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SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JCLY 1, DM- ____—-— —
iiTs COME START . . WORK S WARD
AND 500 MEN WILL SOON BE ON THE FAYROEL HERE
SUPER OFFENSIVE BY ALLIES
INAUGURATED ON FRENCH FRONT
GERMANY MEETS WORLD
LONDON, July 1. — Europe is aflame today as it
never was in all the long course of its history, all the al
lied powers having started the titanic drive which is meant
to crush the Teutonic powers for ever. At 7:30 a. m. to
day the long expected British drive began and is now 1 ag
ing. It opened with a tremendous smash against the Gei
man lines along a twenty mile trout north of Somme.
This information is contained in brief special bulletins
from army headquarters and vast crowds are eageilj
waiting now the coming of more. In the beginning the
British swept forward with a rush capturing some of the
enemy’s first line trenches. Many German prisoners have
been taken and the offensive is continuing with the great
est violence. Hourly dispatches are tiled and the public
is aroused to the highest pitch of excitement as the effort
is known to be the one for which Great Britain has waited
for nearly 2 years. To add to the tremendous excitement in
London the news has arrived that the Russians have cap
tured the important Galician city of Lolomea and the
French report successes in the lighting northeast of Yer
dun while the Italians are steadily pushing forward in
Trentino. The early bulletins have been accepted as the
signal that the long waited super offensive of* the allied
powers has begun. The British thrust forward this morn
ing followed four days of the most lavish expenditure of
shell lire which the world has ever known. The German
front for a front of ninety miles from the Yser to the
Somme was bathed in a never ceasing (lame of artillery
fire and tin* explosion of a million shells. At dawn today
the British bombardment which grew more intense
throughout yesterday suddenly was concentrated in terri
fic power on the German line from Arras south to the
Somme and for an hour and a half the German line was
under a steady rain of high explosive shells that blotted
out the trenches and human life. At 7:30 this morning
the big guns lifted their fire and at the same instant seas
oned regiments who were waiting eagerly for a chance
at the Germans, the accounts say, for many months,
sprang forward but many were new regiments from the
Kitchener armies which had been held in reserve back of
the lines.
“By l>:30 a. m.," read the last dispatch, “we had oc
cupied the German front line and were digging in behind
rows of German dead. The British casualties thus far
have not been heavy.”
The London populace feels that the supreme moment
of the war has arrived anil that the crisis for Germany
has been reached. Our troops occupy something like a
third of the whole western battle line and it is assumed
that the French are waiting along their part of the line
to dash in if our assaults break through the lines of the
enemy. The British people expect terrible lists of casual
ties to result from the drive but the empire is willing to
meet the cost. It has been rumored for some time that
the super offensive would occur in July but that it would
occur on the first day of the month had not been expected.
Even the fact that the tremendous bombardment had been
proceeding for four days had been fairly well concealed
and the news of the beginning of the assaults this morning
came like an electric blast to the British people.
1H)K.\ 1HT A KKEF
AND "AS BEACHED
A telegram revived this morning by .
Agent Alex McDonald says that the;
Dora touched the Czinka reef amt.
dam aired her keel. She was beached j
at Uyak for examination and the I
United States inspectors ordered her;
towed to Seattle. The steamer Cor
dova southbound from Nome will take
her to Seattle and her sailing for July
has been cancelled. The Cordova will
t«ke her freight and passengers to
Cordova.
WENT ON ALASKA
The following went west on the Al
aska last evening: Colonel Revel 1,
Dr. Sehaleben, Mrs. Sehaleben and
boy. Mrs. R. Tucker, E. L. Tweit and
8 steerage.
PROPOSED SALTERY FOR HEREj
A. Amundsen of Seattle, expects to
salt salmon at Seward, Alaska, the
coming season it the necessary ar
rangements can be made in time. Mr.
Amundsen’s headquarters are at Nos.
601-2, 71 Columbia street, Seattle,
Wash.
ELECTION BOARD
The names of the election board for
the Republican primaries this after
noon are Sam Soupeoff and W. W.
Alderman, judges, and Otto Poehl
mann, clerk.
TO TOW DORA
The steamship Cordc va has been
ordered to go to Vyak bay to tow the
Dora to Seattle.
$500,000 SORE
NEWS CONFIRMED
MAYOR OF VALDEZ GETS DIRECT
NEWS OE STORY IT RLISII
IN THE GATEWAY.
The story published in the Gateway j
some days ago that the bill providing i
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half a million dollars for Alaska roads i
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had passed the house is now confirmed ^
by a telegram received by Mayor
Patterson of Valdez from Delegate
Wickersham. The passing of the bill
is chiefly credited to Colonel Richard
son and it means the expenditure of
an immense amount of money around
Seward.
