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Sandy Goes in Bathing Swims Beyond Her Strength Be-
j. comes Frightened and Is Rescued by the Intrepid
- Ramon Worth in the Nick of Time.

: nels, and with a lei of flaming
blossoms about his neck he look
ed summary and athletic and fes-
tive.
Moments passed. She didn't
answer. Finally she raised her
eyes directly to his. No, I'm not
glad to be going home.
Instantly her cheeks were scar
let. "Oh. / think I'll go and see
that Isabella is comfortable.
She felt unnerved and childish
AID half snothered with her emo
tons His words made graphic
her return.
Mrs. Mcneil was sitting in her
berth. Flowers We're scattered on
the floor, their bright petals
crushed. Its so warm, Sandy.
Well. its be nice to see them all
again. / suppose Ben will bring
the car UP to take us back. Do
YOU suppose Alice will be with
him? The trip would do her good.
Poor girl! she doesn't get much
pleasure In life, does she2 How
she would have enjoyed the isl
andsr'
Mrs. Mcneil was very glib In
absorbing phrases that struck
her as sounding aristocratic. She
now sighed. Il thought, Sandy,
that if Alice Is along, you might
Introduce her to that nice young
man What's this his name is? Mr..
Work 2?
sandy laughed: worth, moth
err. So you think Alice might
catch him ~
Wen. why not? I'm sure Alice
would make q fine wife for any
man. Shed soon lose her sour
ness If she got nice, kind nus
band
This was one of Mrs. McNeil's
NET questions. She never gave
IN the idea that Alice would yet
find her mate and settle down as
every woman should. Every eligi-
bic man that came to her ac-
uuaintance was Immediately ap-
praised as q. possible husband for
the unclaimed Alice.
she would say: IL she'd only
learn little tact. Sandy, 1 wish
you'd suggest to her not to make
so many grimaces. IL shed just
be natural and quiet, I'm sure
she'd win out.
She now asked: isn't he about
her age2 And he certainly must
have some money. All Alice
needs is a little attention"
"And that would turn her from
an adder ITO a turtle dove, would
it, mother? I'll speak to Ramon
about It. He'll be delighted, I'm
certain. Men adore to have their
conquests staged for them.
.'Sandy-you won't m e n o n
such thing! 1t wouldn't be
unlike you! You WON'T"
Sandy was washing her hands
at the small basin. She said alb
sentIy: There's five days before
we need to bother about Alice,
mother
She chung to the thought OF
these five days. Her magma
ton prolonged the moments into
hours. weeks. years. Five days
yet-the two words became
paean. Five days of freedom
sweetness-joy.
Why should she darken them
with forebodings? What had she
to fear? Her problem was sattled.
Yet the mere mention of home
disquieted her; filled her with
uneasy breads.
Five Days of Joy
She stood on the upper deck.
A moon, saffron -hued, drew
glimmering wells across the
water. In it's light the phos-
phorus showed in pools-flashing
like opals living in the waves.
It was after midnight--quiet
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1t is true many other women
have reached the place where
they have thought death might
make the man they loved sorry
and haunt him, but thank good
ness they snapped out of it and
lived 10 laugh at him!
Suicide doesn't bother the man
who wants TO get rid of you. l.
removes you forever from worry
ing him further, and instead of be.
ing sorry when he reads of what
you have done, he is apt to be
only little sore and dispose OF the
unpleasant incident by denying
that he ever knew, you very well
or even thought Of marrying you.
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NOu Go on Nth the Story

ward, diving brightly down again
to the deep sapphire sea.
Did you ever see water so
thrillingly blue?''
AT Carmel, sometimes. Have
you ever been there, Sandy?
No
Then you shall come and pay
Il thought you lived in San
Francisco
II do. But I've a little place
off Monterey perched on a rock
above the finest bit of ocean in
the world. I'd like. to show you
the place. Sandy. When you get
home, perhaps you might take q
trip up 10 see me-"
Il don't know exactly what I'm
going to do when get home.
you're not glad to be going
home. are your He glanced at
her with laughing eyes. winning
and sober. He wore white flan-
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BY Elenore Meherin,
Author of @Chickie," ANN"
"Ann and PhiH' and
Mora Lee
CHAPTER 81

