THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Comanche, the Sole Survivor of Custer Massacre. Once Pet of Seventh Cavalry Regiment
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Comanche, the only survivor of the Custer massacre at the Battle of Big Horn, June 25, 1876, is coming into the lightlumet again. To date the history of his life has been very brief, and founded mainly on conjecture, but John C. Lockwood, adjutant of the Ninth Infantry, was in a M troop of the Seventh U. S., Cavalry, who knew Comanche and who saved his life at the massacre, has volunteered an authentic history of his life.
"EVEN AS YOU AND I"
"Comanche was captured on the Stake Plains in Texas is July, 1867," he writes, "in a battle with a band of Comanche Indians, by Gen. George A. Caster, of the Seventh U. S. Cavalry, who had been on their trail for several days. The troops had lost several horses in the running and killed man and wolf. Carl M. Keogh. He selected the horse now mounted in Dyche museum, which was then six years old, and named it Comanchs.
"C Captain Keough became attached to Comanche, and rode him on all campaigns. Comanche was the best campaigner in the regiment, as he could go farther and keep up in fish on less feed and water than any other cavalryman in the regiment. He was an easy-riding and fast-guided horse, and could be gidden on a long, hard march and be fresh all the time.
"There were many horses in the Seventh Cavalry that could out-run Comanche for a short distance, but when it came to a long, hard march, without any forage, there is where they belong. Be the best horse in the regiment.
In 1871 the Seventh Cavalry was ordered to Kentucky. Most of the officers procured Kentucky throughbirds while in the Bluegrass country,
"After the Custer massacre Comanche was the only living thing found among the dead. A private of M troop, James Saves, better known as "Crazy Jim," and my friend Comanche, too, saved him. We took water to him in our hats and gave him a drink. He soon showed sign of regaining strength, and by constant care and nursing, he was扔ten to the streambent "Key West" and sent with the wounded. Our comrade under 48 hours under Major Reno, to Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota territory.
and when they were ordered to the Northwest in the spring of 1875, they were on an exceptionally well-floored boat. They still kept Comanche, and in all four hard, cold winter camma gras of the Northwest, with horses falling out all the time, Comanche was the only one, and Comanche was, and always ready to go.
Who's Who on the Hill
George O. Foster
When Comanche died of old age at Fort Riley, Kans., the members of the regiment agreed to nay far one cost of having him mounted, and Mr. Dye, the curator of the museum, sent the work. Comanche was sent to the World's Fair in Chicago to be placed on exhibition. Three years later, when he was sent back, the personnel of the regiment had changed, and a new coat of mounting. He became the property of Dyce museum, and is now on display there.
The registrar wandered around the rymmianum waiting for the line to start coming through the doors to register. He acted as if he were at leisure, but those who knew him were probably sure, incognito, of ideas and walks over to the tables and began talking to a student seated there. He pointed to the cards and showed her just where a mistake had been made and cautioned her against falling another into it without free filling the blanks properly.
A reporter went over to the man who had shown her how to correct mistakes and asked him several questions with a request for an interview. Mr. Foster paused for only a moment in his calculations he was tabulating on a bit of paper, and set the hour.
"Comanche became the net of the roerriment. A man was detailed to take care of him. He was always led with bridle, saddle and side arms, cavalry boats attached to the saddle, when the regiment was moved to the front at the regimental headquarters of the Seventh U. S. Cavalry."
Then after he had told her what to do he smiled and she went on about her work filling and checking the mail, and the line seemed never ending.
George O. Foster's busy day, but only one of them. Registration day and ever after the students and faculty members flood the registrar's office with inquiries about all kinds of things. Someone wants to know an address, someone wished the spelling of a student's last name or perham the student's final project or that. The registrar's office has become a gateway to the beginning and end of a college career.
This is Mr. Foster's thirty-third year of service to K. U.
When the interviewer asked Mr. Foster about his boyhood ambition he was at first a little surprised but later a bit back to remember. It was probably to be a train robber. But of course you wouldn't print that," he hastened to add for fear people would really be outlawed had really wished to be an outlaw.
C. G. Dunlan
An elderly man who looked as if he were about sixty years old, probably younger, passed me as he came down the steps of Prater hall. He spoke to me, but I could not ask if I had met him. Nevertheless, I answered his cherry greeting and was glad he spoke, for I was a little home-sick, away from my friends and family for the first time. I felt rather proud when I heard that he had remembered me from enrollment day, perhaps.
When I arrived for my rhetoric class I was a bit early and accordingly asked a fellow student if he could tell me who the man was whom I had passed on my way to class. The student said from my description he would guess it were Prof. C. G. Dunlap, who was head of the department of English until two years ago when he resigned.
