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Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07
JUDGE JENNINGS HOLDS
 THE ECONOMY RECORD

JUNEAU, Jan. 7.-The annual re- port of the Attorney General shows that to Judge Jennings of the First division belongs the honor of having made the best record for business and economy during the past year. The report shows that an enormous sav- ing has been made of public funds while the number of cases coming be- fore the court has increased.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07
ALAMEDA BACK IN EARLY MORNING Brought Big Shipments of Machinery and Supplies for Mines in In-
 terior from Cordova.

The steamship Alameda, which passed to the westward yesterday aft ernoon is expected to return to Val deg at a very early hour tomorrow morning. but up to a late hour this afternoon she had not reported as leaving Seward. She carried seventy five tons of freight for Latouche and received instructions while at Cor dova to take on two hundred tons of copper ore from the Beetson mine at Latouche, and it is possible that she will be delayed a few hours.
 When the steamer left Seattle her entire accommodation had been sold out so great is the rush northward. There were forty-four passengers on board for Cordova, many of whom were en route to their homes in inte- rior Alaska.
 While at Cordova the Alameda dis charged four hundred tons of freight and sixteen head of horses for the Valdez Creek Placer Mines Com |pany. The Chas. Swanson shipment, which is destined for Slate Creek. consisted of eighty tons of machin- |ery and supplies and four head of horses. The animals all stood the |sea trip well despite the fact that they were tossed around in their stalls for nearly twenty-four hours of Cape Hinchinbropk.
 The steamer win complete her car go by taking on Ore at Cordova as the railroad termiSal yards there are again reported to sscongested by the shipments from the interior.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07

The trail Is broke and the Tele- phone No, s5, is working. Did you ever stop to think that every time you leave a dollar with your local in- dustry that you have g fighting chance to get 1t back, as they live and eat in the old home town and 1t costs something at that, You may not got 1t back directly from him; he may have to give 1t to some one else who has to give it to you. Try the Val deg Iron Works. fr-tf
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07
ARE GIVEN
 CHANGE TO SWIM

JUNEAU. Jan. 7.-The new Nata- torium recently constructed by the Arctic Brotherhood here was opened to the public yesterday when more than two hundred residents of Ju- neau and other Gastineau channel points enjoyed a mid-winter swim. The Juneau Arctic Brotherhood has the largest membership of any fra ternal order and owns it's own hall in addition to other property.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed proposals will be opened by the Lighthouse Inspector, ketchikan, Alaska. at ? o'clock p. m.. January I31. 1916, for lightering about 400 tons of miscellaneous freight from Katalla anchorage to Cape St. Elias Light Station, Alaska. Specifications and forms for proposal may be secur. ed by applying to above offices or to the Postmasters at Katalla, Seward, or Cordova, Alaska.
 or Cordova, Alaska. 3t-eod.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07

The many Valdez friends of Cap tain Jimmy Daniels, the well known
 Alaska navigator, will regret to learn that Mrs. Daniels is seriously i'll at their home in Seattle. Captain Dan |iels is now on the Atlantic coast hay. ling crossed the continent to bring one
 of the big freighters recently pur' chased by the Pacific Alaska Naviga' tion company around the cape.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07
Wants to Marry Alaskan.

Working woman of 45 would like to correspond with gentleman 50 to 65 with home, that is tired living alone. Give description in first let ter. No trifers wanted; all letters answered; object matrimony. Ad- dress Dolly B. Ross. Seattle. Wash, Gen. Del. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07
and Delaware or larger than the combined kingdoms of Holland and
 Belgium.

A dog team left Valdez this morn ing for Mineral creek to bring gaso- line engine and wire cable from the upper part of the creek to the beach. The engine will be sent to the. copper mine which J. P. Bonner and assoc:- ates are developing at Bay of Isles. Knights island.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07

BORN:-To Mir. and Mrs. Chas. G. Ganty. Thursday, January 6, 1916, a son. Mother and son are both do- ing nicely. Dr. Winans was the at tending physician.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07

w. M. Goodwin, cashier of the First Bank of Valdez, will leave on the Alameda tomorrow morning for Cordova where he will relieve Cashier Howell I. Lewis, of the First Bank of Cordova. MT. Lewis will go to the states for his vacation.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07
Y. P. s. c. E.

The Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor will elect officers for the year at a picnic dinner in the Congregational lecture room this eve ming at 6:30. All interested are in- vited to come and bring some good eats.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07
Mississippi . Great River.

