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PiillPsfPC i I.' r MKOf ORP MAIL TRIBUNE . AN INDKPRNnKNT NRWaPAVRft ruiUifSUKi) KVKiir aitriwoom XXOHlT KUNOAT J1Y THIS MKDKOlU) PMNT1NCI CO. Offlon Mnlt Tribune Hullillns, 25-37.58 No rth l-lr airwotj telephone 7 ft. The Democratic Times, Th Mrdfonl Mall, The Mfdford Trlbline, The South rn OroKonlan, The Ashland Tribune. rt a tiiu tit m 1 1 .15.00 .50 One month, by mall- Per month, delivered by crrlor In Medfnrd, Phoehlx, Jacktonvlll , nnil CentrnI ttiint -.- .SO skturdiiy only, by mall, per )noar 5.00 Wick)?, pr yrar ....-. 1.B0 Official Paper of thrf City of Mfilford. OffleUI Pnpar ot Jackion County. Rntcred ns secand'Olnsa mnitvr at MKlfonl, Oregon, uniltr the act oC March 8,H7. Sworn Circulation for 1814, I5SS. Full leaned wire Awoclated rress ls patches. -i3" Subscrlbora falling to receive papers promptly, phono Clrcu- latlon Manager at 2G0IL 1EAI MARKET 1 TUMBLES PRICES CHICAGO, Feb. 13. Stop loss BClliiiR of wheat today led to a wild downward swing- in prices. Weak ness developed right at the outset, but did not become extreme until the approach of the finnl hour of the pesslon. At thnt time a violent, lurch tobk place and the market crashed to a point 8V& under Thursday bight's close, Slay gomjj to as low as $1.50 a bushel, whereas the price not many days ago wns $1.07. Trade was on a largo scale and individual operations were lost count of completely. Ilcioro tho excitement was fairly checked, another cent had in porno eases been clipped from prices and Stay wheat sold nt $$1.40 with July down G'fc at $1.28. Almost complete stoppage of ex port demand from tho United States for the time being appeared to form tho main cause of tho general fitnm pedo to sell. The worst of the semi-panic was over in fifteen minutes, but the mar ket remained extremely nervous up to tho closing gong. Shorts buying to realize profits helped to rally 'the market somewhat in tho finnl deal ings. Tho close was 5 to 5lfc to 5Vi down, a compared with Thursday night, May finishing at lo-lVi and July nt $1.29 to $1.30. OF MERE INVASION UERL1N, Feb. 13. Tho morning pntiern hail tho victory in East Prus sia particularly as removing further danger of an invasion of that prov ince. They point to tho Russian re port of the battlo as an indication of tho complctcncbR of the defeat as it admits (hat the HuBssiniiH arc fall ing hack to tho protection of their chain of fortresses. Tho Victory iu esjiecinlly prized be caiiHo of tho frustration of plans for a strong offonsivo which tho Huh riinim aro believed to have been pre paring in thejs region. The capture of 23,000 prisoners, rejMjrtod in the German official com munication, means that practically an entire army corps has been put out of tho fighting. The fact that tho niun Uer of guns captured is comparatively Kiiiall is commented on in some nunr- tcrt as indicating that tho Russians who arc said already to have lost a third of their artillery through capture art now insufficiently equipped in tlilfr ami of the service. VANCOUVER. Ri C. Feb. 13.- Throo Chincso aro dead and" thrco aro in a hospital as a result of a New Year shpotiug affray which took pJioo today in an Oriental rooming hoiiBo of Ponder btieet East. Chin fluek killed Ciin Ham and Chin Ckowgr. He, was himself killed by jwNpiHg from tho second story win Jew of tho place in Market alley, wb'ere he landed on his back. The wawwled are ChUs-Gum, shot in tho riw; CMh Hawk, ankle bones fthat tord,' and Chin Wjng, shot tirough TJie shooting followed a nibt of mummm and oelwiratum ol the BRIEF PANIC REMOVES DANGER CELEBRATION Gtwm w yw, LEGISLATIVE HE lbgislnturo is not nmkhig n very onvinbto record. So fat' all lecislittioii cnactetl has btion trivial or de structive, The economies effected consist of tbo abolition of boards like the state immigration bureau, tlutt asked no appropriation tliis sessiou, and of tbo state conservation commission, which called for no money and which, com posed of "public-spirited cranks like J. N. Teal and C. B. Watson, Who paid their own expenses and gave freely of their time, whose work litis been the compilation of tho Oregon -Vatcr code, said to be the best in any state, and other laws for the public good. Other economics wore tho curtailment of heeded improvements in the state insane? asylum, the proposed abandonment of the girls' industrial school and similar stato institutions. The sdssioii began with a flood of bills to abolish most of the cohstructivc legislation of tho past decade, which forced a scurrying to the vapitol of persons from all parts of the state. Board after board, which secures no appro priation And is sclf-snstaiuing, whose members draw