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THE WEEKLY ItEARLD DnCEfWER 3, 1908 EST SUGAR FACTORY MAY RISE IN AK1ARILL0 Ti,erirsip,sci1Misi Texas I! ffNED AND OPERATED Wrt Gomes to This City to Investigate Con ditions and to Test the Panhandle Sugar Beet people ok rt.xii andle Th peoplo ofl'i" Panhandle way koon havo in opportunity to plant, hntnlricli of aires of this fertile, lanflto sugar beets, the fnllowlo; article will clearly nlio-. i An Importaut irrival in litis city 5 ester Jay was W (I. J lot. 'Ilk !.-.., rop ifiintins the ) a company l(f Ch'vu land, Ohio, eonaruL'tors of b' ct sugar fadoi ie.-,, Tlrt Ht'nval of Mr. Mmililii -s In Aniarlll., w ill, hi all .rohalilliiy, fi'Mii thai at. no distant dale Ainanll) will lie tin' site of a Vi i.'n;ions U''i nicnr la.tory. Tho T'liiniij; o Uis gentleman to Ama rillo at time 1.. dii.; to ilio ef forts of l. 11. T. Groom. Co. Groom has, la season and out if sasou, contended that. Panhandle ok will product' a MiKar beet pur on-ellence. Not only will this g-fii nmiimrcial ogetablo grow to large fcUe, but will contain a heavy pei rentago of sutar. TcsU mado at (iruoni suit at. other points. 1 n the Panhandle, declares Col. Groom, prove that tho plains will produce Of the bent fill par Gr-t : grown In Ani'Tica. Col. Groom backed up hln ' faith by hi works," and some day ago went north to interest ex perts, man highly trained In th, boei URar industry . n. invln-d them to iturvey the field here. As u remit .Mr. IlotchlciBfi, -wli0 arrived yester day, comes n, the expert represcn- iHtlvo of th Dyer conipaiijj of t'leve. 1W1('' Mr. Hotchklps will', aurvoy tho fit-Id, examine and test sugar beet plant hero and Rive tho result of theso investigations amf-testn to his company and to Col. Groom and the people of Amarillo ami the J'an tiandle. And if these investigations prorc to the northern pent lemon that tho Panhandle en, anil does grow a boct for profitable manufac ture Into Kusar. then the people of this oily will not many months hence have the pleasure of seeing black pmoke rollins from the slacks of a fcoet sugar factory. Col. Groom lias no doubt of Ihe remit and ho ex preses himself. And If this factory it established the people of Amarillo and the plain:; can thank Col. Groom for long and persistent efforts in their behalf. U has cost him lime fcml money, yet ho hns never ceased heralding the fact that the Panhan- dl. is a genuine sugar beet country. Mr. Ilotchklss does not come to Investigate the field to decide the matter of his company establishing a factory. His company does not. manufacture sugar. His company manufactures sugar-making machin ery, builds and sets in motion com plete, factories for local and other companies engaged in the mannfar- ture or who expert, to manufacture heel sugar. And III this regard un interesting fact. Is brought to light, us follows: While Mr. Hotchkiss' principals manufacture beet sugar plants and have the plants to sell, yei they will not sell or establish a THI! HOG VsTKMUM'. The Fort Worth Telegram sas; Our familiar; though somewhat taci turn friend, the great Amorioan hog, Is coming into his own in the, southwest,- At thn beginning, like many other excellent citizens, he was not an American, but had to bo Import ed In order lo get a start in this land of the tree and home of tho brave. But since coming, he has donfl fairly, well. h It km, been only a half dozen yeais since two Chicago packers, coniln? to Fort Worth, began a vertisinc for hogs; and telling tha profits in raising them. The Tele gram In thoae. dayi printed and re printed many tiroe tne slogan, "Plant more hogs." as did other pa rent foreseeing the profits which vould com from tho increased pro plant At any point in the country where the renditions of noil and rli male Mill urn allow a profitable sugar licet to lo t;i own. And no amount of money can Induce th!s company, which siaiidh mi the toy of the IM of such nunulili'tilieiH, in wokU' this law of (heir own mak ing. The jeusoil for tlii-i I.