VoL X)1 Member Associated Press SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1914._Member Associated Press_Ten Cents the Copy
Hundreds ot Thousands Building Entrenchments Around French Capital Germans Advance Still, But Are
Meeting Bloody Opposition ••• British People Enlist by Tens of Thousands Another French City Falls Rus
sians Expert to March on Berlin and Vienna Austrians Overwhelmed and Retreating 1,500,000 in Battle
FRENCH ESTABLISH GOVERNMENT AT BORDEAUX
Battle Now Raging Will
Decide Fate of Paris
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FRENCH GOVERNMENT AT BORDEAUX
BORDEAUX, France, Sept. 3.—President Poincare
and the members of the cabinet arrived here this after
noon and were received with extraordinary enthusiasm
by immense crowds ot people, lhe entr> was lather like
a triumph than the ending ot a flight ot a go\einment
from its capital city.
The government headquarters have already been es
tablished and the government of France goes on uninter
ruptedly.
PARIS DIG TRENCHES
PARIS, Sept. 3.—Several hundreds of thousands of
men are now engaged around this city preparing tor the
defense of the city. Great masses ot soldiers and laooieis
are laboring feverishly to construct an immense and com
plicated system of entrenchments outside the city and
never in history was an army confronted with such ob
stacles as are now being raised against the Germans. So
great are the entrenchments that the people begin to feel
that the Germans can never take the city.
GERMANS OCCUPY AMIENS
AMIENS, France, Sept. 3.—The German army has oc
cupied this city after three days of terrific fighting. The
city is 81 miles from Paris by rail and has a population of
about one hundred thousand. The defeat ot the allies a
few days ago in that neighborhood made the fall of the
city inevitable.
The entry of the Germans into the city itself was not
contested. The mayor urged the citizens to make no dis
turbance and they obeyed. In other towns w here the citi
zens attacked the Germans civilians were treated as spies
and shot.
RUSSIA FOR SERVIA
BERLIN, Sept. 3.—The Russian government is now
transporting troops and ammunition to Servia by the way
of the Danube and will probably open an attack on the
Austrians from that quarter in conjunction with the Ser
vian army.
NISH, Servia, Sept. 3.—In a battle just fought be
tween the Austrians and the Servians on the frontier one
hundred and fifty thousand Servians defeated two hun
dred thousand Austrians and placed one hundred and for
ty thousand Austrians hors du combat. The battle is said
to have been the easiest victory won by Servia since the
beginning of the war.
REPORT BRITISH MEET SUCCESS
LONDON, Sept. 3.—A dispatch from the Chronicle’s
correspondent at the front says that the superiority of the
British artillery coupled with the pluck of the British In
fantry is rapidly telling on the Germans. He declares
that a few more days like Monday and Sunday and the
German army will have destroyed itself. The loss of the
Germans in those battles and during the whole war have
been something terrible, according to this correspondent,
because of their terrific charges and advances against all
opposition.
The correspondent goes on to say that whole divisions
of German infantry have been blotted out and the German
ranks generally are beginning to show' demoralization.
In the latest assault fought the Germans advanced a
few miles but gained no marked advantage according to
the news issued this afternoon here. The government
has given out an expression of belief that the German ca
reer of victory cannot last and that news of the most fa
vorable kind may be looked for. At the same time it can
not be denied that there is a feeling that the French, fight
ing in their ow n country w ith the army of only one nation
to face and with a British army at its side, ought to be
able to take the offensive instead of falling back before
an army which is away from home and belongs to a coun
try w hich is attacked on its other side.
One particular fact noted by the Chronicle correspon
dent is that in the latest battle the Germans showed un
mistakable signs of unsteadiness and in several cases
broke and fled. In the earlier battles of the war this wav
ei^ng was not noticeable among the ranks of the invading
armies.
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MARTIAL LAW
FOR MONTANA
militia around butte fol
low IN FOOTSTEPS OF WIL
HELM AND NICHOLAS
BUTTE, Sept. 2.—The militia has
established partial martial law in this
city and are in full control of matter#.
They have even prohibited a lodge
meeting and labor organizations must
obtain permits to carry on their af
fairs.
The condition here now could hard
ly be worse in this respect if the coun
try were at war. Many prominent
citizens object to the czar-like meas
ures taken and some ridicule them but
the authorities declare that lawless
ness had gone so far that stern
mesaures were necessary.
SEWARD DEMOCRATS
ELECT DELEGATES
This City Will be Represented at Di
visional Convention at Cordova
At a meeting of the Seward Demo
cratic club held last evening the fol
lowing named persons were elected as
delegates to the divisional convention
to be held at Cordova, Sept. 8, to se
lect candidates for the territorial leg
islature:
Charles Crawford, Mrs. C. E. Mar
tin, J. E. Fitzpatrick, Carl Almey, I).
