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II highly beneficial effect upon the de
velopment of many American indus
tries. 1t would appear that this bene-
tit is to be distributed pretty generally
throughout the nation. Farmers will
come in for Il large share AS they
produce all the raw material from
which alcohol is made. they deserve a
considerable slice of the cake.
Heretofore the government has col
lected an internal revenue tax of $2O7
Il gallon Oh alcohol This made its
use for purposes Of light, heat and
power practically prohibitive and very
greatly limited its employment in the
many arts and industries to which al
cohol is naturally adapted Engines
and stoves and lamps by the million
have had to burn Standard Oil prod
ucts. either gasoline or. Kerosene. thus
helping to fatten the OCTOPUS which al
most everybody hates ard fears. Al
coho! minus the tax could be used to
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much greater advantage and with very
much less danger. AS a consequence
of this high tax comparatively little
alcohol was manufactured in the Unit
ed States. Immense quantities of ex-
cellent material for its manufacture
went to waste.
-Four years ago Kansas elected a
young newspaper man to congress
from the old district of Jerry Simpson.
Being red headed, he ran OH the plat
form that red headed men are needed
in congress. This young man, Victor
Murdoch, was born and reared in Kan
sas. which is a flat country, largely a
treeless plain, and he had done good
deal of thinking. He once expressed to
the present writer the theory that Il
plains country is conducive to the de-
velopment of Mystics and seers.
The monotony of the level land.
said Mr.. Murdoch, makes people med
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-13

This doctoring process is called dena-
turing. Thus we have denatured alco-
hol which chemists call commercial or
Industrial alcohol The other kind is
just plain alcohol, used in the manu-
facture of intoXicants.
The free alcohol law went into effect
Jan. /. That date may be remember
ed as the birthday of new and glor-
ious era for American industries. Such
was the expressed opinion of many
persons who supported the measure
when 1t was before congress and who
have looked forward with high antici-
pations to its going into effect. Some
men grew so enthusiastic over the
prospect Of untaXed alcohol that they
dreamed of national utopia They
foretold all sorts of marvellous ameli-
orations to result from the abolition
of the tax. The poor man was to be-
come independent. The Standard Oil
trust was to be smashed to smith
Greens. The octopus was to be severed
of several Of its most wriggling legs
and rendered cripple for life. Par
ticularly was the small farmer to bene-
fit, even to the attainment of opulence
and town house on Easy avenue.
A Rosy Outlook.
1t appears now that large degree
of extravaganza entered into these pre-
dictions. Conservative opinions of eX-
perts like DR.. II. W. Wiley, chief of
the national bureau of chemistry, do
not justify any such serene and
snowy attitudes of hope. Yet the out
look is very promising, even rosy. The
taXless alcohol age in this country has
just begun. In what ways and to what
degree it will benefit the people must
be left in large measure to the slow
results of time. Rome required more
than one day in building. The benign
effects of the free coinage of alcohol
may require several years before maxi
ing a very great showing
All the authorities seem to agree
that the removal of the tax will have
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-13
The Despised Cob Valuable.

If the farmer finds that corn is sell
ing too cheap to earn il profit he can
manufacture it into alcohol We are
told that the average yield of an acre
of corn will produce 100 gallons of al
cohol. This is from the grain alone.
The stalks. which now are used for
fodder and sometimes burned or plow-
ed under, will make another hundred
gallons of alcohol to the acre if used
before they dry out. Even the de-
spised cob when green possesses starch
and sugar enough to be worked into
the alcoholic output with profit when
used in connection with other materi-
ais. The sugar corn cob is particularly
saccharine and consequently valuable.
Potatoes yield about 225 gallons of
alcohol to the acre. This is the official
estimate Oh the kind of potatoes grown
for human food. There are other vari-
cites. we'll known in Germany. which
yield 500 gallons of alcohol to the acre.
Sugar beets are calculated to give
224 gallons of alcohol per acre y
bushel of corn. we are told. will make
five gallons of alcohol. Corn at 40
cents a bushel brings high price.
Frequently it is much lower than that.
Denatured alcohol, it is figured. can be
made and sold probably at from s to
10 cents ii gallon. Illuminating Oil
costs from 16 to 30 cents. Yachtsmen.
motor boatmen and automobilists now
pay about 22la cents a gallon for a
good quality of gasoline to run their
engines. A gallon of alcohol will sup
ply more horsepower. it is claimed
than a gallon of gasoline.
But consider the byproducts of the
farm and orchard that may be used in
making alcohol. In addition to the
corncob and stalk. there are apple par
ings, pea and bean bulls, tomato peel
ings, waste fruits and vegetables of all
kinds that are not marketable. 1t
would appear that you can put almost
any old thing except your last years
hat or last years birds nest into
the still and turn it into alcohol.
The farmer should find life still more
worth living-still life, you know. He
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-13
Ey RoBERTUs LOVE.

