The Topeka Daily Capital from Topeka, Kansas • Page 6

6 THE TOPE A DAILY CAPITA Sunday, February 3, 1913. FUNSTON SOLDIERS GET IRON "LIDS" CARLOAD OF FUEL OIL FREEZES Workmen Build Fire Under Car to Melt It Just Avoid an Explosion. Sallna, Feb. 2. (Special) A car load of fuel qll arrived here yesterday frozen, and It was Impossible to draw It from the tank.

Some of the workmen sent to unload It seeing the condition built a fire under the car to melt the olL D. Spangler. Santa. Fe agent, discovered the fire before it had got a good start and compelled the men to extinguish it. i -v "irr- i ut SEES HIS PAL BLOWN TO ATOMS By SHELL Kansan, Who Fought With Canadians at the Somme, Tells of His Experiences.

Lebanon. Feb. 2. (Special) Garnett Hlslop, of this city, the only Kansan who has participated In the great war In Europe almost from Its beginning. Is new enjoying his first furlough, and Is spending the time In Edinburgh, Scotland, so a letter just received from him states.

In It he tells fop the first DEFBIOS THE KIIMOO IlltfiS Congressman Anthony Wants Appropriation Bill to Provide for Indian School In Brown County. Washington, D. C. Feb. 2.

(Special) When the Indian appropriation bill was taken up In the house for consideration this week, it was discovered by Congressman D. R. Anthony. of Kansas, that an item, heretofore carried in the bill, for the support of the Indian school on the Klckapoo Indian reservation In Brown county. Kansas, had been eliminated from the bilL It seems that the item was left out of the bill by the committee on the motion of Representative Camp i th.

it. o-oi committee, who had visited the i. i v. rr Aa bell, ranking Republican member of school, among others, last spring and reached the after some in vestigation that Its continuance was no longer necessary. Mr.

Anthony, however, considered the action of. the committee as unfair and discriminat ing in picking out the Kickapoo Indian school, and offered an amendment on the floor of the house to have the item restored in the bill, which was done after some debate, on the BROWN COUNTY WOMEN ARE D0INGTHEIR BIT Hiawatha, Feb. 2. (Special) An an nual report just Issued by Miss Jeanne Lacrolx, secretary of the Brown county Red Cross chapter. Is conclusive proof that the women of this county have not been asleep on their Job since the war.

The aggregate total of articles shipped by the chapter Is 19.194. Following are some of the supplies that were made by the women of Brown county: SI0 pairs: operating gowns, S70; hospital bed socks, 4C8; hot water bag covers, 223; wash cloths, handkerchiefs. 1.068; bath robes. 16; pillow cases. 106; napkins.

460; dust cloths. 192; shoulder wraps. 77; total number of bandages, 3.809; 266 sweaters: knitted socks. 25S pairs; total surgical dressings. 7,107, Brown county has a total of 6,266 members.

RABBIT HUNTERS KICK Ofcl BUYING LICENSES Sallna. Feb. 2. (Special) Some of the farmers In this county are complaining that the hunters are com pelled to pay a dollar for a hunting 11-I cense 10 nuni raoDiis. wnicn tne rarm-ers say are one of the greatest pests In the country.

Rabbits have done some damage to young trees this winter and have otherwise made themselves a nuisance and a pest. Several farmers declare that It would be no more than right to allow hunters to hunt rabbits without a license and that the county should pay a bounty on the scalps. So many farmers have talked no license for rabbit hunters In the court house that they have convinced County Clerk Anderson they are right and he has reached a point where he feels guilty when he takes a man's dol lar for a license. Nearly Every Be Traced to Pacific Ry. Press bureau.

Camp Funston. CEDAR CREEK HENS NOT EGG-LAYING SLACKERS Cottonwood Falls. Feb. 2- (Special) The flock of hens kept by Mrs. Ernest Smith, wife of a well known Cedar creek farmer, near Cedar Point, claim no relation to the average hen-kind who has neglected her duties In the egg-laying business.

LdLst week, when the Smiths went to town, they brought with them seventy-two dozen eggs. Mrs. Smith was paid 47 cents per dozen for them. At present Mrs. Smith says her hens are laying about five or six dozen egg's a day and they have been main taining that gait all -thru the past few weeks.

