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vided but in the oil fields this is un- necefsary, hence township and range lines" were surveys and standard corners were established which serve as reference points to which are tied the numerousq oil locations. The com pleted surveys controlled by the Sew ard Meridian embrace 1,060,6213 acres.
 The Copper River Meridian con trols all of the surveys in the Cop per River valley; Katalla coal and oil fields; Yakataga oil fields, Straw berry Point region north of Icy Straits; Haines and Chilkat valley, and the Stikine River valley. The total area embraced in these sur veys is 215,94746 acres.
 Alaska contains approximately 37S,- 165,760 acres, of which area about 25,000.00 acres are within national forests. Since congress authorized t1iC CAlCdSIOA OI lllC Oidl ot tenn of public land surveys to the Territory approximately 100000 acres have been brought under sur vey and each year additional areas are added. Every effort is made to anticipate the demand for surveys and wherever possible the surveyor proceeds the locator and settler The acreage above stated does not in- clude the areas that have been sur veyed by special metes and bounds surveys such as forest homesteads, trade and manufacturing sites, sol diers' additional homesteads and sim liar claims
 The extension of tbe rectangular system over the Territory is the most important function of the sur veying service but there are many other phases peculiar to the Alaska work which should be mentioned. The homestead laws provide for a free survey of any homestead which may be located outside of the exist ing surveys, hence any claimant who has fulfilled the necessary require ments may obtain a survey of his claim upon application to the local land office. Townsite, native will lages, native allotments, forest home steads, reservation boundaries and national parks are surveyed by the cadastral engineers in the employ of the general land office, and each year considerable time is devoted to this phase of work.
 At the present time there are 8 cadastral engineers and their assist ants working in Alaska One party is surveying the Stikine River valley and Wrangell Narrows district. The second party is working on the west side of Cook Inlet between Iniskin and Chitnaa Bay The third party is working in the Matnanuska coal fields.
 July 1, 1925, the office of surveyor general was consolidated with that of the assistant supervisor of surveys and thereafter there will be one surveying organization under the general land office in Alaska in charge of all surveying activities. This coordination will eliminate much of the duplication that has ex- lsted and will promite efficiency thus saving time and expense for the claimant and the government. The procedure, so far as the rela- tions between the general public and the office of surveyor general are concerned, will not be changed and as in the past all of the records will be in the office of the assistant su- pervisor of surveys in Juneau.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-30
OFFICERS ON CUTTERS
 TAKING EXAMINATIONS

Three officers from the U. s. Cutter Unalga and the commanding officer from the cutter Cygon sta toned at Ketchikan, are taking pro- motional examinations aboard the nalga. The officers on the Unalga taking the examinations are Ensign CID w. Jacobson, Ensign (T) A. J.. Craig and Ensign (T) William Bow man. Ensign (T) E. Desses is com- manding officer of the Cygon.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-30
LINGSTRANG-TERHO

Nina Lingstrange and Frank Ar thur Terho were married at Anchor age last Saturday at high noon by United States Commissioner Wm. Rager. Mrs. Lillie M. Waah and Martin Leckwold were the witnesses at the wedding celebration.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-30
MAY GO TO GERMANY

Wm. Depperman, formerly of An chorage, but recently employed on the Cordova Times as printer left on one of the last boats for Seattle en route east. Later in the year, it is stated, he may take trip across the pond to Germany where he will visit with his mother and father.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-30
DOG TREES GOAT.

Arrivals on the northbound train out of Cordova recently state that a dog treed a goat, which had wan dered down from the mountains, on a sawdust pile. After a lot of man. towering the goat was lassooed by the saWmiu hands and is now held there as a souvenir.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-30
AWARDED CONTRACT

The Healy River Coal Corporation has been awarded contract for the delivery of 5000 tons of coal to the Alaska Railroad.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-30

Splinter-proof glass for spectacles IS now being made that will resist the impact of the discharge from a shotgun without breaking.
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
Dundee Not Through

Johnny Dundee says he has no
thought of retiring from the ring
for another year or two.
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
nHOR77 STUFF O
- FOR ROOTERD

