ROME, Sept. 13—All the Bulgaria reservists in Italy have
heen called to the colors. That Bulgaria will soon enter the
war is growing more and more apparent. The government at
Sofia is taking extraordinary military measures, the mobiliza
tion of the army is going apace, and large bodies of troops are
encamped along the Turkish border. The reservists in Italy
are responding readily to the call of their country, and are
reporting to the legation here in large numbers. The expenses
of sending the troops home are being borne by the Bulgarian
legation. 1 !
LONDON, Sept. 13—The news from the far east concerning
the advances being made by both sides to induce Bulgaria to
flop one way or the other continues to be far from definite, and
often decidely contradictory. It is felt here, and assurances to
that effect have been received from Sofia, that Bulgaria is dick
ring with Turkey. In some quarters it is positively asserted
that Bulgaria has completed a bargain with Constantinople,
and that for satisfactory concessions will remain neutral. Pre
mier Radovlavoff in replying to the allies appeal said that Bul
garia was now on the most friendly of terms with Turkey.
ATHENS, Sept. 13—Trustworthy advices have been re
ceived here from Constantinople, which state that despite the
optimistic official messages sent out by the government con
cerning the war situation, the condition of both the army and
the government is the most critical. The troops in the Dard
anelles have suffered heavy losses in their attempts to hold
back the constantly increasing waves of allied troops that are
being thrown at their trenches, and the Turkish position is now
precarious. They are holding their front with increasing diffi
culty, and the question of supplies has reached an acute stage,
the people are also becoming dissatisfied with the government
which is of the most autocratic nature, under the control of a
triumvirate with extraordinary powers. Along the Bulgarian
border, the situation is threatening. The Bulgarians have col
. .lected 15,000 troops here, and the indications are growing that
the Turks will be facing an invader here within a short time.
Realizing their position, the Turks are hastily throwing up de
fenses along the Bulgarian border.
LONDON, Sept. 13—The Teutonic armies on the eastern
front all report progress to Berlin today with the exception of
the Austrian forces in eastern Galicia. In the latter region
the Russians report further successes, taking many prisoners
and’ forcing the enemy to retire.
In the north the battle along the Dvina with the fate of
Riga, in the balance is raging fiercely, with Hindenberg driving
his troops forward at various points trying to find a weak spot
in the defenses of the enemy. The strongest attack seems to
be directed towards Dvinsk, and Hindenberg is trying des
perately to capture this city, which would give him an ideal
place to eend large bodies of troops to the west bank of the river.
The fighting in the center of the eastern front still favors
the invaders, and Prince Leopold of Bavaria reports that he
Had' forced his way across the Zelwianka, and is now attacking
the Russians in the vicinity of Skidelin. Further south the
Teutons under Mackensen are advancing on both sides of the
Dvinsk railroad pressing forward toward the city itself. Mac
kensen reports the capture of several thousand Russians, and
that his forces are going ahead, meeting little opposition and
suffering but slight losses.
From Petrograd comes the news that the Russians feel that
they are losing nothing of importance at any section of the bat
tle line, although some apprehension as to the final outcome
of the battle along the Dvinsk can be noted in the
dispatches. The Russian general staff is busily preparing
for the winter campaign, when it is hoped to turn the tables on
the invaders at several places. General Russky, the newly ap
pointed commander of the northern armies announced today
that there was absolutely no chance of the Germans attempting
an advance on Petrograd before next spring.
BERLIN, Sept. 1.3—The war office issued an official state
ment today reporting that the battle along the Divina between
Hindenberg and General Ruskky was progressing favorably
for the Germans. The tide of battle has been in the balance for
the past week, but yesterday’s fighting swung the conflict in
favor of the Teutons, who have now succeeded in forcing the
Russians to evacuate some of their positions on the west bank
of the river. The outcome of the fight now going on will un
doubtedly decide the fate of Riga.
LONDON, Sept. 14—The London Star has compiled the
statistics of the killed and wounded fro mthe five Zeppelin
raids which have harassed the east coast of England the past
week. The paper says that the total casulities amounted to
166, most of which ocurred in the third raid, and none of which
occurred in the last two. Of this number, the greater portion
were wounded, the deaths being about forty. With few excep
tions the killed were all civilians, and largely women and chil
dren.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14—All foars as to the safety of the
steamer Santa Ana which caught afire at sea while bound from
this Naples with lfiOfi Italian reservists have been removed by
further wireless dipatches received from the ship today. The
fire has been extinguished', and the ship is proceeding on her
voyage under the escort of English men of war. There were no
deaths and no injuries on the boat as a result of the fire.
