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SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1916._Tra CtnU the Copy
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NO MEXICAN AGREEMENT VET
BIT IT IS CERTAIN TO COME
ALL SEEMS SERENE
EL PASO, May 4.—That everything promises well in
the relations of the United States with Mexico is made
evident by a statement issued by General Obregon this
morning. The following was included in the Obregon
statement:
“As a result of the conference with General Scott the
atmosphere seems to be completely cleared up. 1 he re
lations between the United States and Mexico have reach
ed a much better status and all tension seems to have van
ished. An agreement has not been reached but everything
is progressing favorably and I have every hope that mat
ters will reach a successful conclusion.”_
SEWARD HAS BEEN
MADE PORT OF CALL
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As predicted in this paper in its
issue of September 24 la.>t year Sew
ard has been made a port of entry,
the official notification of which fact
was cabled today by Delegate Wicker
sham to Leon Booker, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce. Being made
a port of entry entitles Seward to
have the service of foreign ships ana
this and other facts will necessitate
the establishment of a customs house
here.
The credit for the first move to
wards making Seward a port of entry
must be given to a man who is not
here now. He is J. H. Sears, At that
time he received instructions from an
official of the Treasury department
how to act and the Commercial Club
took up the matter, also asking Gov
ernor Strong and Delegate Wicker
sham to aid in the work by th< advice
of the Treasury official spoken of
here.
There is now no other port of entry
on the coast between Juneau and
Nome. A government doctor will be
another official made necessary by the
TROOPS PATROL
STRIKEJEGION
W ESTIN G HO USE COMPANY SAYS
WILLING TO MEET COM
MITTEE OF MEN.
PITTSBURG, May 4.—Federal and
state influences are now making a
concerted effort to end the great
strike in the Westinghouse plants.
The company’s haeds have signified
their willingness to meet a committee
of the strikers and a conference may
be arranged. One thousand cavalry
and infantry are now patrolling the
strike districts and are also acting as
police. No rioting was reported
today.
THOMAS P. MURPHY
FILES HIS ANSWER
Thomas P. Murphy, through his at
torneys, James & Woolley, has filed
an answer to the complaint of the
city which seeks to oust him from the
cabin on First avenue near the ap
proach to the new dock. The detend
ant claims he has been more thin
ten years in possession of the ground,
that he is on government land and he
makes other claims which, his answer
says, entitle him to ask that the court
refuse the injunction asked for.
As seen by a clipping from the
Skagway Alaskan in this issue the
equipment for another bank at An-;
chorage its on the Alameda which is'
due tonight
establishment of a port of entry.
That Seward had to be named a port
of entry sooner or later was unavoid
able and the news only confirms the
belief of everyone.
The following is an editoriul on the
subject in the issue of the Gateway of
the 24th of hist September:
“To make Seward a port of entry
the way is now made clear. Fair
banks succeeded in securing this con
cession and there is no reason why
Seward should not. As a matter of
course Seward will become a port oi
entry at the opening of the Mata
nuska coal fields when foreign ships
will come to secure coal cargoes but
a delay might occur in securing the
concession and it is better to have
everything ready for the great day.
It is pointed out that the business
men should get to work. The Com
mercial Club, being the only organiz
ed body for the transaction of such
matters, ought to get to work at
once.”
At a meeting soon afterwards the
club did get to work on the subject.
BANK OF ALASKA
AT ANCHORAGE
The Bank of Alaska has completed
arrangements with the Territorial
Banking Board, enabling them to
open a bank at the new city of An
chorage and all the necessary preli
minary work has been accomplished.
The S. S. Alameda leaving Seattle
on April 25, will carry a complete
outfit for the bank including a large
burglar proof safe, a portable steel
building suitable for temporary
quarters, complete office equipment,
an adding machine and necessary
stationery supplies, etc.
