SCHOOL FOR MIDDLE-aged STUDENTS
THE WILDCAT DIVISION OF THE K. S. U. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION, IN CHARGE OF PROF. DYCHE.
ITS STORY BY ONE OF ITS MEMBERS.
We were encamped during the first part of the summer in a beautiful valley known to hunters as Hungry canon, situated on the western slope of the Spanish Mountains, thirty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas. We had considerable difficulty in going from Harvey's ranch to the canon, on account of the vast snow fields which lay on our route. The small feet of the donkeys, or burros, frequently cut through the crust, and they were usually obliged to flounder about in the drifts from an hour and a half to two hours before we could dig them out. It snowed for two days after our arrival at Hungry canon, but the weather soon moderated, though ice still formed nearly every night.
The cinnamon bears that Prof. Dyche killed were perfect monsters of strength and ferocity. We had only been there about a week when he killed the first one. A single shot from his Sharp's rifle dispatched him. As soon as the bear was shot he set up a roar, howl, bellow or whatever it may be called, that could be heard for miles. I can't exactly describe the noise; it is something between the roar of a lion and the bellow of a bull. The first time I heard it my hair raised, my hat flew off and I almost lost the soles of my shoes. But I was going to tell you what the bear did. He did not give up the ghost instantly. It took him seventeen minutes after he was shot to die, and during that time he howled, pawed up the earth, rolled in the mud, pulled up bushes, knocked down trees, bit, tore, slapped and scatched everything in his reach. He was not long in getting scent of the object that had put him in such agony, and made for it at a lively pace. But death was approaching too rapidly for him to go far. Skillful as Prof. Dyche is with a gun he admits that he felt rather queer when the old fellow was coming towards him. Old mountaineer hunters estimate the weight of the beast at one thousand pounds, but two or three hundred must be deducted from that for exaggeration.
The professor can scarcely be excelled as a marksman. Soon after we reached Camp Bear Trail he scared up a herd of nine deer, and killed six of them before they could get out of his reach. The marvelous part is that all was accomplished with four shots. He made one lucky pull with his Sharps, sending a death bullet through three at once.
We had no time to get lonesome. Besides, we had a burro with us that made the hills musical with his braying, and for clownishness outdid Forepaw's trick mule. His name was Reubin; his hair, mouse color, and three to five inches long; ears longer than those possessed by the average of such animals, one of which stood straight up, while the other lopped down. We dared not leave him loose about camp, on account of his ravenous appetite for sugar, bacon, flour, tin cans, meat rinds, soap, dish cloths, etc. One day while we were both absent he slipped his halter, and when we returned to camp he was eating a loaf of hot bread out of the bake kettle. The only pests we had besides him were green flies and bear fleas. We succeeded in protecting our meat and skin specimens from the flies by burying them in the snow; and as for bear fleas, they were ten times as large as ordinary fleas, and could easily be caught and killed.
We held our fourth of July celebration on the second, when bear number two stepped his foot into the trap. I tell you it was a picnic. He had torn the log pen to pieces; had thrown some of the logs twenty feet, and was swaying to and fro and leaping into the air. As this seemed to avail him nothing, he began gnawing the trap, and soon broke several of his teeth out. Then he undertook to break the trap by dashing it against rocks and logs, but could not free himself. In his excitement he took little notice of us, but started through the woods, trying to rid himself of the trap by running. He ran two hundred and twenty-five yards, over logs and through thickets, with one broken leg, pulling the forty-two pound trap with a forty pound chunk attached to it, at such a rate that we could scarcely keep up with him. After four rifle balls were sent through his body, any one of which would have instantly killed any ordinary brute, he survived twenty-one minutes. Since last year, we are told a Mexican, his wife and two sons, were attacked and killed in that neighborhood, by bears. But a short time before our arrival two experienced hunters were attacked by a crippled cinnamon. One of the men was instantly killed, and the other mortally wounded, died soon after.
VIEWS.
W. H. BROWN.
Fraternities Are Selfish.
Miss Lizzie DeVore, the gay and popular University belle of '80-'81, was married in August to Arthur Allen, a merchant of Wichita. She carries with her the warmest wishes of her many student friends and admirers.
Fraternities are selfish. This, no one who has watched the course of University life for the past year, can deny. A member of one can see no good in the members of another, or in those who are not "fraternity men." We constantly hear the sheer nonsense that all the brain and ability of the University are possessed by the societies, notwithstanding the disproof of such assertions in the class room, literary hall and on the chapel rostrum. Acting upon this modest rating of themselves, fraternities push forward their own men to every position of honor which political influence can obtain, while the great number of outsiders are supposed to be content with voting for the men who sport the brilliant badges. Each fraternity may say that this does not apply to it, but if any one will scan its own actions frankly, it can but see the truth. Reform in this respect must come within fraternities, and when it does come, they will be stronger, more respected and more potent for good.
S. T. UDENT.
EDITOR VIEWS:At present the new students are the all absorbing topic. Strangers from every part of the state are ready to begin their work, and very many of them have left their homes for the first time, in order to obtain an education. They stand around the halls alone, and do not seem to be appreciated by any one. Should it be thus? It is the duty of every old student to see that the new ones are taken care of, and made to think they are not among strangers, but newly found friends. Let us remember our own feelings when we mounted the hill for the first time, and try to make them feel glad to be a part of us. R. S. J.
Again it falls to our lot to chronicle the marriage of one of K. S. U's daughters. On September 9th Miss Bertie Neisley was joined in the bonds of holy wedlock to Mr. Al Lewis. Miss Neisley was one of the most popular belles of University society while she attended, and afterward ever had a host of friends upon the hill. The groom is well known to all who ever came to the University, and is universally held in the highest esteem. The marriage took place in the Presbyterian church, and nothing was lacking for the beauty and harmony of the occasion. After the congratulations of friends, the young couple started on their bridal tour through the east, and will not return till November. The Courier adds its congratulations and good wishes to those of many friends.
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