The Seward gateway., December 02, 1916, Image 1

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STRUGGLE STILL RAGING LOR THE
POSSESSION OL ROUMANIAN GAPITAL
ON ROUMANIAN SOIL
BERLIN, Dec. 1— Falkenhayn is progressing again
st the Roumanian defenses on the Aluta river while Maek
ensen is advancing irresistably between the Danube and
Bucharest. The war office also reports that strong allied
attacks on the western front at Ypres have been repulsed
by our troops on a two mile front.
GERMANY WILL MAKE DEMANDS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The German government
lias formally replied to the United States note on the sink
ing of the Marina and declares that it is willing to make
a satisfactory settlement, to apologize and to punish the
commander of the submarine, lhe reply states that the
Marina was taken for a transport when she was sub
marined. After the receipt of the reply Lansing and
Bernstortf conferred on the question but President Wil
son is personally directing the discussion with Berlin.
VIOLENTLY ATTACK TEUTONS
BERLIN. Dee. 1. — The Russians and Roumanians
violently attacked out- Roumanian army .on Thursday on
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a two hundred mile front but only succeeded in sacrificing
an enormous number of lives and in wasting great stocks
of munitions. With all their losses they made only an un
important advance. The Russians and Roumanians also
delivered massed attacks on our lines in Dobrudja but
their attacks completely broke down.
SUB FOLLOWING VESSEL
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—An unknown vessel has been
sighted forty miles east of the Diamond shoals following
a Spanish sailing vessel and the pursuer is believed to be a
submarine.
RUSSIAN COUNTER OFFENSIVE
PETROGRAD, Dec. L—The Russian counter offen
sive at Kirlibaba is progressing very well, the war office
says. A battle is now raging and nine hundred Teutons
have been captured in two days.
SEWARD MAN'S INVENTION
LOOKS LIKE A WINNER
'l he combination of bed and sleep
ing bag which has been invented by
S. Lundblad of Seward, and for which
r.e is i.bout to receive a patent, is an
ingenious affair and an object of real
interest to anyone who has been
m»uh out in the wilderness. It wou'd
be :mpo>sible almost to describe the
inventi.**' in a short space. The sup
ports of teh affair are simply contriv
ed so that when one lies in the cot
there is a tendon from foot to head
and from side to side that keep the
part of the bod lain upon perfectly
level. In x*dtlition to this canvas
and from side to side that keep.* the
be laced over the blankets to torm a
sleeping bag ctlect. There is not a
nail in the whole structure. lhis
Seward iaven'er ought to make good.
HOW THE PRESIDENT
SPEN T THANKSGIVING
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Presi
dent Wilson observed Thanksgiving
by attending Presbyterian sendee.
He dined quietly en famille and af
terwards attended a benefit ball for
the Navy Relief Society.
Judge S. 0. Morford w ill leave soon
for a business trip outside.
NEWS NOTES
Harry Whittemore left Iditarod
yesterday for Seward.
W. W. Getehell returned to the city
yesterday after an absence of severaT
I weeks. He left Anchorage on the
20th.
Murt Grote, a well known oldtime
Sewardite, arrived last evening from
Iditarod.
S. Ensor came over the trail last
night with his dog team from Idita
rod and has as a passenger H. M.
Guise who represents the Guggen
heim interests in there.
James Oberrick fell off the roof of
the Ellsworth building when over
come with smoke during the fire but
was not injured, although he was un
conscious for a time.
A. H. Taylor the brakeman who has
been out after Stoker, came to town
last evening and expressed the belief
that the man sought is in his cabin up
Snow river. Two parties coming in
over the trail thought they saw
Stoker around Mile 14 but Taylor is
certain they were mistaken.
POSTPONE ENTERTAINMENT
Owing to the lack of lights the
1 school entertainment, which would
have been carried out this evening,
has been postponed.
MSASTROIS FIRE IN
THE ELLSWORTH STORE
Fire broke out last evening in the
Ellsworth store and the line stock of
goods has almos4 been completely de
stroyed. The stock was valued at
something like eight thousand dol
lars and is covered only by a two
thousand dollar insurance, so that the
loss to Mrs. Ellsworth is very severe.
