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Automobile Show iiri Our Mew
IBuildimec All This Wee
IN OCEAN TO OCEAN TOUR
12 PREMIER CARS
ESTABLISHED WORLD'S RECORD
PREMIER'S -wonderful chassis
which made this trip possible is
the outgrowth of knowledge
gained during a long life of
epoch-making road perform
ances, the last of which was thi3
famous transcontinental tour of
twelve PREMIERS, driven by
owners and carrying families
and friends to the number of
forty men, women and childen,
not one of whom was lost, as all
twelve cars finished after aver
aging 163 miles a day in accord
ance with schedule in this 4763
mile trip across the American
continent. Every feature of
PREMIER will be explained by
our corps of experts at PRE
MIER exhibit, where all 6how
visitors are heartily welcomed.
THE QUALITY CAR
Northwest Auto Co.
617 Washington Street
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THE MOTOR THAT SUPPLANTED
THE WORLD'S BEST
A Silent Knight Motor Can Be Seen In Actual Demonstration All This Week
The Czar of Russia
Owns a Knight-Motored Car
Sales Doubled
to aoea the Emperor of Germany.
So do the Kings of England. Bel
gium, Spain.
Co do mora than I90f men. en both
Idea the Atlantic, who demand the
best the world can offer In their
pleasure cars.
In Europe the list of KnJght own
ers Is the Blue Book of Motordom.
Panhard. the pride of Frsnee Mi
nerva, Belgium's greatest car both
have come to this sleeve-valve motor.
Thus the four leading cars of the
Old World have recognized that the
poppet valve must go.
. Last Summer, after two years of
testing, the Stearns cam into line.
We have built Stearns cars for 18
years. They have attained an im
mense popularity.
But the first announcement of this
sleeve-valve motor doubled our sales
in a month.
It compelled us to lease a new factory
Hundreds of men who got early de
liveries have run these cars thou
sands of miles. And the letters we get
from them form the highest tribute
ever paid an Americas car.
50 Per Cent More Power
Daimler the leading car of Eng
land eice 1908 has been a Knight
motored car.
Mercedes the monarch of the Ger
man field Is now a Knight-type car.
And the Mercedea engine, which the
Knight-type supplanted, waa consid
ered the master engine of the world.
The World-
To Get Rid of
. Every great designer who still em
ploys poppet valves is seeking a way
to get rid of them.
We adopted the Knight way because
we regard It the ideal solution. And
the foremost engineers have agreed
with us.
But those who belittle it to sell
cars without it are seeking other
means to this end.
That ia the' record of the Knight
type motor after three yeara of the
limelight.
Five of the world's greatest makers
adopt it. And 8000 owners of high
grade cars have become Knlght-type
enthusiasts.
Consider these facts when somebody
warns you that the Steams-Knight is
an experiment.
Wide Effort
Poppet Valves
- valves aren't tight, there is vast
waste of power.
Cams are required, and cams get
noisy when they wear. Timing gears
are used, and their humming can be
heard.
Thus silence Is made Impossible.
Power and efficiency are greatly re
duced. And every designer knows it.
The cylinders in the Steams-Knight
are 4xB inches.
By accepted standards such an en
gine is rated at 2S.9 horsepower.
But we guarantee that this engine
will show an excess of not less than
60 per cent.
This is due to the absence of poppet
valves and their leakage. And to the
spherical shape of the explosion
chamber.
That's an immense item.
No large cylinders, no greater con
sumption of gasoline. Yet half again
as much power as the rating calla
for. Think what that means.
Won Dewar Trophy
In the Greatest Test on Record
The Royal Automobile Club of Eng
land offers the Dewar Trophy.
It is offered for the greatest
achievement of the year in automo
bile engineering.
In 1909 this trophy was won by the
Knlght-type motor.
It was won In a test beyond prece
dent a test which engineers called
impossible a test which no poppet
valve motor aver will attempt.
At the end of the test which
equaled two years of ordinary
service the engines developed more
power than they did at the start.
And , they showed not a sign of
wear.
Such is the verdict of the world's
foremost authority on the sleeve
valve type of motor found in the
Stearns-Knight.
For poppet valves form the greatest
shortcoming In modern gasoline en
gines. They axe noisy and slow and
leaky.
There are two in each cylinder
springing shut hundreds of times per
minute.
They require frequent grinding.
Whea carbon accumulates, so the
The Stearns-Knight engine has no
timing gears, no springs, no cams, no
poppet valves.
There is no carbon trouble, no valve
grinding, no leakage. The action is
silent and certain.
No man who knows half what we
know about it will consider a poppet
valve motor.