-, the Iyer company can not nffonl to cred a plant where they Ix'llevo lallur will result, been use this failure will operan- to dim Hn-1,- hinh reputa tion In-tliH business world and give oi'P'Mt unity for lessor competitors to point a fingi r scorn, and herald .'i report that "the rjer eoinpjny juaile a failure of their work in the Texas Panhandle" or any other sup posed locality. Hence the people of tlii.i region, may rot assured that If Mr. Iloiclikiss hikI his company it port lo the people lien-, after thor oiikIi investigation, physical ami chemical, Hint tli0 Panhandle is a jnolitjtlile sugar beet region then the people may rest assured that llie I'anliiiinUe is just what this company declares it to be. That'K the way to do business and that id th0 way this business Is to be done. And Col, Groom is happy over the matter, as ho has all confi dencH in the rtsuli. The qurhiion Is asked, where are wo to get the beets? Col. Groom an.iwers that question as follows; "Take Amarillo as a cenlcr of a one hundred mile radius, in that circle we have oOO miles of Santa Ve road, -nu miles of Itoi k inland and 200 miles 0f th Denvor. That is a total of Tun miles of railroad within k hundred mile radius of Amarillo. Now wlili a production of beets of only seven acres to the milf , a total of 1,000 acres of beets will result. And there are your heets for the Amarillo factory This fact can not he disputed and with the rapidly extending railroad mileage in this territory and thtt rapidly Aiowin.t; fields where turf no- exitis, the (jtiettion of prodnc tion to feed a factory Is not one to worry over. The beets ran bo fur nlshed and a heavy tonnage at that, Mr. lloichkiss, on the authority of. his company, niakes the statement to the Daily Panhandle that toigar beets, in a real sugar beet country', Is the most profitable crop to th iatincr, ana one which will average betier for h series of years than any other croft grown It is a recognized fact, thc Tan- handle ill state on its own author- ily, that a net. profit of $50 an aero is always expocted by the sugar beet, glower; and In some localities tha profits exceed this very materially. .Much depends on the farmer himself. If he is up and doing and applies brains to the business I hen his pro fits are always good. .Mr. llotchkisa and Col. Groom will lake in the iegions round about and from this beginning it is hoped a Migajt - beet factory for Amarillo will result. Mr. Hot.hkiss' company, when It builds a plant for any locality, names an agricultural expert which the lo- cal company employs to aid the farm- era in the- producton of beets. duction of pork. Home of the seed sown seems to have taken root. Tho hog now ap pears on tho ascendant In thc south west. Fort Worth will handle 100, 000 more hogs this year than in 1007. Amarillo has begun working on a packing house the management of w hich is counting on 250.000 hogs in tho Panhandle to supply Its needs. Oklahoma City is making overtures to tho S. & S. company, Anj now comes Shreveport, La., with an agreement to furnish $200,000 and 36,000 bogs th firct year a packing; plant ig established. There is plenty of room for the packing house at Amarillo and for one at Shreveport. Oklahoma City'n advantages aro not so apparent since there is already a considerable es tablishment, at Wichita, Kan. But nevertheless the broad view taken BY PEOPLE Trained Mind Unfolds the Story of the "Romance of Sugar" and Dwells on Some Stu pendous Figures : r ni I Mtkii si I i s Th" people of the I'nltrd Stales need nst quail! i' ie of Hiigar which they yp now buy Ins ahrnad. The people of tlv Panhandle mu-l help upply thl.s demand. Few people there ar,. In the I'nit ej Stales who know the story of the "roiiiiuiie of oiKar." .The term "ro mance of Minar" Is a plea.lnj; way to Introduce a mbjeii. chisleied ahoni with stupendous faci.s. SittniK at ea.-,e in his room in th" Amarillo hotel last rvenlnp; Mr. VY. tl. Ilolchki'-s disnssed this great question with a represen'ative of the Dally Panhandle. Lying in front of him was a manuscript, prepared by the head of Ills big l;rin, to which .Mr. Ilotchklss referred from time to time. And in addition to this man iisciipl of notes and statistics of re cord, Mr. HotthkWs' own mind and memory is royally equipped to dis cuss unci a subject, as he is one uf the shining ejtpeitx in tlie sujfar world. It was a pleasure to lioteu to this tentlcman unfold the story of Riigar, aud toupled with thU was the refreihing fact that his words were always conservative, as is ibw habit of men o( hig affairs. In part Mr. Ilou-bkis gives this information to thu people of tho plains through hti Daily Panhandle; "Some year ago America was buy ing steel rails from England and paying from J 100 to 11 25 a ton for this commodity. W'c are now