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TURKS, AUSTRIANS AND ALL CLAIM; VICTORY
REPORT THE SERVIANS EALEINO
BACK AND CRACOW BURNING
RUSSIANS SEKM TO WIN
LONDON, Nov. 17—The trend of the news coming
this afternoon seems to indicate that the Germans am]
Austrians are losing in their lighting with the Russians
but nothing of a really decisive nature can be told with the
possible exception of the reported burning of Cracow.
This story of Cracow is, however, not fully believed as
there has been no intimation that the Russians had ap
proached close enough to the city to bombard it. Berlin
dispatches show that Germany is interpreting the retreat
of the German forces from Warsaw as a strategic master
piece but travellers say that many of the German people
regard the retreat with feelings of chagrin. It remains
it be seen whether official Germany or the people are
correct.
REPORT CRACOW AFIRE
A report has arrived here to the effect that Cracow is
burning but it can be called nothing more than a report
whose origin is not known. The report says that the
flames broke out after a Russian onslaught. It is also
stated once more that the inhabitants of Silesia and East
Prussia are fleeing to the interior of Germany in deadly
fear of the Russian invaders who they believe are now j
approaching. These reports came in dispatches but are j
not called official although they are believed to be correct!
although what really happened in Cracow is not known.
PURSUE SERVIANS
Another report figuring in today’s dispatches is that the
Servians are being driven further into their own country
bv the Austrians ami if this is true it is feared that the
Servian army cannot hold out much longer so that the
country can hardly hope to escape the fate of Belgium.
All this information is of a somewhat hazy kind, however,
and none of it can be called really official.
TURKS DEFEAT RUSSIANS
PETROGRAD, Nov. 17.—The official statement of
the Russian government this morning confirms the Turk
ish news of a battle in which the Russians have received
a check at Erzerum in Turkey in Asia just beyond the
borders of Caucasia.
That the defeat is serious is surmised from the fact
that the government seldom likes to admit reverses. The
Russians invaded Turkish soil in the province of Erzerum
at the very beginning of the war with Turkey and were
supposed to be advancing into the heart of the enemy’s
country but the present check has made a vast change in
matters. It is now assumed that the Turks were well pre
pared at that point contrary to the general belief but
Russia will now prepare to send in stronger forces. The
most serious fact about this check in that Erzerum is on
the border of Persia and it is well known that some of the
Persians at least have shown a desire to take the side of
their co-religionists of Turkey and start war against this
country. Public men now admit that the situation is ser
ious provided the Persians rise against Russian occupa
tion and if the Egyptians also take a hand. It is hoped,
however, that the Russian government will not be com
pelled to take away any of the forces operating against
the Germans and the Austrians in Russian Poland and
East Prussia. This can probably be avoided by calling up
the next line of reserves. It is assumed that the Turks are
now officered by Germans and that Germany is providing
the money for Turkey's war as the Turkish government
has been in serious financial difficulties since the war with
the Balkan kingdoms.
WORST OVER FOR U. S.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—The government officials
say that the worst influences of the war in Europe have
been experienced in the United States and that from this
time forward a general improvement in this country may
be looked for. The restoration of the credit balance with
Europe has greatly eased the situation. Europe is de
manding American food supplies and an enormous trade
is developing in articles needed by the huge armies in the
field. The sales of horses, mules, army clothing, harness
and similar articles are becoming simplv stupendous and
the only difficulty experienced comes from the lack of
ships to transport those things across the Atlantic. The
orders for munitions of war given to this country alone
have already amounted to two hundred millions of dollars.
In several parts of the country men are reaping fortunes
as the prices of horses and articles most needed in Europe
have mounted to the skies.
WEDDING BELLS TO RING
ABOUT DECEMBER 2.
Mrs. Martin Announces the Ap
proaching Marriage of her Daugh
ter to Mr. Whitehead.
Mrs. C. E. Martin announces the
| approaching marriage of her daugh
1 ter, Miss Evelyn, to Mr. Stephen
Whitehead which will be celebrated
at the future residence of the happy
; couple by the Rev. Mr. Cook.
! Mr. Whitehead is a well known
young business man who is heavily
interested in property in Seward and
| the bride is one of the prettiest and
! most popular young ladies in all this
| part of Alaska. Owing to the large
circle of friends which both enjoy the
event will be one of the most inter-;
esting which has taken place for many j
a long day.
A1 Davis left for Knik yesterday
after a stay of several days here on
business.
Messrs. Smith and Cosmos are due
to arrive in town soon after a long•
sheep hunt.
Several cords of wood that had j
been piled on the beach yesterday
morning were taken out by the tide
and lost.
ROADHOUSE
BURNED DOWN
FINE BUILDING BELONGING TO
MRS. WHITE LOST AT
GIRI) WOOD.