LONDON, Sept. 14—Premier Herbert Asquith, admitted
today that the matter of conscription was being seriously con
sidered by the cabinet, and it is felt from what the premier let
drop, that the majority of the cabinet is in favor of such an
action, but are only waiting in order to properly judge the
temper of the country on the matter, as considerable opposition
to conscription has developed in labor union circles the British
Trade Congress voting overwhelmingly against it.
BERLIN, Sept. 14—The foreign office delivered a note to
Ambassador Gerard today dealing with the reputed' attack on
the Hesperian by a German submarine. Inquiries had been
directed to German on the matter by the United States, as the
English version made the attack seem like a violation of the re
cent assurances given to America by Germany on the submarine
warfare. In the note today the government said that is was
satisfied that the Hesperian was not attacked by a German sub
marine, and must therefore have struck a mine.
SEBASTOPOL, Sept. 17—It is officially announced that
Russian torpedo boats sunk an entire fleet of sailing vessels near
the Black Sea. They were laden with munitions of war and
before being blown up the crews were captured.
LONDON, Sept. 17—The war office announced today that
the total number of casulaties in the Dardanelles fighting up to
August 21 amounted to 88,000 officers and men. Of this num
ber nearly eighteen thousand had been killed.
LONDON, Sept. 14—Another Zeppelin raid was made on
the east coast of England' last night which was as abortive in its
pffects as the one the night before. There were no deaths and
no casualties of any kind although many bombs were dropped.
Most of the missiles fell in the open fields and no damage to
property of any nature has been reported.
LONDON, Sept. 14—The war office issued an official an
nouncement today along with a new list of killed and wounded,
stating that the total British losses to date in killed, wounded'
and missing, as far as could be figured, amounted to 382,000.
This includes both officers and men. The number killed was
not seperately stated.
LONDON, Sept. 14—The Turkish troops along the Aisiatic
side of the Dardanelles straits are setting fire to and destroying
all villages. There is a possibility that they are preparing to
abandon their positions here, and' leave the straits in the hands
of the allies. All the shore batteries on the Aisatic side, have
been subjected to a heavy bombardment from the big guns of the
allied fleet, and seem to have been thoroughly silenced as the re
turn fire slackened away to almost nothing.
LONDON, Sept. 14—Hindenberg’s offensive near Dvinsk,
the city which is the junction point or the Vilna and Petrograd
railroads, has again assumed serious proportions, and' is now
strongly menacing the line of communications with Petrograd.
The Russians are strongly placed here, but the Teutonsn forces
are battering away at their positions with heavy guns, and a
veritable hail of artillery fire is falling upon the Russians. In
other sections of the eastern front the comprehensive Russian
successes have caused the Russian general staff to regard the
latest German danger rather calmly. Military experts in this
city state that the German campaign in Courland has been very
costly in both men and supplies, and is more than likely to fail
if Russia manages to continue her recently inaugurated offen
sive at the other extreme of the long front.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—High government officials in
this city are saying privately that the administration is not yet
willing to even discuss with Germany the question of arbitra
tion of the Arabic torpedoing. The question is a knotty one
for Wilson and his advisers to unravel, as they have determined
not to yield the principle at issue, and yet are desirous of reach
ing an amicable settlement of the whole controversy. The ques
tion of what would be a proper indemnity to pay for the loss of
the American lives on the Arabic, the government is willing to
submit to arbitration. Lansing and Wilson are holding fre
quent conferences on the matter, and every effort is being made
to reach a conclusion as the administration wishes to satisfy
the people that no unnecessary delay will be allow-ed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—It was stated authoritatively
today that the American government wishes German to dis
avow the attack made by her submarine on the Arabic. If
Berlin will go to this extent, then America may submit the
question of indemnity to arbitration, but nothing will be sub
mitted for settlement unless a disavowal is made. Unless this
is done, it is almost certain that a breach between the two coun
tries will appear. The views of Wilson and his advisers have
been submitted to the German foreign office by the embassy
here, and a reply to this suggestion will remain in status quo.