The cause of the lire has not been as
certained. About half an hour be
fore the alarm was sent in Mr. Ells
worth extinguished the lire in the
stove with water and the appearance
of the place near the stove today in
dicates that the stove could hardly
have been the cause. It is thought
possible that a spark flew through a
hole and down between the double
boauis of the partition. Water was
turned in by the fire department in
great volume and whatever escaped
the blaze fell a victim to the flood.
Much excitement was created as the
wind was blowing towards the groai
.store building of Brown Hawkins,
next door, but, fortunately, the flames
w'oro got under before injury came to
anyone else. A fact worth noting in
connection with the occuncnce
that tht Ellsworths would have mov
ed into their fine new concrete build
ing in five or six days.
OKI* Ol 1 HANKS
The Ladies of St. Peter’s Guild
wish to express their appreciation for
the aid given them to make their
dance successful, and to express their
thanks to thos? v.ho so kindly rondel
el that aid.
TI KKKY WINNERS
The following won turkeys at the
shoot on Thanksgiving Day: John
Norman, Harry Foster, Joe Stanton,
John Gilpatrick, L. L. James, H. G.
Ward, Frank Brown, - Anderson
and -Merritt.
TWO BOATS IN MORNING
The Admiral Evans is duo to arrive
hero at 1 o’clock tomorrow morning.
The Northwestern is duo to arrive at
6 o’clock tomorrow morning and will
stay four haul's.
AYE BEEF AND PORK
INSTEAD OF Tl’RKEYS
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.—As part of the
boycott of Turkeys the people of this
city uc,ed pork and beef instead for
their Thanksgiving dinners.
THE PRIBLOF ISLANDS SEAL
HERD
The census of the fur seals on th'
Tribloff islands ha« been completed
by the counting of the "pups, and tie
following iigures showing the results
of the •num.*,ation have been ma»L
I public by the r S. bureau of fisheries
St. Paul island—Harems, 2948;
breeding females, 98,855; idle bulls,
2,278; live pups, 90,785 and dead pups
2170.
St. George island—Harems, 552;
breeding females, 18,122; idle bulls,
| 354; live pups, 17,810, and dead pups
I o O
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The number of pups born, which is
equivalent to the neumber of breed
ing femaies, was 18,450 more than in
the previous season.
Old papers for sale at the “Gate
way.”
SULZER STILL
FORGING AHEAD
KANTISHXA IS ONE MORE OUT
LYING PRECINCT TO
GO FOR HIM.
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 1.—The Kanti
shna returns have just come in and
show li.at the precinct gave Sulzer
seven votes and Wickersham two
This makes a total vote in the Fourth
division for Sulzer of 1,673. Wicker
sham’s vote in the division is 1,661
The News-Miner’s figures for tin
i territory show Sulzer to be leading
by forty-six. Only three more vote,
are to be heard from in the Fourtl
division.
FAIRBANKS RF.Tl RNS
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The following are the returns sc
'cured by the Alaska Citizen on No
vember 15 of the voting in the Kourtl
division.
Bean, Z. C. 205
Burns, YV. T. 1,284
Collins, Ernest B. 905]
Dunn, John YV. <46
Green, Joe K. 32>
Hess, L. C. 1.28:;
Huey, George YV. 170
Kilgore, A. M. 577
Ledger George YY\ 270
Monahan, C. M. 270
Nearland, Andrew 1,152
Snow, C. K. 956
Vinal, YV. A. 216
YVebster, Daniel 501
YY'estcnvik, Lars 385
Jensen, Peter 547
Ross, R. H. 911
Sabin. Melvin R. 756
Steil, Peter 211
Eight-Hour law 1,720
Against Eight-hour law 'o78
Dry l*861
YVet 946
Lewis, Lena Morrow 2N8
Sulzer, Charles A. 1,«»0<
YYrickersham, James 1,- 60
Cobb, John H. 500
Grigsby, George B. ^56
Schofield, George D. 1,260
McCabe, Dan 390
McGowan, Thomas A. 1,087
Sutherland, Dan A. 1.268
ADVERTISED LIST FOR DEC. 191fi
B. E. Adams, Hans Anderson, El
mer Anderson (4), Laurence Boo.
Luigi Burnetto, William Christensen.
