The Seward gateway., August 07, 1916, Image 1

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BATTLES RAGE ON MANY FRONTS
BUT WITH VARYING SUCCESS
BRITISH DEFEAT TURKS
LONDON, August 7.—it is officially announced that
the Turkish forces which attacked the British east of the
Suez canal have been completely routed by our troops and
have been driven back eighteen miles. 1 he l ui ks Heel
precipitately, the communication says, and all lurkish
troops have now been entirely cleared out ot Katia and
ITnaisha basins.
FRENCH CHECK GERMANS
PARIS, August 7.—The French lire checked two viol
ent German attacks last night on the northeastern district
of the Verdun sector. The German attacks have been re
pulsed at Thiaumont, Yaux and Chapitre and these re
pulses came even before the enemy was able to debouch
from their positions to the attack. The first attack was
launched against Thiaumont after an artillery bombard
ment but the French fire caught the attackers quickly and
threw them back on their positions.
CHECK SMALL GERMAN ATTACKS
LONDON, August 7.—General Haig reports this
afternoon that he has repulsed several small German at
tacks at different points on the Pozieres front. He also
announces that the situation on the Somme front remains
unchanged. Attacks by one side or another are now fre
quent on those two fronts but they appear not to be as
saults of a general nature. They are described as rather
searches for the weak points in each others defenses
which most likely will be followed by another general
battle. __
TAKE AUSTRIAN POSITIONS
PETROGRAD, August 7.—Austrian positions south
of Brody have been taken, it was officially announced to
day. Fighting in that region is proceeding violently in
places but all the conditions look favorable for General
Brusilloff.
GERMANS CAPTURE TRENCHES
BERLIN, August 7—It is officially announced that
portion of the trenches which had been lost to the British
near Pozieres during the big offensive have been recaptur
ed by our troops. Our forces in that region delivered sev
eral counter attacks last night with the result stated.
ALL IN SAME POSITION
THE HAGUE, August 7.—Opinion here and in other
neutral countries seem to be that the positions of the war
ring powers in Europe have undergone no material
change in the last year of fighting. Many of the leading
newspapers express this opinion in reviewing the result ot
the second year’s warfare which ended in the beginning
of the month. Those papers speak of the future outlook
and prospects when speaking of the fact that no real
change is evident.
RUSSIANS CROSS SERETH
PETROGRAD, August G.—(Sunday)—The Rus
sians have crossed the Sereth south of Brody and have re
pulsed counter attacks. It is admitted, however, that our
infantry has retired southwest of Kuty in the Carpath
ians.
SOCIALISTS VS. SOCIALISTS
PARIS, August 7.—The French congress of socialists
have decided not to resume relations with the German
socialists after the war. The reason given is that the Ger
man socialists violated the tenets of socialism by their ac
tions in connection with the war.
SAY RUSSIANS RETIRED
BERLIN, August 7.—The Russians have been forced
to retire from their positions on the Sereth. We have cap
tured 600 Slavs yesterday at Ruclka and the Russians have
been unable to make an advance at any point along the
whole line. Hindenburg and the Archduke Karl have di
vided the eastern command between them and a new
movement is looked for. Hindenburg has just frustrated
an attempt by the Russians to cross the Dvina river at the
extreme north of the eastern line. It is also officially re
ported that the British have started a new battle at Pozi
eres but they have been repulsed all the way from Ovillers
to Fourneaux.
ANOTHER EIRE NEAR
BEACH 10M BLAZE
Fifteen Cars of Munitions Destroyed
and Incendiarism Suspected.
JERSEY CITY, Aug. 7. —Another
spectacular lire occurred last night in
the railroad >arils a quarter ul a mile
from the scene of the great Clack
Tom island blaze and iiiteen freight
cars tilled with munitions of war
were destroyed. The ponce believe
the tire was an incendiary one but no
clue has been obtained that gives the
least hope that anyone will be arrest
ed.
HEAT AGAIN KILLING
PEOPLE IN THE EAST
CHICAGO, August 7. —Another
heat wave is sweeping Chicago ana
the temperature is 1H>. Six men arc
reported drowned while seeking re
lief front the heat by bathing and
several others had narrow escapes.
Two deaths directly due to heat are
reported.
NEW YORK ALSO
NEW YORK, August 7.—The heat
caused three deaths and 0 prostrations
here today. The temperature is IK).
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PHILADELPHIA CARMEN
ALSO CALL A STRIKE
PHILADELPHIA, August 7.—A
strike of the motormen and conductors
of the Rapid Transit Company has
been ordered by the Executive Com
mittee of the union of the local divi
sion of electric railway employees.
They demand forty cents an hour,
recognition of the union and the ad
justment of other grievances. The
leaders claim that half of the 4,700
men will answer the call.
Ill’GHES ON THE MOVE
DETROIT, August 7. — Charles E.
Hughes arrived today on the lirst lap
of his transcontinental journey for
campaigning purposes.
