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BRITISH SUBMARINES SEND THREE
LADEN TRANSPORTS TO THE BOTTOM
AUSTRIANS INVADE RUSSIA
PETKGGEAP, June 17.—The Austrians have invad
ed Bessarabia according to the official announcement this:
morning. They have marched across the border from j
Bukowina between the rivers Danube, Pruth and Dniester
and are probably bent on a turning movement on our left.
Dniester flank with the object of compelling us to retire
from Galician territory entirely and also prevent a junct
ure of the Roumanian army with ours in case the Buchar
sarabia is the province which extends to the northwest of
est government should decide in favor of war. Bes
the Back sea and along the eastern Rumanian frontier.
FIVE SHIPS SUNK
LONDON, June 17.—Twenty people were drowned
yesterday when the British coaler Strathniarn was tor
pedoed yesterday off the Seilly islands by a German sub
marine’ The steamer Trafford was also torpedoed and
sunk and in addition to these three trawlers have also
been destroyed.
MANY TURKS DROWNED
ATHENS, June 17—British submarines have sunk
three troop ships in the Dardanelles. The ships were load
ed with soldiers at the time and every man aboard is said
to have been drowned.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 17.—In connection with
the denial of the British that the battleship Agamemnon
was sunk in the Dardanelles the story is published here
that a Turkish aviator who had flown over the place re
turned with the report that a battleship of the type of the
Agamemnon is submerged near the entrance to the Dar
danelles with her decks submerged.
Further reports coming are to the effect that at least
one warship is aground near the island of Imbros.
KAISER STOPS EXECUTIONS
AMSTERDAM, June 17.—Following an execution of
some of the citizens of Liege who were charged with
treason by the German the kaiser has issued an order
prohibiting any more executions except with his direct
approval. His action is said to be due to the merciless
treatment meted out by his generals to all Belgians who
are suspected of opposing German aims in the conquered
kingdom.
REFUSES REGISTRY
NEW YORK, June 17.—The commissioner of naviga
tion has refused the applications of several Danish ships
to be taken under United States registry on the ground
that no American money is invested in those vessels. The
Danes desire the change as they believed the United
States could offer them better protection from the war
ships of the belligerent powers.
ITALIANS WIN POSITION
GENEVA, June 17.—The Italians have won an
Austrian stronghold in the Carnic Alps to the north of the
province of Venice and have destroyed the railroad at
Komebh. This is regarded as the most material success
achieved hv the Italian soldiers since the beginning of the
war. The news as to the progress of the fighting in the
Isonzo valley is very meager and the likelihood is that
neither side has gained a distinct advantage.
HUGE BRITISH AIRSHIPS
LONDON, June 17.—The British government is now
building huge aeroplanes with which to fight Zeppelins.
The machines may be regarded as a new invention but
the facts are being kept secret It is known that they
are gigantic in size and extraordinarily powerful while it
is promised for them that their speed will make them
easily able to outdistance the big German ships.
SOCIALISTS AID BELGIUM
MUNICH, June 17.—The socialists in convention
here denounced the king of Bavaria for advocating the
annexation of Belguim. The king is one of the strong
upholders of the idea that Belgium has forfeited its right
to political liberty but the socialists of the Bavarian king
dom have several times declared themselves in favor of
the restitution of Belgian self government at the close of j
the war.
SAME OLD SILENCE • j
LONDON, June 17.—The same lack of news about
the fighting in the west and the Dardanelles, which has
been apparent for some days, was evident in the news
dispatches this morning. Desultory fighting, mostly of
the artillery order, is reported but details are not entered
into. The news with respect to the Dardanelles simply is
that the Allies are “making favorabje progress.” The af
ternoon bulletins may bring some news.
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WASHINGTON, June 17.—Colonel
Goethals, as he is best known, will
retire from all public service in
Autumn. This announcement was!
made today. There is a belief in of
j ficial circles that on his retirement
the builder of the Panama canal will
j receive signal honors.
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❖ POLICEMEN FINED
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CHICAGO, June 17.—Captain
Sot re n has been fined one thousand j
; dollars and Detective Weisbaum has
been sentenced to three years im
prisonment for graft in the police de
partment.
