The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04
|HAzINCATC GOLDEN
STUDENTS TO SCHOOL OF MINES
ARE TORTURED.
ARMED POSSE TO RESCUE
Sheriff WhippIe Says He VIII Stop
Hazine If He has to oeputize All
of jefferson County.

Aneered because a number OF the
undergraduates at the School OF Mines
had supported professor in his dis
mite with the chemistry class. mob
of 200 students Tuesday night seized
eleven offending classmates and pro-
ceeded TO carry out an extensive haz-
ing plan, says Golden dispatch to the
Denver Post. The work of the gang
of avengers wes only stopped by the
arrival of Sheriff c. w. Whipple of
Jefferson county with three deputies
and shotguns.
The arrival of the sheriff was greeted
with jeers and taunts. and 1t was only
after he threatened to arrest every
student in the vicinity that the dis
gruntled band of embryo engineers dis
persed. Much comment has been
stirred up by the occurrence and clu-
zeps of Golden demand that the stu
dents concerned in the riot be arrested
and prosecuted. 1t is probable that
within the next few days some legal
action will be taken either by the
School of Mines authorities or the
townspeople.
The trouble OF Tuesday night had
its beginning a week ago Professor
John G. Bailar is the instructor or
chemistry at the institution. one
morning last week he was few min
utes late in meeting his class and all
of the members of the class with the
exception of eleven left the lecture
room, giving their class yell and cheer
ing boisterously. Professor Bailar ap-
peared shortly after their departure
and finding eleven students in the class
l.n1 10 frtT
lecture.
The following morning when the
class assembled there were many re-
marks in audible tone commenting on
the fact that the instructor was in his
place on time. After the class had
come to order Professor Bailar an
nounced that the morning would be de-
voted to a written examination on the
lecture of the previous day. The stu
dents who had absented themselves
the day before Immediately arose and
left the room on this announcement.
The examination went on. however,
and the eleven students who had re-
NAMED for the lecture handed in their
answers to the questions of the profes-
sor.
Tuesday evening the chemistry
class. supported by almost 200 of the
students of the School of Mines and a.
few hangers-on from the Golden high
school, paraded the streets and cap
tured all of the eleven students who
had offended against the unwrittn law
of class etiquette. The captives were
securely bound with ropes and led to
the outskirts of the town, where great
bonfres were lighted and the festivi-
ties begun.
The scene Of the orgy was near the
brewery and the first act of vengeance
was to coat the eleven victims with
liberal supply of malt brew. In this
Shiny and unhappy condition, the hap
less offenders were next taken and put
through a test of blanket tossing, the
old army game which has been popu-
lar in hazing expeditions since time
immemorial. With crowd of husky
young men holding the sides and cor
ners of the blankets, the unfortunates
were tossed high in the air, caught in
the blankets and tossed again and
again, until the prosecutors were
weary of the sport.
AS a grand finale to the nights en-
tertainment, an involuntary bath in
Clear creek was planned, and this last
act of the program was about to be
carried out when the sheriff and his
deputies arrived on the scene. The mob
of hazers at first laughed and hooted
at the officer of the law, but when the
latter walked up to the leaders and
stated that he would arrest every
student in Golden if he had to use the
court house for a jail, and then backed
up his remarks with sinister flourish
of formidable looking shotgun, the
young hazers decided discretion was
the better part of valor. and beat a
hasty retreat The sheriff released the
captives, who hunted out their rooms
for a bath and a change of clothing.
The sheriff and his deputies secured
the names of the leaders of the mob.
and it is said that prosecutions will
follow.