CHAPTER 81
CANDY half covered her face in
- the blue hydrangeas that
went in a garland from her neck
to her kneeshydrangeas and
pink roses. She was covered
with flowers. Their perfume
thrilled yet saddened her. She
said, with a wistful gladness:
How could you get away,
Ramon?
Il could have left two weeks
ago, Sandy /"
Il wonder how you got
passage. .
I'm here
She smiled. So he added. You
know I'm here because you are,
don't you?
Il begin to have a faint sus-
picion of it. ;"
Someone was singing Aloha.
Throwing flowers at a departing
guest. Laughter and the stream
ing, fragrant sunshine. Passengers
so brilliant with the tropic bios
SONS hanging from their should
ers. The farewell song was taken
tli1 by q hundred throats-the
sweet, haunting tenderness of the
melody tossed from boat TO shore.
She sang with all her heart,
wishing so greatly to weep. The
summers interlude was over.
Then. he took the loveliest of
the leis and wreathed them about
her arms.
The boat moving Islands
Of peace and enchantment drifting
backward to the tranquil sky.
sandy looked at the flying
fishes making galFdy splashes Of
color for swift moments above
the water curving up
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THE CAMEO
GOWN
Tnternational News Service Staff
fsnrrnannrai1eflf
By Alice L.angeIier

international News Service staff
PARIS
TlHE cameo gown il one 81 the
first harbingers Of the spring
season which promises To lend
much originality and color to all
the chic gatherings in Paris
Paul Caret started the ball roll
ing when he made the expert
mental frock in two soft but con
trasting tones He was after the
cameo effect resulting from the
contrasts Of two, shades and two
similar surfaces. He obtained Il
by using two kinds Of materials
in the same dress though they
might be of the same shade. Crepe
and chiffon, for instance, produce
4 charming cameo effect or II
may arise from two delicate col
ors In each model there Is this
pairing and the cameo illusion
springs from the manner in which,
colors and fabrics are juxtaposed.
The result is q charming jewel
effect like the bijoux to be seen
on the rue de La Paix. New spring
shades and materials lend them
selves to this clever pairing.
One dressmaker Is making use
OF many black and white cameo
effects, for this OH standby
promises to be particularly pop
ular this season. Biloxi alsoi
comes combined with pale fose irE
many instances. Different shades
OF coral make some delightful
models at Nicole CIRCUITS as well
as some charming shades 81
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their friendship and then, find it
little difficult TO account for its
sudden end, the best thing to do
Is take yourself on a little trip
into new surroundings and among
people who don't know you and
about your affairs!
Mention it to no one and when
you have forgotten it yourself
come back looking we'll and
happy!
Everyone has his own troubles,
but no one is sitting around living
your life.
One rich man Tilted a girl and
suddenly married another girl.
He gave this first girl something
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I think it shallow and meaning
He felt the petal-like softness
OF her cheek. He could see tho
exquisite curve OF her lips ana
the blackneas Of her long lasilc.s
on the pale cheeks. He said
huskiiy: HBut things are different,
Sandy. I know what you mean.
You mean that the kind of great
love you were talking about yes
terday doesn't admit OF any
snatching at flowers along the
wayside. But for those who
haven't this great lover
Il don't know
yes, you do. You think you We
a right TO be happy, to laugh, TO
live. And you want to do all
these things, don't you? They
mean life to you. In your heart
yon feel that the whole woSld is
yours and it's all before you,
don't you? You do. Let we have
the kiss, then.
No" and drawing her hands
down from his. No. Because /
mean TO start clear-that's WHY.
She felt excited. drawn tight
and glowing. She closed her
door noiselessly that her mother
might not awaken.
She said to herself: Why did
say that? One day gone"
And she knew that 1t was not
her scruples that kept her from
kissing him, but an odd, uncer-
tain fear. She repeated with Il
sense of triumph. Well one day
gone!,
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Girls

