Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-12-01
NUMBER AZ.


supreme court by the students OF the
Kansas state university to test the
right of the regents of the institutions
to exact library, laboratory and gradu-
alton fees from the students, the action be-
| ing quo warranto proceeding on rela-
ton of the attorney general.
The question has been in dispute for
some time. Attorney General Kellogg
ruled that the collection of the labor
atory fee was proper and legal, but later
an opinion was given by Attorney Cen
eral Little to the effect that the collec-
tion of all such fees was unauthorized
and illegal, on the ground that the
| the expenses of the university, and that
the statute expressly provides that ad-
mission shall be free to all the people OF
| the state.
No library fee was collected until Sep
| tember, 1892, when the students OF the
law department were taxed So each. In
1898 the library fee was extended to all
students, and ali additional tax of $40
was imposed on law students. In 1891
the collections of library and laboratory
fees amounted to S1,61687, and in 1892
the fees collected were 50, 1864. No
report has been received of the collec-
| tions for 1898 and 1894.
The law students, in some instances,
refused to make the payments and re-
ferred the matter to Attorney General
Little, who decided against the regents.
| They renewed their objections and re-
quested him to bring suit, and engaged
Judge John T. Morton, of Topeka, to
represent them. The petition shows that
| the university receives annually from
the state the sum of $75, 900 for current
expenses addition thereto, the leg
islature of 1898 appropriated $4,000
for the purpose of keeping up the libra
rY and laboratory for the years of 1894
and 1895, part of the money being
specially appropriated for the purchase
| of books, and $1,000 each year for the
! purchase of chemicals. An appropriR-
| ton of $4,000 was also made for the
erection and equipment of the physics
and electrical engineering building, and
another sum of 81, 500 for maintaining
and conducting the experimental sta
| ton.
The regents contend that the library
! and laboratory fees are not admission
fees, but fees exacted to keep the libra
ry in an available condition, and to pro-
vide extra facilities for students. They
regard the decisions of Attorney Gener-
al Kellogg and Attorney General Little
as standoff, and continue to charge
the fees on the opinion given by the
| law faculty of the institution, that the
charge is just and legal.
One hundred and fifty stand Of
i ri1ao With tho oooOr1fraD 70
that were used by the Veterans Kelley
league at the Leavenworth Soldiers
home were shipped to the arsenal at
Rock Island, Ill, last week. Forty
stands are retained, however, num-
ber that is considered sufficient for bat
| tallion drill.
| Chancellor Snow has recently received
communication from Author Barteaux,
an old K. q. student, who is at present
connected with Harper's Weekly, in
forming him of fund, subscribed by
K. q. boys IN New York city for the
purpose of offering prizes to the stu
dents of Kansas university in special
lines of work. The first, prize of $25,
will be offered in January next, to the
student of the university who shall
/ write the best ESSAY on English Litera-
ture or topic intimately connected
with the History of Traditions of the
mother tongue. The only condition at
tached to this offer is that the judges
shall be Chancellor Snow, B. w. Wood
ward and Chas. S. Gleed.
| Joseph Yokum, living near Prince
ton, Franklin county, blew off one OF
his hands and received other bad in!
juries while working in well near that
place. He had progressed about thir-
teen feet on the well and went down to
place a stick of dynamite weighing
about a pound. It wac frozen and
Yokum tried to thaw it out by using
lighted paper. While holding the dy-
Mantle and blazing paper in one hand
and trying to arrange the exploding
cap with the other, the dynamite ex-
ploded. Persons in the vicinity ran to
the we'll and found Yokum with his
right hand blown off and the forearm
| terribly lacerated. His face and neck
were terribly burned and one eye badly
injured. The mystery is that Yokum
was not blown to atoms, considering
the quantity of explosive and the con-
fined space. Yokum claims that he had
| dreamed that he would have Just such
an accident and a neighhor had warned
him while going to work not to do so
that day, as he had had premonition
of the impending danger
AMONG KANSAS CHURCH PEOPLE.