Upon the arrival of the Alameda
at Skagway, Dr. J. T. Westermann,
who will be in charge of the new
bank, will board the ship, in com
pany with his assistant, John Ken
nedy, and go through to Anchorage
and get everything in readiness for
the opening on or about May 15th.
With the opening of the new' bank
at Anchorage on the 15th, the open
ing of the Bank of Wrangell on the
2nd, and the Bank at Skagway in good
running order, the Bank of Alaska
will be in an excellent position to
serve practically every line of busi
ness in the Territory—Skagway Al
askan.
❖ ALAMEDA DUE *
❖ AT TWO A. M. ❖
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Agent Alex McDonald received
word this afternoon that the Alameda
is due here at 2 o’clock tomorrow
morning. She has forty-one tons of
freight for Seward and has room for
forty-five first and fifty steerage pas
sengers to the westward.
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SCHWAB OPPOSES
GOVERNMENT
ARMOR PLANT
j CHARLES *f 5C/iuwal
Photo by American Press Association
[Charles M. Schwab and his associates In
the Bethlehem Steel company have be
gun a campaign to create public sentl
ment against legislation for the con
structlon of a government armor manu
facturing plant. The United States sen
ate has passed the Tillman bill, appropri
ating $11,000,000 for such plant. A circu
lar addressed to members of congress
was Issued over the signatures of Mr
Schwab and K. G. Grace, president of
the company, which described the plan
as wasteful In expenditure and unwise
In Senator Tillman asserts that
the manufacturers of armor plate for
the nation # warships have been robbing
the government for twenty years. The
picture ts made from a vary recent snap
•bot of Mr. Schwab ]
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❖ LORIMER IS ACQUITTED *
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CHICAGO, May 4. — The jury in
the case against Lorimer, formerly
United States senator, brought in a
verdict of acquittal at midnight last
night. Lorimer was charged with
wrecking a bank and during the trla*
it was shown that he had used over
a million dollars of the bank funds for
his private investments.
(Note: One of the lawyers defend
ing Lorimer was Albert Fink, form
erly of Nome, who also defended
F rost.)
CHICAGO, May 4.—Former Sena
tor William Lorimer was ousted from
the United States senate after a bit
ter fight in 1911. He was accused,
with others, of conspiring to loot half
a dozen Illinois banks, J. K. Segrave,
former state bank examiner, and H.
W. Huttig, a Muscatine, Iowa, manu
facturer, were to be tried with Lori
mer. They were jointly indicted with
Charles B. Munday, Litchfield, 111.,
banker who organized the institutions
and who now is appealing after con
viction and sentence to five years for
the same offense.
Lorimer’s indictment, with thirteen
other alleged conspirators, followed
the collapse of the La Salle bank of
Chicago and its subsidiary banks in
June, 1914. Thomas McDonald, th%
La Salle’s cashier, and Charles G.
Fox, vice-president, both indicted,
testified for the state and will not go
to trial. William Lorimer, jr., son of
the former senator, also was indicteq.
but is not on trial.
The Lorimer-Munday banking pro
jects were launched two weeks after
the famous confession of Charles
White that led to Lorimer’s being
ousted by the senate on an illegal
election charge. The banks were to
open May 10, 1910. White confessed
April 30. Lorimer’s friends contend
that the expose was planned by his
enemies to break up his financial
projects.
SIR ROGER CASEMENT HAS BEEN
TRIED AND MAT BE RANGED
HUNDRED THOUSAND
STRIKE IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, May 4.—Approxi
mately one hundred thousand persons
employed in the different trades in
this city are out on strike today and
many thousands more are threaten
ing to quit unless their demands are
complied with at once. Shipping is
virtually at a standstill as engineers
and firemen on tugboats and lighters
Gill Calls A War
On Drug Stores
SEATTLE, May 4.—That a relent
less war will be waged now on drug
stores that engage in the sale of
liquor beyond the limit of the law is
made evident by the instructions
given by Mayor Gill to the police.