no salary and servo frbnl a sense of public duty, was attacked under the slogan of economy yet when this economical nightmare is Over it is questionable whether any real econ omies have been" effected. Some orchiirdist near 'Oorvallis who did not pay attention to his groVb had soiiic peach trees out down by beavers, with the result that the lovcr house has passed a law exempting the almost extinct benvef from protec tion. ThO present law gives n laful-owiier the right to ex terminate beavef on his land, provided destructive work is being done, on permit from the game warden. But while the legislators upon constructive legislation, while they are throttling the development of the state by killing proposed reclamation projects and defeating an increased levy for State high ways, while doing their best to retard the progress of the statej tney nave ueen removing me saieguaras 01 uiu peo ple from the encroachments of monopoly. A strentlous effort is under way to amend the compen sation law for the benefit of the liability companies. A vicious bill is pending (II. B. of passage, which presents the A a gon to private concerns, jv paving uni nas ueen ueuuieu a week, that destroys competition in paving bids and re moves from county courts the right to award contracts according to their best judgment. The house has passed II. B. 351, to enable water-power companies to control all the unused water power of the state. This bill, with II. B. 319, enables private monopoly to grab and hold valuable power sites, conferring the right to condemn and take any piece of land belonging to peo ple, state or federal government, which might have been reserved for use in connection with the development of water power needed by municipalities. The object is to secure for a song property worth millions. The quarter-oC-a-ccnt savers have passed a bill through both houses cutting the county commissioners' salary from $4 to $3 per day. The house has passed a bill restor ing to the sheriff the tax-collecting duty, rather than raise the treasurer's office to adequate pay for the work per formed. And while these momentous penny economies are being effected, the door is thrown wide open for the theft of millions of the public domain. No wonder the people are getting to view the legisla ture as a biennial nuisance and sigh for its abolition. THE SHIP PURCHASE BILL WHY is the administration so set in favor of the ship purchase bill? Becauso it offers the only practical solution of the problem before the nation of securing an adequate mer chant marine and the only relief possible for the manufac turer and shipper froln the extortions ol? the shipping monopoly. Since the civil war the nation has wailed Tor a mer chant marine and the ship builders have refused to comply With the demand. They have- tried to force a subsidy and l'cfuscd ships until the' subsidy was forthcoming. "Why should the people pay a subsidy when they cau own and operate its own ships? Why is a $30,000,000 sub sidy to private monopoly right, and a $30,000,000 appropri ation for government-owned ships wrong? While the people waited for the shipping trust to fur nish the ships, and the shipping trust waited for subsidy, American commerce has been seized by foreign owners. And now the war has forced the issue. Foreign ships are lacking, American conllnerce languishing. Our manufac turers are unable to take advantage of the new markets or to supply the old. And the shipping trust still clamors for subsidy. It is the old story .of private monopoly seeking special legislation and opposing any move that means relief to the people and the administration again is firm for the people. Half a Million (From the Omaha Hee.) Tho sugar factory of Scdttsblutf closed up the job ot slicing beets at 2 o'clock itdnday, finishing tho big gest crop of the beat beets over grown In the North Piatto valley or Nebraska. As is usual on such oc casions tho factory whlstlo Is blown for a half hour, Manager Simmons says that in many way this has boon tho most satisfactory yar slnco tho factory was established, Ono million, four hundred thous and dollars waf paid to the beet growers of tho Scott's Bluff country. Two hundred and ton thousand tons woro aliped at the Scotts Dluff fac tory, and about 40.000 taken to other factories. The campaign has lasted ii7 days of 24 hours each, and 700 men lmvti botitl oinploycd iu tho mill, Atter a shjjrt rst tho greater part of 1WTODF0R1 MATE TRIBUNE. ECONOMY are swinging tue Hammer 327), which has a good chance' streams and rivers ot Ure- Ml 1. 