STOP TIP SELLING.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills., June 17.—
The legislature has passed a bill pro
hibiting the sale of tipping privileges
in the state. It is said .that many
waiters paid large sums to propriet
ors of hotels and restaurants for the
chances to secure tips.
PIONEERS MEET.
The Pioneers will hold a special
meeting this evening at 8 o’clock. All
members are requested to attend.
C. F. Stagger, well known Puget
Sound and Alaska diver, yesterday
completed his plans for salving the
valuables and equipment reposing in
the hold of the Russian sloop of war
Neva, which foundered in a storm off
the Souteastern Alaska coast 102
years ago, says the Seattle ’I imes of
a recent date. With the power
schooner Norman Sunde and Volun
teer, he will proceed to the scene of
the ancient wreck next August. Be
sides the vessel’s cannons and a ship
ment of valuable paraphernalia which
she was carrying to the Greek Church
at Sitka, where she sank, it is believed
that a consignment of gold will be
found in her coffers.
CITY COUNCIL NOW HAS
POWER FOR ORDINANCE.
Under an act passed by the territor
ial legislature the city council in
municipalities were granted authority
ti license peddlers and itinerant mer
chants.
Before there was some question
whether a federal license gave ped
dlers the right to sell their wares in
any city in Alaska without regulation
from the city councils.—Juneau Dis
patch.
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❖ SEWARD MAN DROWNED *
❖ EAGLE RIVER SUNDAY. ❖
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 14.—
“Sliver” Pierce a former resident
of Seward, was drowned at Eagle
river last Sunday. Your correspond
ent has been unable to discover his real
first name. He lost his life by fall
ing from a barge into the Inlet. He
leaves a wife and daughter. At one
time the ^daughter attended the
schools at Seward.
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❖ CAUGHT 10,000 KINGS ♦
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A man named Pond recently caught
ten thousand king salmon in one trap
alone at Tyonic. He has been offered
twenty thousand dollars for the site
but has refused.
OLYMPIA, Wash., June 17.—In the
test case brought by the Thurston
company the supreme court has decid
ed for the prohibition side.
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❖ WINE WILL FLOW IN *
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NEW YORK, June 17.—A bottle of
wine A'ill be used Saturday in the
christening of the’dread naught Ari
zona in spite of the objections pre
sented by the prohibitionists. Quite
a strong light has been proceeding
against the use of the wine and the
president himself as well as the sec
retary of the navy, has been ap
proached.
AGITATING MEYER MATTER
IN EUROPE AND HERE.
WASHINGTON, June 17.—Experts
on international questions declare that
Dr. Meyer, head of the German army
supply department, has a perfect
right to be in this country incognito
if he so desires and that he violates
no clause of such law.
COPENHAGEN, June 17.—Dr.
Gerhard arrived here today from
New York. He is the man in connec
tion with whom a New ^ork paper
stated that the passport given him
was meant for Dr. Meyer, the head of
the German army supply department.
It seems to be evident that the paper
made a mistake and that the German
ambassador to the United States act
ed entirely in good faith when he se
cured the passports for Gerhard.
MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE
LEO FRANK IS GUILTY.
Gentleman Now in Seward has Spoken
to Condemned Man and Knows
All About the Case.
That the vast majority of people in
his home town believe I^eo 1' rank
guilty of the murder of Mary Rhagan
is the statement of Hans Rieg who
has spoken to Frank in prison, knows
the presiding judge and the prose
cuting attorney in the case and is now
visiting in Seward. Mr. Rieg person
ally believes Frank to be guilty and
does not mind saying so as the publi
cation of such a statement here, of
course, could not in any way effect
the decision in the matter. Mr. Rieg
believes Frank to be guilty for three
reasons.
First: Frank was known by all his
intimates to be inclined to degeneracy.
Secondly: The negro who gave
evidence is an ignorant man but al
the keen lawyers who defended Frank
were unable to shake his testimony in
the least. This negro is also known
to be be a man who has lived a most
respectable life and no one else but
Frank could have committed the
murder.
Thirdly: The Jewish race all over
the United States has worked with
might and main to secure some means
of saving their co-religionist but have
been unable to produce anything that
could alter the circumstances.