C. Mathison, M. J. Doyle.
Joe Meherin, a well-known travel
ing man, is now in Seward.
WAR DECLARED ON
SEWARD GATEWAY
One Who Was Described ns
“Kaiser of Russia” Severs Dip
lomatic Relations
The report of the recent oc
currences in the city council as it
appeared in the Gateway has evi
dently strained the relations ex
isting between this paper and the
concert of four great powers in
the municipal government of
Seward. Recently a member of
the council took his advertise
ment out of the paper. An offi
cial followed siyt after the re
port of last Monday’s proceed
ings, and today the mayor did
likewise and so severed the diplo
matic relations. A state of war
may now therefore be said to ex
ist. Councilman Chamberlin at
the last meeting described the
mayor as something like the
“kaiser of Russia” so the Gate
way must be a sort of cross be
tween the republic of France and
the dual monarchy of Austria
Hungary.
Recent advices from the war
department seem to indicate that
the council powers refuse to pay
a war indemnity, which is a good
word for advertising by the way,
so that a rupture in the relations
must follow.
The concert of four great pow
ers believes, evidently, in the pol
icy of withdrawing financial sup
port from all hostile forces so
that they might starve out the
enemy by separating from his
base of supplies. In this respect
history repeats itself as the Four
Great Powers some time ago
withdrew the whole treasury
where the enemy could not hope
to approach it. The last official
bulletin issued by the Gateway is
to the effect that—to use the
words of the poet—that the Four
Great Powers can go to Jericho.
; SUPPLIES COME
FOR ELECTION
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I ; LOC AL AND CONGRESSIONAL
ELECTION WILL TAKE
PLACE NOV. 3
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The supplies for the holding of the
I elections in November reached the
United States commissioner on the
last boat and the notice of election
also. The elections will take place on
November 3. At that time there will
be elected a delegate to congress, four
representatives to the territorial leg
islature and one territorial senator.
Notice of the election will be post
ed at once and will be later adver
tised.
HERBERT TOZIEICS
FATHER IS DEAD
The sad news has been received
that Mr. Tozier, father of Herbert To
zier, passed away since Mr. Tozier
was outside some days ago. The
death of Mr. Tozier took place while
his son was on the way back to this
city.
LICENSES REVOKED
While the floating court was out
this summer the liquor license of An
l drew Groswalt of Sand Point was re
voked. At Unga the licenses of E.
Wilson and the Alaska Cod Fish com
pany were revoked. The charges
i were mainly drunkeness around the
i places.
j CAPTAIN ERUNG MARRIED
Captain E. Erling of the whaling
| station at Akutan was married by
i Judge Brown during the session of
! the floating court. The captain was
! married to a young lady who spem
[ some days in Seward with her mar
[ ried sister some weeks ago while
I they were on the way westward.
Pope Elected Known as
Benedict the Fifteenth
AUSTRIANS STILL RETREATING
PETROGRAD, Sept. 3—The latest reports about the
battle of Lemberg show that the Austrians were over
whelmingly defeated and lost over one hundred thousand
men and fifty-seven cannons. They are now retreating in
disorder and" abandoning their guns, rifles, packs and bag
gage trains. The rout was complete in every sense. 1 he
occupation of the city of Lemberg itself is imminent and
very little opposition is expected from the defeated troops
of Francis Joseph. The Russians are pursuing the enemy
in great force and hope to join them in another general
engagement before they reach the Carpathian foothills
and before they can rally themselves.
GREAT JAP ARMY FOR FIGHT
PEKIN, Sept. 3.—Six thousand more Japanese troops
are reported to have been landed at Lungkow and it is
also reported that 25,000 more Japanese troops will be
landed to make sure of capturing the German stronghole
at Kiauchau. This is taken to mean here that the Jap
anese believe opposition from this country may develope
as such a force would hardly be useful or required for the
taking of a fort which has a garrison of less than five
thousand.
BRITISH RECRUIT BY THOUSANDS
LONDON, Sept. 3.—A phenomenal rush is now taking
place in these islands to join the army and sixty thousand
recruits were enlisted within the last few days. All peo
ple of all ages and circumstances are crow ding around the
recruiting offices and a million men can be secured with
out difficulty if they are required.
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ROME, Sept. 3.—Cardinal Della
Cheisa has been elected Pope and has
taken the name of Benedict the Fif
teenth.
Two ballots were taken yesterday
by the cardinals but without result.
According to the rules governing
the conclave the cardinals are com
pelled to elect a pope in one sitting
and without being permitted to leave
the chambers in which the election
takes place, so that very little can be
learned of the progress of the elec
tion. However, it was known last
night that the two ballots had been
taken and that another would be
necessary.
The name of Cardinal della Cheisa
does not appear in the list of car
dinals in the world’s almanac for 1914.