like twenty thousand dollars as a
parting gift. Instead Of talking
that money and going away she
boastingly lied to her friends and
told them he had given her five
times that much.
Result, she had to live in a
style that would verify that!
Naturally the money was soon
used up and then she. too, poor
thing killed herself!
A suicide of that sort gets very
little sympathy and no revenge.
Live--LIVE--and show them you
can still laugh! You were happy
before you met him and you'll be
happy after you forget him!
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THE TIMES
DAILY SIX
BY A. L. WiIbert. M. A

by A. L. Wilbert, M. Al
SCIENCE. How does yeast
make bread rise2
9. Law. What is meant by
the phrase s.Act of God?9
8. CIVICS. How do good roads
benefit the farmers?
4. ART. What is the name or
the god of wine frequently por-
trayed in art?
5. MUSIC. Which is Richard
Wagner's most impressive music
drama?
6. HEALTH. Why should the
diet be varied?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions
i. LITERATURE. A drama
with fatal or unhappy ending
2. HISTORY. Herodotus 9th
century, B. Co.
3. GEOGRAPHY. Argentina,
Chile and Uruguay.
4. BUSINESS. Meat packing
and bread-baking.
5. MANKIND. The workers pay
So per cent, the employers also
pay IS per cent: the state fur
nishes the remaining 80 per cent.
s. HUMAN NATURE. The
cortex
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WHEN DID TT
HAPPEN?

i. When was Thomas Demp-
ster, scotch scholar, appointed
professor at the University OF
Bologna?
2. When did Emerson begin his
career as a lecturer?
8. When was Georgetown In
corporated with Washington
d. c.?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions
1. Annapolis, Nd, was the seat
of the Continental Congress from
November, 1888, to June, 1884.
2. Edmund Burke. the cele-
brated orator, became a member
of Parliament in 1866.
3. The League of Cambria was
formed December TO- 1903.
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What Has Happened So Far

Sandy Mcneil young beautiful daughter Of family that
had possessions in California and is now settled
in the Port Jerv agrees at her fams behes to
marry rich Ben Muro whom she does not love- Her heart
really belongs Jimmy, childhood sweetheart and she
surreptousy him. On visit to New York. where
her cousin Judith Moore lives she confides that she is to
marry uro and Judith is aghast knowing that she does
love him But Sandy thinks that everything will be all
right and that she will be able do pretty much she likes
after her marriage After her marriage Sandy grows to
hate Murilo and steals away fathers home Murlo
follows her. She discovers she is TO become mother and
gives up her plan to leave him. Finally she into the
home he has built for her She broods her
happy marriage to Murio and accidentally meets Jimmy
and goes riding with him Murio furious when ne
them together They quarrel Sandy faints Her baby
born and dies and Sandy pesuade her husband to let her
go to Bermuda with her mother There she meets Ramon
Worth who pays marked attention to her. She gets
cabegram from Murilo regarding her home coming and
replies she is going to stay longer.
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By FAY KING

The other day beautiful tai
ented. and accomplished young
woman hurled herself TO death
from a hotel window. She had
gained success on the stage, could
speak several languages, and had
many friends.
Ii is said she chose TO die be
cause OF a love affair with u ce''-
tain man who broke their en-
gagement:
Poor foolish girl.
As If any man in the whole
world. rich. poor, famous. or un.
SHOWN. is worth killing ones self
over!
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The Story Of a Beautiful Girl Forced By
Her Family for Money Reasons to
Marry 4 Man She Does Not Love
va ehe went d business col


