SEWARD:—The Gateway to the Land of Opportunity—The Hunters’ Paradise—The Homesteaders’ Land of Promise
The Gateway .
to the I I I
Great Coal Fields of I
Matanuska
nfiiii iciipn HAII Y PXPKPT SUNDAY LARGEST ALASKAN (-IRCLLAIION
ADVERTISEMENTS BRING RESULTS___PUBLISHED DAILY LXlhl 1 suinuai_ --.
No) g No lJ( SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1915. _1m ( « nts tin ( “10
j
BAY VIEW LOTS
GO LIKE FIRE
SEVENTY-ONE PIECES OF
GROIN'D SOLD IN A
FEW DAYS.
HUNDREDS OE SALES
PURCHASE OF ALASKA NORTH
ERN CAISES MANY
DEALS.
The most extraordinary sale of lots
on record is taking place now in the
Bay View Addition which has been
platted from the Rudolph homestead.
No less than seventy-one lots have
been sold in the addition since it was
opened a few days ago and the sales
still continue unabated. The cause of
the tremendous purchase of lots is
due to the belief of the people that
the location of them promises that
they wRl be right in the heart of the
chief activities of the government
railroad terminal from the time con
struction begins ar.d throughout all
time as long as the government of the
United States exists. You can ask
any three people in the city now if
they have secured lots in that neigh
borhood and the chances are that at
least one of them has. The other
half of the addition, known now as the
Terminal addition, is said to have the!
same experience. Joseph Johnson of
Wenatchee, has taken over the Term
inal addition. Owing to the proximity
to the bay of both of those additions,
or, rather, of the one addition now
divided tr. two, people suddenly awak
ened to the fact that it is bound to be
in the liveliest position as the gov
ernment will be compelled to use the
ground in that neighborhood for its
most extensive terminal operations.
Several lots have changed hands in
other parts of the city in the last few
days but the sales in the Bay View ad
dition have been ihe most remarkabl>
frequent. Romig and W’oods are
handling the sales in the Bay View
part cf the addition.
Within the past couple of weeks the
sales of lots in the city number well
into the hundreds. The sale of the
Terminal addition alone involved
some ninety-six lots. Ti e seventeen j
lots in Block Seven have changed
hands twice. The biggest single!
deals were probably the sale of the j
Boyle lot and the Schage lots, the lat
ter of which took place today. Many
lots have a’:so been purchased in the
Ballaine addition but several indivi
duals deals have been made in other
quarters since the news came that the
Alaska Northern had been bought.
To sum up, there is hardly a man
in the city today with the price of a
lot who has not made a purchase but
the largest number of deals in any one
addition are those made in the Bay
View.
MUELLER NOT TO
BE PROSECUTED
CHARGES AGAINST GERMAN
CONSUL AT SEATTLE
DROPPED.
SEATTLE, March dO.—'The prose
cutor announced today that the
charges against German consul Muel
ler and his secretary will be dropped.
Mueller and the secretary were ar
rested on the charge of conspiring to
bribe employees of a local ship build
ing firm to secure information as to
alleged construction of submarines
and their shipment to England via
Canada. No reason has been assign
ed for the abandonment of the charges
but it is supposed that orders to that
effect were received from Washington.
The whole matter is now believed to
be closed.
!♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
❖ MARIPOSA STARTS COOK ❖
❖ INLET TRIP APRIL 11. «
❖ - ❖
SEATTLE, March 30.—The Mari
t posa will start her passenger service
on April 11 to Cook Inlet, Knik and
Ship creek. It is expected that she
| will have a large passenger list ow
to the purchase of the Alaska North
ern railroad and the activities expect
ed there this summer. The Latouche
I will sail April 10 for Knik and Ship
creek. The Alameda arrived last
| night.
BOMBARDING R HEIMS.
PARIS, March 30.—German aviat
' ors bombarded the city of Rheims
I this morning and were still dropping
bombs at the time this dispatch was
sent. Some damage has been inflicted
but it is reported to be not very
serious.