Eight out of ten of the people of
Atlanta firmly believe in the guilt of
Frank, Mr. Rieg says. According to
the dispatches to this paper the gov
ernor of Georgia was to have taken
up the continued hearing of the case
yesterday and a decision might arrive
at any moment.
DREDGE HAS BEEN AT
WORK FOR SIX DAYS.
Ben Bernard of * the American
Dredge Building and Construction
company, who passed by on the Wat
son early this morning, stated that
the Herron-Barnes dredge on Sixmile
creek has been in operation since June
10. Mr. Bernard went to Seattle and
will later proceed to Nome where his
I company is engaged in the dredging
| business as well as in the construction
of dredges.
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A brilliant future career for the
All-Alaska Review is now assured.
Some of the most flattering words of
encouragement have arrived since the
first issue went out, and these words
were received from all sorts of peo
ple from the governor of the territory
down. The governor, indeed, went out
of his way, unsolicited, to write a
most pleasant letter. He like count
less others declares that a splendid
field exists for such a publication and
their words are already being borne
out. The first issue, containing as it
did thousands of copies has dwindled
to a very small pile. The June is
sue is now being worked upon and will
be on the presses in a week or ten
days. Splendid photographs dealing
with the railroad will be produced in
the coming issue and no pains will be
spared to improve the Review con
stantly until it becomes the one great
Alaska Publication.
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❖ MANNER OF SALE OF *>
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ANCHORAGE, June 14.—The
townsite will be opened July 1 and the
lots will be sold at auction. Under
what conditions they will be sold is
not known.
DI KE DEAD.
PETROGRAD, June 17.—Duke
Constantinvitch, head of the Imper
ial military schools and a member of
the royal family, died last night at
the age of sixty.
RICH strike on
WILSON CREEK.
The Skagway Alaskan: Hugh
Molyneaux, commissioner of public
highways for Northern British Colum
bia, who passed through here yester
day on his way to the Rainy Hollow
country, brought word of a rich placer
strike that had recently been made on
Wilson creek, in the Atlin mining
district by Wm. McDonald, Larry
O’Connor and Pack Molloy, all old
timers in that section of country.
Wilson creek was staked in the
early days of the district and many of
the claims on it have been re-located
and abandoned several times since. It
is situated 22 miles east of the town
of Atlin and 8 miles west of O’Don
nell river.
IS THAT SO?
Seward people claim that the trans
portation companies are holding them
up on the freight charges on lumber,
and therefore retarding the growth of
the town.—(Douglas Island News.)
EVANS PASSENGERS.
SEATTLE, June 17.—The Evans
left yesterday with the following pas
sengers for Seward:
Mrs. Anderson, Georgia Anderson,
Wm. Fox, Seim an Scott, E. Kamm, E.
Youmans, Mrs. Wald, E. White and
wife, Wm. Howissy, W. Sloan and one
steerage.
Tht foWowing are for Anchorage:
Harry Nolan, Mrs. Pyatt and two
children, Sarah Siegle, H. Leonard,
Mrs. Williamson, Mrs. Davis and two
children, Harriet Felthaw, John Enis,
Harry Oherns, Fred Gadden and two
steerage.
JOE CAMPBELL IS
CAPTAIN OF TEAM.
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Nine to Meet Cordova Picked and
' Game ^Vill be Played To- •
morrow Evening.
The team that will represent Seward
against Cordova on the Fourth of
July has been selected but the only
facts that the managers will give out
for publication is that Joe Campbell
has been chosen captain. A team
from the “others” will meet the
champions tomorrow evening for the
first practise game|
SALMON MAKE
EARLIEST RUN
CANNERIES TO WESTWARD PUT
UP BIG PACKS AT EARLIEST
DATE ON RECORD.
The canneries to the westward
made the earliest start this year than
in any other year on record. The
Northwestern company was catching
on May 18 which is a record for all
time. They had eight thousand cases
of salmon, mostly kings, taken eight
days ago. Libby, McNeil & Libby j
had four thousand cases on June 7 !
and have probably doubled that j
amount in the intervening time, ac
cording to Dr. J. A. Baughman who
returned this morning on the Watson.
