Dr. W. if. Caswell, who for toe past
two seasons has been connected with
the Alaska-Anthrncite ’•aihoad Ironi
Katalla to the Bering river coal fields
arrived yesterday from Valdez, where
he has been on a visit to his family.
He will leave on a launch ior Katalla.
and speaks encouragingly of the work
being done there by Contractor Geo.
Nelson.
Mr. Caswell stated that construction
work has been seriously hampered by
a shortage of labor, hut that despite
this handicap the road had been grad
ed from tide water to the mines, a dis
tance of twenty-eight miles, practical
ly all of the bridges and trestles driv
en and fourteen miles of steel laid. It
had been expected that the road would
be completed by September 15, but
owing to the shortage of help it is
not now expected to have all the steel
laid before the middle of November.
The dock, at deep water, has been
completed, and there remains to be
driven the piling for the approach,
about three miles, from the shore to
the dock. This, if weather conditions
permit, will he finished late this fall
but if weather conditions prove un
favorable during the coming months,
may not be finished until spring. The
dolphins marking the channel to the
dock are now being driven under the
supervision of a member of the light
house department, and will be com
pleted within a short time. As an il
lustration or the feasibility of t;,a.
channel, which has been the subject
of so much discussion, pro and con,
for some years, Mr. Caswell states that
on her last trip south the Admiral
Evans went in and landed a consider
able quantity of freight for the com
pany and for the town of Katalla at
the wharf, and experienced not the
slightest difficulty In making a land
ing. In the future the steamers of the
Admiral Bine will stop at the wharf
and unload cargo instead of unloading
freight for Katalla on lighters, which
has been the practice heretofore.
At the mine, which is being devel
oped on a considerable scale, under
the direction of Engineer Rodgers, a
brother of M. K. Rodgers, who was
for several years prominently identi
fied with the railroad activities of the
Guggenheiins in Alaska, a crew of
about forty men is employed. It is
stated by Mr. Rodgers that at its pre
sent state of development the mine
has blocked out sufficient coal to pro
duce 200 tons daily for a year. The
coal is a high grade anthracite, equal
ing the best of the Pennsylvania fields
and it is expected can be placed on
the market in the towns- of this dis
trict at a price somewhat lower than
is now paid for the far inferior Brit
ish Columbia coal. It is not expected
that any considerable quantity of this
coal will he placed on the market this
fall, although it is planned on shipping
Borne of the coal In sacks, but with the
completion of the approach to the
wharf, the shipping of coal will lie un
dertaken on a large scale.
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CORDOVA’S FIRST CONCRETE
BUILDING ASSUMING SHAPE.
Considerable progress is being made
^n the construction of the new con
crete building for the First Bank of
Cordova, despite the weather. Con
tractor Pervis has a large force of
men employed; the solid foundations
are laid and the work completed up
to the ground floor. He expects to
have the building under roof within
ten days and says that Cordovans will
shortly l>eg!n to realize the substan
tial and artistic structure that is be
ing erected, which will he modern in
every way and a credit to its owners
as well as the town.
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The steamer Afognak of the Alaska
Packers’ Association recently arrived
in Ketchikan with two scows in town,
and more than 100 empty oil drums for
the Standard Oil Company there.
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Richard H. Fitch and Mfss Til fit
Negreen, both of Whitehorse, were
married recently in Skagway, the Rev
Ij. H. Pederson officiating. Mr. Fitch
is connected with the government
mail service in Whitehorse.
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Delicious Pumpkin and Lemon Piet
at City Bakery.
DEPOSED GENERAL WILL
BESIEGE RUSSIAN CAPITAL
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* I’hi ROGRAD, Sept. 11.—There lias been no eol
> lision yet between the government forces and General
* Kerniloft’s troops, which are marching on Petrograd.
I he Kornilotf cavalry stopped on receiving orders from
y the council of soldiers’ and workmen’s delegates. Kor
niloll ordered his troops to detrain at the railroad sta
* tion of Duo and to march on and besiege Petrograd. The
* government infantry is still moving out of the eitv to op
* pose Korniloff.
