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Show Cable for Alaska. WASHINGTON, April 1. The manufacture manu-facture of 200 miles of cable, which is to be used to connect Valdez with Seward. Alaska, has been commenced. Seward is west of Valdez and. is the terminus of the line of road which s to be constructed construct-ed to the Yukon. Gen. Greely says that the telegraph system In Alaska is working work-ing satisfactorily. Recently he sent a cable message to Nome, Alaska, in three hours. It had to be transmitted overland to Seattle and by cable up the coast, thence by Alaskan land lines to St. Michael and by wireless to Nome. |