1 J 1 X 1. J Bags of Sugar theso will go to boot fields for tho summer. Tho crop grown In this vi cinity for 1914 la tho largest grown under any ono supervision In tho United States tho last souson. and there was less waste, acreage; the beets wero better taken care of. Tho tonnago per acre was larger and the sugar content better than any prev ious year. Tho total output which exceeds 500,000 bags, will fill 1000 freight cars. With If edford trade la MMUord made. John A. Perl UNDERTAKER Lady Assistant 28 fi. BA11TLKTT Plumes M. 47 mid 4 7-1 a Ambulance SwVlce Dfpwty Corww MEDFORP. OTCKflON, RATUftPAY, VraifflTJARY 13, Sugar Beets, Tlieir Products and Bi-Products Tho following article was written by l.vsllo Froudouthal, a lfi-year-old high school student nt Jackvouvtlle, Tho subject was assigned Monday and tho paper rend Friday. His standing throughout tho week was oxcollontt Tho raising of beets tor sugar In a dovclupment ot recent times. This Industry has grown so rapidly that now much more sugar Is mndo from beets than from cane. It is Impos sible to toll whether sugar Is mado from beets, or cano cither by appear ance or tnsto, but It wo could taste the raw sugar wo could tell very eas ily, for tho boot sugar has a very dls agreeablo odor and tnsto which Is removed by refining. Tho history ot beet sugar Is very Interesting. It was not discovered by accident llko so many ot our use ful products arc, but It was tho re sult ot years ot painstaking, unsuc cessful, and costly experiments. A Gorman apothecary first discovered tho prrsenco ot sugnr In beets In 1747, and soon both French and Her man chemists wore at work trying to devise some method, to extract tho sugar from tho beets cheaply enough to bo commit Icrylbaprootaolnshrdl to bo commercially profitable. Tho problem offered great difficulties for It Is hard to got rid of certain Im purities In tho Juice ot tho beet. They made no great success until af ter tho beginning of the nineteenth century, when a now Impetus was given to tho work. England and France wore at this tlmo at war, and as ports were block aded by hostllo fleets, the prlcei of all products were of course greatly raised. Sugar was selling at from $1 to $2 a pound, aud knowing well tbat the sugar beet would grow In French soil. Napoleon offered a prlxe to any one who would demonstrate how sugar could profitably bo made from Its Juice. Tho result wai that before tho close of the first half of tho century tho beet sugar Industry grew to bo of great Importance In both Franco and Gormany. Its growth In the United States has been mora recent, but during the past few years very rapid Indeed. This rapid development has beon largely duo to tho aid given by the department of agriculture, of our fed eral government, and of our various stato govorntncnti. They havo estab lished experiment stations where crops of boots bare been raised, and sugar extracted by the best, and cheapest methods. They havo sent seed to tho farrtiors and otherwise aided In familiarizing tho pcoplo with this now crop. Tho states which J aro foremost In tho production of beet sugar aro California, Michigan, Colorado, Utah and Nebraska and the Industry Is growing rapidly, both In theso and In other states. Thoro aro two sides to tho propo sition ot boct sugar growing and manufacture. That of tho farmer and that ot tho manufacturer. Tho difficulties of tho farmer may first be considered. To bogln with ho Is unacquainted with tho mothods of cultivating tho sugar beet plant, and his first cxpcrlenco usually proves un satisfactory. Ho Is accustomed to certain methods In fnrmlng, and Is not Inclined to listen to Ihoso who know how to raise sugar beets. Ho thinks from his long experience at farming ho knows how lo farm, and eventually he finds out his mistake. Ho finds that In growing ugnr beets ho must apply principles In many cases the reverse of IhosO necessary In other crops. For Inslanco ho has been accusldmcd to growing largo cars of corn, large hogs and largo stoors, but In tho case of sugar boots ho finds that the first question Is not ono of size, but ot quality. Ho must grow beets of a certain size, purity, and sugar content. In order to 'ac complish this he must glTe careful at tention to the work of preparing tho land, planting tho seed, bunching, thinning, and cultivating. In tho first place he must havo a rich soil, and the proper rain condU lions ot the proper lime. There can be no general fixed rules applying to the kinds and application of fertiliz ers, There aro however some things settled about growing' sugar buets. Tho ground should' generally lio plowed deep, and In most Instances sub-soiled: Deforo tho seed J" planted tho ground must1 be thorough fy pulverized by harrowjng and roll ing, even If the surfucq has to bo af terward rougheaed, as It must In Ne braska. The