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SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1911. fen Cents the C py
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BATTLING BEGINS AGAIN
MEXICAN REPUBLIC
\ AID, iH’t. 8.—tiovernor aiayor
tena has renewal the attack on Gen
eral Benjamin Hill, the commander
of the Carranza forces. Many bullets
fell in American territory and serious
steps may have to be taken to stop the
nuisance. It is feared that the con
tinuation of hostilities may lead to
something that would render the mak
ing peace a matter of the most serious
difficulty.
MEXICO City. Oct. 8.—Twelve hun
dred street car men have gone out on
a strike in this city, and serious re
sults are expected. In addition to the
street car men the cabmen have also
walked out and state that they were
compelled to do so by the others. \ io
lent rioting occurred last night and
the government threatens the most
severe measures if it is continued.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—The ques
tion of recognizing any government
in Mexico is not being considered by
this government. The withdrawal of
the American troops from Vera Cruz
has been further postponed notwith
standing the fact that the harmony
efforts continue.
FRENCH AND HERRON
LEAVE ON MARIPOSA
Major Will Engage in Hunting Trip
With Rex Beach
Major L. H. French, Charles K.
Herron and P. F. Cummings are pas
sengers on the Mariposa for the out
side. They have taken over several
splendid mining properties in this
district and will later operate them
extensively. Major French has re
ceived a letter from Rex Beach, the
famous novelist, inviting him for a
hunting trip and he may accept the
invitation if business permits.
MARIPOSA TAKES Ol'T
ABOt'T 70 PEOPLE
Sixty or seventy people leave Sew
ard on the Mariposa. Agent Guptil
sold 28 first class tickets, 16 second
class and the rest were the people who
came on the Dirigo.
MANY PEOPLE
GOING AWAY
COURT VISITORS AND OTHERS
LEAVE ON MARIPOSA
AND EVANS
Several people will leave on the
Mariposa and Evans. Many of
the passengers are court visitors, can
didates of all kinds and some of the
people who have been operating mines
or were engaged in other business
here during the summer. The full list
of the passengers on the Evans is not
yet ready and a few others were to
leave on the Mariposa but their names
were not on the list when it was
copied.
The following are going out; going
on Mariposa Sophia Anderson, Mrs.
Geo. Albert, W. D. Sutoliff, E. E.
Smith, F. L. Bohm, F. W. Small, H. C.
Black, A. Maten, David Foremen,
Henry Matheson, Lena Kyger, Peter
Martin, Mrs. A. Martin Benny Gre
goroff, Michael McLeod, A. Lawson
Henry S. Paul, Alfred Benson, H. H.
Townsend, B. H. Olson, W. Hesse, F.
P. Cummings John Lyons, C. E. Her
ron, L. H. French, Capt. R. R. San
born, Dr. W. W. Babcock and 0. D.
Mitchell.
Going on Evans; Miss C. L. Bax
ter Mrs. M. J. Furney, John Steven
son, Mr. Chase, Albert Frater, E. N.
Fuentz, F. Rammos, John Thompson,
Manuel Rayes, Pedro Martinez, Pau
lino Radnignaz and Pablo Radnignez.
EVANS DUE 4 p. m.
Agent Wayne Blue has received
J that the Evans will be here at
m.
GROUNDS WILL
BE SLIPPERY
OCCASIONAL RAINS INTERFERE
WITH PRACTICE OF
CHAMPIONS
—
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 8.— Low
hanging clouds and occasional light
rains for tomorrow and Saturday are
predicted and it is almost certain
that the ground will be moist at least
to some extent when the Braves and
the Athletics face each other for the
first game of the world series. Light
rains occurred today and made the
ground so slipperly that it interfered
with practice. Th* crowds attending
the opening game are expected to
make a record.
The police have been accused of
grafting in connection with the sale
of seats and an investigation is now
proceeding.