Hell- lug England steel rails at about $25 n ton "We are lio'w buying sugar abroad. The time wilt come when wo will be selling sugar abroad. "Jteet. sugar has been commercial ly manufactured in Germany for more than ninety $earu. In the I'nit eel States tho bpet sugar Indus try was established on a profitable and subitanttHl bakis some, timo in the early SO's, but' the ptist decade has seen its most rapid and substan tial growth. "In the Vnitod Stnt.es today i here exist and nro at work about sixty beet sugar factories, Michigan lead ing with fourteen, Colorado with twelve, and California with nine. The amount of money lnvutited in these factories totals in tho neighborhood of the vast, sum of $50,000,000. "Tho United States consumes an nually close to 3.000,000 tons, not pounds, of refined sugar, can? and beet. Yet while wo of this country consume ii, 000, 000 Hons, wo only produca GOD, 000 tons, requiring us to purchase abroad and import the rhuge amount of 2,400,000 tons. The importation of this amount of sugar costs us considerable over two nun- dred millions of dollars. "Nowr to supply our own demand and lo check this fearful outlay of money abroad we need over 4 50 su- gar fartories of the sume average capacity as Ihe sixty we now havo in operation. Again the increase in consumption of sugar in the United States is about i; per cent, yearly, hence the beet sugar factories now being built, barely take rare of this by those in the packing- business is that within reasonable limits there cannot bn too many packing plants. A new packing house may. for 'n time, curtail the shipments to an older establishment, but tho end is always greatly increased production for everybody. If P would stimulate hog produc tion more, thc Fort Worth packers could almost afford to establish small packing plants at half a dozen points In Texas. But the hog supply of the souta wefct is increasing. The last live stock census of the state gave Tex as 3,000,000 head. It would not be surprising if th next shows 5, 000,000. And the supply will con tinue to Increase so long as there is a demand for pork la the South. OF PLAIN Increase. Heme yoq fee the fiyiag need for more and many more sui'ar factories In nit r count . "One of the ireatest advantageH in il,.. l,e... -,rU, in.i,,.,,., i. in!.. ugiir ran he manufact u.'ed In tho 'white iiuu'h country'; that is it l not confined to the exhftiisling humid cllmaie of ihe tropics as Is the case with the ''n sugar, fleet sugar can be and Is belli? produced In the lem peraie oue wher thn Anglo-Saxon lias hi-, home and whir' he desires to remain. The cane xi'mur Indu try Is limped to the present area now devote,) to Its production, and cun not thrive or x i t over tho wido area and in hardier climates as does the sugar heel. ii. 'ei sugar win uiippiant cane sugar and bei't sugar will continue io grow in favor and volume with marvelous rapidity. "The helief that one t an know cane sugar and beet Biigftr apart In the markets s not true. The great sui?ar refining companies take ay. !i0,of)0 pounds of raw beet sugar and 50,000 pounds of cane sugar, mell It up to gether, refine it, and tho product Is the sugar crystal, hiniha!!y and physically th(i same In one product us tho other. Sugar is nugar and you can't make it anything else. "Tho contention in home quarter that beet sugar will not ruke good pantry, preserves, jams flTid jellies, m wrong. Beet sugar and cane su gar, when refined, are Identical and ihe fault for failures in the cooking line lies In some other direction. This prejudice against, beet augar was no atrons In California, whore large amounts are manufactured, that it was necessary to place deni onstratot'ii In th0 retail stores to con vince the ladies that there was no difference 'between the product of the cane and the beet. .Sometimes th grocer, the jobber, the traveling man, pretends to know the differ ence, hut you may take my word for it. they don't know; and this is be cause thre Is no difference when both products are rrfined. - "The reason for thia Is a chemical one, as follows: Sucrose (not glu-i cose) is the true nigar crystal. It Is the same In the maple, the cane and the btot. The peculiar flavor 'of maple sugar, the brown, unrefined product, Is due to what, we may call the 'impurities,' the hap and the wood odor. When refined Into the true sugar crystal the maple. Is the same as Hip enne, the saino