__
<..>*.>*.>**** + *
❖ SUNK lr. S. SUBMARINE *
•> DRAGGED NEAR SHORE. *
* - ❖
HONOLULU, March SO.-The sunk
en submarine F-4 has been dragged
three hundred feet nearer the shore
since yesterday by means of cables
attached to it and hauled by steamers.
A diving bell is now being built for
the purpose of raising the vessel. A
feverish haste marks the work as
there is still a slight hope that by
some fortuitous but unlikely circum
stances some of the crew might still
be fount! alive. At least the thought
that brother sailors are even lying
dead in the sunken craft is urging the
workers to herculean exertions.
NEWS NOTES
A cable message has been received
stating that Miss Leona Bradshaw is
much improved in health ami will
probably return to Seward on the Ala
meda. Because of a message calling
out Mr. Bradshaw, her father, some
time rgo it was feared that the young
lady’s condition .vas serious.
Billy Butts is now about the largest
employer of labor in the city. No less
than eleven men are employed in the
work of adding the new story' to his
residence. Some of the house builders
are serving an apprenticeship as
architects in preparation for the com
ing building boom.
Some of the furniture has arrived
for the offices of the Harriman Bank.
The foundation for the safe has also
been finished.
Down near the foot of Adams st.
there is the grave of a man who lost
his life several years ago while try ing
to cross Resurrection river. On the
top of the grave cords < f firewood are
now piled by some on? who does not
know of the grave’s presence. The
man was buried there before Seward
had a graveyard, but we have a
cemetery now. Enough said.
The Federals'and Seward will meet
again next Sunday in the second trial
of skill on the home diamond. Some
changes will take place in the former
team and the game will surely be a
peach.
The city is once more in funds.
Just as the treasury' was emptied in
came sixteen hundred dollars from
John E. Ballaine yesterday to pay all <
on hisi nronortv. The
amount is probably more than was
due but the city treasurer was given
power to refund to Mr. Ballaine what
ever is over and above the sum due.
There is very good reason to believe
that the transfer of Dr. Lester Jones
from the fisheries inspection depart
ment to the geodetic survey has been
caused by the universal dis-satisfac
tion which his report caused. Jones
has been panned severely by the ter
ritorial legislature and by so many
others that his shifting from one de
partment to another was made almost
necessary’.
The notices by the railroad comp
any warning people to keep from
building houses on the beach were
posted today
JUDGES OF ELECTION.
The board of election was appointed
last night at the nfeeting of the city
council. The name of a lady was the
first suggested and she, Mrs. C. E.
j Martin, was the first selected. The
| other judges are L. T. Lucas and C.
i S. Patten. The clerks are A. P.
Brown and Charley Sheldon.
Job printing of every description at
The Gateway.
EACH CLAIMING
| POLISH GAINS
RUSSIANS SAY GERMANS FOIL
ED AND GERMANS CLAIM
VICTORIES.
PETROGRAD, March 30.—'The
| Germans have failed completely in
their attacks on Os so wet z and have
abandoned the attempt to take that
I city. They have made no advance in
that pari of the war theatre. The
strenuous efforts of the enemy fo
reduce any of the fortified positions
that form the backbone of the Rus
sian line have proved entirely fut'ic.
BERLIN, March 30.—The Russians
have been defeated in the engage
ments of the past few days in north
ern Poland. According to the official
notices today the victories of the Ger
man troops in that region have been
brilliant and the losses to the enemy
have been severe.
It seems to be apparent, however,
that no decisive advance has been
made but the people have come to un
derstand that advance movements un
der modern conditions of warfare
must be necessarily slow.
SHERMAN HAYNES BUYS
LOTS NEAR GATEWAY.
Pays Ten Thousand Five Hundred for
Two Lots to Captain L. J.
Schage.
