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WILSON MAY SAVE 1
CONDEMNED REBEL
WASHINGTON. May 19.—At the
request of United Mates Senator
O’Gorman, of New York, President
Vv iIson has seut a message to Ambas
sador Page in London directing him
to make every effort to secure a de
lay ol' the execution ot J. Lynch, of
New York, a naturalized citizen of the
United States, who has been convict
ed and sentenced to death tor taking
part in the uprising in Dublin. In
formation has been forwarded here to
O’Gorman that Lynch is to be shot
tonight at midnight New York time.
Lansing at 1 o’clock tins afternoon at
the request of the President cabled
Page to have the execution postponed
pending an investigation of the case
by the American government. The
result is awaited with the greatest in
terest.
UNITED ST A IKS SHIP
UOMES THIS WAY
The United States ship Saturn left
Mare Island on May 11 for Unalaska
ami will be engaged in wireless work
during her visit in Alaskan waters.
She will be used for work also at the
St. George station and will then go
to Cordova. The Saturn is classed as
a cruiser.
gone with t;i vri> to
get BROWN BEAR MOVIES
On the Alaska last night went a
company of pev>ple who have come
north to take moving pictures of
brown bears on Kodiak island for an
eastern concern and with them was
the sharpshooter named Hillis who
traveled around this district some
time ago giving shooting exhibitions
in the interest of a gun manufactur
ing company.
BARTHOLE GOES TO
OPEN I P OPERATIONS
E. H. Barthoif of the Mable mine
at Willow creek went through on the
Alaska and the season’s operations
will soon be in full swing. The plant
has been increased, as stated before,
and about the lirsc big work to be
done will be the driving of a tunnel
three hundred feet in length. One re
markable fact mentioned by Mr.
Barthoif is that when the railroad is
built it will pass wuhin 15 miles of
his mine and so enable him to get to
Seward in a few hours.
MINERS GET $125,000
IN GOLD BONUSES
WALLACE. Idaho. May 11.—Near
ly $1*25,000 in gold was received here
today to be distributed among 4,000
miners in the Coeur d’ Alene district
as a bonus for their work during the
month of April. The bonus for each
miner amounts to about $1 a day.
The bonus system, adopted by the
mine operators February X, is govern
ed by the prices of the metals produc
ed—mostly gold, copper and silver.
For March the miners received 75
cents a day bonus.
Merchants throughout the mining
district report that business has
practically doubled since the inaugur
ation of the bonus system.
WASHINGTON, May 12-—It was
the same old “limousine” but a mod
ern ox-less chassis that the same old
Ezra Meeker, 85-year-old transcontin
ental traveler, hauled out of its shed
here today to look over in preparation
for Ezra’s fourth jaunt from coast to
coast.
Meeker calls his renovated vehicle
a “schoonermobile.” It’s all of that.
• The top is the same, label-covered
prairie schooner top which Ezra’s
oxen have dragged three times over
the roads between here and the Paci
fic. Unde^ it is an up-to-date, motor
driven chassis.
Within a few days Meeker starts
for Olympia, Wash., a distance of 3,
560 miles. Meeker is the original
triple-exponent and proponent of a
national, coast-to-coast highway. He
expects to drive over one before Old
► Man Time gets him.
Bank of Anchorage
Opens Tomorrow |
Anchorage will have the first bank
of its existence tomorrow when the
Bank of Anchorage will open its doors j
for business. Word to this effect was
received today by Harry Balderston.
BUILDS BOAT FOB THE
YENTNA AND SUSITNA
A boat has just been built down at
Brosius and Noon’s for Professor
Herschell Parker and his associates
and will be used for getting up the
Susitna and Yentna rivers where the
Professor will go soon to start work
with the new drill. The boat is twen
ty-two feet in length and will be ship
ped from here.
LORD CLAN RICA R D K,
“THE MEANEST MAN
IN ENGLAND” IS DEAD
^Special to Gateway by United Press)
LONDON, May 11. — Lord Clanri
carde is dead. Lord Clanriearde!
The man the British people called
“the Meanest Man In England.”
What the London papers did to his
memory, even before he was buried,
was sufficient.
“The Meanest Man In England!”
For half a century he held that dis
1 tinction.
; Today, in glaring columns, amidst
j the war news, the London papers told
the story of Lord Clanricarde’s life.
It is a story particularly for Irish
folks in America. He was the mean
est Irish landlord.
Clanricarde’s grandfather was Can
ning, British prime minister in 1827.
His uncle was the first viceroy of
India.
When he was young Clanriearde got
the idea that God made a few very
rich, tine and cultured people to be
human beings and that everybody
who wasn’t rich, tine and cultured
wasn’t human. Human rights, as he
knew them, we*e the rights of the
rich.
