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THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Vol. I. No.28.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, JANUARY 19, 1905.
GOOD ROADS FOR ILLINOIS.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 18—A dispatch from Shahotun states that the Russian raiding column has returned safely except for casualties while fighting the Japanese. It is stated on good authority that 300 Russians were killed or wounded, al though General Kuropatkin, in his report as given out here, admits only eighteen men killed and sixty-nine wounded.
A Proposed Law Providing For State Construction.
Mistchenko's Troops Lost 300. But Broke Through the Japs.
Springfield, Ill., Jan. 18.—The Illinois good roads commission appointed in October, 1903, by Governor Yates in pursuance of an act of the legislature, has about completed the draft of a bill which will go before the legislature probably early next week, providing for a general system of hard road building in Illinois to be dore under state supervision.
GOSSACK RAIDERS BACK.
STOCK COMPANY FOR ST. JOSEPH.
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 18, O. D. Woodward wired his son, Frank Woodward, from New York last night that the Woodward and Burgess Amusement company had secured the lease of the Tootle Theatre in St. Joseph, Mo., from the Orpheum Circuit Company. Mr. Woodwent to New York last week, where he met Martin Beck, general manager of the Orpheum company. The deal was closed yesterday. This means the Woodward Stock company will play in St. Joseph hereafter.
M. S. U. WANTS $878,933.
Columbia, Mo., Jan. 18.-The biennial report of the board of surators of Missouri State University will be forwarded to Jefferson City in a few days. The whole amount asked for the university for the next two years is $878,933, while for the school of mines at Rolla, $168,200 is asked. A large part of the amount will come from the collateral inheritance tax and will not be taken out of the state treasury.
Washington, Jan. 18.-If the committee on rivers and harbors fails to insert in the river and harbor bill an appropriation for improvements in the Kaw at Kansas City, an effort will be made when the bill comes before the House, to add to it an amendment authorizing an appropriation for that purpose. Representative Curtis learned from Chairman Burton today that all appropriations were being reduced from the amounts originally agreed upon and that there was no likelihood of the committee recommending an appropriation for the Kaw.
INSIST ON KAW IMPROTEMENT.
DR, IRVINE CHARGES SLANDER.
Philadelphia, Jan. 18. -- The controversy between the Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Central Pennsylvania, and the Rev. Dr. I. N. W. Irvine took a new turn yesterday and it is probable that the whole affair will be aired in the civil courts. Dr. Irvine filed notice of a suit for slander against Bishop Talbot, asking damages. The papers were served on the bishop who was here today.
NEW KANSAS CITY HOSPITAL.
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 18— The sisters of St. Mary, a Catholic order, made the final arangments yesterday for the purchase of a price of property in Kansas City on which they will erect a hospital. The building they will put up as a beginning will cost $60,000 or $70,000, but it is their plan to add to the structure soon, bringing the total cost up to $150,000.
HARGER'S ADDRESS.
5 Cents per copy
Abilene Editor Gives Interesting Talk,
Chas M. Harger, editor of the Abilene "Reflector", lectured to the newspaper class and a large number of other English students on Literature in Journalism Friday.
Mr.Harger treated his subject in a pleasant and entertaining manner, showing briefly some of the essentials of good literature and modern journalism. He said in part:
"The secret of success in literary work is to make others see and feel as you do, and only a simple, direct style of writing can accomplish this result. There is no place for stilted, flowery language."
"The one great joy is to be able to win one's way by doing what he wants to do, and he who chooses the greatest of professions, journalism, and makes a success of it should be suprem happy."
Mr. Harger is one of the fore most newspaper men in Kansas a writer and thinker of long practical experience. He is a firm friend of the University, and
FIRST BASKET BALL GAME
of the season ___
in the Gymnasium.
K. U. vs. EMPORIA NORMAL.
and K. U. must win. Everybody out
STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S PROFITS.
Hamburg, Jan. 18.-The directors of the Hamburg American Steamship company today decided to recommend the payment of a dividend of 9 per cent.The net earnings of the company were $7 \frac{1}{2}$ million dollars; of which $4 \frac{1}{2}$ million dollars will be placed in reserve. The sales of the steamers and the large amount of business transacted with the Russian government were partly responsible for the extraordinary profits.
