The Seward gateway., October 15, 1915, Image 1

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ADVERTISEMENTS BRING RESULTS _ _^_ __—--—
Vol „ N„ _ SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1915_Ten CenU the Cop?
OLDTIMER IS FOUND DEAD AT KNIK AND ANCHORAGE HAS ROBBERY
ITALY TO MAKE
WAR IN BALKANS
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ROME DEC L VRES ALLIES WILL
HAVE AID OF ITALIAN
army there.
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PARIS. Oct. 14.—Semi-official ad- {
vices from Rome are to the effect that j
Italy will take part in the war in the
Balkans to aid the Serbians and the
other allied forces that might be |
landed to repel the invader and pre- j
vent him from forcing a way to Con- !
stantinople. It is believed in military
circles that Italy will experience not
much difficulty in landing consider
able forces on the Albanian coast al
though the Austrian warships and
submarines may be some menace in
the crossing of the Adriatic.
Sl’LZER PRODlCES LARGE
VMOl NT OF COPPER ORE
Fifteen Hundred Ions a Month is the
Output of Mine Managed
b> Senator.
SEATTLE, Oct. It.-Senator Sul
zur of Ketchikan who i* no%\ here en
route to the east says that hi> mine>
at Sulzer, Alaska, are turning out
fifteen hundred tons of eoppe** on
monthly. William Sulzer, formerly
governor of New \ ork, brother ot
the senator is also heavily interested
in the mines.
❖ SEWARD SHIT OFF * I
<• ENTIRELY TODAY ❖ ]
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The Dominion line is down today,
the radio station at Coniova has been
put out of commission by the explos
ion and tire and the Burnside has not
yet repaired the cable so we are all
strictly up against it for news from
the outside world this afternoon.
The facts about the accident to the
radio station have been cabled for.
CORDOVA FIRE
MAY BE FATAL
TWO DEATHS MAY OCCTR AS
RESl’LT OF EXPLOSION
AT WIRELESS.
CORDOVA, Oct. 15.—Last night
at seven o’clock an explosion of a
tank of alcohol occurred at the navy
wirelet»3 station and resulted in five
men being burned severely and in a
loss of eight thousand dollars worth
of machinery*. The men were testing
and adjusting the new instruments
recently installed in the arc room
when the alcohol supply ignited by
back fire. The flames spread and for
a time the destruction of the plant
was threatened. The injured are
Superintendent John Gillis, slightly
burned, Davy* Barry, who was with a j
party from the Prometheus working j
in the station, burned in the face and
hands and body and will likely die,
George O’Hara and M. Schajkowski,
of the radio station, badly burned.
Gillis, Barry and O’Hara jumped
through the window* to the outside,
and the latter as he jumped looked
like a ball of fire. Barry, Holton and
Schajkowski were brought to Cor
dova hospital. The latter two may
recover. Interior of the new* addition
to the plant was gutted and the
wireless is out of commission.
TOLMAN PARTY HAS
REACHED ANCHORAGb
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 15.—The Tol
man party has arrived in this city.
London Bombarded
In Its Very Heart
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Information Being Witheld as It Was
in the Former Raid.
LONDON, Oct. 14.—The officials
promise “further word” about the
great Zeppelin raid later. Informa
tion as to the actual location of the
place raided is being witheld but it is
believed to be the very heart of the
city. Numerous tires are supposed to
have been caused but no public build
ing is reported to have been damaged,
it is officially stated that no Ameri
can appeared in the list of the
casualties.
CORDOVAN MAY BUY
INTEREST JUNEAU PAPER
JUNEAU, Oct. S.—It is reported
here that Will A. Steel is on his way
from Cordova to consummate a deal
with John W. Troy, proprietor of the
Juneau Empire, whereby he secures
an interest in that paper, in which
event he will become a resident of
this city.
C REW OF BARK ALL
HAD THE BERI BERI
lugs Towed the Diseased Sailors to
the Hospital at Port
Townsend.
PORT TOWNSEND, Oct. 14.—The
entire crew of the Peruvian bark
Stella, which has just arrived from
j Callao have been found to be suffering
from Beri Beri and have been taken
to the marine hospital and the ship
placed in quarantine. To get the men
to the hospital without running the
danger of letting the infection spread
the tugs threw a towline and towed
the men in barges at a safe distance.
The steward of the Stella died at sea
from the disease ami all others of
the crew, without an exception, had
| been reduced to a frightful condition.
