The San Francisco call., 1896-01-25
FREQ RAWSON'S MUMMY,
Berkeley's Deputy Marshal Buys
the Old-Time San Diego
Giant.
Professor Hudson's Lecture on Walt
Whiiman-State Viticultural
Commission Apparatus.

BERKELEY, CAL, Jan. N.-Deputy
Marshal Fred Rawson has purchased the
gigantic mummy, s feet inches in height
found at San Diego last year, and he pro-
poses to travel with it through California
as soon as it reaches Berkeley. The
mummy is now in Washington, where the
previous owners have been for some time
trying to sell it TO the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition. The only thing that stood in the
way of a sale was the price, and upon this
the owners and the institution could not
agree. Rawson, who is a professional
taxidermist and lover of curios, watched
the progress of the deal, and when he found
that there was difficulty stepped in and
purchased the skeleton of the freak Raw
son has a small fortune invested in curl
osities and rare specimens from various
sections of the globe, and he proposes to
put the best of these into a wagon with the
bones of the giant and traverse California
III real "dime-museum- on wheels" style.
He expects that the mummy VIII reach
California in May.
Lecture on Walt Whitman.
BERKELEY, CAL, Jan. 24.-Professor
William H. Hudson of the English depart
ment of Stanford University Iectured at
Stiles Hall this evening on "Walt Whit
man." This was the first of series OF
six lectures to be given within the next
three months under the auspices of the
Unitarian society of Berkeley. Professor
Hudson was well received, the audience
being large, and made up largely of univer-
sity professors and students.
The professor is Spencerian in his phil
osophy, and accordingly Whitman was
criticized along the lines of Spencerian be-
liefs. The lecturer criticized the pantheis-
tic tendency in Whitman, and showed the
superiority of Spsncerian philosophy of
the unknowable to the vague platitudes of
universal brotherhood and the world spirit
of Whitman. He vas also criticized from
the artistic point of view, and illustrated
by reference to Wordsworth and Brown
ing.
Viticultural Commission Apparatus.
BERKELEY, CAL, Jan. M.-Professor
E. w. Hilgard of the chair of agriculture
at the university and his staff are busily
engaged In arranging and properly cata-
loguing the valuable books and apparatus
of the recently abolished Viticultural Com
mission. The department has found
among the property many rare scientific
works and expensive instruments which
thay were sorely in need OF.
Before Governor Budd had revealed to
him the condition of the commission. Pro-
fessor Setchell of the botanical department
ordered from the East a $500 work on
fungi. He has now countermanded the
order, as the work he was in need of has
been found among the books received from
the commission.
University Dogs Boycotted.
BERKELEY, CAL. Jan. 24.-The free
dom and sway of some of the University
of California professors dogs was threat
ened to-day.
. Poundmaster Louderbach with a retinue
of canine chasers took by storm the small
band of ours which inhabit the university
corridors during the greater part of the
day. The specimens of the Genus evidently
knew what was coming, for there was a
scattering IN all directions OF sheep dogs
skye terriers, bull terriers and woolIy ours.
They were too quick for the Poundmas-
ter and by their swiftness escaped untaken
The dogs about the buildings have long
been subject of disgust to the students,
but they have been powerless to do any
thing in the way of Kidding them, as most
OF them were the property of professors.
Official signs prohibiting dogs from enter
ing the buildings have been posted for the
past year, but to no apparent purpose, so
now the poundman has been given the
privilege OF ridding the campus OF all un-
tagged dogs regardless of ownership.
Sophomore Glass Election.
BERKELEY, CAL, Jan. 24.-The sopho-
mores held their semi-annual class elec-
tlOn tnlS AFTERNOON. foIoWlng were the
officers chosen for the ensuing term
President, Arthur L. Dorm; first vice-pres-
ident, Percy NJ. Newhall; second vice
president, Miss L. G. Booard; secretary. A.
G. Olney; treasurer, r. f. Hill; executive
ommittee-Graham, Reeve, Miss Phelan,
Thayer and Leggett.
President Dorm says that he proposes to
GO to work at once on plans to break up
the 'freshies bourbon" which will be held
in May. "They will never reach the
campus with their procession and red
lights said he, ''as we propose to give
them the same medicine that they got in
the last rush with us.n
Baseball Next Wednesday.
BERKELEY, CAL, Jan. 24.-The Uni