Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-07-26
WORLDWIDE WIRELESS.
Popular Mechanics Magazine.

WORLDWIDE WIRELESS.
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
II is interesting to note the prog
ress being made to extend the in.
ter-continental wireless service. Our
own government through the Navy
Department is already constructing
the longest chain Of wireless stations
in existence. This system will per.
NIT syTaAAia9t0n IA saamannisaAs
with our own stations in Alaska, the
Panama Canal Zone, San Francisco,
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Tutuila Island,
in the Samoas; and Guam, and Luzon
in the Philippine Islands. Each Of
these stations is to have a sending
radius of at least 5000 miles.
For commercial service the Marcori
Company have planned q series Of
stations which will entirely encircle
the globe. and the work Of construc-
ton will be begun in the near future.
An American steamship company
has also announced its intention to
proceed at once with the erection Of
three tower stations which will con-
meet our Gulf coast with South Amer
ica, thus furnishing communication
with land stations there, for the FIRST
time. In q few years all the conti-
nents and the more important islands
Of the sea will be linked with an in
visible network OF communication.
What story Of scientific and me-
chanical progress has been written
from the days of the Spaniard Saliva,
who in 1895 dreamed of . submarine
telegraph. to those Of Morse in 1866.
and now to the realization OF q world
wide wireless system.
A Usprsesdestel cstsspillaf 0stbrsak.
During the past month the Depart.
ment Of Entomology at the State Col
lege Of Washington has investigated
the unprecedented outbreak Of cater.
pillars Of the California tortoise-shell
butterfly. They have appeared in
countless numbers throughout vari.
Gus parts Of the State and British
Columbia, having been reported from
Clayton, Spokane, Chelan, Browns.
FvfllS, MOSCOW Mountains, Idaho, and
from Nelson, British Columbia.
Here. as in California, their native
home, they feed on the laurel or bu.:k-
brush, Ceanothus, and occasionally,
as last resort, on willow and q few
other native plants. They have not
been known to do any injury to any
Of the cultivated plants; hence there
is no need to be alarmed as to their
possible harm!ulness.
During the last week OF June the
caterpillars began to pupate, hang
ing on the bare branches OF the
bushes. About the first Of July, the
first OF the tortoise shell butterflies
began to emerge from the chrysalids.
There are already. and will be for .
couple Of weeks at least, millions ol
these brownish, black-spotted butter.
iies, and then there win be moro ol
the black caterpillsrs. Next fell
there will be countless butterflies
again. These viii hide in all manner
of places during the Winter. AL
though there may be thousands ol
|caterpillars in the second brood,
where there are now hundreds, It ID
not likely that they will do any harm
to any Of the cultivated crops, q
their food plant is almost entirely the
laurel or buckbush.
ia remedy against the caterpillar
Is desired, about the best thing Is "a
destroy the chrysalids with ERE. o.
course, the first brood Of caterpillars
has already done. its work, but BY de.
stroying the chrysalids the second
brood IS prevented.
New zselsad's Puss SGD Caaeeits.
The subject Of pure seed il taken