The name shows that he is an Italian
and this fact bears out the prophesy
that a prelate of that nationality
would be elevated to the pontifical
throne. It is possible that the new
pope may have been elevated to the
cardinalate since the publication of
the almanac, or it may be possible
that a mistake has been made in the
spelling of the name during the trans
mission of the telegram.
At least one American cardinal was
in Europe when Pius Tenth died so
that this country was most probably
represented at the conclave.
Wanted
Smart boy to learn the printing
trade. Gateway office.
TWO MURDER
TRIALS HERE
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ELEVEN CRIMINAL CASES WILL
BE HEARD IN SEWARD
IN OCTOBER
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Eleven criminal cases will be tried
here when the court sits on the sec
ond of October. Two of these will be
murder trials, one from Knik and one
from Alitak. The principals in the
last named afTair are Mexicans. Judge
W. H. Whittlesey has every case pos
sible that was met by the floating
court brought for trial to the Seward
term. The judge believes that; the
grand jury for the term will be se
lected soon if it has not been selected
already. It is likely that the jury will
be drawn from this district in which
event it may not be drawn until the
court comes.
Among the other cases to be tried
here will be the cases arising from the
PribilofT alleged scandals. At DII-J
lingham six indictments were brought
in two of which were not true bills.
Three rape cases will also come
here. The defendants were bound'
over by the U. S. commissioners on j
the revenue cutters and when the!
floating court was traveling this sum
mer Judge Whittlesey had those cases
also brought here.
While the court was away it per
formed lots of business. Three di
vorces were granted, one to United
States Commissioner French at Dil
lingham and two to natives. The
court made thirteen new citizens at
Unga and received twelve applica
tions for citizenship papers for next
year. Eight declarations of intention
were received and several new citi
zens were also made in other places
touched at.
MARIPOSA DUE AT 4:30
A telegram was received today by
Agent Guptil that the Mariposa Is
due to arrive in Seward at 4:30 p. m.
instead of 6 p. m. The telegram came
by way of Cordova.
TRUST BILL
HAS PASSED
THE CLAYTON MEASURE GOES
THROUGH SENATE WITH
LARGE MAJORITY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—The
Clayton anti-trust bill passed the sen
ate this afternoon by a vote of 46 to
16.
The passage of this bill completes
the administration anti-trust legisla
tion plans for the present session and
no further work in that line remains.
There is a likelihood, however, that
congress will not adjourn for quite a
time as several important matters
arising out of the European war will
probably have to be settled.
WILL FIX ROAD HERE
FOR SLED TRAIL
Anton Eide Says Road Around Lake
Will be Particularly Attended To
Anton Eide, superintendent of
roads, left on the car for Sunrise this
morning and will later return to begin
some improvement work on the road
between the city and Mile 12. He will
perform enough work here to make
sure of a good winter road and par
ticular attention will be devoted, to
the road near the lake as the snow
comes later there than in the other
parts.
The amount of work to be done here
cannot be decided upon until Mr. Eide
goes to the Sunrise country where the
people are asking loudly for road im
provement. The amount of money
appropriated is limited and the chief
care will have to be to distribute it as
wisely as possible in the various
places.
I. 0. McDowell of Colliers is here
on his round of visits to Alaska
points.
See us before sending outside f)r
your job printing.
AUSTRIANS OVERW HELMED
LONDON, Sept. 3.—The feeling of confidence on the
part of the allied armies has been tremendously increased
by the news of the brilliant but bloody victory ot the Rus
sians over the Austrians at the great battle of Lemberg in
Galicia. The battle line extended over a front of two hun
dred miles and one million five hundred thousand men
were engaged in it. The Austrian hosts were completely
overwhelmed and the slaughter was frightful.
Although the details have not been given out it is esti
mated that considerably more than one hundred thousand
men were killed or wounded. The immediate result will
be the evacuation of the city of Lemberg by the Austrians
and the cooping up of the Austrian armies in Austrian
territory when they should be relieving the Russian pres
sure on Germany.
Never since the fall of Liege has so confident a feeling
prevailed in this city as became evident this morning when
the official bulletins were given out telling of the difficul
ties facing the Germans and the splendid fighting of the
Russians. During the Russian war with Japan this coun
try was inclined to be very sarcastic at the expense of the
Russians but it is now evident that the Russian army is
quite a different thing when it is near its base.
MAY REACH VIENNA AND BERLIN
PETROGRAD, Sept. 3.—If all indications do not fail
the Russian armies will be decisively victorious in the
struggle now going on around the German and Austrian
borders and the result will be that the roads to Vienna and
Berlin will be open to the advance of the Russian forces
on those capitals. This capital is now looking forward to
certain triumph for the allied armies in the great war and
is already rejoicing. It is expected that Germany cannot
detach many troops from her armies in France and Bel
gium and that the German forces in the east of Germany
will be overwhelmed by the great armies which Russia can
send against them. _