The views of the president concerning the Arabic have been im
pressed upon Von Bemstorff by the Secretary of the State, and
the officials of the government are hopeful that Berlin will
disavow the attack, when the facts in the possession of the
State Department are made known to the heads of the German
government.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14—The Anglo-French Financial Com
mission is still in this city conferring with leading American
hankers, and financial experts, and have not yet given up hope of
realizing their desires of floating a huge loan here for the
purpose of fixing the exchange situation, and so that their
countries will not have to pay excessive prices for the goods
now being bought in the United States.
They plan to borrow a billion dollars in this country with
out collateral of any sort, except the insurance of government
notes of England and France. The bankers here, expected to
loan the money, taking as security, the American bonds and
stocks held by European owners. Their idea of the proper way
to get the billion was for the loan to be secured dollar for dollar
by the depositing of these securities with the lending banks.
The Commission will find that its task is tremendously dif
ficult as they failed to realize the American point of view on the
matter, naturally believing that the loan would be forthcoming
rather than the American businessmen would face the possibiltv
of the discontinuance of the buying of large quantities of food
stuffs and other materials that is now being indulged in. The
New York bankers are sticking out for the collateral and the
point has been raised that if a straight loan on the credits of
the governments of England and France was made it would be a
violation of the strict interpretation of the neutrality of the
United States.
If this issuance of a straight commercial loan on the bond's
of the European governments is prevented by the desire of the
government to preserve its neutrality, and the bankers will fol
low the wishes of the administration in the matter, so that the
commission will fail to float the desired loan, a wholesale cur
tailment of American purchases will follow. England and
France will stop buying all supplies here with the exception of
war munitions, which they cannot get anywhere else in sufficient
quantities.
Everything with this one exception which is now being
bought here can be obtained in other places. Wheat, cotton
and meats can be bought in large quantities in South America
and other points, and the remarkable exports of the United
States, which have been growing steadily the past months, will
dwindle alarmingly. Because of this the European Financial
Commission believe that they have the upper hand as they do
not figure that the American bankers will allow such a catas
trophe which would spell ruin in large letters for many Ameri
can farmers and cattle men to happen. The situation is an in
teresting one, and presents many difficulties to be solved before
a satisfactory solution can be arrived at.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—The government Ijas decided to
take no action officially in regard to the attempt being made by
the Anglo-French Financial Commission to raise a loan of a bill
ion dollars in this country. Much pressure has been brought
on the administration to have the matter of the loan disap
proved, feeling if such were done the financial men in New York
would respect the wishes of the president. It has been decided
by Wilson and his advisers neither to approve or disapprove the
loan.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—The Secretary of State today
left this city on a ten day vacation.' The duties of his office
have been so arduous of late, the secretary often being com
pelled to sleep in the State Department building, that his physi
cians have demanded' that he take a period of complete rest. Be
fore leaving Lansing completed a note to Great Britain about
the interference with American trade by the British admiralty.
The note has been delayed in sending because the administration
wished to setlle the critical relations with Germany before turn
ing its attention to the complaints of American shippers against
the British. The chief point raised by the note, is the objection
| which the United States raises to the attitude of England that
I in cases where cargoes of contraband, consigned to neutray
; countries, are seized on the ground that they are really intended
I for belligerents, the burden of proof rests on the owners or ship
! pers of the cargoes to show that they are intended for an enemy.
| The State Department takes the view, which it insists upon that
the burden rests upon Great Britain to prove the guilt of the
; shippers, and not upon the shippers to prove their innocence.
BERLIN, Sept. 17—The war office issued an official state
ment this morning announcing that Hindenberg’s forces after
flanking Vilna and Dvinsk, had cut tin* Petrograd railway run
ning between those two cities. After severing the line of com
munication Hindenberg’s cavalry advanced further east to
i Vidsy, 35 miles south of Dvinsk, and captured that city. The
progress of the campaign along the Dvina for the possession of
1 Riga is progressing to the satisfaction of the general staff, who
^ express no doubt of the ultimate success of Hindenberg’s strat
egy. With Hindenbeg in Riga, it is felt that the Teutonic
i offensive will have accomplished sufficient for this fall’s cam
paign, and the armies will probably intrench preparatory to
marching on to Petrograd in the spring.
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BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 13—One
American trooper was killed today
and two others wounded, one probably
fatally, when a gang of Mexican ban
’ dits attacked the American patrol of
' seven men, who were guarding the
: irrigation pumping plant, several miles
j up the river from this city.
