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UNIVERSITY MISSOURIAN.
VOLU3IE i.
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1908.
NUMBER 6
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ST. JOSEPH MAKES
BID FOR BIG GAME
Will Furnish Park Free and
Pay Expenses of Ball
Team.
QUESTION IS STILL UNSETTLED
Hay C Car-gill Makes the
Proposition to University
Athletic Board
Shall it be t. Jo-eph r Kan-a- City
for the ainiii.il Kan-as-Mi ouri Foot
hall jraini Thank-giving Day? That
cue-tion ha-, not "t been -ettled. al
thoir'h negotiation- have been under
wav fr nearly a year.
Ha C. ( nrgill, lcpre-cnting several
St. Jo-cpli oiniinerei.il organizations,
was in Columbia Sit unlay and yc-ter-dav
to Milnnil piopo-ition- to the Ath
letic Department of the University ot
Mi ouri. St. Jo-eph agrees to give
the u-c of a park flee, with .-nllicient
scats to accommodate the crowd, and
to either "-kin" the gridiron or rover
it with ten-lurk. A guarantee of cn-thusia-tie
new -paper -upport i- also
made, covering St. Jo-eph and a ra
dius of 100 miles adjacent.
To Pay Teams' Expenses.
The complete traveling and hotel
expenses for thiity men to each team
are al-o thrown in. thus making the
ate receipt- practically clear prolit
for the two univer-itie-. An effort to got
low rates for "rooters" al-o i- included
in the bargain.
In re-pon-e to Mr. Cargill's propo
sition, the Athletic Board of the Uni
versity of Mi ouri voted to negotiate
with Kan-as Univer-ity. This does
not mean that St. .To-eph nece-sarily is
to get the annual Thanksgiving Day
game. It merely shows that the peo
ple of St. .Io-eph are deeply intere-ted
in getting the game there and that if
hard effort- mean anything, they will
succeed.
Mo-t of the student- and alumni
prefer Kan-a- City to St. Jo-eph for the
annual gridiron battle, and it i- be
lieved that the attitude of Kan-as i
similar, but mile concerted effort i
madc by the Missouri and Kan-as
alumui in Kan-as City, it may be that
St. Joseph for the second time will be
the Thank-giing Day mecca of the -tu-dents.
CHELSEA, MASS., AGAIN
AGAIN SWEPT BY FIRE
Factory and Sixteen Houses Are
Destroyed in an Hour.
ISj- fnltcl Pre.s.
CHELSEA. Ma-s.. Sept. 21. Fire is
sweeping the section of Che!-ea which
escaped the conlkigration last winter.
The fire broke out at S o'clock this
nuiorning and within an hour had de
stroyed a box factory and sixteen
houses.
It was beyond control at noon and
aid wa- -uuimoiicd fioni Boston.
Y. M. C. A. LECTURE COURSE
Gov. Hanly of Indiana to be One of
the Speakers.
The Young Men'- Chri-tian A ocia
tiou ha- announced the following eight
liumW- of the lecture cour-e during
the -i-hool term: luternatioii.il Sym
phony Club and Mary Fay Sherwood,
soprano; (Jeneral '.. T. Sweeney, author
and lecturer; -lohn T. McCuteheoii. car-tomii-t;
Lmado Taft. sculptor: l-abel
Oarghill Beccher. of Chicago, in inter
pretive rcailiim-: Jacob A. Kii-. author
and lecturer: Cov. .1. Frank Ilanly of
Indiana, and Whitney Brother-' Quar
tette. MEETING OF CURATORS
Communications to Board Should Be
Ready Friday.
The EiHiitie Committee of the
Board of Curator- of the Univer-ity will
met in Columbia next Saturday.
Dr. Albert Ro Hill, pre-ident of the
Uliier-it. re.iie-ts that all communication-
t.ii tli,. committee be placed in
hi- hand- at lea-t twenty -four hour
before tin- meeting.
