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BRITISH SEND 220,000
LONDON, Sept. 15.—Kitchner announced this after
noon m the house of lords that two hundred and twenty
thousand additional men have just been sent to France to
reinforce the British army. While Kitchener was speak
ing in the upper house Prime Minister Asquith was telling
the house of commons that the war cost to the British Em
pire is dousing every four months and that it is now ap
proaching twenty-live million dollars a day. He further
stated mat the sum for which he is now asking will last
only until November b at the present rate of expenditure
but he wound up his speech by declaring that “victory will
hked\ incline to the side which is able best to arm itself
and which can stay longest in the field.’’
RUSSIANS HARD PRESSED
BERLIN, Sept. 15.—The Russians are now hard
pressed from a point east of Grodno to the Pinsk marshes
which stretch to the river Pripet from the city of Pinsk.
Yon Mackensen is pursuing the Slavs and approaching
Pinsk itself so that there is a likelihood that he may be
able to drive them on to the marshes and annihilate them.
The Bavarians in the center have crossed the Szesara
river in many places.
BERNSTORFF HOPEFUL
NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Count von Bernstorff, Ger
man ambassador, who is now here has given out an inter
view in which he declares that all the differences between
Germany and the l nited States will he settled within a
fortnight.
GERMANS OFFERED BIG MONEY
TOLEDO, Sept. 15.—'That German agents offered the
president of the National Longshoremen's Union one mil
lion and fifty thousand dollars to bring about a strike for
one month on the Atlantic and Pacific is the statement
made today by O'Connor, one of the well known members
of the union. He declares that the amount offered was
equal to the strike benefits for twenty-four thousand men
for a month.
ROUMANIA vs. AUSTRIA
ROME, Sept. 15.—That Roumania is mobilizing for
the purpose of attacking Austria is the news arriving
from Athens. Nothing is said of the intentions of Bul
garia but should Roumania attack Austria and should
Bulgaria finally decide to enter the war on the Teutonic
side it will place Roumania between two enemies. The
Balkan situation is regarded now as being in the most
critical stage.
ASQUITH ASKS BILLION
LONDON, Sept. 15.—Premier Asquith yesterday in
the house of commons asked for a further credit of a bil
lion dollars and that he will receive it is certain. This
will bring the total loans up to six and a quarter billions.
Some protests are now coming from those who will be
hardest hit by the new war taxes but the method of rais
ing money outlined yesterday will probably be followed
in spite of opposition. The statement of Asquith yester
day to the effect that conscription will not be made law
this session has removed for the time being any danger of
a bitter internal right. It is rumored that the cabinet
members in favor of conscription are nearly all members
of the Conservative party. Lloyd George, Chancellor of
the Exchequer McKenna and Asquith himself are believed
to be amongst the nine members opposed to the idea.
U. S. MAY LENT) MONEY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—Unofficial assurances
have been given from the White house that the lending
of the billion dollars to the allied nations will not be a
violation of neutrality and that the administration will,
therefore, not interfere. It is assumed that the secretary
of state has looked up the international law dealing with
the subject. _
MILLION \IRE’S SON
M l KDERS STEPFATHER.
Man Killed Twelve Hours After
Marrying Widowed Mother
of the Prisoner.
NOGALES, Arizonia. Sept. 15.—
Frank Proctor, son of the late Charles
Proctor, a millionaire, has been jailed
on the charge of murdering his step
father twleve hours after the latter
had been married to the prisoner’*'
mother. The strangest part of the af
fair is that the prisoner and his
mother each declares that he or she
is guilty of the murder alone. Ihe
prisoner says he killed the stepfather
without the knowledge of his mother,
' and the mother says she killed, her
husband without the knowledge of her
son.
BOSTON, Sept. 15.—For the first
time in history the public schools of
this city were closed today because of
the heat. So oppressive was the at
mosphere that the children were
threatened with prostration.
