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THE
WEEKLY
UNIVERSITY
COURIER.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
SUBSCRIPTION, $1 PER YEAR.
VOL. IX.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JAN. 9, 1891.
LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
Brunt, of the pharmacy school did not return after vacation.
Babbett was with a surveying party near Kansas City during vacation.
Miss Maud Pattison, of Topeka, was shown through the University Monday.
Every young lady in the University should hear William Blaikie tonight.
Professor Williston was not able to meet his classes on Tuesday because of sickness.
There must have been fires at the homes of Fessler and Cann during the vacation.
George Dick has been detained from returning to the seminary at Pittsburg by sickness.
Prof. Blake has received a new lantern from Philadelphia for general lecture room purposes.
William Blaikie will lecture in but three places in the west, Kansas City. Omaha and Lawrence.
Miss Shippey, of Kansas City, visited the University Tuesday in company with Lawrence friends.
The Local contest occurs on Friday evening January 23 in University hall. Come out and support your favorite.
The electrical engineering shop was kept running all through vacation, with the exception of New Years and Christmas, many of the students working right along.
Miss Nettie Brown, a former student and a sister of W. H. Brown is visiting her cousin, Miss Laura Lyons on Rhode Island street.
Bowersock aud Whitman are the committee from the Athletic association to correspond with Baker and Washburn relative to the formation of an inter-collegiate Athletic association.
Some enterprising student of the University should win the prize, $75,00 offered by the American Economic association for the best essay on "Housing the Poor in American Cities."
Struggling with the blues after a vacation and craming for examinations doesn't work well together. Some one please petition the faculty to have Christmas and New Years changed over behind our exams.
Do not forget William Blaikie's lecture at the opera house tonight. It is the duty of every student to attend, and give the dis inguished lecturer a splendid house. It is not often that we shall have the chance to hear so instructive a lecture. Seats will be sold at the low price of twenty-five cents.
Misses Josie and Mame Berry came in from Waterville last Monday.
O. H. Holmes visited friends in Harrisonville, Mo., during vocation.
Miss Arnett has gone to Morgan, Texas, and will not be in school this year.
Frank Marshall, of the Leavenworth Times, spent New Years in Lawrence.
Adelphic will give a good program tonight. Visitors are made welcome.
No.16.
Paul Hudson will not be back this term but will 'do work on the Topeka Capital.
E. P. Allen, of Wichita, will leave school at the end of the term to engage in newspaper work.
A recent issue of the New York World contained a two column article on chinch bugs by Prof. Snow.
The local oratorical contest will be held Friday evening Jan. 23rd, just two weeks from tonight. It promises to be a rousing one.
Fox will not be back to school on account of the illness of his father, who was injured in the Burlington wreck.
A SUCCESSFUL TRIP.
Ezra Palmer, who had been working for the Record, was obliged to go to Greeley last Friday on account of the illness of his sister.
The French section of the Modern Language club will present an interesting program this afternoon in its hall on the third floor. Those interested are invited to be present.
Prof. Dyche Returns With Many Valuable Specimens for the Museum.
Any students desiring to form a boarding club should see Mrs. Carnes, 1125 Kentucky street. Mrs.Carnes is an excellent cook and understands caring for a students' club.
The University catalogue is a model of neatness and reflects credit on the University and also on the State Publishing House. Copies are being sent out to the newspapers of the state, to the high schools, to the members of the legislature, to the colleges and universities all over the United States, to the alumni and others. About 10,000 copies will be issued. A well gotten up catalogue shows up better for a college than any other form of advertising. It is intended that the people of Kansas shall know all about their own University.
Friday, January 23. Every student should make it his duty to be present at the Eighth Annual contest of the K. S. U. Oratorical association. More than usual interest is being manifested by contestants this year. The winner in this contest is K. S. U.'s representative at Emporia in February.
ent parties of hunters failed to obtain a single animal in a hunt extending over several weeks.
As is well known Prof. Dyche left the University on July 16th, 1890, to make a trip for the special purpose of getting moose for the University museum. He went from here to St. Paul and learned there that moose were to be found in the great swamp and marsh lands around the Lake of the Woods in northern Minnesota and southeastern Manitoba. Taking the St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba railway he arrived at Warren, about 350 miles northwest of St. Paul, where after securing a guide, provisions and a light wagon and ponies he left for the "Land of the Moose and the Mosquito." His course was in a northeasterly direction. The country traversed was the broad wheat fields of the Red River of the North, and is settled by Norwegians with the exception of a few enterprising Yankees to make the money.
The country is dry and flat, gradually becoming marshy and finally one immense swamp. This is the home of the moose. Between the open wastes of marsh and swamp will be large dense groves of tamarack, spruce, willow, Quaking asp, birch and some elm and pine. A course grass grows in the marshes and there are miles and miles of cranberry and blueberry fields. The cranberries are so thick that after a light snow, the ground will be blood red from the crushed berries after each step. The cranberries grow on short bushes and seem to be lying right on the ground.
