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TEUTONS BREAK THROUGH PASS AND
ARE NOW ON SOIL OE ROUMANIA
BRITAIN DEFIES U. S.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—It has now been learned
that the reply of the British and French governments to
the American demands in relation to the searching of
American mails is a tirm refusal to grant such demands.
The allied governments reassert their right to intercept
and search mail but they promise to remedy mistakes and
to make up for delays. They deny that such search is .illeg
al as all the belligerent nations did not sign The Hague
agreement in the matter and, therefore, the British and
French are not bound by it although they themselves did
sign it. _ _._
CRISIS FEARED WITH ALLIES _____
WASHINGfONTOctTlb. — Officials of the govern
mem say the reply of the British and French governments
to the demands of the 1 nited States in the matter ot mail
search is regarded as dangerous to the good feeling be
tween those countries and this. The reply to the allied
answer will be sent after election three weeks hence. The
officials also say positive action may be looked for from
the United States anda crisis may be precipitated. It is
even hinted that American warships will be used if neces
sary to protect the mails.
GERMANS ENTER ROUMANIA
LONDON. Oct. 16.—The Teutons have succeeded in
breaking through Gyinies pass for the invasion of North
western Roumania and are now probably on Roumanian
soil. In that quarter and in the whole region near Buko
wina the Roumanians are retreating on their own bord
ers hut in southern Transylvania they are countering
with spirit and making a good fight. The intention of the
invaders in the northwest is evidently to drive south along
the Tergoi Okna railroad and trv to cut off Bucharest and
the greater part of Roumania from Russia and the sup
plies that come from there. Should they succeed in mak
ing a juncture with the Teutons in Dobrudja Roumania
would be surrounded but Roumania has strong and pow
erful forces still intact. _
ITALY WOULD KILL AUSTRIA
ROME. Oct. 16. — "The allied nations must destroy
Austria as a state and kill the possibility of a German
world dominion before the end of the war.” This was the
statement made today by Signor Dissolati, a powerful
Socialist member of the Italian cabinet. He made this
statement as incidental to an approval of the statement of
Llovd George.
RUSSIANS CAPTURE TRANSPORT
PETROGRAD, Oct. 16.—A Russian submarine cap
tured a Turkish transport in the Black Sea and took it to
Sebastopol.
* FRENCH RECOGNIZE VENIZELOS
• LONDON, Oct. 16.—It is reported from Athens that
the French counsul has formally called on Yenizelos, so
recognizing in behalf of France the provisional govern
ment in Crete.
GERMANS REPULSED
LONDON, Oct. 1G.—Haig reports that strong Ger
man attacks which were accompanied by liquid fire have
been, repulsed at Schavvben redoubt.
AGAIN REPULSE ROUMANIANS v
BERLIN, Oct. 16.—The Germans have repulsed the
Roumanians on both sides of Szurduk pass and have re
captured the positions formerly won by the enemy. It is
also officially reported this morning that hand grenading
is proceeding on the western front south of Thiepval
where the British have gained a firm foothold. The war
office further reports that the Teutons have captured five
hundred prisoners in the Kirlibaba region.
AN ALASKAN FOUND
DRUGGED AND ROBBED
SEATTLE. Oct. 16.—After a search
of three weeks the police have found
E. Blanker, a wealthy miner from
Marshall, Alaska, in a First Avenue
lodging house, drugged anti robbed.
He is now in a sanitarium with the
delirium tremens and it is believed
that bootleggers are responsible. He
arrived here on September 26 with his
brother and registered at the Frye
hotel but soon afterwards disappear
ed. It was reported that he had about j
ten thousand dollars on his person
an4 now he has less than a hundred.
A man and wife have been arrested.
(Note: It hardly looks likely that
a man coming from Marshall would
have ten thousand dollars.)
J PROGRKSSIVE CANDIDATE
FOR WILSON, AGAINST T. R.
NEW YORK. Oct. 15.—'Two hun
dred people were present to see Park
er, the Progressive candidate, accept
the nomination yesterday. He flayed
Perkins and Roosevelt for abandon
ing the party like rats leaving a sink
ing ship, and he championed Wilson.
