Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-03
QUIZ UNIVERSITY FACULTY
Board of Administration Seeks to Curb
Feeling OF Unrest at Big State
School.


School.
The Kansas university board of adj
ministration conducted a quiz of mem
bers of the faculty the other day from
which all reporters and observers were
barred. Every man present was ques-
toned as to whether he was satisfied
with conditions at the university.
While some members of the faculty
said they had heard of nothing wrong,
there were many who had some criti-
cism of the university management
for the last two years.
The report of the university board
of alumni visitors which was made at
the annual alumni meet on Tuesday
aroused the board to question the fac
ulty in effort to learn real condi-
tions- 1t was generally admitted at
the meeting that there is a feeling of
unrest at the school, which most of
the faculty members said has been
caused in a large part by the board
taking action over the head of Chan
cellor Strong. The cases in which
this was done were claimed by Presi-
dent Hackney to be very few and
there was a virtual promise to the
faculty that the practice would be dis
continued entirely. The report of the
alumni visitors charged that the board
was meddling and that politics had
crept into the university and that the
morale of faculty and students was
affected.
Killed by Live Wire.-George Wend-
ling, a member of the firm of Wirby
& Vending, ice manufacturers of
Frankfort, was electrocized by contact
with live wire at the ice plant He
is survived by his mother, Mrs. So
phie Vending, and several brothers
and sisters.
Bees Stung Helpless Man.-Dave
Beatty, police judge at Atchison,
climbed into tree to capture a swarm
of bees. He lost his balance and in
falling his head wedged in a fork of
the tree. The bees stung him in doz-
ems of places. He was in a dangerous
condition when finally rescued by
neighbors.
Killed in MiiI.-Clay NJ. Gibson
was killed by a shaft while putting
on a belt at the mill in Moline. He
leaves a widow and three small chill
dren.
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Move Big Glass Factory.-The
dismantling of the glass factory at
Ponca City. Ok, is being carried for
ward rapidly, and it is expected that
it will be in operation at Augusta,
Kas., its new home, by July 1. The
move is made to get the plant closer
to Wichita, where the United Sash
plant, is located. The big glass tank,
output week ago, will be the last of
the plant taken.
Club Woman Dead.-Mrs Minnie
Sponsler, wife of A. J. Sponsler, sec
rotary of the Kansas state fair, is dead
at Hutchinson after a short illness.
Mrs Sponsler was well known all over
the state in club circles. Her death
resulted from a stroke of apoplexy.
Harvest Hand Killed.. R. Clay,
| a harvest hand from Frederickstown
Mo-. was killed recently while riding
| a freight car filled with ties at Gyp-
sum City. He was in the end of the
car and a heavy jar of the car moved
| the ties, crushing him.
Sacrifice to Sick Man.-Because
they did not want a river to flood the
land of their sick neighbor, Del Gray,
neighbors opened the levee of the river
near Muscotah. allowing their own
land to be flooded Gray recently had
one of his legs shot off by the acct
dental discharge of a shotgun.
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| Gymnasiu for Miiiand-The board
of trustees of Midland college. in ses-
sion at Atchison, has authorized the
erection of gymnasium to cost be-
| tween $50, 900 and $4,000. Work win