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—Z7—-7 1 1 The Great The Great , ALA^KA M DAILY 1-PAI-Y ___1 - . • „..l« rr™.»«i™r..v LARGEST ALASKAN CIRCULATION ADVERTISEMENTS BRING RESULTS PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SI NI.AY . . ...,. ■ — ~ ___SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA. FRIDAY. MAY 12, 1916.___Ten Cent* the Copy ANOTHER RAID DY MEXICANS ON ONITED STATES TERRITORY WARN AMERICANS TO LEAVE WASHINGTON, May 11. — The state department through the United States consuls in Mexico today issued a warning to all American citizens to quit Mexico. The' document in which the warning is contained says nothing j as to the reasons for so serious a step except that the dis-| turbed state of the Mexican republic at present is hardly the kind to foster the hope that full protection of the lives of foreigners can be obtained. MAY ASK MORE TROOPS EL PASO, May 11. — General Funston is seriously! considering the advisability of asking that the first > cavalry and the Chicago militia be sent south for service j on the Mexican border. ANOTHER MEXICAN RAID MARATHON, Texas, May 11. —Fifty Mexicans swooped down last night on the town of Blocker, near Eagle Pass, and after robbing many stores and a few| ranches escaped with a number of horses. No fatalities have been reported. The l nited States authorities arej convinced now that an organized system of Mexican raids j against United States territory lias been put into effect and that the raids on Glenn Springs and Blocker were part of it. __ AUSTRIAN TRANSPORT SUNK RY SUBMARINE SINKS AUSTRIAN SHIP j ROME, May 12. — A French submarine yesterday destroyed an Austrian munitions transport in the Adri atic sea off Albania. It is believed that the crew perished. | REPULSE GERMANS j PARIS, May 12—During the night the French with bayonets and hand grenades repulsed a German attack j northeast of Verdun, it is officially anounced. West of the Meuse nothing more than artillery fighting is re ported. POPULAR ALASKANS ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT The engagement of Mr. James L. Galen, one of the best known and most popular Alaskans, who has min ing interests in different sections of the territory to Miss Kathryn Mona han, for several years employed in the J clerk of the court’s office at Valdez, has been announced. The wedding will take place the latter part of this month.—Ex. IDITAROD MEN TO GO AFTER AEROPLANE MAIL CONTRACTS A. E, Meacham and Earl Byers have been investigation the subject of aeroplaning transportation with a view to establishing a line of air craft between Iditarod and Seward. They have been in correspondence with the manufacturers of aircraft, and are satisfied with the feasibility of the plan to carry passengers and light freight over the route mention ed. At a special meeting of the execu tive board of the Iditarod Commercial Club, held Thursday evening, the plans of Meacham and Byers were explained, and the hearty endorse ment of that organization was ob tained.—Ex. ____ _ —- 1 - ■ Guy Whitehead, one of the most prominent citizens of Seward for some time and a man who has large interests here, returned on|the North western and will remain permanently. Mrs. Whitehead will return in August. F. A. -Douse, Mr. White head’s brother-in-law, also came on the Northwestern. * JUDGE BROWN TO GO TO KETCHIKAN Unless instructions to the contrary are received Judge Brown will leave on the Admiral Evans for Ketchikan to hold a term of court called for that place by Judge Jennings, but which that official will be unable to attend, owing to the pressure of business at Juneau. The business before the court at Valdez has been practically cleared up, but Judge Brown will keep the session open until he leaves for the south.—Ex. WADA BELIEVED BEEN MURDERED SAN PEDRO, Calif., May 10.— Wada, a Japanese, well know'n in Al | aska, particularly in the Fairbanks and Nome sections, where he gained considerable fame as a runner, has disappeared from here under suspi cious circumstances. Wada has been employed by a fisn ing company here for some time, and has incurred the enmity of the Japa \ nese fishermen. It is said that his life has been threatened several times and it is believed here that he has met with foul play, as there is no reason for his disappearance. The police are investigating the af fair, but as yet have succeeded in un earthing no clue to the whereabouts of the missing man.