ground must bo moist onough, to germlnato tho seed. Tho seed Is planted at depths ot fropi half an Inch to two Inches, by machines which will sow and cover several 'rows at onco. Tho beets must bo planted near enough togethor to pro- SUITS MADE TO ORDER FROM $$5.00 UP Alse Cleaning, Pressing and Altering 121 E, MAIN, UNTAIM i7lein MroR I VUIOTIIU in ) JlDftp duco a boot of a certain size. Tho slzo and quality of tho boct depend on tho right kind ot spacing. Tho boots must bo thoroughly cultivated, hoed, and hand weeded, because cultiva tion lends to consorvo tho moisture ot tho soil, ami clean floldH pormlt tnvorable action of Hunshlne and nlr, This cIoko cultivation Bhouhl ho kopt up until tho beet tops thoroughly shado tho ground, and reach n slto where It would bo Injurious to oper ate among them further with a plow and hoe. Harvesting Is delayed as lato ns pooslblo, for ns In tho rano of cano tho sugar forms most rapidly as tho plant approaches maturity. Tho beets are plowed looso, and then pulled by hand. Hoys nro employed- to "top" them after which thoy nro sont to the factory. U that la too full to receive them, thoy aro piled up nnd covered with the tups or with n layer of solf, Tho problem of correct preservation has not yet beon solved, ns thero Is danger from both sweating and freez ing. A flold by tho factory Is filled with large boxes or trenches, Into which tho farmers shovel thotr wagon loads ot beets. Tho largo tronch or box IS bottomed with looso boards, nnd under tho boards Is a cemented or paved flumo for running water. Tho beets now Ito In tho upper trench as thoy camo from tho farm. Of course some soil ndhorea to them. Warm wasto water Is let Into tho under ditch or flumo. and this lifts tho looso boards. The beets fall down and go toward the factory. At the factory they fall Into buckets or tho rim of n wheel and nro carried Into tho washlng-nugur, which ro volves In an Iron trough. As the bents are forced along thoy become clean. At the end of tho trough they fall Into buckets and- ascend to tho top of tho building, drying as they go. Arriving at the top tho beets fall into nn automatic weigher, which tips nt hnlf n ton, registers, and drops Itq hair ton Into tho sllcer. Tho sllcer Is on tho floor abovo tho diffusion battery. It Is a largo disc, on which aro knives of various shape. Theso rovolvo under tho mass of beets and cut them Into flakes, thrco sixteenths ot nn Inch thick, A revolving chute from tho sllcer fills tall upright cyllndora with clean sliced roots. The contents of each will weigh two or thrco tons. Klght of these cylinders stand In n series, while two or four others aro out of service, getting rendy to take places In tho actlvo series. I'uro water flows Into cylinder No. 1 which has beon longest in operation, and has tho least sugar remaining In tho beets. When No. 1 Is practically ex haustcd of sacharoso, It Is discon nected, and No. 2 becomes No. 1, and tho fresh cylinder becomes No. 8. Tho water goes from cylinder to cylinder acquiring sweetness ns It goes, neforo It Is urged Into the last cyllndor It Is heated nnd passes under pressuro among tho fresh boets becoming thick and rich with sugar In fact tho water that comes from No. 8 Is 50 per cent sugar, and- Is froo of tho nitrogen, flbrlne, sulphur, potash, sodium and calcium that nre tho especial results of any crushing or macoratlng process. Tho sticky chocolate colored liquid now goes In troughs to, a strainer, and thence to n vat. Fermentation bo glns at once. To romovo or noulral Ixo the acldir, carbonic acid and barytos. milk of llmo, or phosphoric acid may bo added and heat appllod, or the Julco may be passed through the fumes of burning sulphur. Tho Juice goes Into clnrlflers (that In Iron kottlos holding flvo hundred gallons) ono ot tho beforo mentioned acids aro added to tho warm Juice, and tho heat is further raised to less than 200 degrees. A thick scum rises, and thua what Is called tho do facatlon of the Julco Is effected. Tho clarified Julco then flows Into tho vaeumn pan. It Is a vacuum, but not a pan for tho vesosl In spher ical, with copper steam colls In tho bottom. A glass window permits tho liquid to bo seen, and electric lights make the Interior still nloro plainly visible An air pump tnd condennor TX Theatre FRIDAY ANDSATURDAY ONLY Matinee and Evening ZUDORA or tho $20,000,000 Mystesy SUUi Episode, tho McWhiter Family Largest mob. sconq over f tlmqdA A "man about to bo hanged Is saved by Zudora. 