SOLDIERS CLOfHES ARE
GETTING SHABBY
LONDON, Oct. 8.—The possobility
of having to furnish new clothes for
the millions of soldiers in'the war
may have to be seriously considered
if the conflict is prolonged through
the winter. Some of the correspon
dents are already reporting that the
soldier’s uniforms are beginning to
show wear and tear. It used to be be
lieved that a good uniform should
last a campaign. That was not the
experience of 1870. In December, 1870
German soldiers might have been seen
plodding through the miry roads in
the depth of winter barefoot, whilst
many had only wooden shoes and linen
trousers. When the Tenth Corps mar
ched into Le Mans in January scarcely
a soldier was clothed in the regula
tion manner. Civilian garments, even
French red breeches, were common.
WICKER SHAM GOES ON
Gl GGENHEIM SHIP
Hands Out Money for Ticket to His
Traditional Foes
Delegate Wickersham has been dis
covered in another very questionable
light-he is a passenger on the Gug
genheim ship from Seward this after
noon. A very well known official of
the company was present in the of
fice when the delegate bought his
ticket and reminded him of the mo
mentous fact but the delegate, with
splendid magnanimity, let his four
teen bones for a ticket to Cordova
remain on the counter. The Juneau
Empire will smell another rat.
THE DWYER CASE HAS
ABOUT CONCLUDED
Speech Delivered and Trial May be
Ended When Paper Goes
To Press
The case against James E. Dwyer,
who is being tried for the murder of
Jack Wilson at Knik, has occupied the
court for the past couple of days. As
sistant District Attorney Guy Bru
baker addressed the jury this morning
for the government and E. E. Ritchie
addressed it this afternoon. L. V. Ray
is associated with Mr. Ritchie in the
defense . The result of the trial may
be known before this paper goes out
on the streets.
DEFENDANT BREAKS HIS
LEG IN ADDITION
A man named Seller who is a de
fendant in a rape case from the west
is now lying in the hospital with both
bones of the left leg broken. The
accident was caused by his falling
down from some height on a boat at
Unalaska, before he was brought
dow n for trial. He is under the care
of Dr. Romig.
WAR WILL NOT
HURT ALASKA
PLENTY OF MONEY WILL BE
AVAILABLE DELE
GATE SAYS
That the European war will not ef
fect the building of the government
' railroad in the least is the statement
made by Delegate Wickersham last
night in answer to a question.
“The government has alreary made
j provision” said Mr. Wickersham ‘‘to
meet all the losses in revenue. After
the collection of the war revenue
taxes the treasury will have just the
same amount of money as it would
have if no war had occurred. There
j fore there is absolutely no reason to
believe that the war will have any ef
fect whatever on Alaskan matters.”
DELEGATE NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR ASSESSMENT BILL
Denies That He Had Anything to do
With Introducing Measure
Delegate Wickersham has been
blamed by his opponents for the in
troduction of the assessment exemp
tion bill which recently caused so
much flurry but he denies that he had
anything to do with it. Congressman
Johnson was the sponsor of the bill
and at the conclusion of the coal leas
ing work the delegate was asked by
some Alaskans to take action but he
refused to have anything to do with it.
When he was asked for a copy of the
bill passed to exempt the people of
Nome from doing assessment work
last year he got his secretary to make
out such a copy and that was, he de
clares, the full extent of his partici
pation in the matter. As a matter of
fact Mr. Wickersham believes that
such a bill would do more harm than
good.
PEOPLE OF COLORADO
NOW FAVOR THE MINERS
DENVER, Colo., Oct. 8.—Because
of their faith in the integrity of the
President of the United States to ap
point a commission that will be fair,
the 12,000 Colorado miners who have
been on a strike since September 23,
1913 have accepted his plan for a
three years' truce.
If the coal operators, who have al
ways refused to deal with their form
er employes, accept the proposition,
and it seems doubtful that they will,
the Colorado strike, probably the most
important industrial struggle in his
tory, will be at an end and the men
will return to their former positions
in the mines.
While practically all of the dele
gates to the convention in Trinidad
admitted that the offer of the Presi
dent did not embody all the rights
they should have, they admitted that
it provided for conditions never had
in Colorado, that is if the commission
of three to be appointed to enforce
the provisions of the truce is fair.