The boy was eager to tell all he knew about him. Professor Dunlap was associate editor of the Tudor edition of "Icey the Eighth," which was edited in the institute with the assistant professor of English in 1887 and has been with the University ever since. He is still teaching in that department. He attended Princeton and Johns Hopkins before returning to take up his duties at K. U.
I later discovered that he is a member of the University Club, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Psi, and the Carnegie Library Board of Lawrence. His name is included in "Who's Who in America" for 1922-23.
F. E. Melvin
"Nothing interesting has ever happened in my life," Prof. F. E. Melvin said when a reporter tried to find out the history of his life. "Nothing has ever happened that would be interesting enough to print or even to talk about." But one need not look far to understand the many communities among the members of K. U.'s faculty in Frank E. Melvin, associate professor of history.
His travels abroad, his deep interest in human affairs, and the appreciation he has of the student's viewpoint have made his lectures dense and well as informative in historical questions.
Professor Melvin has always had a great feeling for the University's welfare and growth. He started the loyalty campaign in 1910 and it was then that he drove came into being. He appointed the first loyal committee and suggested that we should make a memorial drive for both the Union building and the stadium, for which he named the name "Victory Stadium."
"Napoleon's Navigation System," a review of "Heckher." The Bulwark of the Constitution," in the Political Science Monthly, and several reviews in the American Magazine are Professor Melva's published works.
When the interview was finished Professor Melvin walked over to the window of his room in West Ad and looked far active there, "I was on my knees and the hills beyond. He noticed that the reporter was also admiring the view and he said, "That is why I have always liked this room! It is another reason why I came back to Kaiser to invite me inspiration from Mendel Oread."
Students May Get Fellowships
At a recent meeting of the administrative committee of the Graduate School, the following students were recommended to fill the vacancy caused by resignations: Miss Jessica fugate, A. B., 22; for a fellowship屯, c24; for a fellowship屯; history; Fred Lynn, B. S., '19; Kansas State Teachers College, $r$ † fellowship in education.
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK
Announcements for this column should be telephoned to calendar editor, before noon on Fridays.
Sunday, Oct. 21
2:30 Jewell county club meeting,
Phi Chi house.
4-5 Alpha Epsilon Iota tea, 1329 Ohio.
Monday, Oct. 22
12: Irregular payroll closes signa-
3:30 Y. W. C. A. Cabinet meeting, Henley house.
Fashion show rehearsal, 306 Fraser hall.
Fraser hall.
4:30 Freshman assembly, Henley house.
Mathematics club meeting, 301
East Administration building.
House president's council, Fraser
rest room.
Administrative committee of the summer session meeting, 118 Fraser hall.
Department of English faculty meeting, 205 Fraser hall.
8: Rehearsal of "The Trystina,
Place," entire cast, 1134 Indiana.
Tuesday, Oct. 29
3:30 Regular orchestra practice Fraser chanel.
4:30 Entomology club hike, meet a Dyche museum.
Y. W. C. A. regular meeting,
Murray hall
Quill club meeting, Fraser rest room.
7:30 Community chorus practice. Memorial high school.
Wednesday, Oct. 24
4:00 Organ recital by visiting artist Congregational church.
4:30 W. S. G. A. tea, Henley house.
Cercle Cornelle, 509 Fraser hall.
Teacher's appointment committee meeting, 119 Fraser hall.
Home Economics club meeting, 9 Fraser hall.
1:00 Dr. Porter's discussion group.
"The Song of Deborah," Henley house.
7:30 Students' normal training groups, 213 Fraser hall. Snow, snowy club meeting, 204
groups, 213 raster hall.
Snow zoology club meeting, 304
Snow hall. Dr. Hughes will
Scabbard and Blade meeting; Fowler shops.
In past years a rather vried choice of leaders has resulted. Few men of national or even local prominence have been omitted from the aggregate list. Practically every mayor from Kansas to Mayor Cromwell of Kansas City has been named in the student "Who's Ha."
Regular band practice, Fraser chapel.
chapel.
Men's glee club practice, 10
administration building
8:20 Recital by faculty of the School of Fine Arts.
Thursday, Oct. 25
11:00 Recital by students in School of Fine Arts, Baptist church.
Who Was Tammany If He Was a Leader?
1:30-4:30 Tryouts for candidates for Dramatic Club.
12:30 Regular bacteriology luncheon. 310 Snow hall.
The name of Tammany has for years been associated with politics, but an interpretation which is remarkable if not unusual was submitted by a University student recently. Every year the members of Prof. H. B. Chub's class in Political Parties is asked to name the men who have served in uniform, are or were the greatest leaders in the history of the nation.
13:30 Girl's Glee club practice, 118
Central Administration.
Regular student recital, Fraser
church.
