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Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
FLUORiNE A RABID GAS.
Nothing Can Resist the Power of This
 Chemical Fury.

Chemlcai Furys
 The fury of the chemical world is the element fuorine, although, strange ly enough, it exists peacefully in con- pany with calcium in tluorspar and also in few other compounds.
 Although this element was known and named good while ago, it long resisted the efforts of chemists to iso- late it, for the instant the compound containing it was torn apart the free fuorine attacked and combined with sel containing it. It was finally isolat- ed by the great French chemist Mois- san.
 Fluorine is a rabid gas that nothing can resist. It combines with all met als, explosively with some, or if they are already combined with some other nonmetalic element it mercilessly tears them away from it and takes them to itself
 In uniting with sodium, potassium, calcium. magnesium and aluminium the metals become heated. even to red ness. by the fervor of it's embrace. Iron filings slightly warm burst into brilliant scintillations when exposed to it. Manganese does the same. Even the noble metals. which at melting heat proudly resist the fascinations ot oxygen, succumb to this chemical siren at moderate temperatures. Glass is devoured at once and water ceases to be water by contact with this gas, which, combined with it's hydro gen. at the same moment forms the acrid, glass dissolving hydrofluoric acid | and liberates ozone.
 Even hydrofluoric acid eats into and destroys every known substance ex- cept platinum and lead.-Exchange.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
LUXURY IN ARGENTINA.
The Big Story They Tell of Buenos
 Aires Hotel Charges.


 The hotels of Buenos Aires are fairly good and very expensive. One of the cheapest rooms l saw in the Plaza hotel was $7 a day. European style. There are good Spanish hotels with rooms from $2 day upward.
 The Plaza is. perhaps, the most cos. mopoitan of all the hostelries of the city. In it's ballroom and it's drawing room I was reminded of the Waldorf Astoria. The meals are little higher than in the big hotels of New York city. But there are numerous small restaurants where good refreshments may be had at reasonable prices.
 As an example of the charges in the big hotels of Buenos Aires l may quote a story told me by an Argentine oifi- cial. He said that some ye;ir~ ago a commission of European ambassadors was entertained by the Argentine gov ernment at the Bristol hotel on the Avenida de Mayo and that the bill for soap and perfumery was $l5.0OO d week. Nobody seemed to complain amt apparently everybody was satisfied,
 Luxuries seem to be necessities to the Argentines, for l was told that the tariff on champagne is only per cent. while that on blow is 30 per cent National Magazine.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Notice of Filling Final Account and of
 Hearing Thereon.

In the United States Commissioners Court for the Territory of Alaska, Third Division, Valdez Precinct. In the matter of the estate of Dan S. Kain, deceased. No. 146. Notice of filing of final account and of hear ing thereon.
 Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day of March, 1915, s. Blum, the administrator of the estate of Dan $. Kain, deceased, filed in and present ed for settlement to the above-named court his final report and account of his administration of said estate, and that Thursday, the 20th day of May, 1915, at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon, at the court room Of the above-named court, in the Town of Valdez, Alaska, has been duly ap- pointed by the above-named court as the time and place for the settlement of said final account and the hear ing of objections thereto.
 Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 18th day of March, 1915.
 s. BLUM,
 Administrator of said Estate. Donohoe & Dimond attorneys for administrator.
 First publication March IS, 1915. Last publication April 8, 1915.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
The Prospector office for Job work.
Summons By Publication

In the District Court for the Terri
 tory of Alaska. Third Division.
 J. l.. Reed, plaintiff. ys. Fri Thomp- son and NJ. A. Ellis, defendants.- No. S-49. Summons by Publication
 The President of the United States of America, greeting: To Fri Thomp- son, the above named defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, in the Third Division, at Valdez, within thirty days after the completion of the publication of this summons against you, to-wit: within thirty days after the 18th day of Ap- Til, 1915. and answer the complaint of the above named plaintiff, filed in the clerks office of the above entitled court: and unless you so appear and answer or otherwise plead, the plain tiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint, to-wit: decree subjecting to the lien of certain judgments duly docket ed in the above entitled court, in ia vor of the plaintiff and the said de- fendant Fri Thompson, on the Battle AK placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet Precinct. Territory of Alaska, and or dering that the same be sold to satis- fly said judgments.
 This summons is served on you by publication thereof, pursuant to an order duly made and entered by the above entitled court, on the Sth day of March, 1915, which publication was directed to be made once a week for six consecutive weeks.
 Witness the Honorable Fred. M. Brown, judge of said Court, this Sth day of March, 1915.
 (SeaD ARTHUR LANG,
 Clerk of the District Court.
 By CHAS. A. HAND, Deputy.
 Date of first publication March S, 1915.
 Date of last publication April 19, 1915.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Notice of Forfeiture.

