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VoL 10, No. *71 __________________!
PREMIER OF GREECE RESIGNS AND
QUICK ACTION IS LOOKED FOR
WHAT IN VASION MEANS
LONDON, Oct. 3.—All military men this morning are
pointing out that the invasion of Bulgaria by the Rouman
ians has a double strategic value. The entry oi Bulgarian
territory at that point on the Danube means working from
the fortitied bases of Bustchuk and lurtkai where the
Danube turns northeastward, it opens a ninety miles
move all the way to Varna, the principal Bulgarian port
on the Black sea. The invasion here also threatens the
isolation of the Germans, Turks and Bulgarians who are
righting the Roumanians to the north in Dobrudja and
may compel their retirement from Roumanian territory.
All the military experts seem to expect, however, that
Germany will realize the seriousness of these facts and
make herculean efforts to thwart the move.
GERMANS GAIN ON SOMME
LONDON, Oct. 3. — It is admitted that the Germans
last night after terrific attacks regained a foothold in
Faucourt on the Somme which they lost some days ago.
The loss is not regarded as important except in a moral
sense.
ROUMANIANS WIN VICTORY
BUCHAREST, Oct. 3.—The center and right flank of
the Central powers have been defeated in Dobrudja by
our army and the allies are now attacking the enemy over
the entire Dobrudja front. The war office declares that
the victory has more than offset the reverse in 1 ransyl
vania.
ADMIT ROUMANIAN GAINS
BERLIN, Oct. 3.—It is officially admitted that the
Roumanians have gained ground on both sides ot the
Great Kujel river north of Fogaras but the Germans have
been successful in the Strehl valley and the Central pow
ers have repulsed the Russians and Roumanians in south
west Dobrudja.
WIN ON SOMME
BERLIN, Oct. 3.—The war office announces that the
allied armies have been repulsed by our troops on the
Somme front with heavy losses on a front of twelve miles.
The recapture of Faucourt is also reported.
RUSSIANS CLOSING IN
LONDON, Oct. 3.—It is vaguely indicated by reports
today that the Russians are closing in on Lemberg gradu
ally over a front of sixty miles and this is taken as indicat
ing that Brusiloff is still able to maintain the offensive
against the Teutons. The attempts of Hindenburg to re
gain positions lost to the Russians have met with failure in
almost all instances.
AUSTRIA CLAIMS VICTORIES
VIENNA, Oct. 3. — The official announcement this
morning says that the Austrians and their allies have cap
tured the heights of Orsova and have captured Mount
Obcroca. West of Petroseny the enemy’s counters were
repulsed. It is admitted that the Austrians were com
pelled to retire on the Kujel river but Teutonic counter at
tacks have resulted in the recapture from the Russians
of positions at Brody and on the Klochoff road where two
thousand prisoners were taken by our troops.
ROUMANIANS ADVANCE
LONDON, Oct. 3.—The Roumanians are now moving
south towards the railroad which runs through the heart
of Bulgaria from the west to the Black sea at Varna. Pos
session of this railroad would be of tremendous advantage
in the effort to cut off the Tuks.
GERMANS ATTACKS COMBLES
PARIS, Oct. 3.—The French last night repulsed Ger
man attempts to retake lost positions at Combles. Violent
artillery exchanges are taking place at Rancourt but
otherwise conditions have quieted temporarily.
FRENCH CAPTURE TRENCH
PARIS, Oct. 3.—The French captured a German
trench last night east of Bouchavesnes.
AMERICAN R.R. !
NOW FOR CHINA
FLOATING LOAN OF SIXTY MIL
LIONS FOR FIFTEEN Ill’S
DEED MILE RAILROAD.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. — The
Siems Company has concluded a deal
with the government by which it will
build a railroad tifteen hundred miles
long through the richest part of
China. A loan of sixty million dollars
is now being floated for the purpose.
It has been arranged with the Chin
ese government that the new railroad
will be under American management
and engineering entirely. It is ex
pected, however, that the location of
the route will take a year.
Baseball Besulls
YESTERDAY RESULTS
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Second game: Philadelphia 1,
Boston 4.
Brooklyn 2, New York 0.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 5, Washington 1.
Boston 4, Philadelphia 2.
The world series begins on Satur
day.
CHICAGO. Oct. 8.—'The World
series will start on Saturday as ar
ranged.
The following is the standing of
the two leading teams of the National
League:
Won Lost. Pet
Brooklyn . 92 59 .609
Philadelphia . 90 59 .604
SAY TEUTONS RETIRING
LONDON, Oct. 3.—Rome reports that Mackensen 1 as
ordered the evacuation of Silistria and Turtukai in^ fcai
of envelopment by the Russians and Roumanians, berlin
admits withdrawal from part of that region as large
enemy forces would seriously menace the Teutonic posi
tions'from where the Roumanians have crossed the Dan
ube. It is believed that Mackensen is retiring southward
to the Constanza railroad. Heavy pressure is being
brought to bear. Sofia, however, minimizes the import
ance of the Roumanian invasion and the Serbs are re
tiring from Kaimacalan.