SCHOOL CHILDREN JOIN THE JUNIOR RED CROSS Stockton. Feb. 2. (Special) A Junior Red Cross chapter has been or ganlzed In the Stockton schools. It Is the Intention that the pupils who are members will be put to work oh such Red Cross work as they can do.

Instead of the regular domestic arts and science work. The pupils were organized to go In squads to the different nomes and offices to tag the coal shovels, but they were prevented by the extreme cold weather. Tag day was postponed until Saturday, or longer. If the severe cold continues. STREET RAILWAY ELECTS OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Cottonwood Feb.

2. (Special) At the annual meeting of the Consolidated Street Railway company of this city and Strong City, held Tuesday, the following officers were elected: W. Harvey, of Strong City, president; George W. Crum. Strong City, vice president; W.

W. Austin, this city, secretary, and J. H. Doolittle, Strong City, treasurer. Directors are: H- S.

Baker. Lacrosse; V. Harvey, George W. Crum and Walter Hassan, Strong City; W. W.

Austin and George McXee, this city. MORE GROUND ADDED FOR HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING Abilene. Feb. S. (Special) More ground has been added to the new high school site, making ample room for the new 190.000 building, on which work Is to commence next month.

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TO TRIPLE SUGAR BEET CROP Responding to Call of Herbert Hoover Garden City Factory Appeals to Farmers for Increased Acreage. PROCESS IS VERY INTERESTING Industry Originating in Germany Now Used to Relieve Shortage Caused by War With That Country. Garden City, Feb. 2. (Speclal)-Re-spondlng to the call of Herbert Hoover, Kansas will this year Increase Its sugar beet acreage three-fold.

The company owning the $2,000,000 factory at Garden City and the 4,000 acres of beet land in Finney and Kearny counties from which it is supplied, has appealed to the farmers of the state to triple the sugar beet acreage. That would mean approximately 18,000 acres planted to this profitable crop. The latest compiled statistics on the sugar beet Industry in Kansas are the reports made to the state board of agriculture for the year 1916, showing an acreage of 5,789 and a tonnage of 8,632. The value of this crop was $821,390.50. Finney county, in which the big sugar factory is located harvested beets from 4,582 acres.

Ten years ago beet growers and beet sugar manufacturers in Kansas, Colorado and other western states, 'declared that threatened congressional legislation in the interest of cane sugar would eventually wreck the beet sugar Industry. The Garden City company as well as those of Colorado, said they would be forced to close down the! factories because of discrimination and use their lands for general farming and stock raising. But no such calamity 'has come to this industry. On the other hand the world war presents no more vital problem than that of procuring sufficient sugar to meet the requirements of America and her allied, nations. Pay $7 a Ton.

Contrasted with the gloomy outlook for the beet sugar industry. of a few years ago is the appeal which the manufacturer at Garden City is making to the farmers of Kansas. Heretofore this company has paid the growers $5 per ton. This year the contract price will be $7 per ton for all beets that will test 12 per cent, and a 33 per cent raise for beets testing above the 12 per cent. This means $8 and $9 per ton for the -best beets.

Twelve years ago Colorado capitalists who owned factories at Rocky Ford and other points in that state, erected the mill at Garden City at an Initial cost of $1,000,000. That sum has been more than doubled with additions and Improvements. The corn-company now owns more than 30,000 acres of land along the Arkansas valley west and north of Garden City, the greater parjt of which is suitable for growing beets. A great reservoir in the center of Its holdings covering 3,000 acres, furnishes sufficient water to Irrigate thousands of fields. It is distributed thru a system of ditches covering a wide area and is ample for flooding the beet fields when moisture Is needed.

Built Houses for Farmers. The company owning the big factory and these lands have sub-divided them Into small tracts which are leased to farmers. In the early development of the Industry the promoters colonized 150 German farmers from Nebraska who were familiar with the growing of sugar beets. The company built houses for these industrious farmers who are xlow among the most Independent and prosperous producers in western Kansas. These farmers pay a rental amounting to one-seventh of the crop.

An average yield is from ten to fifteen tons per acre. Running to Its full capacity, the Garden City factory can handle 2,000 tons of beets per day. A ton of beets will yield one-eighth of a ton of sugar, so that Kansas may be relied upon to relieve the sugar shortage of the world approximately 80.000,000 pounds of the granulated iproduct. Beets Are Porous. The manufacture of sugar from beets is an Interesting process.

