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The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
DOUGLAS BRIEFS

DOUGLAS, Aug 23-The regular weekly moving picture show will take place at the Treadwell Club tonight.
 If the weather permits there will be Ia ball game tomorrow afternoon be- tween the Elks of Douglas and those of Juneau
 The addition to the store of Jules Jensen, the popular hardware man. is being rapidly completed When completed it will furnish much more room, besides improving the appear ance of his property.
 The steamer City of Seattle is sched- uled to arrive today.
 Dr. II. C. Devighne, of Juneau, is looking after Dr. Sargeants practice during the latters' absence
 F. NJ. Emerson is expected back from Fish creek today.
 A large number of Douglas people attended the opening of the new JaX- on's rink in Juneau last night.
 Same good program at the Lyric to- night, but there will be change to- morrow.
 James Graner, who cut off one fng- CT and badly hurt another a while back, is out and aWill start work again tomorrow.
 Work has been started on the skat- ing rink. It is being thoroughly over hauled. The rink is to open again in the near future.
 Congregational Church-The follow ing services are on at the Congrega- tional church Sunday: Sunday School at 10 a. m., morning worship at 1! a. m., subject, Universal Sin" Eve Icing service at s D. m., theme, Lights"
 St. Luke's Episcopal - Services in St. Luke's Episcopal church tomorrow morning at Il a. m. Sermon by Rev. c. F. Renison, subject, "The Secret of a Religious Life" Everyone is cor dially welcome. Sunday School meets at 10 a. m. All members of the Sun day School are requested to be pres ent tomorrow
 Ed ChristOe has opened a cleaning and pressing store in connection with his stOrerOom on St. Ann's avenue. and guarantees to turn out efficient work.
 ED. CHRISTOE. St. Ann's Avenue, Douglas. S-19-6t
 -o-o-
 MISS JESSIE MORRISON is per manently located at the Sans Souci Apts., No. g, with a complete line of hair goods; also does hair dressing. manicuring, facial and scalp-massag- ing; Douglas, Alaska. 8-9-1m.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
TO IuNEAU PATRONS:

Alaska Lodge, No. 2, F. of A., meets every Sunday, 8 p. m., at Oddfellows' hall Initiation fee, including phy- sician's examination, $7.50; for full information, see
 H. HEIDORN, Chief Ranger,
 J. R. RANDELL, Fin Secy.
 H. w. AVERILL, Secy. 6-2Stf
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23

DOUGLAS PEOPLE WILL
 HAVE AN OUTING
 % DOUGLAS, Aug. 23.-A party con sisting of Albion Bartello, Charles A. IlOpp. Paul Bloedhorn, Dr. Sergeant and Elmer Smith left last night on the City of Rome for two weeks outing at Aux Cove.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23
CLASSIFIED ADV.

WANTED - Concrete workers. Alp ply labor department, Alaska Gastin- eau Co. 7-31- If
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23

Ed Christoe has opened a cleaning and pressing store in connection with his stOrerOom on St. Ann's avenue. and guarantees to turn out efficient work.
 ED. CHRISTOE. St. Ann's Avenue, Douglas. 8-19-6t
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23

WANTED, POSITION-As cook for club or party of men; or as working housekeeper in hotel Phone 3S2 S-2O-6t
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-08-23

FOR SALE-Launch Ariel" length 20 feet, CHI. P. engine, first class con- dition. See Trevor M. Davis. 7-18-tf
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30

