THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Vol. 1. No. 30.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSA$ , JANUARY 26, 1905.
TRACK NEWS.
Team2Going in to Win From Missouri—If It Is Possible.
The Track Team has been working hard in the Gymnasium this week on the sprints, high jump, pole vault and weights. A padded weight was made and Ackerman may be seen on Tuesday and Thursday on 4:30 and Saturday at 10:00, teaching his squad of men how to send the shot over thirty feet. McCoy is doing good work in this squad. Never before in the history of the University has the track team began so early and so enthusiastically in their work.
Livingstone who played substitute right end is getting well into form for the high jump. Lupham is going up five feet without much practice. More men are needed who can jump high, and there is a chance for some one to get on the team that will battle Missouri in Convention Hall at Kansas City.
A starting rack is being made in the Fowler shops that will be used by the sprinters. There are over a dozen men trying for a place on the splints and good material is on hand. Little can be done in the long distance runs but Bailey is out every night practicing for wind by sprinting and playing basket ball. The mile men have a hard proposition before them. It some long winded Kansan can show the representative of Missouri his back in the finish of the mile run the Jayhawkers will run the athletie meet.
Butler, Wall and McCoy are the only ones who have been practicing in the Gymn. but Foster intends to enter the arena soon. Dr. Naismith and Manager Plank are elated over the prospects and absolutely know that we will win from Missouri.
UNDER MARRIAL LAW.
An Imperial Russian Decree Appointing a Governor General for St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 24.-The appointment of General Trepoff, the ex-chief of police of Moscow, to the governor generalship of St. Petersburg was accompanied by an imderial decree announcing the creation of the post of governor general. The incumbent of this office, the decree states, will be in control of all the departments of administration of the city government of St. Petersburg, with power to demand the assistance of the military and possessing all the rights of the minister of the interior over appointments to the municipal council and the zemstvos and also the right to forbid individuals to remain in the city.
Chas. Klauman will speak on "The Christian's Power" at the Y. M. C. A. honse tonight.
WAS HERBERT HADLEY'S UNCLE.
Relative of Attorney General Dies at San Diego, Cal.
Olathe, Kas., Jan. 24.-(Special.)—George H. Peach, about 60 years old, and since 1870 a hardware merchant of this city, died at San Diego, Cal. He left here a week ago to spend the remainder of the winter in California, but contracted pneumonia en route. His wife, who accompanied him, will return with the body here for burial. He was a brother of Dr. A.D Beach, who died in this city last November, and an uncle of Herbert S. Hadley, attorney general of Missouri. Mr. Hadley is a Kansas man, and a member of the law class of '92. of the University.
A NIEDRINGHAUS PLEDGE.
To Prevent Further Bolting From the Caucus Nominee.
Jefferson City, Jan. 24-There is in circulation tonight a written pledge in which the Republican members who sign agree to stand by Niedringhaus, the caucus nominee for senator. This pledge of the Niedringbau men is first in the nature of a declaration of principles. It states that Niedringhaus was the caucus nominee for senator and later the houses, in separate sessions, voted for his election, and that he was fairly and honestly elected. The signers then say that for these reasons they have voted for Niedringhaus, and they agree to further vote for and stand by him.
George R. Peck Entertained Widow and Other Kansas People.
IN HONOR OF INGALLS FAMILY.
Washington, Jan. 23.-(Special.) George R. Peck gave a private dinner at the Shoreham Saturday night to the entire Kansas delegation and their wives in honor of Mrs. John J. Ingalls and members of her family, who were present to gether with Mr. and Mrs. Bristow, Marsh Murdock and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Davidson, of Wichita.
A BLIZZARD IN IOWA.
Des Moines, Ia., Jan., 24. Reports received at the central weather bureau tell of a fierce blizzard sweeping over the northern part of the state. At Mason City the street cars are at a standstill and the railroads entering the town have temporarily abandoned their schedules. It was 6 degrees below zero at this point today.