Sherman Haynes today bought the
two lots at the corner next to and
north of the Gateway office for the
sum of ten thousand five hundred dol
’ars. Mr. Haynes is also the pur
chaser of the Dr. Boyle building near
the post office. The lots purchased to
day were bought from Captain L. J.
Schage through G. B. Poindexter and
the Lane Whitehead Realty Company.
Mr. Haynes, although coming here
from Fort Fraser, is an Alaskan of
several years residence. He has been
in Dawson and Fairbanks and was
successful in his enterprises.
SON OF SEWARD LADY
COMMANDED LOST SUBMARINE
Has Photograph of Captain and Crew
of F-4 Sunk at
Honolulu.
Mrs. Freda Courtland who arrived
in Seward this month and is now at
the Seward Hotel is the mother of
Captain Roy Courtland, commander
of the United States submarines at
Honolulu, one of which, the F-4 went
to the bottom a few days ago and
stayed there with all hands. Mrs.
Courtland hopes, however, that her
son is far away from the scene of the
disaster. His furlough was to have
begun on March 23 and the F-4 sub
merged on March 25. Mrs. Courtland
has with her the photograph of the
crew of the ill-fated vessel and
amongst them is her son. He was at
Honolulu when she received a letter
from him here this month but at that
time he intended to leave for his
home at Vallejo immediately on the
commencement of his furlough and he
was to have returned to his duties
.. ti. _1- U „ iAAl.
ax VCI ** l UO Ullivtjo 1IU VVVI\ u UTIUVIVII
as a profession as he intended to do.
Mrs. Courtland was at Honolulu her
self last summer and, of course, knew
all the people connected with the sub
marine service intimately. She is
naturally anxious as her son went
aboard often when one of the sub
marines under his charge submerged.
* *> * *♦*
•> APPEALS FROM OREGON ♦
❖ RAILROAD DECISION. *
.> _ ❖
9 0
WASHINGTON, March 30.—'The
attorney for the Oregon Railroad has
filed an eight hundred page brief in
the supreme court in appealing from
the forfeiture decision of the Oregon
court in the land grant cases. This
case involves the ownership of two
and a half million acres of land which
is estimated to be w'orth fifty million
dollars.
WENT TO HOLD INQUEST.
Deputy Marshal Ike Evans and
Commissioner Conroy left for Moose
Pass last evening to hold an inquest
on the body of Jack Duholm who was
found dead in his cabin there.
FOR SALE.
Typewriter, practically new.
*•><»•> ❖ ❖ ❖ v •{•♦♦♦
❖ ENGLAND AROUSED BY *
❖ DROWNING PASSENGERS. ❖
❖ — ^
LONDON, March 30.—As the day
wears on it is made evident that the
drowning of the passengers on the
liner Falaba and the steamer Aquila
has aroused the people of this country
to a state of more intense frenzy than
has been experienced since the begin
ning of the war. Some of the news
papers are calling for the execution of
all the members of German submarine
crews captured in future but some of
the publications declare that such a
course might lead to the execution by
the Germans of British prisoners in
their hands. The feeling against Ger
mans is such that the life of a German
resident or tnis country is nanny
safe. Never in its history has Eng
land shown such bitterness and the
war is sure to become even more hor
rible from this tim0 forward.
TRIAL OF ALLEGED
DYNAMITERS BEGINS.
Italians Who Are Charged With At
tempting to Blow Up St.
Patrick’s in Court.
NEW YORK, March 30.—'The trial
began this morning of the Italians
who are charged with throwing bombs
in St. Patrick’s cathedral on March 2.
An immense amount of interest is be
ing manifested in the hearing os^ing
to the sensational developments prom
ised by the stories of the police offici
als. It is expected that evidence will
be produced to show that a wide
spread conspiracy existed which had
for its object a general warfare with
dynamite against the public buildings
of the city as well as against the
mansions of the multi-millionaires.
The defendants will try to prove that
the police invented the sensational
part of the story as it was published
and there seems to be a feeling that
the authorities at least exaggerated
matters.