LIBRARY REFORM IN BROOKLYN.
Cleveland, O., Jon. 18.—Attorney J. P. Dawley, appeared before United States Circuit Judge Wing yesterday and asked that the amount of bail for the release of Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick be fixed. There are five indictments against Mrs. Chadwick in the Federal court, and United States District Attorney Sullivan asked that bail be fixed at $25,000. It was finally fixed at $20,000.
New York, Jan. 18.-Public library officials in Brooklyn have determined that neither the moral nor the literary tastes of their people shall be contaminated if they can prevent. Orders have been sent to the branch libraries that all questionable or trashy books shall be withdrawn from circulation-
will always be welcome here on any occasion.
BAIL FIXED FOR MRS. CHADWICK.
PHI DELTA THETA.
The first of the fraternity spring parties, and the first ever given in the new F. A. A. hall, was given Wednesday night, January 11th, by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. More than a hundred danced to the music of Zeiler's orchestra. The large hall easily accommodated the guests. An excellent course dinner was served. Out of town guests for the occasion were Misses Mamie Maher, Marion Bangs, Ruby Barnett, Gay Shepberd and Miss Abrahm of Kansas City; Misses Ethel Morton, Clara Fleishman, Ethel Davis, Messrs James Stuart Harry Fleishman and S. Everingham, of Topeka; Misses Emma and Elsie Detwiler of Smith Center; Miss Stella McCormick, Cherryvale; Miss Lila Goudy of Beloit; Miss Ada Bechtel of Hiawatha; Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Black of Independence; Miss Katherine Brown of Oklahoma; and Fred Seddon, Ray Delano, Ralph Nelson, Ed Moses and Gale Burris, who are alumnen members.
Miss Mary Barclay, an alumna and an instructor in rhetoric in the Topeka High School, was a guest of Miss Alberta L. Corbin last Saturday.
THE ART EXHIBIT.
The annual exhibition of art now in progress at the Natural History Museum Building is one of the finest exhibitions of its kind ever held in the west. The pictures are all the originals and one can see some of the best prize paintings of America. Some of the best appearing pictures are:
No. 9. Wm. Sargeant Kendall—The Green Crome, 1903, gold medal at St. Louis.
No. 21. Douglas Volk-The Woodland Maid, 1899.
No.23. Irving R, Wiles—The Yellow Rose, 1900.
No.26. C.S.Pearce—Beheading of John the Baptist, from Art Institute, Chicago.
No. 25. Alexander Harrison —Les Amateurs, from Art Institute, Chicago.
No. 60. Episode of*the Massacre of September, 1792, Honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1887.
The last named painting is of mammoth size, being about 18 feet by 22 feet. It shows a scene during the French Revolution in which a nobleman is saved from a mob of ruffians by the pleading of his daughter.
BASKET BALL SATURDAY.
First Game of Season to Be With Emporia Normal.
The first Basket Ball game of the season will take place in the Gymnasium Saturday evening between the State Normal and University teams.
Manager Plank has just received word by telephone that the Normal will be ready Saturday evening to play the best game possible.
The University team has been working three nights a week and is ready for business. The team which will represent the University will probably be M. Miller, center, Miller and Adams (Capt.) guards. Winnega and Bliss, forwards.
The games with the following schools have been arranged: Friends University, Wiehita; Y. M. C. A., Kansas City; K. C. A .C., Kansas City; Omaha Y. M. C. A., Omaha; Des Moines, Y. M. C. A., Highland Park, Iowa, and Fairchild College, Iowa.
PROFS. CARRUTH AND ENGEL'S BOOK.
Professors W. H. Carruth and E.F. Engle have just completed the editorial work on Paul Heyse's charming short story "Die Blinden" in the German.
The classic will be published immediately by Holt and Co., who have published other German texts by Dr. Carruth.
Miss A. L. Corbin, of the German department spent Christmas holidays with relatives at Oswego, Kansas.