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NEW YORK BOMB MAY HAVE SET
FIRE ABOARD ATLANTIC STEAMER
LINER DESTROYED IN ITALY
NAPLES, Sept. (>.—A fire broke out in the steamer
Sophie Cooper while she was on the way from New York
and destroyed the larger part of the cargo of 21,<91 bags
of sugar. It is believed that the fire was caused by a bomb
placed in the vessel by German sympathizers in New
York . The vessel itself arrived here with all her people
safe but the interior gutted. The captain and all the mem
bers of the crew declare that the fire can be accounted for
in no other way than that stated.
FRENC H REPULSE GERMANS
PARIS, Sept. G. — It is officially announced that re
peated German attacks against the newly won French
positions south of the Somme last night were all broken
by French fire. The officials express the belief that the
lack of spirit shown in the Germans in the counter attacks
of the past two days is evidence of the severe shaking
which the German morale has received from the Anglo
French victories in this weeks fighting on the Somme.
Militarv leaders declare that in some of the attacks the
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enemy showed unusual lack of spirit and invariably retir
ed when they came within the zone of tire.
ROUMANIANS TAKE TOWN
BUCHAREST, Sept. G—The Roumanian troops have
captured the Transylvanian town of Sepriszep Gyorgi in
the Merisor valley and captured live hundred wagons of
foodstuffs and forage, it is officially announced. The
Austrians are still continuing their retreat but thev are
now reported by scouts to be apparently taking up posi
tions for defense along the headwaters of the Maros river.
BRITISH CAPTURE A WOOD
LONDON, Sept. G. — Haig reports that the British
after fierce fighting last night captured the whole of Leuze
wood one mile northeast of Combles. He also reports this
afternoon that desperate lighting is proceeding between
Combles and Giiichy but that no decision had been reach
ed at the time the dispatch was sent.
ZEPPELINS ATTACK BUCHAREST
COPENHAGEN, Sept. G.—Three Zeppelins took part
in a raid last Sunday night on the city ol Bucharest, the
Roumanian capital, and dropped bombs on large wheat
store houses, setting tires in several places. The Beilin
dispatches which tell of this raid contain the information
that the location of the store houses was well known by
German agents who had been in Bucharest before the wai
with Roumania, looking after the shipments of grain to
the central nations. __—
AIRMEN DESTROY SUBMARINE
AMSTERDAM, Sept. G. — The report was received
here today that British airmen yesterday bombarded Zee
brugge and destroyed a German submarine. The aiiinen
afterwards returned safely to their base at Dunkirk.
TO PROTECT U. S. TRADE
WASHINGTON, Sept. G.—The administration emer
gent* v revenue bill to raise two hundred and five million
dollars annually by taxes on inheritances and war muni
tions and from increases in the income tax passed the sen
ate last night by 42 to 1G. This bill also provides for the
creation of a tariff commission, places a protective tariff
on dyestuffs and provides lor the protection of Ameiican
firms against the dumping of goods by the European na
tions after the war. The sensational part of the bill, how
ever, is that it gives the President authority to take
drastic retaliatory steps against interference by the allied
nations againsUAmerican trade. The bill denies the use
of the United States mails and other methods of communi
cation to the citizens of any nation which does not accord
those facilities to American vessels, citizens 01 coipoia
tions. It also provides for the witholding of clearance
papers from any vessel in American ports which gives
“any advantage whatsoever to any particular person or
institution in the United States or its possesions or to citi
zens of the United States residing in neutral countries
abroad.9’ This latter clause strikes directly at the placing
of some American firms on the blacklist.
City Lights to Be
Sent For at Onee
If Half Taxes Paid by November 1
Other Half Not Due Till Feb. 1.
At its meeting last night tfie city
council decided to send out for the
poles and equipment generally for the
city lights as soon as it can be learn
ed what is needed. The decision was
definitely arrived at, however, to put
the lights in. Previous to the vote a
discussion took place in which some
of the councilmen expressed them
selves as being in favor of changing
the location of the cluster lights now
installed by private parties. Leo
Margules, as one of those private
parties, told the council that he had
put his own cluster light in, hail kept
it lighted and he guessed he could do
so if he wanted to. He agreed, how
ever, to let the city change the loca
tion of the pole, the city to maintain
the top light of the cluster and he to
keep the other lights going. The idea
of moving the poles is to give light
.o the cross streets as well.