How'd you like to be the gas man this week? Final quizzes are pretty severe on students but they mean a golden harvest for the gas and electric light companies.
FINCH ON EDITOR AND HIS POLICY.
Lawrence Editor Delivers Good Common
Sense Lecture.
C. S. Finch, editor of the Lawrence Daily Gazette, and the Jeffersonian Gazette lectured before the newspaper class Monday, on "The Editor and his Policy."
Mr. Finch began his lecture by saying; "I might lecture to you every day in the four years of your course here on the theory of newspaper work and you would still be ignorant of the practical part of the work." "The place to learn newspaper work is by the editor's desk in the newspaper office." Mr. Finch took every one of his listeners into his confidence and taught them from "the editors' desk."
In speaking of the editors' policy he said, "There is a great difference between the politics of a newspaper and its policy." "The editor of a small paper should have the courage to put forth his own convictions. However the great metropolitan news paper is an absolute machine."
"The editorial writer must write well whatever opinions are laid before him."
Mr. Finch thinks that the editorial page is being crowded out of the great newspapers because the American citizen of today is able to weigh the facts in hand and form his own opinions. He said, "In the days of Horace Greely the editorial page of the New York Tribune swayed public opinion. Today if an editor writes editorials on any political question for an evening paper he will scarcely be able to reach his office the next morning on account of the men who are waiting to convince him that his opinions are wrong.
Mr. Finch commented upon many of the Kansas dailies and brought out their best points. "The Atchison Globe holds the first place among the state dailies,' he said, "Col. Murdock of the Wichita Eagle is so fearless and puts forth his convictions so clearly and honestly that he has never been able to become governor of Kansas and perhaps never will.
"I thought many years ago that I had discovered the way to make the editorial column popular again, and that was by the paragraph editorial. I gave myself up to training along that line and what little success I have had has been on that account. But the paragraph editorial to win attention must have in it some thought, some dominant idea which will appear to the reader.
5 Cents per copy.
K. U. VICTORIOUS.
First Basket Ball Game Ends Well.
In the first basket ball game of the season, played last Friday night in the University Gymnasium, between the State Normal and University teams, the University team won easily with a score of 46-11.
The game was never in doubt from the time the whistle blw until the close. It was well played, with good clean work on the part of both teams. The team work of the visitors was somewhat defective while that of the University boys showed good form. The management now proposes to take the team on a weeks trip through Iowa and Nebraska, the details of which have not been arranged The line up of the teams Friday night was:
NORMAL. K. 6.
L. S. Harper, ... L. F...Bliss
C. Roberts, R. ... F...Barlow
L Jackson, ... C...W. Miller
J. C. Hart, ... L. G...M. Miller
A. Simmons,-R. G-Adams, (Capt)
MORE TROUBLE FOR CZAR.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 24.—Cossacks, while dispersing a crowd of strikers at 4 o'clock this afternoon, drew their swords and wounded several men.
Sensational, but unconfirmed rumors are in circulation that the prefect of St. Petersburg has been assassinated and that he will be succeeded by General Trepoff, the former chief of police of Moscow. It is also reported, but unconfirmed, that the chief of police of St. Petersburg has been assassinated.
KANSAS MAY PLAY MICHIGAN.
Favorable Correspondence From Four Big Schools.
Manager Plank has received the most favorable communications from "big nine" teams that he has received since his office as manager of athletics was created. Four letters that import good tidings from Michigan, Northwestern, Indiana University and Wisconsin.
A letter was also received from Drake University stating that it would be most agreeable to meet Kansas the coming season on the gridiron.
M'chigan and Northwestern simply want to have Kansas come to their respective fields and ask what is the best offer that Managor Plank can make. Wisconsin wants the Jayhawkers to come to Madison if a game is arranged but Manager Plank wants the game played in Kansas City.
With the favorable letters it seems very probable that Kansas will have some of the best teams on the schedule next year that a Kansas schedule ever embraced.