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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-18

the ship and elevated it into the air.
There was not a breath of wind at
the time.
For six hours the log Of the Brush
shows the vessel wallowt- in swells
equal TO those of Cape Horn.
The ship was driven miles off her
course.
Captain Mitchell has sent the facts
to the government officials for an ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomenon and to
discover il any earthquake might have
been responsible.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-18
DAYTON PILOTS
ESTABLISH NEW
FLYING RECORD
Stay in Air Over 36 Hours,
Travelling 254l
Miles.
BREAK FRENCH MARK
Nonstop Flight From New
York to San Diego
Planned.
BREAK FRENCH MARK
BY the Associated Press.


Dayton, Ohio, April 1S.-Visitors in
their gruelling test to establish n new
worlds endurance record for sustained
flying, Lieutenants John A. MacReady
and Oakley Kelly, army aviators, to-
day are recovering from exhaustion re-
sulting fran alternately plotting the
Fokker monoplane To over a 90
kilometer course for SO hours, five
minutes and twenty seconds.
The former record, held by French
men, Pilots Bossoutrot and Brouhin,
was 81 hours nineteen minutes and "a
seconds. Lieutenants MacReady and
Kelly bested this record last fall while
flying over San Diego, Cal, blu. the
record was never certified by the Fed
Grafton Aeronautique Internationale.
Covers 254f Miles.
The record-breaking flight started
Monday at 8 :3S a. m.
Slipping out of the night into the
glare of searchlights on Wilbur
Wright Field, Lieutenant MacI. eady
landed the huge ship at o :43 o'clock
last night after having covered 2541.2
miles, setting new distance record.
The former record of 2060 miles. held
by MacReady and Kelly, was made on
their cross country flight from San
Diego to indianapolis last fall.
Four other records were established
during the flight and during yester-
day.
Other records made by MacReady
and Kelly:
$500 kilometers, 81 hours, 81 min
utes. 3 seconds.
5000 kilometers, 26 hours, 1 minute,
80 seconds.
$500 kilometers, 30 hours, % min
utes, 51.4 seconds.
1000 kilometers, 35 hours, g min
utes, 3S.4 seconds.
The respective miles per hour aver
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-18
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE

Beginning Monday. March 26th. the
Buick Bus Line will leave the Lanier
Hotel a. m. and 1 40 p. m. for
Boerne, Comfort and Kerrville. Leaves
for Seguin and Gonzales at l 40 p.
m. Residence phone Mission $50
(Ady.D
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-18
LONE STAR" HANS, SLAYER
OF 28, NEVER BEATEN AT
DRAW, DIES WITH BOOTS ON
Gray-haired Old Man Who Investigated Custer Mas
sacre and Saw Sitting Bull Die Is Crushed to
Death in Elevator Shaft-Once Saved Twenty
Prospectors by Shooting Five Indians.

vestigator Of the Custer massacre, and
followed Sitting Bull 600 miles on
horseback, inducing him and his band
to return to the reservation.
At Sitting Bulls Death.
Was present at Sitting Bulls death.
Was chief scoutmaster for Gen. Phil
Sheridan for six years.
Was chief special agent for the
Northwestern railroad for four years.
In all, Hans was credited with hav-
ing killed eight white men and twenty
Indians.
Il was never beaten on the draw, Z"
he often declared.
Until a month ago, Hans wore n
scalp lock eighteen inches long, which
he kept under a skull cap as he sat
around in the Herald editorial rooms
at night, often displaying his skill
with his two guns to reporters and
visitors.
Screen Doors, Frames, Wire, Hard
ware Fixtures and Paint. ED
STEVES & SONS. Lumber ant
Building Store, 10 Z. Commerce st.
Phone Crockett 167. (Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-18
Yoal1um PRINCIPAL Reelected.

Yoakum, Tex, April IS. - Prof.
Daniel Smith, for the past several
years principal of the Yoakum public
schools, has been reelected to the
same position for another term.
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21

Seligman on the west, south to Phoe-
nix and north to the Grand Canvon.
including small branch connection.
graduate of high school; membership
IN the following, American Railway
Association, Member Winslow lodge
number 13 A. F. & A. NJ, member of
Los Angeles consistory, member of
Al Malikiah shrine of Los Angeles.
superintendent McCully said.
The Albuquerque Division is prin-
clpally an operating section of the
Santa Fe and as a revenue producer
IS not recognized to any particular
extent The cattle industry is of
cou1 Sc the principal factor of revenue
while the Salt River Valley contri-
butes to some extent The coal and COP
per mines are important in a way but
just now cannot be considered in the
same catalogue with the important
agricultural and oil producing sec
t1ons. Cur development must come
from possible irrigation projects, sew
eral of which are now under consider
alton. The possibility of developing
Oil is not so remote as some of us
may believe, and 1 expect to live
until most of this country will be
under irrigation and at least some Of
it producing oil"
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21
Biography of Master Mechanic