•> 4* ♦ ♦ ♦ > •> 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*
❖ LINCOLN’S LAW ♦
❖ PARTNER DIES <♦
> — <•
SALT LAKE, March 30.—Charles
S. Zane, aged eighty-four, the first
territorial justice of the supreme
court of Utah, and once a law partner
of Abraham Lincoln, died here this
morning.
GERMANSDROWN
OVER HUNDRED
SIXTY-FIVE LOST ON FALABA
AND FORTY-FIVE ON
AQUILA.
LONDON, March 30.—It is now
known that sixty-five people were
drowned when the German submarine
sank the liner Falaba yesterday off
the coast of Wales. It has also been
discovered that forty-five people were
drowned when the other German sub
marine sank the British ship Aquila in
the English channel on the day before,
making more than a hundred lives lost
in two days. When the submarine
succeeded in over-hauling the Falaba
the German captain gave the pas
sengers and crew five minutes to take
to the boats and leave the ship. The
people at once lowered the boats and
clambered into them hastily and were
pulling away when the torpedo fired
by the submarino exploded tdo quickly
Some of the small boats were smashed
by the explosion and occupants were
left struggling in the water. It is
said that the Germans made not the
slightest effort to save those who
were floundering about and the other
small boats were powerless to help.
A feeling of horror and hate has
passed over the British Islands as
the result of the cold blooded action.
It will probably have the effect of
causing greater care on the part of
liners. It is sure to have a very ser
ious influence on passenger traffic as
it seems to show that even fast liners
can be caught by the under water
craft.
The legal tnagle which has hinder
ed the operation of the Matanuska
Gold Mines property is about <nded,
according to information which reach
es here. It is stated on reliable auth
ority that the property will be de
veloped on a somewhat big scale this
season.—Knik News.
ADVANCING ON
MEXICO CITY
OBREGON LEADS ARMY THERE
AND ZAPATA WILL
QUIT.
WASHINGTON, March 30.—It is
reported here today that General
Obregon at the head of a large Car
ranza army is marching on Mexico
City and that General Zapata is pre- j
paring to leave. No further news had
come this morning about the battle!
between Villa and the Carranza army
at Matamoras but the opinion is that
Villa, will be compelled to retire but J
that ho will be by no means out of j
the fight. There is no longer the |
slightest hope of peace for many a :
long day in the republic. Both sides j
are apparently satisfied to hold their
forces intact and such warfare can be
kept up indefinitely. The constant
changing of rulers in Mexico City is
creating most irresponsible and reck
less methods in business life and in all
affairs generally in the capital and the
result can only be surmised.
RUSSIANS CLAIM THEY
WON MOUNTAIN PASS.
Petrograd Says That the Way to
Hungary is Now Clear of
the Enemy.
PETROGRAD, March 30.—The
Russians have von the way through
the Carpathians and the road to
Hungary' is now open. With this pas
sage cleared the next step will be the
advance in force for the invasion of
th-j Hungarian plains but some delay
may be found advisable owing to the
danger that the Austrian forces in
other parts of the mountains to the
eastward might be able to threaten
the rear of the advancing army. The
Austrians still hold the passes east
of the Dukla pass. Heavy fighting is
poceeding on the upper San river and
the Germans are being heavily rein
forced. The San is east of Cracow
and the enemy will probably put forth
his best effort to guard the road to
that fortress. Nothing new was re
po rted this morning from nortern
Poland.
SANTA ANA COMING.
Agent Guptil has received word
that the Santa Ana sailed east from
Unalga at 9 a. m.. The injury to her
boilers is said to be nothing more than
the blowing out of one of the flues of
her boiler.
MORGAN WILL LEND THE
FRENCH FIFTY MILLIONS.
Arrangements Said to Have Been
Completed for Loan on French
Treasury Bonds.
