The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-21
STUDENTS ROW
They Try to Scratch Out Each Others
Eyes Today.

They Try to Scratch Out Each Others
Eyes Today.
The Washburn scrap took another and
more serious turn this morning. Here
tofore it has been conducted on strictly
mental principles, but today physical
strength was brought in and the students
punched, kicked and pummeled each
other in lively fashion. For fully five
carried on, right in the main building,
about IL this morning. It was a prize
fight on a big scale with forty aspirants
for hstic fame on side.
The beginning of the fuss is
told in another column The edi-
tor of the Mid Continent, the col
lege paper is a senior and had prepared
copy which lampooned the underclass
men. The rest of the staff who are
underclassmen found this out and
changed it SO it would roast the seniors.
In this way the trouble began. It was
then decided to publish two editions of
the paper, both the senior and underclass
copies.
Feeling rose SO high after the meeting
of the slid Continent staff yesterday
afternoon that III. W. Axtell, the editor
ln-chief and a senior, resigned his posi-
ton upon the paper. The seniors vowed
that none but their special editions of
the paper should be distributed, and this
morning when NJ. p Gould, business
manager of the Mid Continent, took some
of the editions which the other faction
had got up. over to the colleges, the
seniors, headed by C. w. Boughton, the
late oratorical contestant, E. 5. Leland,
son of Cyrus Leland, the politician,
and c. A. Magaw, attacked him
and relieved him of his papers, after a
lively scuffle in which several blows
were exchanged
The fight did not end here however.
The Gould faction came down town and
secured the papers left at the printers.
They distributed them around
and put them safely underneath
| their coats. Then they took
| a lot of old papers and the seniors edi-
tion and carried them in plain sight,
Immediately after chapel Gould began
distributing the seniors papers in the
| lower hall. The latter thinking they were
the obnoxious copies, rallied behind Le-
land and made a rush. Immediately the
air was full Of fists. They beat each
other to their hearts content.
The hall was badly crowded, which
| hindered the effectiveness of the blows,
but they were aimed with good intent.
There were uppercuts, swings, slaps,
scratches. kicks, heart blows, pivot blows,
| punches, in-hg htlng and out-hg hting. 1t
was regular Donnybrook fair with fists
for clubs. Whenever man struck out
he was sure to land on somebody.
! Once there was 1ull, when Prof. FL
lis appeared on the scene, and some one
yelled in a commanding voice, "Stop
that fighting" ''stop that fighting" Only
for an instant however. Another order
was issued from headquarters, and they
| went at it again.
Although this sort of thing lasted
about i've minutes, actual fighting time,
not many were seriously hurt. Gould
was probably hurt the worst. He
and Leland were mixing things up in
the last part of the scrimmage when Le-
land got his opponents head IN chan
Gerry and nearly pulled Gould's eye out
with his finger. The professor and
others finally succeeded in stopping the
actual fighting but not by any means the
i'll feeling.
Here the funny part came in. The
seniors succeeded in getting the papers
away from the others and tore them
up in glee. Then they found they
had torn up their own special edition,
which the other faction had handed out
Not all of the seniors took part in this
row. Some endeavored to stop the
racket