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FIERCE FIGHTING ON WESTERN
FRONTS AND ALLIES GAINING
HOW THE OFFENSIVE STANDS
LONDON, August 26. — An official communication
says that the ninth week of the great Anglo-F reach offen
sive on the Somme sees the British line in the lhiep\al
neighborhood steadily encircling the German fortified
positions and threatening the capture of Thiepval itself,
the place which has interfered with the advance of Haig
since the offensive began. It is expected that the enemy
will put forth his supreme effort to retain this place as its
fall would be a disaster and probably compel a very im
portant retirement. Notwithstanding the apparent slow
ness of the advances the military experts are unanimously
of the opinion that the allied campaign is proceeding most
satisfactorily.
BRITISH ADVANCE AGAIN
LONDON, August 26.—The British left wing on the
Somme front broke out in a new attack last night, Haig
reports, and took four hundred yards more of the enemy s
trenches. The assault was delivered chiefly at the Ger
man positions defending Thiepval.
GERMANS LAUNC H MANY ATTACKS
PARIS, August 26.—A strong German reconnaisance
south of Maureanas ami Hill 121 last night was dispersed
by the French lire, the official communique today says.
The statement also says that a most violent artillery
struggle is proceeding on the Somme front but no other
attacks in that region are reported. The Germans last
night also launched heavy attacks in Champagne and on
the northern and eastern fronts of Verdun. No changes
are reported as the result of the fighting last night in
those quarters.
BRITISH RETALIATE BY AIR
LONDON, August 26. — British air crafts made a
counter attack in answer to the Zeppelin raids last night
when they bombarded the German airship shed at Namur,
Belgium. The official announcement does not state the
amount of the damage inflicted but it is admitted that one
of the British machines failed to return. It is stated of
ficially that the British aviators believe they were very
successful in carrying out their design.
BRITISH STEAMER SUNK
LONDON, August 26.—The armed British steamer
Duke of Albany was sunk last Thursday in the North Sea
by a submarine and twenty-four lives were lost. The ad
miralty announces that eighty-seven of the crew were
saved
NO CHANGES ELSEWHERE
LONDON, August 26.—Reports from the Greek,
Turkish and Russian fronts today show no change worth
noting in the relative positions of the opposing forces.
VAN GILDER BUILDING
TO BE OPEN OUT. 1
The new Van Gilder office building
will be ready for occupancy about
October 1st. Thi* building is of mod
ern, reinforced concrete, three stories
and basement. The first two floors
contain twelve ortice suits with hot
and cold water and lavatories in every
suit. The hall partitions and doors
are of non-transparent glass. The
third floor is being fitted up for lodge
purposes and will be second to none in
Alaska. All exterior doors and win
dows are to contain wired plate glass.
The windows are celebrated Whitney
windows, and the building will be
heated by an “Ideal” down-draft boil
er of 3750 feet capacity, with a Houey
well automatic temperature regulator.
The radiators are of the “Peerless
screw nipper type.
On the w’hole the building is one of
the finest in all Alaska.
W. P. Henry will act as agent.
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Smart boy at Gateway office.
FIRST CLASS POSTAL
WEIGHT IS EXTENDED
SEATTLE, August 26.—The
weight limit for first class mail has
been raised from four pounds to the
limit set for parcel post matter. This
^s fifty pounds in the first two zones
and twenty pounds in the rest of the
United States. Word to this effect
was recived today by the local post
master from Postmaster General
Rurleson. The radius of the first
two zones is 150 miles.
THREE FATAL AUTO
ACCIDENTS IN SEAtTLF
SEATTLE, August 26—Two deaths
occurred in the hospital and a t'lird
happened elsewhere from injuries
caused by three automobile accidents
here last night.
BISHOP BURIED
PEORIA. August 26.—Archbishop
Spaulding was buried here today after
a solemn pontifical high mass in St.
Mary’s cathedral.
;BI(i WORK TO SUPPLY
TRACT WITH WATfR
Sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars to
be Spent by Company This Year.
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'Hu* government terminal tract will
be supplied with water this year and
fur the purpose the sum of twenty
thousand dollars or more will be spent
on the work this summer. The com
pany will not, of course, begin the
work until the lots are sold. This sale
will begin on September 11 and as
the last sale at Nenana takes place
today Agent Christensen will have
I lots of time to urrive here from the
| 'Pterion Most likely the work of get
i ting in the water supply will start
sometime next month.
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WAR ASH-PITTSBURGH,
WORTH 3 MILLION’,
SOLD AT AUCTION
PITTSBURGH, August 15.—The
Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal Railway
is up for sale by a master at the com
pany’s building here today. The Krie
was expected to be the most interest
ed bidder. The price wanted is about
; $:i,000,000.
The Erie may be a purchaser of the
i Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad before
long, according to gossip in railroad
circles. The Pennsylvania, because of
♦he United States Supreme Court’s
decree dissolving the Northern Securi
ties company, cannot acaiqre eitherthe
Wabash-Pittsburg or the Wheeling
and Lake Erie.