—Ex. J. R. MacKay, brother of W. B MacKay, of Seward, and his son ar rived evening to look the district over. Emil Gaupholm, formerly an en gineer in the Latouche mines, is now in the city for a short visit. HAWAII MONEY INVESTED HERE ARTHUR JETT ARRIVES FROM HONOLULU AFTER INTEREST ING PROMINENT CITIZENS. With a big bunch of Hawaiian money at his back Arthur Jett, the well known mining man of this dis trict and formerly of Nome, arrived last night on the Mariposa and pro ceeded on the same vessel to the west warti to make preparations to install a dredge at East Fork and Granite creek near Sunrise. After leaving this place some months ago Mr. Jett went to Honolulu and succeeded in in teresting some of the most prominent people of the islands in the mining outlook for this district. On the Mart posa he brought in a thorough pros pecting outfit, including a drill, and ’ the dredge is on the way. The com pany’s name is the Hawaii Dredge i Company of Honolulu. •;* <• v <• ❖ %• v ❖ HIGH OFFICER * <* I. 0. 0. F. HERE * P. S. Hunt, District Deputy Grand Sire of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, arrived on the Mariposa last evening for the purpose of in stituting a lodge of Oddfellows here in Seward, which will be the seventh lodge of the order in Alaska. A large number of active Oddfellows and a good class of candidates assure the new lodge success. The institution will take place on Monday the 15th inst. The Independent Order of Odd fellows was instituted in 1819 and j now the membership is over two mil lions and the total revenues of the Order have been over two hundred and seventy-five millions. Over one hundred and thirty-six million dollars have been spent in the relief of mem bers in the past eighty years. MAYOR ROLPH MAKES AN IMMENSE FORTUNE SAN FRANCISCO, May 11. — By selling the steamer Annette Rolph, which was in course of construction, and a shipment if iron work building materials to a Scandinavian concern Mayor Rolph of this city has just made a huge fortune. The ship was supposed to be worth about a million dollars and the material was valued at eight millions. The whole was sold for eighteen million five hundred dollars. This is the fourth steamer sold by Rolph last month. l\ S. READY TO PAY $203.92, DUE TO AUTHOR OF “HOME, SWEET HOME” (Special to Gateway by United Press) WASHINGTON, May 4. — After sixty years the United States is pre pared to pay to the heirs of John Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home,” money remaining due to him from the Treasury on his death at Tunis April 9, 1852, while stationed there as American Consul. The sum is $205.92. The Treasury Department is seeking information as to Payne’s heirs. C. H. Fuqua, a contractor and builder, has arrived in the city and will size up the prospects here for business. Sydney Anderson, vice-president of the Bank of Seward and the Bank of Anchorage, returned on the North western after having made arrange ments outside for the establishment of the Anchorage institution. IMMELMANN IS ONE OF GERMANY’S HEROES fTr IMMCLMflNH (To add to his numerous other honors won In the war. Lieutenant Immelmnnn. the famous German army aviator, received a decoration from the kaiser a few days ago at Verdun. The brinKln#? down of the thirteenth enemy aeroplane by Im melmann was recorded recently At his throat In this picture he wears the hl^h est German military decoration, the Or der Pour le Merited By WILBUR S. FORREST (Special to Gateway by United Press) LONDON, May 9. — The war has developed the “human falcon.” Aerial fighters and aeronautical ex ports throughout Europe today arc discussing Germany’s super-hawk. Lieutenant Immelmann. Advices just received in Engl ana from the vicinity of Lille, France, and from Germany tell for the first time the falconish methods of the champion Teutonic Fokker Flyer whose total bag to date is officially announced as fifteen allied aeroplanes. Immelmann’s secret of offensive air fighting is extremely simple. He sights his quarry—an Allied aero plane bent on reconnaissance duty or aerial photography, somewhere over the German lines near Lille. The Falcon leaves the ground and wings to a great height, an altitude of 13, 000 feet or more. When he has maneuvered over his adversary, he sets his planes and makes one long, terrific, downward swoop. The plan is to pass diagon ally behind his opponent at the rate of perhaps 200 miles an hour. His machine gun is primed and ready. When he enters a prescribed area the bullets begin to fly. Just like, the falcon, that member