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ROIIMANIA ENTERS THE ERAY ON
THE SIDE OE ENTENTE ALLIES
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ROUMANIA DECLARES WAR
THE HAGUE, August 28.—(Bulletin)— It is officially
admitted in Berlin dispatches that Roumania has declared
war against the Central powers.
FIFTEENTH NATION ENTERS
LONDON. August 28. — That Roumania has joined
the allies with a well trained and equipped army of six
hundred thousand men is the official statement made from
Berlin this afternoon. It was announced that Roumania
had declared war on Austria last night and it was further
announced by the French foreign office that Roumania
had declared war against all the Central powers. The in
formation coming today is to the effect that Germany will
dismiss the Roumanian minister to Berlin today and ac
cording to an Exchange Telegraph message to The Hague
Germany will follow the example id* Roumania today and
declare war in turn. Roumanians declaration was reached
at a meeting of the crown council summoned by King Fer
dinand last night and the declaration is expected to be the
signal for the early entrance of Greece into the war on the
side of the allies.
ROUMANIANS MOBILIZED
PARIS. August 28.—The Roumanian Third Army has
already been mobilized within striking distance of the
Hungarian frontier and is expected to invade Transyl
vania within the week, striking westward towards Bester
cze. Roumanians entry into the war makes the fifteenth
nation now engaged. The greatest rejoicing is felt here
because of Roumanians action as the Roumanians were al
ways regarded by themselves and all Europeans as a sort
of offshoot of the French, a Latin people and not Slavs.
Their civilization is French and all their habits and cus
toms are molded on those of this country so that Frence
feels todav that a brother has come to its assistance.
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GREECE EXCITED
LONDON, August 28.—Pro-Ally enthusiasm has been
fanned to fever heat in Greece by the Bulgarian invasion
of the northern provinces of Greece and this enthusiasm
broke out in a series of great meetings in Athens on Sun
day, yesterday. King Constantine was openly denounced
for failing long before to lend aid to the allied cause and
he was urged to prepare at once the army for action.
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ITALY AND GERMANY AT WAR
ROME, August 28.—Italy today declared war against
Germany for the first time since the great war began.
The declaration became inevitable, the announcement
says, when Italy recently sent troops to Saloniki to co
operate with the troops of the Entente alliance. Ger
many is directing the campaign on the Macedonian front
and has troops there so that a clash between the forces of
the two powers could not be avoided. The feeling has al
ways been favorable to avoiding a war with Germany as
Italy has wanted it to be known to the world that it fought
only to secure the “unredeemed" provinces.
BULGARS CONTINUE ADVANCE
ATHENS, August 28.—The Bulgarians have continu
ed their advance into Greek territory and the occupation
of the Greek forts at Port Kavala has brought Greece near
er to war than at any other period since the European up
heavel began. King Constantine is to hold another con
ference with his ministers and war chiefs today and the
result might be of the greatest moment. The pro-ally
newspapers are demanding an immediate declaration of
war against Bulgaria and Germany while the pro-German
papers are silent.
FIGHTING BECOMES VERY SLOW
LONDON, August 2S.—No information above the or
dinary was conveyed in the official announcements today
regarding the fighting on the western or eastern front
last night. Only local engagements are recorded but the
entry of Roumania has caused some celebrations in this
city and in other cities throughout the island. Petrograd
reports conditions on the southeastern front very favor
able and announces that the Turks are still being worsted
severely on the Tigris.
FI FVFN A||TfK PH F isenate cannot get
LLLVLI1 nUlUo TILL through with urogram
UP IV EA1AL RACE WASHINGTON, August 28.—
-- Senator Kern, democratic floor leader,
Only Three Lives Lost in Awful Mix has announced that the senate cannot
„ „ . , possibly through with its pro
lTp on Kalamazoo l rack.
gram on Friday as had been p anned.
KALAMAZOO. Mich., August 28.— SNOQUALMIK KIKE IS
Marion Arnold aiul Jack Peacock were DISASTROUS 10 ITMRRR
killtni anil eight others were seriously " _
. SEATTLE, August 28.—Forest
injured, one fatally, when eleven out I
J | fires of a uisastrous kind are sweep
of tourteen automobiles piled up at jn^ national forest reserve near
the first turn of a hundred mile race Snoqualmie and have already destroy
in Recreation Park here yesterday. *nl more than 1,800 acres. This area
The accident occurred when Peacock’s ained some of the finest timbei
car which was leading skidded, struck* but all was burnt within two da\s.
the fence and overturned. It was
thrown across the track before the at- HUGHES GOES AFTER THE
tendants could signal the other dnv- ADMINISTRATION AGAIN
ors and before anything could be done
ten other cars going at a tremendous DENVER, August 2S.—Thousands
clip plowed into the wreckage. The j "horned Hughes here yesterday and
whole ten smashed in almost in a pile j ^ ho declared that capital
•but the other three did not strike till and labor are the country’s two hand*
lafer. A few of the cars were com- •>'"1 ‘b“‘ both sboubl be us‘''1 inif"''
pletely demolished. *"»«>’. The business of the nation
_ . faces a new era, he said, when capita!