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* PKTROGRAD, Sept. 11.—General Denikino, com
* mander of the Russian armies on the southwestern front,
* has telegraphed to Kerensky that he intended to support
Korniloff. General Stecherbatcheff, commander of the
* Russian forces on the Roumanian front, has ordered his
* armies, also the Odessa military district, to take no part ♦
> in the conflict, but at the same time to remain true to the ♦
* provisional government. ♦
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PKTROGRAD, Sept. 11.—A committee of the *
* I welftli Russian army, before leaving Riga, circulated ♦
* an appeal printed in German and addressed to the Ger- ♦
* man soldiers, pointing out that the latter were making ♦
> war on the side of autocracy and against liberty and ♦
* justice. The appeal said that the victory of the kaiser ♦
* would mean an end to democracy and liberty and further ♦
* declared: “We have cannon and moral force on our ♦
* side. Your superiority is merely physical and ma- ♦
* ferial.’’ ' ♦
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SPANISH BOAT PICKS UP A GERMAN SUBMARINE
CADIZ, Kept. 11.—A German submarine, seriously dam
aged, arrived h«-rc, convoyed by a Spanish torpedo boat. The
submarine will be interned.
SOUTH GERMAN CLERGY ARE NOW IRKING FOR PEACE
AMSTERDAM, Sepr. 11.—The Bavarian newspapers re
port an active peace propaganda by the South German clergy
in tin* basis of the pope’s note.
FRENCH HAKE TAKEN MANY ENEMY PRISONERS
PARIS, Sept. 11.—It is officially announced that the
French troops wore successful in the sector of Fosse and Cau
rieros wood, where they captured a number of prisoners.
American Destroyers
Sink German Sub
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♦ WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—American destroyers
♦ are believed to have sunk a hostile submarine off the
♦ coast of France last Wednesday. They were convoying
♦ fleet of merchantmen from the United States, two of
♦ which lost all of their crews, but were afterwards saved
♦ by an American tanker, according to a story sent from
♦ West Wego.
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♦ WASHINGTON, Sept. 11-—It is believed the Ameri
♦ can destroyers were convoying a merchant fleet across
♦ the Atlantic ocean from an American port. The Ameri
♦ can warships are all equipped with deep bombs for
♦ fighting submarines. This weapon is highly perfected
♦ by American ordnance experts and very deadly.
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UNCLE SHIMMY EXCLUDE CERIUIAN PAPERS FROM MAIL!
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The exclusion from the maih
of certain influential German language newspapers, printed ii
carious sections of the United States, is under consideratioi
by the postoffice department as pertinent* to the governmeir
plan to prevent the circulation of anti-war propaganda.
THE BRITISH HAVE CONSOLIDATED CAPTURED POSITION!
LONDON, Sept. 11.—The British troops last night eonsoli
dated the positions taken during the day southwest of Hari
court. ,
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♦ WASHINGTON, Sept IL — *
♦ Secretary Lane lias appointed ♦
♦ Herbert A. Meyer, assistant pec- ♦
♦ tary of the Interior. A. F>. tffyep- ♦
♦ erd. a Pacific coast railroad man, ♦
♦ and E. K. Went, valuation V.»gi- ♦
♦ neer for the Interstate Coimy^fee ♦
♦ Commission, who recently tnade ♦
♦ a trip to Alaska to invesSgate ♦
♦ the increasing costs of the
♦ eminent railroad now building ♦
♦ from Anchorage to Kalrltttiks, ♦
♦ and to submit their report 1* the ♦
♦ house appropriation committee ♦
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i PETROGRAD, Sept. 11. V*decl
, Hion for or against the conti* e# tin
ion of ( lunch and state undci t.V- se v.
provisional government will be ije
elded during the eoming momh,r
An Oecumenical Congress o' lip
fr-TT'lree-, _0rthodO£ ^
and at probably the same time there
i will sit representatives of the Holy
j constituent assembly, which with n
without the consent of the Oecunien!
cal Congress may reach its own con
elusions as to whether state and
church shall separate.
In preparation for the Oecumenical
Congress, Procurer of the Holy Synod
Lvoff has convoked a “Pre-Congrcsf
Council,” with the function of prepar
ing reform projects to be laid be
fore the congress. In the counci
will situ representatives of the Holy
Synod, seven bishops and delegate:
from the "Congress of Clergy and
Laymen,” which, to the number o
more than 1,000, has already sat si
| Moscow; together with prominen'
j monks, dignitaries of the church ol
: Georgia and representatives of the or
thodox sectarians.
The Pre-Congress Council will draft
a law regulating election to the con
gress. It will prepare bills for recon
structing the synod, reorganizing the
church government in Finland and
Georgia, and reforming the ecelestas
tical courts. These and other bills
will be submitted to the Oecumenical
j Congress.