as the beet all three being identical sugar crys tals. Hence ou see beet sugar is sugar, and nothing but stitar. Grape sugar is manufaotured from the corn stalk and kindred plants and does not crystalize, "In ron"d numbers "0 percent of the world's production of sugar Is from tho sugar beet. In America wn havo 'the great, advantage of a virgin soil compared to tho oU of Europe which has been under culti- vaton for hundreds of years. In America we have the most wonderful market In the world anion? ourselves and the time Is fast coming wnen thli wonderful republic of ours will .b feeding all our people with all tho sugar they want and will be satis- lying the sweet tooth of the globe, It. Is a stupendous Industry now, but will grow greater as the years come." ...... ... J MAUL IN HOTEL HUHXS. Marlin, Texas. Nov. 2S. There were more frantic and scared people at the Arlington hotel between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning ihan has been known in Marlin alnco tho destruction of th0 l'irt Arlington on the bite several joars ago. The building suddenly became filled wiih stnoko at tbc hour men tioned from a firo that started in the kitchen and made rapid progress through the inner walls to th up per stories. Occupants of the Tooms were aroused by Night Clerk Parnell, who scented th btirnjng of the tim ber before the smoke had entered the lobby. The damage is estimated at about $3,000. it is said there Is no in surance on th ulidlB at coatcuts. ' i ,u iiitcrcklliig communication In the Houston Chronicle, written l Texan, wlut slum lilnivli -"Yen! a, Is tt, lullows; To the Editor of Tho Chioiurltj As a matter of some Interest, fol towing up a conversation of some dajs ago, "Where and by wnom the lliHt public hdiools were cstabllshei In Texas,'' recalls an article writ ten some time ago, in a Galveston pa per signed "Hen .Stuart." lle seems lo li.ti,, the reioid-, of ranie better i ban this writer. "The s.rhonl fun in i;i was large in quantity, but poor in price, Millions of aiio onge, to the slste or general fund No hales at any price; lUllrondii canals, (leaning rivers,'1 etc. In fact nio.-t any old tiling wait aolicltcr I 'onie to th,, Mate Large bon uses, liuin eight sections lo sixteen sections of land oflered per mile la section "f lau, Is 11111 acres), and one instance, as late as lstiT. twen ty sections were given lo the In ternational and Great Northern rail road, per mile, fre of taxes for 2" yeaii. Of course this was land scrip and it was hawked on the market as laic as is,, at 4 anil r cents per acre. No settlors coming in, l though tho thousands of acres be longing to tho statu (alternate sec tions) were given away to actual set tlers, upon condition of occupancy lint lew came. No railroads, no m hools, no roads the country was overrun wuu tnniaioes una wild, sh- vage Indians. With all Of these difficulties, tho iHtilementb of Na rogdoches, San Antonio and Colura bia started and around tho first two were the abode fort and churches. These were the nucleus, It required not only courage, but months of trav el to get to them. A -wonderfully courageous Immigrant! In the midst of theso brief statements of tlxeim troubles and embarrassments (be slate's obligations out for mil lion,, of acres in land scrip, locatable upon any of its domain. Scrip worthless! What could Texan do to rwse a fund to aupport schools? Plenty of school landil No buyers! No money! And, may I digress a little; Pub- it-c schools, even in 1 830, were not looked upon favorably. Times rolled on. In the '40s! Then began some movement. The planters and mer chants began to send their children abroad or establish private schools or private tutors. The republic 'be gan to fill up with Immigration and demands for ihe benefit of the school fund. The old aristocracy held al.K)!. Some littlo cash had begun to sr So, upon the application of John S. Sydnor of thi8 city of Houston, and John S. Sydnor, deceased, one time county commissioner of Harris coun ty, a merchant and stockman of Lyuchburg. He (.1. S. Sydnor), suited tho first public school In Texas. This school was run five or six months and suspended for want of funds plenty of school lands but no money land poor.And, if I remember correctly, then gen eral revival of the public schools came after the civil war reconstruc tion days, when the lands of the state were taxed one per cent of their value. Many paid