No. 219 SEVENTEENTH YEAR
SKAGWAY ALASKA, THUSRDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1914 PRICE 10 CENTS
CANADIAN SOLDIEfflnSr
PORT OF PLYMOUTH, EN6LANT
Plymouth, t*t. 15—A contingent
or Canadian volunteers reached port
this morning awl will be sent to
(ho front as soon as arrangements
cau be made fur their transporta
tion.
POSITION OF THE ALLIES
IS AN* OFFICIAL SECRET
l'arts, Oct. 13—The exact position
of the allied armios will not be di
vulged by the war office as it i8
thought that the information If giv
en out here would in all probability
reach the Germans, thus giving
them an advantage.
heavy orders are placed
WITH AMERICA* FIRMS
lA>udon, Oct. 15—Heavy orders
lt»r ammunition have been placed
with American manufacturing con
cerns by the British war office.
Al'STRlAX-( < ERMAX ARMY IS
REPORTED TO HAVE RETIRED
St. Petersburg, Oct. is—The
Vustro-Gernian army is said to
have retired from the neighborhood
of Warsaw with enormous losses.
CHOLERA IS MAKING RAPID
STRIDES IX Hl*XGARY
Vienna, Oct. 1"—Cholera is re
|*yted here Unlay to be making i«
pid strides aimnij; the troojw in
Hiui«ary.
KING ALBERT OF BELGIUM
LEAVES CITY OF OsTEXD .
On tend, Oct. 1~—Kuir Albert, ac- I
i uiii|>aiunl by the principal Belgian
military officers, left this city j
this morning.
THOSE WHO FAIL TO JOIN'
WILL BE LISTED TRAITORS
The Hague, Oct. 15—All those of
military age living in Belgium, who
- fail to join the Belgian army with- ,
in the next two days will be listed
a« traitors, according to a proclam
ation issued today.
GERMAN' WAR OFFICE DENIES j
REPORTED RUSSIAN VICTORIES
I
Berlin, Oct. 16—The German war
office uxlay officially denied the
authenticity of the reports of Rus
sita victories that are being sen1
' out from St. Petersburg anil otbia
points from which war news is be
Ing disseminated under oensonhl]
i of the allies.
THE PANAMA CANAL IS
BLOCKED BV BIG SLID*
Panama, Oct. 15—The canal was
completely blocked this morning by
a Berioua landslide that occurred 011
both sides of the Culebra cut and
It is thought that traffic will be lu
consequence delayed for some time
to coma.
SITKA WIRELESS STATION
HAVING CAPACITY T11EBLET
The government wireless stations
throughout Alaska have been un
der-going a great deal of improve
ment during the past summer. The
Buffalo with a crew of civilian me
chanics having finished improve
ments on the station at Whiteshed,
adjacent to Cordova, is now putting
in improvements at the Sitka sta
tion that will give it treble the pow
er and capacity it formerly had. It
is expected that the work will be
finished in a few days more when
the Buffalo will sail for her. home
.port in Mare Island Navy Yard,
near San Francisco.
ALASKA COAL LEASING BILL
l'ASESD THE SENATE TODAY
Washington, Oct. 15—The Alaska
coal leasing bill virtually became a
law today. Shortly after noon tho>
house passed the same report that
the senate did yesterday. The bill
will now be engrossgji and'-tomor
row will be signed by Vice-President
Marshall and Speaker Clark and
then go to President Wilson for his
signature, after which it will bev
come a law.
The Jones Phillipine bill passed
the house this afternoon.
Governor Hunt of Arizona an
nounced today that he would . not
send the militia to the Mexican bor
der If it would in any way embarass
President Wilson.
BRAVES ARE RAN'QUETTeD
BEFORE LEAVING FOR HOME
Boston, Oct. 15—The Braves were
banquetted in this city last night by
their friends and this morning the
playerB left for their homes.
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VALDez max runs amuck
AFTER CUTTING OWN THROAT
Valdez, Oct. 15—Frank Evans, tM
read-headed teamster, went insane
lasr. evening and cut his own throat,
took a few unsuccessful slashes at
| Tony Carlson, chasing him and Lew
' Bowman through the streets but he
was mable to catch them; ran
amuck in Loui's Cafe, and finally
w.n-j hit over the head by Deputy
Marshal a I. Bowling and put out
for the count and was hauled off to
the bastile. He is now in the
^ hospital with a dozen stitches in his
throat and a little of the booze soak-|
ed out.—yaldez Prospector.
TEACHERS GATHERED FROM
FOUR CORNERS OF EARTH
Seattle, Oct. 15—Eighty-one dif
| ferent institutions of higher learn
j ing are represented in the faculty
j of. the University of Washington, as
is sjjown by a tabulation made for
President Landes. State universi
I ties and denominational colleges
'lead the list, 20 of each appearing.