NEW YORK, arch 30.—It is report
ed on the best authority that negotia
tions have been completed for the loan
by Morgan and Co. of fifty million
dollars to the French government on
French treasury bonds. No obstacle
is expected to be placed in the way by
this government.
❖ rumor of a sort of *
.> COALITION TICKET. ❖
♦ - ♦
There is said to be a movement
afoot today to have an election with
only one ticket. The idea is said to
be that' there should be no conflict be
tween any two different parties or
sections. It is also reported that
some of the prominent members of
what might be called “both parties
have been seen and that some of them
at least have signified their intention
of supporting the movement.
~RICH QUARTZ”
A gold quartz property about which
little is known, but is said by those
who have seen it to be n very fine
showing, is located on Nugget creek,
in the Cache creek country. It was
discovered in July, 1911, by C. M.
Gage. So rich is some of the quartz
that Gage, with an ordinary hammer
has pounded out as high as $50 in
one day. The outcrop discloses six
parallel veinlets, from an inch to a
foot in width, in a porphyry dike a
100 feet wide. The porphyry carries
values which may be workable. Gage
has sunk a 30-ft shaft and driven a
35-ft tunnel, both in solid vein matter.
—Knik News.
•> •> •> <• •> •> '> •> v ❖ <*
❖ WESTERN OPERATIONS ❖
❖ QUIET SAYS LONDON. *
❖ - ❖
LONDON, March J{0.—The opera-j
tions in the western area were quiet |
yesterday according to the official bul
letin posted this morning. Some min
or engagements took place in Lorraine |
and the Argonnc but without any par-1
ticuar results. It is learned that the
German submarine captains have re- j
ceived instructions to bend all their i
energies to the effort to sink Uritish {
transports ships on the way to France.!
It is reported that large rewards have i
been offered for *hc sinking of trans
ports so that the greatest care is be
ing exercised by the military author
ities. The great forward spring move
ment is, however, expected to take
place soon, as fine weather has al
ready come. No one is inclined by
any means to minimize the task be
fore fhe allies as all well know the |
strength of the entrenchments pro- j
pared by the enemy.
❖ •> ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ •> ❖
❖ PHILADELPHIA BOY *
❖ KILLS GRANDMOTHER. *
V - • i
PHILADELPHIA, March .°>0.—
Matilda Cohen, eighty-five years, was
murdered here today by her grandson,
Henry Cohen. The murderer was in
sane but was allowed a lot of latitude
owing to te belief that he was not
dangerous. After killing the old wo
man he turned the gun with which he
committed the murder on himself
and took his own life. Mrs. Cohen
was a prominent woman.
BONDS PRESENTED FOR
ELECTRIC FRANCHISE.
City Council Holds What is Most
Likely the Last Meeting
But One.
The city council met last night in
what is almost surely the last meet
ing but one before its remaining spark
of life splutters out. G. B. Poindext
er and Ed. E. Anderson presented the
bonds of $2,500 required for their ap
plication for the electric franchise
and they were referred to the city at
torney to be referred back to the coun
cil at the next meeting. The name of
Robert Ashland appears in the bond
also.
The city health officer, Dr. Romig,
was empowered to name two cleanup
days which will occur within a few
days.
The meeting was adjourned until
“the next regular meeting" which will
be next Monday—the last of the pres
ent council.
SEWARD CLIMATE MILDER
THAN THAT OF PETROGRAD.
Present Resident of This City Born
in Petrograd Says Latter Country
Has Fine Farming.
A. G. de Sherbinin, who has recently
come to engage in business here and
who was born in Petrograd, Russia,
says that th© climate in the Russian
capital is far more severe than that of
Seward but that Petrograd is sur
rounded by a beautiful agricultural
country. The two cities are in just
about the same latitude but Petrograd
has no adjacent current to moderate
the temperature. The snow comes to
stay in the Russian city in November
and stays for several months but does
not interfere with agricultural pur
suits. For this as well as for other
reasons he sees absolutely no reason
why this district shouud not have a
great agricultural population.
