The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
UNIVERSITY HONORS DYCHE
Name of Dead Naturalist to be Carved
over Doorway of Museum at
Lawrence.

The building on the University Of
Kansas campus that has housed what
is regarded as the most valuable col
lection Of American animals in the
country will stand forever as a me-
mortal to the man who made the col
lection, Lewis Lindsay Dyche. The
state board of administration at a
special meeting decided to p1ake the
museum building a memori{ Il to Pro-
lessor Dyche and stone workers were
ordered to cut these words into the
stone arch over the door:
Dyche Museum of Natural History !:
The funeral of Professor L. l..
Dyche was held in the museum of
ket was placed in front of the cOllec-
ton of North American animals which
Professor Dyche spent his life in col
iecting and which is said to be the
most complete in the United States.
Governor Capper and twenty-five
members of the legislature attended
the services. Chancellor Frank
Strong and the Rev. Noble S. Elder
kin off1eiated. The burial was in Oak
Hill Cemetery in Lawrence.
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independence Sells Bonds.-The In
dependence commissioners recently
opened bids for $53, 900 worth of city
bonds for a new city hall and fire
lighting equipment They were sub
scribed twice over
A Club for Pittsburg is
building a club for the farmers A
large vacant lot which has been owned
by the city and upon which it had
been hoped to erect a new fire station
is being converted into a place where
farmers who drive into the city may
hitch their horses. At least fifty teams
can be taken care Of Then there will
be accommodations for the farmers,
Including a large rest room where
farmers may meet and where they
may loaf when they have time for
that while in the city.
Wants Back Payments.-Mayor
Babb of Wichita wants the street rail
way and light company to pay the city
100000 under a franchise that provides
that the corporation shall pay the city
annually one-tenth OF 1 per cent of all
gross earnings above 10 per cent. The
company has made an offer OF SIC, 900
E The mayor has appointed former EN-.
pIoye Of the street railway company
to audit the books from 1903, when the
franchise was granted. If his con.
tentions are sustained he will go into
court to collect the money.
Buried Aqueducts Found-What is
believed to be the remains of early
Spanish civilization in western Kan
sas or possibly of a period dating
back further than that has been un
earthed on a farm a few miles north
of Coolidge in Hamilton county. While
digging a we'll A. z. Sunnyfrank dis
covered what appears to be masonry
aqueducts and other concrete work
about twenty-five feet below the sur
face of the ground. It was tunnel
like affair and branches out in diff
ferent directions. have
been asked TO come and investigate
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Married by a Woman.-Mrs. G. H
Robards. deputy of her husband, whc
is probate judge at Olathe, performed
the ceremony which united In mar
rage H. E. Chenoweth, a live stocl
man, Al years old, OF Kansas City
and Anna Berry. also of Kansas City
40 years old.
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Masonic Temple for Atchison-At
Gibson Masons have let contract 70
the erection of $4,000 temple. tn
contract going to local firm. TIL,
building is to be cOmpleted by Seq
tember L