lege.
she saw herself III the city
making her own way, self.relia1!
successful. she and Judeth would
have high. magnificent times
The picture faded. r. it, place
came her mothers Mortified face
A daughter 81 hers asking 81
vorce. Flouting All her traais
tions?
she whispered, weakly u III
never get it. They'll never let
me out of It q
she carried on frantic dialogues
with herself slaivering AZ the
prospect Of barrenness and mock
cry before her
They pushed me into IL.
They've got To help ma out
But they won You know II
Besides, you were of legal age
You should have had more sense
You were just d veal king Or YOU
would have fought them
tried to. never dreamed: Z,
Oh, shut up with the old
stuff You're III II. It's for lifels'
But won't stand Il III
tear Ioose!
Try II! See how FAR you can
get.
In the sweep Of this revolt she
recalled the endless family con
ferences when her mother ana
her married sisters had narped
and narped on the advantages
BIT this marriage: how they hid
sung MuriIIo's praises his gen
crosby How they said MARRIAGE
would bring love- how rcTla1iti
calIy they painted Il.
tTo Be Continued Tomorrow.
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CHAPTER xxx1I

6GCtANDY, you shouldn't be so
y much in the company of
that young man."
How, then, am / to arrange
the match for Alice, Galubchick?"
And you're using entirely too
much slang"
You mean galubchick? Ritzy,
isn't it? But I'm surprised, lisa
bella. that you don't know culture
when, you hear it. That word is
Russian for little dove I got it
out of Anna Karenina.' You
must read it, darling. Ah--to see
Vronsky kissing Annals hands!
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refreshed. Your head will be clear.
stomach sweet. tongue pink and
your skin rosy.
Because "Cascarets" never grippe
or sieken, it has become the largest
selling laxative in the world.
Directions for men, women, chill
drefl on each box-any drug store.
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Feel Splendid!
incest Laxative,
"Cascarets" lOc

on S t a Y
headachy, dizzy.
b lilo u S, con-
stipated, sick.
One or two
pleasant candy :
like "Cascarets"
taken any time
will mildly slim
ulate your liver
and start your
bowels. T h e n
you will both
look and feel
clean sweet and
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wellington Prime Minister

wellington famous British general who led the
English forces Of Waterloo Prime Minister
England 1923 $780, He Foreign Secretary IN
1884 and 1885.
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This Day IN Hist orr

s Is the Of the death n l1sz e re sosu
REYNOLDS one Of the greatest English portrait painters Nosa
be examples Of his work owned n this country.
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Sandy in Movies

SANDY soon WIN be seen n
many 81 the leading Washing
ton tIleaters The FOX Film.
Cooperation already has started
production.
Madge Bellan1y, sliorn Of her
luxurious tresses, has been
selected for the part of the
red.headed, b0b.haired. flaming
SANDY 7
SANDY win make her screen
debut while the story y run.
ming ii The washington Times.
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A corner of the location bears N. 2 deg. 57 min. w., 366.9 feet; thence S. 16 deg. 32 min. E. from position for true corner 593.3O feet to Corner No. 4, not set as it falls on the face o. an inaccessible limestone cliff. Witness cor ner identical with a corner of the loc- ation bears N. GA deg. 38 min. E., 38 0 1t; thence S. GA deg. 38 min. w, from position for true corner 1900 feet to Corner No. 1, the place of bee:nn- ing, and containing 2O.188 acres.
 Big Ben Mo- 2 Lode.
 Beginning at Corner No. 1, whence U. s. M. M No. 28 bears s. 8 deg. 55 min. T., 545S.7 feet distant; thence N. 13 deg. 31 min. w., 554.36 feet to Corner No. 2; thence N. 62 deg 57 min. E., 651.69 feet to Witness Corner to Corner No. 3, identical with Corner Mo- Big Ben Mo- Lo.le of this survey, and, same course, 1434.49 feet to Corner No. 3, not set, as it falls on the face of an inaccessible limestone cliff; thence s. 13 deg. 31 min. E., from position for true corner, 55436 feet to Corner No. 4, not set, as it f. Is on an inaccessible limestone cliff; thence 5. 62 deg. 57 min. w., from position 10. true cctner, ll23.65 feet to Wit ness Corner to Corner No. 4, and same course, 143449 feet to Corner Mo- ], the place of beginning, and containing 17.749 acres.
 BIG BEN NO. 3 LODE.
 Beginning at Corner No. 1, not set, as it falls in path of snow slides, whence U. s. M. M. No. 28 bears S. 8 deg. 20 min. E., 4847.4 feet distan:; thence N. 13 deg. 31 min. w., from position for true corner, 118.62 feet to Witness Corner to Corner No. 1, and same course, 6O9.49 feet to Corner No. 2, identical with Corner No. 1, Biz bcn Mo- ? Lode, of this survey; thence 62 deg. 57 min. E., 31O.84 feet to Witness Corner to Corner Mo- 3, ident- ical with Witness Corner to Corner No. 4, Big Ben No. 2 Lode of this survey, and, same course, 1884 .49 feet to Cor her No. 3, identical with Corner No. 1, Big Ben No Lode of this survey which was not set for reason previously stated; thence s. 13 deg. 31 min. F., from position for true corner 6O8.4 feet to Corner No. 4, not set as it falls on the face of an inaccessible limestone
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Corner No. 1, the place of beginning, and containing 19.482 acres.
 BIC BEN NO. LODE