GOVERNOR HAS APPOINTED
JACK RONAN DELEGATE
Jack Ronan, the Moose Pass mining
man, received a letter yesterday from
Governor Strong appointing him dele
gate to the American Mining Con
gress which will sit at Chicago from
November 13 to 16. Mr. Ronan went
to Anchorage in the interests of his
campaign for election to the territor
ial senate.
WENT WEST
The following went west on the
Admiral Evans yesterday: Gaston
Hardy, George Roswell, Fred Khnoff.
ARRIVED ON EVANS
The following arrived yesterday on
the Evans: U. Loftis and S. L). Ar
mour.
VIRGIL I10GFE, FAMOUS
ENGINEER, IS DE.\1)
NEW YORK, Oct. 16. — Virgil
Hogue, the famous engineer, died to
day on the ship Esperanza at the
docks here, just after the boat had
landed. He was on the way from
Mexico.
! GERMANS TAKE POSITIONS
LONDON, Oct. 14.—The Germans have been admit
tedly successful in attacks at Ablaincourt. They gained
| portion of Ambon wood and took four hundred prisoners.
GRMOUND IS RECAPTURED
PARIS, Oct. 14.—It is asserted here that the ground
taken by the Germans yesterday on the Somme has been
recaptured. The war office claims also a French advance
I at Malasisse ridge near Bouchavesnes. The British are
' reported to be inactive at present on the Struma on the
Greek front.
ROUMANIANS RETIRE GERMANS
LONDON, Oct. 15.—The Roumanians^have made an
amazing recovery in the north and have retired Falken
hayn’s center, capturing again Poiana, Saraka, Sostezoe
and other positions. They also took fifteen thousand pris
oners. King Ferdinand is in supreme command of the
army and General Berthelot, the famous French strateg
ist, is on the way to Bucharest to aid the Roumanians in
their work of repelling the invaders.
WOULD PROTECT LIEBNICHT
BERLIN, Oct. 14.—The Reichstag committee has re
fused to sanction the courtmartialling of Liebnicht, the
Socialist leader, at Thorn and recommends that the |
Reichstag demand a report of the courtmartial at Berlin \
i before sanctioning the sentence on Liebnicht. This action ;
is meant to prevent the military authorities from dealing
1 with the socialist summarily.
QUIET ALONG THE DANUBE
SOFIA, Oct. 16.—Comparative calm prevails along
the Danube and only intermittent artillery exchanges are
reported from any of the south Roumanian front. The
same is true of the Dobrudja theatre.
BUCHAREST CLAIMS SUCCESS
BUCHAREST, Oct. 16. — The Roumanian artillery
has put the enemy to flight south of Tulghes. Our troops
have also taken by assault Mount Negri. In the Jiul valley
artillery fighting is proceeding.
SERBS ADVANCING
PARIS, Oct. 16. — The Serbs are advancing on the
left bank of the Tcherna river to the east of Monastir and
a French squadron has succeeded in cutting the railroad
south of Ceres behind the Bulgars.
BRITISH VERY SUCESSFUL
LONDON, Oct. 16. — The British have been highly
successful in the past twenty-four hours north of the'
Somme, Haig reports. We took some strong redoubts.
Only the artillery is active south of the Somme.
LABOR TEMPLE AT !
ANCHORAGE GONE
The Labor Temple at Anchorage
was totally destroyed by lire last
night at midnight. The origin is un- i
known. The building was covered
only by $2,000 insurance but the
building was one of the finest in Al
aska and was worth over live thou- j
sand.
ROOSEVELT ROASTS
WILSON TO FRAZZLE
WILK ESRARKK, Oct. 16.—Theo
dore Roosevelt became violent in de
nunciation of Wilson lust night in a
speech delivered here. He said the
President yielded to fear and not to
a feeling of justice. The speaker des
cribed the Adamson eight hour law as
a subordination of duty for politico,
prolit. Roosevelt championed arbi
tration and cited the Anthracite case
as an example of the benelits from
such a course. He became particul
arly bitter towards the end and spoke
of the alleged unholy alliance between
Wilson, Gompers and Carr&nza.