NCLE SAN is now
engaged in the
free and unlimited
coinage OF alcohol.
In plain prose. the
United States pass
es upon alcohol
manufactured by
any citizen and
admits it to the
market free of
taxation. The only
requirement is that
the output must be
doctorel with some
ingredient which
renders it utterly
and irretrievably
unfit for beverage
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can get rid of his smeary and smelly
coal Oil lamps and use alcohol ilumi-
nants. He can cook with alcohol in
stead Of cutting stove wood. He can
run his feed cutters and other farm
machinery with alcohol And all this
light, heat and power he can generate
at small cost from the products of his
own farm, largely surplus and waste
products. If all these dreams come
true life down OH the dear old farm
should become decidedly more pleas
ant. With no stove wood to cut the
farmer will have more time to fish
A Boon and Blessing.
There is the sweet potato, which is
exceedingly productive of alcohol The
farmer raises it. He can cook sweet
potatoes for his table on Il stove heated
by sweet potatoes. In winter sweet
potatoes will keep his house warm
Sweet potatoes will light his rooms for
the long winter evenings by the sweet
potato tireside Sweet potatoes will
grind his corn and cut his chop stuff
for the COWS i'm the stable. Sweet pota-
toes will run his automobile to town
and buy him the necessaries of life
which he does not produce himself
Verify the sweet potato in the form of
alcohol. will be Il boon and blessing.
In these uses it will give real warmth
and cheer, not the artificial stimulation
which topers from time immemorial
have felt from the use of the undena.
tured "craythur" internally. Hereafter
alcohol proposes to help instead of
hurt. In that fact lies a revolution.
Dr. Wiley thinks that for the present
it will be Improbable to manufacture
alcohol in very small quantities. No
farmer. of course. can manufacture
any at all without first registering his
still and having the tanks locked by a
government agent. Uncle Sam proposes
to see to the denaturing himself The
law provides for this, and If anybody
imagines that he can evade the tax
which still applies to undoctored al
cohol he is sadly in error.
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DIR. SToCKDALE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS northwest for his
remarkable cures. has visited Denison
every four weeks for the past six years
and has had phenomenal success in
the treatment of his specialties.
DR.. Stockdale is a graduate of the
best colleges, and has met with great
success because of his skilful treat
ment and cures of Chronic and ner-
vous diseases. He cures Catarrh,
Diseases of the Throat Lung. Stom.
ach, Liver and Kidneys, also Rheuma
tism, Constipation, Blood and Skin
Diseases.
Piles and all Rectal Diseases Cured
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Of these stills are quite small-the back

An amendment to the law which en-
ables the small farmer to erect and
operate his still and meet the regula-
lions without having to send his alec
hoic material to larger still for man
ufacture was introduced early in the
present session of congress by another
newspaper man, also from Il fiat coun-
try, by the way. Senator Henry c..
Hansbrough of North Dakota sponsor
ed this amendment, which is calcu-
lated to set thousands OF farmers to
work at the manufacture of alcohol for
home consumption-alt altogether exter-
nally, of course-and for sale.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
BATTERY CASE IS DISMISSED
Woman Released from Custody When
Judge Hears Evidence in
the Case

Charged with battery Mrs. Edith
Goldsten appeared before Police JUS
tice Rose yesterday and pleaded not
guilty She was discharged The
woman was arrested on a complaint
sworn to by Mrs. Clemence Pinsome-
ult, who claimed Mrs. Goldstein had
struck her during a row in a tailor
shop owned by the two families at
6l7 South Spring.
According to the testimony, Mrs.
Pinsomeult financed the Goldstein
family in the tailor business. j. Gold
stein was 10 run the shop and turn
over one-half of the proceeds to Mrs.
Pinsomeult. The latter claims she re-
ceived few small amounts, but that
Mr.. Goldstein held back some money
ON her Mrs Pinsomeult then went
to the store and demanded that her
furniture be turned over to her The
request was refused and the woman
is said to have endeaYored to take the
furniture by force.
Justice Rose held that Mrs PIN
someult had no right 10 act in the
manner she did in the store.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
THREE AUTOMOBILES STOLEN
Nervy Thieves Take Machines from in
Front of Pavilion During
Prize Fiqht