BIC BEN NO. 4 LODE
 Beginning at Corner Mo- 1, not set, as it falls on an inaccessible lime stone cliff, whence U. S. M. M. No. 28 bears S. deg 36 min. r., 4250.O feet distant; thence N. 73 deg. 31 min. w., from position for true corner 5000 feet to Witness Corner to Corner No. 1; | thence 600 feet to Corner No. 2, ident- ;cal wi<h Corner No. 1, Big Ben No. 3 Lode of this survey, which was not set for reason previously stated. Witness Corner identical with Witness Corner to Corner No. 1, Big Ben Mo- 3 Lode, of this survey, previously described, bears N. 13 deg. 31 min. w., 1882 feet; thence N. 62 deg 57 min. E., from position for true corner, 236.36 feet to Witness Corner to Corner No. 3, identical with Witness Corner to Corner No. 4, Big Ben No. 3 Lode of this survey and, same course, l434. 49 feet to Corner No. 3, identical with Corner No. 4, Big Ben No. 8 Lode of this survey, which was not set for reason previously stated; thence s. l3 deg. 3l min. F., from position for true corner, 5000 feet to Corner No. 4, not set as it falls amongst inaccessible limestone cliffs; Witness Corner bears s. l3 deg. 31 min E., 762.O3 feet; thence s. 62 deg. 57 min. w., from position for true corner, 1434.49 feet to Corner No. l the place of beginning, and containing l9.2lO acres.
 BIG BEN NO. 5 LODE.
 Beginning at Corner No. 1, not set, as it falls on an inaccessible cliff, whence U. s. M. M. No. 28 bears S. 6 deg. 38 min, E. 3654.O feet dist ant; Witness Corner bears s. 6 deg. 57 min. w., 19l.7S feet; therce N. F deg 31 min. w., from position for true corner, 600. 0 feet to Corner No. 2, identical with Corner No. 1, Big Ben No. Lode of this survey which was not set for reason previously stated; Witness Corner identical with Witness Corner to Corner Nc J Big Ben No. i Lode of this survey, previously des- cribed; thence N. 62 deg. y min. E. from position for true corner, 1434. | 49 feet to Corner No. 3, identical with Corner Mo- l. Big Ben No. 4 Lode of this survey, which was not set for reason previously stated; Wit ness Corner identical with Witness
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Ifs. Witness Corner identical with Wit ness (orner to Corner Nos. 3 and 4 Big Ben Nos. 5 and Lodes, resp. actively, of this survey, previously des- cribed, and bears s. IS deg 3l min, E., l62.03 feet; thence $. 6 dee. 37 min. w., from position for true corn. CT, 1434.49 feet to Corner No. l. the place of beginning, and containing 14. 2iO acres.
 BIG PEN NO. GLOBE.
 Beginning at Corner No. 1, not set, as it falls on an inaccessible lime. stone cliff, whence U. s. M. M No, 28 bears s. 5 deg. 23 min. E., 3O96O feet distant: thence l3 deg. 3 min. w. from position for true corner, 5S263 feet to Corner No. 2, identical with Corner No. l, Big Ben No. 5 Lode of this survey, which was not set for req son previously ly stated. Witness Corner identical with Witness Corner to Cor. ner No. 1, Big Ben No. 5 Lode of this survey; thence N. 6 deg. 57 min. E., from position for true corner 1434. 