| Show AFTER EDITOR r PRATTS HAIR I Frustrated Fr Saturday Night Stu Students Students Students dents Scheme Anew 4 PLANNED SHAVE AND PAINT I SUSPENDED sUS ED SCHOLARS NOT HOT IN COUP wai WHICH a The shearing of S hair have been in it with the har harvesting harvesting harvesting vesting of editorial locks from the head of Editor Parker B Pratt had the university students succeeded in set get setting setting getting ting hold honI of that stringer of Ink when they made the attempt early yesterday morning The boys were out for hair and hair hait they would have had had their plans carried successfully But nothing daunted by a little defeat the boys yet declare that they will have some of the editors football growth to hang bang at their war belts The attempt to kidnap Editor Pratt was the le result of ot a carefully laid scheme and mid but for the inopportune butting in of or George A GIbbs the plans would have carried successfully Those who made the ef effort effort fort Lort to get hair were not a bunch bunh bun h of the suspended sophomores according acc to th the statement of ot one who knows but a party of ot o sophomores and other university students who are out outraged oUtraged raged lit ut Pratt because of ot the part he heIs heIs Is alleged to have played in the trouble growing out of ot the cabbage throwing nf nt t the MIO The against Pratt t is strong and the boys declare that they will vIll get him yet Plan Concocted Saturday The scheme to get Pratt was concoct concocted c ed e meeting of a number n of the indignant nt students held Satur Saturday da day At that meeting ac according cording so the statements of those who kno know it was moved and carried curled that it 11 was through Pratts editorial that the toys boys had been suspended and as a penalty he must have his hair cut arid his face painted A party part on the Inside of o the he affair said yesterday esterday Last night a bunch of students not thes the suspended boys for they the were not in the crowd met by appointment on State and Fourth South streets and decided to get gt Pratt out of his room by sending endIng a n messenger boy to him with a u message that he was vas wanted at the Tribune office up town After the messenger left the boys lay in wait walt at the entrance of ot the place for I Pratt to appear The boys had a hand handkerchief kerchief saturated with ammonia which they expected to throw across Pratts lace face so the fumes would get in his eyes and make him cry so he could not recognize any an of the gang The boys intend to do him any harm but they simply intended to get him out and shave his head and paint his face and then carry him up town and turn him loose The boys all agreed that he should not be hurt in the th least When GIbbs came out the boys grabbed him and threw the ammonia handkerchief over his face but they the soon discovered ed their mistake Some of them thought of Pratt trying to es escape escape cape cap by the fire ladder and ran to it but Pratt had gone They then tried to square the matter with Gibbs but buthe he raised such a hue and cry c that the boys decided It was time to make themselves scarce Determined to Scalp Editor It is a mistake to suppose that the I boys who wh grabbed Gibbs were the ten suspended sophomores for they were not It was a bunch of outside stu students tu dents the Identity of whom of or course cours is not to be known The boys bOs dont want to injure Pratt at all but they will wilt get that hair of his yet Now that this th a thing has occurred the boys who have been suspended dont ex to be reinstated by the faculty and th the rest of ot the fellows are going to get even some way Gibbs and Pratt are making threats of Swearing out warrants against the theten th theten ten suspended sophomores but the lat latter latter latter ter do not feel eel any uneasiness on that score as they declare they can prove they were cre not in the affair and the rest of the students will stand by them in the matter If warrants are sworn out there will vill probably be something doing among the students Pratt is Ig IsI taking precautions against a surprise from a gung gang of or students I President Kingsbury when seen in regard to the th fresh developments in th thO affair yesterday said that he did not nt 21 t know what effect it would have on th faculty in regard to the thc petition vr s t it by the students asking the reinstatement of ot the suspended stu students dents dEriG He deeply regretted the whole affair hut did not care to express him himself self se if on the merits of the matter |