Cars Break Away
I Five Mile Husli
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Giant Dump Cars Race Madly and
Crash Into Crane.
Two of the great big iron dump cars
started going today at Mile Five, rac
ed down the track at a terrific speed,
passed over Resurrection river, shot
in towards the city and smashed at a
twenty-five mile speed into the big
crane just north of the machine shops,
'rite front of the front car had its iron
work smashed, the center castings of
the crane were broken but the damage
done is not more than can be easily
fixed. 'Hie accident happened while
the two cars were standing on tfte
track at Mile 5 alone while the other
cars were being dumped. They were
filled with gravel at the time and this
made the speed all the greater. They
broke away, it is said, because the air
brake had been set and the hand
brake had not been, so that when the
air got out there was no break at all
to stop them. They moved off gently
at first but were not seen until they
had got quite a momentum down the
grade at that point. The ears are
heavy and the loads in them weighed
many tons so that once the momentum
had been gained the ears went hard
er and harder and harder so that
when they went over Resurrection
river they had a tremenodus speed
which they maintained fine for the
next three miles towards the city.
Now, as the cars were ripping into
town, to give the other side of the
story like a movie film, the big crane
was standing peacefully on the main
track north of the shops as the two
runaway cars tore across the big
■ trestle at the head of the bay with
tremendous speed. In the crane were
Red Pollack, the engineer, and Arthur
Gray, fireman. The crane had stopped
working and both men were oiling the
machinery with heads down as the
racing cars flew to the encounter.
Arthur says the first thing he knew
about it was when Pollock shouted to
jump. It was too late and Arthur
says that crash was something fierce,
'but the crane stopped them in fine
' shape. If no crane nor something of
equal bulk had been on the track the
runaways would have done something
\>n that dock that might make a more
exciting story, but as it is the harm
was very little.
TEUTONS CAPTURE POSITIONS
BERLIN, August 7. — The Austro-German troops
which resumed the offensive against the Russian left wing
in the Carpathians have captured the heights of Plaik
Nand Dereskowata, it is officially announced. The latest
from that front is that the Teuton offensive is proceeding
satisfactorily.
BRITISH NEAR POZIERES
LONDON, August 6. — The British are within six
hundred yards of Pozieres now despite unusually violent
artillery opposition. The enemy airships have been active
out eight of them were dispersed yesterday.
QUIET ON SOMME
PARIS, August G.—The Somme front is quiet, the of
ficial note says. The Germans have made furious at
tempts to recapture Thiaumont but failed with heavy
losses.
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BREAK TEUTONIC RESISTANCE
PETROGRAD, August 7—Russian attacks along the
Sereth and Graberka rivers south of Brody in Galicia
broke the Teutonic resistance and have resulted in the
capture by the Russians of six villages and the ridge along
which they were located. The war office announcement
also savs that three thousand prisoners were taken by our
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troops.
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THE BELGIANS FIGHTING
LONDON, July 7.—The little Belgian army has re
cently made several determined attacks in the corner of
the line which they hold in what is left of their own
I country.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
SECURED FOR SEWARD SMELTER
SEWARD TEAM TO
WORK EVERY DAY
Manager 11obon Calls Out All Players
For 6:30 P. M.
This evening at 6:30 o’clock and
every evening of the week the Sew
ard hall players will appear on the |
ball grounds in uniform for practise j
in preparation for the big games j
which are scheduled to begin next Fri-1
day with Anchorage. Quite a bit of
money has already gone up but the
betting has only* really begun and if
anything should ever happen to our
champions good bye to the smelter.
Seward is, however, the favorite with
. Seward. It is going to win.
The following is the notice publish
ed today by Manager H. V. Hoben:
“NOTICE:—All ball players arc
notified to report in uniform at the
! grounds at 6:30 o’clock this evening
and every evening this week, weather |
permitting.”
MAXWELL WINS MARATHON
TACOMA, August C>.—Eddie Rick
enbacher Maxwell was the driver of
the machine which won the Monta
marathon yesterday. The race was
for three hundred miles and for a
purse of four thousand dollars.
Eighty-nine machines took part.
DIVER SUFFOCATED IN
TEN FEET OF WATER
ASTORIA, August 7.—-Axel B.
j Anderson, a diver, was suffocated yes
, terday in ten feet of water in the
Columbia river at Altoona, Washing
ton, when he went to the bottom to
1 put chains around tishtrap pilings.
THE FAIRBANKS SHOOTING
FAIRBANKS. — Up until a late
hour last night the marshal’s ollice
had received no report concerning the
success of Deputies George Berg and
l’ete McMullen, who are in the Pedro
dome district looking for Louis lio
eytto, the man who shot and seriously
wounded Dick Creighton and his w te
Saturday morning. Both of the in
jured people are in St. Joseph’s hos
pital, where they are resting as easily
as could be expected under the cir
cumstances. The woman’s injuries
are not serious. The bullet from the
.22 calibre high power rifle used by
Goyette penetrated her body near the
base of the spine. Creighton is more
seriously injured but was able to talk
yesterday. One of the bullets fired by
Goyette hit him in the neck and rang
ed upward through his mouth and
jaw, knocking out several teeth and
shattering the jaw bone. The shoot
ing took place in the presence of
Martin Smith.