Three automobiles were stolen from
in front of the Pacific Athletic pavil-
ion last night during the prize fight.
Only two of the thefts were reported
at the police station, however Harry
E. Lusk OF 147 North Soto reported that
his $4,000 Winton No. 6413, black, model
K, was not to be found when he re-
turned from the fight.
A man giving his name as c. ]. Bry-
son said touring car No. 6274 had been
stolen during the fight.
There was no report made of the
third theft, and it is probable the ma
chine was found. Mr.. Lusk. who told
of the theft of the car, said he believed
it was a rented machine used to con-
vey Baker to the pavilion.
The theft of automobiles from the
pavilion grounds has been common
occurrence on the occasions of prize
fights, machines being stolen at almost
every event. This in spite of the fact
that the grounds We're well patroled by
police and detectives
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Goes NORTH To
GET CAS EXPERT
CHAIRMAN LYON RUSHES THE
INQUIRY PLANS
Constituent Tells Mayor the Lowe and
Los Angelica Generator Service
Should Be Joined in This
Emergency

With the departure of Chairman
Lyon of the councils gas inquiry COM
mission for San Francisco yesterday
further progress was made on the pro-
posed municipal investigation into the
causes and remedy for the recent on
and-off gas supply which prevails in
Los Angeles.
Mr.. Lyon will secure a gas expert
while north, returning Monday If the
San Francisco man cannot be had an
other expert from the east will be en-
gagged, as it is the policy of Mayor
Harper and the commission to get the
best judgment of three experts, so that
no favoritism or prejudice can be
charged
DR.. w. J. Chambers called up the
mayors office by telephone yesterday
and suggested that Los Angeles could
get all the gas it needed for emergency
purposes if the Lowe Gas company
would connect its mains with the Los
Angeles companys and add the sup
ply from it's generators.
His proposition was that the Los
Angeles company be forced to pay for
this added expense in the interest of
the public.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
FIRE ENGINE IS
STUCK IN MUD
Traffic on Pico Street Delayed Forty
Minutes While Machine Is Beinq
Extricated from Badly
Filled Excavation

After run of two blocks to a fire at
1928 Union avenue, engine No. 13 of the
hre department house of Catalina and
Plco became mired in the mud between
the street car tracks at Pico and Ell
Molino. For forty minutes cars on the
Pico line were held up and traffic in
terfered with. The street car crews and
the tiremen united their efforts in re-
leasing the wagon, but to no avail, for
the submerged wheels gave not an inch
by the pulling and hauling.
Finally one of the cars was attached
to the engine, and when the power was
turned on the heavy wagon was easily
moved from the rut.
Recent excavations for sewer pines
made by the Alsop Engineering com
pany in the road at Pico and El Mollno
which had been filled with soft soil was
responsible mainly for the sinking of
the engine.
The fire at 1928 Union avenue, a house
owned by Lewis Asheman, was extin-
guished before the fire department ar
rived. 1t was only a small blaze, which
the family easily put out by water
thrown from pals. A spark that flew
from crate had ignited some of the
furnishings in the house and the blaze
so frightened the occupants that they
turned in the alarm. The damage done
was estimated at only a few dollars
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
USE KNOWLEOC
Of CHEMICALS
PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION
NOT A SUCCESS
Results in Expulsion of Some Throop
Students and Mighty Anxious
Seats for Others ln=
piicated