In the swamps there is a kind of wire grass and the old dead moss is in places three or four feet thick. The underbrush in the groves is so dense that one can scarcely see more than ten feet in any direction. The ground is so wet that along in September and October Prof.Dyche had to build a board platform for the camp, not being able to find any dry ground. The mosquitoes are terrible. It is almost impossible to sleep at night, even after taking the utmost precautions against the horrible pests. In the summer the swamp abounds with geese, duck, crains and such wild fowl, the air being discordant with their noise. These swamp lands have not yet been explored as may be seen by looking on the map. A short time ago three men were lost in them for six weeks. The moose live off of the leaves and twigs, never touching grass. In the summer time they work toward the marsh lands. They are very hard to get and sometimes weeks will go past without one being seen. Twenty differ-
Prof. Dyche got his camp pitched on August 1st and on the 19th of Angust Brown, the guide,killed the first moose. Dyche killed his first moose, in September, and in October killed three in one day, an old bull, a cow and calf, all splendid specimens. Nineteen were secured altogether, a remarkable showing. The hides were prepared and sent to Warren to be shipped, as fast as the ground became solid enough for a wagon. On the 20th of November camp was broken up. In going to Warren Dyche met with a severe accident being thrown from the wagon and the front wheel passing over his body. The wagon was heavily loaded. Prof. Dyche rested a week at a farm house and is now feeling all right. It was a narrow escape, however. On the 22nd of December, Dyche arrived in Lawrence after an absence of a little over four months.
Over one hundred mammals were obtained on the trip including nineteen moose, fifteen hides and four skeletons, seven foxes, three martins, one fisher, mink, black porcinnes, white rabbits, Minnesota wolves, silver grey fox, white tailed deer, etc. The silver grey fox is a particular fine specimen and very rare, tho Hudson Bay company only obtaining one or two a year. The hide of one is worth about a hundred dollars. Prof. Dyche used a 45-90 Winchester rifle with a 30 inch barrel. He expects to have a group of moose and some of the other animals mounted by commencement. The University will have the finest and only group of moose in the United States. Prof. Dyche says that the days of the moose are numbered and that it will be but a short time before they are as a race extinct. The next trip made will probably be after Canton.
Bob Burdette
The fourth lecture on the Y. M. C. A. course will be given by Bob Burdette in the opera house Tuesday Jan. 13th. Burdette needs no recommendation as a lecturer to the people of Lawrence, his reputation as a humorist is so well known. This will in all probability be one of the most interesting lectures of the season. Burdette's lectures are one continuous flow of humor from beginning to end and yet there is that spirit of good sense which pervades his disco urge and prevents any feeling of weariness which might arise.
Burdette is without doubt the most popular humorist on the stage
and none who enjoy a hearty laugh can afford to miss hearing his lecture. The Chicago Tribune says of him, "There is no difficulty in telling where the laugh should come in. It finds its way at the proper place without any promptings of its owner. Indeed it is impossible to prevent its breaking out into unroarious cachinnations when Mr. Burdette is at his funniest, and that is nearly all the time. There is a perpetual flow of drolleries from his imagination which amazes one at the extraordinary prolificness and inexhaustibility of the foundation."
The chart opens Saturday morning at Crews. Tickets 50 and 35 cents.
The ex-students of the University, attending the State Teacher's Association at Topeka, held a meeting in the senate chamber Wednesday evening of the session. Chancellor Snow presided. It was resolved to have a banquet at the next session of the state association to which all ex-students shall be invited. A committee consisting of F. H. Clark, Miss Florence Reasoner and W. E. Higgins was appointed to arrange for the banquet on that occasion, and W.R. Cone;and E. L. Cowdrick were appointed to act as a committee on invitation and enrollment. About twenty-five ex-students were present. It is intended to make the occasion a very pleasant one and is a splendid move. Some of the other institutions have had such an association for some time.
The report of the University Ball committee to the Athletic board is lengthy. When all was footed up it was found that the assets exceeded the liabilities just 10c. The gymnasium will be started immediately.
The January North American contains some interesting matter on the Indians. Get one at Smith's news depot.
You may not travel much,
While attending the University. A trip home at
Christmas, or
Thanksgiving, or Christmas. or
During the spring vacation, or To Kansas City to hear Booth.
Is perhaps all your purse Can stand.
But when you do go,
"Old Reliable" and
"Always on Time" line is The Santa Fe.
It reaches more Kansas towns Than all of its competitors bunched.
Any time you feel in the Migratory mood, call on Geo. C. Bailey, ticket agent, Santa Fe depot, Lawrence.
Go to the Cash Shoe Store for Boots and Shoes and Repairing. 830 Mass. Street.