ZEPPELINS KILLED ONE
LONDON, Oct. 3.—In the last raid by Zeppelins only
one person was killed by the bombs dropped and one was
injured.
GREEK PREMIER RESIGNS
LONDON, Oct. 3.—The Greek premier has resigned
and matters are now expected to develope quickly at
Athens.
ITALIANS CLAIM SUCCESS
ROME, Oct. 3. — The Italian forces yesterday were
successful in infantry skirmishes with the Austrians on
the Trentino front. Austrian artillery attacks at Estico
were useless.
QUIET ALONG THE SOMME
LONDON, Oct. 3—Official dispatches this afternoon
state that everything is quiet on the British sector at the
Somme front.
CONSTANTINE FIRES GENERALS
ATHENS, Oct. 3. — King Constantine has replaced
Commanders Kilkis and Averoff with others as he feared
that the two commanders named might have joined V eni
zelos.
$750,000 fire In
Morris Omaha Co.
OMAHA, Oct. -A lire which de
stroyed three quarters of a million
dollars levelled the Morris packing
plant here today. The whole loss is
covered with insurance, however. No
loss of life occurred.
Japan’s Govt, has
Resigned Office
TOKIO, Oct. 3.—The Okuma cabin-1
ct resigned today and the emperor
will probably call in another premier |
at once. The officials are silent y»t as
to the cause of the resignation.
A Mil ASS A DOR SI’RPKISKi)
SEATTLE, Oct. 3. — Ambns*ado» ;
Sato who has arrived here on the wa\
to Washington stated today that he i.
surprised at the news of the resigna
tion as the cabinet had appeared to 1>.
perfectly harmonious when he left.
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EMBASSY NON-COM MITT \1.
WASHINGTON, Oct. -.—The Jap
anese embassy is non-committal as to
the cause of the resignation of the
Okuma gocernment. It is suspected
that some sudden crisis of a secret
kind is responsible.
—
ANOTHER BIG R. R.
STRIKE THREATENED
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 2.—The rep
resentatives of thirty thousand rail
road shopmen voted today to strike on
twenty-two western railroads because
the companies refused their demands.
forty fight Bldg.
Permits in Quarter
Work on Fifth Avenue Will lu* by
Contract Not Direct Labor.
City Clerk Otto l’oehlmann reported
at last night’s meeting of the city
council that forty-eight building pei
mits have been issued by him for the
quarter beginning July 1 and ending
September ill). The council also de
cided last night to grade Fifth avenue
between Adams and the bridge by
contract and not by day labor direct
as had previously been decided. I hr.
was done after a protest against di
rect labor by Judge Morford, for the
Diekerman estate, who declared that
such a method was always indefinite.
This gave Mr. Chamberlain the covet
ed opportunity to express his opinion
about absentee property owners, un
earned increments and the like4 but
A1 is a good fellow* and his friends
would like4 te> see him less of a radi
cal—less an enemy of horrible and
predatory wealth.. It was Mr. Cham
berlain also who blocked the payment
of $.“7 for the improvement out .»f the
general funds of the alley way be
tween Councilman Dougherty’s post
office building and Councilman Dough
erty’s private office. The matter was
laid over. In addition to Mr. Cham
berlain’s rather tropical remarks there
was (piite a tiff when Mr. Torrey pro
posed to cut olT $41 from the Iv'll of
Mr. Henry Fathers for his work in
painting the school. This was for
extra work and Acting Mayor Sauers
pointed out that Mr. Fathers did the
work for $.“00 less than the next bid
der offered to do it for. The tiff’ came
when Mr. Fathers asked Mr. Torrey
what he meant by telling him, Fath
ers, that he could settle the matter b>
coming to see him, Torrey. Mr. lor
rey took exception to this statement
and warmly protested that what he
meant was that they could go over the
work and come to a satisfactory
agreement. There were so many lit
tle scenes last night that His Honor,
the acting mayor, Mr. Sauers, want
ed to know who the blank called up on
the phone and said the meeting would
last only a few minutes. Another lit
tle hitch came from the fact that it
was pointed out that Xightwatchman
Kmsweiler had been put to work near
ly a month earlier than usual but it
was stated that Mayor Myers had in
structed that this be done and also
that he had aided in making arrests
when badly needed; also that the
money brought in by fines paid the
salary. But one could hardly escape
the feeling tha some members of the
council were suspicious of favoritism.
Councilman Grr.ef incidentally hinted
that he had recently got “touched” for
$35 worth of /naterial.