fuel. For whereas the scientists have
met with discouraging results in their
efforts to derive really cheap alcohol
from grain, vegetables and fruits, it is
being whispered about in the indus
trial world that certain manufacturers
have a different story to tell as the
result of their practical Investigations
of the possibilities Of heretofore dis
carded material-notahly wood waste.
Even the most profound scientists
have all along admitted that alcohol
could be made from saWdust and
wood Shavings but they have never
been willing to commit themselves
farther because they claimed that only
the actual manufacturing process
would determine whether this could
be done profitahly.
There can be no question hat al
cohol as Il fuel for automobiles and
motor boats would possess, were it
OF talnablc at moderate prices, many
advantages oVer gasoline and also
over Kerosene to which as Il motor fuel
increasing attention is being directed
by the soaring price of gasoline. 1t is
indicated by statistics and is the gem
NA"' W. 'i'l'Ii'Il v tilbSt
experienced in handling gasoline.
kerosene and alcohol that the hazard
involved in the use of denaturcd al
cohol is very much less than in the
use of gasoline and possibly less than
in the use of kerosene.
On the score of general cleanliness,
such as manifested by absence of
smoke and d~isagrecable odors, al
cohol has many advantages over gas
oline and kerosene as a fuel. The
exhaust from an alcohol engine is
never cloudod with smoke as is the
exhaust Of a gasoline or Kerosene en-
CINE when the combustion of the fuel
is incomplete and it is seldom If ever
clouded with a blush smoke when n
cylinder oil of too low a fire test is
used or an excessive amount supplied
as Is often the case with Il gasoline
engine. Nor are the odors of dena-
tured alcohol and tho exhaust gases
from an alcohol engine likely to be as
obnoxious as the odor of gasoline and
next few years will see great i'm
provements in alcohol engines
greater possibly thar in gasoline en-
gines. If the price of gasoline con-
tinucs to rise until it approximatcs
alcohol it goes without saying that
alcohol as a fuel will receive general
attention but there is every likelihood
that this day Of even competition will
be FASTENED by improved processes of
manufacture which will scale down
the price of alcohol to meet the as
cending price of gasoline.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
Year Round Motoring

The a of all year round motor
ing Is here An automobile is no
longer a summer vehicle, to be used
only when the sun is smiling and to
be stored away in a garage when cold
and sleet hold sway. From a fair
weather toy of the wealthy, the
motor car has advanced to be the
every day necessity of all c~lesscs.
From a strictly pleasure vchicle it has
evolved to a transportation means on
which depends much of the business
of the commercial world. The closed
body car has wrought the change.
with the advent of the closed car
among the highest priced vehicles in
the land, along has come the. medium
priced coupe and limousine, just as the
almost overwhelming demand for ii
medium priced open car long since
raised the automobile out of the. lux
ury class and placed it near the head
of the list of modern business necessi-
ties" say John N. WHY'S. president
of the Willys-Overland "To-
day, though not in demand in such
large numbers as the open car, the
closed body type is a big factor in the
business Of every automobile manufac-
turer.
Since the Overland Model 60 coupe
was announced, we ave learned the
Importance of the closed car of high
class and low price. Orders for this
type of our product have come in so
rapidly that the original coupe a1lot-
ment of III 10000 cars for 1913 has
been twice increased. 1t won instant
favor with people desiring a winter car
for town and suburban business and
social conveyance, just as its sister
the Model 60 touring car took the me-
dunn priced field by storm.
There are a number of reasons for
the popularity of the Overland coupe.
In the first place it has all funda-
mentals of the 1913 model car We are
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30

building, ample power. luxurious fit
tinss and finish and quality construc-
ton throughout. Seating three pass
ehgers comfortably, the coupe makes
an ideal car for Near round use, APP
pcaling especially to the business man
whose duties require rapid and COM
tortable transportation and to the
ladies who desire luxury, comfort and
style, with ease of operation and con
troll for shopping and calling. Equip
ped with an absolutely reliable electric
starting n lighting device and all the
other rcfincments in present day con
struction, the Overland coupe requires
nothing but driving
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30

IN europe investigating the growing
OF the potatoes which are %oun
thc pest material for producing al
cohol if it Wasn't-herc we have it
agaln-for their price. ONLY lately
the department became convinced
n a afford an excellent
source of alcohol but here again there
is a troublesome ''if"-nameIy if it
wasn't necessary to make the alcohol
IN the tropics where the bananas grow.
Up to date the chief "alcohol CROP"
of agricultural America is Indian corn,
but for all that corn is king through
out a large section of the United
States it has not hecn found prac-
tlcahle to put the alcohol on the mar
ket at much less than 40 cents per gal
ION, Potatoes are, as has been pointed
out, almost an ideal source of CONNER
c1al alcohol but with the potato prices
ina have ruled during the past few
years and with this county even i'm
loft1hS potatoes from Ireland and
Stotland to supplement a shortage in
the domestic supply it goes without
saying that American farmers will
have to raise vastly greater ouanti-
ties of potatoes than at present if
they are ever to serve as a source
OF really cheap alcohol. Even potato
culls give an excellent yield of al
ono and the price of these is low
enough to inspire some hope but here
we ma another stumbling block in
the very limited supply available.
Inc really ideal situation, it would
seem, would develop if it were found
practicable to derive alcohol on a paw
ing basis from the cactus of western
America or some other waste and UNI
profitable material. The cactus, to
consider the example cited, is known
to yield alcohol, but only direct ex-
Fermentation will demonstrate the
commercial side of the proposition.
1t Would help some if this source of
supply could he developed ever
though it were restricted to the south
west where the cactus is abundant.
Every motorist who has toured in
Arizona and New Mexico and has had
experience as to the charges for gas
oline at some of the more isolated
communities in these our newest
states can doubtless speak fcelingly
of the boon that would be conferred
by q fuel obtainable at a rational
price. Other waste materials and by
products that have received attention
as sources of industrial alcohol in
clude stalks of Indian corn and sor-
shum; molasses, wood pulp, the waste
products of canneries, and sawdust.
This last mentioned material Just
now seems most likely to spell that
millennium for the seekers after cheap
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30

