Yol. 8, No. 295 Member Associated Press SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23,1914. Member Associated Press Ten Cents the Copy
BATTLING HOSTS CONTINUE THE AWFUL CARNAGE
RUSSIANS SURROUND THE AUSTRIAN FORTRESS
VILLA DECLARES WAR ON I
FORMER I HIII CARRANZA!
NOGALES, Mexico, Sept. 23.—Notices have been post
ed here announcing that General Villa has declared war
on Carranza and proclaiming that the country is again in
a state of revolution. Governor Moytorena of the state of
Sonora has come out in favor of Villa and is in command
of the troops here. He is reported to be preparing to
march out against General Benjamin Hill who is com
mander of the Carranza forces in the state and that war
will soon be proceeding in full swing once again is vir
tually certain.
Villa himself has not been heard from directly but that
he it was who had the proclamation of revolution is
known. The Americans have not yet left Vera Cruz ac
cording to the accounts here and the whole situation has
assumed a far more serious aspect than it ever presented
hefore.
SIfffANSON BELIEVED
10 DAVE PERISHED
NOMK. Sept. 23.—That V. Steffan
son, the explorer, has perished misera
bly in the Arctic ice floes is the opin
ion expressed here today by Captain!
Louis Lane of the Polar Bear who has
just returned from an extended trip
in the Arctic regions. Joe Bernard,
the skipper of Lanes ship, also be- i
lieves that Steffanson is dead and they
both declare that they have reluctant
ly come to that conclusion after a
most careful search for all the infor
mation obtainable.
Steffanson with his party left this
city last summer but the ships in
which the expedition left came to
grief after some time.
Steffanson quit the Karluk and
while he was ashore winds came up
which drove her out to sea and left
him stranded. The Karluk was later,
abandoned and some of the members
of the expedition managed to reach
Wrangell Island but about half of
them perished. With Steffanson when
he was left by the ship was his secre
tary, a young man named McConnell.
Soon after the starting of the expe- '
dition from this place one man left it
and returned to his home at Teller
city. He is well known in this neigh
borhood. He states! that he left the j
expedition for reasons which he had!
promised not to make public. The i
belief is that serious misunderstand- j
ings took place which have caused all
the disasters.
COMMERCIAL CLUB WILL
HAVE BIG MEETING
Matters of Great Importance to Come
l'p Next Friday Evening and
AH Will Be Present
One of the most important meetings
of the Seward Commercial club will
take place next Friday evening and
every' member is expected to be pres
ent as matters of the greatest interest
to all of them will be brought. Some
of the members of the club
are now contemplating the introduc
tion of most pleasant additional fea
tures to the club as well as preparing
for it to take an even greater part in
the advancement of the whole dis
trict. It is also expected that while
the court is in session the club can be
utilized to make the stay of the visi
tors so pleasant that they will look
forward to a return to Seward with
pleasant anticipations. The meeting
next Friday should be a record one.
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CUTTER TAItOMA
IS ABANDONED
RKW IS SAFE ON SENATOR
BI T CORWIN IS STILL
AGROUND
SEATTLE, Sept. 2:1.—The cutter
rahoma is reported to have been
Abandoned by her officers and crew
Aho are all safe and will be taken to
Some on the Pacific coast company’s
steamship Senator.
The Corwin is reported to be still
[Aground off Cape Douglas but the
revenue eutter Bear is standing by
und everything will yet be welUunless
a sudden storm comes up. The sea is
open at the place and a storm would
probably result in the loss of the ves
sel although the people aboard could
probably reach land without difficulty
before a storm could reach any de
gree of violence.
PREPARING SKEEN-LECHNER
MINE FOR THE WINTER
Operations Will Almost Surely be
Started First Thing Next Spring
A crew of men is now preparing the
Skeen-Lechner mine for the close sea
son so that everything will be pre
served in good shape for the opening
season next spring. That the mine
will be operated as soon as possible
in the coming year is the opinion of
Judge Morford. The judge sees no
reason for any unnecessary delay in
the re-commencement of the work as
the mine is good for ten thousand dol
lars a month.
WITNESSES FOR SEWARD
MAY BE ON TAHOMA
That some of the witnesses who
were coming for the court session
here may have been on the Tahoma
when she was wrecked is supposed by
Judge Whittlesey. The cutter was to
have gone to Atka to take on some
witnesses and for that purpose Depu
ty Marshal Hastings was aboard, but
whether the cutter was wrecked going
to or leaving Atka is not known.
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that are right at The Gateway Jot
Printing Department.