The Erie, by getting hold of the
latter, would lave ready-built connec
tion between its own lines and ttic
Wabash-Pittsburgh.
LODJE WAS QUITE SOBER
WHEN HE MET HIS END
Fred Kruaser, the partner of Carl
lx)dje who met his death by falling
off the wharf yesterday morning, says
that Lodje was perfectly sober at the
time of the accident. Lodje had beer,
in the United States for sixteen jears
and in that time had never tasteo
whiskey and had never taken mort
than a few glasses of beer. Krauser
says he probably fell through th« hole
between the old dock and the new and
not over the side or end as had been
believed. The dead man has a brother
in Seattle, Bellingham or some other
town in the state of Washington and
he will be communicated with.
ALL READY FOR THE
BIG DANCE MONDAY
It is so long since Seward had a
dance that everyone is looking for
ward to the big time next Monday
night when the dance of the Woman’s
Club will take place in A. B. Hall. As
usual when women give dances there
is a better time than at ordinary hops,
probably because women know more
than men about those things, or it
.night be because the fact that wom
en are in the lead lends more attrac
tion to the masculine eye. Anyhow,
whatever the cause might be, one
thing is absopositively certain, and
that is that the dance next Monday
will be SOME DANCE.
STORM FREES CONVICTS
. JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Aug.
26.—During a violent thunderstorm
yesterday four of the most dangerous
convicts in the state penitentiary
managed to make their escape and
they have not since been apprehend
ed.
STARVATION MAY COME EROM THE
STRIKE BOTH SIDES ASSERTING
CIVIC FAIR TO BE
HELD IN R. R. Bl. 00.
Ladies Now Preparing For the Better
Babies Contest.
The Civic Fair of Seward which will
be held on the Sth and Dth of Sep
tember will take place in the railroad
building.
The ladies are now preparing for
the Better Babies Contest which will
be carried on throughout next week.
The city health officer has consented
to examine the babies for the contest
and the examination will be a scienti
fic one by standard tests that have
been universally accepted. The tests
will be made by appointment which
is to be made through Mrs. Borgen.
George Mirlach has donated a silver
cup as the first prize for the baby
with the highest score. In addition to
the general physical condition of the
children they will be measured, have
their teeth examined, etc., and the
children from 12 months to months
will be the ones examined. All the
standard figures and data as to what
a child of a certain age should weigh
find measure, what its head should
measure and so on have been secured
and nothing will be done that does not
follow out the most approved scienti
fic methods.
PRESIDENT TO AVOID
POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE
NAMING TARIFF COMMISSION
(Special to Gateway by United Press) j
WASHINGTON, August 16.—In j
naming the forthcoming Tariff Com
mission the President, it is known to
day, is determined to get entirely out
of a political atmosphere. The ihan
?ts of any aspirant who is recom
mended by a politician will go glim
mering.
President Wilson is said to have a
constitutional aversion to appointing
a man to a job when the man is re
commended by a politician. The
reaosn is that almost any senator or
congressman will recommend a man if
he comes from his district.
Frequently the candidate may be
personally unknown to the solon. He
comes in for the regular form OK,
many times a rubber stamp affair that
never comes to the congressman’s at
tention at all.
While the president was wrestling
with the Farm Loan Board personnel
^he received several hundred recom
mendations. One day a group of
congressmen came to the White
House to recomend a certain man.
Not one of them knew the man’s full
name or anything about him. One of
tne group desired him and the rest
were helping boost.
A senator was asked following a
conference with the President if he at
any time had added to the names on
jthc prospective list of the Farm Boaro
experts.
“Why, yes”, the Senator replied
“I believe I did recomemnd someone.
It was several days ago and I really
paid no attention to it. I don’t even
remember the man’s name, but he was,
from my district, I’m sure.”
Examples of this are found in the;
filling of Supreme court and cabinet
vacancies, too. A hundred lawyers
were recommended by political advis
ors for the place now occupied by
.Tuatice Brandeis,
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O'BRIEN OF DAWSON
HAS PASSED AWAY
I Was One of Most Prominent Operat
ors in Yukon Territory.
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DAWSON, August 26. — Thomas
William O’Brien, who has been known
as the Klondyke King, passed away
j yesterday after quite a prolonged ill
[ ness. He was the man who built the
Klondyke Mines railway. He was
once the owner of No. 1 Eldorado and
many other claims on that creek and
j on Bonanza. He built the Klondyke
| ferry and several trails and was the
owner of breweries, steamboat lines
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and other large utilities. Some vime
ago his relatives were summoned,
amongst them being his uncle, a Seat
tle doctor and every effort was made
to prolong his life.
SHOT N01ED DOCTOR
ECR BETRAYING HER
—
Woman Commits Sensational Act in
Suite Mobilization Camp.