49 feet to Corner No. 3, identical with { 'orner No. 1, Big Ben No. , Lode of this survey, which was not set for reason previously stated; thence s. 13 dee. 31 min. k., from position for true corner. l62.O3 feet to Witness Corner to Cor. ner Nos. 3 and 1, Big Ben No. 5 and Big Ben No. Lodes of this survey previously described, and, same course, 562. 63 feet to Corner No. f, not set, as it falls in the path of snowslides; thence S. 62 deg. 57 min. w., from position for true corner, 68.lO feet to Witness Corner to Corner No. 4. and, same course, 1434. 49 feet to Corner No. l, the place of beginning, and con- taining lo.013 acres.
 BIG BEN EXTENSION LODE
 MINING CLAIM NO 1.
 Beginning at Corner No. 1 ident- ical with Corner No. 4, Big Ben No.6 Lode of this Survey, which was not set for the reason previously stated: Wit ness Corner, identical with Witness Corner to Corner No. 4, Big Ben No. 6 Lode of this survey, previously described, whence U. S. M. M. No. 28 bears S. II deg. AS min. w.. 3863O feet distant; thence N. 13 deg. 31 min. w., from position for true corner, 4O0.6O feet to Witness Corner to Cor her No. 2, identical with Witness
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IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
 OFFICE AT ANCHORAGE,
 ALASKA.
 IN THE MATTER OF REPLICA TON OF
 NEILS TJOSEVIC, FOR UNITED STATES PATENT for the BIG BEN NO. l, BIG BEN NO. 2, BIG BEN NO. 8, BIG BEN NO. 4, BIG BEN NO. 5, BIC BEN NO. 6, BIG BEN EXTENSION NO. 1, and BIG BEN EXTENSION NO. 2 Lode Claims and the BIG BEEN MILL SITE.
 Serial No. O666.7
 Mineral Survey No. 1512A and B. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in pursuance of Chapter 6, Title 32, of the Revised Statutes of the Unit ed States, the undersigned, NEILS TJOSEVIG, whose postoffice address is Mccarthy, Alaska, has made applic- ation to the United States Land Office at Anchorage Alaska, for a patent for 1900 linear feet of the Big Ben Mo- l lode claim, - 1434.49 linear feet of each the Big Ben No. 2, Big Ben No3, Big Ben No. 4, Fig Ben No. 5, and Big Ben No. 6 lode claims, - 1402. 63 linear feet of Big Ben Extension No. 1 lode claim, and 1439.35 linear feet of the Big Ben Extension No. 2 lode claim, and 5000 feet, or less, in width each side of the center of the vein or lode of each of the said lode claims, and also the Big Been Millsite, plat of ground 500 feet long by 362 feet wide, the same comprising Mineral Survey No. 1512 A and B, situate in the Mccarthy Mining District and Recording Precinct, Third Division, Territory of Alaska, and fully described as to metes and bounds on the official plat of said survey, and by the field notes of said survey on file in the office of the Register of said Anchcr- age Land Office, at Anchorage, Alaska. which said plat and field notes describe the boundaries and extent of said lode claims and millsite as follows, to-wit;
 BIG REIN NO. LODE:
 ReoinniDo at Cornar No 1 L