of the hawk family which tries once and strikes its mark or misses, Im melmann either bags his “bird" at one swoop or wings back to his aero drome a failure. He never returns to attack. He empties one drum of bul lets, and hit or miss, continues his dive until it takes him home. In Germany Immelmann is a na tional hero. He is called ‘The Eagle of Lille.” More graphic details of Immel mann’s method of attack are contain ed in a letter just received in Lon don from Lieutenant R. J. Slade of the British Flying Service. Slade is one of the German Falcon's i fifteen victims and now a prisoner at Furstenberg. Slade and his pilot, Captain Darley, Royal Flying Corps, were on recon naissance duty over the German lines near Lille. The Falcon saw them. Suddenly from somewhere out of the air, Immelmann swooped down behind us,“ declared the British officer. “He opened fire with his machine gun before we were aware of his presence.” The stream of lead from the Fokker riddled the Briton’s petrol tank. Cap tain Darley, in charge of the controls, j tried to escape by a 6udden nose dive. The Falcon followed with accuracy. A steady stream of lead found its mark. Captain Darley was shot j through the right arm, while the thumb of his right hand was reduced to a pulp. In midair, thousands of feet above the earth, the letter explains, Slade WICK FEARS R. R. COMMISSION ARE TO RE MADE AOTOCRATS Flag Ship Mariposa Returns Once More — Celebration Held on Vessel Which is Now Finer Than Ever. Not so long ago all of us had given up our old friend, the steamship Mariposa, for lost but she looked very much alive last evening when many | of the people of Seward sat down at her tables to enjoy a line repast in celebration of her return once more to Alaskan waters. It was the first! trip since ;ast October when the ac cident took place. Since that time she has been renovated at the Yar row shipyards at Esquimalt, B. C. All the interior and the two after houses are entirely new. New car pets, beds, and upholstering have been put in throughout, and the dining hall and cabins have been painted most prettily with white and gold trim mings. Captain C. J. O’Brien is still in command, Earl Raymond is chief en gineer and Teddy Taylor, the popular chief steward, still occupies his old position. Ed. Morgan is purser. In addition to those, most of the old crew, including Chef Cabanas and Baker Simpson, are staying by the Mariposa. Open house was kept last night for the citizens of Seward until after midnight and the occasion was really pleasant. U. S. SOLDIERS IN MEXICO BEWHISK ERED (Special to Gateway by United Press) FIELD HEADQUARTERS, near Namiquipa, May 9. — The United States army in Mexico is the most bountifully bewhiskered body of men on the North American continent. The expedition carries no shaving equipment, you know. The boys have come to cherish and brag about their beards. /n this camo may be seen every variety of whiskers known to human ity, and several kinds never before classified. There are carefully trimrr.eu Van Dykes, fierce mustachios, pert Charley Chaplins, bristly adornments of the George Sidney type, and even a few good old Galways; Red, white, grey, black, pink, bay, sorrel, mottled, etc. The states arc due for a treat when “Johnny comes marching home” and if there be wife or sweetheart who can pick her man out from behind the hirsutic undergrowth, it will be a case of pure luck. A shooting scrape took place at La touche a few days ago and one man was hit with three bullets, but, it is supposed, not seriously. was forced to lean over and amputate Darley’s shattered thumb with his penknife. It was an easy operation, as only skin and shredded flesh held the member. Throughout that time the German aviator continued his steady fire. Slade’s clothing was riddled with lead but he miraculously escaped. The pilot was again wounded in the left hand, but with his injured right arm he manouvered his machine toward earth and made a perilous landing. Immelmann, by this time, had winged out of range and, performing a circle, he landed his machine to render what assistance he could. Lieutenant Slade’s letter described how the German airman behaved in such a kindly manner toward his captives that he won their admiration. The letter concludes: “He is a gentleman, and if we ever capture him, I hope he will be treat ed as such.” That Delegate Janies Wickersham fears that the ad ministration is about to place the people along the line of route of the government Alaska