The Alaska citizen., 1915-10-04
GENERAL NEWS
 BY TELEGRAPH
PRiM ARIES HELD.

| SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 21.-At the primary elections to be held in ] this city tomorrow. there are eight ! candidates in the field running for mayor Only three of these are con ceded to have a chance. these being Mayor Rolph. former Mayor Schmitz and Gallagher the labor candidate. 1 Considerable interest is being taken and it is expected fair sized vote will be cast.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-Tomor- row is primary day. Offices for which candidates are to be selected are six justices of the supreme court. assemblymen to the state legisla- ture. aldermen for the local body, sheriff and district attorney. { WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 27.- President Wilson goes to Princeton tomorrow to vote at the legislature primaries.
 i VESSELS cooPED UP. PANAMA, Sept. PA landslide of serious proportions occurred to- day, occasioning considerable damage to the canal Forty-three vessels of all sizes are tied up as the result
 OFFICIALLY RECALLED. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 27.- The state department has received official advices from Vienna to tn. effect that Dr. Dumba will be spe officially recalled and not merely called home on leave of absence.
 BUILDING SUBMARINES.
 SEATTLE, Sept. 27.-Five sub marines for the use of the Russians are being constructed at Vancouver British Columbia.
 OLD SOLDIERS REVIEWED.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 27- In the forty-ninth annual reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic, thousands of old soldiers will be re viewed by President Wilson on Wed nesday.
 NOT FOR THEM.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 27.-It is understood here that none of the coast bankers will participate in the loHn being sought by representatives of England and France.
 NEW CONTROL THERE.
 PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 27,-The control of the Baldwin Locomotive works has been obtained by Charles Schwab and Dupont.
 IS ON A TOUR.
 DENVER. Sept 27.-John D. Rock efeller. Jr., is here, having returned from a tour of inspection of the properties of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company. He will hold con. ferences with a number of promi- nent labor leaders
 WAS JoYRIDlNG.
 ENFIELD, Mass. Sept 27-Ber- jamin Cable, of Indianapolis, who was assistant secretary of commerce and labor in President Tafts ad ministration, was killed in an auto accident here today.
 WHAT HE SAYS.
 BOSTON. Sept PA letter re ceived by a prominent society here from Count von Bernstorff, the Ger man ambassador, characterized the stories of Armenian massacres that have been published as purely in ventions. He asserts that their pub lication has been engineered by those friendly to the allies for the purpose of dscrediting the Turks.
 ARMS SHIPMENT HELD.
 WASHINGTON, D. C.. Sept. 27.- Acting pSxr instructions. the GUS toms officials at Laredo today held up large shipment of rifles and ammunition enroute to Mexico. The order to seize the shipment was is sued because it's destination was not definitely shown.
 GASOLINE EXPLODED.
 TULSA, Okla, Sept. 27-One hun dled lives were lost and two hun dred persons seriously injured at Ardmore. a town of ten thousand population, situated in Carter coun- ty, in the southern part of the state this afternoon by the explo- sion of a carload of gasoline. The entire business section of the city is in flames and at this time it appears that nothing can be dont to avoid it's total destruction. Wild confusion prevails, as the means of coping with such an accident are entirely inadequate.
 GAINESVILLE, Tex, Sept. 27.- A special train left here this after noon carrying doctors and nurses to the scene of the disaster at Ard more. As further particulars ar rive it is feared that the casualty list will be much larger than at first supposed,
 MRS. LODGE DEAD,
 NAHANT, Mass, Sept. 2S.-Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge, the wife of the senator from Massachusetts, died at her residence here today. She was the daughter of RearAdmiral Davis and was married to Senator Lodge in 1871.
 WILSON VOTES.
 PRINCETON. Sept 28.-President Wilson voted here today at the legis- lature primaries and then hurried back to Washington, where he will address the Grand Army veterans tonight.
 BACK TO WORK.
 LOWELL, Mass, Sept. 28-Two thousand employees of the United States Cartridge company have given in to the te,ms proposed by their employers and have returned to work The other half of the force are remaining out on strike. but it is expected that they will be back to work soon.
 MILLION LOST
 ARDMORE. Okla, Sept 2S.-The estimated value of the property lost as the result of the gasoline eX- plosion yesterday, when the entire business section of the city was wrecked, is one million dollars, The dead total fifty-two and there are nearly two hundred people seriously hurt Some of the escapes were al most miraculous, in one instance a woman and two children being taken unhurt from a house that was de mOlished. all four walls falling Two