Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-12
GRADUATE 1900 THIS YEAR
Record Breaking Total is Expected
from State Schools-University
Alone Has 344.

The big Kansas state schools will
turn out more graduates this year than
ever before. An estimate of the num-
Der Of graduates of each school was
sent to the board of educational ad-
mfnistration by the heads of the insti-
tutions- 1t shows total of more than
fifteen hundred probable graduates
from all the institutions and depart
ments. Here is the estimated numDer
OF graduates in each institution:
University of Kansas, 344; Agricul-
tural College. 300; Normal School, 300;
Manual Training Normal, 250: West
ern Normal School, $50; School for
Deaf, II; School for Blind, 6.
The estimates were sent for the
board to make up the diplomas which
each graduate will receive.
Three hundred and forty-four young
men and women, representing ten
states, will receive degrees from the
University of Kansas on Wednesday,
June 9, at the forty-sixth annual COM
mencement. Besides the two hundre~
and ninety-three Kansans, the senior
class includes twenty-seven Missouri
ans, all but six OF them from Kansas
City, thirteen Oklahomans, and three
from Colorado. Nebraska sends two
VI AOl NOl anu tie SduIO
Der came from far away Pennsylvania.
Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas and Iowa
each have one representative.
EpiscopaIians Meet.-The annual
convocation of the Salina diocese of
the Episcopal church was held at Sa-
line recently with many delegates at
tending
Boy Drowned i'm FIood.-Edward
Bushnell. 16 years old, went riding
in a skiff on the swollen drainage
canal at Wichita. He did not return
and early the next day his skiff and
oars were found mile from where he
lived His body was found later by
the police.
New Pythian Officers.-The new o.
ficers of the grand lodge knights of
Pythias elected at Wichita are c. A.
Matson, Wichita. grand chancellor;
Frank S. Sullivan, Meade, vice-grand
chancellor; N. L. Hollowell, Kansas
City, Ke.s., grand keeper of records
and seals; W. F. Williams, Kinsley,
grand prelate; ]. F. Brown, Neodosha,
grand master-at-arms; Benn Bell. Goo
grand master-at-arms: Ben Bell. Good
land, inner guard; Karl Peterson, Irv-
Ing, outer Su@Tu, W. j. DuVdll, E1uLCu-
inson, senior supreme representative;
Manhattan was chosen for the next
meeting place.
Veteran Trainman KifIed.-Lee s.
Weller, for twenty-six years a Missouri
Pacific trainman, fell between freight
cars in a train at Durand the other
morning and was killed. His wife re-
sides in Wichita
Atchison Veteran Dies--George S.
Gleitsch, aged 20, is dead at his home
in Atchison- He was a veteran of the
Civil war. serving throughout the war
| in the First Ohio infantry He had
lived in Kansas twenty-seven years
Hospital Patients in Panic.=Light-
ming struck Mount Carmel hospital,
one mile rom Pittsburg recently. A
hole was made in the roof. but no
flames appeared and the property dam
age is slight. Fifty patients in the in
stitution were thrown into a panic
Hotel Proprietress Burns to Death
Mrs T. OttiRger. proprietress of a
hotel at Granville, eight miles east
of Topeka, was burned to death recent
". She was trying to start a fire in
a gasoline stove when the can ex-
| ploded.