“Smash everything including fixtures”
is the order of Gill “in so-called drug
stores which are really saloons,” and
the campaign is expected to be pushed
to the limit.
❖ REV E. H. MOLONY *
❖ LEAVES TOMORROW *
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To the great regret of everyone in
the city Rev. E. H. Molony, of the
Episcopal church, Mrs. Molony and
their little daughters, Sheila and
Molly, will leave tomorrow on the
Admiral Watson for California where
the doctors have advised Mr. Molony
to go for the benefit of his health. It
has been known for some time that
they were to leave and there is noth
ing more to be said than to express
the regretful feeling of the whole
community.
When Mr. Molony came to Alaska
he volunteered to Bishop Rowe for
one year but stayed three years. On
the first year he traveled twenty
three hundred miles with his own dog
team over untraveled country carry
ing his tent and other outfit and en
during all the hardships incident to
the interior trails, with the tempera
ture sometimes dropping to sixty and
seventy below zero. He visited Shun
gnak on the Kobuk, 40 miles above
the Arctic Circle, baptizing over 80
Eskimos and organizing a mission.
He was the first missionary to visit
the Nabesna and Tetlin Indians and
also Chisana from which he came out
over the Chisana glacier. In this dis
trict during the past two years Mr.
Molony, stationed at Valdez, visited
Anchorage, Seward, Kodiak, etc., or
ganizing churches in both places and
raising funds at Anchorage to pay for
two splendid church lots. The needs
of Anchorage and the difficulty of en
tering there during the winter led Mr.
Molony to decide to take his family
there on the last boat, but failure of
the Farragut to enter brought them
back to Seward where they yielded to
the importunities of the local commit
tee and stayed for the winter. Dur
ing his stay in this section Mr. Molony
has traveled over 5,000 miles in Al
aska waters and, owing to leek of
funds from the Board, entirely at his
own expense. He is a minister who
came to work and not to visit tem
porarily for his own material gain,
and Seward will miss him.
SON BORN TO WIFE
OF POLICE CHIEF
Mrs. Robert Guest, wife of the chief
of police, became the mother of a fine
son today. Dr. Romig, the attending
physician, reports all well,
have walked out. The garment in
dustry is almost completely paralyzed
and lockouts and strikes appear to be
generally declared or on the point ol
occurring. Never have the labor con
ditions appeared in a more chaotic
state. No disturbances have yet been
reported but it is regarded as almost
impossible to avoid bad work before
matters re-adjust themselves.
Rushing W ork to
Get Train Through
A night crew will be put to work
on the construction of Resurrection
river bridge tonight and every elTort
will be made to get the bridge finish
^ ed so that the pile driver may be
taken away to rush work on two
bridges to be constructed near Mile
33. It is said to be the intention to
have the line opened to Mile 52 as
quickly as it can be done.
YUKON ICE BREAKS
DAWSON, May 4.—The Yukon ice
broke at Dawson at 10 o'clock this
morning, which is many days earlier
than expected.
SHOT IN DOORWAY
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.—James
McGrath was shot to death while
standing in his doorway today after
having responded to loud knocks at
the door. The police have arrester
John Tully. It is alleged that Tully
killed McGrath because of a dispute
about money.
FEAR SHACKLETON
HAS MET SCOTT’S FATE
fat SIR ERNEST H. SHACKLETON
Photo by American Press Association
[Grave fears regarding the fate of Lieu
tenant Sir Ernest H. Shackleton. British
antarctic explorer, and the party which
set out with him to cross the south pole
wore aroused when a wireless message
from the auxiliary ship Aurora of the
antarctic expedition was received in
London, saying the steamship had been |
damaged and was proceeding to New
Zealand for repairs, but gave no tidings
of the explorer. The Aurora was Shack
leton's relief ship at his base on the
shore of Ross sea, and her departure
leaves Shackleton and his men without
a vessel to take them away. A new ex
pedition may be needed to rescue them J
ALAMEDA NOT YET
Word was received this morning
that the ^lameda was scheduled to
leave Valdez at 12 o'clock today.