They grow from ten to fifteen inches In length and are porous. These cells are filled with the sweet juices from which the ugar is made. The be6t is cut in V- shaped slices so as to open as many of the cells containing the sweet matter as possible. These cossettes are put In a large Iron, bottle-shaped receptacle and water is poured thru them. which takes out the sweet matter and carries it away in -liquid form.

This liquid is mixed with milk of lime, and then is carbonated by the introduction of the carbonic acid gas that had pre vlously been taken away in the limekiln. The Juices are then, filtered, the lime Is caught in the filter press, and the same operation is continued until the juices coming from the filter presses are perfectly clear and trans parent. The Juice Is then carried on and put thru a mechanical filter, and Is then put Into a large receptacle called a quadruple vat. Here It Is 'boiled down to a certain consistency and then earned on ana put into a vacuum tank, where the Juices are crystallised into sugar. This is brought down to a centrifugal machine and Ma warms fern up for breakfast, and Gecthey re good! POSTTOflSTIES MADE CORN -soys uyuuuu ITS in XL Jtl 4y i 1 7 A Camp Funston, Feb.

2. (Special) An issue of shrapnel helmets this week has given the cantonment quite an "at the front" air, the latest thing in trench millinery being seen on both officers and non-coms who are attending the various schools of specialized training. Of heavy sheet? steel painted olive drab, padded inside and with the molasses la thrown out, the sugar being retained, where it is washed with compressed air and water, making a vapor. Then it is dropped down and carried to what is called a graulator where It is dried and passed out in the form of marketable, granulated sugar, bagged and ready for the dealers. Originated In Germany.

Siipur hpt vrA first (rrnwn In Germany 119 years ago. The industry since then has been fostered in several European countries by Oliver De Serre, Marggraf, Archard, Napoleon and Frederick the Great. The first attempt to produce sugar beets in Amer ica was in Philadelphia In 1830. From this date to 1873 attempts were made In Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine and other sections without success. The first successful factory was erected at Alvarado, in 1879.

In 1897 there were but six beet sugar factories in the United States, butsduring the twenty-one years since probably seventy-five mills have been erected. With the present demand for ugar this industry will grow by leaps and bounds in Kansas and the middle west during the next ten years. The farmers of the Irrigated section of western Kansas have found sugar beets the most profitable crop known to the agriculture of the west. The total cost of raising and marketing an acre of sugar beets in Kansas In past years will average about $39. The gross price from an acre of these beets has been about $75, but where special care was given to their cultivation an acre of' ground has, under favorable conditions, yielded from $150 to $187.

FRENCH WAR EMBLEM IN HANDS OF K. U. STUDENT Lawrence, Feb. 2. (Special) A medal of the battle of Verdun, of the emblems given to the soldiers of France, who fought in this great battle, by the citizens of Verdun, is now possessed by a K.

U. student, Willard Pierce. On one side of the medal, is the head of a woman, probably Joan of Arc, with a steel helmet. on her head and dressed in the uniform of the French soldier of today. At the top is the phrase on ne passe pas (they shall not pass).

The reverse side has a picture of the fort at Verdun, with the date. February, 21, 1916. below it. The medal was piven to Pierce's father by the French vice-consul, M. Bruss, at Kansas City, Mo.

Paola Children New High 1 7 I 4 field artillery, has engaged during the war. They went thru the terrific battle of the Somme in the fail of 1918, then came Vlmy Ridge and then Ypres. Taking Paschendale ridge, however, was the hottest tight ever seen by the Canadians, he writes. Hlslop Is one of the four or five men who remain of the original company In which he enlisted. All the others have either been killed by shell fire or sent home wounded or permanently disabled by sickness.

His pal was blown to atoms not fifty feet away from him on the Somme, and Hislop was badly shell shocked. Notwithstanding all the dangers and exposures he has passed thru, he Insists that the war should go on until the kaiser la eliminated and the German people given Lthe chance to rule themselves. As soon as his furlough expires he will rejoin his command at the front, and hopes to be near the Americans that he may get to see some of the men who are there at this time from Smith county and whom he knew well before going to war. K. U.