VIRGINIA GOES
EOR PROHIBITION
STATE AND MOST OF THE CITIES
GO DRY BY LARGE
MAJORITIES
—
RICHMOND, Sept. 23.—Prohibition
has carried Virginia by a majority of
thirty-three thousand. Most of the |
cities of the state have also gone dry ;
contrary to all expectations and that'
it will be the driest state in the Union j
is now virtually assured. The contest
was fought by both sides with tre- J
mendous energy and while the state •
was expected to vote dry the foes of
prohibition claimed that the cities i
were utterly opposed to prohibition
and to this even some of the prohibi
tionists themselves agreed.
HOMESTEADERS
NOW FILING
I
OTTO BERGSTROM HAS FILED
AND OLE MARTIN WILL
TOMORROW
_
The homesteaders are now pre- j
paring to file their applications, j
Otto Bergstrom about ten days ago
filed his application for homestead en
try which has been allowed and he
will immediately proceed to prove up.
Ole Martin came to the city today
and is filling out the papers which will
probably be filed tomorrow.
DECK CLEARED FOR ACTION
ON ALASKA COAL BIEL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—The riv
ers and harbors bill passed the senate
this afternoon and the decks are now
cleared for action on the Alaska coal
leasing bill which will almost surely
be brought up for final passage im
mediately. This haste is due to the
action of President Wilson who has
been persistent in his efforts to have
the Alaska coal leasing bill made law
at the very first opportunity. The
fact that congress is willing to ap
propriate the enormous sum required
for rivers and harbors improvements
is taken as evidence that the govern
ment will not hesitate in the least in
carrying out needed wrorks even when
the revenues of the country have fall
en. The president seemed for a time
to be rather anxious but he has drop
ped his opposition to the appropria
tion entirely and the work will go as
if there had been no war.
NOTHING YET HEARD
ABOUT THAT POLL TAX
No information has yet been re
ceived relating to the poll tax law
and it is now, apparently, generally
believed that there will be no collec
tion of the tax this year. The terri
torial authorities are probably wait
ing for instructions from Washington
concerning the new law passed there
empowering the federal officials of
the territory to collect the tax.
KING THURMAN
MAY BE DEAD
GRAVE ANXIETY FELT BECAUSE
OF DISAPPEARANCE OF WELL
KNOWN PROSPECTOR
Word was received in Seward yes
terday of the possible loss of one,1
King Thurman, a well-known pros
pector and trapper of the Lower Lake
country. Thurman left his cabin a
trifle over a month ago and with only ]
his dog for company started on a
prospecting trip in the vicinity of
Trout lake. He left a note in the ca
bin stating where he was going and
that he would be back in a couple of
weeks. Parties calling at the cabin
saw the note and became alarmed at
the non-arrival of Thurman and a
searching party was organized to try
to locate the missing man, but so far
no trace of him has been discovered.
One feature of the disappearance that
leads his neighbors to believe that he
has met with an accident is the fact
that his dog, an inseparable compan
ion to the missing man, returned to
the cabin some time ago and men who
know the dog say that it would not
desert its master as long as he \va*
alive. A couple of parties are now in
the hills looking for Thurman.
ACCUSATION OF IDLING
LED TO FATAL ROW
Case Will Be Tried at the Coming
Term of the Court Here in Seward
A Mexican will be tried here at the
term of court next month for the mur
der of another Mexican at Kodiak.
Judge Whittlesey, assistant district
attorney, says that the occurrence
arose from the peculiar fact that one
man accused the other of not doing
sufficient work. The exact details
have not been learned but it is known
that one of the parties to the dispute
stabbed the other fatally while he
claims that the other hit him with an
iron bar or had threatened to do so.
Judge Whittlesey has learned that
similar disputes are frequent in the
canneries among the people of foreign
nationalities who are usually employ
ed in them. When one man is doing
i less than another the latter—how dif
ferent from the white brother—gets
! sore and tells the boss.
FIXING WHARF
M. J. Doyle is now placing stay
braces on the pile of the wharf to
strengthen them.
British Demand More Aggressive Action— One German Submarine Sank
the Three British Cruisers — Belgians Make Sortie From Antwerp —
Von Kluck Battling for Possession of Peronne—French Bombard Along
Whole Front All Night — Germany Protests to China — British Aero
planes Attack German Airship Depot—Russia Again Takes Offensive in
East Prussia and Takes Greats Austrian Fortification.
RUSSIANS CAPTURE JAROSLAW
LONDON, Sept. 23.—The Russians have captured the
fortified city of Jaroslaw in Galicia and the fact is regard
ed as of more importance than anything that is going on
in France. The Russians are hotly pursuing the Austrians
who are retreating to Cracow. Przemysl, the strongly
fortified city on which the Austrians depended so much,
has been surrounded by the Russians and is now in a state
of siege. The Russians will now press on to the attack on
Cracow and from that place they will proceed to Breslau
in Germany and so will be advancing towards Berlin. The
Russians have also assumed the offensive in East Prussia
once again.