D. M. Ko-jser's Grandson Here.
William l Jiadburu llou-ei. grandson of
1). M. loii-.,.r of the St. Lni- Olobe-Bi-iv
! a;, ....died today for entrance
as ;i Mil.!,.,,- ;n the department of jour-Tia'i-m
!. u-.-r -liulied at the Uui-ver-n
..i MN-ouri during part of the
scorn! -t-iu'.tt'r la-t year. .
"SHINE 'EM UP," CRIES
SQUAD OP FRESHMEN
AS PART OF "CHI-CHI'
All
Who Would Could Have Their
Shoes Cleaned Free of
Charge.
'Hot a shine yet J"
This was the familiar mode of greet
ing on the Univer-ity campus Saturday
afternoDn. It meant that the Sopho
mores had a bootblack stand on the
campus, at which captive Fre-hmeii
were compelled to shine the shoes of all
comers.
A crowd swarmed about the impro-vi-ed
stand for an hour, awaiting turns
to have their -hoc- cleaned. The fre-h-nien
worked fa-t and furiou-ly under
the -timulu- of the paddle- of the -ee-oncl
year men. All -bine- were free.
"Bet he never got a shine before,"
growled one of the unwilling bootblack-,
as he bent oer a pair of particularly
di-rcputable loot-.
lint the Sophomore- would have no
levity at the e.pen-e of their guests
and the recalcitrant "fre-hie" wi-ely
-aid no more when his eye caught the
llouri-li of the terrible paddle-.
YES, BRYAN IS RUNNING
FOR PRESIDENT, AND HE
EXCEEDED SPEEDrtlMIT
Automobile Policeman Is Astonished
When He Learns Who
Prisoner Is.
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Sept. 21. Wil
liam J. Bryan, democratic nominee for
pre-ident. wa- arrested in a big red
automobile for exceeding the -peed lim
it, while approaching Woon-ocket, It.
I., yesterday, on his tr' through Con
necticut. The automobile policema-i who made
the arrest was dumbfounded when lie
learned the identit of the parties In
the car.
"Well!" he said, "I heard Bryan was
running strong up here, but if he runs
anything like he was coming down that
pike, liekety plit, Taft won't never be
near enough to him to see hi- du-t."
When arrested, ltryan was on his wa
to the home of Colonel Oeorge W.
Orcene. member of the Democratic Na
tional Committee. There were six au
tomobiles in the p.uty bound for Colo
nel (irecne's ome, including -everal
newspaper men. After the names of the
party had been taken, the automobile
was allowed to proceed.
DIRECTOIRE GOWNS
ARRIVE IN COLUMBIA;
WEATHER BLUSHES
Thermometer Stands at 85 at Noon
Warm Tomorrow Also, Says
Forecaster Reeder.
Still the weather blu-hes. Theie are
some directoire gowns 111 town toaay.
you know.
At 7 a. in. the thermometer registered
CO. By noon it iiad gone to 85. At
2 o'clock the reading was S3.
Forecaster Reeder makes this fore
cast: "Fair tonight and Tue-day; continued
warm.
ACACIA CLUB RENTS
HOUSE ON ELM STREET
Order of Masonic Students Has Twenty
Charter Membeis.
The Acacia Club, compo-ed of Ma-on-ic
-tudents of the University of Mi-souri.
ha- rented the hou-e at 700 Elm street
for the year.
The chapter, designated M E M. wa-e-tabli-hed
here in May, 1007. and ha
a charter menilier-hip of twenty. Its
purpo-e, according to the member-, i
to train Ma-ter Mn-ons to a high
-tandaid in Ma-nnic work, as well a
to keej) in touch with the Ma-onic -tu-dcllts
of other univer-itie-.
The order was founded at Ann Arlior.
Mich., in 11101. The colors are black
and gold. Member- in the faculty aie
Walter MeNab Miller. George Ijcfevie.