Some idea of the vastness of the Mississippi river, which Is occasion ally referred to as the American Nile, may be gathered from the fact that thirty-ons States, or 41 per cent of the, area of the United States. drain into the basin of this streain. Twenty millions of acres of land are subjected to its overflow. being great CT than the combined States of Mas sachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07

A number of packages intended for Christmas were received in the mail which arrived on the steamer Alame- d. yesterday. The packages had been delayed in reaching Seattle owing to the snow blockades in the Cascades The fact that there. was nearly two weeks time between the sailings oi Alaskan boats also contributed to the delay.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07

Harry Moore, who has been work ing at the Granite mine for many months, came up to Valdez yesterday on the launch B. F. M. to join Mrs. Moore.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-07

Tho Valdez 'Quartette At the Liberty Theatre tonight; anna teur night. Also . good movie show.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-21
SLANG WITH WHISPERS.

Oh, Mr.. Hughes, how could you?
Considering the portentous dignity Of
your appearance on the bench, who void
ever have dreamed it
Slang we expect from a rough-ari-
tumble politician like Teddy. Things like
my hat is in the ring are as necessary to
Teddy as teeth, but to think that Mr.
Hughes could descend from the cold, be
whiskered dignity of admitted statesman.
ship to similar style of converse-why, it
passes comprehension.
And yet-and yet-we hate to say it,
but only the other day Hughes, in Chicago
referring to the ability of the Democrats
to protect American industries said tlev
haven't got it in their bones"
We might pass this as netaphorical, for.
after all, high tariff is about as unnecessary
as the rheumatism, whence the alluSion to
the bones was not slang, but medical way
of referring to the body polite; but
A little later he made allusion to tie
pork barrel as filled with kiss-me-and-I'll-
kiss-you" appropriations.
People rubbed their eyes. Can this be-
they said, and before they had recovered
from their bewilderment Hughes waved
his arm. and proclaimed with the fervor of
a Patrick Henry:
Il do not want any hot air in mine
Next we will find the learned Judge
yelling, "atta boy p
Roosevelt's slang, at any rate, was origi-
nal; but, alas, for the lingo of Hughes
It is old, old, old Like it's latest protector,
| It has whiskers. But, then, Hughes hasn't
yet said anything new.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-21
WAR IN THE KITCHEN.

The iron hand of war is being felt IN the
homes no less certainly than on the battle
front. The wedding rings and personal
ornaments of Germany have ere this BEEN
used up, and now the housewives PIE
plates are being garnisheed to pay tie
awful price.
All metals are confscated by the Aus
TRAN government Not only must 1nd1-
viduals turn over practically all the met1ls
they possess, but manufacturers, restau-
ranteurs, sanatoria, hospitals, etc, ETC., etc-,
are likewise required to surrender steel ard
tin and iron and copper in whatever shape
found.
Following is list of the things to be
turned in:
l. Cooking utensils of all kinds. pots, pans pans
casseros, plates cups saucers lamps and similar
objects that are made of copper, or Of metals OF
which copper is component Only knives, 1ofks'
> s Sour toureens, pots, sauce and dessert
dishes, vegetable containers, etc. made Of pure
5. Kitchen utensils Of every sort, irons. cups
and lamps made of brass.
such as tongs bath tubs and the like made OF
copper or metal of which copper is an alloy.
g. Vessels for boiling fruit made of copper or
8 Boilers or parts Of stoves, consisting of cop
per, brass bronze or tornbac
z. Weights for scales, weighing more than one
pound
such other rods used in the ordinary household as
are easily removed and made Of brass.
Washboards are omitted-and that's
about all. All this material is going to be
made into shells and bombs and shrapnel
and other unpleasant things The men on
the battle fronts are merely an incident
the war has become battle between the
ladies now, with cake dishes and sauce
pans for weapons-and who knows but ere
long it will be a tempest of teapots?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-21
suFFER LTTTLE cHILDREN-

Two little babies asked for homes, yes
terday through The Journal-and they
will get them, too.
Several applications to adopt the kiddies
had been made ere these lines were traced,
and it won't be long before they have found
a mothers knee at which to learn the love
and joy of life, and daddy's foot to play
the cock horse to Banbury cross.
Pensacola's love for children is proven
bal Officers of the different organiza-
tons will tell you that there is never any
trouble to get a child adopted. There is
always a waiting list Is this love greater
in Pensacola than in other cities? Maybe
yes, maybe no. Surely, oh, surely, it speaks
we'll for place that it takes to h art so
earnestly the teachings of Him who said
Suffer little children to come unto me, and
forbid them not
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-21
COTTON STALK PAPER.