Goyette and Creighton were mining
partners who have been working in
quartz together at the head of Little
Eldorado creek for the past several
i years. Ordinarily speaking, they
have done well as the result of their
operations, according to those who
claim to know. Both, however, are of
a quarrelsome nature and have
never been able to get along amicably.
\To cause for the trouble culminating
in the shooting can be assigned, un
less it was the inability of the two
men to get along together.
Mrs. Creighton was formerly known
as Elza Peterson. She and Creighton
were married only a few days ago.—
j Citizen.
Fifteen thousand dollars had been
subscribed in this city for the estab
lishment of a smelter in Seward up
to yesterday, the committee announc
ed today, and the work of securing the
remaining ten thousand is proceeding
in the most promising way. The com
mittee expects that the total amount
will be ready in a very flfcv days.
Everything indicates that interest in
the project is increasing rapidly
everywhere.
NOMINATED WOMAN
FOR NAFF. CONGRESS
TOPEKA, August 7.—Complete un
official returns from the First Con
gressional district show that Dr. Eva
Harding, the first woman ever to be
nominated for congress, has been
named for that office on the Demo
cratic ticket.
REPORTED CHI SANA
STRIKE IS A FAKE
In a letter to Judge Finnegan this
morning Commissioner A. McGettigan
of the Chisana district says that the
report of a strike in that country
some months ago is not genuine.1
There will be some work on Foley and
Notch creeks, this Fall, the writer
says.
WENT WEST
.
The following went west on the
Evans this morning: J. H. Irving,
Frank Nyberg and wife, George Vin
ger, Charles Williams and B. R.
Baker.
ELEVATED ENGINEERS
JOIN N. V. STRIKE
Mediation Commissioners Leaving For
Gotham to Offer Services.
—
NEW YORK, August 6.—The en-,
gineers of the elevated railway sys
tem have voted by ninety to one in
favor of the strike and it is possible,
that they will walk out soon.
VALDEZ STRONG
FOR SMELTER
BIG CROWD BACKS LIBERTY
HALL AX COMMITTEE
FORMED.
A letter received by Derick Lane
from Henry D. Reynolds this morning
tells that Liberty hall, Valdez, was
packed with an enthusiastic crowd at
,.tc* meeting on Saturday evening
which had been called by Reynolds to
discuss the Seward smelter project.
A committee composed of Messrs.
Dickey, Boyle, Rystrom, Townsend
and Reynolds was formed to push the
matter and Mr. Reynolds declares Chat
he found all Brince William Sound out
for the project unanimously.
CAME ON EVANS
The following arrived on the Evans
this morning:
From Seattle; Dave Williams, T.
Cunningham, Jno. Lynch, I.. Koehler,
M. Solner and wife, Miss M. Harris,
M. C. Donovan and 1 steerage.
From way points; R. Weh’er, B.
Landauer, S. Landauer, CL Landauer.
STRIKERS STORM A
SEATTLE STREET CAR
SEATTLE, August 6. — Tv\o hun
dred longshoremen last night stormed
a street cat that was carrying negrr.
strike breakers and seven men we**»
injured before the polTte succeeded in
dispersing the crowd.
NATION WIDE R. R.
STRIKE SEEMS NEAR
NEW YORK, August 7.—'The lead
ers of four hundred thousand unioniz
ed railroad trainmen of the United
States have cleaned up the work of
ballotting anti tabulating the result
anti all is prepared for the threatened
strike unless heroic efforts to prevent,
it are successful. The strike wiil lie
up a quarter of a million miles of
railroads. Formal announcement of
the result of the ballottin'g will be
made tomorrow unless the companies
cede an eight hour day and time and
a half for overtime.
The strike, it is admitted on all
hands, would be the most disastrous
and far reaching of all the industrial
battles of the nation’s history.
MAY SETTLE N. Y. STRIKE
NEW YORK, August 7. — The latest from the New
York strike is that the motormen and conductors and the
companies are arranging an agreement which may end the
trouble.
MRS. HARDING DEFEATED
TOPEKA, August 7. — The corrected returns from
the primary elections show that Dr. Eva Harding has not
received the nomination after all. It is now evident that
Rev. H. J. Corwine has received the Democratic nomina
tion.
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INFANTILE PARALYSIS
NEW YORK, August 7.—One hundred and forty-five
new cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in
New York in the past twenty-four hours. Forty-four
deaths took place in that period. The total number of
cases to date has been 5,168 and the total deaths are
1,143.
ILLINOIS HAS PARALYSIS
SPRINGFIELD, August 7. — The first death of an
adult from infantile paralysis occurred here today.