W. ID. Hitchcock, Master Mechanic
at Winslow; Born at Woolwich, En-
gland; with Santa Fe thirty-three
years; entered service January 1890
at Ration, N. NJ, promoted to Round
house foreman San Marcial, N. M,
1894; promoted to Division foreman,
San Marcial 1899; transferred to San
BernardinO as Round house foreman
1917; transferred to Winslow Arizona,
as Master Mechanic Dec 1st 1917:
formerly worked with Iowa Central
Railway at Marshall Town Iowa serv-
ed apprenticeship on this line; per-
sonnel of office: Jas. Kiely, General
Foreman; G. r. Miller Division Fore
man; A. D. Griffith, Division Fore
man; P. B. Remington, Division
Foreman; E. Nelson Chief Engineer;
H. W. Wall, Division Foreman; Chas.
Raitt, Asst. Master Mechanic; P. J.
Maloney Road Foreman of Engines,
First District; VIM. Daze, Road Fore
man Engines End District; w. G,
Cooper, Road Foreman of Engines.
3rd District; Geo. w. Walker Road
Foreman of Engines, 4th District; Is
graduate of High School, Oskaloosa
Iowa; Member of I. o. 0. F. and B.
P. o. E.
Mr.. Hitchcock said: From reve-
nue. standpoint the Albuquerque divi-
sion transverses the poorest section
OF the state of Arizona, and it could
be benefited a great deal by the open
ing of an irrigation project or the
development Of oil and coal
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
s. COAST LINES :: ALBUQUERQUE DIVISION 4

easy access to California. This dis
trict is one hundred ninety four miles
in length and rises from elevation
five thousand one hundred and thirty
feet at Ash Fork to an elevation of six
thousand one hundred thirty eight
feet a few miles south of Prescott,
then falling to an elevation of eleven
hundred and twenty feet at Phoenix.
The Crown King, Clarkdale and
Grand Canyon Branches are on heavy
grades through very moutainous
country and total over one hundred
and sixty miles between them. They
serve the Crown King and Clarkda1e-
Jerome Copper Districts and the
Grand Canyon Railway makes the
Grand Canyon of Arizona the most
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21
SANTA FE MECHANICAL PLANT AT wINsLow

of such petrifying qualities that trees
were turned to stone.
"The Painted Desert-These bad
lands were named by the Spaniards.
They are painted in a profusion of
colors here a patch, ten, twenty, per-
haps fifty miles in diameter, of white;
next to it an area equally large of
black; and here, there, everywhere,
patches of blue, red, green, orange,
madder, lake, violet, yellow, pink
every color known to man. 1t re
sembles an artists, palette, daubed
with paint. 1t has been fancifully
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21

tions in the way Of lodging, meals,
and modern conveniences.
"Petrified Forest-The Petrified For
est, another of natures wonders, is
also reached by the Santa Fe and is
best described as a forest gone to
sleep. Thousands of trees, the petri-
fed remains of the Norfolk Island
Pine, now extinct, and which grew
sometimes to height of $50 feet and
II or more feet in diameter, have
actually turned ito flint like stones
through some peculiar freak of ma
ture. Science, by the most accepted
theory, claims that at some pre-his-
toric time that this section of Arizona
was under water for many years,
covering the vast forest with water
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21

albuquerque Division, Coast Lines,
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe; Born
in state of wisconsin; employed
by Santa Fe for twenty-three years,
entering service as trick" dispatcher
at Winslow; has served successfully
as night chief, day chief, trainmaster
and in present capacity as superin-
tendent, coming to the Albuquerque
Division on the death of Mr.. Matthie
on November, 26th 1921 has head
quarters at Winslow having jurisdic-
ton over the Santa Fe Coast Lines
from Albuquerque on the east to
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21

hundred forty-three mile length. On
this district the grades and curves are
heavy making the use of large and
powerful locomotives necessary.
The fourth District of the Albu-
querque Division extends from Ash
Fork to Phoenix, running through
Prescott and connects at Drake and
P. & E. Junction with branches to
two of Arizona's richest copper min
ing districts and also connects near
Wiokenburg with the California and
Arizona Railway which gives the
southern part of Arizona quick and
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21