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 13—It is es
timated that they were forty Mexicans
j in the gang that fired on the soldier
patrol at the pumping plant for the
; irrigation works. The dead tropper
; is named Kraft. Private Forney, was
shot through the back and will proba
bly die.
i NEW YORK, Sept. 13—The allied
financial commission composed of
leading English and French bankers,
who arrived here last week for the
purpose of relieving the exchange sit
uation by floating a loan in this coun
try, seem to have become discouraged
over the possibility of floating the
! loan in this city. They are now seek
! ing western aid, and hope to accom
| plish their object without the aid of
the New York bankers.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13—The steam
ship Santa Ana, which left this city
a few days ago loaded with Italian re
servists bound for Naples to join their
regiments, has been reported by wire
less as being afire at sea. The loca
tion of the vessel is 960 miles south
east of Halifax. There are on board,
besides the crew about 1700 reserv
ists who had responded to the call of
their country to take up arms against
Austria. The ship carried a full car
go, which, however, contained no arms
or amunition but was composed large
ly of foodstuffs. When the vessel was
at the dock it had been set afire but
the blaze was discovered by the watch
man and extinguished before any harm
' was done. The authorities had sus
j pected that efforts would be made to
I destroy the vessel, and a thorough
| search was made for bombs just before
sailing time, though none were found.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13—The steamer
Santa Ana, with Italian reservist-s on
j board which was reported by wireless
as being on fire at sea, was later re
! ported to be out of danger. The fire
i has been subdued, and the Santa Ana
■ is proceeding on her way to the
Azores, where necessary repairs will
be made before completing the voyage
to Naples. Warships of the allies,
which pick up the wireless call for
aid, are standing by and will convoy
the Sanata Ana on the rest of the
trip.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—Dispatch
es from Villa today deny completely
the report received Saturday that he
and one of his generals had been kill
ed at the ranch of General Thomas
Urbians in the State of Chihuahua.
Villa announced that on the contrary
Urbinas had been executed by him.
He said that the conduct of Urbians
had become intolerable. In the mes
sage Villa says that he executes all
persons who displeases him and that
Urbians merited his end. Urbians
owed fealty to Villa and had disre
garded his duties. Accompanied by
his body guard, Villa went to the
Urbians ranch to interview the gen
eral and was fired upon by Urbians
and his staff. The general was then
captured, court marttalled and ex
ecuted.
SEATTLE, Sept. 15—The Mariposa
sailed last night from here with a full
cargo and a large complement of pas
sengers for Alaska points. Those
! booked for Cordova are C. Knudson,
! Ben Miller and wife, Mary Dixon,
Mrs. J. Flanigan, Matt McDonald, F.
Wayland, Ous Johnson and Axel Nel
son.
COLUMBIA, S. C„ Sept. 15—An
other state has been added to the pro
hibition column, this stae yesterday
voted for state wide prohibition by an
enormous majority. The law goes in
to effect next January, at which time
all saloons will discontinue business,
and the liquor trafflce will be outlaw
ed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15—The un
seasonable weather conditions are con
tinuing in various portions of the
country. In the eastern and southern
states excessive heat is being experi
enced, the theremoter being above
ninety in places which should be en
joying cool Indian summer weather at
this time of the year. Much suffering
has been experienced in the crowded
section of the larger cities as a result
In the Rocky Mountain and plateau
states the weather has reached the
freezing point in many states, and
furs are being worn.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16—The
first cargo of German made toys for
the coming Christmas trade arrived
here today via Rotterdam. The lots
include the usual assortment of chil
dren’s playthings and the jobbers
predict that prices this year will be
much higher than usual owing to the
decreasing supply.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—William
Jennings Bryan is considering a trip
to Europe, and visiting all the coun
tries now fighting for the purpose of
trying to induce the nations to bring
about peace. Bryan will make the
trip on his own initiative and travel
as a private individual, and solely for
the furtherance of the peace propagan
da to which he is now devoting his
energies. The ex-secretary of state
will pay his own expenses, and expects
to receive passports from the United
States and from the belligerent na
tions entitling him to pass through
the lines.
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 17—There
was another battle today, across the
river near this city between American
calvalrymen and Carranza soldiers.
Fighting lasted fifteen minutes, which
resulted in one Mexican being killed
and five others seriously wounded.
There were fifteen Carranza soldiers
in two separate groups who made their
escape after battle.