Canadian soldiers in Hyde park,
not knowing their London, have look
ed with wonder and pity on a little
weazened up old man, in ragged, fifty
year old clothes who used to sit on
the public seats—the private seats
cost two cents—a hard, cold look in
his eyes.
This was Lord Clanriearde, ow ner of
twenty square miles of land in Ire
land, with Irish peasants paying him
$150,000 a year. This was Lord Clan
ricardo, once the swellcct fop in Lon
don.
WANTS MINISTERS TO
“PURIFY THEIR RANKS”
DANVILLE, Ind., May 15.—Dele
gates to the seventy-seventh annual
1 convention of the Christian Churches
j of Indiana who gathered here today
I heard a plea for greater cooperation
I by “shepherds of all folds” by the
; Rev. Geogre H. Clarke of Indian
apolis.
Remarking upon the avidity with
which the public reads of ministers
“gone wrong,” Mr. Clarke urged
ministers of all faiths to aid each
other in purifying their ranks and up
holding the hands of righteous mini
sters.
GOING WEST FOR HUNT
OF BEAR AND BIRDS
L. L. Bales and Charles A. Gianinni
arrived on the Alaska r.nd will go
west on the Dora to Stepovak Bay to
hunt bear and secure a collection of
birds. They will return in July. Mr.
Gianinni is from New York and Mr.
Bales has come from California where
he had Alaska exhibits at the Pan
ama-Pacific and San Diego exposi
tions, and where he represented the
Gateway and All-Alaska Review. He
I brought a photograph of the Alaska
j exhibit at San Dieco and it seems to
be very good. Mr. Bales advertised
this section quite a lot.
RAILROAD APPROPRIATION j
REPORTED TO THE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, May 19. — (Bul
letin)—The Sundry Civil Service Bill
was reported to the house today. The
total appropriations are twenty-seven
million, two hundred and thirty-seven
thousand. The largest item is six
million two hundred and forty-seven
thousand for the Alaska railroad.
The next item in amount is four and
a half millions for the fortification of
the Panama canal. The bill includes
four millions for armories and
arsenals.
a H. BARNDOLLAR
TO THE WESTWARD
B. H. Barndollar, disbursing officer
of the Engineering Commission, went
on the Alaska to the westward and
will continue traveling between the
two cities during the summer. By
the way, it has been suggested to the
Gateway to make public the need oi
a relief station on Eire Island. Ow
ing to tide conditions and sudden
storms several travelers have been
compelled to seek shelter on the island
and have found no place there where
they could find comfort.
The doctors reported this morning
that the condition of M. Musgrave is
not improved.
The steamer Dora is scheduled to
leave at 4 p. m. today.
Big Rise in Local
Bank's Deposits
In the last three months the de
posits in the Bank of Seward have in
creased by $86,974.72. This is shown
by the report published by the bank
| in today’s Gateway. When the last
| report was published on February l <,
1916, the deposits were something j
over a quarter of a million. Now they
| are $343,597.63.
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Cable communication is still inter
rupted and there is some difilcutly
found in getting messages over the
Canadian line. Everything possible
is being done by the Gateway to se
cure the very latest dispatches by any
routes, regardless of expense. Some
j times the message come in time and
1 sometimes they do not. No dispatches
had been received at 2 p. m. today,
and the cable telling yesterday that
we may have an aerial mail serice ar
| rived just as the paper was on the
press. The printing of the paper is
held otT as long as there seems to be
a possibility of receiving more news.
McPherson gets patent
William McPherson, through Judge
S. O. Morford, has received a patent
I for his ranch north of Resurrection
* river.
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Anchorage to Have
Wireless Station
J. F. Upchurch went on the steam
ship Alaska last night to begin the
work of establishing a government
wireless station at Anchorage. He
had with him only half the outfit.
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That Portland has at last taken ade-1
quate steps to establish a steamship
line from that place to Alaska is
shown by recent advices from outside.
One boat is said to have been secured
for the run to this part of Alaska.
The following clipping from a Seattle
paper has just been received:
“Organization of the Oregon-Alas
ka Steamship Company was perfect- j
ed yesterday wtih the election of di- j
rectors, followed by the selection ot
Paul Bates as president, Harrison Al
len, secretary, and F. P. Kendall,
treasurer. Captain James W. Shaver,
Captain Archie Pease and Joseph
Supple are among the directors.
“The corporation is to have a capi
tal stock of $50,000 and the first
steamer now under option in the Fast,
will be joined by others later. More
Portland business men are interested
in the venture, and as the vessel has
adequate passenger accommodation
for her size, it is believed she will
prove successful on the Portland-Ala
ska route."
TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE ON
ALE ERONTS EXPECTED SOON
AUSTRIANS PROGRESS
BERLIN, May 19.—Nothing of importance is report
ed from the Verdun front in the official announcements to- j
day but brisk fighting is reported towards the western j
end of the west front at several points. The newspapers
say the Austrian offensive against the Italians is progres-!
sing very favorably and that Italain territory will be in-j
vaded within a few days. Some of the Austrian troops1
engaged against the Italians have been removed from the
Serbo-Greek frontier where the Bulgarians are now forti
fied in great force. Artillery fighting is proceeding north
east and northwest of Verdun but no infantry assaults
are reported.
RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN NEAR
STOCKHOLM, May 19. — All the indications now
point to a tremendous offensive against the Russians in
the Riga region soon. Von Hindenburg and von Macken
sen are both reported to be in that region, each in com
mand of two separate Teuton armies that will act jointly,
Hindenburg’s near the Baltic coast and Mackensen’s
further south. It is also reported by Swedish skippers in
the Baltic that German warships and transports can be
seen daily moving eastward and that the Northern ports
of Germany are crowded with troops arriving from the
interior.
SUBMARINES INACTIVE
LONDON, May 19.—A notable inactivity on the part
of German submarines has been noted since the answer
of the German government to the demands of the United
States. With the exception of the sinking of the Cymric
no notable vessel has been lost by submarining.
EXPECT ALLIED OFFENSIVE
THE HAGUE, May 19. — Large British reinforce
ments are now reported being sent across the channel into
France, and Europe looks for the early beginning of an
other great allied offensive. In the meantime the Ger
mans are attacking still where the British hold the lines
but no decisive results are recorded. Military men believe
Germany is about to make another attempt to break
through to Calais.
Rod And Gun Club
Formed in Seward
At a meeting in Fire hall last even
ing the Seward Rod and Gun Club
was formed and permanently organiz
ed. Rev. C. T. Cook, who was also
temporary chairman, was electel per
manent president, and William Kings
ley was temporary secretary. The
following permanent officers, in addi
tion to President Cook, were elected:
Vice-president, John Gilpatrick;
Secretary-Treasurer, Frank L.
Torrey.
Committee on Rules: A. E. Nord,
Heinie Haasch and N. 8. French.
Committee on Membership: C. A.
Myers, Frank Ennis and John Gtl
patrick.
Executive committee: L. L. James,
Jr., William Kingsley and F. Krusher.
The next meeting will be held next
Wednesday. The following cent in
their names as members:
Dr. J. M. Sloan, Dr. J. H. Romig,
Sidney Anderson, Isaac Evans, Wm.
Weaver, H. J. Haasch, J. C. Gilpat
rick, P. H. Seaman, C. A. Myers, Wm.
Kingsley, F. G. Ennis, Fred Krausei,
John Kaccrosky, Neil French, Frank
L. Torrey, E. Lucas, M. A. Martin,
Dr. J. A. Baughman, Crit Tolman, W.
N. Reed, Rev. C. T. Cook, Neil Sexton,
H. H. Hildreth, L. L. James, Chas.
Lechner, J. J. McGrath, E. A. Nord,
Reg. Kerr, J. C. Tolman, and H. A.
Harmon.
CHICAGO MILLIONAIRE
BOYS START WHALE HUNT
SEATTLE, May 17.—John Borden,
Norris H. Bokum, Charles K. Knick
erbocker and Rochester B. Slaughter,
boy millionaires, of Chicago, left to
day on a whaling and big game hunt
ing trip in the Bering Sea and Asiatic
Siberia. “The Big Bear,” a newly
built schooner, completely equipped
with hunting and whaling parapher
nalia will carry the party on its peri
lous expedition.
ADDITIONAL REVENUE
REQUIRED ISiUTTLE
Is Seward Not Port
Of Entry After All?
Juneau Empire Says Collector of
Customs Declares It Is Not.
Some time ago word was received
here from Delegate Wickersham that
Seward had been made a port of entry
but out comes the Juneau Empire now
with a statement from the collector of
customs that Seward will not be des
ignated a port of call this year. E.
R. Stivers, readers of the Gateway
will remember, passed through Sew
ard some days ago. The following is
the statement in the Empire of May
11:
“E. R. Stivers, deputy inspector of
customs, passed through Juneau this
morning on the Admiral Farragut for
Anchorage where he will be stationed
for the next month. After he leaves
there a special man will be appointed
to act only while a ship is in port un
loading bulk cargo of coal, steel, or
other commodity for the Alaskan En
gineering Commission.
“According to a statement made by
the collector of customs this morning,
neither Seward nor Anchorage will be
designated as ports of entry this
year, and a temporary appointment
will not be made for Seward this
year. On account of the Alaskan En
gineering Commission importing sev
eral cargoes of coal and steel this
season for the use of the railroad, a
temporary man will be appointed,
under an authorization recently re
ceived from Washington, stationed at
Anchorage, who will be paid for each
day actually employed.