W. G. Manly. Sidney Calieit and Mal
colm C. W.it-on.
TO REMOVE CONDITIONS
j Examination for English Students Next
Saturday.
' Stud-nt- of the Usiiwr-hv who were
I conditioned in Eimli-h la-t vear. lir-t
or -eeond -tnie-ter. and having the con--ent
of their instructor to remove the
I condition by examination, may take an
I examination for that pmpo-e next Sat
1 unlay at ! a. in. in Room .'MA. Ai
Idemic Hall.
I No other examination for the removal
oi condition- in un- siidjcci win oe
liven until the end of the seme-ter.
THEY HAD "MALE"
IN Y. W. C
Miss Juliette Moss
Y. W. C. A. GIRLS WEAR
TROUSERS IN COMEDY
'Frat Houses RansacKed for Costumes Ionic
Columns Fell, but "Dr. Hill's" Presence
of Mind Saved the Day.
When the si Ionic column- fell Sat
urday afteri.oon. it did not mean that
a cata-tiophe hail befallen the Uni
versity of Mi out i. But it did threat
en woe to the member- of the Y. W.
C. A. who were pre-enting "Mi Fie-h
Mistake's Debut at the "Yarsity" in the
auditorium of the Univer-ity.
For the Ionie columns were stove
pipes, and the clinging ivy about them
was green tiue paper, the whole con
stituting the chief -cenery in the third
act of the clever fa ice.
The day was saved by Mi-s Lola
IIowat. who imper-onated Dr. A. Ro
Hill, president of the Univer-ity. when
he that is. -he- -aid to the voting
woman who talked and wore elothes
like Regi-trar Irvin Switzler:
"What vandal- tho-e freshmen are.
to undermine our stately columns!"
Oh, There's a Man!
Not a man got pa-t the vigilant
janitois who guarded the doors of the
auditorium during the performance. The
girls had the show all to them-elves.
One of the "male" ehoru-. dre-sed in
a natty blue coat and white duck
trou-er-. did step for a moment from
behii'd the scenes to th. rear porch, but
she quickly scimied in-ide when two
freshmen who were pas-ing dared to
"rubber."
The -how was the annual fall frolic
of the Young Women'- Chri-tian A-so-ciation
of the Univer-ity. and all Uni
versity girls were invited.
Clothes From "Frat" Houses."
To furni-h forth the chorus of "boy-."
the co-eds borrowed all the available
white trou-er- and blue coat- fiom the
men's fraternitv hou-es. But no man
was permitted to -ce how the clothe- lit
the weaiers in the performance.
Mi-- Amalia Schmidt, a -enioi -tu-dent,
of Fergu-on. Mo., had the title
1 tilt, that of :'Mi Fre-h Mi-take,"
ju-t arrived at the Univei-itv from a
rural community. Mi-s Mi-take wa
at tired as a village belle. At the M. K.
& T. station, on her arrhal in Colum
bia, -he met "Billy Ba-iiful." repre--ented
by Mi-s Olive Shepanl. of Colum
bia. "Billy" wore the dinky green cap pre--cribed
for fre-hinen student- ill jour
nalism by the sophomores. She car
ried her-elf with .1 swagger in a blue
suit, with a purple necktie, tan shoes
(i
E OP RIGHT i
LIVING" IS SUBJECT
Dr. Woodson Moss to be First
Lecturer in University
Assemblv Course.
Dr. Wood-on Mo will lecture on
"The Hygiene of Right Living" at the
fir.-t Univer-ity a embly. at 10 a. in.
tomorrow in the auditoiiuui in Aia
deinic Hall.
; There will be two a-semblies weekly.
I on Tue-day- and Thur-day. from 10
jto 11 a. m. President A. Ross Hill
i will pre-ide at all of them.