The announcement from Germany of a
process whereby paper could be manufac-
tured from cotton stalks is of no CONNER
cial Importance to US. The process has
been known here in the United States for
years and is not feasible. It is long and
expensive operation, and the amount OF
stalks produced per acre is astonishingly
small-not enough to affect the paper stu
alton in the United States at all
The following is scissored from the bull
letin issued by the Department of Agri-
culture in 1911 regarding the laboratory
manufacture of paper from cotton stalks
and will illustrate this point:
Cotton stalks tested in connection with the for
est service among the first crop waste
duced to pulp. The aggregate quantity of these
stalks produced in the United States is large
Those who have given attention to the matter es-
innate it at 100000 tons. The yield per acre of
stalks is much lower than that of any of the
plant materials thus far discussed and probably
does not exceed 1000 pounds. Corn stalks will
average more than twice this quantity; rice straw
four times much and broom corn six times this
to cotton stalks by the large quantity grown, and
much has been claimed for paper said to have
been made from them. At the present time no
paper mill is using the material
In the experiments thus far conducted by this
department cotton stalks have been found to re-
quire harsh chemical treatment, using about 30
per cent of caustic soda, which is 5 per cent more
than poplar wood requires. They required from
six to nine hours, with steam pressure of from
90 to 100 pounds, for cooking The yield of fibre
ranged from IS to AZ per cent in various tests but
the fibre was found to be short and inferior in
strength
With this yield and the low production of 1000
pounds per it would require five acres of
stalks to make a single ton of pulp. Difficulties
we're also encountered in connection with bleach
ing. The dark outer bark proved very refractory,
necessitatng the of large quantity of bleach
ing powder All samples of paper made from this
material contain so much unbleached material as
to render them unsuitable for anything except
writing purposes. 1t is possible that methods may
be devised which will produce pulp sufficiently
strong to make cotton stalks promising material
but the results obtained to date not encourag-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-21
THE souTHs DEVELOPMENT.

'"The South is in the saddle, said
Hughes, and so, indeed, it is, but in diff
ferent sense than was intended by the
sheer of the Republican candidate.
Five hundred and FIVE thousand dollars
have recently been invested in five new
packing plants in the South. One company
is capitalized at S15O,OOO, three at 100000
each, and one at $4,000. They are
situated at Chattanooga, Tenn, Orange
burg, Pa, Greenville, S. c., Wilmington, N.
c., and Waycross, Ga
Coming closer home development is
shown by the Armour plant in Jackson
vile, which will be enlarged to twice the
planned capacity so that two hundred
cattle, two hundred sheep and thousand
hogs will be handled day.
Coming still closer home the announce
nent of B. F. SprinIle's packing plant for
Pensacola is another chapter in the history
of prosperity The order for machinery
and apparatus has already been placed,
and active operations will begin in the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-21
THE SCRATCH PAD.
By THOMAS EWING DABNEY. \


The French progress against the
Germans is represented by a daily
dash, and dash is the only way we
have of describing in print what
the Germans think of it.
Hughes says that if elected, he will
see that the army and navy are kent
up to standard. We can rest in
peace, m the knowledge that the
hairy one is pledged to carry out ali
of Wilson's policies
The Baltimore woman who wiIled
$4,000 to her son in trust until he
was 80, wasn't taking any chances
OF his wasting his substance in wild
and riotous living.
The man who said that chickens
won't go in the water was a nature
faker. Go to Bayview and see for
yourself.
The worst result of the paper
famine is that the peanut bags are
being cut down
Nine thousand militiamen's tents
were blown down in the recent storm,
but this horror of war can't compare
with the storm of shrapnel over in
Europe.
This time two years ago, every
body had figures to prove that the
war couldn't last three months.
Some day the murdered remains
of man are going to be discovered
among the weeds on Eleventh ave-
nue.. He is of medium height, and
has discouraged, frizzly growth CT
beard; sandy colored; he wears blue
pants, and a shirt of no color what
ever. He drives a charcoal wagon,
and passes down our street every
morning, and oh, my! how shrill his
voice is, shouting Char-r-rcoal! But
he will shout once too often. There
will be a short, sweet struggle; his OK
will feel the goad no longer, and from
that day on, we will be able to sleep
in peace.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-21
CURING AN EVIL

