The daily morning Alaskan., 1899-12-22
BURGLARS RAN N'DONN 4 MEX.
Wires to Dawson Have Now
 Been PrOstrate Days
MUCH MATER DELAYED
Not Known why Repairs Have Not made-Deminion Line Receipts si3,OOO During Two Months.

The wires of the Dominion telegr ph line to Dawson have been down beyond Selklrk more than a week. and large amount of business from this end destined for the Klondlke capital has been delayed en ryute. All messages from this end have been sent as far as possible, and as soon as the wires are up will be hurried through. Yesterday the wires were down beyond Bennett. Just at what point is not known. Therefore, no interior wealth CT report was received, and matter was de laved from going even to intermediate points on the Dominion line.
 No word as to where the break is that has caused the long delay in the Dawson connection has been received, and people at this end have begun to wonder what Is the reason the service has not been re- stored. A telegrapher spoke on this mat ter yesterday and drew out the idea that the trip has been made from Dawson 10 Bennett in 10 days, and 1t seems that the men watching the line between Selkirk and Dawson should have been able 10 find the break in a week. It would be especially easy to find 1t with men travelling toward each other from the stations bounding the broken strip.
 From one we'll in touch with the busl- ness of the line it Is learned that the wires are not without patronage. The receipts during the first two months of It's through operation, October and November, aggre- gated ST, ,ooo. One day this month s4oo worth of business passed through Skag- way on the wires.
 Messages of a commercial nature come and go not only between various United States and British Columbia points. but also Germany, France, England, Belgium and even far away New Zealand. Mes sages received here are dispatched by the first steamer leaving under American or other flag for the south, and are telegraphed to destination from the first point touched by the ship having connection with wire with the outside world.
 So far as possible, connections in the United States are made with the Postal Telegraph system.
 "One of the effects of the wire into Dawson," says a man who Is in close touch with the affairs of the line, "is to destroy the possibility of long continued shortages, and the consequent high prices or a corner on T certain commodity in the Dawson market, and tendency to keep the interior market supplied at easy inter yals with necessities that 1t Is not desire to keep In large stocks. Word can be wired to Skagway and carried on to the Sound in four or five days.
 "As soon as steamer arrives here from the Sound or British Columbia The intelll' gence is sent to Dawson, and there bulle- tined. and merchants there can send ut orders by wire that will catch the boat, even though she get away within an hour or two. Messages coming on ship from the Sound and sent to Dawson and replies easily received back from Dawson In time to have them forwarded to the states on the vessel that brought the word north. Thus, were fast ship to come here with a message from Seattle. say in four days, and to get away within an hour or two for the return, or another fast steamer hap pened to be going out, message could make the round trip between Dawson and the states in eight days, or vlta versa be- ginning at D .wsn."
 Communication between Dawson and the outside world will next season be re- dueed to minimum, merely the matter of minutes or seconds, by the construction of the line from Quesnelle, on the branch out from Ashcroft. The branch will run north along Telegraph creek, past Glenori and into Atlln, where t will connect with thu branch already connected with the Daw- son-Bennett wire. This will also place Skagwav In touch with the outside world. the only interruption being transfer from the Dominion line at Bennett to the line of the White Pass road. The Canadian gov emment has voted an appropriation of s,oo,ooo for the Quesnelle-Atlin division. The appropriation for the Dawson-Bennett division was szso,ooo.
 Not all the intermediate telegraph stations on the Dawson.Bennett line have been sup piled with thermometers, so the weather reports received here daily from all along the line do not contain statements as to
 temperature. But the government h IS sev' eraI thermometers en route to the front, , and also several fine aneroid barometers. 2 shortest Day of thc Year.