People of Colorado fail to see just
what excuse the operators can give
for turning down Mr. Wilson’s pro
position. Its salient features give
only those things which have been
granted the miners by law since 1889.
EUGENE UNDERWOOD LEAVES
FOR THE OUTSIDE
Eugene Underwood, brother of
Oscar Underwood, leader of the dem
ocrats in the house of representatives,
leaves on the Mariposa for the out
side. Mr. Underwood has been in Sew
ard appraising for the government
the Alaskan Northern railroad and
has made a host of friends during his
stay.
Harry Hicks arrived from Cache
creek yesterday.
CABLE DOWN
The cable is down between Sit
ka and Cardova and the usual
press service could not be obtain
ed today. The Gateway tele
graphed out to the Associated
Press to send in the stuff by
the Canadian lines but only the
report of the first game for
the world’s series got in time
for the paper to go to press.
The war news appearing to
day is sent by Associated Press
as emergency news according
to the usual custom and was dat
edOctober 8, yesterday. The
usual telegraphic service will
probably bo available tomorrow
CHAIRMAN IDES
GOES OUTSIDE
HE AND COMMISSIONER RIGGS
FINISH THEIR
WORK
Chairman Edes of the Alaska Rail
road Commission arrived on the Mari
posa and continues with the same ship
to the outside. Mr. RifjfKs accom
panies him. Mr. Edes will po as soon
as possible to Washington and Mr.
Ripps will be^in the preparation of
the report which will be delivered to
President Wilson probably by the
first of the year.
WAR NEWS FROM
EUROPEAN CAPIEALS
orJKLliM, Uct. 8.—me iouowing ue
script ions of the devastation at Liege
and Namur are translated from ac
counts in the Tageblatt.
“We reached Liege on the evening j
of a stormy day. We traveled through ’
streets where the smoke of burned j
houses was still curling upward,!
streets that showed no signs of life, j
Patrols marched through the city. The
beautiful shops across from the univ
ersity were a field of ruins. 1 was told
that two nights before, on August 21
st, shots came from these shops as if
by prearrangement. The inhabitants
of the houses were dragged out, the
women were torn from the men, ami
whoever had a weapon in his hands !
was shot. In a few minutes the streets
was sown with corpses. The houses
were set on fire."
LONDON, Oct. 8.—The rapidity
with which the wounds of soldiers arc
healed, and the practical absence of
blood-poisoning cases, has been a sur
prise in view’ of the “deadly effect
iveness” of the modern army weap
ons.
“The antiseptic treatment of
wounds almost immediately after
their infliction has a great deal to do
with the fact that cures are effected
in such a short time as has been de
monstrated in the London hospitals,”
said one of the physicians in atten
dance upon the wounded British sold
iers.
While surgery has made wonderful
strides in the last decade, the results
might have been different w’ere it not
that the antiseptic preventive meas
ures have been applied with the ut
most efficiency.
“Another very important reason
lies in the fact that the bullet fired
from a modern rifle travels with such
velocity as to obviate the danger of a
ragged w’ound, and unless a vital or
gan lies in the path of it, the recovery
presents no over-difficult problem.
PARIS, Oct. 0—When the Bank of
France transferred its headquarters to
Bordeaux it destroyed all its bank
note plates to avoid the possibility of
their falling into the hands of those
w’ho might know’ how to make use of
; them, in case the worst came to the
w’oret.
The mint was also transferred to
Castelsarrazin where new’ coins of the
denominations of two francs and one
franc will be coined. These war coins
will appeal particulary to collectors as
they will be honored with a distinc
tive sign to distinguish them from the
general series, though bearing the
same design.
LU.NLHJ.N, uct. if—A correspondent
writes the London Field suggesting
that British sentries “against German
spies within the United Kingdom” be
armed with the American “sawed off”
shotgun, charged with buckshot. He
urges that such a weapon would be
more efficient for sentries at railway
bridges and other places where guards
are maintained than the service rifie,
especially at night.
LONDON, Oct. 8.—Ix>ndon papers
are unanimouns in the opinion that
England will not soon suffer famine.