❖ SEATTLE BURGLAR *
❖ GOT LOAF OF BREAD. *
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SEATTLE, Sept. 15.—The home of
Mrs. Henry Treack in this city was
entered by a burglar last night
but the intruder got nothing m >re
than a loaf of bread. In passing
through the rooms he passed by a
dressing table where money and
jewellry to the value of several hun
dreds of dollars were in plain sight
but must have escaped his notice.
COHASSET BEAC H HOTEL
BURNED TO THE GROUND.
HOQUIAM, Sept. 15.—The Cohas
1 set Reach hotel at Cohasset was
destroyed by fire last night and one
man is supposed to have lost his life.
The loss is fifteen thousand dollars.
r. S. HOLDS H ATI EX PORTS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—Admir
al Caperton wires that the United
! States marines now hold nine Haitien
, ports.
U. S. CONSULS
| LEAVE OCT. 1
l INAL DECISION BY lT. S. GOV
ERNMENT PORTENDS AP
PROACHING TROUBLE.
NOGALES, Sept. 15.—All United
States consuls in Mexico have been
ordered to leave Mexico by October 1.
This order became known today after
the knowledge that American citizens
had been warned to get out. The date
for the leaving of Americans gener
ally was not specified but that they
will leave when deprived of consular
representatives is certain.
lAREDO, Sept. 15.—Mexican
raiders attack the town of Simon
last night and compelled the citizens
to abandon their houses and flee to
the hills About fifty shots were fired
by the marauding invaders into the
streets but no one was injured. A
cavalry troop was ordered to the re
lief of the place and the Mexicans de
parted in haste for the border.
NINETY-NINE YEARS OLD
AND GOES OUT HUNTING.
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 15.—
Jeremiah Paulscll, ninety-nine years
of age, secured a license here today
and went out on a hunting trip all
alone.
TRYING TO ESCAPE
SET FIRE TO JAIL.
BELLINGHAM, Sept. 15.—A pris
oner in the county jail here set fire to
the prison building last night by up
setting a candle when attempting to
make his escape. He was attempt
ing to get away by cutting a hole in
the ceiling when he turned the candle
over. At the breaking out of the fire
the guards were aroused and the man
was caught and the fire extinguished.
BRYAN CONFERS WITH
FORI) ON PEACE PLAN
DETROIT, Sept. 15.—William Jen
nings Bryan paid a flying visit to
this city last evening to confer with
Ford, the automobile manufacturer,
about the plans of the latter for giv
ing ten million dollars to start a
movement to bring about peace in
Europe. The two men were in con
ference for an hour.
TERRIFIC HEAT WAVE
ALL OVER THE EAST.
Hottest September It in History of
New York and no Signs of
Relief in Sight.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15.—Three
people are dead and many arc pros
trated by the frightful heat which
prevailed here yesterday. 1 he ther
mometer registered ‘JO in the shade.
NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Two peo
ple are dead and a large number arc
prostrated by the heat here. Yester
day was the hottest September 14 on
record in New \ork.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 15.—Seventy
thousand pupils were dismissed from
school this morning until the end of
the hot spill as conditions in the
school rooms had become intolerable.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—The o*
filial report of the weather observer
contains the announcement today that
there is no relief in sight from the
heat wave.
M A RI POS A PA SSEN (IEUS.
SEATTLE, Sept. 15.—The follow
ing are passengers for Seward on the
Mariposa:
Guy Gibbs and wife, Ester Urbach,
Mrs. B. Urbach, E. Corton, A. Case
and wife, Albert Case, Mrs. A.
Michel I. For Knik: • Mrs. N. Ben
nett, Mrs. A. Zwilberg, Mrs. O. E.
Manuelson, James Lyons, Mrs. J. Van
Orsdel, Olive Webb, Jas. Elliott and
wife, Mrs. George Roll and Henry
Hook.
TO TELL FRISCO
ABOUT ALASKA
TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
COPIES ALL-ALASKA RE
VIEW FOR EXPOSITION.
