The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-08-15

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Smoke left for Sturgeon Bay on the
steamer Carolina "Wednesday morning,
where they will visit with relatives.
Adolph E. Schulze, Of the Abstract
Co., is spending his annual vacation
visiting friends and relatives in the
north and western part OF the county.
The New York Herald says that
there are no more dogs with rabies in
dog days than at any other time.
Here's a real optimist who has found
something to say in behalf of dog days.
The county clerk received only one
bid for printing the ballots for the
primary election, that of the Pilot.
The bid was 1921 for printing 1880
ballots and was accepted.
Miss Alma Jirikowic, compositor
on the Pilot, left Saturday for Aber-
deem, South Dakota, where she will
spend her vacation with her sister,
Mrs. Charles Schumacher.
A New York tailor has an electric
Aatiron weighing fifty pounds. 1t
would have been "handy" for aatten.
ing out the noses OF the negro dele
gates from Florida II it had been own
ed by Chicago tailor.
Atty. L. w. Ledvina with Benjamin
Miles of Two Rivers departed Tues
day for vacation trip which will take
them to Quebec, Canada, and other
points, including the Thousand Isles.
They will be absent for two weeks.
Mrs. John Arnold, who had been
visiting at Amigo returned home Fri
day. She was accompanied by her sis
ter, Mrs. Emma Holzknecht, and her
granddaughter, Miss Lillian Stewart,
who will spend sone weeks visiting
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Schmidt
man, Sr., parents Of Mrs. Geisler, and
Theo. Schmidtman, Jr., brother Of
Mrs. Geisler, of Manitowoc are visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. II. F. Geiser.-Sheboy-
gan Telegram.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Torrison, Mr..
and Mrs. L. e. Geer, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Wits and Mr.. and Mrs. r. G..
Douglas went to Delavan Saturday and
remained there over Sunday. The
party made the trip in the Geer and
Wits cars.
Mr.. Martin O'Connor Of Maple Grove
was caller at the PILOT office Tues
day. Mr.. O'Connor recently purchased
another 80 acre farm near Kaukauna
and has put one Of his sons in charge
of it. His boys are not running away
from the farm.
Washington is the only State on the
Pacific coast in which coal mining is
an industry Of any great Importance,
but the production of 1911 showed de-
crease of nearly 8 per cent, as compar-
ed with that OF 1910.
The United States Geological Survey
attributes the decline in coal produc-
ton in Washington to the increasing
use of fuel oil on the Pacific coast. In
recent years California has come to the
front as the biggest oil State in the
Union, and the coal mines are feeling
the effects OF oil competition. A bull.
letin issued by the Geological Survey
says:
"Even the railroads having their
own coal mines are using fuel oil in
their locomotives on the mountain di.
visions, where a sparkless fuel gives
protection against forest fires. Some
of the Washington coal mines are with
in less than fifty miles Of Puget Sound
yet most OF the steamers plying In
those waters are using oil for fuel, the
saving il labor and the cleanliness Of
the liquid fuel giving it q decided ad
vantage over coal, even when the lat
ter may be cheaper at first cost. The
decreased production of coal in Wash
ington seems to be assignable to nc
other cause than the substitution o.
oil for coal, as trade conditions general
ly in 1911 were satisfactory. This de-
crease was 339, GS4 tons from the pro
duction of 1910. The value decreased
81, 500, 295, or 1929 per cent. The prin
cipal decrease in production was II
Kittitas county, in which the larger
part of the output is taken from mines
controlled by the Northern Pacific rail
way. In fact, the decrease in kittita'
county was more than that Of the Stat,
as whole and bears witness to the in
Huence OF the use Of oil in the RAILROAD
locomotives"