tional government, directly or indi-
%rectly, operates a large number of
self-propelled vehicles that now use
gasoline as a fuel and his number
is almost certain to be tremendously
increased in he future. With our
army rapidly adopting the motor car
for military transport of every kind;
with the executive departments at
Washington banishing horses from
their service; and with the new parcel
post literally compelling the use of
motor vehicles not only in the. cities
but on 40, 900 rural routes, and thou
sands of star" routes, it goes without
saying hat the federal establishment
is likely to ere long rank as the larg-
est single consumer of gasoline fuel
on the continent.
And as though this matter of gaso-
line consumption in vehicles operated
by or for the government were not
enough there is the further considera-
ton that Uncle Sam is maintaining a
large and ever-increasing fleet of small
boats which use gasoline as fuel. Why,
just for example, take the situation in
the u. S, Life Saving Service. Tho
general public has not heard So very
much about it, but during the past few
years power boats, dependent upon gas
oline for fuel, have virtually displaced
the old-fashioned life boats and surf
boats which are used for rescue work
on ocean, gulf, lake and river. About
one hundred of these power boats are
already in service at the. life-saving
stations along our extensive coast line
and the number is growing. And then
there are the motor boats in the navy
and in the other branches of federal
work.
In the quest for a substitute for
gasoline it is considered of the first
Importance to secure a fuel that may
be, SO to speak, used Interchangeable
with gasoline. To discover a fuel tina
even though much cheaper and of
equal efficiency required the. construc-
ton of auto engines or new principles
Woul prove a doubtful blessing. IN
deed, automobile manufacturers and
auto users would probably look ask
ance at any newly exploited fuel that
even necessitated changes or readiust-
ments in existing motors, even if these
alterations be not of a very radical
character. The ideal before the eyes
of hundreds of thousands of our citi-
zens who have their money tied up
in gasoline automobiles is a cheaper
fuel that can be introduced in exactly
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
TESTING CATTLE.

kalispell, March 29.-(Special.)-As-
sistant State Veterinarian Or. j. Boyd
today commenced the work of apply
ing the tubercular test to dairy cattle
in the F1athead valley. A herd of high
grade Holstein stock recently shipped
in by G. f.. Drew from Minnesota and
other eastern points were the first
treated and the results will be watched
with interest, since last years test of
native cattle resulted in n percentage
of less thar one-sixth of one per cent
being found affected. This record is
said to be ~unequalled by any section
OF the northwest.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
dIco1oIIl1Su1e N@11h 7111cI ZNe UCG0DL -
1dy BEEN ZzkLzSL 1lpezu7enk1

Bad roads have heretofore been, per-
haps, the chief bugbear of the average
motorist. But it looks as though the
owners OF automobiles, now that they
have furthered a movement that is
bringing good roads, would soon be face
to face with a worse contingency. The
rising price of gasoline is this latest
menace. and there are mighty few
folks in motordom who have not al
ready felt it's pinch, no matter whether
they operate a single car solely for
purposes of pleasure or a large. compile
ment of mofor trucks for mercantile or
commercial purposes.
Motorists in the east have beheld
this supposedly essential fuel advance
in price, within a comparatively short
time, from s or 8 cents to II or IS cents
per gallon-an increase of say 100 per
cent-and the enc is not yet, to say
nothing of the. fact that in the estima-
ton of many persons who have looked
into the matter carefully, the quality
of the average gasoline furnished to au-
tomoltilists is steadily declining. No
wonder that a large proportion of the
auto owners and drivers are already
looking anxiously about for a substi-
tute for gasoline, against the time When
the price of gasoline becomes absolute
~ prohibitive.
Private enterprise is working,
through a number of different chan
nels to find a cheap, dependable, al
tentative fuel for use by the engines of
horseless vehicles but perhaps the most
significant fact in this connection and
the circumstance that inspires the most
hope for an ultimate solution is that
the national government has turned it's
attention to the matter and, under the
spur of the mounting price. of gasoline,
is pushing with renewed energy inves-
tigation undertaken in this field some
time since. Two branches of the fed
eral government-the department of
agriculture and the department of the
interior are pushing the quest and the
bureau of mines in the aforementioned
department is especially active.
Uncle Sam has several very good
and sufficient reasons for being very
much concerned over this matter of
finding a substitute for gasoline, aside
from the. natural desire to give atten-
ton to any matter that affects the
welfare and the pocketboo<s of any
considerable portion of the population
as does anything touching the sub
ject of automobiles. N reason then,
for federal solicitudc is that the ma
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30