DEBATERS FOR COMING CONTESTS Lawrence, Feb. 2. (Special) Debating squads are beginning to start work in earnest for the coming contests, more than a month away. There will be no Nebraska-Kansas debate this year, but the usual Mlssouri-Jay-hawker debate will be held sometime In March or April. Harold Hall, Deane Mallott, D.

H. Putney and Geo'rge Blake are on the equad working on this debate. There will also be the usual Colorado-Oklahoma-Kansas triangular debate March 8. Marjorie Bean, George Melvln, Robert Albaugh, Edward Mason, Otto Hopfer, E. G.

Smith. William Wilson. Herman Hansen and Paul Schmidt are the students working for places on this debate. Colorado will come here to debate and Kansas will go to Oklahoma. H.

T. Hill, of the department of public speaking, has charge of the work of squads. M. K. T.

PASSENGER DEPOT TO BE REMODELED Junction City. Feb. 2. (Special) The K. T.

passenger station and freight depot In Junction City la to be doubled In size, according to plans tor remodeling the structure, received by C. H. Bumstead. the road's-iocal agent. The present structure Is to be moved back from the tracks thirty feet and a sixty-foot extension will be built on the north for a freight depot.

A thirty foot addition on the south will be used for a waiting room. The ticket offices will be enlarged, using the present waiting rooms for that purpose, and the remodeling will begin as soon as the weather permits. DONIPHAN SOLDIER WEDS DESPITE HIS ARREST Robinson, Feb. 2. (Special) Clinton Weber, a Camp Doniphan soldier, was among the twenty members of Com pany who came home last week without leave.

While Weber was en rute home, his intended bride. Miss Dorothy Sechler, was going toward Camp Doniphan as fast as a train could carry her. Miss Sechler returned immediately and Judge Seaman tied the knot. Weber, being a prisoner under guard for leaving camp without permission, left his bride in the probate Judge's office and returned to sheriff's office where the soldiers were under a guard. K.

U. PROFESSOR TO SERVE UNITED STATES C. OF C. Lawrence, Feb. 2.

(Special) Because Lawrence turned In 8,700 members in the Christmas Red Cross drive, instead of the already doubled quota of 5,000, Prof. J. N. Van der Vries, of the University of Kansas department of mathematics, attracted attention at Washington, D. and was called to serve with the National Chamber of Commerce of that city.

He left yesterday to take up his new work. The big duty of this Chamber of Commerce will be the wozJd-wlde extension of American trade. CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES. Sallna. Feb.

2. (Special) William Taylor, 75 years old. resident of this county since 186S, is dead In this city. He lived on one farm since coming to the county. He never married and lived alone most of the time.

Taylor served five years in the Civil war. mm 10 For Trial Pilo Froo Tse Qalefcer Tow Get a Free Trial Pyramid Pile Treataseat te Better. It la What Yew Are UoUmz For. Don't talk operation. If you can't wait for a free trial of Pyramid Pile Treatment get a soc box at any drug store and get relief now.

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Kindly send me a Free sample of Pyrsaild PUs Treatsseat, in plain wrapper. Name Street City. fliM trtiihrr hM imnri A 4 s1 I chinstraps. they resemble nothing so much as Inverted bowls. Already the ingenious ones are figuring various additional uses for the strange lids, water buckets, cooking pots and emergency shovels being a few suggested.

However they were designed for hats, and hats they will remain, according to regulations, for woe betide the ones IS LEFT TO THE Boys Under 21 Years and Girls Not Yet 18 Years Old Take Examinations. Sallna, Feb. 2'. (Special) According to W. H.

Stewart, county eUperlnten- Qeni OI nis county, me wors oi ocnuoi teaching is left to Che women, so many of the men having been called to the war and others expecting to be called in the next draft. At the teachers' examination held in this city today, two young men and fifteen girls took the work. The boys were not ye 21 years old. Five of the girls "are not yet 18 years old and because of the state law, which provides that a certificate cannot be issued to a person under 18 years, three of the girls did not take the work. The other two will be 18 in a short time.

Superintendent Stewart called, the state superintendent's office at Topeka and stating the case, was informed that if the girls passed they would get certificates. School workers declare that If war continues there will be a great shortage in teachers In the next year. EMPORIA NORMAL WELL REPRESENTED IN ARMY Emporia, Feb. 2. (Special) More than 150 students and former students of the Kansas State Normal are now in military and naval service.