Throop Polytechnic institute at Pasa-
dena is involved in an episode in which
some very naughty youngsters, with
very much of the boy in them and
some very naughty chemicals which,
properly mixed, suggest such odors as
would result from fight in the wilds
with skunk" play parts.
The episode in which Throop as a
whole was forced to participate, owing
to the permeating qualities of the odor,
occurred some days ago, and in various
forms has been occurring ever since
Several of the boys have been sus-
pended for a season as a result.
drug store is mixed i'm the affair in
the capacity of a dispensary at which
the drugs and chemicals with the COM
bined odor We're purchased. Through
the drug store the faculty found who
purchased the chemicals. Those who
purchased now have nice little vaca-
tion.
"Oh! what horrid smell" This is
just fierce" What awful boys" and
similar utterances We're the dainty
Throop's student body as they filed
into the class rooms The real dope
came later when the chemicals became
active anG had worked to that pitch
where there was no room in the school
house for aught but the fumes.
The rumor was abroad on the streets
at Pasadena last evening that the
youngsters We're whipped on account
of the escapade, The rumor was author
itatiVely denied, however, and it has
finally developed that several We're ex-
PEELED. Two who are known are Sid
ney Tyler and jay English.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
OVERCOME WHILE
FIGHTING FLA IVES
Proprietor of Hotel Rose Escapes
Death Only Through the Quick
Rescue Work OF
Firemen

While attempting to smother a small
blaze in the basement of the Hotel Rose,
9O6 South Broadway, early last night II.
Allan, the proprietor, was overcome by
the dense smoke and was barely saved
from death by the oppOrtune arrival of
the firemen.
About 6 O'clock a servant reported
that smoke was ascending to the upper
rooms from the basement, and the pro-
prietor rushed down to Investigate. AS
soon as he opened the door he was over
Whelmed by cloud Of SNAKE that
nearly strangled him, but he battled his
way through the inky pillows until he
discovered the source of the fire. The
draught tlue Of the oil furnace had be.
come Clogged with SCOT, the flame had
been eXtinguishcd, but the oil still
flowed, oVelrunning tho drip pan, and
on to the floor, A spark from the fur
mace had lighted the oil which covered
the asphalt tloor, and the flames had
Tapped up the oil quickly. No damage
was done, as the furnace room was en-
tirely of lireproof construction, but the
burning oil had produced volumes Of
smoke.
The smoke filed the entire building
and the occupants were terrified ONE
woman who was i'll was carried into an
adjoining house, but was brought back
a few moments later when the frcmcu
assured the guests that the blaze had
spent itself and there was no further
danger
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
COUNCIL ADOPTS
AQUEOUCT ROUTE
APPROVES RIGHT OF WAY OF
OWENS PROJECT
Lines from Mount Whitney to Los AM
gces, as Reported by Board,
Are Officially Accepted.
Government Helps

In adopting the maps and blue prints
of the Los Angeles aqueduct commits
sion yesterday the city council formally
declared it's acceptance of the proposed
right of way of the owens river aque-
duct.
The resolution for the adoption of
the surveys of the proposed main con-
duit for conveying the waters of the
owens river to Los Angeles, the pro-
posed pressure pipe and canal, and pow
er site Oh Cottonwood creek; also
certain proposed reservoir site deslg-
rated as the HaiWee reservoir site, and
other matters, all shown on three maps
accompanying the report, were referred
to the council with a recommendation
that the same be adopted, and this was
done by the solons.
The accompanying maps will be GER
titled by the mayor and city clerk and
sworn to by the chief engineer of the
bureau of the Los Angeles aqueduct
and thereupon filed with the proper
officer of the department of the interior
of the United States, in order that the
city may obtain the benefits of the acts
of congress approved June 80, 1906, by
authorized to sell to the city of Los
Angeles certain public lands in Cali
fornia and grant rights to cross through
a certain forest reserve.
The council adopted a resolution for
the purchase of lands from Chas. a.
Collins in Inyo county for $4,000, and
a resolution for the purchase of lands
from c. r. Rinaldi Cor $2S,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
NEED KNOW BIKES
To WEAR STARS
SIXTY PROSPECTIVE POLICE
DO BICYCLE STUNTS
Civil Service Examination of Blue.
coats at Gymnasium Calls for
Nerve and Bone-Racking
Exhibitions