Imports of grain have been largely
in excess of normal because so many
continental ports have been closed
up to the present timo forty-eight
cargoes of grain destined for con
tinental ports have been landed in
England.
The paths to Canada and the United
States are now open and a regular
steamer service between Archangel
on the White Sea and London has
been established which will make it
possible for Russia to continue its
shipments of butter and eggs to Eng
land.
At present the stocks of meat in
London warehouses ar said to be 60
per cent above the average, while the
wheat, maize and barley stocks are
150 percent., 200 per cent and 600 per
cent. resDectively above the average.
More than 6,000,000 gallons of pet
roleum not intended for England
found their way here because of the
closing of continental ports. Ships
bearing print paper have resumed
sailing from Norway and Sweden so
it seems likely newspapers will not
be short of white paper.
LONDON, Oct. 9.—Through ef
forts of the War Office 150 military
hospitals have been organized in Great
Britain. These have been averaged |
in groups and each has an administra- J
tive center. Practically all the sick
and wounded returning from the con
tinent are received at Southampton,
and from there those whose condition
is the most serious are sent to Royal
Victoria Hospital, Netley, and the
others are distributed where their cas
es can be handled to the best ad
vantage.
Rheumatism, brought on by ex
posure makes the conditions of some
of the injured very pitiful.
Some typhoid has been reported
among British soldiers in the field.
Sir William Osier’s suggestion that!
the American army’s plan of in-!
noculating all soldiers against typhoid
be adopted is generally supprted by
the press.
BRAVES GET ATHLETES IN
EIRST GAME SEVEN TO ONE
DREDGE EOR
CACHE CREEK
WILL BE SHIPPED IN BY
JAMES MURRAY IN
SPRING
The dredge which James Murray
has ordered for Cache creek will be
brought in first thing next Spring. It
has arrived already at Seattle but
some delay had been caused in getting
some of the parts from the factories
in the east or the dredge would have
arrived in this section by this time.
Mr. Murray has splendid dredging
ground and he believes that this part
of the territory is in the beginning of
a dredging epoch which will surprise
even the most optimistic people. With
Mr. Murray here are two well known
oldtimers from Nome, J. B. McAllis
ter and Chris Lausten.
Just received fresh appleeider at
Brown & Hawkins.—“Quality First"
LOSi JOB FOB j
WICKFRSS1AM
DEMOCRATIC CUB REMOVES
PRESIDENT FOR IN TROD IT
INC, DELEGATE
By a unanimous vote the democratic
club of Seward removed its president,
Dr. Charles Daggett, from office
last night and also declared him no
longer a member of the club because
he introduced Delegate Wickersham
at the meeting addressed by the dele
gate Wednesday evening. .John Noon,
a member of the executive committee,
was also removed from the rolls and
consequently from office. Mr. Noon
was present and entered into a dis
cussion but retired when the resolu
tion was passed. Dr. Daggett did not
attend the meting.
When it was found that Dr. Dag
gett had introduced Mr. Wickersham
the club called a special meeting at
the store of George Phelps, the com
mitteeman for this district. Vice
President Root occupied the chair in
the absence of the president an<l
stated that the object of the meeting
was to discuss the action of the presi- j
dent and any other member who re
fused to support the candidate of the
party. Mr. Noon declared that he sup
ported Wickersham and asked if he
could remain. After a rather heated
discussion the resolution was passed
removing him from the club and he
left.
Some further discussion took place
before T. W. Hawkins moved that
Dr. Daggett be removed from the roll
of membership and, therefore, from
the presidency. The resoultion was
carried unanimously.
New officers were then elected to
fill the places made vacant by the re
movals. Vice President Root was el
ected president and Wayne Blue was
elected vice president, to take Mr.
Root’s place. I). C. Mathison was
elected on the executive committee.
JAMES MURRAY COMES
FROM CACHE CREEK
Had Splendid Success During the ]
Summer and Will Accomplish
Big Work
J. C. Murray, the Cache creek oper
ator, arrived this morning on the
Mariposa after a summer spent work-;
ing on Cache creek. During the sum
mer he found even better ground than
that which he had discovered before
and he looks forward to big opera
tions in that plate. He will remain ;
over in Seward for some time before
proceeding to the outside.