The red salmon are now running
strong in the upper inlet but not yet
in the lower parts. The doctor fomd |
the game in good condition all over, i
Moose and bear are plentiful and no
violations of the law worth speaking
of have been committed. I>r. Baugh
man was accompained by Ben Sweazy. I
During the trip they made five
hundred miles in a dory with an even
rude and slept out on the beach at
nights.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
CORPORATION FORMED.
Juneau Dispatch: The Arctic
Brotherhood Building corporation
yesterday filed its articles of incor
poration with Secretary Davidson.
The capital stock of the corporation
is placed at $G0,000 and the limit of
indebtedness at $500,000. The object
of the corporation is to build club and
lodge rooms for the Juneau camp of
the order, and after they have been
paid for to turn them over to the
camp.
The time of the corporation is plac
ed at 25 years, and the business is to
be handled by a board of seven
trustees. The incorparators are J. F.
A. Strong Grover C. Winn, Tom Rad
onich, John B. Marshall and F. E.
Bradley.
CARRANZA NOT
TO MAKE PEACE
CIU'ISER COLORADO RCSHES TO
AID AMERICANS AND
OTHER FOREIGNERS.
WASHINGTON, June 17.—Car
ranza has again refused the overtures
of Villa and Zapata to meet with a
view to arranging terms of peace.
From information received here it is
understood that he considers hi* op
ponents already beaten and that he
will accept full victory or nothing.
SAN DIEGO, June 17.—The cruiser
Colorado has rushed to the aid of
Americans and other foreigners at
Guaymas where the Yaquis have de
clared war against the Mexicans,
Americans and Germans. The Indians
allege that a crack shot of German
nationality defended hi* home during
the last raid and killed several of the
Yaquis. Hence the inclusion of the
German colonists in the light.
IS KILLED BY
A FALLING TREE.
KETCH I KAN .—George Westberg,
a member of the Sitka Moose lodge,
was killed by a falling tree yesterday
afternoon. The dead man in partner
ship with J. H. Hopkins was engaged
in hand logging for the Ketchikan
Power company on Tangass island.
Yesterday afternoon a big tree was
felled, which caught in a smaller one
standing near by, and when Wester
berg was chopping the second one to
enable the larger tree to fall, the
whole thing col las pod, falling on him
and killing him instantly.
WENT ON WATSON.
The following went out this morn
ing on the Watson:
C. S. Lindsay, R. W. Schenck and
wife, H. C. Goodrick, John Brown,
and Chas. Brandt.
Job printing of every description at
The Gateway. _
BRYAN SPEAKS AGAIN
WASHINGTON June 17.—William Jennings Bryan
has issued a second installment to his statements on the
war question. He declares, in the first place, that the
United States should be prepared but that it should be
prepared to keep peace. He praises Wilson’s efforts to
maintain peace. Lansing conferred today with the
Scandinavian diplomats and it is believed that the com
bined Scandinavian nations are contemplating a protest
against the destruction of neutral shipping by German
submarines.
MACKENSEN ADVANCING
LONDON, June 17.—General Mackensen has receiv
ed strong reinforcements and is now advancing rapidly
after the retreating Russians in Galicia. So swift are his
successes that he has stated that he expects to take Lem
berg this month. There is no attempt here to deny the
severity of the defeats of the Russians in that quarter of
the war arena and Britain is now watching eagerly to see
the outcome.
REPULSE TURKS
LONDON, June 17.—News was published officially
this afternoon of the fighting in the west and the Dardan
elles. The chief news contained in the dispatches is that
the French and British have repulsed the Turks on the
Gallipoli peninsula. The enemy made a terrific assault
but lost heavily when they were beaten back. It is also
announced that the fighting in the west for the past
twenty-four hours has been the heaviest for many weeks.
The British succeeded in winning a mile of front near
'Festubert but were compelled to abandon the fruits of
their victory by a savage assault.
AUSTRIANS rIpULSED
ROME, June 17.—The Italians have driver, the
Austrians from the Alpine peaks north of Montenegro
and have secured some strong positions as a result.
SAY TURKS WANT PEACE
ROME, June 17.—Once again the rumor is current
that Turkey is seeking a seperate peace. She is reported
to be out of munitions of war and is unable to continue
the struggle.