MACON, Georgia, August 26.—
“Southern chivalry and the unwrit
ten law* are relied upon by Mrs. S.
,C. Adams to free her from the charge
of murdering Captain Edward J.
Spratlight in the state mobilization
camp here. The captain was the most
prominent physician in the city of
Atlanta ami was known throughout
the state.
“He was my family physician and
took advantage of me” is the state
ment made by Mrs. Adams. The oc
currence promises to give rise to one
of the most celebrated cases for many
years not only because of the man’s
prominence but because of the circum1
stances connected with his alleged
crime.
NEVER MISSED A DAY
EUGENE, Ore., August 10.—Pro
fessor Timothy Cloran completed his
13,fi08th class when the summer ses
sion of the University of Oregon clos
ed here. He has taught 21 years, and
never has missed a day.
BIG CROW CREEK CASE
IS NOW BENIG HEARD
The Crow creek case is now being
heard at Anchorage by Judge Brown.
This case is a suit for fifty thousand
dolars damages brought by Mahl and
Hitchcock against the Crow Creek
Mining company for damages alleged
to have been sustained by the dump
ing of tailings by the defendants on
the property of the plaintiffs. N. B.
Solner, the Seattle banker, and Dick
Dawson are the two men connected
with the Crow creek company.
Ritchie and Lyons are for the plaint
iffs and Ray is for the defendants.
GETTING OUT PETITION
• FOR KENAI AUTO ROAD
A petition is being ciruclated for
presentation to the Alaska Road Com
mission asking for the construction as
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soon as possible of the automobile
road to Kenai lake. It is believed to
be the intention of the commission to
build this road as soon 4s possible but
the people of the city have come to the
conclusion that the need of the road
should be impressed on the Board. J
J. Finnegan has charge of the peti
tion.
_WASHINGTON, August 2G. — The railroad strike
situation seemed hopeless today at ijoon, both sides being
apparently firm in the refusal to make further conces
sions. Conferences continued, however, amongst both
sides. This may be stated on the authority of men promi
nent in the railway men’s organization as well as in the
companies. As the transportation paralysis of the na
tion looms up the railroad managers contend that they can
keep enough trains running with the aid of local em
ployees to prevent a milk and food famine. The repre
sentatives of the unions counter by saying that there may
be a few men willing to keep working but that the roads
as a whole will be tied up tighter than a drum.
The grimmest fighters amongst the bosses said:
“We will put white lead on the engines and lay every
thing off.”
The conservatives amongst them said:
“We must see that our babies have their milk and the
nation its food.”
To this the employees answer:
“If the companies persist the starvation of the people
would lie at the doors of the railroad kings.”
No one seems to be able to foretell what will happen
within the next few days. President Wilson has made his
proposals but as both sides are obstinate and no compro
mise is in sight the situation looks very bad.
LOUIS LANE’S SHIP
IS GON! TO BOTTOM
SAN FRANCISCO, August 2G. — A wireless report
received from the United States revenue cutter McCul
lough tells of the wreck of the steamer Great Bear in Ber
ing Sea on August 10. The vessel was carrying the Lane
Borden expedition into the Arctic and was on the way
to Nome when she met her fate. She was overdue at that
port ten days when the McCullough was sent in search
and the captain of the cutter now reports that the Great
Bear sank but that the people aboard her got to land and
are being conveyed to Nome by the McCullough. Lane is
Captain Louis Lane, son of a late wealthy mining operator
of Nome and other places, and is the man who first found
Steffanson after the latter had been given up for lost.
Borden is a member of the famous canned milk family.
They were on their way to hunt and fish and also for re
search purposes. The exact name of the place where the
vessel was lost is not given.
PATRICK CALHOUN IS
A PENNILESS BEGGAR
NEW YORK, August 26.—Worth twelve million dol
lars five years ago Patrick Calhoun, at one time one of the
country’s greatest railway magnates, is here today with
less than five dollars to his name. His predicament came
to light through the filing of an application for the ap
pointment of a receiver for his property. He was a giant
in the financial world and took hold of the street car strike
situation in San Francisco in 1907 but while he was in the
midst of the fight against the unions he was indicted in the
famous graft upheavals. It was his troubles in San Fran- .
cisco that started him on the toboggan. For some years
he has been able to keep out of the limelight but the ap
plication for a receiver has exposed exerything.
BUYS PERSONAL PROPERTY
OF THE KENAI COMPANY |
Judge S. 0. Morford, acting for D. j
M. Stewart, bought yesterday the
personal property of the Kenai Min
ing and Milling Company. This prop
erty consisted of 4,000 feet of hy
draulic hose and other material. It
was bought under a judgment in
favor of Stewart,
NO BOAT FROM SOUTH
FOR SEVERAL DAYS
The Admiral Evans is the first boat
due from the south and she did not
leave Seattle until last Wednesday
morning. She cannot be expected be
fore Tuesday night or Wednesday.
An unusually large crowd went out
on the train this morning.