ANCHORAGE TO
HAVnCHOOL
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS GIV
EN BY GOVT. AND COMMIS
SION WILL BUILD.
ANCHORAGE, Oct 15.—Anchor
age has been given five thousand dol
lras to establish a public school here
and the engineering commission will
erect the building. Subscriptions
were riased by the people here to pay
the school teachers anil the schools
will probably be in running order in
a month or two.
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BUENA CAFE CHANGES HAND
Asa E. Pittock and Ed. Fouse, two
well known restaurant men of Alaska,
have taken over the Buena Cafe.
J They assume all debts and any credi
i tors are requested to present their
bills for verification.
The new management will open
within a week a first class restaur
ant and grill. The location is next to
the Overland Hotel, on Fourth Ave.
SERVICES AT EPISCOPAL
CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY
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A message was received yesterday
i from Rev. E. H. Malony, pastor of
the Episcopal Church in Valdez, that
he would come over to Seward on the
Admiral Evans and spend Sunday
here and that services will be held in
the Episcopal church at 11 o’clock in
the morning and 8 o'clock in the even
No reader can afford to omit the
Seward Gateway.
ASKS WOMEN TO j
WED CRIPPLES
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ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS WANT
TO SEE BATTERED SOL
DIERS NURSED WELL.
LONDON, Oct. 14.— The Bristol
Record today issues an appeal to the
women of the nation to marry the
men who have been crippled in the
war. It points out that these men arc
heroes and far more worthy than the
I men who kept a whole skin by re
maining at home. Uor this and other
reasons, the Record says, the women
by marrying such men would secure
more happiness than by marrying in
the usual manner and for the old
objects.
SCHMITZ ASKS RECOUNT
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 14.—
Schmitz demands a recount and says
Rolph got six thousand illegal votes
Ralph won by four thousand.
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PRAISES GOVERNMENT
RAILROAD ROADBED
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 15.—G. M.
I Campbell, formerly a large railroad
contractor, in an interview with the
Cook Inlet Pioneer says the railroad
roadbed on the government line is
the best he has ever seen.
HERE FOR MUTUAL LIFE
Sam McDonald arrived on the
Northwestern yesterday to represent
the Mutual Life company for some
time. He is a brother of Alex Mc
Donald of the Alaska Steamship com
pany.
DEAF AN DUMB DRUMMER
COMES HERE TO SEWARD
Wayne Blue Shunts Him Around to
Business Houses looking
For Orders.
A deaf and dumb drummer has ar
rived in Seward to take orders. Al
though unable to hear or speak, and,
worse still, unable to see this traveler
is said to have secured quite a little
business for the house. This house
is at Boston and keeps in touch with
the drummer by cables sent to the
various places which the representa
tive visits on the business circuit.
For instance, when the drummer left
Fairbanks for Seward some time ago,
Wayne Blue, agent of the Wells
Fargo Company, received several
cables from the Boston house in ques
tion asking where drummer was. Then
came a cable to Mr. Blue requesting
him to send the drummer to Brown
& Hawkins and after twenty-four
hours to the Seward Commercial
Company. At last along comes Mr.
Drummer and he is in nothing but a
trunk called “The Silent Traveler.”
When the silent traveler goes down
to Brown & Hawkins and then to the
Seward Commercial Company two
young men named Thompson and
Reed open him up and out fall a loi
of ladies’ shoes. Both of them are
experts in the game of ladies’ shoes
so they take notes, tie up the silent
traveler and off Wayne Blue shunts
him to Sam Blum at Cordova.
EVANS TOMORROW MORNING
The Admiral Evans sailed out of
Cordova this morping at 7 o’clock and
is expected here tomorrow.
MOOSE MEETING
The regular meeting of the Seward
Moose lodge will take place this even
ing.
'Radio Station Room
Destroyed l»y Fire
Four Men Badly Burned Says Short i
Official Notification. N
The following notification was
given out this morning by the cable
office:
CORDOVA, Oct. 14. 7 p. m.—Ex
plosion and fire at Radio Station.
Whiteshed. Destroyed operating room
and relay business of yesterday.
Four men badly burned, doctors and
nurses on way to station from Cor
dova. F'ull extent of damage to plant
not yet learned. Station men may
have a reserve set with which they
can resume operations if not the busi
ness lost will be mailed south from
here.