'OtheTGood Pictures R aud iOc. tils lleeUi o a 10c 1015 romovo the nlr, nnd tho Julco bolls with loss heat thnu ill J dogrnon and with loss agitation thnn In tho open nlr. When tho molecules of sugar begin to form Into crystals tho charge Is dumped Into tho mlxor. Tho mixer Is n long (tough, In which a shaft rovolven, On tho abaft are stool arms that play In tho sugar, beating tho crystals apart, and bringing them uonr other molecules still unattnehed. When tho grain or crystal In of thu right size It goes to tho cuutrlfugal, Tho centrifugal machine In a ket tle shaped vessel, In which tho wet sugar Is placed, and which revolves 1200 times n mliiuto, Its sides nro lined with brass gauze. Tho thin parts or the sugar nro heaviest nnd they fly upward to the gauzo aud nut ward In tho form of molnnses. Ho malnlng In tho kottlo In dry white sugar, which Is tho sweet cofroo of our tables. It Is a beet sugar In many respects, but does not comieto with tho populnr granulated sugnr of our great refineries. Hogsheads of unripe or unfit sugar together with molasses arrive In vast quantities at tho refineries. Tho material goes to tho top floor whnro It Is dlsaolvcd In hot water, nnd boiled In pnns or blow-ups with steam colls. From theso pans or blow-ups the syrup pnitm-n through from r0 to 200 cloth filters heated by steam. These hot bags retain many Impuri ties but do not remove tho yellow color. Now the real refining begins. Tho syrup passes through CO foot of bone black with which cyllndurn f.O reel high nre rilled. Tho syrup may no bo treated ns It was at tho cano mill, or It may be run Into numerable small molds standing In rows. Its crystals arc larger, have a higher glaze, and possess greater adhesive power among themselves. Mine-cake Is another by-product ot the sugar beet. It Is mod In tho con struction ot pavements, roofing, etc , by drying, pulverizing aud mixing with asphnltum. In Uuropo efforts hnvo beon mado to utilize the seed stalks by chopping them up, and mixing them with somo of tho waste molasses for stock food, but owing to their fibrous condition this nttompl proved unsuccessful. Other waste materials nro waste water, tho old filter cldth, discarded rubber bolting, nnd gunny sneks. Tho water .Is very seldom used, except to wash rilkail out of tho ground, for Ir rigation purposes, or to wash tho pulp and llmo enko away fro hi the factory. ' Tho cloth In sometimes sold to nursery men for wrapping purposes. Itubhcr belting finds ready salo as brako-block lining, and for rubber rccovory. The itnrks, that tho seed arrive In, of which there nro not less than 1000 yearly, are sold to surrounding far mers and other dealers at a Very low price, for It would not bo economy to ship thoih back lo Kuropo to bo ro filled with seed. As it Is cheaper to ralso tho boots In tho vicinity of tho factory, you can seo largo fields near tho factory de voted to that Industry. From three to five thousand acres of t beets aro necessary to Insure product enough for ono factory. The sugnr making season comes after the harvesting nnd louts for threo months or more. At tho end of thin tlmo tho factory Is Idle savo for necessary repairs or Im provements. It costs nn nverago of $30 to pro duco an aero of beets, nnd tho net pro fits amount from $18 to $2C per acre and sometimes much more, hotter re sults depending on soil aud skill ot raiser. THE PAGE Medford's Leading Theater THE DE LUXE ATTRACTION COMPANY Present The World's Greatest Photo Melodrama Sealed Orders Six Reels of Film Perfection A great story, told in a direct, vivid, forceful, yet sympathetic manner ' ( , It's Always a Big Show at the Page Admiseioh .,;, ., . How's This? W. cITrr On Ihm.lrnl HolUrt llJf nt 'f ","' m of CnUtth that cunnol I tutnl 17 l' l-.Utrh furr t,m.NHV n COl( Xau, ,). tliVrn'r rur lli l"l I jmm. nil Iwll? Iilm llill'n r.lnrrli fnr l UWs lnlr?nllr. 'lln si W .WHWf,"iw" "'t'CcV ti Ttkn lUlt'i l'mlljf I'lllt ill'iUon. . THE PAGE Mctlford's Lending Theater SATURDAY Mntlnee nnd llwnlug Day of the Famous Victoria CroRn Masterpiece l.ust Life's Shop Window In Flvo Powerful Acts Featuring Iho Well-known Stars CLAIRE WHITNEY and STUART HOLMES A sensational visualization of one nt tho most talked of novels over written. Itemarltablo situations nro handled with Ingenious delicacy. Tho critics nro unanimous In tho belief that tho picture will crcnto an much discussion ns tho book, Kvery woman some time In her life halts nt Life's Shop Window" to select hor toy, It's Always it Itlg Show nt Ilia Pugo AIIMIHHION n-10.15 CHNTH THE PAGE Mctlford's Leading Theater SUNDAY ONLY Mutlnev nnd Ironing In Fear ol His Past Two Pnrtn The Joke On Yeilen Town Ono 1'art The Barrier of Flames Two Farts Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day Keystone Comedy It'n Alnn)s a lllg Show ut tho I'ngn Alttll.HHION n-IO-l.t (HINTS MONDAY and TUESDAY Matinee-and Evenlnu 5, 10, 15o ..;.IU, w . 4