' Dr. Moss, who has ben cho-en a- the
i fir-t lecturer, is widely known for hi
'abilitv to -trip fact- of technical ver
'biage and put them before laymen" in
(the mo-t vivid and int.-re-iing way.
The -ubject he ha- cho-en i- of mii-icr-al
appeal, and it i- anticipated by
jthe Univer-ity authoritie- that the at
tendance will be huge.
I Chsrap Clark's Son Here.
Bennett C. Clark, son of Congre man
.Champ Clark, of ouIing f 'recti. Mo.,
arrived in Columbia ye-terday after
noon, and began work in the Univer--itj
this morning. He wa- a guc-t of
'the Delta Taus vesterdav.
CHARACTERS
A. FARCE-COMEDY
Miss Lela IIowat
tnd red -o or perhaps they were
-lockings to complete the ensemble.
"Mi-s Fre-h Mi-take" falls in love
with "Billy" and all sorts of compli
cations en-ue. In the second act the
-cene shifts from the railroad station
to a room in Read Hall, occupied by
"Haxie FiiIes" who is Mi-s
Hazel Kirk, of Warren-burg, Mo.
"Flaxio" doc- not belie her name. She
is all fri.zles. By mistake, Miss Fresh
has taken "Billy's" suit case, when she
begins to dress for a party that evening
she is horror stricken to find that she
has only boy's clothes to wear.
Comes "Flaxie" to the rescue, and
frizles ''Miss Mi-take." The result wa-
grotesque, the girls say. Every now and
then the "Men's" chorus, very nifty in
their "frat" suits and white hats, take
a hand with real paddles borrowed from
the sophomores. They are the haers.
Miss Myrtle Meyer, being a freshman in
the show, is the haee. 'Twas all done
in most approved fashion.
The "Male" Chorus."
In the 'male" chorus were Mi-s Mar
garet Woodson, of Independence, Mo.,
and Mi-s Ida May Cole of St. Louis.both
pledged to the Pi Beta Phi sorority,
Miss Charlie Tidd, of Columbia, Miss
Alice Richardson and Miss Ruth Phil
lips of Kan.-as City and Miss Mildred
Xorris of Columbia. In the girls' cho
rus were Mis Faith Pearse, of the
Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Mi-s Efale
Brown, a Delta P.-i, both of Kansa
City; Miss Louise Blackmar and Mis
Mary Xoe, a Delta P-i.
Mi-s Lela IIowat, very dignified in a
long frock coat and a high silk hat,
was "Dr. Hill" and Mi- Juliette Mo-,
of Columbia, a member of Kappa-, was
Registrar Switzler. "Dr. Hill" and
"Mr. Switzler" were talking on the
campus when the columns fell.
There was a little flutter on the stage
and laughter from the audience, but
"Dr. Hill" came to the rc-cue and the
show went on.-
In the end '"Miss Mistake" and "Billy
Bashful" are married and return to the
farm to escape the paddles of the sopho
mores. Yersimilitude was lent io the play
by the presence of a newsboy, carrying
the University Missourian. and of a
peanut vender. Miss Helen Ross was
the newsboy. Miss Frances Smith the
"peanut boy" and the gills all said
they were "real cute."
SLAYS
SHERIFF IN FIGHT
Four Dead or Dying After
' Desperate Battle In
! The Ozarks.
WEST PIINS, Mo., Sept. 21. Four
per.-ons are dead or dying and thre
are injured a- the result of a depcrate
battle e-terday in the Ozarks near
Pre-tonia. Ark., one mile south of the
Mi--ouri State line, between a -herill'-po
c and John ltoliert-. a mountain
eer, and his wife.
The sheriff met death at the hands
of Mr-. Robert-, who defended her hii
I bam! and her home to the la-t. and.
when, after four hour- of lighting, the
I po e -tormed and carried the hou-e,
I -he was found dying under a window.
a pump gun cla-pcd in her linger-.
The dead are: Sheriff Lee Mooney
jand 0Ik Ke inger. who wa- a a in
jated by Roberts last night.
