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DUNKIRK IS AGAIN BOMBARDED
EROM TWENTY MILES DISTANCE
TO MODIFY SUBMARINE WAR
BERLIN, June 2'>.—It is known here that the second
German note to the United States government will contain
a statement that Germany will modify its submarine war
fare. The manner in which the modification will be
brought about has not been stated- A German submarine
sank a Russian submarine in the Baltic sea yesterday and
this is the first time in the history of warfare that such
an occurrence has been recorded.
ROME, June 25.—The Italians have reduced the
Austrian fort, Hensel, which is near Malborget. The
campaign is still progressing favorably for us although
we have not yet approached nearer to the city of Trieste
which was our first main objective point. It is becoming
evident that Austria will confine its activities, at least for
the present, to defensive warfare.
LONDON, June 25.—A German submarine has sunk
the Norwegian steamer Truma in the North sea. No
other sea disasters were reported today.
PAPER ATTACKS WILSON
BERLIN, June 25.—The radical anti-American news
paper, the Tanzeitung, which was suppressed some days
ago has reappeared and starts off with a bitter attack on
President Wilson. The paper was suppressed because of
its agitation in defying the United States even though
defiance should mean war. The permission to let it be
published again is regarded as an indication that this
government desires to show that America’s protests will
not be heeded.
THINKS PEACE LIKELY
WASHINGTON, June 25.—The belief is growing that
Colonel House, who has just returned from the European
capitals, was really sent by President W ilson to sound the
belligerent governments on the possibility of peace. It
is reported this morning here that House believes that
an early peace is probable but this has not been officially
stated.
CHANGE OF REGISTER USELESS
BERLIN, June 25—The world was notified this
morning that German submarines will not recognize as
neutral any vessels which changed their registry since
the beginning of the war. This order is chiefly due to the
attempts of vessels of other countries to adopt the Ameri
can flag.
SENDING MAIL DIRECT
WASHINGTON, June 25.—Postmaster Burleson has
issued instructions that mail to neutral countries in future
should be sent direct to avoid the belligerent nations
which are now opening neutral mail. Steps may be taken
to send special ships with mail to Germany and other
countries to avoid the danger arising from interference
with mail.
SEIZE AMERICAN SHIPS
WASHINGTON, June 25.—The British have seized
the American steamers Neches and Gargoyle and have
turned them over to the prize court. Just about the time
this news arrived there came a note from the British gov
ernment in answer to the American note in which the
British authorities explain the sea rule governing the
treatment of the commerce of belligerents. The British
government, however, states in the note that it will try to
reduce to a minimum the inconvenience to neutral
shipping.
RECRUITING IN FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO. June 25.—A rooming house
register has been handed over to the prosecutor and has
been found to be nothing else than a British recruiting
book used for the purpose of securing recniits for the
British army. The book will be used by the prosecutor in
the investigations before the grand jury of the recruiting
charge.
BUYING HORSES
FORT WORTH, June 25.—The British and French
governments are purchasing thirty thousand head of
horses in this state. The price has been raised immensely
for horses fitted for the work required in military opera
tions.
DROP SHELLS 20 MILES
DUNKIRK, June 25.—The German long range guns
are again bombarding this city and many people are be
ing killed. The great guns are twenty miles distant or
more but yet are dropping tons after tons of high power
shells all over the streets. So far away is the bombarding
artillery that even the sound of the guns is not heard.
Everything is silent until one of the great shells explodes
and shakes the city, causing havoc where it strikes. At
tempts will be made to attack the batteries from the air
as no other way seems to be open, our guns being entirely
unable to return the lire at such a distance.
BRITISH RECRUITING
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LONDON, June 25—The recruiting campaign all
over Great Britain has now become intense owing to the
fast growing belief that the allies have a far greater task
to conquer Germany than had been thought in the be
ginning. The defeat of Russia has opened the country’s
eyes to the danger confronting Europe and England in
particular and thousands are coming daily to the colors.
Switzerland has started a movement to feed the hungry
people of Luxemburg.
BOYCOTT GERMAN-AMERICANS
WASHINGTON, June 25—The French government
has notified the administration that it will withold pass
ports to American citizens of German origin. This step
is to he taken because of the belief in France that Ger
mans residing in the United States are to all intents and
purposes belligerents.
