Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-25
Prof. L. l.. Dyche Left No In
come for His Widow and
Their Children.
NEED FINANCIAL SUPPORT NOW
Must Be Cut Short Unless Aid
Is Received.

without an income when he died sud
denly last January. Unless she re-
ceives financial support, Mrs. Dyche
may be compelled to cut short her chill
dren's education and withdraw them
from the university
Professor Dyche made twenty-three
expeditions to various parts of North
America gathering specimens for the
museum of natural history at the Uni
versity of Kansas. While on those
trips he was on the faculty of the uni
yersity and received regular pay as
a professor with the understanding
that the specimens gathered were to
be the property of the institution. No
one at that time dreamed that his col
lection would become the second in
size and com pleteness in the country.
Friends have suggested to Mrs.
Dyche that she ought to receive an
income from the university in con-
sideration of the fact that her hus-
band spent his best days in its ssrv-
ice and risked his life numberless
times for the meager salary of col
1ege professor.
Shortly after Professor Dycne's
death bill was introduced into the
legislature providing that the unive1-
sity fees be RENTED to Professor
Dyche's children. but it was not
passed. Last April Chancellor Frank
Strong of the University of Kansas,
the state board of administration and
Governor Arthur Capper petitioned
the Carnegie Foundation for a wild
ow's pension for Mrs Dyche, but as
the University of Kansas was not af-
tiliated with the foundation, the rules
@f -
granting it,
Long Lost Son is FounG.-Mrs. Min
ME Nelson of Concordia has located
her son, who disappeared with his
father in San Francisco nineteen
years ago Nelson was years old
when his father left a note for the
mother, telling her to meet him and
the boy at Concordia, where Mrs. Mel
sons mother resides. The father and
son had not since been heard from,
until a message was received recent
he had been found.
Practices Medicine at e4-Doctor
Hedinger of Canton, who was former
ly a physician of Strong City, is be-
1ISNSu " DS TIE OlQSSL pIdcIlCluS pny-
sfcian in the state He has just cele-
brated his ninety-fourth birthday an
niversary and is still active in the
practice of medicine.
Wisconsin Mar Killed in Perry
Michael Jacobs, % years old, was
killed at Perry when he fell under a
freight train which he and a compan-
RI tol, in,
road yards. Both men had been work
ing in the harvest fields.
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Prison Mine Official Quits-George
X. Skidmore, the Kansas penitentiary
coal mine superintendent appointed by
Warden ]. D. Botkin a year and
half ago. has rendered his resignation
and left the prison Levi Day. pit
boss, has been appointed superintend-
ent for the present.
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Stricken During Services.-Joe H.
Buckman, for more than third of a
century superintendent of the Pres
byterian Sunday school at Lyndon,
started services as usual Sunday morn
ing After speaking a few minutes he
turned to James Hilkey. assistant su-
perintendent. and asked him to take
charge of the exercises. AS he sat
down on chair on the platform. Mr.
Buckman's head dropped forward.
| Within two minutes he was dead. He
was born near Springfield. Ill, and
served in the Civil war in the Seventy
third Illinois regiment.
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| Refuses War Order-A chance to
| take all or part of an Ss.0O0.O00 order
| for shells, presumably for the allies,
has been rejected by an Atchison con-
| Germ.
Commission Rule Scores.-The sue
cess of commission rule has been en-
| phasiZed again in Lawrence by the
fact that the board of commissioners
lowered the 1915 tax levy for city ex-
| penses in 1916 by nearly 1 mill. as
shown by figures in the budget just
i made public.
First Frost Reported.-Light frost
made it's appearance in Cowley coun-
ty the other night for the first time
| in August in the history of the coun-
| ty- The government thermometer
registered as low as 40. No damage
to crops was reported
Effingham Banker Dies.-Thomas
Bohannon. GO. president OF the State
bank of Effingham. died at his home