Good for Probation Officer Pinney
Mr.. Pinney, several weeks ago, caused the
arrest and punishment of a merchant
selling cigarettes to minors, and in his
efforts to stamp out the evil, has just sworn
out warrants against nearly three-score
more. Their trials will come up early
this week, and it is to be hoped that stiff
sentences will be melted out.
The sale of cigarettes is prohibited en-
tirely in certain states. How much more
harmful the effects of the coffin tacks on
boys barely IN their teens?
1t is perfectly astonishing what children
are addicted to the cigarette evil here But
Probation Officer Pinney is determined to
break up the practice, and deserves the
thanks of the entire community for his
efforts in this direction.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-21

ways and other improvements made
by progressive counties are paid for
by the land owners. Taxes are going
up and the taxpayers are awakening
to the fact that some beneficial use
must be found for the cut-over land.
Unless they find purchasers, unless
they attract settlers in sufficient
numbers, the land must pass to the
state for taxes. To find buyers is
difficult, because spectators have
boosted the price as high as present
conditions will permit, and the land
offers no speculative opportunity. Yet
it is out of this region that comes
the insistent calls for the settler.
It is in this comparatively virgin
region that the great new south will
be built. For not only is it capable
of great development, but it is the
only remaining comparatively unre-
stricted acreage of virgin land in
America that may be purchased at
IS to SO an acre.
Only two uses have ever been made
of this land-gra zing of cattle and
the growing Of timber. An immem-
orial custom Of the squatter, handed
down from father to con for genera
tons, has been to range his cattle in
/ the open pine woods. The squatter
may have owned 40 acres of land,
or he may not have owned an acre,
but he did own from 10000 to 10000
/ head of cattle-cattle that were in
, bred, wild, quarantined with the Tex
as fever cattle tick. Every pound of
meat was TO him clear profit, how
ever, and he looked upon the eradi-
/ cation of the cattle tick as the end of
/ his privilege of free and unrestricted
range, a privilege so long exercised
/ as to be considered almost an in
alienable right. AS for the owner Of
the land, his concern had only to do
with the timber and the naval stores.
In no other respect had he use for
the lana.
Every man who seriously considers
the problems of the south must con-
clude that three fundamental necessi-
ties for a successful agriculture are
education, diversified farming and
immigration. Diversified farming
goes hand in hand with education,
and education includes both educat-
ing the southern people to realize
the needs Of the south and to know
the methods of bringing about bet
ter conditions, and educating those
outside the southern area to under
stand and appreciate the possibilities
and the advantages Of the south.
The live stock industry is the foun-
dation Of diversified farming and live
stock cannot be successfully or prof
itably raised so long as the Texas
fever cattle tick is permitted TO exist
. The elimination of the cattle tick
means the immigration of the mer
who have steadfastly remained away
b the men from the great middle west
who have made s success Of cattle
raising and diversified farming.
When the southern man has beer
taught to know his defects and hi!
shortcomings and to appreciate hi
advantages. when he learns how K
: put his house in order and to vel
come, assist and labor with the new
settler from other states, and wher
the latter learns to forget his preju
dices and To appreciate the south
/ and its opportunities, then viii thu
/ problem 81 colonization largely solve
] itself.
i All agencies in the south mus
. join together in carrying out thil
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-21
C. E. DRIVER.

Editors Note.-Mr. Drivers point
would be well taken under ordinary
conditions. Unfortunately, however,
the county road building fund is en-
tirely exhausted and the commission
ers have exhausted every means of
raising money for repairing the gen
eral highways. The money for the
Gulf Beach Highway has been raised
by subscription in Pensacola, and
only the convicts and road machinery
are being supplied by the county and
they would otherwise be idle. The
Gulf Beach Highway committee even
offered to lend the commissioners
money to effect immediate repairs
on the general roads, but they were
prohibited by law, from accepting.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-21

Editor of The Journal:
notice in your issue Of Sunday,
goth inst, an item stating that work
on the Gulf Beach Highway will be-
gin September /.
As citizen and taxpayer of Es-
Gambia county, I wish to ask space
in your paper to protest against the
act Of the county commissioners in
using the county convicts, teams,
machinery and etc, at this time to
build this road.
It would only be necessary for any
one to make trip in any conveyance
from an OK cart to an auto, over
the roads we now have leading out
of Pensacola, to convince the most
ardent supporters of the Beach High
way that our present roads should be
at least put in passable shape before
the county road forces are put on
new construction work, and I for one
feel that the people using and living
along our most travelled, but misera-
Bile roads, should, if necessary, secure
an injunction restraining our commits
sioners from using the. convicts for
any new work until roads are put In
shape that we already have or are
supposed to have.
Thanking you in advance for Civ
ing this space, am
Yours, truly,
c. E. DRIVER.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-21

fall It will be small plant, but great will
be the fruit thereof.
The main thing is to make start-the
future will take care of itself The future
of the especially Florida-depends
on cattle, and our people are just finding
it out
Unfortunately for Hughes and politi-
clans of his stripe, the South is in the
saddle; it is riding like Paul Revere, and
great things are in store