The daily Alaskan., 1912-11-12

few days ago, printed co'omh article by it's special writer, K. n Gilbert. which for careless and eN- tcmpomueous ignorance places both the paper and Che author in a class u5iculous'y unique. The subject was about wireless telegraph in gen era and it's application to Alaska. Here arc few Of the statements;
 ~Up iu tnc far-0uuE reaches oJ the North: un in AlosSa. the long Arctic night IS again settling down. Navigauon Is closing. and already the last revenue cutter is hurryiug southvard Co escape the icy clutch cs og the uoes The last mail steam or from thc states has arrived and denartEG. carrying tEa final words og hone and eboer from hardy Al askaus who dtsda.u Go winter in tne softer cline of the southward; carrying also few hardy Alaskaus who propose Go enjoy the Ileshpots Of a more southern land rather than endure the loneliness and viEors ot am Arctic winter. Those who re- main behind are preparing for the five or s.N months isolation before tre first veawresomc steamer will poke her nose cautiously through the masses of floating ige next snriuE. carrying many baEs Of mail ro their ice-locke5 harbovs; news. that is good. bad. and indifferent, vet for an that. it win be news.
 imagine having to wait seven months before you learned who won at the presidential polls thls fall.
 Yet two years ago such condition existed. Now. all is changed.
 Now. uhGe million telegraph saunders are clicking of the news an over the Union. the people in Alaska win also be getting their election returns. On the evening of. November 8. tu Far-off Dawson, Nome. Circle City and EalyaE, thous- arfs of miles from civilization as va know ft. svarthy Aleuts and Si- washes will rub elbows with beard ed miners and .musae-s' for the curiosity os seeing. for the first time the -a-u-s os a presidential election.
 This wonderful change has been brought about by the dreams of such men as Narcoui. Fesseudeu and De Forest In other words, the rvdroe-aqhtr offices chart of Alas ka shows dozens of small red cir cIes. and d foor-rote informs you that these are wireless telegraph stations. or ratio stations. as they are now called
 The returns win be flashed over the Iaud-wrres Co the powerful navy station af Mare Island. Cal. Mare Island win hurI the Hertziau waves uortrwa~d for two thousand miles to Jhe station ou Tualga island, far out. in 1hc AIeurtan chain; Jualga will fling tae message broadcast to the| stations at Nome. Cordova. St NicaaeIs. S5rka. Dutch Harhor, St Paurs. Sr George.s and Kodiak.
 
 ..H. .- ... ..,.-..,s---gtr. +, sup- pose that within a year or two, al situation like the following may arise. The president. at Washing ton. desires Co communicate with the governor of Alaska upon some subject. a subject too immediate and too imperative to allow the delay OccaSioued by the long route Of the mail He writes out message. ! This message is entrusted to the radio operator at Arlington. who immediately starts his high-powered apparatus working. shooting the. ether waves far out across hill, dale and valley. The message finished, he waits a few moments, 'henr talnL vet clear comes an answering spark, over the high ranges Of the Rockies, the cold. dreary wastes Of Yukon and Athabasco"
 Think Of the joys or receiving wireless returns at far off Daw- son" which IS not in Alaska at all, but which has had daily telegraphic service for fourteen years, during which time it has published daily newspaper in many respects super ! for to the Seattle brand. Then at Sitka, which this bril- liant writer quotes, there never was s closed season and the telegraph