Going into the ninth inning five
runs to the bad, the Giant attack
broke loose with the fury of a
woman scorned, drove in nine runs
and beat the Phillies, II to 8.
Ring, Decatur and Couch were
driven from the premises by the
bombardment, the feature of which
was Wilson's pinch homer with two
on.
Glenn Wright took his place
with Neal Ball and Bill Wambs-
ganss by righting the Cardinals in
the ninth with an unassisted triple
play. He clutched Bottomley's liner,
touched second, doubling Cooncy
and tagged Hornsby coming in-o
the bag. And still the Pirates con-
trived to lose, 10 to 8.
Sisler hit safely in his twenty
second consecutive game, getting
three for good measure, as his
Browns took fall out of the
Tigers, to 5.
Successful drop kicks by Johnson
and Mitchell and Indifferent pitch
ing by Thormahlen staked the
Browns to a 7-to-3 decision over the
Dodgers, Cooney being parsimoni-
Gus in the pinches.
The Indians edged back into a
triple tie for first place by beating
the White Sox, to in spite Of
the fact that Smiths left hand
yielded fourteen hits.
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
ALONZO LIKELY
To RETURN
To NETS

AS a result of the return Of an
old injury to Manuel Alfonso, the
Davis Cup situation in tennis may
be changed bit this year, though
it is not certain as yet just how
much. The broken shoulder OF he
greatest of Spanish players fs the
result of an old injury.
In a letter to a friend, Manuel
calling of fan exhibition date-told
of the return of this injury. Sew
eral years ago, while skiing in
Switzerland, he sustained a broken
shoulder. It was treated and APP
parentIy healed. He has played
for two or three years now without
feeling any affects Of the injury.
But this spring the shoulder be-
gan paining him so badly that ne
went to his physician in Pennsyl-
vania and had the thing X-Raysd.
The plate showed, according to this
doctor. that the Spanish player S
shoulder was bad again.
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
RISK
COUNTS IN
SALARY
Diamond Performers Are En-
titled to All They
Can Get

These baseball salaries sound
shocking to some folks. Brooklyn's
epidemic of holdouts this spring
broadcast the fact that some of the
Robins hurlers are shooting at
$4,000 worth of wages for one
seasons toll.
A royal stipend for about six
months of their time! And when
YOU come to think of 1t, the average
big Lacquer is handsomely reim'
bursed. if you figure it in terms OF
time. in hours per diem and days
per annum.
The average salary in the rig
leagues is in the neighborhood OF
Sc. 600. If you calculate the wage
ner. hour, it makes a nobby num-
eral. :.
And yet, the boys deserve it.
They are not being paid for only
their time. In a local hospital we
have Jnser Joe Hauser, last year
the best run-driver of the Athletics.
and with all signs pointing to ten
or fifteen more years of baseball
wage earning. Joe's future now Is
a doubtful quantity, because OF his
fractured knee-cap. Perhaps his
wage.earning career in baseball il
ended
Earl Combs came to the New
York Yanks last spring as the pick
of the minor leagues the mos'
promising outfielder in the country
He played twenty-four games. and
was sporting a batting average OF
400 when an injury to his leg put
him out for the rest of the season
He started this spring as the var
sity centerfielder of the Yanks
Last Saturday he hurt his leg
again, and is on the sideiines. lie
was a promising outfielder, but in
1uries may blight all the promises
A dozen prominent major leaguers
are on the hospital list at This
moment with injuries more or less
severe.
The boys deserve their money
whatever they get. Every bal
player who plays sincerely is risk
ing his life's athletic career every
moment of every contest. Right
around the corner of the next base
may be the full stop of his wage
earning.
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
GOLF SIMPLIFIED
Rv "Chick" Evans.
CRACK THE WHIP.
Copyright; John Ollie Co.

you want to get quicker rise,
use lots of wrist. There is an
ideal flight for every club and
this means that the correct posi-
ton of the moving or swinging
hands with the wrists breaking
all along the lire will get it.
See that they travel on the
proper curve. This curve or
circle as I like to- call it, can
be made too small, too rounded,
or too Sharp. and crooked shots
are the result.
l favor sending the hands on
a lower curve. This whole idea
is very important to the direc-
ton of the shot. / like the
little more upright swing for
both in the wind and out, for
it gives the best and straightest
flight. A great thing is to
have the clubhead at right
angles to the direction line as
much as you can; never zig-zag
from it. A circular swoop~ gives
you a low ball but / prefer the
more up-and-down motion. You
should always say too that you
should swing the clubhead more.
A good way to get your stroke
back is to go easy for a while.
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
OSBORNE STYLE
IDEAL FOR
RECORD