the same ann as gasoline and
without disturbance to the existing
mechanism of the cars.
1t is for this reason that denatured
Or commercial alcohol is theoretically
the popular choice as q substitute for
gasoline. Gasoline and alcohol en-
gines are built and operated on ex-
actly the same principle and the ac-
ton of the two fuels is relatively the
same. Explosive mixtures of the va
pors of gasoline and of alcohol with air
are formed in the same manner and
the subsequent burning of these ex-
ploSiVe mixtures in the engine cylinder
takes place in a similar way and with
similar results. 1t is claimed that any
gasoline engine with a well-dcsigned
~carburetor will run as We'll with al
cohol as with gasoline, from the stand
point of operation, eXcept for a diff
ference in ease of starting and in
certainty of operation at low speeds
In short, it is argued, that the only
change, if any required for the use of
alcohol in a gasoline engine is in the
size of the fuel passageways. The
changes need not be such as to affect
the consumption of gasoline and vet
without these changes the engine
could scarcely be said to be equally
serviceable with either fuel.
But, unfortunately, the question Of
efficiency is not the sole consideration
in selecting fuel for an automobile or
motor boat. The factor of price en-
ters in. otherwise we would not have
the present agitation against gas
oline. And alcohol, as the case stands
today, is not cheap enough to arouse
enthusiasm. Even if alcohol has a
certain advantage in efficiency, over
gasoline it can scarcely be expected
that motorists are going to dispense
with gasoline at II or IS or even 20
cents q gallon to take on dcnatured
alcohol at So to 40 cents per gallon.
This then is the real p~rohlem-not
merely to discover a substitute for
gasoline but to find a substitute OBJ
tainable at prices lower than the pres
ent quotations on gasoline. With this
problem the experts of the depart
ment of agriculture are wrestling and
have been wrestling ever since DR..
Wiley, some years since, thought he
saw the millennium for the farmer in
the production and use of industrial
alcohol. Tests nave been made by
the agricultural department with all
sorts of materials n Uncle Sans
farm annex now has a special agent
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
FORD SALES GOOD.

Floyd J.. Logan reports the recent
sale and delivery of Ford touring
cars, one a to each of the following:
G.. +. Whiteman, cashier of the
Farmers n Merchants State bank,
at Dixon; Hammons 4 Son of Plains;
w. II. Wood of Stevensville, and w.
l.. Campbell of Dixon.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-04-11
ANOTHER THEATER
WILL HAVE SEATING CAPACITY
OF FIVE HUNDRED
TO BUILD NEW PICTURE TKEATeR
Work of Preparing the Site Has
Been Started

The work of preparing the site for
the new moving picture theater which
II. w. True will erect OH West Sec
ond-st., adjacent and on the south
side of the Fair store, has been com
menced. One shed has already been
moved away and the old Dimock
building, which has been temporarily
occupying the site, will be moved off
in the near future.
The new theatcr will be of fire
proof construction. It will be built of
concrete, 34xl00 in size, and will be
two stories high. There will be Il
basement the full size of the build
ing.
The theater will be modern in ev-
cry particular and will have seat
ing capacity of 800.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-04-11
OBITUARY
ed here.