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❖ FIRST TELEGRAPHIC *
j * FROM ANCHORAGE ❖
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The first telegraphed press dis- 1
patches ever to come from Anchor
age were received by the Gateway to- j
day.
ANCHORAGE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE WELL PLEASED
Endorses the Work of the Govern
ment Railroad Engineering
Commission.
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 15.—The ■
Chamber of Commerce of this city
has passed a resolution endorsing the
government engineering commission
in its railroad work ami actions gen
erally.
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ORVILLE WRIGHT TO REMAIN
NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Although (
Orville Wright has sold his interests .
in the aeroplane company for a mil- i
lion dollars he has decided to remain
with the company as consulting en
gineer.
ALL READY FOR
GREATBAZAAR
A THOUSAND WONDEFUL SUR
PRIZES IN STORE TO
MORROW NIGHT.
The preparations have all been
about completed for the big bazaar
in aid of the hospital tomorrow even
ing. A thousand surprises are rumor
ed to be in store for the visitors but
what they are is about as deep a
mystery as to who commenced that
war in Europe. The booths will be
most tastefully arranged and the
decorations will probably be the pret
tiest in Seward’s history. It is well
known now that dancing will be part
of the program but that is nothing to
some of the other things coming up.
CAPACITY ATTENDANCE AT
FIRST MOVING PICTURE
The attendance at the Empress
Theatre last night was the largest
that has ever been to a show in Sew
ard. The hall was filled to capacity,
which will seat about 275 persons.
The show was in every way a howl
ing success and is indicative of the
way that the Empress line of moving
pictures will attract the crowd.
GETTING LUMBER FOR
TERMINAL SIDEWALKS
Foreman Steel with a crew of five
or six men started yesterday dis
mantling the old saw mill at the head
of Resurrection Bay. The lumber
will be used for building sidewalks
and making improvements on the
Terminal Tract.
PEOPLE REGRET
THEPETITION
DO NOT MIND SELLING LOTS
BUT THEY OVER-LOOKED
KNOCKING PREAMBLE
Some of the people who signed the
petition for the sale of the Terminal
Tract lots regret their action and
have so expressed themselves. In
signing the petition they overlooked
the preamble to it and were unaware
of the real significance of the thing
until the Gateway drew attention to
it last night. They are not at all op
posed to the selling of the lots in the
tract but they object to having their
names signed to any petition which
insinuates anything against the hold
ers of realty in the city, or which
suggests any lack of confidence that
the price of city property is not a
fair one. To show how some of the
signers of the petition regard the
thing now after having their attention
drawn to the “joker" in it the follow
ing letter is illustrative:
Seward, Alaska,
Oct. 13th, 1915.
Mr. Wm. C. Edes,
Chairman Alaska Engineering
Commission,
Seward, Alaska.
Dear Sir:—
Would you kindly remove my
name from the elaborate petition
I signed for the sale of the Gov
ernment lots. I understood it to
cover a request (only) for the
sale of lots at this time. I am
not in sympathy with any part
of the criticism that precedes my
signature, other than asking for
a sale of the lots at an early date.
Yours truly,
Alex McDonald
“Elaborate" is good.
NEWS NOTES
John Lean returned to Mile 34 road
house after an absence of several
weeks on a hunting trip. He will
probably stay most of the winter at
34.
Otto Bergstrom came in from his
ranch near Mile Three this morning
to get supplies. He says that his
garden did fairly well this summer
considering that he was away from
the ranch most of the time on the
road commission at Mile 29.
James Bennett came in last night
from Crow Creek, where he was with
the Nutter-Dawson Mining Company
last summer. Mr. Bennett left there
several weeks ago, but has spent
much of his time prospecting along
the way and stopping at the different
road houses a few days.
Mel Horner today fixed up most of
the outlets for the lamp posts on the
sidewalks near the curbing so that it
will not be so easy to kick and
stumble over them. This was done by
putting more cement over the outlets
and forming a gradual rise, instead
of having them sticking straight up.
TWO FISHERMEN DROWNED
OFF CAPE ST. ELIAS
Cordova Times, Oct. 4: Two mem
bers of the crew of the halibut
schooner Ommaney were drowned the
other day off Cape St. Lilias, is the
word brought here by Walter Wein
er, who returned last night from a
trip to Katalla on the launch Pros
pector. The men were fishing in a
dory, when the latter upset and both
were drowned and the boat lost.. It
was impossible to learn the names
of the unfortunates.
No advertiser can afford to omit
the Seward Gateway.
