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No. 159 EIGHTEENTH YEAR
GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
MOBILIZING ON I
SERIN FRONTIER
Nish, August 16—It is reported that the
Germans and Austrians have mobilized
forces estimated at between three and four
hundred thousand men on the Serbian fron
tier. The enemy is said to be bombarding
Belgrade with large caliber howitzsrs, but
no casulties have been re-ported so far.x
Sofia, August lt>.—Great alarm!
is felt here as it is believed that
the new offensive movement by
the Germans and Austrians against
Servia is preliminary to a drive by
ihem througg the Balkans to re
lieve Turkey.
Paris. Aug. 15.—Roumania has
called all men to the colors. The
Roumaniau minister in Paris has
been recalled for consultation.
ARE HELD FOR
CREEKSUTIN6
Fairbanks, Aug. 14—Julius Mil
ler and William O'Connor today
were held to the federai grand jury,
without bail, on a charge of murder
ing Mrs. W. S. Rowe, of Oluus,
nearly three weeks ago.
The blood-stained garments of
the duo are being held as one of
the bits of evidence against them.
Bot>. Miller and O'Connor deny they
committed the murder, but neither
of them were able to prove the
story they told, that they were in
Fairbanks on the night Mrs. Rowe
was killed.
REMARKABLE ALASKA MOVK
MEAT
Including the uBual Xome move- ]
The Cabinet has approved a credit
of $20,000,000 for military pur
poses.
Pittsburgh, Pa., August 14.—E.
Boscea, Roumania's agent for the
purchase of war munitions in the
United States, said:
"Roumania is ready to go to
war at a moment's notice. We
have 850,000 men ready to throw
into the field.
rnent, which practically has no
change from year to year, a grand
! total of approximately 15,000 pas
eou^(-/3 purchased tickets for Alas
ka during the four months. April.
May. June and July. This is by
far tht greatest number ever moved
north during a similar period. Kx->
eluding Nome, St. Michael and Skag
way rushes. Incident to the sailings
of eariy June, the bulk of the
movement arranged as to volume of
business was to Anchorage, Juneau,
Ketehikaji and Seward. When it is
coos* tiered approximately 30,000
passengers were ticketed for north
ern ports during the entire caleui
uar year 1914, four months of tho
year 1915 have already produced 50
per cent of the grand total north
bound passenger movement of
1911 As all of these passengers |
will rfturn to Seattle in the au- j
♦.urnn the southbound movement
commencing In September will break
another record.—Railway & Marino I
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[AEROPUtNES BOMBARD SUBURBS
OF CITY OF CONSTANTINOPLE
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London, Aug. 16-—French and
British aeroplanes flew over Con
stantinople yesterday and bombs
j were dropped on Galita, causing
i heavy casualties.
j Excitement in the city is intense.
GERMANS NAME
KING OF POLAND
Berlin August 16 — Archduke
Charles Stephen of Austria yester
day became King of Poland.
obganizeTor
BASKET BALL
All members of tho White Pass
At' letlc club who are Interested In
basketball are requested to be at
the club house tonight (Monday
August 16th) at 8:30 o'clock. Mr.
W. B. Hargrave of the Hargrave
Engineering Co., will bo present and
has volunteered his Services as
coach.
Mr. Hargrave was for three years
a member of the Massachusetts
Iustltute of Technology basketball
•team, which was the runner-up in
the intercollegiate chamDionship,
being beaten only by Williams col
lege.
AUTHOR OF
leisf books!
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Kuth Kedzie Wood, a well know"
author of tourists books, is a pas- I
sfcuger ou tho steamship Northwest- j
ern, which called Ht this port early I
Sunday morning enroute front the
westward to tile soutji. Mrs. Wood j
has been in Alaska for several
weeks on a pleasure trip and will
write u? her Journey for the New
York Herald. In recognition of her
contributions to the literature of
travel, Mrs. Wood was recently
made a Fellow of the Royal Geo
graphic Society of Great Britain, an
honor rt-ry rarely bestowed upon
women. In May of this year she
was elected a Fellow in the Ameri
can Geographical Society. Ruth Ked
zia Wood has for several years
been a regular contributor to the
"Brokmau" and articles from her
oen are frequently seen in the Sim
day magazine sections of the New
York Herald, the New York Times,
and the New York Tribune.
The Balkan situation is believed
to be reaching a crisis. The na
tional assemblies of Servia and
Greece are meeting. It is believed
the Balkans will ultimately join the
allie*.
eiG CONTRACT
OF MEL WORK
General Manager D. C. Balleau
and Superintendent Fred Story of
tbe Sliver Queen and Ruby Silver
Mines Co., let a contract on Sat
urday to Nick O'Brien for the do
ing of 400 feet of tunnel work on
the property of the company. The
ledge Is located on Lake Bennett,
and Is known to the people of Skag
way as the "Fred Story Mina" It
is a very rich proposition with large
bodies of ore In Bight and will in
the not iistant future be ome of
the big uroducerB of the no<rtb.