Sixty corpulent men, each taking a
turn at riding bicycles, gave an ami
mated appearance to Turner hall on
Main street yesterday.
Bicycling is one of the arts in which
all Los Angeles policemen must be
adopts, and the riding yesterday was
part of the examination in which pros
pective policemen took part. The ex-
animation was conducted by the civil
service commission, and lasted all day.
The men were required to run around
the hall three times and at the end
of the circuit pick up 200-pound
dummy representing man and shoul-
der ii. Later, jumping exercises We're
INDUCED in, the jumps varying from
nine to thirteen feet, and then course
of parallel bars walking and other
exercises were required. Bicycling was
reserved for the last.
Captain Charles Kiener, a former
German army officer and West Point
instructor, had charge of the work
for the board and for the first time
w. L. Adams, the new chief examiner
for the board, looked on. 1t requires
the services of three men to conduct
the examinations, as two of them use
the tape to measure distances.
Several of the ambitious applicants
had to drop out because they were
not proficient in bicycling. They are
required to make running wheel
mount and dismount. AS policemen
are often sent on hurry calls the bi-
cycle is considered an important part
of the department equipment
Today the examination for firemen
will be held in the same gymnasium.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
HAMPT0NS WILL NOT REC0G-
NlZE OFFSPRING
Regsn Chapter Not Invited to Partici.
pate in Celebration and Ar.
ranges Rival Entertain.
ment Tonight

The aftermath of a row which seems
to be more unpleasant than the dssen-
sion itself has come as the result of
fuel added to the smoldering fire
which was started some time last May
in the Wade Hampton Chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
At that time an election was held for
the officers for the coming year. Every
thing went smoothly until some of the
members. i'm casting votes for the pres
ideut attempted to vote by proxy for
absent members. Several of the prom
inent women of the organization re-
belled and said that voting by proxy
was not legal and especially as the
member voting only gave the absent
members consent verbally and had no
written order to show that she was
so authorized.
A hot discussion followed and num-
Der said they would resign unless the
voting was done over again. Nothing
was done apparently towards holding
another election and nineteen members
resigned, when Mrs. r. r.. Hutchinson
took the presidents chair
No reconciliation was affected. as
neither party would own to being in
the wrong.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
MUSIC AND DRAMA
Symphony Orchestra

Even the symphony orchestra Is not
immune to the troobles with the gas
suppy-or lack of 1t. The orchestras 8
concert in the Mason yesterday might
with almost as much comfort have been
given in an ice house. There Is excuse
for an ice house being cold; the lack
of gas was the excuse the Mason had to
offer, so the house was not to blame
for the lack of temperature. In going
there at all Director Harley Hamilton
disobeyed his physician, and risked his
life by staying. He directed most of
the program while seated in a chair,
but In the final symphony he stood,
though his weakness was apparent.
Despite the handiCaps, however, the
concert was one of the orchestra's best.
The feature, of course, was the first
production i'm Los Angeles of Tschai-
kowsky's Fourth symphony, aN tire.
mendous, colorful and very thrilling
composition by the greatest of Rus
sia,s musical giants. Four movements
were given-the andante, the dainty
andantino, the pizzicato scherzo. and
the finale. allegro con fuoco. All of
them are tests for the most skillful or
chestras in the world, and in attempt
ing them Director Hamilton set his
men a supreme tes',
That the orchestra rose fully to all
the demands ii would be folly to say
or to have expected; the work is too
tremendous for depletion by any save
the most perfect organizations. But IN
the main they gave an excellent and
scholarly reading of the various pas
sages, their best work being in the an
dantino which was splendidly done.
The scherzo, which Tschaikowsky in
dicated should be played very rapidly,
and which direction he repeated often,
was taken quite too slow, and its great
est beauty, which lies in it's pizzlcato
passages, was lost This tempo may
have been the result of Mr.. Hamiltons
WEAKNESS, but it considerably detracted
from the perfect enjoyment of the Sc
lection. Much praise is due for the
renditions of the balance.
Karl Goldmark's s"Sakuntala" over
ture, very heavy and somewhat weari-
some, was the opening number. well
done. and the Arthur Foote serenade
for strings, in three divisions, excel
lently played, as the string numbers
always are, was the concluding feature
of the first half Of the program. All in
all, the concert was one of the very
best to the orchestra's credit.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
SECRETARY SPALDlNG
FEARS APPENDICITIS

Secretary Spaldng Of the civil SER
vice commission is confined to his
home at l34 North Gates street by u
threatened attack Of appendicitis
Last night the physicians in attend
auce reported that their patient was
doing well ana they were inclined to
believe that serious consequences had
been obViated by prompt attention.
kuickel-ilow did that college boy get
such good position in Panama?
BoGher-lie was such a adept at max
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