The council also took the impoitant
step of passing a resolution which
provides that any tax payer who pays
half his taxes before November I this
> cat AAVIVA 41VSV pu; Miv MV f
fore Febniory 1. By paying half his ^
taxes before November 1 none o9 his
taxes will be delinquent before Feb
ruary but if he fails to pay half be-,
fore February 1 all his taxes be<.6me
delinquent immediately.
Councilman Dubreuil gave a little
personal touch to the meeting by of-1
feting his resignation as foreman of
the street work. “1 can’t please pco- j
pie”, he raid and he also complained'
of the inability to secure teams for
the work. The members of the coun- i
cil, however, declared that Mr. Du
breuil had done very well and they re
fused to accept his resignation.
In his report Mr. Dubreuil said that
the Fifth avenue bridge is 100 by 30
feet and cost $717. It cost $85 to
clear Third to the Laubner addition.
The road at the head of the bay cost
$206 and so on. The report was
adopted but it gave rise to a discus
sion during which Acting Mayor
Sauers insisted that >the Broadway
bridge should be fixed up. There was
quite a difference of opinion about this
and nothing was done.
In the discussion about the addi
tional lights for the city it was stated
that the new lighting system would
cost $2,695 including three more
cluster lights but the single lights
were decided upon. The cost of the
lighting would be slightly over a hun
dred dollars a month.
A statement was made to the effect
that if the people who are to move
their houses from the beach move
them some place else in the city limits
they must conform to the fire regula
tions.
The committee having the proposed
telephone franchise in its care asked
for further time but Judge S. 0. Mor
ford for the company warned the
council that too much delay might
prevent the installation of the serivce
this year. It was decided to postpone
the matter until next Monday and in
the meantime the question will be
gone into. The company declares its
willingness to fix rates for telephones
until six hundred subscribers are se
cured when a new equipment alto
gether would have to be installed.
City Attorney Green declared that
a council cannot give a telephone
franchise but could make a contract.
He said congress had so worded the
law that a council can give a franchise
for water or light eervict but it con
Suggests Sending
Out Our Exhibits
Woman’s Club of Seward May Be
Means of Advertising District.
The Civic Fair to be held by the
ladies of Seward this week may be
come the direct means of accomplish
ing what the commercial and all pub
lic bodies of the city have failed to
do. It may advertise to the outside
world the splendid resources of this
district.
J. L. McPherson, manager of the
Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce, who is now in Sew
ard keeping in touch with the people,
expressed this morning the belief tha*
Seward can secure tremendous ad
vertising if the exhibits shown at the
Civic Fair here are sent out to be
shown at the Northwest Lands Pro
ducts exposition which will be held
at Seattle for ten days commencing
October 14. Some time ago the Alas
ka Bureau asked the towns of Alaska
to send out exhibits to this exposition
and all the towns on the coast and in
the interior are doing so, with the ex
ception of Seward. This city took no
steps whatever in the matter but now
come the ladies of Seward on their own
initiative with a splendid Civic Fair
which is not only most praiseworthy
in itself but serves the double purpose
of gettng home people interested and
also the outside world. The jams
and jellies are mentioned as a partic
ularly interesting exhibit for outside.
The Alaska Bureau is doing big
Sffl&frr AMiW..»K,U»
Pherson is due the recent reduction
in the cable tolls to the territory.
After having formed the idea Mr. Mc
Pherson got large numbers of Seattle
■merchants who do business with Al
aska to wire requests for the reduc
tion and the result is already known.
Mr. McPherson is now visiting all the
towns of the territory.
NEW YORK AVIATORS
FALL TO THEIR DEATH
BUFFALO. Sept. 6.—Major W. K.
Campbell and Army Instructor Curtfs
of the aviation school were fatally in
jured today and Theodore de Kruijess,
a Harvard student from Freeport,
New York, was hurt when their bi
plane fell three hundred feet.
WENT WEST
The following went west on the
Alameda yesterday: Gus Gilles, S.
Barnet, Gustav SeifTert, John Miller,
E. F. Soarr, F. McGibney, Colonel
Revell, Mrs. Davidson and one steer
age.
