The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
OTTAWA WON 1T.
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Struggle Tor possession OIL d SSAdP u
ribbon, they think that the only way 10
avert a wholesale slaughter is to cluo
somebody, and curse fluently.
Don't talk to me. or I'll knock your
- head off," was the polite
remark which one excited cop made
to a student last night.
The police also need to be taught
that canes and ribbons and cotton ufti-
brellaS in college ColOfS are considered
legitimate spoils of war in a rush such
as took place last night That's what
the fight is about. Each side is trying
to capture trophies from the other. A
few of McCollum's asinine officers con-
ceived it to be their duty to take pos
session of every cane they saw, on the
ground that it had been stolen from
somebody.
This is merely a mild form of petit
larceny for the police, as they know
that after they get a cane TO the po-
lice Station, it is easy to get perInls-
sion to take the article home.
One Washburn student brought
cane and gave it into the keeping OF a
friendly hack driver, while he Went
back into the fray. Policeman Hutton
and Sleuth Josiah Ross saw the trans
action. Without stopping to inquire
whether or not the cane was the legl-
innate property of the student, they
foreibly took it away from the hack
Guess we'd better take it down with
us, hadn't we?" said Brave Ofhcef
Hutton.
Its a pretty good cane, I guess we
had" said Fearless officer Ross.
A bystander ventured to demonstrate
against such pin-head police duty, at
which Ross and Hutton were highly m
censed.
You shut your mouth, you're getting
too smart" said Ross
When the college students found that
the officers were stealing their canes,
they retaliated by stealing the of1-
GERS clubs and it is stated that there
are today hanging on the walls of the
rooms occupied by various students at
Washburn four of the fine Usage
orange bludgeons which the police lost
in the fight
Policeman Barnes. one of the Off
GERS on duty at the Auditorium last
night. refused to carry a club. He said
if he could not handle the crowd with
out a club. he would quit his job 1t
would have been a good thing II all the
officers had possessed as much sense
THE CONTEST.
After the crowd of 500 boys repre-
senting Washburn, Baker, Ottawa and
/ counter charged each other in the
asphalt street in front of the Audi
torium. and it was about $50 o'clock.
they all went inside the building and
yelled at each other for fifteen MIN
utes-
! It might be remarked right here that
! Washburn was almost the whole thing,
/ SO far as preponderance of rooters is
/ concerned. 1t seemed to be all the
rest of the colleges against Washburn.
and Washburn had the best of it
| throughout
There was no invocation on the pro-
gramme, but the officials decided to
have one by an EmpOria minister. AS
J the minister was advancing to the
/ front of the platform people held their
! breath for fear somebody would start
the Emporia college yell. but no one
did. The invocation was the only
| thing on the programme which was
not apDlauded
The first thing on the programme was
/ a piano solo by an unfortunate lady,
/ Miss Edith ForristaI of Kansas Yves
leyan. If it had been Paderewski, no
body would have listened. About mid
way of her selection, Jamie Hughes, the
son of ]. w. F. Hughes, climbed one
of the iron rods which leads from the
balcony to the roof. and tied big
bunch of Washburn bunting at the top.
/ The Washburn people saw it, and in an
instant pandemonium reIgned- Miss
Forristal played right along through
| the uproar just as though she liked it.
4 A College of Emporia man tied a bunch
of red and white ribbons to the top of
/ another rod, and this caused another
spasm. The lady at the piano kept
bravely at work, and when she finished,
she had lulled the audience into COM
parative quiet Music hath power to
sooth even the savage breast of a col
lege student
While the judges were out figuring up
the marks, the Washburn college quar-
tette sang a couple of songs and sang
them very well. as usual
Then there was a struggle for possess
sion of the stage. The Baker and OF
tawa delegations tried to crowd up. and
the Washburn gang kept them down.
When the out of town crowd started
for the Santa Fe depot to take the spe-
cia1 train, the Washburn crowd went
along as an escort. and a water fight
took place on the Santa Fe platform.
The students used the hose intended for
watering cars to drench each other with
, and the policemen who tried to inter
fere. The result was a lot of wet
clothes. Pneumonia cases will be re-
, ported later.
The following is the score of the
+ judges on thought and composition:
JUDGES.