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ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1D1G.
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PARTS, Oft. IS. Terrific aerial «-njra^<*ni<-nts w»« tin
feature ot tiie fighting in iIn* »S<mim* sector iliro.i>rliowt yes
tcnlny. says an official cotiitnttnhiue issuer! by the French wm
office today. Xu less than (»5 separate aerial engagement.
took place between French and (lenimii aeroplane... Many ot
ihe aeroplanes on hot!; sides were brought d'>vn. S he day’s
aerutl light ing was bv far the iiio-fi vicious Mini luis owuiTed
since the would war bet's*:. The fights we;e vie wed hy tin
land t'oers mid proved most speiHaenUu affairs.
The land forces are still lian:»:’..*riug at each other, hut no
mp/utant gains are repo.led as a result of yesterday or lost
uightb fighting.
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GERMANS CLAIM VICTORS
BERLIN, ♦><•". IS.—(By wireless to Sayville) The Teu
ton army has inthvtcd a severe defeat to th.- Russian annv in
Galicia, says a German official report today. Repeated at
hack's by die Russian hordes on the Austro German trenches,
covering miles cf the war front, were repulsed, with heavy los
sos to the enemy. The Teutons captured 1,900 men arid took
ten machine gun:.
ALLIES ENTER ENEMY TRENCHES.
LON I 'ON, Oct. IS.—“Tiie enemy treuch.es were entered
Ik us at a point west of Serre, three and a half mi!" • from
Thiepval,” says an official report issued by the British war
office, in its account of the fighting in the western front yes
f„rday.
FOREIGN MARINES LAND AT ATHENS.
4 ATHENS. Oct. IA—Hundreds of marines from the war
ships of the allied powers have arrived at Athens and have
taken up quarters in several large buildings appropriated for
the purpose. Marines also landed at Piraeus and ore in pos
session of the railway station at that point.
FIGHTING IN TURKISH ARMENIA.
PETROGRAB. Oct. 18.—Heavy cavalry fighting in Turk
ish Armenia between the Russian and Turkish armies con
tinued throughout yesterday, Hie Russians indicted great
losses on the Turkish troops, according to tiie official reports
given out by the Russian war office today.
TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 18.—William
Howard Taft opened a campaign in
this state last mght for Hughes and
gave a political speech the descrip-:
tion of which he termed “ the coun-1
try’s humiliation when the president j
prevailed upon congress to pass an
eight hour law."
Mr. Taft-closed with the observation j
that no one tool: exceptions to the ro-;
ports that “ :t would be difficult toj
find one wh . is less like the president'
than Mr. Hughes.”
PA^ENGERS WHO
J DEPARTED ON EVAN^i
Twenty-five Anchorage and 20 Krik
passengers left tor the outside a ml j
way port:, on -he Admiral Evans, Eol- j
lowing Ij tlie list from this city:
J. IJ. McAlister, M. A. Ellin, !l An
derson, J. A. Coombs, C. Schluckebo/,
Jas. Coo nan, Florence Willoughby,
Jack H. Levy, Mrs E. A. Duckier, J
f Spear, J. Id. S-V-uber, Vvun Rees,
Mackin, Mrs. M. Cattle, 1. Sadler.
O. J. Hunting, J- C. Mui>-ay, Otis Loss,
C. K. Street, T. W. Koss, J. P A uiker,
V. L. Wilhelm, A .1. Biadfonl, V
Klaus, J. N. Honda.
Wilson Goes to Chicago.
LONG CRANCH, Oct. 18.- -P-eM
nent Wilson departed today, en route
to Chicago, where he is scheduled lo |
make three set spaeches. He will I
make no speeches en route.
Die1'. Ilhoinhe&r.. wh.o has just com
plete! v contract with the government,;
f,ne :n from Matanuska on /eater-j
y’s tiain and is -.topping at the I
Crescent hotel.
Fred Laubner has made another buy
in the Willow creek dit.tricl and this
time is associated with Idiio Kelly an
f- D. C orlew, of Anchu rage. These
gentlemen closed a deal Saturday foi
the Foster brothers’ four claims soutl
of Fair Angel creek ami northwest o:
tile Martin property’, fleet, it develon
ment work uncovered two rich ledge,
of high-grade quartz, ore six feet am
one 20 inches wide. Mr. I.aubne:
says they will spend in the neighbor
hood ot $1,000.00 at once in getNiif
mining timbers, fuel il.nd equipmen
on the ground for active work nex
spring.