I Roliert- wa- -not eight time- during
I the battle with the p--e and cannot
live. I!i- wife i- dying. Two mcmVr-
of the p.sc are more or !e-- -eriou-ly
, w our.iW.
The affair is the outcome of a feud
between Robit- and hi- ii'diiW.
I Kessjnger, of almost a year's standing.
WOMAN
TO BARE STANDARD
OIL CONSPIRACY
OYSTER BAY', Sept. 21. It is
learned here that an interview or
letter will appear within 48 hours, in
which President Roosevelt will give
the Federal Government's side of the
Standard Oil situation, especially its
experience with public and secret em
ployes of the company.
The President, it is learned, will
unmask a conspiracy whereby the
Standard was seeking to control both
political parties, and thereby shape
both legislation and judicial opinions.
That the Standard Oil disclosure
were one subject discussed, was proved
by the Secretary issuing a type
written statement, admitting that
President Roosevelt had been appealed
to by financiers and politicians,
among the latter Representative
Sibley, not to prosecute the Stand
ard Oil, but that he had turned a deaf
ear to all the appeals and had or
dered the prosecution to be continued.
CROWD CHEERS AS
Mob Threatens to Lynch
Filley if Reprieve is
Granted.
ALIVE 15 MINUTES AFTER DROP
Kingston, Mo., Man Was
Convicted of Slaying
Three Relatives.
By United Tress.
KINGSTON, Mo., Sept. 21. When Al
bert Filley, convicted of murdering his
wife, daughter and brother, was led to
the scaffold here at C o'clock this morn
ing, a crowd of several hundred persons
pressed about the county jail and threat
ened to lynch Filley if a reprieve was
granted at the last minute.
Filley was hurried to the scaffold in
the jail and executed while the crowd
clamored outside. Cheers went up when
his death was announced.
Filley to the last protested his inno
cence. His neck was unbroken by the
drop and he hung for fifteen minutes be
fore dving.
WOULD BE TIGERS
Candidates For Team
Reach 200 This
Week.
May
Today marks the beginning of the sec
ond week of football practice on Rol
lins Field of the University of Mis
souri. In point of the opening of
practice, Mi-souri has a week's advan
tage over her first big adversary, Iowa.
The Hawkcyes, under the terms of the
Chicago conference by which they are
bound, cannot begin practice until Sept.
21, today, but from all report- they
have a large amount of material on
hand, and will not suffer much by the
delav.
More than 110 men are now cavorting
around the practice field- daily, and the
number bid- fair to pa the 20ii mark
Wore the end of this week. In thi
nuinbcr there are nearly sixty fresh
men, and Coache- Howell and Lohman.
who have charge of the "cub-,"' are
about the busie-t men in Columbia.
Nine "M" Men Out.
The :Var-ity eipiad iixik- good even
to the inexperienced thi- year. With
the nine "M" men. Miller. Ander-on,
;ravc-. Driver. Alexander, Dcatlierage.
Crain. Axline and Ri-tine out in suit-:
J with lbil" William- of ba-eball ami
j foot ball fame and -uch other men a
I Wilder. Bluek. Cilciiri-t. Ford. Idler.
' Barm-. Ewing and doen- of otl.T- to
I draw from, it -cein- that nothing ought
Ito be too Iiiir for the Tiger- thi- year.
'The 'Var-ity squad is now tompo-ed
j of about thirty-fiw good men.
The training table will ! -tartcd
I next wek at Mr-. Brown'- in Mary
laud Place, near Rollin- Field. Only
ten or twele men will ! picked at
itir-t. but thi- numloT will lie gradually
'added to until over twenty men an
conditioned. The rules of the Mi onri
Valley Conference limit the amount to
expended by the Univer-ity upon the
training table at $400.