No Leading Car
Can Lead for Long Without It
The Silent Power
The silence of the Stearns-Knight
Is ajmeet uncanny.
Whan turning Idly at the curb there
la soarcely sound or vibration to show
the engine is running.
The car glides en the road." says
en ef the owners, "as though it were
sliding en runners."
Every evidence of effort to which
one is aacusUmed 1 lacking In the
Bum,
On hills the Stearns-Knight showa
that persistent power known in elec
tric motors.
In traffic one may run at walking
speed on high gear, then quickly ac
celerate to any speed wanted without
any jumping or pounding.
The four-cyjinder Knight type of
fer all the flexibility of the six
cylinder poppet valve.
The Knight-type motor, after years
of tests, has been adopted by the
world's best cars.
Each, to' adopt It, displaced a poppet-valve
engine as good as men can
make.
What 1 done by Daimler, Mercedes,
Panhard and Minerva in so vital a
matter must be done by all great
cars soon or late.
The leading cars of the future will
be Knlght-type cars. The evidence ia
overwhelming.
No lesser features can ever out
weigh this silence, this power, thU
efficiency.
Come and See
Erery motor car lover should sea
this car. It is the topio of the hour
la Motordom.
Come and look it over. Then let
ua put the angina to any test you
wanU
Equipment
Wane Ante-Meter.
Biiko' Windshield, Model K.
Ilk Mohair Toe aad Over.
Veeta D 7 a n m e Kleetrle
Lighting ays-teas.
Continental Q. D. Dtmes't
nble Rims (two extra rlni).
Klaxen Horn 1h BaJb Horn.
Trunk Hark, Re be Rail,
f-'eot Real, etc
Touring Car
Toy Tonneau
Roadster
$3500
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THE F. B. STEARNS COMPANY,
STEARNS-KNIGHT AUTO CO.
615-17 Washington Street
Portland, Or.
Phones Marshall 4022 and A 4959
fil'KEHZIE TRIP RUE
Route Declared One of Most
Beautiful in State.
FISH FREQUENT STREAMS
M. C. Dickinson. With Party. Makes
Three-Day Toar in automobile
Prom Portland to Foley
Springs and Return.
One of the most earnest enthusiasms
rf M. C. Dickinson. manager of the
Hotel Oregon, is the three-day motor
tr:p to Foley Springs. 0 miles eat of
jine. and return. Mr. Dickinson was
over the route In a Locomobile with a
party of friends, late in the Autumn
and says he has never, throughout hi
varied motoring experiences, made a
trip so thoroughly delightful.
"I heard a lot about the beauties of
the road along- the banks of the Mc
Kenste." sad Mr. Dickinson, "but my
anticipations failed utterly to meaaure
up to the delightful marvels that un
folded with every mile, when once we
had penetrated into the beautiful
wilderness through which the famous
stream runa
Cleaeene Dlmrtn Rente.
"To w. J. Clemena belongs the glory
of having discovered this splendid
motor route, over which he first went
a little more than a year ago. under the
guidance of J. W. McClung.- a pioneer
merchant of Eugene. Mr. McClung
makes annual pilgrimages to Foley
Springs, fishing along the river, and I
believe It waa bia 40th annual trip that
he made with Mr. Clemens In his auto
mobile. "We left portlsnd at noon." con
tinued Mr. Dickinson, "and easily
reached Eur'ne that evening. The trip
from Eugene to Foley springs, which
is over ordinary country roads for (0
miles, la aet down as a sis-hour trip,
but I waa ambitious and made it In
five hours and five minutes. We lert
Eugene at A. M. and pulled up at
the old log cabin, which marks the
end of the route, at 11:01 A- M. We
sampled the Invigorating mineral wa
ter and had lunch and then aet out
leisurely en the return trip.
risking In Gee.
"We stopped at varioui places en the
return trip, and enjoyed several hours
of sport In this veritable fisherman's
paradlae. The daintily colored trout
were plentiful, and flashed alluringly
In the clear water ef the McKensle In
the soft Autumn sunlight which shim
mered through the overhanging trees
and foliage. I believe there were 3
of the rainbow-tinted beautlea on our
string when we boarded the auto at the
last stop. We had them fried tor our
late dinner In Eugene, reaching there
about P. M.