OEDTIMER IS FOUND
DEAD NEAR OLD
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 15.—The re- absence caused apprehension. Search
mains of C. A. Ilolgren were found >ng parties were sent out and the
yeeterday lodg.. the foot of bo,t>' w“ di
, , _, , that death was due to drowning, lb*
a log at Eklutna creek near Old kmk.
leaves a wife and children who live in
Deceased left Old Knik September 14 . the statei „„,
to cruise for piling timber, but did j 0f Deceased was an oldtimer in
not show up again and his continued the north.
ROBBED AND BEAT MAN
AE NEW RAILWAY CITY
Nine Alleged Bootleggers Held For Trial
at Seward Term.
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 15.—Charles , men arrested are the guilty parties.
Gilbert and Jack Stein have been ar- Common report says that the pn
rested and held in the sum of two oners were mixed up in the boot log -
thousand dollars for the alleged rob- ging business and we re . <>r<*
bery of John Teresin last night. Teresin who is a witne.s. in t' il
Teres in’s cabin was entered by two licit liquor cases. The ofthiais are
men who beat him up and stole sixty- busy rounding up the bootlegger and
seven dollars, railway checks, gun and nine persons have been bound over
other things. He claims that the two to the Seward term ot court.
Anchorage Now Has
Telegraphic News
First Went Over the Wires This
Morning to the Pioneer.
For the first time in its brief lile,
Anchorage today will read the tele
graphic news of the outside world re
ceived direct by its own paper. It is
likely that the Cook Inlet Pioneer has
issued its first daily today as the
Gateway received word last evening
to rush dope for it. The Pioneer and
the Gateway have made an arrange
ment by which both towns w’ill be
kept in touch with each other all the
time.
COLONEL MILLARD GOES
AFTER THE KNOCKERS
“One Trouble With This Country is
(he D-Pessimists” Says
the Colonel.
The Granite mine at Hobo bay re
cent! vr closed down temporarily ami
evidently some people began to
whigper about trouble there, which
whisper drew forth from Colonel Mil
lard the following statement in the
Valdez Prospector:
“The Granite mine is closed down
until we get the connection through '
from the raise to the 110 foot line.
In order to reduce working expenses,
get rid of pumping and open up more
working levels, we are working three
shifts on the chute. I heard a re
mark this morning, “another bubble
bursted.”
“One trouble with this country is
the d- pessimists. They never
miss an opportunity to knock and tt
is so encouraging to try and get capi
tal to open up the country with a
string of knockers at one’s heels all
the time.
“Go to it You are doing a won
derfully good work for the country.”
J. F. Emmett, who arrived on the
Northwestern yesterday, left the
Broad Pass country about September
First to attend court in Valdez and is
on his w’ay back to Anchorage leaving
here on the Evans tomorrow. Mr.
Emmett will spend a few days in An
chorage and will then depart for
Fairbanks w’here he will spend the
winter.
GREAT ARMY
ALSO COMING
WILSON WANTS THE FOl K
HCNDREI) MILLION TO Bl ILD
LP THE LAM) FORCES.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.- -The ap
propriation of four hundred million
dollars which President Wilson will
ask from congress will be used to in
crease the standing army fr >m fifty
thousand to one hundred am t enty
thousand and also to raise one lr n
dred thousand reserves to be seemed
by new rules for short enlistments.
The bill will be made an administra
tion measure which will ensure for it
at least the full support of the demo
crats in the senate and the house of
representatives. This is hardly neces
sary, howveer, as the canvass of the
members of both houses shows clearly
that the vast majority of them favor
j the proposals. The legislators were
polled by mail to make sure of their
opinions and the answers show that
I the senators and representatives are
almost unanimous in the promise to
support the president. This army in
^ crease is in addition to the navy in
' crease which was published the other
day.
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MAN LOST
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The Alexander Teal Marshall ad in
, another column refers to a man who
left Everett, Wash, in 1807 for the
Klondykc. He has never been heard
from since. It is possible he was lost
j in one of the several disasters of
that year on the Chilcoot Pass and
Yukon river. Any information re
ceived will be forwarded by the Gate
way to relations, or may be sent di
rect to address mentioned in ad.
TO REPAIR CABLE
The cable ship Burnside left Seat
tle a week ago yesterday to start
i work repairing the cable. Her sail
ing was delayed for some reason or
another.
George Sexton has put corrugated
iron roofing over his hotel at which
the fire department is much pleased.