L. V. Kay will proceed right
through to Anchorage on the boat in
which he is coming from Valdei.
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CASEMENT HAS BEEN TRIED
LONDON, May 3.—It was officially announced today
that Sir Roger Casement, the Irish revolutionist, has al
ready been tried and his fate is now in the hands of the
judge. The trial took place a few days ago but not a per
son outside the government officials knew a thing about it.
Baron Reading, one of the regular civil justices, presided
at the trial and Casement was charged with high treason.
! The court did not apparently pronounce sentence but uri
1 less Sir Roger's plea of insanity saves him he will be ex
| ecuted by being hanged with a silk rope. A silk rope is
a “privilege” granted to noblemen from ancient times
when they were hanged for crimes against the crown.
(Note: Sir Roger Casement is not a “nobleman.”
The title of “Sir” does not carry “nobility” with it but
many newspapers in this country fall into the error of
thinking that it does. He is just a knight On all matters
relating to those secret trials in other respects people
should accept the statements published with a grain of
! salt as it will be, no doubt, the policy of the British govern
ment for political reasons to prevent the victims from
looking like martyrs. For instance, if it could be shown
to the world that Casement is demented the effect of his
uprising might be nullified in neutral countries.)
' SHAW ON REBELLION
NEW YORK, May 4.—George Bernard Shaw, the
famous Irish author, was asked for his opinion on the re
bellion in Dublin and has cabled the following opinion of
the uprising in answer:
“Silly, ignorant, wrong-headed, honorable, brave, re
publican.”
In these words he is taken to sum up his beliei that
the uprising, while bravely and honorably done and while
it was for the republicanism in which he himself believes,
was bad policy because hopeless and suicidal. Shaw, how
ever, is not recognzed by Irish Nationalists as one of
them.
AMERICAN IRISH TAKE ACTION
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4. — The Irish of this city
have issued invitations for a meeting tonight at which the
British action in executing the Irish prisoners will be de
nounced. Plans for a mass meeting will also be laid and
a proclamation has already been issued calling on all
Americans of Irish descent to use their votes in the l nited
States to secure for Ireland a square government. From
other parts of the country come the reports that the
American Irish feel most bitterly the execution of the
leaders of the riots in cold blood. It is apparently the
American Irish opinion that little bitterness would have
been felt because of the Irishmen killed in a stand-up light
but the executions have brought a most acute feeling
which, it is feared, will have the effect of throwing the
Irish population entirely on the side of England s enemies
henceforth.
GERMANS STILL ATTACKING
LONDON, May 4.—The German offensive is still evi
dently proceeding in the Verdun district but the I'tench
have also apparently decided not to remain entirely on the
defensive and reports from various continental qunitcis
indicate that the allies are more than holding their own.
FRENCH IMPROVE POSITIONS
PARIS, May 4.—The French positions have been im
proved in the whole region of the Meuse and the German
losses in fighting which took place at Deadman’s Hill yes
terday are said to have been very heavy.
RUST ORGANIZES
ALASKA COMPANY
SEATTLE, April 15.—W. R. Rust,
formerly manager of the Tacoma
smelter, and who recently severed
his connection with the Guggenheims,
has organized the Tacoma Explora
tion company to develope a number
of Alaska properties in which he has
become heavily interested.—Ex.
Mrs. John Noon leaves on the Wat'
| son for a visit outside.
SON OF YUKON’S
EXECUTIVE DIES
DAWSON, April 13.—Wade Wil
liams, the son of acting-Governor
George Williams of Yukon, died on
Monday of Bright’s disease. He was
fifteen years of age, having been born
here in 1901. The funeral services
were held here this afternoon and
were largely attended by friends of
the family. Numerous patriotic
fraternal and other organizations
were represented.—Ex.