OPERATE ON SULTAN
PARIS, June 25.—The Sultan of Turkey has been op
erated on by German specialists and is said to be \eij
seriously ilk Should he die grave complications are ex
pected as a dispute has arisen already ovci the iegenc\.
COMING ON NORTHWESTERN.
SEATTLE, June 25.—The following
are passengers for Seward on the
Northwestern:
Norma Crosky, Mrs. H. Paulsen, T.
Williams, Jas. Belcher. A. Koch, Mrs.
P. Koch, Miss L. Merrill, Mrs. D.
Devoe, W. Kirpatrick, W. Calvert, D.
Crawford, Mrs. Leslie Cramer, Mr.
J. Sullivan, Dr. McMillan and wife,
Mrs. G. Belmont, Mrs. Pearl Gray,
Mrs. A. McDonald, Anna Hanson, J.
Dumont and wife, May Dumont, John
Dumont, James Dumont and five
steerage.
For Knik: R. Kinney.
MRS. FURNEY DIES.
The regrettable news was received
this morning that Mrs. M. J. Furney,
aunt of Mrs. C. A. Myers, died on the
10th of this month at Los Angeles.
Mrs. Furney spent last summer visit
ing her niece in Seward and during
that time her gentle disposition won
many frineds for her.
LECTURE SATURDAY.
Thomas Martimlale, hunter and
author, will deliever an address to
morrow evening in the Casino after
the show. He has come to love Se
ward, he says, and wishes to suggest
methods by which improvements
might be brought about. He left to
day with Lieutenant Doughtery, Geo.
Sexton and John Ballaine for a
run to Russian river.
TOWNSITE REGULATIONS
AT GATEWAY OFFICE.
A. Christensen of the land depart
ment, has left with the Gateway five
hundred copies of the newly printed
regulations governing the sale of
town lots at Anchorage and anyone
who desires to secure a copy can have
one by applying at this office.
Mrs. van Campen that lady is good
enough to say that the Gateway would
be worthy of a city of five thousand
people. Coming from one who reach
ed eminence in the newspaper field
this compliment is too good not to be
mentioned.
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BIG SL ITS AT NOME.
NOME, June 16.—The Northern
Trust & Safe Deposit company of
Seattle began action in the courts here
Monday against the Anvil Hydraulic
& Dredge company, the Nome Mining
company, the Wonder Dredging com
pany and E. E. Powell, to foreclose on
trust deeds amounting to $83,000.
The plaintiff also ask 8 per cent
and attorney fees.
The filing of the suit has caused a
sensation in mining circles here. The
companies involved were supposed to
| be amongst the most solvent now op
erating. The answer of the defend
ants will be looked forward to with
more than ordinary interest.
Mining is in full swing in the
Nizina country now and the future of
the camp looks more promising than
ever before, according to information
conveyed to the Gateway in a letter
by Mrs. Mary M. Cole of that camp.
OPEN BIDS 29TH.
The bids for painting, etc., of the
cable office and building at Seward
will be opened June 29th. Bids are in
vited.
Mrs. Ethel Forgy, the school prin
cipal, will leave on the Evans for
the outside.
GOVERNOR SOON TO
COME TO SEWARI).
May Leave Nome July 5 on (he
Steamship Victoria Which
Will Stop Here.
That Governor J. F. A. Strong and
Mrs Strong will probably leave Nome
for Seward on July 5, is the informa
tion received by Dr. J. M. Sloan in a
letter from the office of the governor
at Juneau. The Victoria will leave
Nome on the date mentioned for her
trip via the inside passage and the
governor, who recently went to Nome
from Fairbanks, is expected to catch
it
Iron and steel pipe and fittings, tin
and plumbing shop. Brown & Hawk
ins. “Quality First.”
ACTIVE MINING
IN HOPE DIST.
SEIFFERT HAS FIN E CLEAN IT*
AND BONDS QUARTZ FROM
SKEEN AND OTHERS.
The country around Hope now pre- j
sents an active mining scene according
j to Frank F. Skeen, who returned from ;
a trip to that quarter a few days ago.