“Wilson is buying labor now” said the
ex-president “but some day he may
sell it.” While Air. Roosevelt was en
route to the place of meeting he was
“joshed” by large crowds.
Hughes Denounces .Marshall
LINCOLN, Oct. 15.—In his speech
here yesterday Hughes denounced
Marshall for charging that Hughes
wanted to plunge the nation in war.
The speaker declared that he would
only demand an honorable peace. Mr.
Hughes also spoke of protect!vism
which he declared necessary for the
country’s welfare.
LEAVING ON DORA
The following are the Dora passen
gers for the different points to the
westward: Kodiak: Gabriel Santos,
1*. Mullen and 7 steerage.
Sand Point: Miss N. Grosvold,
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Miss L. Saasted.
Dutch Harbor: Mrs. E. R. Edge,
O. C. Schallerer.
S'&nnak: G. Johnson.
Unga: F. F. Klette, N. Sato,
Chas. Woberg, S. 0. Casler, Mrs.
Harris and J. H. Taylor.
WENT WEST
The following went to Anchorage
on the Northwestern: Fred Tracy,
Mrs. Tracy, Dr. O. J. Keating, C. J.
Boyles, James Mowhe, Mrs. P. L.
Phillips and Audrey, Jack Ronan.
came on northwestern
The following arrived on the North
western yesterday morning: J. L.
Mattfeldt, J. R. Lings, Grace Bensop,
Mrs. A. R. Long.
FUNDS POURING IN TO
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
LONGBRANCH, Oct. 16.—One
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
were received into the Democratic
funds during the last five days.
ATTACKS TARIFF AGAIN
HASTINGS, Neb., Oct. 16.—Hughes
again made a speech here attacking
the tariff and the eight hour law.
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FRENCH LINER ARRIVES
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—The French
liner Lafayette from Bordeaux arriv
ed today and reports ' not having
sighted any submarine.
S. P. TRAIN JUMPS
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SAN JOSE, Oct. 14.—The Southern
Pacific crack train bound for San
Francisco jumped the track today
near Watsonville and a panic resulted.
Scores were injured but only three re
ceived injuries of a serious kind.
THANKSGIVING
LONGBRANCH, Oct. 16.—Presi
dent Wilson has fixed the last day of
November as Thanksgiving.
ANOTHER R. R. PRESIDENT
IS OUT FOR WILSON
LONG BRANCH, Oct. 16.—Presi
dent Underwood of the Erie Railroad
has also come out with an expression
of approval of President Wilson’s
course in connection with the eight
hour clay for railroads. The support
of Underwood and Lovett, of the
Union Pacific, is the best news yet,
Wilson’s lieutenants say, as it indi
cates that substantial business inter
ests are also backing Wilson. The
greatest optimism prevails now in the
Wilson ranks. As another mark of
approval of the eight hour law the
Johnson and En licott shoe manufact
uring companies have declared an
eight hour day for their employees.
JURIES WILL. PROBABLY
CONCLUDE THIS WEEK
The grand and trial juries, will
probably be through on Wednesday or
Thursday, according to Senator L. V.
Ray who returned from Valdez yes
terday. One juryman will be kept on
and the session will probably be con
tinued until about the first of Decem
ber.
STRIKE SETTLED IN
UNION IRON WORKS
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16. — The
strike of the workers in the Union
Iron Works has been settled. The In
dependent Shipwrights have joined
the federation.
FIVE SEATTLE POLICEMEN
ARE KNOWN BOOTLEGGERS
SEATTLE, Oct. 15.—Prosecutor
Lundin is now probing police connec
tion with bootlegging in this city. It
is known already that five policemen
are agents of the illicit traffic ami it
is expected that others will also be
discovered.
CROOK WILL RUN UP
HERE DURING WINTER
SEATTLE, Oct. 15.—The transport
Crook has returned and is reloading
for Alaska. She will continue the ran
to Seward throughout the winter.
