stolen from the
registered mail of the Mariposa on
the last trip according to the informa
tion just published. No clue has been
obtained but it is known that the rob
bery was committed while Clerk
Thwaites was eating dinne**.
NEWS NOTES
It has been made clear that the
story of a rich quartz strike near
Hope, reported in the Gateway Sat
urday, was exaggerated. This much
is said to remove the idea that any
attempt at reckless boosting was in
tended.
Father Crimont, S. J. is expected to
arrive on one of the next boats if not
on the very next.
The railroad building is row oc
, cupied with a large clerical force.
Yesterday w*as the day on w'hich
Chairman Edes was expected to
leave Seattle.
John Doe Smith is the extraordin
ary name of a man w’ho wTas to have
i received a hearing this afternoon on
i the charge of stealing lumber from
t the Alaska Northern.
1 The Terminal Addition to the town
• of Sew’ard went on record today.
W. P. Patten, a prominent Seattle
7 realty man, is now in Sew’ard.
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PIANO FOR SALE.—Apply Gate
way office. 5-18 ?t
“With coats oir and sleeves rolled
up we are right here ready to pitch
into the work on the Alaska Northern
railroad” said Thomas M. Ward, as
sistant engineer in the construction
of the government railroad from Se
ward to the interior. ?tr. Ward has
arrived with Mrs. Ward and with her
mother Mrs. J. 1). Phillips. On North
western which will arrive here before
tomorrow night are Leslie Cramer,
paymaster for the government, and 13.
Barndollar, auditor of all d;.-burst -
monts in the work of construction.
Both men will make their headquart
ers in Seward as will Mr. Edes who
will be the last official fo arrive and
make up the full engineering, force
for the work on this railroad out of ,
Seward. Mr. Ward did not desire to
be quoted as saying what his beliefs
arc as to the amount of work that w 11
be done here. When asked if it is not
a fact, as cabled from Washington,
that the Alaska Northern will be re
constructed to Mile Forty-five this
summer and that the rock work will
be done in the winter time, ho stated
that he could not say, but he declared
that the plans are now being pre
pared.
Mr. Ward is one of the big en
gineers of the country judging by the
information given to the Gateway
from other sources. He was with
Chairman Edes on the Southern
Pacific and was construction engineer
of one of the divisions on the Vir
ginian railroad. Another member of
the government force who has just
arrived is Oliver G. Tubby, chief
draughtsman, who has come with his
bride, as stated some time ago when
he was on the way. Mr. Tubby comes
from the Panama canal where he was
one of the construction engineers. He
is one of the prominent members of
the profession in the United States.
Mr. Ward is most enthusiastic in
the expression of his opinions about
Seward. “We are all delighted with
the location” he said “and we are con
fident that it will be a go-ahead city."
He particularly emphasized the word
“city” as against “town.” “What Se
ward needs is factories" he continued
and the manner in which he spoke
show that Engineer Ward is one of
those men who go heart and soul into
anything they do. The chief facts to
he elicited from his conversation is
that within a few days the operations
will begin on the Alaska Northern and
Seward will jump to the forefront.
He did not say so much hut what else
can be taken from his remarks?
WILL NOT IGNORE U. S.
WASHINGTON, May 25.—The state department has
been notified by the German government through the
German embassy that Germany does not intend to ignore
the protest of the United States on the sinking of the
Frye, notwithstanding the delay in making a reply. This
reply, according to the communication will lie furnished
in a few days but as matters of great importance have to
be attended to, it is found impossible to give the necessary
attention to this one matter. The feeling has been grow
ing here that Germany has shown an inclination to treat
the American protests lightly. This feeling has been add
ed to by the fact that the German submarine warfare con
tinues just as it was before the demand by this govern
ment that it should cease.
REPORT GERMANS INVADE
LONDON, May 25.—It is reported that a Gennan
Austrian army has already crossed the Italian frontier
and is now marching along the valley of the Adige river
in the direction of Verona. This army is said to he well
equipped with aeroplanes and artillery- The general be
lief here is that Germany will attempt to end Italy’s par
ticipation in the war by a quick, decisive campaign and it
is also rumored on good authority that Marshal Hinden
burg has been entrusted with the work of crushing that
nation. The report that Italy had declared war was re
ceived with enthusiasm. It served to remove almost en
tirely the feeling of dis-satisfaction which had grown so
rapidly in recent days. Military men believe that an
Italian armv of nearly two million well-equipped troops
can be placed in the field and that such a force ought to be
sufficient to weigh the balance down in favor of the Allies.
PIERCE BRITISH LINES
LONDON, May 25.—It is officially admitted that the
Germans by strong artillery attacks, aided by gas bombs,
have penetrated the British lines east of Ypres. The at
tacks were accompanied by tremendous artillery fire.
The report does not try to deny that the result is regret
table but the belief is expressed that the advantage gained
may be only temporary and will not be serious anyway.
The effect of the gas bombs is to render our troops un
conscious. When the fumes arise the soldiers are compel
led to get away to avoid partial asphyxiation. The bombs
are used when the wind blows in the direction of the Allied
lines so that the fumes are borne by the breeze in the
direction intended. The very statement that the British
lines have been penetrated has bad the effect of creating
a feeling of uneasiness as it rather suggests that the
enemy has secured a strategical advantage of importance
which might result in further disaster.
NORWEGIAN SUNK
LONDON. May 25.—A Norwegian steamer was tor
pedoed yesterd'av and sunk in the North Sea by a German
i submarine. A British steamer went to the rescue of the
: crew and was attacked by the German ci aft but unsuc
cessfully. Several of the members of the Norwegian ves
sel are believed to have been lost