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Jf The Great ¥ ALASKAN DAILY PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY_' LARGEST ALASKAN CIRCULATION V ol 10 \ o 240 SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26,1916. . Ten Cents the Copy FIERCE FIGHTING ON WESTERN FRONTS AND ALLIES GAINING HOW THE OFFENSIVE STANDS LONDON, August 26. — An official communication says that the ninth week of the great Anglo-F reach offen sive on the Somme sees the British line in the lhiep\al neighborhood steadily encircling the German fortified positions and threatening the capture of Thiepval itself, the place which has interfered with the advance of Haig since the offensive began. It is expected that the enemy will put forth his supreme effort to retain this place as its fall would be a disaster and probably compel a very im portant retirement. Notwithstanding the apparent slow ness of the advances the military experts are unanimously of the opinion that the allied campaign is proceeding most satisfactorily. BRITISH ADVANCE AGAIN LONDON, August 26.—The British left wing on the Somme front broke out in a new attack last night, Haig reports, and took four hundred yards more of the enemy s trenches. The assault was delivered chiefly at the Ger man positions defending Thiepval. GERMANS LAUNC H MANY ATTACKS PARIS, August 26.—A strong German reconnaisance south of Maureanas ami Hill 121 last night was dispersed by the French lire, the official communique today says. The statement also says that a most violent artillery struggle is proceeding on the Somme front but no other attacks in that region are reported. The Germans last night also launched heavy attacks in Champagne and on the northern and eastern fronts of Verdun. No changes are reported as the result of the fighting last night in those quarters. BRITISH RETALIATE BY AIR LONDON, August 26. — British air crafts made a counter attack in answer to the Zeppelin raids last night when they bombarded the German airship shed at Namur, Belgium. The official announcement does not state the amount of the damage inflicted but it is admitted that one of the British machines failed to return. It is stated of ficially that the British aviators believe they were very successful in carrying out their design. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK LONDON, August 26.—The armed British steamer Duke of Albany was sunk last Thursday in the North Sea by a submarine and twenty-four lives were lost. The ad miralty announces that eighty-seven of the crew were saved NO CHANGES ELSEWHERE LONDON, August 26.—Reports from the Greek, Turkish and Russian fronts today show no change worth noting in the relative positions of the opposing forces. VAN GILDER BUILDING TO BE OPEN OUT. 1 The new Van Gilder office building will be ready for occupancy about October 1st. Thi* building is of mod ern, reinforced concrete, three stories and basement. The first two floors contain twelve ortice suits with hot and cold water and lavatories in every suit. The hall partitions and doors are of non-transparent glass. The third floor is being fitted up for lodge purposes and will be second to none in Alaska. All exterior doors and win dows are to contain wired plate glass. The windows are celebrated Whitney windows, and the building will be heated by an “Ideal” down-draft boil er of 3750 feet capacity, with a Houey well automatic temperature regulator. The radiators are of the “Peerless screw nipper type. On the w’hole the building is one of the finest in all Alaska. W. P. Henry will act as agent. f ■ .. W ANTED Smart boy at Gateway office. FIRST CLASS POSTAL WEIGHT IS EXTENDED SEATTLE, August 26.—The weight limit for first class mail has been raised from four pounds to the limit set for parcel post matter. This ^s fifty pounds in the first two zones and twenty pounds in the rest of the United States. Word to this effect was recived today by the local post master from Postmaster General Rurleson. The radius of the first two zones is 150 miles. THREE FATAL AUTO ACCIDENTS IN SEAtTLF SEATTLE, August 26—Two deaths occurred in the hospital and a t'lird happened elsewhere from injuries caused by three automobile accidents here last night. BISHOP BURIED PEORIA. August 26.—Archbishop Spaulding was buried here today after a solemn pontifical high mass in St. Mary’s cathedral. ;BI(i WORK TO SUPPLY TRACT WITH WATfR Sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars to be Spent by Company This Year. -— 'Hu* government terminal tract will be supplied with water this year and fur the purpose the sum of twenty thousand dollars or more will be spent on the work this summer. The com pany will not, of course, begin the work until the lots are sold. This sale will begin on September 11 and as the last sale at Nenana takes place today Agent Christensen will have I lots of time to urrive here from the | 'Pterion Most likely the work of get i ting in the water supply will start sometime next month. -- ■ — WAR ASH-PITTSBURGH, WORTH 3 MILLION’, SOLD AT AUCTION PITTSBURGH, August 15.