ANOTHER TREMENDOUS FIRE
OCCURS AT SEATTLE DOCKS
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SEATTLE, July 1—Fire of unknown orgin on the
Oriental pier at the foot of Linora street last night caused
a loss of property valued at two hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars and the loss of the life of one unidentified boy
who was killed by a flying piece of shell. The United
States army quartermaster’s wharf which was filled with
supplies of ordnance and ammunition for Philippine, Al
aska and Sound ports sustained a loss of $40,000. The
damage to the docks is estimated at one hundred and sixty
thousand. The impact of exploding shells knocked several
firemen down and scattered thousands of spectators.
Fireman John Schorr was injured in a collision and is not
expected to recover. He was married only a month ago.
The blaze was the most spectacular recently seen in Seat
tle. Thousands of rifle cartridges exploded, twenty-six
explosions of dynamite took place and six inch projectiles
sent iron, steel and wood fragments flying for a distance
of several blocks. The cableship Burnside was lying close
to the pier at the time but escaped into the bay with only
her rigging slightly damaged.
JUNEAU TO PARADE
FOR PREPAREDNESS
JUNEAU. — Tho chairman of the
sub-committees for the Fourth of
July celebration met last night in
Grover Winn’s office and discussed
the plans for the celebration.
Preparedness is to be the keynote
of the day. The monster parade is to
be a preparedness parade, rather than j
a parade of celebration. Merchants
and automobile owners will be asked
to follow preparedness subjects when
decorating their floats, bodies of men
will be asked to turn out, the Juneau
Firemen will march in a body and be
exponents of preparedness, and lead
ing officials and citizens will march in
! the procession. The parade will have
no political significance of any kind,
but will merely illustrate the growing
demand of all sections of the United,
States for adequate protection.
Sports will take a great part of the
day. There will be sports of all kinds
for the children, hose races and water
fights between the firemen from the
! Alaska-Juneau, Thane, Perseverance
I and city fire departments, ball games,
balloon ascensions and band concerts
will complete the program of the day.
The committee was informed that
about $1,300 will be available for the
celebration and they are working with
a view of spending just that and no
more.—Ex.
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Best cigars ana rerre«T»^ents at
Terminal Bar. See ad. 11-1—-tl
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THE VISITING BALL
PLAYERS AT SMOKER
The Spanish War Veterans held
their regular meeting last night, at
which four new recruits were muster
ed into the camp. After the business
meeting closed, the camp entertained
the Fort Liscum base ball team and
athletes at a smoker, bear steak,
sandwiches and other refreshments
being served. The jucy bear viands
were furnished by Comrade McIntosh,
who also entertained the camp and
guests in telling how Bruin came to
an untimely end at his hands. Songs
and stories were contributed by sever
al members of the Camp and visitors
and a most enjoyable time was spent
by all.
Republicans llokl
Primaries Today
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Elect Delegates to Divisional C onven
tion at Valdez.
The Republicans of Seward will
1 hold their primary election this after
noon between the hours of 4 and 8 at
Pioneer hall to select delegates to
the Republican divisional convention
that will take place at Valdez on
July 17. The time and place and
judges of election were fixed by S.
M. Graff, the only one of the two
committeeman for this district now in
the city. At the divisional convention
will be nominated candidates for the
territorial road overseer. No nomina
tions were made and each voter will
choose any man he wishes to vote for.
VALDEZ BEAT LISO’M
The Fort Liscum team which has
arrived here to play Seward was beat
en last Sunday by Valdez by 6 to 2
but the Liscum boys were terribly
dissatisfied with the luck they had.
The team was almost the very same
that will meet Seward tomorrow.
They are now challenging Valdez for
fifty dollars a side.
FARR AG FT 5 P. M.
The Admiral Farragut is due at 5
p. m. today.
WILSON DECLARES
HIMSELF FOR PEACE
NEW YORK, July 1. — President Wilson made it
plain last night in a speech at the Press Club banquet that
he will not countenance war with Mexico unless no other
alternative presents itself for the settlement of the border
troubles. Once more he declared that he is ready to sacri
fice his own political fortunes in order to carry out his
convictions as to what would be the just course to pursue
but, of course, the President received a most respectful
hearing even from the opponents of his policy. His words
gave a strong impression that he is for peace first and
last. .. _ ___
WORK ON GREAT DOCK ALSOj
WITL BEGIN IN TEN DATS
Instructions were received today oy tne engineei m
charge from the railroad commission to begin the work of
rehabilitating the Alaska Northern railroad and in a very
short time, just as soon as things can be got ready, five
hundred men will be on the railroad payroll near this city.
