Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-02-22
JUNIOR BANQUET
At 4. & N. COLLEGE
POSTMASTER MiIender Kidnapped and
Three Hours Search by Class
mates Failed to Find Him.

Joseph Ermonde Linuy Millender. a
student of the civil engineering course
at A. & M. College who registers from
Houston, was kidnapped last night and
for three hours his fellow classmen
searched every place in a radius of a
couple of miles trying to find him
without success, and going on with
their banquet without him, he came in
later in time to join them.
This happening proved n Of the
most exciting that has stirred the stu
dent body OF the college for a long
time. Last night was the occasion Iof
the annual banquet of the junior class.
It Is the custom at the college when
the junior class has its banquet that
restrictions are lifted and the students
have a lot of fun. Only juniors attend
the banquet and the other classes have
fun the best they can On this occa-
sion Cadet Millender was POSTMASTER
for the banquet. All during Wednes-
day there were suspicious that some
one had designs on the POSTMASTER
and on Tyree Bell, the president OF
the class. President Bell had a body
guard with him most of the. afternoon
and in the early evening, and Toast
master Millender was cautious, but it
was generally believed that he could
take care of himself. He is a big up
standing fellow, has spent a lot Of
time on ranches and in Mexico, wears
boots and chaps, spurs and a big hat,
and the boys have seen pictures of
him taken on the ranch with a six
shooter on each side. His size was
deemed sufficient protection even If
he did not have his cowboy life to
add to the reasons that would make
small men stand in fear of any at.
tempt to handle him. 1t was about 8
o'clock in the evening that he let his
caution slip its fastenings. He was in
his room in the dormitory with his
roommate, Roy J.. Grissom. He was
going over the tangled ends Of the
speech he was to make as POSTMASTER
and Grissom was suggesting a few
gestures and changes in words here
and there, when a messenger came
and advised Cadet Millender that he
was wanted at the long distance tele-
phone booth. He threw on his great
coat-and it is a great one at. that be-
cause he deals in great things, and
went to the main building to the tele-
phone booth.
From that time he disappeared as
If he had been swallowed up in an
opening in the earth. 1t was about
fifteen minutes before the juniors real.
lied that there was a POSTMASTER
missing. The banquet hour had been
fixed for 10 p. m, and the class had
not congregated. Tyree Bell, presi.
dent of the class, sent out runners and
gathered his fellows about him and
divided them into squads and the
search commenced. They covered ev-
cry foot of ground in a wide radius,
went through all dormitories, looked
in every corner of every barn, and
hunted all through the main building,
But no POSTMASTER.
In the meantime the sophomore
class began to gather. They began to
shout HAS anybody here seen Lindy?'
and then they would give their class
yell-the yell of the class of 1914. This
did not relieve the juniors the least
bit. The seniors heard what was go
ing on, and they gathered in a crowd
on the steps of Legett hall as lockers
on, and they had a heap of fun over it.
The fact that the kidnapped was Lindy
Millender made the joke all the more
enjoyable. That Millender, boots,
chaps, spurs and big hat, had been
stolen bodily was a bit of fun.
The juniors blamed the sophomore
class for their discontinue. They be.
came convinced as they heard one bit
of evidence after another that Dutch
Holm, football and baseball player and
member of the senior class, had sug.
gested the kidnapping, and as one sus.
picious thing after another was re-
called, they credited Robert A. Kern
with leading the kidnappers and they
feel satisfied that Kern had Bateman,
Beasley and one or two others with
him.
The searching parties remained out
until II o'clock, and failing to find the
missing POSTMASTER, the class started
the banquet. While they were feast
ing the sophomores we're having a bon
fire on the parade ground and making
merry over the troubles of the juniors.
1t was about thirty minutes after the
banquet started that Millender ap-
peared at the feast. He was dusty,
clothes mussed, hair tangled, and his
ire was up. He reported that when
he went to the telephone booth that
someone slipped up on him, threw a