STILL FIGHTING DESPERATELY
LONDON, Sept. 23.—(2:25 p. m.)—The latest news
from the French front is that desperate fighting is now
v.. fui the |Aisst*ssiuii ui' n.v, r»- o ..
oral Von Kluck abandoned that place last Friday but is
now evidently trying to regain it and the battle is raging
around the city with great fierceness. No decisive result
has yet been announced in the great conflict but both sides
are fighting with every atom of their power.
REPORT 50,000 GERMANS WOUNDED
MAESTRICHT, Holland, Sept. 23.—During the past
lew days, it is reported, fifty thousand German soldiers
who were wounded in the French battlefield have
passed through Liege on the way back to Germany. The
stream of ambulances is said to be constantly mo\ ing east*
ward under the charge of strong forces of nurses and
medical attendants.
BRITISH AEROPLANES RAID GERMANS
LONDON, Sept. 23.—British aeroplanes made a raid
yesterday on the Zeppelin airship shed at Dusseldorf and
dropped three bombs thereon from a great height. The
bombs were powerful ones and are said to have gone
straight to the mark but the amount of damage inflicted is
not known.
BOMBARDING CATTARO
BORDEAUX, Sept. 23.—It is officially announced that
the French fleet in the Adriatic has landed heavy guns and
many gunners at Antivari lor the purpose of aiding the
Montenegrins in their bombardment of the Austrian forts
in the harbor of Cattaro. The Montenegrins have been
aiding the allied fleets in the bombardment of the place for
some time and have powerful guns operating from Mount
I^ovchen which overlooks Cattaro from the land side. One
of the forts at the mouth of the harbor has already been
destroyed but the main fortress itself has withstood the
attack so far.
| CATHEDRAL MAY BE RESTORED
PARIS, Sept. 23.—'The Germans have ceased the bom
bardment of the cathedral of Rheims and later accounts
say that the damage inflicted by the former bombardment
not lu> tnn.frrpat.to Hermit of the restoration of the
iamous cdihce to its iormer connUnw. rne Ccaaouui.
the attack on the building is supposed to be due to tbe pro
test of the pope as well as to the indignation that has been
expressed on every hand. Thirteen wounded Geinians
who were being treated in the cathedral hospital were
burned to death by the flames caused by the bombardment.
STILL BATTLING ON AISNE
PARIS, Sept. 23—It is officially announced that after
severe lighting on the western wing the afiies huu* re
pulsed the German attacks on the eastern wing, further
than this is not known this morning. The great battle
still seems to be proceeding with tremendous energy in
some parts of the great field but the exhaustion of the
Germans continues to be very noticeable in most places.
Each side is now taking the offensive alternately and
frightful assaults are being delivered daily but, it must be
said, without any apparent decisive result so far.
REPORT GERMANS GIVING AGAIN
LONDON, Sept. 23.—Persistent but unconfirmed ru
mors are being circulated to the effect that the allies aie
slowly turning the German right and the rumors have
come from such well-informed sources that they are
given credence. Apart from these rumors,however, noth
ing has been given out here this morning that would give
the public any fair idea as to how the battle is proceeding.
The suspense continues to be very severe and everything
else is forgotten while the conflict is being waged. Many
complaints have been heard that official go\einment hu
reau is not giving out all the information it possesses but
the strictest censorship is being maintained under the sur
veillance of Lord Kitchener himself.
PEOPLE DEMAND AGGRESSIVE ACTION
The sinking of the three huge cruisers, the Ahoukir,
the Hogue and the Cressy, by a German submarine has
caused here the realization of the helplessness of big war
ships against the attacks of submarine vessels and some
thing akin to consternation has reigned since the news
came of the destruction of the ships. The people are now
demanding more aggressive action against the German
fleets and the plan of sealing up the ships of the enemy in
their harbors by means of mines is being discussed.
It is proposed to withdraw the British fleets Irom the
range of submarines and to leave in their place a great
number of mines that would render the coming out of the
German ships a proceeding of the gravest danger to them
selves. While the mines are being laid it is expected that
the Germans will make an effort to prevent the work and
that a big naval engagement may be forced on them. The
newspapers here are now expressing openly the dissatis
faction of the public at the tame methods of the fleet in
the North Sea. Constantly news arrives of the loss of
some British naval or merchant vessel in that sea and all
the efforts to protect British shipping seem to have failed.
THREE GERMAN GENERALS KILLED
BERLIN, Sept. 23.—It is officially announced this
morning that Generals Wrochem, Arbou and Trotha have
been killed in the fighting on the Aisne river. Very little
further information has been given out but that which has
been published here contradicts in some important partic
ulars the statements coming from allied sources.