To G. A, Brown, his heirs and ad-
 ministrators and to all it may con
 cern:,
 You are. hereby notified that we have expended during the years 1912, 1913, and 1914, the sum of three hun dred dollars l$300.00), lawful money of the United States, in labor and improvements, upon your one-sixth interest in those mining claims lying and being on Mineral creek, in the recording precinct of Valdez, Alaska, which are known as the Monte Carlo group consisting of the Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No. 8, Monte Carlo No. 4, Monte Carlo No. 5, Monte Carlo No. 6, the location notices of said claims being of record in the office of the commissioner and recorder, at Valdez, Alaska, pages numbered 322, 323, 325, 326, and 327, of Book Min ing Records, in order to hold said claims under the provisions of Sec tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes Of tue United States, concerning annual labor on mining claims, being the amount required to hold said lode claims for the period ending Decem- Der, 1914.
 And unless within ninety days af- ter the completion of the publication of this notice, to-wit: within ninety days after the 9th day of May, 1915, you contribute your proportion of such expenditure incurred in perform ing said annual labor and improve ments. which is the sum of three hundred dollars ($3OO.00), your inter- est in said claims will become the property of your co-owners, who have made the required expenditure, by the terms of said section.
 Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th day of February, 1915.
 MIKE BARRETT.
 JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
 Last publication May 6. 1915.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Notice of Election.

Notice is hereby given that a Gen. eral Municipal Election will be held in the Town of Valdez, Alaska, on the sixth day of April, 1915, for the purpose of electing seven members of the Common Council, who shall hold office for the term of one year. and until their successors are elected and qualified also one member of the Valdez School Board who shall serve as director for term of three years and until his successor is elect ed and qualified.
 The Town Hall has been designat- ed as the polling place for said cleo tion.
 Said election shall commence at 9 o'clock a. m. and shall continue un- til o'clock p. m. of the same day. without closing the polls.
 R. E. ASHBY,
 Town Clerk. Publications March 8. 15. P. 29.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Notice of Special Meeting of the Stockholders of the Valdez Electric Company.

Notice is hereby given that spec ial meeting of the stockholders or the Valdez Electric Company, will be held at the offices of the company, in he town of Valdez, Alaska, on Thursday, the 22nd day of April, 1915, at the hour of 2 o'clock, in the after noon of said day, for the purpose or considering the question of increasing the capital stock of said company, from it's present capitalization, name fly twenty-five thousand dollars, d. viled into twenty-five hundred shares of the par value of ten dollars each, to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, which shall be divided into one hundred thousand snares of tie par value of one dollar each Also authorizing the company to amend It's articles of incorporation, so that Its indebtedness may be increased to a sum not to exceed fifty thousand dol lars, with full power to issue bonds in payment of all of it's indebted ness, and to mortgage or otherwise hypothecate it's property or any part thereof, for the purpose of securing such indebtedness. Also authorizing the company to amend it's articles of incorporation, so that it may acquire by purchase or otherwise water rights, water power, and the lands incident al thereto, and that it may reduce the number of its directors from seven to three.
 And you are hereby notified to be present at said meeting either in per son, or by your regularly authorized proxy or attorney in fact for the pur- pose of considering said questions.
 This notice is hereby served on you by publication thereof. in the Valdez Daily Prospector, a newspaper published at Valdez, Alaska. which is the principal place of business of said company. Said notice will be published in said newspaper for eight consecutive weeks, beginning with the issue of February 24th, 1915, and end ing with the issue of April 21st, 1915. Witness our hands as directors of said company, this 23rd day of Feb ruary, 1915.
 F. M. BOYLE,
 B. B. RITCHIE,
 w. M. FINICAL,
 GEO. J. LOVE,
 Directors.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
BURNING WATER.
Coal Wet Gives a Much Larger Amount
 of Heat Than When Dry.