Dan Sullivan is visiting in the city j and labor must co-operate for efllci
at present but will soon return to Mile cncy. The candidate rapped the ad
84 where he is foreman. i ministration severely.
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SAY BREMEN IS COMING
BERLIN, August 28.—The Cologne Gazette says that
; the”submarine Bremen is now on the way to the United
States with a cargo of dyes. The safe return of the Deut
schland is still being made the subject of great rejoicings.
FIGHTS HIS OWN GERMANY
LONDON, August 28.—In joining the Allies, King
Ferdinand of Roumania is making war upon his own peo
ple. He is a member of the Prussian house of Hohenzol
lern, being a son of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern. His
wife is the Princess Marie, daughter of the Duke of Saxe
Coburg and Gotha. Ferdinand is an officer in the Prus
sian guard and other Prussian units and also holds a com
mission in the i)0th infantry regiment of the Austrian
army.
THIEPVAL THE KEY
LONDON, August 27.—(Sunday)—At the end of the
eighth week the allied offensive is found steadily driving
bj.it the progress is slow, a semi official announcement
says. It is asserted that when Thiepval is won the British
left can advance further. The general news from all
fronts today shows that the fighting is lessening every
where except in the Caucasus where it continues stub
bornly. The allied governments seem to be witholding
news of progress except where the Russians are advanc
ing in the vicinity of Stanislau where another village has
been captured.
BULGARIANS GOING STRONG
SOFIA, August 27.—(Sunday)—Reports have been
received that our armies now hold fifty miles of the shores
of the Agean sea and are menacing the flank of the allies.
We captured Fort Stariala and annihilated the garrison,
it is announced. It is admitted here that Roumania has
increased her war credit to forty millions and that King
Ferdinand has refused to receive the kaiser's private em
bassy. No one denies that the possibility of Roumania
joining the allied powers is not remote.
GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED
LONDON, August 27.—(Sunday)—The Germans last
night unsuccessfully attacked the British lines at Bethune
and north of Arras. They also bombarded with artillery
the British trenches north of Delville and Manetz.
AIRCRAFT DESTROYED
LONDON, August 27.—(Sunday)—British air
craft yesterday made a successful raid behind the German
lines and dropped five tons of bombs. We lost two planes,
however, but we destroyed a German one.
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NO SETTLEMENT YET IN THE
_GREAT RAILROAD CONTROVERSY
Sale of Lois At
Nenana Concludes
Sudden Drop in Prices Indicates
Latest Sales Were Resi
dence Lots.
Word was received from Agent
Christensen by his representative this
morning that the sale of lots at Ne
nana was ended on the 25th. The
total number of lots sold was 551 and
the total price received was $152,525.
The difference between the total
money received on the first day or
two from that which was received lat
er indicates that in the concluding
days only residence lots must have
been disposed of towards the close. It
*\ as expected that the sale would not
conclude until Saturday.
WICK IX SEATTLE AND
ROASTS ADMINISTRATION
SEATTLE, August 27. — Delegate
Wickershum has arrived from Wash
ington and is bound north to begin his
campaign for re-election to congress.
He says the administration has vici
ously and unreasonably fought him on
the Alaska fisheries questions. He
also says that he has been nominated
by petition and that the present op
position to him in Alaska is nothing
new.
ROCKEFELLER UNION FOR
MINERS A FAILURE
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug.
14.—Delegates from the Rockefeller
mines in Colorado were prominent at
the opening of the annual convention
of the state federation of labor here
today.
The miners of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron (Rockefeller’s) company are
Hocking back to the United Mine
Workers Union.
Recent open organization meetings
in the Colorado coal fields have been
attended by representatives of the
Rockefeller company as well as the
miners whose union afiiliations were
condemned in the historic strike of
15)13-14.
“There is no talk of a strike ,” said
President McClennan of the state fed
eration today. “The men are not
threatened with discharge for joining
the United Miners. The C. F. & l.
apparently is making good on its
promise not to discriminate against
union men.
“Put the fact that the men in Mr.
Rockefeller’s mines are again joining
the union means that the company s
‘industrial representation plan’ isn’t
all that the men desire. The men feel
that their representatives in ‘Rocke
feller’s union’ are selected rather than
.elected. The miners want an organiza
tion of their own, supported by them
I selves.
“Mr. Rockefeller’s industrial repre
sentation plan is paternalistic. The
miners feel they are being spied upon.
Their representatives in the Rocke
feller union are selected at small
meetings which only a small portion
of the miners attend.”
McClennan stated that the Rocke
feller company had instituted great
improvements in the way of Y. M. C.
A.’s, moving picture shows and “social
service.”