“A petition from the Seward Com
mercial Club asking that Seward be
designated as a port of entry was re
cently sent to Washington. In an
swer to the petition, a letter was re
ceived recently by the collector of
customs here, which states that it is
unnecessary. The department has re
ceived authoritative information that
neither the Grand Trunk nor the
Canadian Pacific are contemplating
extending their service to Seward and
therefore the designation of that place
as a port of entry is unnecessary and
inadvised."
START CALIFORNIA TO NEW
YORK FLIGHT IN SELF
BALANCING PLANE
iSpecial to Gateway by United Press)
LOS ANGELES, May 15. — Two
thousand -feet over Nigger Slough
near here today, two men waved adieu
to a neck craning throng and headed
east toward the Sierra Marde moun
tains in an aeroplane. Their destina
tion was New Y'ork.
Oscar Brindley, veteran air pilot,
and A. J. Macy, inventor settled back
in their seats, to let the first self bal
ancing plane in America fly' them
from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
The two men plan to cover nearly
4,000 miles ending their ride at Min
eola, L. I., next Sunday. Just six
days.
Macy, a Chicago electrical engineer,
by the cross continent flight plans to
demonstrate to the government of
France, England and United States,
a mechanism of his own invention
which will balance an aeroplane per
fectly.
The pilot has but to steer the plane
in the desired direction—up or down,
to left or right, then relax and let the
automatic equilibrium device keep the
plane on a flying keel.
Neither Macy or Brindley make any
exaggerated claims for the device.
“Nothing could be a fairer test than
the flight from Los Angeles to New
York in six days," they say.
The plane is a hundred horse power
Martin tractor of the military type,
specially equipped for the trip.
The route taken will be via, Salt
Lake, Denver, St. Louis, Chicago and
New York.
WASHINGTON, May l'J. — Secre
tary McAdoo has submitted to Chair
man Kitchen of the House Ways and
Means committee and to Payne Sim
mons of the Finance committee the
revised estimates of the government
receipts and expenditures tor the re
mainder of tiie hscal year and for the
iiscal year ending June 30, 1017, tend
ing to show that much less revenue
will have to be raised to meet the bill
for preparedness and other large con
templated expenditures than had been
supposed. Only one hundred and fifty
million dollars, in addition to the
present revenues, will have to be pro
vided for during the coming year. All
of the additional money will come
from taxes on incomes, inheritances
and the manufacture of munitions.
WHITE MAN SAVED FROM
STARVATION BY NATIVE
DOUGLAS, May 12. — William
Howard arrived in town yesterday
morning on his gas boat “Kitty of
Ketchikan" and brought with him a
white man by the name of McCormick
whom he found at St. James Bay in
a starving condition. The man's
partner had gone to Juneau four
months ago and taken the boat and
when William Howard, native, and
master of the Kitty of Ketchikan,
found the man he had not eaten for
four or five days.
Mr. Howard took the man aboard
his boat and fed him well and brought
him to town and says that when the
man met him he said: “Thank God
for William Howard."—Ex.
SONS OF REVOLUTION
DEMAND RESPECT FOR
FLAG AND NATIONAL MUSIC
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
NEWARK, N. J., May 13. — The
orchestra that makes a last desperate
bid for applause by banging out the
Star Spangled Banner, the band that
medleys My Country 'Tis of Thee
with ragtime, and the vaudeville act
that closes with a tremendous flap
ping of the American flag will all be
under ban, if the National Sons of
the American Revolution, who met
here today, have their way.
Members of this organization, all
sons of the men who achieved Ameri
can independence, plan a campaign
for laws in all states and territories
against such performances. It is
part of their effort to bring about a
“more dignified and reverent” attitude
toward the Fathers of the Republic.
A campaign to educate aliens in the
history and spirit of the American
nation also is under way.
Among the trips, receptions, dances
and banquets will be an auto ride to
a spot near Trenton where Washing
ton distributed the booty he had cap
tured from the Hessians to the origin
al owners. Secretary of War Baker
is to address the society tonight.
GIANT U. S. RADIO IN THE
CANAL ZONE OPENED SEPT. 1
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 15.—The
giant $300,000 naval radio station at
Cholla Heights east of this city, the
great strategic link in the radio com
munication with the Canal Zone, will
not be put into commission until
September 1, it was learned today,
According to civil engineer Samuel
Gordon, U. S. N. in charge, a delay
in fulfilling electrical apparatus con
tracts will hold up work on the station
for the time being.
APPROPRIATE DRESS
CLUB GIRLS TO
DANCE IN $6 GOWNS
NEW YORK, May 15. — The Ap
propriate Dress Club of America will
hold its first annual dance and card
party at Chateau du Parc, tonight.
There will be an exhibition dance by
twelve young women, wearing gowns
not exceeding in cost $6.
The club is an organization of
young women who study economical
and artistic wrays of making their
own clothes,
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