Three-fourths of the boys taking college work in the normal are subject to the draft and most of them will be In class 1, according to an estimate by L. A. Parke, head of the commerce depart raent, who assisted stty students and faculty members in filling question naires. Practically none of these men asked for deferred classification. Among those who have already given their lives in the service of their country are two normal students, Charles Wilson and David Mather.

Both men were members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Some chase co. marksman. Cottonwood Falls, Feb. i.

(Special) Shooting a coyote thru the throat with a large caliber Winchester at 100 yards is the marksmanship displayed by Harry Starkey, an Elmdale farmer, while on his way from Elmdale to this city yesterday. Proud of School Building 1.4 cost fieeoo it I From the Union DR. CALDWELL'S SYRUP PEPSIN The Perfect Laxative Quickly Corrects any Disorder of the Intestinal Tract, Relieves the Conges-gestion and Restores Normal Conditions. Is Gentle in Action and Does Not Gripe. Sold by Druggists Everywhere 50 cents and $1.00.

A trial bottle can charge, by writing 457 Washington St caught using them otherwise. It takes a week or more to become thoroly used to the shrapnel protectors, as their weight Is over two pounds. In the picture Lieut. J. J.

Shy, of Missouri, appears to be "kidding" Lieut. F. H. Couchman, of XSarden City, and Lieut. L.

R. Morrison, of Denver, on their appearance in the novel bonnets KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA S0R0RJTYBUYS A HOME Manhattan, Feb. 2. (Special) The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority of the Kansas State Agricultural college has closed a deal whereby It becomes the purchaser of the home of Dr. H.

J. Waters, manager editor of the Weekly Kansas City Star and former president of the Kansas State Agricultural col lege. Possession of the house will be taken May 1, when the Waters family expects to move to Kansas City. The Waters' mansion, built In colonial style and furnished with Imported tapestries and other' decorations, has been one of the show places of Manhattan. Doctor Waters built the house three years ago and spared no expense in making it a home of which he could well be proud.

NEW HIGHWAY ENGINEER ARRIVES AT JUNCTION Junction City, Feb. 2. (Special) Blair Boyle, whose appointment as highway engineer of Geary county recently was approved by the state highway commission, has arrived here from Haiti, Mot. and opened his office in the court house. Mr.

Boyle's first task will be to estimate the cost of paving Grand avenue, the main traveled high way between Junction City and Fort Riley. It Is planned to pave this road which is now macadamized, with brick as it has been found that the large volume of traffic quickly wears down the macadam and concrete composition roads now In use. DEPUTY ASSESSORS ARE SCARCE IN JUNCTION CITY Junction City. Feb. 2.

(Special) Men who want well paying work are so scarce In 'Junction City that R. M. Moon, county clerk and ex officio as eessor, is unable to find four deputy assessors. Two are wanted to make valuations on real estate in Junction wity ana two are needed to assess personal property in the same territory. Men who previously have acted as deputies for the two-month period commencing March 1 are too busy because of changed conditions to do the work this year and after an extended hunt Mr.

Moon today advertised for deputy assessors. FAILS TWICE TO GET IN ARMY, FINALLY ACCEPTED Newton. Feb. 2. (Special) Last summer when F.

D. Alexander. 24 years old, was called before the local examining board on the first draft call, he failed to meet the government requirement as to weight. He appealed to the district board and failed. Later when the weight and height regulations were changed he was given another trial and failed before both boards.

He was examined again today under the new classification order and is a happy man because he has been accepted. INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE WILL HELP K. U. STUDENTS Lawrence. Feb.

2. (Special) The war Intelligence committee of the University of Kansas has issued a set of rules or advisory statements, so that students may select courses the coming semester along war lines if they intend to go Into the military service soon. The intelligence committee advises students to stay in college and make themselves as efficient as possible. When they are called into service taey wUl be fitted to do their bit. Ifl a CAPPER'S WEEKLY M0 IIUu Ten Weeks, Ten Cents 110 If Special 20 -day Trial Subscription Offer In Capper's Weekly Every Week Tom McXeal's Review.

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