The fine roadhouse of Mrs. Martha
White was burned down last Friday,
the thirteenth, at Gird wood. The
building contained a kitchen and din
! ing room which were described only
: yesterday in this paper. The dining
! room was large enough to accommo
1 date lift> people so that the loss is a
1 serious one.
The fire occurred at midnight and
the cause is not known. The first in
timation of the occurrence was given
when the yry of ‘’fire’' was raised.
On the evening before retiring every
thing was supposed to be perfectly
safe and guarded. Mrs. White came
out in her stockinged feet when the
alarm was given and contracted a
severe cold as a consequence. Fortun
ately the building in which she re
sides was not injured. The house was
a very popular one and Mrs. White's
loss will be sincerely regretted by all
who know her.
City Attorney J. Lindley Green last
night suggested to the council that all
the health ordinances of the city be re
vised as in their present state they
can hardly be applied. This fact is due
in some measure to the work of the
legislature governing such matters.
GERMAN CRUISER CAUGHT
CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Nov. 17.—The German
cruiser Berlin is now out of the fighting having been
forced into Trondhjem, Norway, yesterday and blockad
ed by British ships. She had attempted to escape from
the North Sea to act as a commerce detroyer in the At
lantic but was sighted by the British ships and was forced
to run for shelter to the "Norwegian coast. The Norwegian
authorities gave her captain the choice of being disarmed
or of going out and taking her chance against the hostile
ships and he chose disarmament so that the vessel will now
be interned during the course of the war.
B. C. SCARED
VICTORIA, Nov. 17.—’The marine department an
nounces that the lights on Pultney spit and Haddington
reef will be discontinued from this time forward and that
other lights may be extinguished without further notice.
This precaution is supposed to be necessary since the de
feat of the British squadron in the Pacific and the con
sequent freedom of the German ships to attack this city
and coast if they so desire. It is denied here that people
generally are removing their valuables to Seattle although
it is ouite possible that some people are doing so secretly
and that the banks may be sending away gold,, hut this is
not believed. There is a fear, however, that if the Ger
mans are unable to secure supplies and coal from neutral
countries they may find it necessary to raid British Col
umbia and its coal mines.
NORTH SEA UNDER MILITARY
LONDON, Nov. 17.—Prime Minister Asquith announc
ed in parliament this afternoon that the British govern
ment has decided to declare the whole North Sea in the
military area. All subjects of the enemies’ countries found
on neutral vessels will be liable to detention as prisoners
of war. Oil and copper will be declared contraband and
will be seized no matter under what flag the vessels carry
ing them may sail. This decision is regarded as a moment
ous one here as it may lead to friction with neutral na
tions. For the first time a nation has declared its right
to search neutral vessels for citizens of hostile countries
when those citizens are merely civilians.
TO TAX BEER
David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, has
promised an additional duty on beer to help in meeting the
frightful expenses of the war. The duty promised by him
will about double the price. It is seventeen shillings and
three pence a barrel which means about one cent a glass.
The famous chancellor is also .looking about for ways to
raise more money and will probably follow his usual cus
tom of making the rich pay instead of the poor.
Famous old steamer
SINKS OFF CAPE SPENCER
SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—The Alaska
Steamship company’s steamer Dirigo
foundered yesterday one hundred
miles west of Cape Spencer while she
was being towed to Seattle but all
aboard got off safely. She was being
towed by the Cordova and was in
charge of Captain John Johnston. He
and the crew of twelve had no diffi
culty in getting aboard the Cordova.
The full story is not yet known but
it is supposed here that the steamer
hail become unseaworthy and that be
ing towed gave her no chance to stand
the buffeting. She was built in Ho
(|uiam in 1808 and was valued when
new at one hundred and twenty live
thousand dollars.
The Dirigo started for Seattle from
Cordova some time ago and Captain j
McMullen brought back the Dora
which replaces her on the western run.
On the last trip of the Dirigo several
passengers declared that the Dirigo
was getting into bad shape, to say the
least of it.
SEWARD MOST PIOUS TOWN
IN THE TERRITORY.
Dick Thorne, the veteran moving
picture man who is now in Seward,
says that this is the only town in
Alaska where moving pictures aro
prohibited on Sundays. Mr. Tuorne
is usually located in Fuirbank; but
has just made a tour of the territory
with the splendid shows he is giving
here.
“If they stop moving pictjhes “says
Mr. Thorne “whv don’t they stop
cooking?”
WANT TEMPORARY TEACHER
Judge Curtis Morford of the school
board and Mrs. Forgy, principal, re
quested the city council last night to
appoint an additional temporary
school teacher. The council took the \
matter under consideration until it
learns how the taxes will come in. The
request was made not because the
number of children is too great but
because the classes are very numer
ous.
ORE LOOKS GOOD
The work which is now progressir*
on the Grant Lake ore at the Ells
worth mill shows that the rock is
looking up very well. It is too early
yet to tell whether the output will
prove the mine to be a really big as
set to the district or not.