When George HORNE jumped 9
feet Ga inches in 1912 everybody
said, Tell it to Sweeney" for M.
r. Sweeney had held the previous
worlds record Of feet 55s inches.
Now to suggest that Harold Osborn
would some day jump feet high
people would laugh and say Tell
it to the Marines" or something
equally scornful, for it is hard to
figure high jump of feet as
within the range of human pos
sibilities. But didn't the experts
guffaw loudly when it was sug-
miles under 3 minutes?-and Nurm1
ran the distance in 1858 rs!
Sweeney's mark stood for seven.
teen years. and since Horine's 8
feet 6K inches. Horne officially
Jumped feet z inches, Beeson 8
feet 5-16. and Osborn s feet SA
ana 6 feet 1916. Harold Osborn
is improving right along. He twice
broke the worlds indoor record
last winter, and a jump of 612 feet
is no more to him than a leap OF
6 feet is to ordinary jumpers. He
is still young as far as the life OF
an athlete goes, always keeps in
the best of shape, and is very am
bilious to improve on his best per-
fOrmanceS.
Osborne's style is the ideal one
for a new record. 1t is the ap-
proved Western roll. and perfect
" legal in every way. He runs
from the left side, takes off from
his left foot, and his right foot and
left arm cross the bar first. He
rolls across the bar on his left
side. with his body in a horizonal
position, his left knee bending up
behind his right leg. He lands on
his left foot first. not in an up
right position, but not on his
hands, or back. as some jumpers
do. II any jumper can clear Z
feet, Harold Osborn Is the man to
The Washington times., 1925-05-08

lucky walIop after Travers had led
the way for eight rounds.
Red Chapman, who put Honey
Bov. Finnigan on the floor three
times when they met q year arp,
and who recently won decision
over Johnny Dundee, also discovered
that Trayers could give as well ae
take when they met In Boston, &C
cordtng to Dane. TrayerD easily
earned the decision.
Kid KapIan now generally reccg.
nized as the featherweight cham.
Mon since Dundee has slipped hack.
has met Travers three times In no.
decision bouts, but steadily refused
to meet him for q decision. Travers
earned two newspaper vcrdicts out
of the three.
The Washington times., 1925-05-08

repeatedly given cridit to Joe
Dugan and Aaron Ward for pro-
longing his years with the big
show.
e'~ ''Those two boys he says, have
saved me many a difficult chance.
They are so fast that they are con-
tinually scooping up balls in my
territory and making me look
really better than am.
Scotty was never a star as a
tatsfnan, nor especially fast on the
bases. During his record he is
credited with only fifty-three stolen
bases and has batted for a percent
age of .254.
Paul Wanninger. who has re-
placed Scott in the Yankee. lineup
is a youngster who joined the Hug
gins outfit this spring. Last year
he played with the Augusta, Ga,
team. He is lightning fast but
apparently woefulIy weak at the
hat.
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
THREE PENN CREWS
ARRIVE AT BEANTOWN

BOSTON, May S.-The University
of Pennsylvania crews, varsity,
junior -varity and freshman, ar
rived today for the quadrangular
regatta on the Charles river Satur-
day in which Harvard, Cornell and
Massachusetts, Institute of Technol-
ogy will be the other contestants.
The Cornell crews are expected here
tomorrow.
The eight stroked by Don K.
Irrniger, of Green Bay, Wis, will
represent Pennsylvania in the va
sity event Saturday, rather than
the lighter crew stroked by Jack
Doyle, which lost to Yale on the
Schuylkill river last Saturday.
Trmiger's eight defeated the Yale
Junior varsity in that regatta by
five lengths.
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
<ILMER DENIES HE WILL
SELL RACING STABLE

NEW MARKET, Va, May T.
Willis Sharpe Kilmer, millionaire
race horse owner. has suspended
racing temporarily, his secretary
said today, but he has mo inten-
ton Of retiring from the sport on
account of the death~ of Sunny
Man"
Mr.. Kilmer, who is i'll at his
winter home, Manor Court, author
Jed an emphatic denial, his secre-
tary said, Of reports that his stable
would be sold at auction May %,
at~Belmont Park.
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
M|CKY TRAVERS
IS IRON MAN
IN RING
Mascart, French Champion,
Will Face Tough Customer
Here May 10