GOES OVER ID
DIES RICH
Mrs. H. S. Pullen went over to
her Dyea ranch today lo look af
ter affairs there, which the high
water of the past week have sadly
demoralized, the Dyea river having
cut into her cultivated ground con
siderably in one place and carried
away a portion of her potato fcrop.
Mrs. Pullen took over two men
with her to assist those whom she
already has there in the work of
stopping the encroachments of the
riytr on her land as .well as to
help in the gathering of the hay
crop which is now cut and ready to
Hack and the oat crop which is
snly partially down, but w*hich she
intends to finish cutting at once.
Before her return to Skagjv&y, Mrs.
Pullen intendB laying out a lot of
work for her employes over at
Dyea to busy themselves 'with dur
ing the continuance of the present
:ine weather.
UPPER YUKON
RIVER REPORT
Whltehorse, Aug. 16—Water 72
inches.
Dawson: Arrived 9:45 p. m. wM*
10 passengers.
White Horee: Up Stewart river
7 o. m..
Next sailing: DawBon tonight.
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P. H. GANTY
Tho excursion party, consisting
of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Kelley and
their two boos, Alfred and Kendall,
of Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. and Mlsa
Hagedorn, of New York; E. L. Bur
well, of S°attle; Dr. Westermann of
Yorjt, and Messrs. Hargraye,
Haunan and Col. W. L. Stevenson
of this city, returned from the
westward on the Northwestern Sun
day morning, everyone of them do
lighted with the trip. They visited
Cordova, Valdez, Miles glacier, Port
age bay and Cooks Inlet. At Port
age they chartered a launch and
cruised about Prince .William sound
and up into Harriman and College
fjords to view the glaciers.
Col. Stevenson says that the out
look for development of Prince Wil
liam sound pointe appears to be
good and that the government rail
road construction work will be
pushed vigorously while weather
conditions will Dermit.
BRIDGE IN
FALL IN RIVER
J. H. Sherman, a member of the
White Pass bridge gang which was
engngpd yesterday in repairing the
railroad bridge at the second cross
ing of the Skagway river, that had
three bents .washed out by the high
water of Saturday, had a rather ex
citing experience yesterday after
noon Including a bath iu the " ice
cold waters of the river While
engaged in handling a heavy piece
of timber the water caught the op
posite end from where Sherman was
at work and in an instant he was
whirled into the middle of the cur
rent, which, although not very deep,
was running like a mill race. Sher
man was unable to get a footing or
stop his rapid descent of the
stream until he had covered a dis
tance of about 100 feet, when ho
managed to catch hold of a Vil
low bough and finally got to shore,
with no worse damage than a torn
trouser leg, caused from catching
Dn a snag while making his spectac
ular journey. The whole thing
happened so quickly and was over
so soon the other members of the
bridge gang were hardly aware of
what had happened until too late to
render aid.
ZEPPELINS 111
ENGLISH COAST
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London, Aug. 16—Two Zeppelins
raided tjie English coast Friday,
nigh* killing 6 persons, wounding
23 and damaging 14 houses by
dropping a number of bombs.
The raids so closely following
each other indicate to hte British
military that other raids may be ex
pected almost at any time and em
ergency instructions are being is
sued to the inhabitants regarding
their course* of action whenever
hostile aircraft appears.
The dark nights will prove a cov
er, despite the eoarchlights, which
have been Installed on many of the
taller buildings. The necessity of
more English scouting air machines
is impressed upon the mind of the
military.
Fairbanks Times: Word was re
ceived fioin Circle during the last
few days that the Berry dredge on.
Mammoth creek is shut down and
will not be in operation for sever
al days. When the dredge was
shipped in from the states, there
were some parts missing. With the
hope of keeping operations going,
these parts were made at the
dredge, but after lunning a short
time, they proved unsatisfactory
and it became necessary to quit
operations until such time as re
pairs could be received from San
Francisco.
Th * same letter which told of
the shutting down of operations
stated that the dredge was in good
pay and was taking out big money
when operations ceased. The dredge
will probably be in operation again
about the first of the month.
It Is rumored that that "bunch
of popular Skagway fellows were
looking for Brown the insurance
man, these past few days, to get
some of his accident and health
policies before initiation into the
Eagles, soon scheduled to take
place. And to think a dime a
day would buy a $1,000 insurance.
"Brown's in town." Get the habit
and insure today while you can
get it. Tomorrow never comes.
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