From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 7, 1916:

• “One horse was burned to death and nearly $8,000 worth of lumber was damaged or destroyed in the fire which started in a barn connected with the lumber yard of Charles H. Constant at 1900 Massachusetts street last night. The fire started on the New Hampshire street side of the yard and was well under way before it was discovered. The fire spread rapidly along the sheds in which the lumber was stored and the entire energies of the fire department were required to stop its progress. The burning lumber produced a fierce heat. Chief Reinisch had his face badly scorched, Frank Hackbarth had his arms blistered, and John Perkins had several blisters burned on one leg while the men were manning the first line of hose and were trying desperately with short range fire fighting to restrict the fire to a small section of the yard. Three horses were in the barn when the fire was discovered. With great difficulty Roy Bulis, one of the first men on the scene, led two of the horses from the blazing barn, one of them being badly scorched, but the third, a family nag, could not be removed from the barn and was burned…. The most valuable part of the lumber in the yard was in the part through which the fire swept. Two car loads of cypress had just been received and stored in that part of the yard, and other finishing lumber also was stored there.”
• “‘The world today is facing four great problems,’ said Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent Magazine, of New York City, in his address to the graduating class of the University of Kansas at its forty-fourth annual commencement exercises this morning, ‘and until these problems are solved the present condition of unrest is bound to continue.’ First and most important, Mr. Holt believes, is the peace problem, which will be worked out by a league of the leading powers to enforce peace and subsequently a confederacy of the nations of the world. Second he places the woman problem, the relation of woman to eugenics, business and the home. Third, the race problem, which he declares is the mist insoluble of all because it is founded on prejudice; and fourth, the economic problem of the just distribution of wealth and the relations of capital and labor…. The commencement exercises were opened with a parade by classes from Snow hall to the gymnasium. The class of 1916 led and was followed by the faculty, the alumni and the University band. In front of the Chemistry building the 425 seniors formed a double line through which marched the faculty and the alumni, led by the band. As soon as the big crowd, which filled the auditorium in Robinson gymnasium to capacity, was seated the band started a slow march and the seniors filed in to the seats which had been reserved for them at the front of the room.”
• “J. E. Ellsworth, who claims to hail from Salt Lake City and says that he is on his way to Connecticut, has been arrested by the police for vagrancy and will be detained at the city hotel until he can give a satisfactory account of himself. Ellsworth has offered stamps for sale at several Lawrence stores and the police believe that he may be one of a gang of post office robbers who have been operating in Kansas. A ‘hop-box,’ used to prepare opium for smoking in a pipe, was taken from him.”