—The Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal Railway is up for sale by a master at the com pany’s building here today. The Krie was expected to be the most interest ed bidder. The price wanted is about ; $:i,000,000. The Erie may be a purchaser of the i Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad before long, according to gossip in railroad circles. The Pennsylvania, because of ♦he United States Supreme Court’s decree dissolving the Northern Securi ties company, cannot acaiqre eitherthe Wabash-Pittsburg or the Wheeling and Lake Erie. The Erie, by getting hold of the latter, would lave ready-built connec tion between its own lines and ttic Wabash-Pittsburgh. LODJE WAS QUITE SOBER WHEN HE MET HIS END Fred Kruaser, the partner of Carl lx)dje who met his death by falling off the wharf yesterday morning, says that Lodje was perfectly sober at the time of the accident. Lodje had beer, in the United States for sixteen jears and in that time had never tasteo whiskey and had never taken mort than a few glasses of beer. Krauser says he probably fell through th« hole between the old dock and the new and not over the side or end as had been believed. The dead man has a brother in Seattle, Bellingham or some other town in the state of Washington and he will be communicated with. ALL READY FOR THE BIG DANCE MONDAY It is so long since Seward had a dance that everyone is looking for ward to the big time next Monday night when the dance of the Woman’s Club will take place in A. B. Hall. As usual when women give dances there is a better time than at ordinary hops, probably because women know more than men about those things, or it .night be because the fact that wom en are in the lead lends more attrac tion to the masculine eye. Anyhow, whatever the cause might be, one thing is absopositively certain, and that is that the dance next Monday will be SOME DANCE. STORM FREES CONVICTS . JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Aug. 26.—During a violent thunderstorm yesterday four of the most dangerous convicts in the state penitentiary managed to make their escape and they have not since been apprehend ed. STARVATION MAY COME EROM THE STRIKE BOTH SIDES ASSERTING CIVIC FAIR TO BE HELD IN R. R. Bl. 00. Ladies Now Preparing For the Better Babies Contest. The Civic Fair of Seward which will be held on the Sth and Dth of Sep tember will take place in the railroad building. The ladies are now preparing for the Better Babies Contest which will be carried on throughout next week. The city health officer has consented to examine the babies for the contest and the examination will be a scienti fic one by standard tests that have been universally accepted. The tests will be made by appointment which is to be made through Mrs. Borgen. George Mirlach has donated a silver cup as the first prize for the baby with the highest score. In addition to the general physical condition of the children they will be measured, have their teeth examined, etc., and the children from 12 months to months will be the ones examined. All the standard figures and data as to what a child of a certain age should weigh find measure, what its head should measure and so on have been secured and nothing will be done that does not follow out the most approved scienti fic methods. PRESIDENT TO AVOID POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE NAMING TARIFF COMMISSION (Special to Gateway by United Press) j WASHINGTON, August 16.—In j naming the forthcoming Tariff Com mission the President, it is known to day, is determined to get entirely out of a political atmosphere. The ihan ?ts of any aspirant who is recom mended by a politician will go glim mering. President Wilson is said to have a constitutional aversion to appointing a man to a job when the man is re commended by a politician. The reaosn is that almost any senator or congressman will recommend a man if he comes from his district. Frequently the candidate may be personally unknown to the solon. He comes in for the regular form OK, many times a rubber stamp affair that never comes to the congressman’s at tention at all. While the president was wrestling with the Farm Loan Board personnel ^he received several hundred recom mendations. One day a group of congressmen came to the White House to recomend a certain man. Not one of them knew the man’s full name or anything about him. One of tne group desired him and the rest were helping boost. A senator was asked following a conference with the President if he at any time had added to the names on jthc prospective list of the Farm Boaro experts. “Why, yes”, the Senator replied “I believe I did recomemnd someone. It was several days ago and I really paid no attention to it. I don’t even remember the man’s name, but he was, from my district, I’m sure.” Examples of this are found in the; filling of Supreme court and cabinet vacancies, too. A hundred lawyers were recommended by political advis ors for the place now occupied by .Tuatice Brandeis, i » O'BRIEN OF DAWSON HAS PASSED AWAY I Was One of Most Prominent Operat ors in Yukon Territory. I - DAWSON, August 26. — Thomas William O’Brien, who has been known as the Klondyke King, passed away j yesterday after quite a prolonged ill [ ness. He was the man who built the Klondyke Mines railway. He was once the owner of No. 1 Eldorado and many other claims on that creek and j on Bonanza. He built the Klondyke | ferry and several trails and was the owner of breweries, steamboat lines I I and other large utilities. Some vime ago his relatives were summoned, amongst them being his uncle, a Seat tle doctor and every effort was made to prolong his life. SHOT N01ED DOCTOR ECR BETRAYING HER — Woman Commits Sensational Act in Suite Mobilization Camp. MACON, Georgia, August 26.