"We had no motor trouble on the
entire trip, aave at a little stream
about 48 miles from Eugene In return
ing. Here the rear wheels of the car
dropped Into a bed of slow quicksand
Just as we had forded the stream and
started up the steep bank on the op
posite side. We were helped out of
this predicament by a man mho eame
along with' two pack ponies. The
ponies were hitched to a rope that we
tied around the front axle, and we lost
only half an hour. If the man with
the ponies had not happened along it
surely would have taxed our Ingenuity
to find a way out. for the wheeli had
sunk to the hubs and the bank was
steep and slippery. This road is to
be Improved and put in good shape early
In the Spring, and should be one of
the most popular for touring In Ore
gon." LANDS ARE OFFERED CHEAP
Settlers' Ateney In Southwestern
Washington Llsta 7000 Acres.
CHEHALIS. Wash.. Feb. 10. (Spe
cial.) The Southwest Washington
Settlers' Agency has chosen several of
ita local agents in different towns in
the state as follows: Toledo. H. H.
Hurst: Aberdeen. S. K. Bowes & Co.;
Hoqulam. Grays Harbor Land Com
pany; Castle Rock. C. R. Bell; Laurel.
A. F. Peek: Yacolt. O. J. Olson; Seat
tle, David P. Eastman. Lowman build
ing. To date, without a canvass having
been made of the district of South
west Washington, the agency has up
ward of 7000 acres of logged off lands
listed at prlcea ranging from 15 to J50
per acre. Numerous inquiries have
been received and the work will now
be pushed.
Saw T.ealand dealers recently shipped ev
eral consignment of froien ducks to Lon
don th good results. Thev sold for shout
75 cents each, and when ready for the table
are said to have averaged up to the nsllsb
product.
SPECIAL GARS PLANNED
NEW MOTOR SPEED CREATION'S
TO EXTER RACE.
Machines Combining European and
Original Ideas Will Be Seen in
Big Sweepstakes.'
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Feb. 10. Two
special motor speed creations, which
bid fair to mark a new epoch In the
building of racing automobiles, have
been entered In the second annual 600
mile International Sweepstakes race
to be run Decoration day. May 30, at
the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, by
the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Com
pany, of Racine, Wis. The entry was
made on New Year's day, and la the
first to be made for any race in the
year 1912.
The two cars are to be constructed
along lines followed by the most suc
cessful European racing car manufac
turers, and will introduce two new
features. Inasmuch as they will have
wire wheels and a specially construct
ed left-hand drive which has not been
used heretofore. The general lines of
construction which will be followed out
promise to make the cars the most
spectacular in appearance yet built in
America
The engtneera at the Case factory
assert the speed which these two cars
will be able to attain will not be less
than two miles per minute on the
straightaways and that they will be
able to negotiate the full 1-mlle dis
tance of the Motor Speedway at the
rate of 100 miles an hour. Louis Dis
brow, the famous Eastern- driver, and
Joe Jagersberger, the "Flying Dutch
man," have been named to pilot the
entries. '
Disbrow has been racing for six
yeara, starting first with a Rainier
and later making a showing with the
same car In several 24-hour races at
Brighton Beach. New York. In 1909
he won the 110.000 Atlanta Trophy race
of 200 miles. In 1910 he drove a Knox.
.winning many hill climbs and making
records at Wllkes-Barre and Osslnlng.
In 1910 Disbrow alternated between
the National and Pope-Hartford, finish
ing fourth In the Vanderbllt cup race
In the National after he had been de
layed 17 minutes through an accident
with spectators. He also finished In
both the Vanderbllt and Grand Prize
races In a "Pope-Hummer" in 1911.
Disbrow holds the world's beach rec
ord for one hour standing start, mak
ing 81.65 miles.
The other Case driver. Joe Jagers-
berger. is a native of Vienna, and eame
to America in 1902 with Harry Herk
ness, who at that time owned racing
machines. Jagersberger set the 100
mile American track record In 1903,
which record stood for three years. In
this race Oeorge Robertson, one of the
most famous American drivers, rode
as Jagersberger's mechanician. Many
of his notable performances have been
made in Mercedes cars, one of which
was in Fairmount Park, in Philadel
phia, In 1910, when he finished third in
a Mercedes owned by E. J. Schroeder.
of New York. Jagersberger took the
car after an accident three days before
the race and rebuilt it entirely.
Over Two Score Have Filed Now,
SALEM. Or., Feb. 10. (Special.)
George J. Cameron, District Attorney
from Multnomah County; John P.
Rusk, of La Grande, candidate for
Representative in Congress from the
Second District, and Charles H. Carey,
candidate for delegate to the Repub
lican National convention, all filed
their petitions for nomination with the
Secretary of State today. So far there
have been 36 Republicans and 10 Dem
ocrats who have filed their declarations
to be candidates for office.
By suspending a feed bag- from a bracket
en a horse's collar instead of by straps from
Its head, an Illinois Inventor believes Teas
feed will be wasted and an animak will
have more freedom ef motion. -j