In addition to the railroad work the construction of the
new dock will begin the very minute the new material ar
rives which will be about the tenth of this month. I he
station work for line changes along Kenai lake will be
started as soon as possible. This work will be the chang
ing of the line and will require large forces of men. At the
present time about 275 men are employed by the commis
sion out of Seward and this force will be “practically
doubled,” and all will be kept busy during the entire sum
mer and fall. Station work contracts will probably be let
next week. In addition to this work there will be bridge
crews sent to Placer river, the two steam shovels will be
put in operation and everything possible will be started up
just as soon as the work is properly mapped out and pre
pared foy.__
GARBAGE PLANT FURNISHES
HIGH EXPLOSIVE FOR
EUROPEAN BATTLEFROMS
(Special to Gateway by United Tress)
COLUMBUS, 0., June 22. — When
housemaids here empty potato peel
ings, melon rinds and other scraps j
into the garbage can for the city re
duction plant they are supplying ex
plosives for the European battlefronts
and, incidentally, about $75,000 a year
income for this city. The same is
more or less true in other American
cities with reduction plants.
Both grease and tankage are pro
ducts of green garbage. The greesc
is sold to chemical concerns that make
it into glycerin. This product, in turn
is used in making high explosives for
the European fronts.
In adidtion to the sale of grease
and tankage, the reduction plant of
llcials hope to increase the profits of
the plant by the manufacture of al
cohol. Experiments in this manu
facture are now being made.
THE CLEMENCEAU CASE
AT THE EMPRESS SUNDAY
The Empress Theatre will present
THEDA BAKA. star of “A Fool There
Was" in Alexandre Duma’s master
piece "THE CLEMENCEAU CASE"
with William Shay, Stuart Holmes
and an all star cast, tomorrow even
ing at 7:30 and 0:00.
In "The Clemenceau case" Dumas
has atained the capstone of his tower
ing genius. Of Iza, the pantherish j
heroine of this deathless drama, he
himself wrote: "I shall never create,
another such character though I
scribble till doomsday."
On Tuesday evening the "Galloper," j
adapted from the play of Richard
Harding Davis will be shown. Scene
after scene is a riot of laughter.
Despite the fact that "The Galloper" j
is a comedy, there is plenty of drama
and much thrill to it.
SOME CANDIDATES
The following is a ticket got out
to suggest good men to be elected to
day by the Republicans to the con
vention at Valdez:
W. P, Henry, J. M. Sloan, Sam Mc
Donald, E. L. Whittemore, E. E.
Chamberlain, Leon C. Booker, F. J.
Cotter, C. T. Cooke, L. L. James, Geo.
Mitchell,
LISCUM BALL
PLAYERS COME
WELL SET IT BENCH COMES TO
DO BATTLE WITH SEW
ARD’S CHAMPS.
The twelve Fort Liscum boys' who
will do battle tomorrow with the
champion nine of Seward on the local
diamond arrived yesterday on the
steamship Alaska and were met on
the dock by a committee representing
the city. The visitors are a well set
up, clean cut looking bunch and if
appearances count for anything Sew
ard will have its hands full. A big
dance will be given in their honor
this evening and the whole town will
probably turn out. It is hoped that
three games at least will be played
and it is particularly hoped that the
weather tomorrow will be favorable
to the opening contest. The names of
the visitors are Allen (captain),
Combs, Brawn, Empey, Fisher, Gard
ner, Gifford, Hank, Lains, Mann.
Empey, Mann and Fisher are sub
stitutes.
Captain Allen is very modest about
the abilities of his men but accounts
coming from Valdez show that the
visitors are a dangerous lot on a dia
mond.
The Seward team to meet them is
selected from the following:
Catchers: Crit Tolman, Otto Poehl
mann.
Pitchers: Erich Lucas, Gus Man
they, Frank Nickerson.
Infield: Heinie Haasch, Tom Fin
negan, Irving Taylor, Frank Nicker
son, Joe Campbell, Johnnie Kaser
owsky.
Outfield: George Adams, Matt
Ryan, Jack Finnegan, Julian Reed,
Gus Manthey.
All desirifig to enter the rock drill
ing and log rolling contests must have
their entries in tonight at the Miner's
Store at 9 o’clock. Owing to weather
renditions it has not yet been decided
when the field oports will be held.
Fire Chief Mel Horner has had
quarters fixed for him above the Fire
hall so that people may know where
to find him.