Ed Christy, W. A. Clark, H. Davis,
Jack Davis, F. Farrel, Vincent J. Gle
eson (3), Frank Glaser, Oscar Hansen
(4), H. C. Hall (2), Joe Halter, Fred
Herman, Wm. Hill, M. Higgins, Bay
less Hill, Carl 0. Holstorm, H. Jan
son A. A. Lewis, Arthur Marzan, An
ton A. Mangen, Henry Millet (3), J.
C. Murray, George Meadow, Wm.
Meyer, Ole C. Moe, Thomas M. Odale,
Bert Perry, J. Rathfun, 0. L. Riden
our, Dan Sable, Mrs. Grover Winn,
Mrs. W. W. Wright, A. C. Youmans,
When calling for these letters please
say advertised. One cent due. Wil
liam E. Root, Poastmaster.
ONLY ONE BENT GONE
The damage by the floods and ice
to Snow river bridge is only the loss
of one bent. The repairs will be
made rt once and the road opened.
UNITED STATES TROOPS MAY
SOON BATTLE WITH VILLISTAS
LANE FOR THE
SUPREME COURT
LOS ANGELES SAYS HENKY
WAITE WILL TAKE HIS
PLACE IN CABINET.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 1.—That
Eranklin K. Lane, secretary of the in-1
tcrior, will he the man to take the |
place of Hughes on the bench of thei
Cnited States supreme court is now j
all but taken for granted here. Heniw
Waite has been invited to the White
House and it is well known that h<
will be ottered the place of Lane in
the Interior department. It is ru
mored that seven changes will take
place in the cabinet. No official no
tice has yet been given of Lane’s ap
pointment.
COMING ON MAIHPOSA
SEATTLE, Dec. 1.—The Mariposa
left this morning with the following
passengers for Seward: W. Rohrback.
Charles and wife, Sport Smith and
Miss E. Code. The Watson leaves
Sunday at noon.
II1REE EIRE ALARMS
CAME LAST NIGHT
Xo less than three fire scares took
dace last night. At 2 this mo»ning
the fire bell also rang for an incipi
ent flue fire at the Rainier Buffet
.vhile the Commerce also had a litt’e
scare. The two fires mentioned here
were put out without any damage.
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CHEECHACO LICK
AGAIN AT LIYKNGOOD
Again the proverbial cheechaco
luck has found pay where the old
timers thought there was none.
Among the outgoing passengers on
the Sheldon stage Monday will be
George W. Kilmer. He came from
Dickenson, N. D., about a year ago.
He went immediately to the Tolovana
1 country.
With the faith of a cheechaco he
staked high ground on Good Luck
creek, which is a tributary to the
headwaters of Livengood creek. Then
he and his partner struck pay in the
fifth hole. Now he is going home to
visit his family, but he intends to re
turn in the spring.—Ex.
LIGHT RATES AT NEW
TOWN ARE ANNOUNCED
That the electric light plant of the
Alaskan Engineering commission at
Nenana is now about ready to oper
ate is the report brought to Fair
banks by recent arrivals. In fact, it
is so nearly completed the engineer
ing commission has started to adver
tise the rates at which light and pow
er for various small enterprises will
be furnished to private consumers.
The price of the first 50 kilowatts
of light used in a month will be 25
cents, according to the information
received here. Up to 200 kilowatts
the price will be 20 cents, while elec
tricity will be supplied at the rate of
15 cents per kilowatt to those con
sumers who use over 200 kilowatts
per month.
The minimum price on one electric
light per month has been fixed at
$2.50.—Fairbanks Citizen.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—That the United States troops
will yet join battle with Villa is the only impression that
could he gained by the statements emanating from the
war and state departments today. High officials declar
ed openly that the orders to Pershing to get Villa are still
rood and they say that if Villa establishes headquarters
at Juarez or any other place so close to the border the
American troops will take a hand. It is an open secret
that if Carranza fails to suppress the bandit the l nited
States will adopt a much firmer policy.