Micky Travers, who will meet
Edouard Mascart, the French
featherweight champion of Europe,
in ten-rounder before the Ma
tional CAPITAL Sporting Club at the
.Arditorium May 10, is known as
the Iron Man" in New York pugIL-
.istic circles, according to Matcn-
maker FRANKIE Dane, who returned
from the metropolis last night after
closing this match.
Taking the best that leading
faatherWeights could give him on
the law. Trayers has survived all
lunches with the exception CT one
DANNY Kramer, the hard-nitting
Philadelphia boy, slipped over
The Washington times., 1925-05-08

Scoft Is one Of the NEST modest
ball players that ever .dOuned the
RnifOPm Of . big Lacquer. He has
The Washington times., 1925-05-08

After contact, you should feel
both hands hitting the ball.
With the hands acting as a full
crum you should feel the whip
ping of the clubhead through
the ball. 1t should be hit sharp
" and you can only do that by
Tipping with the wrists. In
hitting crisply do not overdo or
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
EVERETT SCOTT RESENTS
REFLECTION ON HIS
PLAYING ABILITY

FORT WAYNE sEvrett Scott veteran shortstop OF
the Yankees has been West with
Scotty keen this reflection his ability ball
his failures the Yankees
their trip by that ne had
stopped here visit to the old home town and that ne expected 10
re1oin the club later.
Eyes replied Scotty question 81 that Higgins
knows that going home told him.
No Pm not peeved ending that long record OF mine
ceased that months If not well
enough would hesitate ask to be relieved from duty
don't like the idea of being benched and never will Today
Ifaela s1uellas / ever
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
VIRGINIA coNouERs On
sEYENTEEN-INNLNC TILT

NEW YORK, May 8.-Th0 Uni9-
yersity Of Virginia and COlunaoia &
University fought desperate sew
enteen-inning game before the Viz.
ginians were able to score3a victory.
The score was to 4. Holland and :
Fitch. OF Virginia and Columbia
respectively, pitched the entire
game, allowing between them twe1e..
ty-fiVe hits. u
The Washington times., 1925-05-08

81 can understand, why there
might be some cause for pulling
me out If was not doing well.
In, fact, suggested that to Hug
myself when the team was going
bad.
There ID no denying that Scott
has slowed up considerably, during
the last two seasons. He does not
cover the ground that he did In his
hey-dey seasons but the. veteran in
oiSts that the benching came after
Tuesdays creditable : performance
by the Yankees when they were
victors after five consecutive de
feats and to which victory Scott
contributed two hits.
But the fans are interests to-
day in the facts that Scots won
derful record is broken, that he
has been relocated to the bench,
and that he win not be with the
team when they begin their series
with the Browns in st. Louis to-
morrow.
SCOTS record, which under pres
ant baseball conditions, will stand
forever, began on June 20, 1916, in
a. contest against the Yankees when
he.IWaS a member or the BoSton
Red Sox. From that day until yes,
terday. he. was in the hneEup, OF
every game played by his team.
He came from the Red Sox. to the
Yankees in 1922. During these
1897 games he was at bat 4,626
times, made AL runs, 1.176 hits
for LABS total bases, including 165
doubles, fifty triples and eighteen
home runs. For several years he
was rated as the best shortstop in
the league.
A year or two ago Scotty took an
especial pride In this record, bur
after he reached the 1000 mark Re
began to lose interest. Only once
during the early stages of. his rec
ord was ne threatened with ending
1t. Ed Barrow, the manager of
the Red Sox, one day ordered him
20 remain IN bed after Scott hal
undergone the lancing of a severe
aweIiing on his neck Rain that
day stopped the. game and the next
day the veteran was again in har-
EeSs.
Sc0tt Is one Of the most modest
bali players that ever .dOuned the
wnif0Pnl of a big Lacquer. He has
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
GEORGETOWN BALL CLUB
WINS HITTING FEAST

Western Maryland was no match
for the Georgetown University
team, and the Hilltoppers slugged
out a % to 1 victory. They got
16 runs in the seventh inning.
The Washington times., 1925-05-08
Webb Loses Mother

Mrs. r. H. Webb. mother Of
Henry Webb, manager and pitcher
of the Union Printers ball team.
died today at her home, 1900 Four
teenth street.
The Washington times., 1925-07-04
HEARST SAYS NATION NEEDS
CROSS-COUNTRY ROADS

When the Federal Government entered into partnership
States plan of road building mainly for
the purpose of securing several great transconnenta high
ways which trunk lines for traffic from the
liant to tho poo
The Washington times., 1925-07-04