CANNERYMEN WILL NOT
BE TRIED THIS SEASON.
The eleven cangerymen who were
indicted by the grand jury at Sewarn
will not be placed on trial at the pre
sent Session of the court at Valdez.
All of them are outside and because
of this fact the trials will not come
up, probably, before spring. It has
been rumored that further indict-,
ments were contemplated by the
grand jury here but that the time
allotted for deliberation was too brief.
It is also reported that the indict
ments are connected in some manner
with the alleged waste of fish. It has
been stated that thousands of salmon
are often left scattered dead along
the beaches of the fishing places
where they had been caught in traps
and were never used.
Mrs. Mathieson of Hope has re
cently been laid up with illness.
A. E. TODD HELD OVER
TO THE GRAND JCRY
Former Popular Nome Man May have
to Stand Trial at Person!
Court Session
A. E. Todd has been held over to
the grand jury on the charge of shoot
ing Dean Officer during an election
disturbance at McCarthy. According
to information to officials here Mr.
j Todd will be brought from Cordova to
| Valdez on the next boat. Nothing has
i been learned within the past few days
as to the condition of the wounded
j man.
The news of the shooting has been
received in Seward with the greatest
regret by many residents of this city
anil the district who knew Mr. Todd in j
the old days when he was cashier of!
the Nome Bank. During his residence I
in that city he had gained a large'
amount of popularity because of his
unfailing geniality of manner and his;
upright and honorable character. In- j
deed the people he?'e who knew him
have been at a loss to understand how
it was possible for him to have even
been drawn into any soil of a
squabble.
Long distance telepnone booth at
The Branch. ^
ALAMEDA ML ST TAKE
Ol'TSIDE PASSAGE.
Comes North With Some People l or
This City as Passengers.
SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—The Alameda
which loft yesterday for Seward with
! passengers and a Thansgiving cargo
is compelled to take the outside pas
sage to Queen Charlotte Pound owing
to the closing of the inside passage by
the Canadian government. Hereafter
; the vessels sailing in the morning can
resume the inside passage. The fol
lowing passengers are on the Alamo la
for Seward: W. Moffat, E. Mauvais
and wife, Cl. Whitehead and wife and
two steerage.
JOHN TREADWELL IS
IN BANKRCPTCY CO CRT
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—John
Treadwell has filed a voluntary peti
tion in the bankruptcy court. His
liabilities are two million nine hun
dred and thirty two thousand.
EVANS COMING
The Admiral Evans left Suday
evening on schedule time according to
news received from Seattle by Wayne
Blue, the agent.
RENEW FLANDERS BATTLE
PARIS,Nov. 17.—The official news this morning is
that from Nieuport to Dixmude and in the region of ^ pres
cannonading has been resumed with great violence. On
the canal south of Dixmude our artillery has checked the
German effort to control the sluices of the Yser canal and
river by which the surrounding country was flooded to
compel the Germans to fall back. The enemy has been
obliged to evacuate some of the trenches which became
filled with water because of these inundations and the
water alone is worth several army corps to the allied
forces. The Germans made two determined attacks with
infantry yesterday. One of them was levelled south of
Dixschoote and the other was sent in south of Ypres. The
assaults were determined but the French and British met
them with splendid fortitude and the enemy was compell
ed to fall back on his trenches once again. Between Dixs
choote and the canal the allies made some pogress after
severe fighting and on the whole the situation is favorable
for us. It is now evident, however, that the Germans have
by no means given up the attempt to reach the French
coast and he still continues hammering his hardest. The
allied commanders are perfectly confident that they can
stop him although the losses are severe and the Germans
seem never short of re-inforcements. Along the line east
ward very little fighting has been going on unless sallies
by both sides from their trenches can be called such and
matters remain about the same.
GERMANS ATTACKING RUSSIANS
LONDON, Nov. 17.—The Germans are now making
strenuous efforts to divert the Russians from East Prussia
by resuming a vigorous offensive at two points near the
center. Along the frontier line the Germans are striking
in the general direction of Plock and Kutno with the
object of paralyzing the Russian advance along the south
ern border of East Prussia. This news seems to rather
confirm the Berlin dispatch that the Russians have suffer
ed a serious check at the first named place although Petro
grad has given out no information in that respect. The
weather in that part of the war theater is now very severe
and will become infinitely worse as the winter advances.
The lakes and marshes, however, are beginning to freeze
over in East Prussia and this fact is expected to aid the
Russian advance. In their former repulse from East Prus
sia these marshes and lakes were the greatest hindrance
to the troops of the czar. Nothing has been heard today
from the field south of the places mentioned but it is as
sumed that the Russians are continuing their advance
towards Cracow. It was supposed that the Germans would
have contented themselves with remaining on the defen
sive in the east until the fighting in Flanders had been
decided but their recent activities indicate that they have
no intention of remaining quiescent.