 Dry coal does not produce as much heat as coal that is considerably damp. It is, of course, a fact that greater heat makes the fuel more valuable, and it is essential to know how to secure the most from ordinary fuel.
 Coal that is to be burned in fur mace, stove or grate for lmmedl- ate heat will produce nearly one-fourth more heat when wet than when dry. Coal that is to be placed in stove or furnace to be closed up so as to produce long continued. moderate heat will produce q little more than one third more heat if there is plenty of moisture than can be secured if the coal is real dry.
 Large humps of coal can be soaked in a pail of water for half hour. and the heat will be increased nearly one half This is done in cases where the Jumps are used in stoves tightly clos ed. such as those known as air tight furnaces.
 Several pails of water thrown over a ton of coal will increase its value greatly to the consumer. Coal will burn briskly in wet and almost air, less mines and it is said the heat is intense When there is fire and the coal pile burns it is difficult to drown that portion of the fire with water We might as well secure little of ihe heat stored in burning water as to permit it all to go unused.-Philadei phia North American
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
The Annual Rainfall.

According to an estimate by Sir John Murray, the total annual rainfall upon all the land of the globe amounts to 29,347.4 cubic miles and of this Quan- ity 6,524 cubic miles drains of through rivers to the sea. A cubic mile of river water weighs approximately 4.2O5.65O.- 900 tons and carries in solution on the average about 100000 tons of foreign matter. In all, about 2.735. .00O.OO tons of solid substances are thus carried an. nually to the ocean.-United States Geological survey.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Weiaht of a Lion.

What does lion weigh? Those who know the look of the king of beasts best and how small his little body really is will probably come farthest from the truth. About 300 to $50 pounds is d usual estimate, but full grown lion will tip the scales at no less than 300 pounds. Five hundred and forty pounds is the record for an African lion. His bone is solid and heavy as ivory. The tiger runs the lion very close. A Bengal tiger killed by an Eng fish officer scaled 52O pounds. A tiger this size has. however. considerably more muscular strength than the big gest lion.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
MARRIAGE M0URNERs.
Rites of a German Club When One of It's Members Weeds.

It's Members Weeds. There are other places besides All Souls college, Oxford, that penalize a member who marries. Many readers have doubtless heard of the Bachelors club in London. When a member so far forgets the principles of the club as to marry he is promptly expelled. By payment of fine of $125 he can. however, retain an honorary member ship. but of course he cannot enjoy the privileges of this select band of noDmarrying men,
 There is a similar organization in Ger many-the Junggesellen club. When ever there comes to the officials of this club any intimation that a member con- templates matrimony he is immediately summoned for trial in the club court, with the president as judge. The cul- prit is allowed to plead in extenuation of his offense, and upon his skill in pre- senting such plea depends the amount of his fine. which ranges from $1OO to $1 .0O0
 The humorous feature of the fine con sists in the purpose to which the money Is applied. The money is de voted to a dinner, whereat all members appear in mourning attire. At the con cusion of the repast the president sol emnly reads the sentence of expulsion, and the delinquent is led from the room amid the groans and lamentations of his erstwhie clubfellows.-Lond Tit | Bits.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Hirad His Newspaper.

Lady Taylor once took friend to sec the poet Tennyson and was rather cold ly received. On Lady Taylor rallying him on his manner he said:
 Madam. l am poor man. and as can't afford to buy the Times have 1t from the stationer. He charges me 2 cents for it. which entities me to keep 1t an hour. Why will people se- lect just that hour to come and call on me?"
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Woman's Way.

Say, did you ever know woman to buy what she wanted at the first store she came to-"
 "Yes. My wife frequently does that is. she returns to 1t after she's been through all the other stores."- Boston Transcript.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Two Wise Ones.

The young man carefully removed the cigars from bis vest pocket and placed them on the piano. Then he opened his arms. But the young girl did not futter to them. "You," she said coldly. have loved before."-Chi' cago Record Herald.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
His Periodicals.

Do you take any periodicals?" asked the clergyman on his first round of parish visits.
 "Well. 1 don't" replied the woman. 'but my husband takes 'em frequent do wish you'd try to get him to sign the edge."-Judge.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Involved.

Binks-l notice that you have a thread tied round your finger. l sup pose that is to remind you of some thing? Jinks-Not exactly. 1t is to remind my wife to ask me if ] forgot something she told me to remember Exchange.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Often the Case.