this one per ctint and many fought the Edmund .1. Davis administration proceduro as graft, and the supreme court wi der a democratic, administration de cided that the ono per cent wan un- unconstitutlonal Every bookman, furniture man, contractor. In accord with tho Da vis administration rushed to the stat0 when the one per cent tax bill passed. It was tho time of all times of graft tho days of tho Eleventh legislature. I could write a history of that legislature that tho majority of read ers would not. believe. Ignorant ne groes composed the majority, in fact, but not in action, that passed that one per cent tax for school purposes and gave that railroad or thin rail road enough state bonds per mile to build It. Let us not look 'back too fur, but let us take our present mmoolg and universities, now flourishing undur a conservative, honest preservation of that great endowment, tho school lands of the state, Today millions of that trust fund lay in the vaults of our state treas ury and hundreds of thousands of acres unsold, Increasing; dally, I am conservative when I say, will pro vide a fund ultimately of at leatt $200,000,000, belonging to the chil dren of the state sacred to that one purpose. Is there any on to dispute that John S. Sjrdaor, miyog of Galvcs- ton In 1M15. was not tho first to Marl public schools In Texas, pro gressive, pushing, knew him. In tho midst, of all difficulties. Plenty of stal school land, but no buyers No schools; money excestlve. I know that out of his personal assets he kept this first public. Kchoola-goliiR six months. Not much, must ad init, in dollais in cents In 1 84 5, but it was the incentive, not Ihe dollais 1 say, .1. S. Sn.vder. mayor of Gal veston in S45, was the first man to establish public schools in Texas. Tan any one refuto it? TO Pit H IX IIH! FT. Postal savings hanks would furn- lh a guaranty that would guarantee Chicago News , Mr. Hoosevell might feel more at home editing a powder magazine. New York American. Oh, by the way, the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, has also been elected. New York Mail. .Mr, horaker is among those not prominently mentioned for cabinet position. Chicago News. I hits,, w hiskers ai y to Governor Hughes' credit. They prove bis moral courage. Cleveland Leader What the esteemed Halkans need worse than anything else is simpli fie, spelling. Ohio State Journal. Mr. Hryan's trick mule, will prnh ibly give up mascot ing and return to his old jot, of mulint. Cleveland Leader. It looks like the psychological mo ment for Colonel Hryan to go over and run against Mr. William Hohen- rollern. Ohio State .Journal "Magazine explodes," reads a head line. Impossible. Mr. Roosevelt. has not yet joined the staff of The Outlook. Columbia (S. C.l State. KILLKU l.N TKMI'LK Y.UtllS. SulUlimaii Luther McGregor l)le Under Whet-Is of Train. Temple, Texas, Nov. 28. Luther McGregor, a Santa Fe switchman, was killed In the yards hero. Ho was coupling cars when his foot got fastened in a frog and the train ran over his body, crushing the right side and beheaded him. Tho decedent had been employed by tho railway company about five years, was married and has humor ous relatives residing here and at Pendleton. Funeral services were conducted here this afternoon under the auspices of th0 Ili'otherhood of Railway Trainmen and tho .Modern Woodmen of th- World. VERSATILE ( OLLEGE Glllfi. Sit,. Introduces New Mens In the Commonplace Affairs of Life. Good Housekeeping: A merry Smith collego giatduate maintains with superb audacity that a college girl has a crushing advantage over any othof girl In "any job siio puts her hand to." "If that job bo matri mony, sh persists cooly. "she. does that better. 0,. yes, I know," she hatens to anticipate your ihfsnua- tlons,' "the college, girl doesn't niar- y so soon as other girls simply be cause t,ho can't catch a man as aoon, but once caught sho holds hlni faster. Did you ever hear of a divorced col lege girl?" she asks with an air of finality in clinching; tho argument. A minister also remarks on this versatility of genius of the college girl. "They are a boon to the race," he says. "They Introduce new ideas which are positively delightful into the most commonplace affairs of life. Tho other day I christened thc first baby of a married college girl, and all during the ceremony it smil ed up beautifully into my face. Now, babies usually cry while they are be ing christened and so I congratulated the young- mother on her little one's lamblike behavior, an,j what do you think she said? 