ADDITIONAL POST OFFICE /
BOXES BEING INStjALLEI
’ In accordance with the redomm<*nda
tions of Postmaste; Wood, the post oi
fwc department has supplied the An
rjiorage post office with another set o:
These boxes are beini
lock boxes.
.''tailed today and will be ready fo.
jse the last of the week. It is sug
([estivt that all those cm the waiting
ist call immediately at the post offio
and make the quarterly payment, aftei
which a box will he assigned to then
Roosevelt Off to Arizona.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Colon*
Roosevelt departed fn m her1 t..
morning, en route to Arizona, when
he is scheduled to canvass the state ii
the interests of the repc.blicai, ticket
Mr. and Mrs. Fred B Tracy rctur \
ed to Anchorage on the : iejm<
Northwestern from Sevard where M •
Tracy has been for the past week w
business.
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liFiHKKLIh'l, ('al., (let. 18.—The planet Mars is inhabited
'»y human beings, much the same as this earth, according to the
I theo-y of Dr. Percival Lowell, who for the past 22 years has
he a tlie head observer of the Harvard observatory at Flag
stafl, Arizona. Dr. Lowell spoke at the University of Califor
nia last evening and advanced his belief, lie announced that
jfinm Lis stud\ of Mars, continued for a period covering over
i - > years, lie was firmly convinced that the so-called canals ob
| served on the planet were not in reality water channels, but
; were strips of vegetation under human cultivation, watered by
j artificial canals.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 18.—William Gil
more, of Nome, delegate to from Alas
ka to the last republican national con
v mtion at this place, told the raem
b ;rs of the republican western head
, rarters yesterday that he believed
I the 25 electoral votes from the three
I Pacific coast states would be for
j Charles E. Hughes for president.
“ I have just returned from a trip,”
! said Mr. Gilmore, “through Oregon,
Washington and California, and bc
i I eve I am in a position to give reli
i blc information concerning the con
citions there.
“ I am certain the old breach of 1912
has been practically healed.
“ The republicans and progressives
-vill enthusiastically support Mr.
Hughes.”
The report received from Mr. Gil
j more is declarer! to support other ail
i /ices received from the states in ques
I don, according to the members of the
western headquarters.
IS REPORTED
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CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 18.—A
pitched battle occurred here last night
! between Canadian soldiers and the po
lice.
1 Many shots were fired.
. The mounted police barracks were
wrecked and set on fire.
One soldier is known to have been
seriously wounded.
A soldier mob virtually controls the
city.
An appeal has been made to the
government officers to direct a force
against the soldiers and see that the
ones guilty of the disturbance are
punished.
The police claim that the soldiers
tried to run the city.
There has been bad blood between
1 the two organizations for some time,
1 which culminated yesterday in a reg
■ ular pitched battle.
At last accounts the civil authorities
were powerless to deal with the situa
tion.
John Ronan, democratic nominee for
. senator from the third division, will
i speak at Robarts’ hall tomorrow night
at 8 o'clock.
IFTEI THE II
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Interna
tional law will stand on a firmer basis
after the war, despite the buffeting;-;
it has received, than ever before, ac
cording to Charles Warren, assistant
attorney-general, who is making a
study of international legal questions
for the administration.
“ The very violations of internation
al law the last two years have witnes
sed will make the establishment and
maintenance of a stable international
code imperative,” says Mr. Warren to
day. “The experiences of people dur
ing periods of lawlessness teach them
to respect a fixed code. In fact, after
experiencing unbridled lawbreaking,
they insist that some law be respected.
The history of each frontier has been
that because of the likelihood of gen
eral law-breaking, some code has been
enforced with extraordinary vigor.
The war has taught the world that
it must tighten up its international
code if the nations are to have any
guide on which they can rely. Inter
national law is bound to be rehabili
tated, revised and established in a
more enduring form.”
