Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-12-16 | Page 8 | Wireless News Reaches Arctic

J f REACHES ARCTIC Surveyors Ne Near r Icebergs Icebergs' Get De Dempsey D Decision Qui Quick I TonO TORONTO TO Ont Ont Dec Dec 16 Dempsey Dempsey wins Q ilya a 0 oc kl knockout out Ten had hardly been counted count d over the In Tox Richards Richard's big ring Inc at Jersey City last Fourth At of July when t this ls message announcing victory readied reached Canadian government surveyors on the arctic coast c coast ast near the tho mouth of the the- Mackenzie river river Fred V. V Se b bert Se rt an en enin engineer in er with Rh I three surveying bands recently r returned returned returned re- re turned from the Far North orth e explained that each part party carried a a wireless re receiving re- re get et I h Of Of co course we w were we're we e Interested d dearly in the the bl bis International fight fight said said Selbert Seibert JVe Ve got In touch Jersey City early In the tho day day land and did did not miss a a. I detail We e wagered d desperately I 1 bet a cake of soap ap against a a plug plug- of i 1 tobacco a c and d won We could dah hear Gt the i arctic ocean surf breaking against an I I iceberg when the knockout came I l The surveyors were the only white men In the remote region except the tho and trapper at d ri a few flung far posts of the Hudson Bay Day company now how I closing out its prairie lands to farm arm settlers to push Its fur trade into the the tho I II arctic wilderness The Eskimos were filled with wonder by the wireless I They knew it performed r some o kind n of i miracle but t their rl stone f ee age g were e t I unable to grasp even cven vaguely Us its i I method of flashing messages through j I II Ith th the air I The rite h Surveying parties to j jI I Seibert Selbert received news dally laity from fromI Cuba Japan and the Philippines Every I four twenty four hours they checked their time e by the c chronometers at i I lid Md Seibert I t said I they discovered I tv r ar large ic lakes and ard mountains never before seen j I b bv by white men and one magnificent waterfall wat wa wa- t 00 feet wide and sixty feet high on river