The San Francisco call., 1906-06-25
COAST AFFAIRS
At THE CAPITAL
Milwaukee's Trial Trip
to Take Place Off
Santa Barba ra.
Wireless Station Is to
BE Built at Cape
Flattery.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

CALL BUREAU. POST BUILDING.
WASHINGTON, June 24.-The navaI
board of inspection and survey mas
completed its arrangements ana re-
ceived authority for trip 10 the "a
cific Coast, the first. to be taken oy
that oficial body The board Will Ieave
Washington about July Is for Seattle
instead Of San Francisco and viii con-
duet the trial trip of the Nebraska
Later the board win proceed TO san
Francisco and will try the Milwaukee,
The trial runs will be made on santa
Barbara where there will be meas
ured mile and where the facilities are
considered suitable for the standardiza-
tion of the ships.
After the trial Of the Milwaukee
the naval board will return to the At
lantfc Coast. leaving such instructions
as win enable the Pacific Coast board,
made up of officers on duty at Mare
Island and Puget Sound, TO conduct
trial trips of vessels hereafter.
The Navy Department announces
that it has established and placed in
operation a wireless. telegraph station
at Point Iona. Cal Other stations
will be opened later just as soon as the
department is able to expend the ap-
preparation of $500 which will short
ly be available for the establishment
of wireless stations on the Pacific
Coast
The first contract to be let will be
that of the station at Cape Flattery.
Reports from the Pacific Coast indi-
cate zhat the naval wireless stations
escaped injury during the earthquake
and had a system of communication
been effected there would have been
no such delay as occurred in the trans
mission Of messages in and out OF thu
city.
As n was much vaIuabIe servfca was
rendered in the early days of the panic
and disaster. BY the location OF the
Chicago at Fort Mason messages were
received on board the ship and were
communicated to the wireless station at
Yerba Buena and thence sent to the
outside world through the wireless
outfit which had been erected BY
youth IN Oakland The latter comes in
for a generous share of Official praise
for the gratuitous service he appears
to have rendered at critical times dur
ing the trouble in San Francisco.
The following changes in the SAL
aries of California postmasters under
the annual readjustment are an
nounced:
royo Grande, $1,000 to s14O0; Bakers
field. s260O to s27O0; Clovis, $1,000 to
$1100; Coronado, $500 to $500; Corona.
$1,000 DinSSS siSeS to $50 $500 SGS D2oS TO
$500 to s1400; East Auburn. s14O0 to
$500; Fortuna, $110O TO $1,000: Fowler,
$1,000 to S1400; Fresno, $500 to $4,000:
Gtlroy, $500 to $1,000; Hemet, $1,000 to
$1,000; Hollywood. $500 to $1700; Laton.
$1,000 70 S1100; Long Beach, S26OO to
$500; McCloud, 1890 to S14OO: Madera.
s2100 to $1,000: Merced, $1,000 to s2f00:
Monrovia, $500 TO s17O0; Nordhofr.
$1,000 to $500; Ocean Park. $4,000 to
$2400; Oceanside. $11O0 to 1890; Onta-
rio. $17O0 to $500; OrovilIe, $4,000 to
{22o9; Pacific Grove. s2100 to $4,000;
$4,000 to $4,000; Rio Vista, sIIO0 to
$1,000; San Bernardino $500 to $1,000:
San Diego. S3100 to $4,000; San Jacinto'
$1,000 to $1,000; San Luis Obispo. $4,000
to $4,000; Santa Barbara, $500 to $500:
ukiah, $1,000 to $4,000; Visalia, $500 to
S2400.
The Senate today passed a bill re-
ported by Senator Perkins providing
for the unloading of bonded merchan-
disc at night from vessels or cars. thu
inspectors to be paid reasonable Aom-
pensatfon, which shall be borne by the
owners of the goods
Washington scientific societies at the
request OF Senator Perkins are cor
daily cooperating in the work OF re-
placing the libraries OF the ACADEMY OF
Sciences and the Sierra Club. The Gov
ernment and foreign publications are
being gathered and will be forwarded
In large quantities to San Francisco.