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No. 219 EIGHTEENTH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1915
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SERBS AFTER TERRIFIC BATTLE
AGAIN OCCUPY IIELES AND USKUB
Athens, Oct. 2S—The Servians,
after a terrific battle with the Bul
garians are again la possession of
Veles End Uskub, from which they
were driven a short time ago. The
French, British and Servian troops
iu the southern part of Servia, hav
ing captured the entire l«tt bank
of the Vardar river, then advanced
upon Velea with above result*
The French have retaken Cratsko,
and are pressing the Bulgarians j
back more and more toward their i
own border, and it is apparent that
the Bulgarian forces have penetrat
ed Serbia farther than they are
capable ol carrying on successful I
war.
A dispatch from Paris saya that
the first official bulletin concern
ing French operations in Serbia has j
been given out there and it con
tained the story of coutinued suc
cesses. Among other things, the
bulletin says:
"French, troops completely de
feated the Bulgarians at Strunuuit
za."
Salonikl, Oct. 23—The Bulgarians
are reported to be retreating ra
pidly before the French and Ser
vians uear Istlb.
Rome, Oct. 2S—The Russiau
fleet today began tho attack on the
Black Sea coast of Bulgaria by
a bombardment of Varna,
Paris, Oct 28—Bulgarian forces
headed toward Nish Uave captured
and now occupy the strongly forti
fied town of Pirot.
ARE DESTROYED
Athens, Oct. 2S—An Austrian
merchantman ilying the Turkish
flag, was torpedoed and sunk to
day by tin allied submarine. The
vessel was loaded with ammunition
for the Turks on the Galipoli Pen
insula.
Petrograd, Oct. 2S—Four more
German steamers have been sunk
in the Baltic Sea by British sub
marines, according to late advictw
received in this city.
London, Oct. 28—The British
cruiser Argyle is reported to be
aground on the east coast of
Scotland. She was driven ashore in
a severe storm and will be a total
loss. The crew were saved.
TO HAVE 1NXEK WAR
COUNCIL OH COMMITTEE
Washington, B. C., Oct. 2S —1
Advices have just been received |
here that an inner council or com-1
mittee will hereafter manage the |
British war, aa it is thought that ,
the machinery oZ the entire cabinet
is unnecessary and entirely too |
cumbersome when quick decisions
are to be made and prompt action '
taken.
Washington, Oct. 28 — Postal
money order exchange between
the United States and Greece have
ben suspended, pending negotiations
for a new treaty.
The waT has made payments
through the Paris Kxhange under
the old treaty impossible.
It la intended to formulate a new
treaty us soon as possible in order
to accommodate the postal exchange
b'-isiuess between the two countries.
COLLAPSE OF SEllYIA
IS NOW INEVITABLE
London, Oct. 28—It is stated
here uday that although the al
lies are firmly established in the
Dardanelles, there is no chance
for a further advance, and that
the collapse of Servia is now in
evitable.
ANOTHER WOMAN* IS
SENTENCED TO DEATH
Amsterdam, Oct. 2S—Anna Ben
zet* has been sentenced to death
by a German court martial at
Liege, she having been charged
with having collected and transmit
ted Information that was valuable
to the French.
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Pe.ibody, Mass., Oct. 28—Between
: forty and sixty children lost their
lives through a boiler explosion in
! the parochial school building here
I at it o'clock this morning. The
structure was of brick, thre« stories
I high, and there wero eight hundred
pupils present at the time tho dis
aster occurred. Immediately af
| ter the explosion flames enveloped
the building, Tendering the work of
! rescue difficult. There -were many
heroic acts performed by both flro
mon and others iiv rescuing and
carrying to places of safety a num
j ber of the survivors who had beeu
caught in the upper 6tories of the
building and wlic, on account of tho
rapid progress of the flames, -were
I unable to reach the fire escapes.
COL. IHill
Col. W. P. Richardson, president
of the Alaska road commission, re
cently received orders froxu tho war
department Instructing liiin to B°
to Washington and ho loft Valdez
on Tuesday on tho steamer City of
Puebla lor Seattle, passing through
Skagway yesterday afternoon.
After reaching Washington Col
onel Richardson will submit his an
work aud will prepare an estimate
nual report on the Alaska road
for uext year's expenditures after
consulting with Secretary Garrison
of the war department.
ltltlUKRY SCANDAL IS
EXTENDING TO OTHERS
Tokic, Oct. 28—The bribery scan
dal which caused the downfall of
Viscount Oura, tho home minister,
and forced a reconstruction of the
Okuma ministry has extended to
others. Four more former mombers
of the diet have been arrested.
Thirteen men are now in jail
awaiting trial on charges connect
ed with the parliamentary corrup
tion. These include four members
of the present diet and sovon ex
members of the diet. The others
are Mr. Kametaro Hyashida, who
was thief secretary of tho houso of
repri-sei.tatives and the manger of
a Japanese firm at Dairen.
The "reconstruction Okuma cabinet
has announced that it will pursue
the po'icy of the old, and as Mr.
Y". O/.aki continues to be minister
of justice the bribery affair may
be expected to be probed to the
bottom.
