Last week there passed through Whitehorse enroute to Dawson from the outside a man named W. H. Jarman, whose inventive genius has proved a wonderful help to the allied cause in the European war. The only recompense he asked from the British government for the use of the device he had thought out was that if it proved it would do what he claimed, it should be manufactured by the government and named after him. Hence it is that
the "Jarman Listener," for the purpose of detecting air craft, and especially of Zeppelins, from a distance of approximately fifty miles is now being used successfully by the Allies on the Western battle front.
Jarman is a Klondike sourdough of the baking of '98 and is interested in claims 19 and 20, Eldorado creek, to which he is now returning to do development work. A year ago he passed through here with the model of his invention which he proposed to take to England to submit to the war office. He got no further than Vancouver, however, for when he reached there and made known his desire the Canadian authorities took the matter up and pushed it through with such expedition that the "Jarman Listener" is now manufactured in large quantities in England and is being used extensively not alone along the battle front but elsewhere within the war zone.
Mrs. Jarman accompanied her husband on his return to Dawson.
