sent with tlic tents to lake care of them.0'R or thk Fouhdf.rs. —Harvey D. Bice one of the founders of Washburn college, i* dead. He Inul been sick for three months with kidney trouble. He died on his farm east of Topeka. The flood and the death of President Me* Vicar of the college i« thought to have been the immediate cause ofhUdentli.Js Neosho Vai.i.et.—The crop* there have been completely washed out and it will be impossible to replant this year. The loss to the farmers woa itn-since lW. and an increase of 3.336 in 1 the past year.ApVUOHY HOARit—tSoveroor Hailey hus appointed Mayor T. B. Gilbert of. Kansas City. Kits., T. D. Fitzpatrick, of Salinu, and G. S. Murphy, of Manhattan, as an advisory board to assist' him in the distribution of the fund