BOSTON, July 4-Between twenty-five and seventy
five men and women crushed death and fifty injured
was the police estimate Of the terrible toll taken early
day when the building housing the Pckwick Night Club
II Beach street. IN the heart Of the downtown business
district, collapsed with roar that shook the city.
For hours after the building toped carrying with i
cargo Of dead and dying, agonzed hres and means Of
men and imprisoned a the ruins rent the arr
EIGHT hours 0f frantic work ~ kirennen and poles
brought sixteen bodies from the debris.
AT noontime As fireen and police volunteer
worked feverishy the ruins Of the crumbled building
estimates Of the death toll varied.
80 DANCING AS DEATH COMES
AT least $50 persons the dance floor, the
second floor Of the building when without warning, the
fifth top floor crumped carrying with il tons of stone,
plaster and brick the debris crashing down on the heads
Of the merrymakers
Weakened BY recent fre and an excavation for
garage dug side and shaken by crackers
off inside by Fourth celebrators, the
big structure crumpled as cardboard.
Most of the Victims dancing merrly around the floor
to the strains of lively jazz onestep, trapped like
in cage They made mad dash for the stairway
exits only find the staircasings The crush from
behind many hurting the basement to their deaths
WOMEN LEAP FOR LIVES.
Some of the shriekng and women leaped for their
lives windows the Beach street side OF the build
ing and painfully injured.
Police from station No. a the La Grange street
station rushed to the Emergency calls were
sent in for DOCTORS nurses aInbuances and priests
Firemen rushed the fallen structure and f1sed their
lives again and again bringing the dead and dying from
the mass of ruins Of the crumpled building.
Priests from churches nearby also risked their lives TO
admnster the last rites the dying by crawling twenty
five feet through tunnels of plaster and brick: to reach
the side of the stricken before death ended tner
The Washington times., 1925-07-04
D. c. YOUTH
DEAD IN
CRASH
Graham Mackall's Motorcycle
Hits Bus at ReisterstoWn,
Md.En Route to Races

Graham MacRalI nineteen rs
old, Of 1866 Eleventh street north
west, was almost instantly killed
early today on the road near
.Reisterstown, Nd, when the
motorcycle he was riding crashed
head-on, with a bus from Union
town, Pa.
Police at Pikesville, Nd, ten
miles from Reisterstown, who took
charge of the case, place the time
of the accident at 8 o'clock. They
hold the theory that young
Mackall, seeing the lights of the
bus coming toward him, thought
it a motor car of ordinary size,
and consequently did not attempt
to give the big vehicle more room.
On Way to Races.
His motorcycle, travelling at a
fairly high speed, ran with terrific
impact into the left-hand side of
the big machine. Mackall was
thrown into the air and fell clear
of the wreckage.
Another Washington man, Thorn.
as Reed, of 1898 Sherman avenue
northwest, and two Baltimore COM
panions OF Mackall, all on motor
cycles, identified Mackall as one
Of the party of four that had
started gaily from Baltimore a
short time before. en- route to the
races at Altoona, Pa. Mackall left
his Washington home last night at
8 o'clock.
A physician living near the place
where the accident occurred pro-
nounced Mackall dead.
Before dawn an inquest was held
and the accident was declared un.
avoidable. A Baltimore unjertak.
ing establishment removed the
body to that city, pending further
arrangements by the dead mans
family.
Mackall was unmarried. He lived
with elder members of his family,
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column ~
The Washington times., 1925-07-04

avenues OF transportation, is OBJ
Vlous, but they would have an
other economic value quite as
important.
AT present thousands upon
thousands Of our people go abroad
every year. They work with Gus
tOmary American efficiency for
nine months in this country and
then take the well-earned reward
or their work abroad and spend
large part of it.
How much better it would be
for the country if those millions
upon millions of dollars were
spent here in America instead of
In Junkets abroad.
IL trips abroad are more attrac-
tractiVe, our people have a right
to take them and to spend their
money in taking them, but Eu-
rope Is not as wonderful as our
country and the opportunities for
enjoyent in Europe are not as
great as they are in our own
country
II the means of reaching he at
fractions of our own country
were made better with great paved
highways extending from coast to
coast and as perfect in construc-
ton as the California concrete
roads ii would read countless
thousands of our people to take
delightful automobile trips across
their own country and bee wonders
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