railroad under a sort of martial law is the only inference which can be drawn from a copy of a bill recently introduced in congress and from a note appended by the delegate himself, both of which came to the Gateway from Mr. Wickersham last evening. The bill in itself hardly seems to bear out the belief of the delegate but as he is right on the spot he must be credited, at least, with having given attention to the subject. The best thing to do is to print the bill itself and the comment of Mr. Wickersham. His allusion to the “full territorial form of government” is unquestionably sarcasm. The typewritten comment of the delegate is as fohows: * “This Tull territorial form of government* bill was prepared by Secretary Lane’s office and introduced in congress at his request. Its effect will be to give the Al askan Railroad Commissioners autocratic power to sup press labor organizations and other free people. Do you j want it?” The following is the text of the bill which was intro duced April 28 by Representative Houston: “A BILL | To confer additional authority upon the President of the United States in the construction and operation of the Alaskan Railroad, and for other purposes. “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that in connection with and during the con struction and operation of the Alaskan Railroad, under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled "An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Al aska, and for other purposes,” the President is hereby authorized and empowered to make and promulgate such police, quarantine, and sanitary rules and regulations as shall be necessary to preserve order and to preserve the public health along and in the vicinity of said railroad or railroads constructed, being constructed, or located by survey, and within town sites established or to be estab lished, under and pursuant to said Act of March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen. “Sec. 2. That such rules and regulations shall become effective on a date to be named in proclamation of the President promulgating same, and any person violating such rules or regulations, or any of them, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction there of in the courts of Alaska, be fined not more than $500 or be imprisoned not more than one year, or both.” ❖ ALL THE MINES IN * ❖ ALL-ALASKA REVIEW ❖ ❖ - * In the April issue of The All-Al- j aska Review appear the names of all the well known mines and their mana gers in Alaska. It is taken from the exhaustive report of the Territorial Mining Inspector, William Maloney, and provides a record which is inter-; esting now and will be still more in teresting as the years go by. ri he issue this month will begin the second year of the Review’s existence. It has now become fairly well adver tised throughout the east and goes to all *hc organizations in Alaska and on the Pacific Coast. The April issue also contains an exhaustive account of the Republican convention with com ments by other newspapers and peo pie. The Review is now on- solid ground and will begin to advance further from this time forward. LOOTERS GET AWAY WITH TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS SAN BERNARDINO, May 11.— Cracksmen escaped last night with ten thousand dollars after looting the store of James Ellingsworth at Randsburg. The money was in the shape of cash and pay checks and was in the place in preparation for paying off employees. ❖ FINE SHOW AT * ❖ THE EMPRESS •> '/ - * “The Governor” last night at the Empress theatre brought out a large 1 crowd which was more than satisfied. The most elaborate care had evidently been taken to produce the picture and , some most thrilling scenes marked it | throughout. The story was that of a man elected governor who found after election that he had some negro blood in his veins. The Empress is to be congratulated for pictures of that sort. WIDOW OF NOTED ARCHITECT WEDS GEN. WEBB’S SON NEW YORK, May 10.—Mrs. Wil ; liam Hamilton Russell and Alexander S. Webb were married quietly today at her home, No. 271 Lexington j avenue. Mrs. Russel is the widow.of | the well-known architect and was i Miss Florence Sands. She is the daughter of the late James W. ! Sands. Mr. Webb, who is president of the Lincoln Trust company, is a son of the late General and Mrs. Alexander S. Webb, and a brother of Mrs. John E. Alexander. He belongs to the Union and Manhattan clubs, the Society of Colonial Wars and Society | of the Cincinnati.