Mrs. Lena Bittner was born July
Z, 1S49, in Berlin, Germany, the
youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Witzel. When one and one half years
old she lost her mother by death,
and soon after her father emigrated
with his little mOtherless children to
America and settled near Plymouth,
Sheboygan County, Wis A family by
the name of Andres adopted little
Lena Witzel and kept her until she
was II or Is years Of age. From that
time she began to work for her own
support.
Iu the year of 1875, the goth of
July, she was united in marriage TO
Mr.. Fred Bittner, of Two Rivers,
Manitowoc County, Wis. To this un-
ion were born seven children, five
sons and daughters. Three of these
sons died in infancy. The deceased
lived with her family in various
places and cities of this state, until
in June, 1902, she came to I.adya
smith Here she resided ever since.
She had been in poor health for
the last .12 years or more; quite i'll
for about ! Y years. 1t was com
plication of diseases, that confined
her most of the time to her home
chronic bronchitis, rheumatism and
heart failure. Her suffering was in
tense, the last week of her life the
painful pleurisy having set in Tues
day night April /, at 10:30, the Angel
of Death came to release her OF all
her troubles and sufferings of this
earthly life She attained the age of
63 years months and 25 days.
Two sons, Messrs Gustav and
Richard Bittner, her two daughters,
Mrs. Laura Spresser and Mrs. Alvina
Grotzinger, both of the neighboring
town of Port Arthur and six grand
children, two brothers and one sister
survive the deceG sed.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-04-11
DIED AT THE PAPER MILL

G. r. Kramer, single, aged 80, died
at the paper mill Monday morning
under peculiar circumstances. He was
employed as a sawyer in the pulp
mill and was suddenly overcome by
heart failure and fell forward strik-
ing his head against one of the cast
ings on the saw carriage and cutting
cash in his forehead, which how
ever could not have been fatal.
1t was first thought that Kramer
had been killed by the blow on the
head when he fell against the ma
chine, but an autopsy performed at
the Peterson undertaking rooms
by DR.. O'Connor, Of this city, and
DR.. Zimmerman, of Almena, showed
conclusively that there had been no
injury to the brain or other injury
that would cause death.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-04-11
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Warranty Deed

r. A. Austin and wife to Thomt S
Orr nwA 1S-33-7W 49,. ~ $500
Anna E. McGill and husband to j.
r. Ducklow, lots 16, II IS blk. ?
Plat of New Flambeau -. $4,000
Rusk Farm Co. to H. r. Morrison,
VIZ swA sell nwH 15-339W..
j. l.. Gates Land CO. to Hattie Nc
Rae, ME- seA sw4 seA gov. lot
3 3o-33-9 80. 49,. S2SG1 !
J. H. Burns and wife to James V.
Douglas, lots /, , blk. of Original
plat of Bruce 49,. ... ..... $500
Hardwood Land and Improvement
Co. to Rev. NJ. Joseph Hynek sW
a IS nwA 21-369W. -. ..$4320
Hardwood Land and Improvement
Co. to The Bishop of the Diocese
of Superior, sw sw Sc 163G-9W.
Mateus Graczyk to Frank Gacioch, n
WIZ neA 20-34-9 .... 49,. $3.50
II. l.. Clark and wife to Henry VII
son, west Is feet of lot ) all Of
lot blk. Ladysmith Townsite
Co 1st add " . 49,. 80, E.
Frank Andelt and wife to James A.
Michaelson, he Sc 32-35-5W ...
Ingram Lumber Co. to Chas. Gustaf-
son, VIE swA swA 3235-4. $3.50
Alta G. Bugher and husband to N.
Woods, lots II Is blk. / Millers
lSt add 49,. 80. 49,. .... ..SS0o
Ellingson Lumber Co. to G. ]. Smith,
sW NV 23-35-3W ... .. 49,. $3.50
Edwin Borgeson and wife to Kear-
ney Bros. lot 13 16, blk. Z Village
of Ingram 49,. 49,. .... $50
Louisa Corbett to G. l.. Spear, lot !
blk . plat of Flambeau Falls $500
Leda NJ. Alpine and huband to f. G..
Nelson and wife, lot blk, % NJ
w. w. Co s End add 49,. 500
Louis Radiker and wife to Richard
Cignere, nwA nwA 12-35-4W. $3.50
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-04-11
Will Erect a new Church

The Scandinavian Lutherans will
erect a new church this summer OPP
posite the old Catholic church, on
the corner of Secoud-st. east.
Operations will be begun as soon
rs the frost is out of the ground
The structure will be 32x60 in size.
it is thought and will have base.
ment. Rev Ritland is very busy with
weather permits work will be rushed.
The church will cost between $4,000
and $4,000.