“But the wages of the coal miners
have not been increased. They are
still being paid about 55 cents per ton
and the demand during the great
strike was over 10 per cent increase
on this amount.
“One good thing—the saloons in
the Rockefeller camps have been aboi
| ished under state prohibition law.”
1 A feature at the convention today
WASHINGTON, August 28. — President Wilson to
^ day took up what may be the last weapon against the na
tion wide industrial paralysis threatened by the great
railroad strike difficulty, and this last weapon is congress.
The intention of the President to call in congress is taken
to indicate his belief that the other chances of averting
the strike have grown slender. The call to congress, it is
said, will be not only for legislation to aid in preventing
the strike but to give means for handling it should it oc
cur. There is another report current that the President
might appeal to the brotherhoods to postpone strike ac
lion for sufficient time to enable him to get through some
legislation that would make a settlement possible; without
endangering the country’s welfare. One of the most re
markable facts arising from the dispute is that talk
amongst congressmen and senators is increasing in favor
of the passage of an 8 hour law covering not only railroad
employees but the employees of all corporations and in
dustries.
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WASHINGTON, August 27.—(Sunday)—The rail
road presidents became somewhat panicky today when
they learned that President Wilson had gone to the Capi
tol last evening after an hour’s conference with Senator
Newlands and had urged congressional recognition of the
basic principle of an eight hour day. The railroad heads
immediately adjourned when they heard the news and
Holden, one of their number, announced that a sub com
mittee was ready to confer with President Wilson. It is
also known that Secretary Lane and Newlands had a
secret conference in the evening. It was later announced
that the railroad presidents would meet at 10 Monday
morning. In the meantime the leaders of the railway
brotherhoods are annoyed and disappointed. Lee, one of
the leaders, declared in a speech at the Bijou Theatre that
they were tired of being kidded and the railroads were
side-stepping the issue. He concluded by declaring that
the strike orders will be distributed on Monday unless
some arrangement is arrived at.
TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT
*K01! THE BIG. BIG TIME
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The members of the Woman’s Club
are now perfectly confident that the
dance tonight will be one of the
pleasantest ever seen here. The pro
ceeds will be given to buy a piano for
the school and everyone who gives
half a dollar will have the satisfaction
of knowing that he or she is doing
something for education as well as for
pleasure. As stated before, the dance
will be of an unusually pleasant kind
.because the ladies always make theii
dances facile princeps. They take an
interest in making them so and they
make sure of being present, and that
means everything. As the evenings
are getting long now people should
come earlier. In the first part of the
Evening the great crowd will not be
present that is sure to be there later
on. It will be a lovely time.
MIGHT HAVE ABDUCTED
E. H. HAKRIMAX’S SON
BOISE, Idaho, August 28.—The
foreman of the Harriman ranch on
Snake river has been placed in jail
pending an investigation into the
charge that he was plotting to abduct
the son of Mrs. E. H. Harriman,
widow of the late famous financier.
The authorities have secured a letter,
they say, which was addressed to the
foreman and which dealt with the sub
ject of holding young Harriman for a
big ransom. (The foreman’s name is
mot given).
LONDON, August 16. — “What is
your father?” an applicant for exemp
tion from military duty was asked to
day. “A Corpse, sir,” was the unex
pected answer.
was the strict enforcement of the rule
that every delegate must wear at least
five articles of clothing with the
union label
PTARMIGAN, GROUSE
HAVE DISAPPEARED
The coming bird season which opens
on Friday next, September 1, will
bring little consolation to the Nim
i rods of Seward ami Kenai peninsula
i as the ptarmigan and (Irou.se, Dr.
i,Baughman says, have fled away.
I There aint none. The doctor, who is
! the game warden of the district, says
i that every once in a while, every few
I years or so, the birds for some cause
! or another migrate to the interior.
There is no apparent reason for this
i as there is no apparent reason for the
rabbits dying on certain years.
THIS IS PIONEER
DAY IN SEWARD
Seward has a Pioneer Day and this
is it. Each year when the 28th of
August comes around this fact must
be noted in print and Unlay the names
of the Pioneers have been handed in
as usual. The story of the coming of
the Seward Pilgrim Fathers on the
steamship Santa Ana, a holy name as
a pilgrim shop should have, has been
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told before. The following are the
pioneers who came on that modern
Mayflower or who were here at the
time and are here yet:
Frank E. Youngs, A. F. Rasmussen,
G. F. Kerns, T. W. Hawkins, John
Nelson, Daykin family, Geo. Phelps,
C. F. Hewett, “pistol” Pete, Mrs.
Hettle, Col. Revel, Fred Laubner, Mrs.
Revel, W. G. Weaver.
ALAMEDA SAILS
SEATTLE, August 27.—The Ala
meda sails today, Sunday, and closes
the excursion season. The Victoria
will sail Wednesday.
Nearly half the town went out on
the bay yesterday and several parties
had a royal time.
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