A BIG GOLD BRICK i
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The Trap That Jcrnegan Baited
With Salt Sea Water.
SCHEME CF A CLEVER RCGUE.
The Smooth Swindler and His Accom
plice Snowed How Easily They Could
Extract Gold From the Ocean—Fleoc
ed Their Dupes and Then Decamped.
Various inventors have been working
for years on the theory that there is
plenty of gold in sea water if only
jsouie process of extraction could be de
veloped*.
Some years ago the Itev. Prescott J.
Jernegan was the salt water wizard of
the hour. From the day his bubble
burst and he left for Europe nobody ;
seems to know what has become of
him. Jernegan. who posed as a clergy- j
man. and l\ E. Fisher, once a floor
walker in a New York department I
store and before that a diver, got to
gether in the fall of 1S96 and for a
whole year carefully considered the;
problem of extracting gold from salt
water. It is true, their whole field of
thought com passed the use of salt wa
ter as an accessory only, the real ma- ;
terial from which the gold was to be
extracted being the American people.
Very artistically Jernegan, to whom
was left the matter of publicity, per- j
mitted some vague rumors to leak out. |
•*A leading clergyman had a marvel
ous money making device. The world j
was soon to be stunned by a fact that !
would make the possessor of the orig- j
Inal secret so rich that all the multi- !
millionaires would be paupers in com !
parison.” When they had stirred up
public curiosity Jernegan and Fisher
went to New England and there set up
some mysterious machinery.
On Narragansett bay was an old half
dismantled wharf, and at the sea end ;
of this the two erected a cheap frame j
shanty about 8 by 10 in size, with a
square hole cut through the floor aud ;
looking directly down into about fifteen j
feet of water. An electric wire from j
a small battery was run along the pii- «
lug of the wharf and attached to a
mysterious box, with heavy iron j
clamps and holes all through to per
mit of free passage of the water back
and forth.
Finally the groat secret was divulged.
These two men had discovered a way
of taking all the g<dd they wanted from
the salt water at a cast so trifling
that it was ridiculous to mention it.
Two wealthy persons, one a Provi
dence jeweler and the other a New
York florist, were approached by Jer
negan with what seemed to be such
a trustful and childlike proi>osal that
, they both embraced it eagerly. It was
that, all his apparatus being ready for
experiment, they would come to the
shanty on the wharf prepared to go
through a night’s vigil and witness the
result, accompanied by any scientific
friends they cared to bring along.
The idea, as outlined by Jernegan.
was to send a current into a pan of
mercury held within the box, the recep
tacle then being sent to the bottom of
the sea and drawn up after several
hours, wheu it would be found that
the mercury had absorbed gold from
the ocean.
When the night of the experiment
came the box was prepared in tin
shanty, two chemists, friends of the
capitalists, bringing their own mercury
with them. The box was lowered to
the bottom, and then the party of five
began their wait. Soon after daylight
Jernegan announced that it was time
In the District Court for the Territory of
Alaska. Third Division.
In the matter of the chantre of name of Ole
incompliance with an order issued out of the
above-named Court on the ninth day of
August. 1913. in the above-entitled matter.
Notice is hereby given that the abovemamed
applicant. Ole Hoole. has applied to the said
Court for an order changing his name to Oliver
Hawley, This matter will be brought up for
hearing in the abovenamed Court at v aldez.
Alaska, on the first day of November. 1913. or
as soon thereafter as the Court will hear the
same; and all persons on or before the said
date of hearing, to-wit, November 1. 1918.
shall offer and show cause. If they have any,
why the order applied for changing 2he name
of applicant shall not be granted.
ANTHONY J. DIMOND.
Attorney for Applicant,
First publication, Sept 6,19.3.
Last publication. Oct 19. 1913.
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to draw tne box up again. This was
done, and the whole party eagerly set
to work to find out whether any gold
had been received. When the chemists
announced that gold to the value of
$14 was found mixed with the quick
silver all were stunned by the discov
ery and realized at once the vast ipos
sibilities in more extensive operations,
the original experiment having been
practically made with a toy apparatus.
The story spread like wildfire, and
the modest Jernegan was prevailed
upon to organize a company. Stock ;
was sold, and after getting possession
of thousands of dollars the promoter
sailed away to Europe. The success of j
the great experiment was explained ,
afterward. Fisher, the diver, had gone I
out from the shore in his diving suit, j
opened the box and. taking out the j
mercury that had been brought by the j
chemists, substituted a vial of his own j
that had been strongly impregnated j
with gold.
Hoth before and since the Jernegan |
fraud many attempts have been made :
to extract gold from salt water, some j
of them fraudulent, some genuine and
bused on scientific grounds that have
from time to time appealed even to |
deep students. But all so far have !
failed dismally. Though traces of gold
are to be found in salt water, com
mercial application is practically im
possible.—New York Press.
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A Constant Sufferer.
“Is your mother a suffragette. Rob-1
ert ?”
“Yep. she’s always suffering. If it
ain't with her shoos or her corset it’s
because somebody that owes her an
invitation had a party and didn’t ask
her to it.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
The Root of All Evil.
As a general tiling when a man and
his wife fall out over money it is a
sign that he lias it and she wants it, or
she has it and he wants it. or neither
has it and both want it.—6alvestou
.News.
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