HAS SECURED MINING
PLANT FOR CANYON*
J. R. McDonald who arrived yester
day has secured a fine hydraulic min
ing plant which will be shipped in this
winter and will be placed on the Wil
son mining property on Canyon creek.
tains nothing about a telephone fran
chise. Judge Morford countered by
declaring that the company is willing
to take all the chances in this matter.
He suggested rather than positively
stated that a city can grant such a
franchise.
The school building contractors
were allowed an additional $500.
Judge Finnegan asked that the
bondsmen of Derick Lane be released
as Mr. Lane had fulfilled his agree
ment to open First avenue. The city
engineer declared the work had been
accomplished properly and the council
accepted the report of the engineer
and did as Mr. Finnegan asked.
Councilman Torrey stated that the
Rev. Mr. Munro had asked what the
city would sell the old school house
and heating plant for and after a dis
cussion it was decided to advertise
them for sale with the ground also.
0. S.-MEXICAN PEACE COMMISSION
_HOLDS ITS FIRST MEETING TODAY
Scores of Men On
Seward Road W ork
Twenty-five men are now at work
for the Alaska Road Commission at
Moose Pass sixteen are working north
of the town and fifteen are working
on the roads from Mile .‘54 to Sunrise,
in addition to these gangs are work
ing at plates which are further off but
which are in Anton Hide’s district.
Ten or fifteen are working in the
Willow creek district anil a survey
gang is busy in the Cache creek
country.
CAPTAIN JOHNSON
BOOSTING SEWARD
The following is an interview in
the Portland Oregonian of August 25
with Captain C. A. Johnson who has
recently spent many months here and
who went outside a few weeks ago.
“More than a quarter of a century
ago Captain C. A. Johnson, master of
a lishing schooner, went to Alaskan
waters. It was in fact in 1888 that he
started on a lishing career in llering
Sea and other northern waters. He
saw the gold rush of 1900 and saw
many fortunes made and lost in a
few months, but he kept to his lishing,
thinking that it was safer to be sure
llfa’MW^tvrt livwrAhH."
made.
“Yesterday Captain Johnson regis
tered at the Seward Hotel. He came
from Seward, Alaska. He knew Sew
ard before it had one street. He has
watched its growth for 15 years and
now predicts a great future for the
town.
Captain Johnson will visit for a few
days with a daughter-in-law in Hills
boro and will then go to Seattle and
San Francisco on business. He ex-*
pects to be in Portland for a month
or so after his California visit before
going north again.”
MEARS PARTY ON
WAY TO NENANA
Commissioner Mears, Hon. J. C. i
Cotton, personal representative of*
Secretary Lane and Division Engineer
Dose, departed from Indian river, the
head of navigation on the Susitna riv
er August 25, en route over the di
vide to the Nenana coal fields. Arriv
ing there, Commissioner Mears and
Engineer Dose will return, while Mr.
Cotton will proceed to Fairbanks.—
Anchorage Times.
CURTIS ROSS, OLDTIMER
DROWNED IN CHICALOON
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ANCHORAGE, August 25.—Judge
Leopold David is in receipt of a letter
from the Chicaloon coal fields giving
news of what promises to be a very
sad accident in which Curtis Ross, an
old-time hunter and porspector, lost
his life by drowning in the Chicaloon
river.—Times.
LAFOLLETTE WINS
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 6. —Lafol
lette, progressive Republican, has ap
parently won the renomination. AU
the votes are not yet counted but his
victory is believed certain.
KILLED HUSBAND WHO
KEPT AWAY FROM HER
CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—Mrs. Jas. R.
Barnes whose husband was found
, dead with three bullets in his body ir
Washington Park last night has con
fessed to killing him “because he re
fused to live with me any more.”
Barnes was Mie Chicago agent for £
New York soap concern.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 6.—Reports have been
received here that Villa is now marching upon the Santa
Clara valley just south of central Chihuahua to attack the
American expeditionary army’s main base at Elvalle,
seventy-five miles south of Pershing’s headquarters.
While this report is not official it comes from sources
which are usually reliable. No one longer doubts that
Villa is alive.
TO DISCUSS WITHDRAWAL
NEW LONDON, Conn., Sept. (>.—The withdrawal of
the American forces from Mexico will be the first question
to be discussed by the American and Mexican commission
ers who held today the first meeting of the joint confer
ence which is designed to settle all the Mexican problems.