additional double track is now near
ing completion on this district at a
cost of one million dollars.
The second District from Gallup,
New Mexico runs one hundred and
twenty six miles down the Little Colo
rado River and it's treacherous tribu-
tary, the Rio Puerco of the west, to
Winslow, Arizona, total drop of six
teen hundred forty five feet.
The third operating District lies
between Winslow and Seligman, Ari-
zona, crossing the Arizona Divide at
an elevation Of seventy three fifty
five feet passing close to the San
Francisco Peaks and through Ari-
zona's forests of pine. This district
is double tracked throughout it's one
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21
Railroads Earning 5.649o on Their
Valuation

Figures received by the Atchison
Topeka &c Santa Fe Railway here
from the Railway Age" on earnings
of Glass l railroads, show that the
net operating income of these roads
for first six months of 1923 has been
at the annual rate of 5.649o on their
tentative valuation which is a larger
net return than for some years.
"The total earnings of the Glass 1
railways in first six months of 1923
were $3O96, ,922,738," says the Railway
Age. This was much more than
they ever earned in any six months
before the war. But their operating
expenses and taxes in these months
were $2,605 ,205,3 This was over
$40 of what they earned. In other
periods it cost them more than "a
cents in operating expenses and taxes
to earn each dollar that the public
paid them.
"In the first six months of 1922 it
cost them 85.2 cents and in these
months of 1921, 1872 cents in expen-
Ses and taxes, to earn each dollar the
public paid them. The showing made
in the first half of 1923 was better
than in the first half of 1922 or 1921
ways only rs cents in expenses and
taxes to earn each dollar they re-
ceived. The railways are very far
from having restored the pre-war re-
1atiOnship between earnings, expenses
and taxes.
after having paid expenses and
taxes and also equipment and joint
facility rentals the railways have left
what is called net operating income.
They can use this to pay interest and
dividends. The net operating income
earned by the Class l roads in the
first six months of the year was at
the annual rate of 564%o on their
tentative valuation. In actual figures
it was $443,86406 and was 14.3%
of the total earnings
"The railways are doing better than
for some years, but the ratio of their
operating expenses and taxes to their
total earnings is still much too high
1t still costs them so much to earn
a dollar that even with present rates
a substantial decline of total earnings
due to a business depression would
soon make the margin between earn
ings and expenses and taxes danger
ously small
'The transportation industry needs
a reduction in the number of cents
that it costs to earn a dollar. In the
long run this must and will be secur-
ed by increased efficiency of operation
and other means. No substantial re-
duction of rates can be hoped for
until then"
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21

called Natures palette, on which the
Great Artist mixes the colors where
with He paints the sunset, the sea,
storm and rainbow.
Indian Tribes-Another important
feature for the tourist or newcomer
to see are the rapidly diminishing
tribes of Indians on their native
grounds or Reservations. These in
clude the Navajos, the Lagunas, the
Isletas, the Apaches, the Hopis, and
others. Some tribes make pottery
others blankets, others beaten silver
products, and still others basketry
and grass plaques.
Biography of Superintendent
James D. McCully, Superintendent
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21
Description of Operating Districts

The first district of the AIbuuuer-
que division extends from AIbuquer-
que to Gallup, New Mexico, through
semi-arid mountainous plateaus rising
to the continental Divide at an eleva-
tion of seven thousand two hundred
fifty two feet, and includes eighty
four miles of the single track and
sixty three miles of double track on.
grades not exceeding rises of thirty
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21
accessible of all the great National
Parks.
Points of Interest to Be Reached
hY Santa FR

Grand Canyon-The Grand Canyon
of Arizona, "a miles north of Williams,
Arizona, and Santa Fe all the way,
is one of the scenic wonders of the
world 1t is a huge chasm five miles
wide and a mile deep, painted in
natures colors of many hues. The
wonderful Ell Tovar Hotel of the Fred
Harvey System located on the rim of
the Canyon offers ample accommoda-
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21
Personnel:

The personnel of the Albuquerque
Division, Coast Lines, of the Atchison
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is as
follows: J. D. McCully, Superinten-
dent; A. F. Hunt, Assistant Super
intendent; o. L. Gray, Chief Clerk to
Superintendent; o. W. Schleuter,
Train Master; V. H. Wilson; Train
Master F. B. Grim, Train Master; R.
C. Kline. Division Engineer; W. L.
Clarke, Transportation Inspector; c.
e. Machen, Chief Dispatcher; W. E.
Enright Chief Dispatcher; G. H.
Cumming, Chief Dispatcher; H. C,
Kabelin, Division Accountant; G. o.
Hixon, Division Store Keeper; w. B.
Darling, Assistant Engineer; V. G.
Proctor, General Foreman Bridging
and Building of Water Service Depart
ment; w. F. Martens, Assistant Gen
eral Foreman Bridging and Building
of Water Service Department; w. d.
Hitchcock, Master Mechanic; James
Kiley, General Foreman; Lee Pear
son, General Road Foreman of En-
gineers; VIM. Daze, Road Foreman
of Engineers; w. G. Cooper, Road
Foreman of Engineers; and P. j.
Maloney, Road Foreman of Engines.
Physical Survey Albuquerque Division
That portion of the Atchison Tope-
ka and Santa Fe Railway Company's
Coast Lines, known as the Albuquer-
que Division, actually begins at the
Pueblo Indian Village of Isleta, thir-
teen miles south of Albuquerque.
The main track for this line runs
in Western direction for fourteen
miles climbing to Dalies at the sum-
nit of the divide between the Rio
Grande and the Rio PuercO of the
East, on a maximum grade of 528
feet to the mile, thence downward s
miles to the Rio Puerco from which
point the road climbs steadily to the
summit of the Rocky Mountain Range
known as Continental Divide, at
Gonzales, to an altitude of 1852 feet
above sea level, and 1873 miles west
of Albuquerque.
Gallup is the first freight division
point 158 miles west of Albuquerque
and at an altitude of $500 feet Gal
lup is a coal mining town of about
5000 population.
The main line extends west from
Gallup 12S miles to Winslow, town
of 1000 population, and the Albu
querque Division headquarters is
situated here, in the Little Colorado
River Valley at the lowest point on
the Albuquerque Division being at an
altitude of 4,855 feet.
From Winslow to Seligman, the
west end of the Division, is distance
of 142 miles over mountainous ter
ritory which supplies variety of
scenery.
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21
Districts In Albuqueroue Division

The first District of trackage COM
prises 83.6 miles of single track, rul-
ing grade 31.7 feet per mile; 625
miles double track, ruling grade 31.7
feet per mile. The second District
comprises 1882 miles of single track,
ruling grade 31.7 feet per mile. The
third District comprises 142 miles of
double track, ruling grade rs feet per
mile. The G.. G. Railway comprises
63.8 miles of single track, ruling
grade 100 feet per mile. The fourth
District comprises 1914 miles of single
track, ruling grade 1872 feet per mile
The Clarkdale branch comprises SO
miles of single track, ruling grade
1872 feet per mile The Crown King
branch comprises 54 miles of single
track, ruling grade SO feet per mile
The Poland District comprises 10
miles of single track, ruling grade
211.2 feet per mile.
The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21
Description Albuquerque Division

Description Albuquerque Division
The albuquerque Division of the
Santa Fe covers a great deal of ter
ritory being one of the largest divis-
ions of the system and including
within its limits the grades necessary
to cross the great Arizona divide and
the Continental Divide at elevations
over seven thousand feet above sea
level The division includes four
hundred forty miles of main track of
which one hundred and ninety six
miles is double track, with more
double track being completed each
year. 1t also includes the branch
tracks from Ash Fork to Phoenix, to
Crown King, to Clarkdale, and to the
Grand Canyon, tapping Arizona's
greatest mineral and agricultural
districts and the worlds greatest
natural wonder. The total distance
operated is more than one thousand
miles of track, not including sidings,
the greater part of which is in noun
famous territory over five thousand
feet above sea level, subject to vigor-
Gus winters and hot summers which
include period of sixty days when
cloud bursts are an every day occur
renee at some point on the division
making maintenance and operating
conditions difficult and varied
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-23
ALIEN BILL AGAIN
Idaho House Would Exclude
Japs From Land.