— “Southern chivalry and the unwrit ten law* are relied upon by Mrs. S. ,C. Adams to free her from the charge of murdering Captain Edward J. Spratlight in the state mobilization camp here. The captain was the most prominent physician in the city of Atlanta ami was known throughout the state. “He was my family physician and took advantage of me” is the state ment made by Mrs. Adams. The oc currence promises to give rise to one of the most celebrated cases for many years not only because of the man’s prominence but because of the circum1 stances connected with his alleged crime. NEVER MISSED A DAY EUGENE, Ore., August 10.—Pro fessor Timothy Cloran completed his 13,fi08th class when the summer ses sion of the University of Oregon clos ed here. He has taught 21 years, and never has missed a day. BIG CROW CREEK CASE IS NOW BENIG HEARD The Crow creek case is now being heard at Anchorage by Judge Brown. This case is a suit for fifty thousand dolars damages brought by Mahl and Hitchcock against the Crow Creek Mining company for damages alleged to have been sustained by the dump ing of tailings by the defendants on the property of the plaintiffs. N. B. Solner, the Seattle banker, and Dick Dawson are the two men connected with the Crow creek company. Ritchie and Lyons are for the plaint iffs and Ray is for the defendants. GETTING OUT PETITION • FOR KENAI AUTO ROAD A petition is being ciruclated for presentation to the Alaska Road Com mission asking for the construction as I soon as possible of the automobile road to Kenai lake. It is believed to be the intention of the commission to build this road as soon 4s possible but the people of the city have come to the conclusion that the need of the road should be impressed on the Board. J J. Finnegan has charge of the peti tion. _WASHINGTON, August 2G. — The railroad strike situation seemed hopeless today at ijoon, both sides being apparently firm in the refusal to make further conces sions. Conferences continued, however, amongst both sides. This may be stated on the authority of men promi nent in the railway men’s organization as well as in the companies. As the transportation paralysis of the na tion looms up the railroad managers contend that they can keep enough trains running with the aid of local em ployees to prevent a milk and food famine. The repre sentatives of the unions counter by saying that there may be a few men willing to keep working but that the roads as a whole will be tied up tighter than a drum. The grimmest fighters amongst the bosses said: “We will put white lead on the engines and lay every thing off.” The conservatives amongst them said: “We must see that our babies have their milk and the nation its food.” To this the employees answer: “If the companies persist the starvation of the people would lie at the doors of the railroad kings.” No one seems to be able to foretell what will happen within the next few days. President Wilson has made his proposals but as both sides are obstinate and no compro mise is in sight the situation looks very bad. LOUIS LANE’S SHIP IS GON! TO BOTTOM SAN FRANCISCO, August 2G. — A wireless report received from the United States revenue cutter McCul lough tells of the wreck of the steamer Great Bear in Ber ing Sea on August 10. The vessel was carrying the Lane Borden expedition into the Arctic and was on the way to Nome when she met her fate. She was overdue at that port ten days when the McCullough was sent in search and the captain of the cutter now reports that the Great Bear sank but that the people aboard her got to land and are being conveyed to Nome by the McCullough. Lane is Captain Louis Lane, son of a late wealthy mining operator of Nome and other places, and is the man who first found Steffanson after the latter had been given up for lost. Borden is a member of the famous canned milk family. They were on their way to hunt and fish and also for re search purposes. The exact name of the place where the vessel was lost is not given. PATRICK CALHOUN IS A PENNILESS BEGGAR NEW YORK, August 26.—Worth twelve million dol lars five years ago Patrick Calhoun, at one time one of the country’s greatest railway magnates, is here today with less than five dollars to his name. His predicament came to light through the filing of an application for the ap pointment of a receiver for his property. He was a giant in the financial world and took hold of the street car strike situation in San Francisco in 1907 but while he was in the midst of the fight against the unions he was indicted in the famous graft upheavals. It was his troubles in San Fran- . cisco that started him on the toboggan. For some years he has been able to keep out of the limelight but the ap plication for a receiver has exposed exerything. BUYS PERSONAL PROPERTY OF THE KENAI COMPANY | Judge S. 0. Morford, acting for D. j M. Stewart, bought yesterday the personal property of the Kenai Min ing and Milling Company. This prop erty consisted of 4,000 feet of hy draulic hose and other material. It was bought under a judgment in favor of Stewart, NO BOAT FROM SOUTH FOR SEVERAL DAYS The Admiral Evans is the first boat due from the south and she did not leave Seattle until last Wednesday morning. She cannot be expected be fore Tuesday night or Wednesday. An unusually large crowd went out on the train this morning.