Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-24

legislators last night was representative
Coed OF Nemaha and johnson. counties and
with them were a good many Of the native
sons OF Peru, who were by no meanG
2ckward In telling everybody. including
candidates for Legislative Offices. what they
wanted. They want that normal school
Kept at Peru. And not only that, but they
want the state OF Nebraska to spend
some money In an additional building ana
to TX up the present normal school to
accommodate the largely Increased at
tendance that is sure to result IL the school
is not removed"
In answer to State superintendent Fow.
ler's reason for wanting the normal school
at Peru removed to some other place. Mr..
Good has a word to say. Not that he fears
there is any danger Of the coming leglsia-
ture acting on the advice Of the superin-
%tendent. he said. but because the impress
sions hat are going out over the state
might cause some Of the legislators to re-
fuse to vote the appropriation that Peru
wants so badly. MIR. Good says:
In the first place one who cares to
figure it out will find that so per cent Of
the inhabitants OF Nebraska live within
100 miles Of the city Of Peru. No town
In the state has been better equipped by
nature for a state school than has Peru.
And as for it being difficult to reach and
get out OF, IL is not so bad as one would
imagine after reading the accounts OF the
traveller who went over the state and into
Missouri and Iowa to get TO his destination,
because he happened to start from Peru.
We have two trains each way daily and
three each way three times a week. As
to the low attendance at the school. that
is not because 1t is at Peru. The legisla-
ture granted the schools at Fremont. the
Wesleyan institute and all schools having
invested $780, 900 the right to issue GER
tifcates like that Of the State normal
schools. This took many Of the students
who would otherwise have attended the
Peru normal. Besides all this" said Mr..
Good. the ground upon which the normal
school stands was presented to the state
by the Methodist church in 1867 with tho
understanding that there should be erected
and maintained upon it a normal school.
state cannot remove the school without
violating that agreement"
Warns Hotel Men.
Deputy Labor Commissioner Watson has
served notice on all hotel keepers and
others in Omaha, Lincoln and other cities
who have not complied with the law reg
ulating fire escapes to fall in line by jan
uary l or take the consequences. Mr.. Wat
son said the consequences would be a law
suit. This law has not yet been tested and
the labor commissioner is anxious to give
it a trial. 1t is thought the first case will
go through the grind to the supreme court
and a thorough test made. Mr.. Watson
said he had on several occasions notified
proprietors of buildings of the law, but
that very little attention had been paid to
it. He will see that fire escapes are placed
according to law.
Discuss Code Revision.
A number Of county attorneys Of the
state met at the Office Of County Attorney
Caldwell this afternoon aud discussed
legislation. Mr.. Caldwell acted as chair
man and County Attorney Clapp of Jeffer-
son as secretary. Many of the attorneys
were in favor of a committee being ap-
pointed to revise the code. No official &C
tion was taken on an extension of term or
on the salary question, though one attor-
ney wrote that he was doing IS 1000 worth
of work in his county for $3.50, and that
after the first Of the year that would be
cut down to $600-the salary, not the work.
Suspects Are Clever.
The three suspects in the county Jail,
thought to be the Burlington train robbers,
were taken before Justice Greene this aft
ernoon on a charge OF robbtng a store at
Raymond. When the men were arrested
two of them were wearing shoes the fac
tory numbers OF which were identified by
the merchant as the kind that he handled.
One wore a cap that the merchant also
identified. The shoes were given the men
last night to wear to the county Jail, and
this morning when they we're shown to the
court the numbers in the shoes had been
cleverly erased. The merchant, however,
identified the shoes without the numbers
and the case was continued until Wednes-
day.
One Letter Fails.
Another little girl has written a letter to
Governor Savage requesting him to par
don her papa. so that he can go home by
Christmas. This little girl is 8 years OF
age, and her letter is not unlike that of
the little Lawrence girl who said her
mother was in distress, had FIVE children
to support and that the letter was written
without her mothers knowledge. After
speaking of these things the little girl goes
Miss Lawrence one better by saying that
she was writing in the Roodshed and
bought the stamp with 2 cents that she had
saved up for Christmas. The letter is we'll
written, but 1t will fail in its efforts, as
her father was convicted of burglary and It
is known that the family is in good hnan-
cial circumstances.
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