Gus SeifTert had a most satisfactory
cleanup a short time ago on Resur
rection creek and has-taken an option j
on the quartz property owned by
Mr. Skeen, Harry Johnson and John
Rice. This claim is called the Lucky
Bear and is situated at the head of
Resurrection. Some men have been
put to work on it by Mr. SeifTert.
Above the SeifTert placer property on
Resurrection three hydraulic plants
have started operations with small
crews. Below him the Mathiesons are
working their hydraulic. Charles E.
Herron has also a plant on Bear creek
and is operating. He and another
party have purchased the Mathieson
store at Hope.
REPR ESENTATIVES FIG HT
LIKE PUGILISTS.
PHOENIX, June 25.—Representa
tives Goodwin and Mahoney fought
I with fists on the floor of the state
house today after a warm debate on
the question of prohibition.
ALAMEDA MAIL
LIKELY ROBBED
WORD RECEIVED FROM SEATTLE
TO FIND THE REGISTER
ED CONTENTS IN MAIL.
ALAMEDA MAIL —
There is good reason to suspect that
on the last trip of the Alameda the
registered mail was robbed. At least
a communication has been received
from the postmaster at Seattle by
Postmaster Hickey, asking him to find
out what were the contents of differ
ent packages sent on the Alameda on
the Atrip on which she left Seward on
June 7. More than a score of letters
and packages were sent by registered
mail on that trip and some of them
were very valuable. Money from
banks and jewelry, are said to have
been included. It is stated that the
same communication has been sent by
the Seattle postmaster to the Cordova
postmaster and this leads to the be
lief that the Cordova registered mail
may also have ben tampered with. It
is possible, though that the robbery
may have been a small one and that
the enquires concerning all the mail
have been made so that no clue w ould
be overlooked.
bishop luccock of
M. E. CHURCH ARRIVES.
Reception Will Be Given in His Honor
By the Ladies Aid This
Evening.
Bishop Luccock, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, arrived with his
daughters on the Alameda this morn
ing and the Ladies Aid of the M. E.
church will hold a reception in his
honor, and for Rev. Mr. Blackwell,
who has also arrived. Bishop Luccock
has recently visited the capital city
and other parts of the coast in the in
terests of the church organization in
the territory and has received many
marks of the appreciation in which he
is held, judging by the exchanges
coming from Juneau and elsewhere.
HUNDRED DROWN.
KAZAN, Russia June 25.—By the
collapse of a pier here today one
hundred people were drowned.
❖ LANE SAYS MONEY *
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WASHINGTON, June 25.—Secre
tary Lane of the interior department
stated today that at least a hundred
million dollars which would be spent
in Europe if no war were proceeding
will be spent at home this year.
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❖ FINDING WHAT THAW ❖
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NEW YORK, June 25.—In the case
of Harry Thaw which is again going
on, the prosecution is attempting to !
show what Thaw’s ideas about women
were and are. President Emeritus
Elliott, of Harvard, will bo called to
tell the circumstances connected with
Thaw’s expulsion from that univers
ity. It is evidently intended to show
that the defendant was a libertine to
the point of degeneracy.
TEN THOUSAND MEN
LOSE THEIR PLACES.
Hines Lumber Company of Chicago
Closes Twenty Yards Because
Men Will Not Arbitrate.
CHICAGO, June 25.—The Hines
lumber company of this city closed
down twenty lumber yards this morn
ing because the carpenters now on
strike refused to entertain a proposal
to arbitrate their differences with the
employers. By the closing of the
yards ten thousand men have been
thrown out of employment.
SPANISH CABINET HOLDS.
MADRID, June 25.—The king has
asked the present cabinet to remain
in power owing to the disturbed condi
tions of international politics. Six
teen Chinese commercial commission
ers have arrived in this country to
study conditions.
EARTHQUAKE STOPS
EARTHQUAKE MEETING.
Mass Meeting Called to Prevent Ex
aggeration Disturbed by
Irony of Fate.
EL CENTRO, Calif., June 25.—
While a mass meeting was in session
here last night to protest against
what the people call the exaggerated
accounts sent out about the recent
earthquakes another earthquake came
along and almost broke up the gath
ering.