Fourteen colleges other than denom
inational, nine foreign universities,
I eight professional and technical col
I teges, nine universities not classed
1 as state or foreign and one agricul
j tural college furnish their quota of
1 the 194 teachers.
DECISION IX WARHELL
CASK C'AXCELs CLAIM
' A decision of the Secretary of the
j Interior has been received by the
'land office in Juneau, iu the James
; Wardell coal land case, afi'irmiug
the findiugs of the commissioner of
i the general land office, holding that
' the claim in question is cancelled
i 011 the ground that a coal mine had
1 not teen opened and improved as
i«rovi0ea by the statute, The claim
in question is located in the Ber
ji'g rivcrr fields.
Thib decision reyeises the find
ings of Register C. B. Walker and
: Receiver Frank A. Royle, of - the
j Juneau land office, who held that
sufficient opening had been made
104 tlie claim to constitute a coal
mine.
COA1 \1 ISSION KR C(>XWAV
PKRFORMS CKRKMOXY
There occurred a very pretty lit
tle wedding at the court house 011
Tuesday in which Ulysses Lashley
was united in marriage to Mrs.
Maud Dover, Commissioner Conway
officiating in a most sedate and
impressive manner, and at the con
clusion of the ceremony, kiss
ing the bride in a fatherly
way. The bridal couple were late
arrivals from the interior, on their
way outside.
TOLOVAXA COUNTRY IS
GREAT BLACK FOR BIRDS
Al. Pauli, accompanied by Fred
Date, returned at noon today with
his launch Nymph from a trip of
several days down the Tanana.
While out he shot a big moose
near Minto, which was mentioned
in Saturday's News-Miner, and up
on the Talovana he says there are
the finest bird grounds in the coun
try just now. He reports securing
five mallards at one shot, which
doesn't break the game laws, but
breaks most shooting records even
in Alaska.—Fairbanks News-Miner.
RAINBOW SIGNS IN
A BUSINESS WA1
Three or four Item* at news tha
have uot figured on the front pag<
during the last day or two, are i
good deal more important to ua li
a business sense than the report)
of desporate battles in Belgium anc
Franace. One waa the st&temen'
published in a dispatch from Phila
delphia that as a result of the
rapidly increasing foreign deman<
for anthracite coal a number oi
colliers which were closed last
spring are making preparations foi
early resumption in October, Thous
ands of men who have been out ol
work or on half time are promised
fu.'i time, beginning on Labor Day.
Orders for coal are pouring into
Pennsylvania from every port on
the slobe. The Belgian and Russiar
5oa) fields are affected by the war,
which has also curtailed the activi
ty of the Welch mines. Europe
,s calling for our coal, just as she
,s calling for our wheat.
Another encouraging item comes
'rom Pittsburgh, which reports tha
:he steel companies there are com
pleting arrangements that are ex
pected to develop a tremendous
irnount of actual business out of the
vide inquiry of, steel now steadily
:orrh;g to them from Europe, South
America ami other countries. Within
orty-<?ight hours inquiries had been
eceived for semi-finishing gteel, to
illug more than 100,000 tons, com
up 'rom England alone.
Another cheering note Is sounded
>y a New York dispatch which
ioints to the re-employment of a
arse number of stevedores and ship
aborers indicating the gradual re
uru of normal conditions in the
oinmercial field.
■All these are rainbow liigna showr
ng that the flood of business dis
turbance Is beginning to abate. We
re still short of ocean transporta
ion, but we have got the foreign
ieraand, we have got the goods to
apply jt, and we have the money
o get tho ships. Under the cir
unstances, it will be Impossible to
ottle up our commerce much longer,
ts outward flow has, in fact, al
eady been resumed to some extent.
!ut it will not be long before It
dll be represented by a great ar
lada of peaceful ships conveying to
lurope and South America the
ood and the industrial products
•hich they can get nowhere else.—
taltimore Sun.
EXPOSITION notes
San Francisco, Oct 15—Six hun
llotted to Christian Science in the
red feet of exhibit space have been
'alace of Education and social
Iconomy at the Panama-Pacific In
ernationai Exposition. The exhibit,
rhich will be most comprehensive,
'ill include a display of the many
hristiau Science publications. It
i being prepared by Mr. Olcott
Uskell of San Francisco, assisted
y oficials of the Mother Church In
toston.
The steamer Manchuria brought
rom China in the latter part of
eptember, 140 tons of building ma
trial, artistic wood carving and
pecial fittings for the Chinese pa
llion and temple at the Panama-Pa
ific International Exposition. The
material for a duplicate of a famous
omple in Peking came complete in
knock-down" shape ready to be
rected in the gardens of the Fine
Lrts Palace at the Exposition.
flood River Apples
Have the flavor
We offer Extra Fancy Jonathans
from this famous apple district at
$2.25 per box
Winter Bananas
Especially Fine Eating Apples at
$2.50
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"CONCILIATION" COURT
PROVES BIG SUOCES!