Idaho's house of representatives
of the Seventeenth Legislature
Feb. 18th passed, with only six
dissenting votes, an allen land
ownership law. The bill also pro-
vides that certain classes of aliens
may not lease lands after Decem-
Der 3I,1927.
While there is no direct refer
ence made to Japanese in the bill,
Gillis of Twin Falls county. wl-o
explained the measure, admitted
that it was an anti Japanese bill
intended to prevent them from ac-
quiring agricultural lands in Idaho.
The proposed law only. effects
agricultural lands because of a
treaty existing between the United
States and Japan whereby subjects
of either country may take, hold,
possess or dispose of property for
commercial purposes or for resi-
dences. Violations of the law
require any property involved to
escheat to the state for school
purposes.
Objection to the bill came from
the sections of the state where
sugar beets are grown.
After Gillis had explained the
various sections OF the bill; who
would be affected, the restrictions
placed on alien ownership and the
application of the law to all posi-
BILE cases, Congdon of Ada county
and four others took the floor and
opposed the measure as being out
of the Jurisdiction Of the state.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-23
taxes collected March /.
SPIRIT LAKE

The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Crocker was destroyed by fire thought
to have been caused by defective
tiue. All the contents were removed
while the roof was burning. Tht
house was insured for $1,000 which
nearly covers the loss.
The high school boys basket ball
team defeated team from GonzaRa
and lost to Hlllyard. The girls won
from Lacede in a return game.
The school board is 10 the market
for $50 cords of seasoned tamarac and
red fir wood.
P. G. Neill, deputy collector Of
internal revenue, was in Spirit Lake
this week.
The Herald states that it is under
stood that the Hayden Lake highway
commissioners notified the Spirit
Lake district "that there is nothing
doing on plowing out the road and
gave orders to stay off," The high
way, which is US ri by the Spirit Lake
stage, was blocked with snow iG last
weeks storm.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-23
FROM OVER TIE COUNTY
VALLEY CENTER.
speclal Correspondence.

+ Special Correspondence
Mrs Somerville is visiting in Spo-
kane.
The Valley truck broke the road
through TO Ross station Tuesday.
II. d. Bnynton has been on the sick
list the past week
Christ Troutman received two ship
ments of White Holland turkeys.
seven hens and one tom, from North
Dakota.
The weather and roads were so bad
last week that the mail carrier en-
route No. made only one trip.
Miss Mona SALMON received tele-
gram Thursday informing her of the
death of her sister. She left on the
afternoon train for her. home in
Poison, Mont.
On account of the bad roads there
was no farmers union meeting last
Friday. 1t is understood that the
same refreshment committee Will act
at the next regular meeting.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-23
HOW SENATE VOTED
On Primary Bill Nov Up to
Governor.

House bill 40, the republican
direct primary measure, was passe d
by the Idaho senate. Feb. IA by a
vote of "A to 20. The roll call on
the measureewas as follows:
Ayes-Albrethsen, Amonson,
Brown, Clapp, Clark (Custer),
Clark (Elmore), Crooks, Disney,
Eames, Evans, Graham, Harris,
Jones (Idaho), Keith, Kirkpatrick,
Pike, Reed, Rehberg, Rigney,
Severson, Sonner, Transtrum, Van
Hoesen, Wurtz.
Nays = Archibald, Boughton,
Callahan, Coffin, Cowles, HALEY,
Huffman, Jones (Bannock), Lau.
Lewis, Means, McMurray, Pollard,
Stanger, Sutcliffe, Sutphen,
Thomas. Vaillancourt, Whitten,
Wood.
Thirteen democratic, seven re-
publican and four progressive
senators voted for the bill, and
Pollard, democrat, and Huffman,
progressive, stood with the is
administration republicans in op-
posing it.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-23
POST FALLS

The storm last week was the worst
and most demoraIziDg storm this
locality has seen.
Frank Lowe, an employe of the
Great Northern and a resident of
Post Falls, died Feb. 10. He was
4S years old and leaves a widow. The
funeral was held Wednesday of last
week.
Over so persons attended the boy
scout banquet.
A. j. Snanks is trimming UP the
pine trees and otherwise beautifying
his l2-acre park.
The town board has ordered dog
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-23
HARRISON

The Red Collar line discontinued
boat service until the cold spell was
over at the upper end of the lake.
The Temperature went to ten below
zero Tuesday of lasSa Saweek.
The Export hoteE has reopened.
Fred Herrick, Ez1 Goodwin and Eli
Laird with their cougar dogs left last
week for cougar hunt up on the
Enayille branch.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-23
wORLErY

The storm the. first Of last week
was one Of the worst in years. Busi-
ness was at standStin.
Henry Jones came home fro u
Granite with hand badly hurt on a
cr0sscut saw.
Only two students iu the Worley
high school last week.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-02-23
cEUR D~ALENE

Twenty men with shovels got the
Apple way open to Spokane Monday
night after it had been blocked With
snow drifts about a4 week.
A total of $76'.y has beer raised 10
occur dAlene recently for the Near
East relief.
Inc 'Iflding owned by the CoeuI
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