MRS. VAN CAMPEN GETS
IN ONE AT FRISCO
The following is the opening: part
of a long: interview in the S.,n Fran
cisco Examiner of Octooer J with
Mrs. Van Campen:
“Up in Seward, Alaska, there is a
young: chap who has $17,000, a gener
al merchandise store, four brown
bears and two suits of clothes. He
wants to sell out and g:et a job as a
reporter in San Francisco. Other-'
wise, he is normal.
Mrs. Helen Van Campen, the story
writer, told about this man yesterday.
She lived in Alaska and is visiting:
San Francisco. She also told about
how the big: black bears slide down
the glaciers until they wear all the
hair off their haunches—they always
slide sitting: down—and they are
wearing: out all the glaciers there
abouts, and they have moonlight
sliding; parties, and the mother slides
with her cub in her arms.”
WEDDING BELLS
Commissioner Ennis joined in mat
rimony yesterday Mr. J. E. Floyd and
Miss Ida Larson who came from La
touche on the Evans. The bride was
accompanied from the outside by het
father, Mr. IiOuis Larson.
START WORK ON THE
CITY RAILROAD SPUR
Work w?as started today on the rail*
road spur along: Railroad avenue.
ALASKA S. S. CO.
IS NOW MERGING
| NEGOTIATING FOR SHIP GREAT
NORTHERN AND NORTH*
FRN PACIFIC.
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SEATTLE, Oct. 16. — The Alaska
Steamship Company is now staging
a counter merger to cope with the
newly merged Pacific Coa.>t Company.
Manager Raxter returned to Seattle
today hut refused to talk but it ta
pretty well known that he was ne
gotiating at Portland for the purchase
or charter of the liners Great North
ern and Northern Pacific, each of
which cost two million dollars. It is
believed the deal is practically con
summated and is meant to check the
Pacific Steamship Co. coup.
W. M. SAl’ERS ORDERS
HARRIMAN BANK OUT
W. M. Sauers filed suit today to
eject the Harriman Rank out of his
premises. The hank's lease was up on
the first of October and it is said that
• lily four days are allowed after fding
the suit for vacating the place. As
tire suit is said to have been filed on
Saturday tomorrow* would be the da>
LATEST WAR NEWS
BRITISH TAKE REDOl'BT
BRITISH FRONT IN' FRANCE.
Oct. 16.—The British have taken pos
session of every yard of the Schwaben
redoubt in spite of desperate German
counters. The British are now over
looking Grandeeourt valley and it is
impossible for the Germans to retain
their batteries in position if not to
save them at all.
DESTROY MANY BLANKS
BERLIN, Oct. 16.—It is officially
reported that during the month of
September the Germans destroyed
fifty-three British planes and twenty
one French ones.
MEXICO STARTS TO RFN
DOWN VILLA IN EARNEST
ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 16.—Chair
man Cabrera of the Mexican peace
commission announced today that he
had received a message from Ambas
sador Arredondo which stated that
the Mexican government is now be
ginning an active chase of Villa.
BAYONNE STRIKERS
WILL RETURN TO WORK
BAYONNE, Oct. 16.—Three thou
sand employees of Standard Oil de
clare that they were forced by the
others to go out on strike and they are
now planning to march to the plans
with a military escort and go back to
work.
WILSON ALSO DELIVERS
MOST SULPHURIC SPEECH
SHADOW LAWN, Oct. 15.—Presi
dent Wilson delivered a most sul
phuric speech yesterday to a crowd of
five thousand people. He handled his
opponents without gloves and salt*
some very strong things about their
failure to suggest any new policy. He
declared that the American people
are unwilling to exchange a hand
some certainty for an unhandsome
uncertainty. He was cheered loudly
when he declared that the Democratic
administration had kept the country
at peace.
TWO MORE NEGROES ARE
LYNCHED AND BURNED
PADUCAS, Ky., Oct. * 16.—Mrs.
Etta Rose who was attacked last Fri
day identified the two negroes respon
sible and today a crowd of two thou
sand stormed the jail and lynched
them. The bodies were burned.