MURDERER
HUNDRED
STUDENTS
FORMER
UNDER
EIRE, WITHDRAWS
Senator Charged With Being
In Standard Oil Employ
Will Not Speak at Taft
Meeting at Cincinnati.
HEARST MAKES ACCUSATION
IN A SPEECH IN ST. LOUIS
Reads Letters from Arehbold,
Oil Captain, and Monnett
Confirms Them.
FORAKER WLL SEEK
SENATE RE-ELECTION
By United Tress.
CINCINNATI, 0., Sept. 21 Al
though he has eliminated himself
from the Taft campaign. Senator
Foraker today announced hi- inten
tion to seek re-election to the United
States Senate and to defend himself
again-t the recent attacks of Wil
liam Randolph Hear-t.
The Republican leader- are em
barrassed by the action of Mr. For
aker and his offer to help eh-ct the
next legi-lature. Drastic changes in
the methods of the republican cam
paign are promised. Taft's friends
blame Hitchcock for involving the
candidate with re-actionary leaders.
Through changes in the republican
plans, the executive and advi-ory
committees will have a greater voice
in the campaign than heretofore.
Secretary Taft and Senator Brad
ley of Kentucky recently conferred
regarding the Kentucky campaign.
As a result of this conference it is
announced that Senator Bradley will
take the stump for Taft this fall.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 21. Senator Jo--eph
Benson Foraker of Ohio, on account
of revelations concerning his relations
with Standard Oil, will not appear to
morrow evening when the League of Re
publican Clubs meets here.
Judge Taft and Senator Foraker were
to have sat on the platform together
under the original plans but the sena
ator has written a letter withdrawing
from the meeting
The letter follows:
'My Dear Judge Having re-ad in tlio
newspaper that some of your friends,
and possibly you arc in doubt as to the
propriety of my speaking with you at
iMu-ic Hall next Tuesday night, I have
concluded not to attend the meeting. I
take this action, not because I deem
the answers I have made to Mr. Hearst's
charges insufficient, not lecauc of any
lack of loyalty to your cause, but only
because I do not wi-h to do anything
that might injure the cause or embarrass
ou personally.
'Very truly yours,
"(Signed) J. B. FORAKER."
Senator Foraker said on giving out
the correspondence that his action was
entirely voluntary, and that he had re
ceived no direct communication from
Mr. Taft regarding the situation.
Senator W. Murray Crane of Massa-chu-etts.
who arrived this morning, ar
ranged for the retirement of Mr. Fo
raker. He went to the candidate's home
and then took luncheon with Senator
Foraker and Senator Dick. Afterward
the three continued their talk at the Fo
raker office and still later Senator Dick
and Senator Crane returned to the Taft
home.
The announcements were made by both
sides after the last visit.
Hearst Makes Charges.
William Randolph Hear-t first made
the charges against Foraker, in a speech
in Columbu-. and he repeated them
with further detail- Friday evening in a
speech at the Odcon in St. Louis.
In hi- speech at the Odcon Hear-t
! named Charles N. Haskell. trejMurer of
the Democratic National Committee and
Ooernor of Oklahoma, a- a party to the
alleged attempt of Standard Oil men to
bribe Attornev-Oneral Frank S. Mon-
Jnett of Ohio in 1500. He -aid Haskell
Iliad tried to -how that it was another
Illa-kcH who figured in the Monnett in
Icident. but Hear-t in-i-ted that it was
i-Charle- N. Haskell, not Charles P.
Ha-kell nor Charles X. Ha-kell," whom
' Monnett. in contempt proceedings filed
' in Ohio courts, aecu-ed.
! In an interview at Columbu- Satur
iday. former Attorney-Ceneral Monnett
repeated hi- accu-ation again-t Ha-kell,
' saying that C. B. Squire-, the alleged of
' fercr of the bribe, had named Charles X.
'ila-kcll and Fran!: Rockefeller as his
authority for the propo-ition.
In an interview at Chit-ago Saturday,
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