Ut was a fair fight, wasn't 1t" "Sure 1t was. The under dog got whipped"
 "Call that fair fightT
 "Wait now. let me explain. The un- der dog provoked it."-St. Louis Re public.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Discretion and valor.

Judge-How dared you strike your wife, sir? Husband Well, she had her back to me and tn kitchen door was open. so [ took a +chance.-New York Globe.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19

It is wiser being good than being bad. .-- Browning.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19
Somebody
 With Money

always has been found to back" a good plan, a good idea, a good busi- ness venture or a good mining prospect-other- wise a good many of to- days successful business enterprises would still be mere dreams.
 Advertising has brought about a majority of the introductions of the man with the idea, the man with a prospect or busi- ness to the man with the dollar.
 ADVERTISE IN THE PROTECTOR FOR RE- SUITS. s
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-03-19

Imported Japanese pasxers ar Val. dez Drug Go. n
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-22

IacksorA Nc Market

Jacksonville, MAY zi-Ths spirit
market Vas hrn az 81 i-s. with sales
- rs casks
Receipts f.. Casks
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-22
THE MARKETS
New York Cotton.

Nea York. May 21.-Cottan futures
showed renewed armness this morn-
ing on continued GOVERNS and after
opening sc an advance of to . points
sold about z 90 ta points net higher
during the early trading May Ways
relatively nrm on 4 final squirt 81 cow
erinw a. tradinE IN that delivery vii
end AZ noon while later deliveries
were Influenced by relatively steady
cables and apprehensions that lower
temperatures following TIE present
showers IN the southwest may check
tire favorable progress ~ the eron
while demand seemed fo taper on
en- the early advance, prices ruled
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-22
Grain and Provision.

Chicago May 2f.--Buinsh crop re-
ports from Illinois today gave wheat
Ar upward swing Opening prices. i-g
oa g i-2e up, we're followed By furth-
e. pains
Corn rallied With wheat after open.
inK lis TO t-8c down
oats also took It's cue from wheat
HIGHER hos prices lifted provisions
Wheat-No. ?. red. 1857. No :.
hard. Is6A@issh
Corn-->o. 3 yellow ISL
Rye-No. e. ttt6h harley yea So.
Hay Timothy, s5oon6a5. clover.
gs0nIaTs
Provisions lTso. lard. SIS:
RIOS. hST010aT.
chlnaan araln nra nrn..lnln. r.hL.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-22
No. Orleans Cotton

View Orleans. May 81 Better cables
than due put the price ~ cotton E
points over Yesterday close Sea eariy
trading today huf che rise did not
hold. Buyers ~ yesterday we're profit
takers and half an hour after the
apcning. prices wcre points over yes
teFdays Hnais
Reports 81 hosulities on the part ~
ITALY were q sustaining influence but
tire market had little life ~ noon
prices ncrs AZ yesterdays closing
level
Cotton opened steady. May go:
July as oetober s76s December
9s6. January 1000.
Spot cotton quiet unchanged sales
on the spot ESQ bales. 90 arrive 100
bales. MiddiinR cents.
Cotton closed steady % { points
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-22

generally steady with active months
ssiting about to 40 points net higher.
slight recesslona followed around mid
day under scattered rsalizing, bat Of
fertnss we're too light 20 cause any
material weakness.
SPOT cotton quiet; mlddiiug uplands
9.f6. no sales
The marked eased back 90 within
o. . points under continued llght
realizing
Cotton futures opened firm Nav
asa July a62s 0ctcber 1000t De-
cemher I0.29s January 1897.
L.-La.n nLnaaI .I..LN
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-22

IT contains information
It viii save you time and II
sioE. Journal readers in and
most valuable from time TO q
number Of leading busine
your pocketbook. or tack II
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aussatiops Were - Fslls~s,


savannah. May "a spirit mar-
krt was arm - 81 I =. win sales q
see casks
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-22
REFUSE OFFERS
FOR SPIRITS At.
HIGHER PRICES
PENSACOLA FACTORS REFUSE TO
sELL. ALvHosGH PRICE OF.
FEREo WAS ABoVE SAVANNAH
AND JACKSONVILLE.
Pasasaia ga