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Two thousand five hundred copies
of the All-Alaska Review will be dis
tributed in San Francisco city and at
the Panama Exposition for the double
purpose of advertising the Review it
self and to let as much as possible be
known of the territory. The articles
by Former Governor Sulzcr of New
York, and Commissioner Riggs of the
Engineering commission are so well
calculated to spread a knowledge of
conditions that the last issue of the
Review is particularly useful for the
end in view, the article of Sulzer tell
ing with record brevity what Alaska
is, and the article of Riggs showing
what the railroad will accomplish.
The Review is now on a solid basis
and will gradually develope until it is
well worthy of the great territory
which it is its ambition to represent
• to the full. Never, perhaps, before
in the history of such publications has
it been known for one to pay for it
self from the very beginning, but this
is what the All-Alaska Review has
done, great as the expense of pro
ducing such a monthly is. The next
issue in all likelihood will contain
what will be the most absorbingly in
teresting controversy in the story of
the Northland. The Review has been
chosen for the purpose by a man who
is probably one of the three best
known public men in the territory
and already features are looming up
for future issues of similar import
ance. All indications are now point
ing to the fact that the Review is se
curing a firm foundation far away
from the city where it is published
, and that it will soon rank as high a*,
if not higher than, any periodical
, west of the Rockies,
i B. M. Stone, one of the publishers,
will personally represent the Review
at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
BELIEVE EXPLOSIVES
FOUND ON OCEAN LINER.
Two Bottles Supposed to Contain
Something to Destroy chip
Found on Lapland.
NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Two bottles
which arc believed to contain high ex
plosives w’ere found in the liner Lap
land last night ju*t before the time
at which she was scheduled to leav.
on her trans-Atlantic journey. The
police have secured the bottles but no
test of the contents has yet been
made although it is generally believed
that the destruction of the ship was
intended. The delay in ascertaining
what the bottles contain is due to the
belief that experts should have the
work to avoid accident.
WERE DRY SAYS GOVERNOR
OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
COLUMBIA, Sept. 15.—The state
has voted dry and the new law will
| come into effect on January birst.
Thirty counties which had previously
been dry under local option evidently
found a dry condition to be advisable
and they voted dry wih the rest under
the state election.
FAIRBANKS HAS
IMMENSE FLOOD
TWO SPANS OF BRIDGE GONE
AND OPEN CUT MINES
T EM POR A RIL Y F LOO I)EI).
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 15.—The
worst flood for this time of the year
in the history of Fairbanks is now
raging and already two spans of Ibe
city bridge have been swept away and
the whole bridge is threatened with
complete annihilation although there
is a hope still that the remainder can
be saved. A crew is now woiking on
it. For a time some uneasiness ex
isted for the town itself but no dam
age has been inflicted. On some of
the creeks open cuts have been flood
ed but the damage will hardly be
more than temporary.
INFANTRY RUSHED TO
MEET MEXICAN BANDITS.
Mexicans Will be Made to Suffer for
the Killing of Six Texans.
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 15.—Two
companies of infantry have been rush
ed to San Benito to attack the Mexi
can bandits and to*take reprisals for
the killing of six Texans. The people
of Texas are becoming worked up to
such a pitch by the outrages com
mitted by the Mexicans that a gener
al conflagration may be looked for at
any moment even if the federal gov
ernment does not step in. The in
tervention of the government is now
expected, however.
man who held up lumber
CAMP SHOOTS A MARSHAL.
Thief Shot in the Heel and Judging
by Cable He has Been
Captured.
TACOMA, > Sept. 15.—Marshal
Stone, of Sumner, was shot through
the lung and a deputy was grazed by
a bullet fired from the gun of the man
who is supposed to have he'd up the
Independence logging camp. The ban
dit was shot in the hoeh He had on
him burglar’s tools and forty dollars,
SAN BERNARDINO, Sept. 15.—
The Mojave Indians refuse to move
to their new reservation and are get
ting so ugly that troops have beer
called.
BRING BIG CAR COR
ALASKA NORTHERN
Some Money Still Left and Work
Will Proceed Even In Absence
of Chairman Edes.