COMMISSION TO CARE
FOIl ITS EMPLOYES
Cordova Times: Under the di
rection of Secretary of the Interior
Lane, the men who work on the
construction of tho government Tail
way in Alaska will receive the bene
fits of compensation for accidents
under a system already arranged
and announced. An order recently
issued by tho Secretary reads:
"Employes of the Alaskan engi
neering commission shall have the
right to receive compensation for
injuries sustained in the course of
their employment while actually in
the territory of Alaska at the rates
and in tho amounts, and on tho
conditions provided in tho act en
titled 'An act granting to certain
Seattle Oct. 28—The steamship
Kansas City, rec&nt!y purchased by
the Alaska Steamship Co. lor the
Alaska trade, will leave San Frau
cisco for this port today. After
arrival here she will have ?40.
000 spent upon her In fitting her
up with two baith rooms. It is
probable the name of the vessel will
also be changed from Kausas City
to "Alaska."'
employes of the United States the
right to 'receive from it compensa
tion for'-injuries sustained in the
course of their employment,' ap
proved May 30, 1908.
"Claims for compensation on ac
count of injurv or death resulting
from accident thus occurring here
after shall be settled by the chair
man of tho Alaska engi
neering commission who shall
as to all such claims,
and under such regulations as lie
may prescribe, perform the duties
which, under said act, are placed
upon tno secretary of commerce
and labor, provided that when an
injury results in death, claims for
compensation 011 accounts thereof
shall be filed with him within one
year after such death.' '
Secretary Lane also directs that
the Alaskan engineering commis
services of its medical or surgical
sion shall make no charge for the
officers In Alaska or to any person
who, while UQder contract with the
commission, is Injured in Alaska
in the course of the government's
railway construction.
The provision covers possible in
juries to "station men" •who per-1
form work under contract. The,
order further provides that "in
case such injury of such persons
not an employe Tjo such that the |
chairman of the commission shall i
deem it beneficial that he shall be !
conveyed to any other point in Al
aska or to the city of Seattle for
medical or surgical treatment not i
availably at the place where such !
injury iccurs," the commission shall j
pav the patient's transportation.
THE FRENCH CABINET
TENDERS RESIGNATION
Taris, Oct. 2S—The French cab
inet resigned today because form
er Premier Briand asked them to
form a new government military
policy.
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Valdez, Oct. 28—The town of ^
Valdez, asserting its rights to the i
control'of the wharfage .business,
within the limits of the municipali
ty, had the Valdez Dock Co. fined (
$50 to-day for a" violation of the (
town ordinance governing wharfage,,
which prohibits private corporations
from collecting wharfage and regu
lates the use of wharves and doclrs. J
There are legal questions In
volved in this controversy between
the town and the dock company
that are V,f the highest Importance
to Alaskan towns and the law
firms of Donohoe & Diamond and
Lyons & Ritchie have been retained
by the defendants while the town
is represented by Senator Oliver
P. Hubbard.
LATEST SEWS OF
The Princess Alice will leave for
the south at 9 o'lock tonight.
Tho City of Seattle will l©ave
Seattle for Skagway and Inter
mediate Southeastern Alaska ports
tomorrow night.
The Ilumboidt arrived from the
south this morning at 4:30 with
three passengers and 60 tons of
freight. She sailed on her re
turn at 7:10 a. m. with four out
going passengers.
The following i3 a full tost
of 1'restdeiit Wood row Wilson'B
Thanksgiving proclamation, issued
October 21, 1915:
It has long been the honored
custom of our people to turn In
the fruitful autumn of the year in
praise and thanksgiving to Al
mighty God for his many blessings
and mercies to us as a nation. The
year that is now drawing to a close
since we last observed our day of
national thanksgiving has been,
while a year of discipline because
at the mighty force of war and of
changes which have disturbed the
world, also a year of special bless
ing for us.
Another year of peace has been
vouchsafed us; another year In
which not only to take thought of
our duty to ourselves and to man
kind, but also to adjust ourselves to
the many reeponsiblitiee thrust
upon us by a war which has in
volved almost the whole of Europe.
We have been able to assert our
rights of mankind without breach
of friendship with the great nations
with whom we have had to deal,
and while we have asserted Tights,
we hav« been able also to perform
duties and exercise privileges of
succor and helpfulness which should
serve to demonstrate our desire to
make the offices of friendship the
means of truly disinterested and
unselfish service.
Our ability to serve all who
could avail themselves of our ser
vices in the midst of a crisis has
been increased by a gracious Prov
idence, by more and more abundant
crops; our ample financial re
sources have enabled us to Bteady
the markets of the world and facili
tate nece66ary movements of com
merce which the war might other
wise have rendered impossible; and
our people have come more and
more to a sober realization of the
part they have been called upon to
play iu a time when all the world
is shaken by unparalleled distress
es and disaster.
ine exirwruiuttr/ ~—
of such a time have done much to
quicken our national consciousness
and to deepen our confidence Ii^ the
principles of peace and freedom hy
which wo have always sought to ho
guided. Out of darkness and per
plexities have come firmer counsels
of policy and clearer perceptions of
tlie essential welfare of the nation.
Wo have prospered wliilq other l>«o
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