But the big work done was the pur
chase of six and a half acres of
ground from James Stewart on the
Martin hoBmestead for a cemetery. It
was found after prospecting that the
ground was very favorable for the
purpose. The price paid was $100 an
acre. During the discussiorr Mr.
Chamberlain made moving appeals
in behalf of the dead who died broke.
He hinted openly that Acting Mayor
Sauers need not care for $20 or so for
extra burial expenses but in his own
case it was different. Mr. Sauers was
evidently touched and assured Mr.
Chamberlain that if he died his hal
lowed remains would not be let deco
The payroll on the government railroad work at Sew
ard alone now amounts to between forty thousand dollars
and fifty thousand dollars a month. The amount of local
i lumber used on the government railroad work between
Seward and Matanuska, lumber from the Chugach forest,
up to the present is more than twelve million feet and
seventy-five million feet has been designated trom the
same forest for the future use of the Engineering Com
mission.
These facts are contained in special write-ups prepar
ed for the All-Alaska Review by Andrew Christensen,
manager of the land department of the Engineering Com
mission, and by Arthur C. Ringland, an able member of
the Forestry service. The atatements will appear in full
in the issue of the Review which will be run off the presses
next Sunday.
In the past couple ox days the forest department nas
received an additional $500 for the improvement of the
Kenai road and big work is contemplated in the district
, adjacent to Seward. In addition to the above facts mans
others have been learned through the courtesy of the of
j licials mentioned here. For instance, before the work of
| rejuvenation is completed two hundred thousand ties will
i |;t> laid between Seward and Mile 71, and from all the timh
| er sold from the forest 35 per cent comes back to the terri
jtory for improvements, and one of the results will be the
pending of very large sums near Seward in the future.
TRAIN FOR MEXICO
CITY IS DYNAMITED
WASHINGTON, Oct. P.—The bat
tleship Nebraska has wirelessed tin
state department that a train bound
from Mexico City to \ era ( ruz. has
been dynamited. The details have
not yet reached the department but
inquiries have been sent to ascertain
if any Americans were aboard and, if^
so, whether they were injured or not/
PEOPLE DISGC ST EH WITH
CHANGE OE TIME ALREADY;
Already a few people have charged
their time back to the old time after
thinking it over. It has dawned on
them that they got fooled by the idea
that the people who signed a petition
really wanted a change of time when
the petition was really signed because j
a “very charming personality” pre
sented the petition. If that petition
had been to set fire to the railroad or
or some other building it would have
been signed just the same, ^ou can
have any petition signed. But the
result is that Seward is isolated so
far as time is concerned. The adop
tion of the new time by the railroad
presumably now means that a tele
graph message sent from be ward
would reach Anchorage about an hour
before it was sent. The steamships
maintain the same old time and refuse
like the railroads running into Seat
tle to change. Seattle quit the crazy
idea. One result of the change for
the past two days is that men, especi
ally those working on the railioad,
have to get up in the darkness, so
bringing winter before iis time.
Many business people this morning
expressed their disgust at the insane
alteration but are forced by the
change of time on the railroad to live
up to it so that the time for trains,
etc., might be kept.
Seward is now like some animal
that is being disgustedly led by the
nose.
rate the surface too long. There were
other and several business matters of
a routine nature transacted, and while
some amusement was provided the
Spectotors much work was accomp
lished.
JAP AMBASSADOR \\ VNTS
TO C.KT ItASKItALl. RKSI I TS
SKATTLK, Oct. 2. -Dr. Amairo
Sato, the Japanese ambassador to the
United States, arrived here today en
route to Washington and the first
question he asked was: “What is
the standing of the various clulhs in
tin* National League?” The second
question he asked was as to whether
Hughes or Wilson would win.
WOMAN’S ULUIt II VS
KLKUTKD OF1 ICKRS
The Woman’s Club of Seward elect
ed new officers yesterday. The new
officers are: President. Mrs. Sexton;
Vice-President, Mrs. Wever; Secre
tary, Mrs. Hill; Treasurer, Mrs.
Christensen. The next meeting, two
I weeks from yesterday, October 1(5,
will be one to which all the women
of Seward are invited. Refreshments
will be served.
FAIRBANKS ON SIT Ml’
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2. — Former
Vice-President Fairbanks has arrang
ed for six speeches here.
| STREET C AR STRIKE
IN ALBANY ALSO
ALBANY, N. Y.. Oct. 3.—A thou
sand street car men struck work in
i this city yesterday because of the
I fact that some of them had been dis
ciplined by the company for trival of
fenses. The street car system had to
suspend in many places because of the
walkout.
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PICTl'RE SHOW ALSO
STARTS ON OLD TIME
Manager Thompson of the Empress
theatre is another to decide that the
old time standard is best and he an
nounces that the show will open each
j evening at the same hour and accord
j ing to the same old time that Seward
has always used. After carefully
thinking over the matter he came to
the conclusion that this would be more
convenient for his patrons.