JUDGE O. P. HUBBARD
WILL SOON RETURN j
I
Judge 0. P. Hubbard, candidate for
the territorial senate, left on :he
Mariposa but expects to return in
•about ten days to Seward to meet his
many friends.
HOUSE NOW' DEBATING
CLAYTON TRUST BILL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—The house
is now debating the anti-trust bill of
Clayton and the debate will soon be
finished.
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A PLEASANT SURPRISE PARTY
Mrs. G. R. Manthey was given a
pleasant surprise last evening when 1
a lot of young people arrived at her
house just before nine o'clock. Cards
were played for a time and nice re
freshments were served. Dancing was ,
also indulged in and continued unti ’
2 a. m.
Professor H. C. Parker and A. M.
Aten left this afternoon on the Mari
posa after a season on their property.!
N. H. Read who was with them at the
mine will remain here at least for
some time.
SEATTLE, .Oct. 9.—The bulletin
has just been flashed here by Associ
ated Press that Boston has won the
first game by a score of seven to one.
The names of the batteries and other
facts have not yet been received. The
ground was a little moist and seemed
to help the National Leaguers but
that they are superior to the cham
pions of the Americans is the opinion
of the fans so far as can be learned.
(Note) The above was dispatched
to the Gateway over the Canadian line
but nothing else arrived although a
message was sent out asking full
news. The Gateway was charged
commercial rates 'even for this dis
patch appearing above and evidently
the Associated Press is finding some
difficulty in sending stuff in by the
Canadian line today.
DAN SUTHERLAND IS
CAMPAIGNING AT NOME
Dan Sutherland is now campaign
ing at Nome in the interests of Dele
gate Wickersham. After leaving
Nome he will proceed to Mass
achusetts to visit his family. He has
recently struck good pay in the Ruby
country and is said to be on the road
to fortune. He will be accompanied
by Mrs. Sutherland. During the last
election Mr. Sutherland looked after
the delegate’s interest all over the
interior and Seward peninsula.
II. It. INGRAM ADDRESSES
GOOD CROWD AT CASINO
H. B. Ingram, candidate for the
lower house of the legislature, ad
dressed a large audience hist even
ing at the Casino and made a most
favorable impression. The audience
included a large number of the Val
dez people with whom Mr. Ingram is
evidently very popular. It would be
impossible to go over all the facts of
a vital nature brought out by the
speaker but he has certainly a good
grasp of the subjects of interest to
the people of Alaska.
iU olWARI)
FROM PARIS
MAN HERE FOR PAST FEW DAYS
SAW FRANCE AT
WAR
D. 0. Carter, a mining engineer
who arrived on the Mariposa and left
on her this afternoon, was in Paris
as late as September 2. He paid a
flying visit to see the Primrose mine
and concluded his business quickly.
He says that Paris is dead. Al
though there were no direct evidences
that the nation was engaged in a
life and death struggle it was plain
that something really awful was
transpiring. All around the streets
apd boulevards an ominous quiet
reigned. The cafes close early and
the usual gaiety of the brilliant city
is hushed. Now and again a few sol
diers are seen marching but that is
all that shows the country to be at
war.
He also says that all the Americans
who joined the French army were
badly fooled. Instead of being sent
to the front to cover themselves with
glory they were told off to guard bag
gage or prisoners in the south of
France or elsewhere. The members of
the foreign legion as well as some of
the distinctive American corps of
volunteers were shipped away to the
colonies to act as garrisons while the
regular troops of France were sent
out to do the actual fighting. Mr.
Carter says that London os as dead
ae Paris so far as gaiety and busi
ness are concerned. He left Brazil
direct for Europe and came straight
to Seward.
MRS. FURNEY LEAVING
Mrs. M. J. Fumey who has been
visiting Mrs. Myers for the past four
months is leaving on the Evans for
her home in California.