Prices quoted on the board az the
Cham aeF uf Commerce yesterday Cor
spirits were higher thar ai either aa-
Nanuah Nud Jacksonville. but we're de-
clined ~ factors. Who refused - sell
ore thousand casks al % rs cents
although Savannah had aold 500 easka
az une-Qaarter 81 cent lower and
Jacksonville had sold 1913 caska ~ one
cent EeT gallon sloweF
Pensacola factors are cstermIned
uot fa sacrifice their pFoduDf bees zee
of HEht oeinE uaNed between rival
concerns Do savannah. souas ~ whom
are trting "a tear down prices and
thus ubtsin larRr stocks 81 sacrtBce
prices
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-22

that you will find valuable.
'ouble on some future occa-
out Of the city will find il
me. Name, address and phone
IS concerns and professional
up IN some convenient place.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-22
LlverDool Cotton.

Liverpool. May 21.-Cottou spot
steady Good middiing s1e. rnlddlinu
as6s low middlinR SIS. sales ZOO
bales including 500 Tor speculation
and export Receipts - 500 bales
Futures closed steady. May-Iune
ass June-July 6.2ss July-August
b.asaa August September 5a7fs. oe-
toher- November $50 January Febru-
AIRY b7t. Mhrch-ApriI ash May-June
SIS
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Rssipts Casks


tN# EftNiH MAJ HHt was Wffn tm nom %
inai wlth sales n a3g barrels
Receipts, Barrsla
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-22
EXCHANGE RATES pEcLINg

New York. Mas go Rates - exc
change between New York and Ions
den feil TODAY e. lowest quotations fn
more than q generation Demand bills
we're cold acurrdinE IS report 81
as.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-30

Straw hat day tomorrow for old Penn
and so for all Philadelphia For then the
Red and the Blue will clash with It's time
honored adversary, Princeton. of the
Yellow and the Black, on the baseball
diamond of Franklin Field, and the two
events are inseparably linked together.
Wearing the first as we'll as the last word
In straw hats, 5000 male spectators Of the
struggle and perhaps ha1t as many of
their sweethearts and sisters will bank
grand stand and bleachers alike with
dazzling clouds of white They will be
the pacemakers for fleet-footed Fashion,
the path-clearers for that swift sprinting
jester-Style What will they care for a
saw which says:
BE not the first by whom the new Is tried,
Nor yet tho last TO lay the old aside"
Six years ago tho Princeton ball
game was played on May is. The date
was later than in previous years and
undergraduates of the University of Penn
sylvanla decided II was high time to wear
straw hats. With that unanimity OF pur-
pose and action so mysterious to those
outside the college world, almost upon
the instant every student grow crown
of straw-and straw hat day was born.
This has been week OF hope and fear,
of pleased contemplation and perturbed
reflection, Of trembling decision and
grnations UP and down Chestnut street
perhaps some poor nut" may have rumi-
mated:
81 think I'll have to buy me Balawag.
Or purchase me, perchance, Panama
But really could not scorn Bahkok,
A Leghorn. now. would not go very badly.
A BaiebuntaI or sennit I would Cherish
Or, as matter of fact Il separate my
self from a few jitneys, can get my
last seasons hat cleaned, and In few
days, now that the gun has been hreo'
no one will know the difference so far as
the shapes of the two seasons lbs are
concerned"
NOT MUCH CHANGE IN STYLE.
And that is the keynote OF this seasons
advance styles in straw hats. There Ia
little or no change in height of crown and
width of brim from last year. But dealers
say this will be true for the first OF the
season only. Lower crowns and wider
brims are on the cards for this summer
sure, they declare.
''What kind of straw hat shall I get to
be in the mode?" you may ask.
Assuming that the question comes from
the average man of good taste-average
in point of finances and contour of face,
at least-you will buy a hat of coarse sem
nit, with an untapered crown BE inches
or 80. inches deep; brim 2}s or 21a inches
wide-hat, of course-and with tooth
edge. It will have black silk band 1Is
inches wide, with bow OF the butterfly
order-not particularly frivolous-which
will be worn in the middle of the left side,
1t will not be an indictable offense, how
ever, to slip the bow three-quarters of the
way TO tho back. This is heavy hat
weighs FIVE full ounces-and Is not notice
ably comfortable. But 1t is the Early Sea-
sons First Born-and, therefore, best
loved-and will cost you So
Running the Panama a close race In