MUCH WINE DESTROYED.
FRESNO, June 25.—By a fire which
occurred in the early hours of this
morning a million gallons of wine and
brandy were destroyed. The flames
from the burning liquors reached a
terrific intensity and for a time baffl
ed all the efforts of the fire fighters.
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❖ ARTILLERY DUEL *
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WASHINGTON, June 25.—From
communications received here today
it is learned that an artillery duel is
proceeding between the /apataistas
and Carranzaistas near Mexico City.
The fight is going on very close to the
city.
GEDDES CASE PROCEEDS.
OGDEN, June 25.—'The defense is
now trying to prove that Mrs. Geddcs
is not in good standing as a Mormon
in order to show that she is not a
polygamist and that no question of
her son’s legitimacy ought to be en
tertained. She denies authorship of
letters to Eccles which were introduc
ed. The case arises from the attempt
of Mrs. Geddes to secure part of the
six million Eccles estate for her son.
MINERS FOUND DEAD. _
JOPLIN, June 25.—The miners who
have been entombed in a mine near
this city for the past couple of weeks
have been found but all were dead.
MANTELL GETS
THE CONTRACT
With good weather seward
WILL HAVE METROPOLITAN
SIDEWALKS IN A MONTH.
J. P. Mantell has received the con
tract for grading and putting down
concrete sidewalks, etc., on Fourth
avenue, having been the lowest bid
der of those whose bids were opened
last night at the meeting of the city
council. The total work will cost a
little in excess of ten thousand dollar,.
Mr. MantelPs bid was 90 cents a yard
for excavation, 50 cents a yd. for lit!''
11) and a half cents a square foot for
concrete sidewalks, 92 cents a lineal
foot for curbs. There were also some
minor items such as conduits.
Mr. Mantell states that be will do
his best to perform the work in a
manner which will make the incon
venience to the public be reduced to
a minimum. If the weather condi
tions are favorable he expects to have
the work completed in a month and
Seward will have a street it can be
proud of. The splendid plant brought
in by him will be used to the utmost
and to Seward will be the advantage.
The total bids sent in were as fol
lows: J. P. Mantell, $10,077.00
Murphy & Anderson, 10,975.24; Laten,
Ixmg & Campbell, $10,808.74; A. Mc
Donell, $11,259.00; E. W. Riner, $10,
540.10.
TWELVE KILLED IN
A TRAIN COLLISION.
Crash Takes Place oil Bridge 1 wo
Hundred Feet High and
Cars Hang Over.
GETTYSBURG, June 25.—A dozen
people were killed and a score were
injured when two trains collided near
this place last night on the Maryland
railroad. The collision took place on
a bridge which is two hundred feet in
height. One of the trains was travel
ing at the rate of a mile a minute and
the crash was awful Some of the
cars were thrown away off the rails
and are hanging over the abyss even
yet. A remarkable fact connected
with the occurrence is that a private
car carrying officials was uninjured.
JUDGE OVER-RULES
BALLAINE DEMURRER.
Word was received from Valdez
yesterday that Judge Brown had over
ruled the demurrer of John and
Frank Ballaine against the suit of the
Canadian interests of the Alaska
Northern, involving the unsold parts
of the Seward townsite. The Bal
laincs arc now asking for immediate
trial of the caie, as they have all their
papers here and arc ready. Papers
are being sent to Valdez by the Evans,
asking Judge Brown to set the case
for the Seward term, July P2. The
Alaska Northern passes out of the
hands of the Canadian interests July
,5 according to their contract with the
government, and the government has
specifically reserved the right in the
contract to dismiss the suit.
LUMBER COMING.
On the steam freighter Redondo
leaving Seattle today, is coming two
hundred thousand feet of lumber for
Messrs. Brosius and Noon. The build
ing operations now going on are so
numerous that lumber is coming into
greater demand all the time.
ALAMEDA COMES.
The steamship Alameda arrived
this morning at 2:15 o’clock and left
for the westward at 5 o’clock. She
brought more^than thirty first class
passengers to Seward. The names of
the Seattle passengers were published
before,
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