'Why, of course ho behaved well. His father and I, with a pail of water, have been prac ticing christening on him for the last tw0 days.' The Idea of rehearsing a christening! Wh0 but a college girl would think of such a thing?" HEKERLE IS STRICKEN". Special to Dally panhandle. Houston. Nov. 28 Just as he finished signing an order declaring a 3 per cent dividend in the House estate or December 10, H. L. Bor den, rUree la bankruptcy, was at tacked by heart failure and fell. He was taken home where hi condition la critical. - .... jt IG MO MILLS AN Hot Ihe Electric IMOinotlve Hum It Steam Itrolher ''Ilea ten lo a rrnz.le." (Charles II. Cochrau in November Metropolitan.) The flertrlc. locomotive 'has Its steam brother badly whipped as to speed, and It only remains to build tracks that will bear trains at over 100 miles an hour to learn just what can bo expected of the electric, trains. At tho celebrate, nerlln Zossen speed trials In l!u;j ihoro established die amazing I3n tilling an hour lecord Ilio fastest that any man or man-made machine ever traveled. It Is almost 200 feet, a second, or eTual to the speed a man would attain In falling from the top of a 20-story building. It is a speed so great lhat a reflection of one of the rails of an eighth of an Inch Is sufficient to throw a train off the track. It Is so fast that tho front of the locomotive has to havo a great, knifo shield to cut. the wind, which otherwise would either check the speed or crush In the front of the engine. A train running nt this frightful speed of 130 miles would circum navigate Ihe glob,, n a week. It would place; the Pncifle within 21 hours of thn AtlanHc. Will such a tiling ever come to pass? Perhaps. A hundred years ago 30 miles an hour was a marvelous speed; flow it la common. If a train can make 130 now experimentally, why may not this speed be common In tho year 2000? WOMAN WKAISS MAX'S CIOTHES. Says Sho Did It to Get lletter Work an, Wages-. Dallas, Nov. 28. Convicted of ap pearing in public in malo attire. Mrs. Carrie Malo Vandcrvcer was fined $10 in the corporation court of Dal las yesterday morning. Sho had en tered plea of guilty and Judge "W. L. Mathis made the fine light, as ha had the promise of the woman that she would not repeat the offense. The testimony offered was to the effect that what seemed to be a youth of about 20 was arrested on Tuesday night by patrolman Taylor near Tur ner Hall, whfro the young man had attended a ball and had danced with a number of the ladles, being ac counted an excellent dancer. Th0 youth, after arrest, confessed he was a woman and was placed In the woman's department at tho city hall. In tho hearing 'before the court yesterday morning the pris oner -wore a dress. She stated that she had taken the mala attire because both tho work and the wages for young men are better than tho opportunities for wo men. She said the name given is not hor real name. She had been In Texas about five months, and In Dallas about an many weeks. Sho was employed as a man by a local concern, where her sex was not sus pected. TEX A V AND WIFE DIE IX I IMF. Mr. anil Mr.. t. C. Treude. Iturnrd to Death in Yorktown. Yorktown, Texas, Nov. 2R. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Treifdo, -who lived about nlna miles south of here, near Wecsatcbe, lost thelr lives Wednes day night about 10 o'clock In a fire which consumed their home and con tents. Only part of the charred re mains were found. It is supposed that a lamp ex plosion took place, originating th fire and In trying to sav0 one an other -both lost their Dives.' Tho young couple were married less than a year ago. FEAR TRANSPORT DLV IS DISABLED AT SEA Issoclated Press. Washington, D. C, Nov. 2S. Alarm is felt bre over the fact that the army transport Dix, en routa from Seattle to Manila with a cargo of 20 horses and 250 mules, la six days overdue. It is feared tho Dix was caught in the same typhoon that disabled tho hospital ship Relief. A vessel has been ordered sent from Manila to locate the Dix. WILDCAT DISTILLER. Special to "Dally Panhandle. i Waco, Nor. 2S Wilbur H. . SpurliQ, charged with running a "wildcat" distillery in Oklahoma was arrested . at Prairie Hills, Limestone county today by Federal Marshal Career and brought here- r -