4:30 El Anteneo, 101 East Administration building.
8:00 Quill club meeting, Fraser
rest room.
8:20 Organ recital by Tietro Yon Congregational church.
Friday. Oct. 26
2:30 Kansas State Agricultural College football game, Stadium field.
9:00 All - University Hallowe'er party, Robinson gymnasium.
Saturday, Oct. 27
This year, however, when the name of Tammyw was submitted by a misguided young man, Professor Chubb declined to list the name. That, he declared, was carrying things a bit too far. It was bad enough to name Big Bill Thompson as a leader, but Tammyw!
9:00 Varsity Dance.
Saturday, Oct. 27
An election was held to select the ten greatest leaders in the opinion of the class as a whole. They were as follows: Roosevelt, Jackson, Wilson, Lincoln, Hamilton, Bryan, Clay, Jefferson, Washington, and Webster. Others on the list were Tweed, Ford and William Pitt.
Alpha Gamma Delta announces the pledging of Margaret Fry, Osawatomie.
The Mining Engineers' smoker which was scheduled for Wednesday evening, October 17, has been posoned indefinitely.
K. U. train fighters—and so does Nebraska, as yesterday's battle at Lincoln gives fresh proof. Back in the last of the eighty they began training them—perhaps unconscious, and certainly a different sort, for the two men who have brought the greatest fame to their respective schools were military leaders and not football players.
Frederick Funston was a student in K. U. from 1886 to 1890, and at the same time that he was roaming daily over Mount Orcad, John J. B. was one of the qualities that later made him famous, in the University of Nebraska.
At that time, the two schools were practically unconscious of each other's existence, but in 1891 the first link was forged in the chain of relations which has bounded them together for more than thirty years. James Canfield, whose daughter, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, is now a famous novelist, was then a member of the K. U. faculty. But the professor of Morbals needed a chancellor just then, and they invited Professor Canfield to take the position. He went, and with him went Jonathan M. Davis, now governor of Kansas, who was then a K. U. student.
In 1882, due chiefly to the influence of Chancellor Canfield, the first game was played between the two neighbor schools. Since that athletic relations have been maintained since the years 1904 and 1905.
In 1919, when Nebraska withdrew from the Missouri Valley conference, Kansas was the only valley school to keep its contract and play its regular games with N. U., for the first time in football, fighting, and while they may not since have trained such famous fighters as Funston and Pershing, they still train great fighters—a number of them proved it yesterday.
Holiday Spirit at DeMolay Dance Even though they did not get to go to the Nebraska game, those at the DeMolay dance in F. A. U. hall Friday night seemed imbued with the warmth of the orchestra played until ten, when they left to make the special train for Nebraska, and Jenk's took over the task of producing jazz. Many high school students were in attendance, but most of them would represent, Dean and Ms. Deys Thompson the dance.
Ruth McBride of Nashville, Tenn., who has been the guest of Doris Hopkins, c'25, has returned to her home.
Kansas Crusaders Take Wine From K.U. Professor's Cellar To Free Him From Temptation
"A History of K. S. U." is the title of a little blue-bound book, of only 200 pages, that was compiled by Prof. Wilson Sterling, in 1891, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the University. Very digified is most of it, the chapter headings are such weighty things as "the Development of Statist University," "the State Department of Kansas," but the last section, written by D. H. Robinson, once chancellor of the University, is a section entitled "Reminiscences," and buried in that is a heading "College Humor." "Soon after the first Greek letter society was established here," says Mr. Robinson, "another society broke out with much larger and more conscious badges, consisting of the letters K, C." wrought up bright new titles.
"There was much speculation as to the meaning of this strange device, but of its real meaning no one seemed to have the least conception. A close watch was kept on the movements of its members. Turkeys were in various localities, but no one seemed to know where they had gone.
"The judge received them with unusual kindness, and kept them in a rear with funny stories until supper was announced. On the plate of each T. C.' was a huge turkey. Asking his guests to help themselves.
"I in an unlucky hour, the boys raided the poultry yard of Judge Nelson Stephens. He soon found out who the culprits were, and without mentioning to anyone but the memoirist, he was invited all the T. C.'s to supper.
Professor of Botany Makes Own Bread
Although he is the head of the department of botany, Prof. W. C. Stevens admits that he is a professional bread maker. He tells how the avocation was acquired and why retained during several years.
"In experimenting with yeast enzymes it is important that one should know their function in breadmaking." Professor Steven's said the other day. "In my classes when this part of the recitation was reached I used to call upon one or two girls in the class to explain the process of making bread. The students were very good bread makers, but they were always backward about expressing an opinion, so I decided to learn to make bread myself.