; Cleveland, Oct. 15—Informal iu
1 veetigation by eoclal workers
• Cleveland's municipal courts Moil
' day showed perhaps the most valu
1 able service rendered by those in
1 Btitutions is that the "Conciliation'
• court, the only of its kind i'
America.
1 Founded by Judge Manuel Levins
a Russian Jew, the work of thii
atranger to American justice lias
come to be looked upon as indispeii'
sable.
To temper justice with commor
sense, to reduce court costs to c
minimum, to render procedure sc
simple as to he understood by even
the uneducated foreigner—thes:
are to be the three main objects
Judge Levine has in mind in con
ducting his court.
A foreign woman recently came
into the court with a suit oi
?10 againsft a boarder whom she
claimed burned her mattress while
smoking cigarettes in bed. The
boajder refused to pay the sum de
daring it was too much. judge
Levine reached for his telephone
jand called a department store. He
found such a mattress as the one
destroyed could be bought for
$2.50. The boarder paid this sum
cheerfully and the landlady was
satisfied. Many Buch cases are
disposed of in a day. Some re
quire only a few minutes. Others
require patient inquiry and an hour
of "conciliation" talk by the jud^e
and his interpreters, but in the end
the contending parties are sent awaj
satisfied and the object of the court
hag been reached. Scarcely less
interesting than the work of this
strange court is its founder. Judge
Manuel Levine. Levine emigrated
to America as a boy, and the for
eign, accent has never quite left
his speech. He attracted notice
as police prosecutor, when he
drove from the police courts, a
horde of ambulance chasing shysters
and professional bondsmen. Then
through his efforts the police courts
themselves were replaced by munici
pal courts presided over by elect
ed judges. As one of the first
Judges of the new courts, Levine
set out to revolutionize Cleveland's
methods of dealing with the juven
ile offender. He accomplished
that too, and then came the work
of w^lch he is proudest the estab
lishing of America's only "concilia
tion" court.
Seattle, Oct. 15—The roof of
the observatory at the University
of Washington is being crowded on
clear evenings by students and
townspeople anxious far a peep at
the Delavan comet. it may be
seen with the naked eye, a misty
spot below and slightly to the l®ft
of the "pointers'' in the big dipper.
THE WINTER SCHEDULE OP
i - ALASKA S. S. CO. BOATS
E. J. Shaw, local agent of the 'Al
aska Steamship Co., today received
from the head office in Seattle the
new sailing schedule of the
company's boats for the approach
> ing winter.
Alter November 1st the Marlpoea,
Northwestern and Alameda will In
their voyages to the westward op
erate through the inside passage,
but will only touch at Ketchikan
an1' Juneau in Southeastern Alaska,
leaving ouc Wrangell and Skagway.
Tna Alameda, which is due to
reach here from the south on the
28th, will be the last boat of the
company to make Cook's Inlet this
season.
The sailing from Seattle of tiie
Northwestern on Oct. 30 ha« been
! cancelled.
During the winter the Jefferson
j and Dolphin will make alternate
j weekly voyages between Seattle
and Skagway and intermediate
Southeastern Alaska points.
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WESTWARD NEWS NOTES
FROM SEWARD GATEWAY
| The dredge which James Murray
j has ordered for Cache creek will be
brought in first thing next spring.
It has arrived already at Seattle,
i but some delay had been caused la
I getting some of the paTta from the
j factories in the east or the dredge
! would have arrived in thia section,
by this time. Mr. Murray has
I splendid dredging ground and he be
lieves that this part of the territory
la in the beginning of a dredging
upoch which will surprise even the
most optimistic people. With Mr.
Murray there are two well known
' old-timers from Nome, j. B. McAi
l lister and Chris Lausten.
The case against James E. Ilwyer,
who is being tried for the murdetr of
Jack Wilson at Knik, has occupied
j the court for the past couple of days,
j Assistant District Attorney Guy Bru
baker addressed the jury, this mora
i lug for the government and E. E
| Ritchie addressed it this afternoon,
i L. V. Ray is associated with Mr.
1 Ritchie in the defense.
A man named Seller, who Is «
defendant in a rape case from the
j west is now lying in the hospital
with both bones of the left leg
broken. The accident was caused
by his falling down from some
height on a boat at Unalaaka, be
fore he was brought down for trial.
RITCHIE AN DUNDEE WILL
FIGHT ON TWENTY-THIRD
San Francisco, Oct. 15—Ritchie
and Dundee today signed for a f°ur
round fight to take pl^e on: the
23-rd. •
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