Mr. Warren is the author of several
bills drawn to safeguard American
neutrality and he has had full charge
of the investigations and prosecutions
resulting from unneutral activities in
the United States of representatives
of foreign nations.
TO HIVE USE
NEWPORT, Oct. 18. — United
States naval officials are taking ev^ry
precaution to prevent the use of the
American coast as a base for foreign
submarines.
No evidence has been received con
firmatory of the reports that the U-53
which recently raided shipping, has a
secret naval base at some point along
the Atlantic coast.
Though naval men refuse to be
quoted, the impression seems to pre
vail that none of the present subma
rines in service could make the trip
across the Atlantic ofean without re
newing supplies.
J. P. Walker, of the land department
left for his headquarters in Juneau on
;he Evans yesterday.
SEEKS FRIENDSHIP OF
THE UNITED STATES
\\ ASIFIXCJTOX, Oft. 17.—Sato, the newly appointed Jap
anese ambassador to the I'nited States, assumed his post to
day. and is out in a statement to the press in whicli lie declares
that the new regime in Japan was preparing to forget tin* eon
troversy with the United States, growing out of the alien ex
elusion laws in several of the states of the Union, and particu
larly the state of California, which lias passed a law prohibit
ing Japanese from owning any landed interests in that com
monwealth.
“We realize in Japan,” said the ambassador, “that there
are constitutional restrictions in the United States which pre
vents the federal government from successfully opposing leg
islative enactments in a single state, therefore, we shall forget
about the controversy. Japan wishes to be on friendly terms
.with the greatest republic in the world, and I am instructed by
my government to make this announcement in the most un- '
qualified terms.”
OMAHA, Oct. 18. — Candidatt
Hughes, in his address delivered be
fore a vast audience here last night
said, in part: “ I think, indeed, il
i might be said that the present admin
i istration has been,-in large measure
an administration of unofficial spokes
men and mysterious influences, and 1
can say, with entire good humor, tha(
I desire a government through tv.-:
houses, not three.”
KILLS HIMSELF
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 18.—John Schil
ler, a musician, aged 20 years, shot
and killed himself, with suicidal in
tent, at his room in a hotel here last
night. Schiller was to have appeared
in court today charged with contribut
ing to the delinquency of Mrs. Ger
trude Loomis. He left a note saying
that he proposed to take his own life
to spare the woman whom he had
wronged the ordeal of a trial.
SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—Rev. Georg;
Zinn, former curate of St. Mark's
Episcopal church at Seattle, has beer
designated by the general board ol
missions of the Episcopal church t<
take charge of the church work al
Valdez and Seward. He will labor un
der the direction of Bishop Rowe ant
Valdez will be his headquarters.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Willian
H. Hornebrook, United States minis
ter to Siam, has tendered his resigna
tion and will return to his home ir
Albany, Oregon. The continued ill
health of his children is assigned as
the cause of his resigning.
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BELLINGHAM, Oct. 1?.—Sanford
! Chinn, a fisherman, of Blaine, Wash
; ington, committed suicide at his home
last night. Chinn was suspected of
the murder of his housekeeper, Mrs.
Emma Pinkerton, of Seattle, who is
missing. Just before he took his own
life, Chinn fired several shots into the
home of H. Thorasinson, a neighbor
whom he disliked, and set fire to his
; own home.
GOETHALS IS
OMAHA, Oct. 8.—It is announced
here that President Wilson has select
ed General Goethals, of the Panama
canal zone, R. Clarke, of the inter
state commerce commission, and Fed
eral Trade Commissioner Rubles, as
members of the new board created by
congress to investigate the railroad
eight-hour law.
General Goethals will be chairman.
INS MEDAL
SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—C. H. Alvey,
of Haines, Alaska, has been awarded a
silver cup for the best individual dis
play of agricultural products from
Alaska, at the Northwest Land Prod
ucts Exposition, held here last week.
DECLINES TO
ST. PAUL, Oct. 18.—The Episcopal
church convention, in session at St.
Paul, has declined to strike the words,
“ Love and obey,” from the marriage
service of the church.
Part of the material to be used in
the new Masonic building is on the
ground and a force of men started
clearing off the lot this morning.