CHICAGO, Sept. 1G—The news re
ceived here today of the adverse de
cision rendered by the British prize
court in the cases of meat supplies
shipped from here consigned to firms
in Copenhagen, is a distinct blow to
the hog packers, and means that they
stand to loose about firteen million
dollars. All the big packing houses
are effected by the decision, and other
large cargoes of canned meats and lard
are still held by the English Admiral
ty, which cases have not yet been ad
judicated, but which the packers feel
will take the same course as that of
the four Norwegian vessels, which
carried the cargoea condemned.
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CHARTERS TWO VESSELS
Two important charters were an
nounced when the Alaska Steamship
Co. took over the Ellhu Thompson of
the Pacific Cold Storage Co., and the
Pavlof of the Pacific American Fish
eries, the two vessels being engaged
for one trip each, carrying cannery
supplies and miscellaneous freight to
points in Southeastern Alaska and re
turning with miscellaneous cargo.
When General Freight and Passenger
! Agent John H. Bunch, of the Alaska
Steamship Co., realized the unusual
spurt in Alaska traffic, coming simul
taneously on the Bering Sea route.
Cook Inlet route and southeastern
route, it was deemed most necessary
to take care of the contract cannery
business in Southeastern Alaska.
Heretofore there have been ample ves
sels to take care of this class of busi
ness but owing to the unusual rush the
canneries would have suffered and the
company merely chartered these ves
sels for one trip each to make good
with their contracts. At any time this
fall when it is again found necessary
to protect the company’s contract
; freight, additional charters may be an
nounced.
In the past history of Alaska traffic,
while the rush is on to the westward
it is dull in Southeastern Alaska and
vice versa but this year both sections
have developed new traffic at the same
time and offerings to Kotzebue Sound
and Bering Sea have been so heavy
that the entire fleet has been constant
ly in service.
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JOSLIN WANTS LEASE
THE ALASKA CABLE
Falcon Joslin, the railroad magnate
of Fairbanks, who recently Installed
a wireless plant in the Tolovana and
has a wireless plant in operation In the
Iditarod region, wants to secure a
lease of the Alaska military cable and
telegraph lines and operate them.
Joslin insists that that if the govern
will turn the lines over to him he can
cut the rates in half and maintain a
better service. He asks for the sup
port of the people of the territory if
he renews his application to lease the
lines.
Joslin has wired for a wireless plant,
to be installed at Tacotna.
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NINETEEN TONS OF GOLD
RECEIVED AT ASSAY OFFICE
According to information from the
. Seattle assay office, they had received
just nineteen tons of gold from Alaska
for the fiscal year ending June 30.
; The valuation of this amount of gold
i was 18,850,454.52, but does not repre
sent the true output of the country for
! that period, for a large quantity went
directly to San Francisco.
Of the above amount Nome is cred
i ited with furnishing the larger amount,
owing to the large drege operations
in that district. Iditarod takes second
place.
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CLAIMS DAMAGE FOR BEING
JOLTED IN CHITINA STAGE
Suit has been filed in Seattle by
Frank C. Adams against the North
ern Commercial company for 312,000
; damages for injuries which he alleged
to have received by being jolted in the
Fairbanks Chltna stage.
Adams alleges that the accident oc
curred on April 16 last and resulted
from reckless driving at high speed
over rough roads.
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MARCONI WIRELESS CO.
CHARGES INFRINGEMENT
The Marconi Wireless Comuany of
American has filed suit against Kli
bourne & Clarke Mfg. Co. of Seattle,
charging the defendent with Infringe
ment of its letters and patent. It will
be remembered that the Ktlbourne ft
Clarke Co. last year constructed some
wireless sets which have been sucess
fully installed upon many of the Alas
ka steamship and Ashing boats, dis
placing the Marconi equipment.
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SAYS KENNECOTT COPPER
IS SOLD TO THE ALLIES
James Rockefeller, manager of the
Orr Stage line at Shitlna made a
trip recently to Fairbanks and he
imparted the following information to
the Daily Times of that place:
For every day the Kennecott copper
mines are shut down, the company
loses approximately 140,000, as they
are bound by contract to turn out a
certain unmber of tons of copper per
week for the allies.
THREE ATORNEYS ARE
ADMITTED IN THE THIRD
The office of Secretary of Alaska
has been notiffed that three new at
torneys had been admitted to practice
before the courts of Alaska. They
all reside at Anchorage, and they were
all admitted in the Third Division. The
there admitted were Robert M. Als
trop, Royden D. Chase, and John Leo
Davey.