The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

Second-Lewis Allen, Southwest Kan
sas college, Winfield.
Third-Guy H. Findly, Fairmount col
lege, Wichita
Fourth-Charles W. Smith, Kansas
Wesleyan, Salina.
Fifth-George Nicholson, Baker uni
versity, Baldwin.
Sixth-Arthur L. QUAINT, Wa shburn,
ToGeka.
Seventh-Otis P. Hudson, Midland
college, Atchison.
Eighth-Cari E. Franz. College of
This list of decisions seems to have
given good satisfaction. Washburn
was glad that Baker did not get first,
and Baker was rejoiced that the Wash
burn representative took a lower place
than their man Nicholson The
between these two schools. each of
which has taken first about the same
number of times.
The winner of the contest, William
D. Goble, will represent Kansas at
the Interstate contest, and viii receive
a prize of $50. Lewis Allen, the second
man, will be delegate to the Interstate
oratorical association, and will get $50
prize money.
At the meeting of the state assocfa-
ton this morning, Wichita was select
ed as the place for the next annual
state contest.
The association made money this
year, because the contest was held in a
hall of sufficient size to accommodate
TIE crowd. Last year the contest was
held in Ottawa. and the association
went Into the hole. The net proceeds
this year amount to about $500. In the
old days when the contest was located
permanently at Topeka, the association
always made good thing out of it
financially.
There was quite a fight at the associ-
alton meeting this morning for the To-
cation of the contest next year. Otta-
wa and Baker tried to get the contest
at Ottawa again, but Washburn threw
its strength to Wichita, and with the
help of the smaller colleges in the CEN
trail pert of the state, carried the day.
POLICEMEN IN EVIDENCE.
The Topeka police force no doubt had
good intentions last night. but its
work was very coarse. and at times
bordered on the brutal. This criticism
applies rather to certain rattle-headed
members of the force than to the force
as whole.
Chief McCollum's idea seemed to be
that the students should be allowed to
fight each other TO their hearts con-
tent, Just so they did not kill any by
ISLANDERS or destroy furniture. This is
the proper theory for managing a state
oratoricaI crowd, but evidently Chief
McCollum lacks the ability to make his
policemen do what he thinks ought to
be done.
So far as known. the only students
hurt at the contest last night were
hurt by the clubs of the police. who
undertook to enforce order" Frank
Ritchie, a Washburn student. was
tussling with a Baker man for the pos
session of a piece of ribbon. out in
front of the Auditorium before the
contest, when a policeman stepped up,
pushed the two boys apart. and struck
Ritchie in the face with his club, cut
ting a cash in his cheek which had to
be sewed up with three stitches.
owing to the darkness Ritchie was un-
able to see who the policeman was, but
some bystanders say it was Darby.
Lloyd Stahl, a former Washburn stu
dent was standing at the edge of the
crowd watching the fight in front of the
building, when Policeman Frank Hen
bricks rushed in and struck Stahl belt
between the eyes with his fist which al
most knocked Stahl down. Stahl in
vited Hendricks to adjourn to the alley
and fight it out, but Hendricks failed to
keep the appointment Frank Leach,
the manager of Washburn athletics and
a law school student was struck over
the hand by policeman while he was
fighting for possession of a cane.
When the crowd was surging about in
front of the Auditorium, NJ. E. Ycunlxin,
the custodian, got excited and thought
they were trying to break down the
doors of the building. He drew a big
revolver, and stuck it in the faces of the
students, threatening to shoot if they
did not stop pushing. Younkin claims
that one of the students drew a knife
on him, but he is probably mistaken, as
people who were standing close by dur
ing the gun play did not see any
knife, and, moreover, students are not
much given to flashing knives in an
affair of this kind.
POLICEMEN STOLE CANES
Some OF the police have a mistaken
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so accustomed to handling tcughs and
bad men that when they see two OF
three fellows mauling each other in 4