ALASKA CAN TAX ITS
I FISHING AND MINES
JUNEAU, Sept. 6.—A telegram has
been received here stating tha„ the j
Appellate court has affirmed the con-1
tention of Attorney General Cobb in
behalf of the territory, this contention
being that the territory can tax min
ing and fisheries. This gives the ter- j
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ritory approximately two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars additional
funds. With money now in the treas
ury it is believed that the total funds
of the territory, when the additional
taxes due are paid, will reach three
quarters of a million by the time the
legislature convenes next March.
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Caught And Shot
SEATTLE, Sept. (i. — Caught rub
bing u man and woman at Eighth
avenue and Virginia street last night
at 1) o’clock, John Hildebrandt, a
notorious crook and ex-convict who
has done time for robbery and mur
der, was shot by Patrolman Arbcgast
of the motor cycle corps and is not ex
pected to live. Hildebrandt s partner,
Healy, was shot in the neck and Ar
l>ogast was shot in the wrist by Hilde
brandt before the patrolman got him.
Christ Anderson and Mrs. Carrie Nel
son were the intended victims of the
highwaymen.
In iy04 Hildebrandt with Kid White
shot and killed Mathew Murphy while
robbing Conway’s saloon. He was sen
tenced to life imprisonment in Walla
Walla but a few months ago was re
leased on parole.^
VALDEZ SMELTER NOW
An article in the Valdez Prospector
of September 1, signed by Henry Derr
Reynolds, calls on the people of Val
dez to build a smelter at Valdez Bay.
Evidently he has given up Seward.
CAME ON ALAMEDA
The following arrived on the Ala
meda yesterday afternoon from Seat
tle: Mrs. E. Thompson, Mrs. W.
Moore, E. L. Whittemore, E. J. Witch
er, J. R. McDonald, Mrs. R. Kerr, Miss
Esther McConnell, J. F. Campbell, C.
Larsen and wife, John E. Hoyd, C.
Nicovich, C. E. Seeley, C. Neale, A.
Angelo, Bob Labich, M. Mortensen,
and 18 steerage.
LADIES WANT ENTRIES
FOR THE YARD PRIZE
The Woman’s Club has received no
entries for the yard contest to be held
at the Civic Fair and they wish to
have it understood that this is regar
ded as one of the most important con
tests of all. They are very anxious
to have this contest a good one.
POSTPONE MEETING
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist
, church will not meet tomorrow as the
Civic Fair time is coming close.
O /•< • - nrr*n
Endorse No Oue
ATLANTIC CITY, Sc pi. 6.—To no
party or to no candidate will go the
endorsements of the National Wom
en’s Suffrage Association. This state
ment was given out today by the ex
ecutive committee of the association
which is in convention here. The de
cision has created much surprise as
the country had come to look for the
endorsement of Hughes by the women
owing to the refusal of V\ ilson to
recommend a canstitutional amend
ment in favor of national suffrage.
TELLS OF DISCOVERY
OF GOLD IN KLONDIKE
SEATTLE, August 18.—“We pan
,ncd out some of the earth that lay on
the bedrock—my two companions and
1__getting a .45 cartridge shell full of
gold dust and then we crossed the
creek and made a rude camp for the
night. That night I dreamed of
home.” This was a paragraph from
the address made by (i. W. Carmack,
the discoverer of the Klondike, at the
fourth annual banquet of the \ukon
Order of Pioneers last night at the
Savoy, the occasion marking the
twentieth anniversary of Carmack’s
discovery of gold on Bonanza creek.
Thirty-one members of the organi
zation, all men who took pa/t in the
first stampedes into the newly discov
ered land of gold, sat down at the
banquet last night, and long before
the regular speech-making started
reminiscences and tales of the hard
ships, the fun, the gain and the losses
of twenty years ago traveled from one
table to another and back again.—P-I
GRIGSBY TO OPEN
CAMPAIGN HERE
A telegram received by George
Phelps today states that George
Grigsby, who is on the Alaska that
left Juneau yesterday, will open the
Democratic campaign for this division
by a speech in this city. The com
mittee appointed some time ago to re
ceive him continues in existence and
will meet him at the boat.
FARUAGUT COMING
The Farragut was scheduled to sail
from Cordova at noon today.