Work on the Alaska Northern rail
road will be continued ;ill winter by
the government engineering commis
sion and the force of men will be
gradually increased front this time
i forward. Mr. Kdes will probably go
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to Washington in November but his
departure will not mean the closing
down of the work. Then; is still left
some of the money appropriated in |
spite of the enormous amount of I
equipment secured and the extensive
nature of the operations. The amount
of winter work to be done on the Ala
ska Northern, according to Mr. Kdes
himself, will depend on the sort of
weather conditions prevailing during
the coming season. Wheai a~k •(! if
any rock work will be attempted he
stated that it is not impossible that
some work in that line might be done
beyond Kern creek. The pile driver
is being moved out to Milo Thirty
four today and when the work is com
pleted it will be moved out to Placer
River where some bridges had been
injured by the unusual floods.
The question was put direct to Hie
chairman of the commissnion this
morning as to whether the commis
sion would recommend the making ot
a large appropriation at the com
mencement of the session ot congre.-.i
which will meet in December and he
stated that certainly they would try
to secure all the money they could.
A large car will be placed on the
Alaska Northern next spring
i handle the expected increase ot pa -
! senger traffic. Under the conditions
| Mr. Kdes believes that an electric car
I would be more suitable than the regu
j lar steam locomotive system for pa
! sengors and he mentioned the iac’
j that some great railroads outside u. •’
! such cars.
An attempt to learn how much
: money still remains at the disposal of
* t • i
I the commission was unsuccc.
1 it is apparently s dficient to ••cal i»
! the work to he carried on near S« w
1 ard as long as the weather permits
' and this is the chief consideration at
1 present. New men will he kept go
1 ing on as occasion arises.
DlFMBA SOON TO GO
LENOX, Mass'! Sept. 15— Dumba, the Austrian am
bassador, is expected to leave in a fortnight on a Scandin
avian liner for Austria. No answer has been received
from the Austrian government to the request for his re
call but the ambassador will not, of course, remain wheth
er his home government answers or not. From semi-of
ficial statements from Vienna it is assumed that the recall
will take place, however.
CENSOR NEWSPAPER MAIL
ST. JOHN, N. B., Sept. 15.—A censorship has been de
clared on mail adnssed to newspapers as a result of at
tempts to send pro-German articles to several publica
tions. In a few ins ;ances such articles have been publish
ed, either because he editors were unable to discern the
obect undedlying tiem or because they did not care.
LOAN MEETS OPPOSITION
NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—The proposed loan of a bil
lion dollars to the: Hied nations is meeting with heavy op
position from ban :ers in the middle and far western
states. Many banters in the middle western states are
going so far as to ; ,dvocate a loan of half a billion to Ger
many as a way of srippling the credit facilities of the Al
lies and this propo ial may be carried out. The terms pro
posed for the loan ;o the Allies are that it be paid in sever
al installments, to run ten years at five per cent and pay
able in dollars. It is to be a first mortgage on France and
Great Britain and must be given preference over all other
obligations, and b; free from income tax.
HOLDING GERMAN IMPORTS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—The imports from Ger
many to this country, which the allied nations promised to
let pass, are still ieing held up and there is no assurance
of their immediate release. The British government ex
plains this delay fby saying that the approval of the
French'government is being awaited.
Germans checked
PETROGRAD, Sept. 15.—The German attack on
Dvinsk, the key 15 Petrograd, has been seriously checked
and the Russians have recaptured the railroad 1 rom
Dvinsk to Vilna,; o obviating a very great danger. Aviat
ors report, howe rer, that von Billow has been reinforced
and that the Teu ions are returning to the attack in great
force. An officii statement this morning claims the cap
ture of an Austtan battalion near the Galician frontier
and the taking if eighty-six hundred prisoners. The
struggle in the (fclician area continues energetically with
our forces taking the offensive.
ARABIC CASE ENDED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—President Wilson lias de
cided that the German note on the Arabic case is an en
dorsement of v(|i Bernstorff’s assurance that lineis M ill
1 not be attacked in future and the matter is believed to be
concluded.