MAN HUNT PROCEEDS
OUT ONSNOW RIVER
Stoker was met by Dan Sullivan,
the railroad foreman, this morning
near Mile 16 and the hunted man
said ••Hello, Dun” or some sum s.i.
utntion as that. It was right on i'u 1
railroad track but Stoker at or.c<
turned off on the trail that loads to
his cabin up Snow river. The cabin
is on the river but the trail to it
leaves the r. r. quite a distance north
of where the river crosses the tracks
Wild Hill DeWitt, Charley Kmsweile:
and three others went up the trail
this morning towards the cabin but
when word came from Dan Sullivan
that Stoker had gone up later Hil
Weaver and Percy Pullen, who were
stationed at Snow river bridge watch
ing for him. followed right after bin
up the trail. All the pursuers an
armed. Sullivan and Stoker kno\
each other well so that no mistake
could be made. Mr. Sullivan say.*
Stoker carried his rifle. He had up
parently fallen in the river as hi.*
clothes are wet, and as it is very cob
out there Stoker must either go t»
his cabin or freeze.
The meeting of Stoker on the rail
road track seems to bear out the
statement that Stoker was seen yes
terday around the place where the
shooting was done. W. W. Getchell,
a member of the territorial legislat
ure, is convinced that he encountered
Stoker yesterday around Mile 14 01
thereabouts. The man met by Get
chell carried a rifle and came out ol
the woods. He muttered some greet
ing to Getchell and proceeded on his
way. S. Ensor who came with a dog
team also believes he met Stoker an<!
he and Mr. Getchell both are convinc
ed from the description they later goi
of the man that it was he.
This is written at 1 o’clock and no
word had come then to Deputy Mar
shal* Evans from the men out after
Stoker. Mr. Evans tried to gel some
more men to send out on the train
this afternoon but the train went out
too early to have them ready. The
men who have followed up to the
river cabin must walk back aoout two
miles to the railroad at Mile 16 and
then must come this way t) Mi e l~
before they c.*n get to a telephone.
The first men to go up the trail left
the railroad at !* o’clock tnk< running
out the time Stoker was seen by Dan
Sullivan on the railroad track was
about 10 oVock Mr. Sullivan is a
one armed man.
The bullet that killed Hendricks
inflicted, as the doctors say, four *at
al wounds. It entered at the back of
the side, chipped off a piece of the
heart, cut through the coating of the
stomach, and went through the kid
ney and liver, one of which organs
was shattered to pieces.
i
Irving was struck in the liver ami
was opened yesterday by tin* doctor >.
all three. Mrs. Romig, Raughman ami
Sloan attending. I‘art ot* the liver
was cut away but the physicians say
that a good part of the liver could be
lost without pecossarily causing d*atn
Mis condition is, of course, very pre
carious, nevertheless.
Stoker also once worked for Store
keepei Thompson of the commission
and Mr. Thompson describes him as a
hard worker and of very reticent
manner. A strict watch is li«»in.^‘ kip'
all along the railroad and mushers
report that all along the way m. a can
be seen with rifles in their hand
Another posse will lie sent out to
night to capture Stoker it he i.* not
caught in the meantime. It is the be
lief of everyone that he will show
•ight unless the exposure breaks him
down.
The train is to be sent back from
Mile 12 this afternoon and will take
>ut the additional posse of four nu*n
who have been deputized to go after
Stoker. The four new men are John
(lilpatrick, Jack Lane, Hob SeitTert
and Alec Little, all men who can han
dle a rifle. Mr. Evans says Stoker is
a sort of morose party who seemed to
dislike many people. Some time ago
he went to the United States commis
sioner here and asked for a warrant
for a man named Wilbur who, he said
had ttruck at him. When Mr. Evans
quesi'oned him he found that Stoker
had called Wilbur a liar and that
Wilbur had only made a motion
as if to strike him. There was
a rumor in town today that Stoker
was on his way to the city bui as Dan
Sullivan saw him going up the trail
at Mile 16 this morning this rumor is
unfounded w ithout a doubt. 1 he ru
mor reminds one, however, of the tact
that the man who shot the Nelson
brothers on the Kuskokwim was be
ing chased all over the Ruby district
by posses when he walked quietly in
to the postoftice in Ruby and asked
for his mail. As the matter now
stands Stoker has probably gone to
his cabin and will be surrounded there
by this time. If he has not gone to
his cabin and as his clothes are wet
he may perish before morning as an
other madman did about four years
ago in the interior. The train was
expected to reach Mile 12 about 2:20
this afternoon on the way in to take
out the posse.
CABLE STILL DEAD
The cable is not yet working and
the only messages received today
were those sent yesterday, and very
few of them at that. At 3 p. m. not
a tenth part of the regular cables had
been received by the Gateway.