Meanwhile the provisional reform o<
j the orthodox church is proceeding
The principle of election of church
dignitaries is in force. Among the
highest dignitaries thus far elected
by the vote of the clergy and laymen
is Benjamin, bishop of Gdovsk, who b
now titular bishop of Petrograd and
metropolitan of Petrograd. As randi
date of the mass of Die clergy and of
the prohibitionist workingmen, Benia
min defeated the radical church re
former, Andrew, bishop of Ufa. Ben
jamln’s election as bishop of Petro
grad has been confirmed; but the
j synod has suspended confirmation of
his election as metropolitan m the
ground that canonical law require
| that a metropolitan shall have author
i ity over a definitely bounded district
, whereas no metropolitancy of Petro
grad exists. The pre-congress coun
cil will be invited to create six metro
I polltancies.
j Another reform is the choice of
young clerics for high positions. Gish
I op Benjamin is only 45; and Bishop
j Pachoinlus of Tchernigoff, also elect
I ed by popular vote since the revolu
tion, Is only 44.
The agitation for the reform of mo
nastic life continues. At the Monks’
Congress at Moscow, reforniers sug
gested the transformation of all mon
astries into labor communities. They
complained that in some monasteries
a third of the revenue goes for the
personal use of the father superior,
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FAMOUaCOACH IS KILLED.
j SEATTLE. Sept 11—Hiram Coni
; bear, famous rowing coach at the Uni
| versity of Washington, fell from a
1 plum tree yesterday and was instantly
killed.
BUT FOUR NEGATIVE
VOTES ON WAR MEASURE
t WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The senate voted, 52 ♦
t° t° strike out ull consumption taxes in the war reve- *
nue hill, including sugar, tea and cocoa, all designed to ♦
♦ raise $S(i,(KH),(KK). «
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* WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The senate has passed ♦
^ the war tax hill and returned it to the house. It now ♦
goes to the conference committee. The senate added half ♦
* a billion dollars in taxes and it is hoped that the hill will ♦
finally pass within two weeks. The vote was CO to 4, ♦
* those voting in the negative being Senators Oronna, ♦
Borah, Lafollette and Norris. The bill raises $2,842,000 - ♦
?t 000 from incomes, $1,000,000,000 from war profit’s, li- ♦
* 0nor, tobacco and public utilities furnishing most of the ♦
> remainder. »
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IBBITISH CASUALTIES US GIVEN OUT FOR THE PAST WEEK
LONDON, Sept. 11.—The British casualties for the past!
Wt‘<‘k were 27,000, of which number 4,400 are dead
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FIERCE FIGHTING TAKING PLAGE IN WCINITY OF GOfllZIA
l DINK, Sept. 11.—The fight against the heights northeast
of Gorizia continued last night and today regardless of the
weather. The gaps in the ranks were instantly filled and the
contending forces so evenly balanced in circumscribed area that
I-i.apparently impossible on either side.
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Sweden Treachery
Still Unexplained
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> LONDON, Sept. 11.—The Manchester Guardian as- ♦
► sumes the Swedish foreign office knew the contents of ♦
* the cipher message filed at Buenos Aires and that it ♦
* would be fairly easy for Sweden to learn what the ♦
♦ United States decoded and Sweden could decode even if ♦
♦ ignorant. The newspaper clftinis that Sweden’s respon ♦
♦ sibility is great. ♦
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* WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The government is still ♦
• awaiting some indication as to how the Swedish govern ♦
♦ ment regards the disclosures of the action taken by its ♦
* legation at Buenos Aires in transmissing German lega- ♦
♦ tion dispatches to the Berlin government. It regards ♦
* tin* entire questions of a more direct grievance to the ♦
♦ allies than the United States. * ♦
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ELK DENUDING
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BAKERSFIELD. Cal.. Sept. 10. —
Two hundred elk from the hills have
been eating the hay on the lands of
James Arp, a rancher in Buttonwillow
district, and Arp has apealed to the
California fish and game commission
for relief.
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With hay at $20 a ton and all the
elk enjoying hearty appetites, Arp be
came desperate and wrote the games
commission that the wild animals
were denuding the range, needed for
his 200 cattle and horses.
To kill an elk in California is felony
carrying a maximum prison sentence
of two years. The game commission's
attorney contends that the commis
sion cannot legally give Arp permis
sion to kill an elk. Arp is consider
ing the plan of engaging cowboys to
herd the elk off his lands.
OLD MARINER PASSES AWAY.
BBy Associated Press)
VICTORIA, Sept. 11. — Captain Jas.
Warren, a pioneer scaler, who brought
to the coast the Beaver, the first
Btoamer on the Pacific ocean, in 1825.
died at his home here yestpjrday.
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(If)’ United Press)
PARIS, Sept. 11. — American wom
en already In France and those who
arrive later to be near their soldier
husbands will lack no chance to be
useful for Uncle Sam's army.