KNIK NOTES.
Development will be continued this
season on the Mammoth group of gold
quartz claims. Tunnel work to the
amount of 350 feet has been done.
Judge David, Frank Kelly and C. H.
Lidell are the owners.
Judge David has purchased the in
terest of W. H. Taulman in the Arch
group, Willow creek camp. Other
owners are J. F. Fern and Hugh Good
ell. Development is planned this
season.
F. P. Skeen writes that himself and
associates, Messrs. McCoy and Bab
cock, have about concluded a deal to
dispose of their lode property in the
Willow creek camp.
A statnp mill and equipment for the
Gold Hill Mining Company is in Knik
and will, it is understood, be installed
on the property this season.
WANTED.
Smart boy at the Gateway office.
PROHIBITION
FORIIBFHTAIN
LLOYD GEORGE CALLS DRINK
WORSE ENEMY THAN
GERMANY.
LONDON, March 30.—Lloyd
George, chancellor of th? exchecquer
for Great Britain, has come out with
the prohihitior: principle luring the*
war. He declares that drink is now a
war. He decares tat dr nk is now a
greater enemy of the British people
that the Germans or Austrians. To
prove his theory he cites instances
where war material destined for the
front was held up because the men
engaged in the work of forwarding it
became intoxicated and lost all sense
of the duty they owed their country.
A big opposition to the proposal is
expected to develope, particularly
from the wealthy people of the king
dom most of whom ha^e stock in
brewing and distillery companies.
The stoppage of the sal? of drink
would ruin hundreds of thousands and
even members of the he use of lords
would be amongst the cl ief sufferers
so that the chancellor will have a tre
mendous fight on his hands should he
persist in his campaign. He is sup
ported by some of the best men in the
empire, however, and prohibition may
possibly come into beirg.
MG STEAMER SINKS
NEAR EXPOSITION.
Three* Hundred Passengers Aboard
When Vessel Sank ir Frisco
Hay but All Saved.
SAN FRANCISCO, Ma vh 30.—The
steamer General Frisbie hit a rock
last evening in the bay ofl* the exposi
tion grounds and sank. Aboard at the
time were three hundred passengers
but not one life was lost owing to
fine work on the part of the crew and
others. The sinking of the vessel pro
vided a spectacle that surpassed any
thing on the Fair grounds themselves
and thousand of people were witness
es of it.
VON DERGOLTZ
. LEADSJURKS
SAYS THERE IS NO DANGER
OF TAKING THE DAR
DANELLES.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 30.—
General von dcr Goltz, the German
who is in command of the Turkish
forces, declared today that there is
absolutely no danger of the attack by
the allies on the Dardanelles succeed
ing. Large land forces well equipped
and oragnized by YTon der Goltz have
been mobilized to meet any attack by
the allies on land. He is also hurry
ing the contsruction of powerful forts
to supplement those already defend
ing the channel from the Agean sea
to th ? sea of Marmora and field guns
are being brought up to aid in repell
ing the attempt. He says that all
fear cf the success of the allies can
be banished and that the business of
this city need not be in the least dis
turbed.. Turkish aeroplanes flew over
the allied fleet yesterday and dropped
several bombs. The aviators report
that one battleship was hit by several
bombs and seriously damaged but the
name of the ship has not been ascer
tained. Each day’s delay is now be
ing made U3e of to strengthen the de
fences and to mobilizing larger forces
of land troops for the defences of the
capital.
CLEANING UP DAYS
ON APRIL 5 AND 6.
Day of Election Chosen as One of the
Days for the Spring
Cleaning.
Dr. Romig, city health officer, has
fixed Monday and Tuesday the Fifth
and Sixth of April as the days for the
great annual spring cleaning up of
the city. He is now getting out the
official notice and this notice states
that a wagon will be supplied by the
city to take away all garbage that
will be collected in boxes or piles etc.