"Of course, my wife objected. She said that she had been making good bread; there was no need for me to clutter up the kitchen. I explained I wished to carry on an experiment on this run, she finally gave in.
"Armed with several cook books, I took possession of the kitchen. One trial convinced me that my wife was indeed a hemerine. She had been using but a few weeks in her daily routine. She had needed care and did not begin to suffice my needs.
"I purchased a scientific bread mixer immediately; it cost me twelve dollars. I weighed the ingredients on some little scales, and accumulated a ton of weight." I deforestation had invented an incubator in which placed the leaves to rise.
"I would mix the sponge in a few minutes one evening and on the next. I would mix the bread, form the leaves, place them in the incubator, cover with the five minutes, and then bake them in approximately the same amount of time.
"I make such good bread that my wife resigned and gave me a permeant job. As the children grew up the family consumed eleven loaves a week. I had bad luck but once and that was when the cleaning woman man threw my sponge on, thinking it was dishwater.
"In later years the children scattered and I stored the scientific bread mixer on a shelf. We use baker's bread at present, but if war ever breaks out again and there is a need to economize, I shall dust off the bread mixer and take up my old pursuit."
Metcalf First Nominated for Legion Commande
San Francisco, Oct. 19 (U.P. Col. Wilder Metalfem of Lawrence, Kan. was the first man formally nominated at today's session of the American Legion national convention and the office of national commander.
He was placed in nomination by delegate Quigley of Michigan. Others nominated were Gen. Clarence R. Edwards of Massachusetts, by John F. Hobart of Massachusetts; James A. Tucker of Maryland delegation; William N. Healey of Wilkesbarre, Penn, by the Pennsylvania delegation.
the judge went on with his funny stories, as if he was always accustomed to give each of his guests a whole turkey. The boys could not sit together in the same posture. But the judge, too polite to notice their embarrassment, simply urged them to eat, now and then, and kept on with his stories. This broke up the society, and the "Turkry" were seen no more."
"The women's tenacity crusade was being waged then," according to Mr. Robinson, "and this same bunch of boys heard that a professor who had signed the pledge had in his cellar at the time a few bottles of home-made wine, for use in sickness —of course."
"The theirard seized them at once," he says, "and a few evenings later two of them called at the professor's home. They seemed in an especially hanny mood, and finally one of them offered to play. He ran up and down the stairs, old house I sat rattled from chimney to cellar, especially the cellar.
"Dear Professor—Innsamuch as you have "digned the pledge, and there can neither drink this wine yourself, nor sell it, nor give it away, as that would be abetting the great evil, we have concluded to take it, and thus relieve you from all temptati n. Fours truly, Crusaders."
"In the morning, on opening the house, many evidences of burglary were phynly visible—in fact too plainly visible. It was soon found that the cellar was entered, the floor and the following note left in its place:
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Many and varied are the records kept by the government and by information provided to the most interesting, perhaps, is that which has for its purpose the recording of the names of the various cities and towns of the United States and origin and significance of each.
Mr. William Gladstone, of Eugene,
Ore., has made a life-time study of
these facts, and his record is said to
be the only one of its kind in the
world. He was born nearly complete and represents years
of research and expense.
Among the records may be found the names of several small towns of Douglas county which are of inter-land boundaries. View was so named because of its proximity to what was then "The Lake." The old site of the town was further west than the present one and the river could provide a considerable expanse of water.
Weaver was named for Henry Weaver, who owned the farm where the present station of Weaver is located. His son, John Weaver, for some years had a rock crusher on the hill south of the station and finished a dock for the Scenic Flows. read when it built its lines through there.
Worden was established sometimes about 1876 and was named for the mostmaster of Lawrence, Lorenzo L. Sauer, a landowner there; Quayle, for Bishop Quayle; India, because of Haskell Institute; and Pleasant Grove, because of the grove which is located there. Big Springs gained its name from the springs in which it is on the Hill farm with a half mile north of the village.
'Lady Luck' Pays Fare of Men to Nebraska
Winners of the student lottery combinations are returning to Lawrence this morning and are fulfilling their "chance to be taken" of their opportunities to be taken in Debtaska. They are gathering together those members of their households who could not go to the game, and are putting their effort into operations as they saw them.
This is the way it all happened. It looked as if depleted allowances were going to keep a number of students away from the game so members of the groups and clubs formed a sweepstake to contribute toward the traveler's expenses. Lots of drawers, a tray and the brush packed up his tooth-brush and another neckclie and joined his friends on the Special.
Aurille Jenkins, fe23, is going to the Kansas City Dental College this semester. Jenkina is a plaque of Zi PhI Phi, a national dental fraternity.
Gamma Phi Bhi announces the pledging of Inex Porta, c'26, and Eleanor Hughes, c'26, both of Nevada. Mo.