Recruiting is going on here today
for the Women's War Relief Corps, a
new organization authorized by the
American Red Cross and headed by
Mrs. William 0. Sharp, wife of the
American ambassador.
The name of the new organization
implies work. The scope of its la
bors run from rolling bandages to
feeding refugees from war torn dis
tricts and teaching the blind. A board
of seventeen lady directors, Including
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, has taken
charge of various corps divisions.
One division will operate canteens
for soldiers; another will^have charge
of diet kitchens for hospitals; another
will hand out general Information and
operate a lost and found bureau; one
will recruit trained nurses and others
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will have charge of recruiting auxil
iary nurses, running a propaganda and
records bureau, a publicity depart
ment, a registration bureau and many
other duties will be performed.
216,111 DRAFTED
MEN NOW IN
TRAINING
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. — /.nieri
ra's first national army Is actually in
the making today. Four thousand five
hundred and fifty-seven local exemp
tion boards throughout the land plung
ed into the task of mobilizing the first
shipment of 206,100 drafted soldiers
to camp. This first increment, will he
30 per cent of the 687,000 men drafted.
On September 5 they put a drafted
man in charge of eacu group, en
trained them and sent them tc their
way to learn to battle the Boche.
Routings and entrainments, according
to present plans, will lie secret. All
the local boards have i.-t their order
to have their quota of men at speci
fied cantonment camps at a certain
time. They ^ire making their own
plans for the hour and place of en
trainment.
Notices to the men selected by each
local board to go first arc being jnailed
or have been mailed to the men. Fists
of drafted men in this first group are
also being posted at exemption board
headquarters. They are being ordered
to report in person to the local board
"for military duty" at a fixed hour
named by the board, which shall not
be more than 24 hours nor less than
12 hours before the hour for entrain
ment. f
From the moment the drafted man
receives this notice he actually in
the military service of the United
stitutes legal notl*. arid if "The man
doesn't get it aid fails to report, he
must answer before a military board
if the local board so directs.
If the local board is convinced that
the man did his best to answer (he
call, it can exonerate him. It the
board feels the man is to blame for
not reporting, it can place him under
military arrest and place the df tails
of his case before the proper army
officer. The man will then be subject ■»
to trial and punishment before a mili
tary court.
The second group of 206,t;'» drafted
men. 12,869 for each of the sixteen
cantonment camps, will be entrained
September 19. The third group of
206,000 will start to camp, according
to present plans, October 3. The re
maining 68,700 of the 687,000 men in
the first camp will lie started conton
mentward as soon thereafter as pos
sible.
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NORTHWESTERN SAILS SOUTH
WITH MANY PASSENGERS.
The steamer Northwestern sailed
for Seattle at 3 o'clock thie morning,
with a large number of passengers
and a full cargo of freight. She t»ok
out 750 tons of Kennecott ore, 400 tons
from Ellamar and 350 tons from La
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touche, The Lighthouse Packing Co.
shipped 4,000 cases of clams, the Car
lisle Company 3.500 cases of salmon,
Abercrombie Company 1,500 cases and
the Nelie .Tuan cannery 3,000 cases.
The outgoing passengers were: F.
Young. K. McMahon. Mrs. Wray. Mrs.
Harrington. Ed Johnson, P. A. ltettig,
J. Magner, Thomas W. Smith, Mrs.
G. J. Fudden. A. Krimp, C. C. Long
well. G. M. Rothe. George Gray. 1,. P.
Richey. A. H. Steel, P. J. Lynch, Ned
Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs v. I. MacCon
nell. S. J. Hubey. Mrs. A. Court right,
W. F. Hill, C. li. Hughes, L. J. Switzer,
G. Jordon, H. Heffsinger, W K. Cun
ningham. Leo Wile. M. Verda. Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Range, Mrs. J. O'Neill,
J. F. Murphy, A. Wizlie. R F. Cor
nell, John McDonnell, D. C. Mel on
ell, Clyde Morgan, H. C. Simmons,
W. Wright. C. D. Eshelman, li. Koch.
Miss E. Nadeau. Captain Charles \>
berts, O. Paulson. J. W. Gay, \. S
Lanneau, D. Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs
Bateman. Mr and Mrs T. li. Needham,
Dr. Gilbert, Ed Reynolds and thirty
four steerage.
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SOCKEYE PACK IS SMALL.
SEATTLE. Sept. 11—The Post
Intelligencer today states that the
Alaska sockeye salmon pack is only
half of normal this season.
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JUST ARRIVED, New Two Cell
Bull's Eye Flashlights. This type gives
n brighter light than the old style
three cell. Northwestern Hardware
Company.