Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-14
ROBBERS MAKE GOOD WAGES
Indications that Fruits Of Train HOldup
Exceed Thirty Thsuiand DOllaru.
MICKEY ADDRESSES COLLEGE STUDENTS
State Labor CommissioHeE Discovers
Many EvasiOns of the Child Labor
Law In Omaha and south
Omaha.
CFrom a staff correspondent

CFrom a staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, Oct. DISQUALIFICATION
ofhcers to whom the express company on
cisls confded detailed information about the
recent holdup here say that the amount Sc
cured by the robbers was between 100000
and $4,000. The express officials them
selves will not talk, and conjecture Is
about all that Is left. Local bankers think
that the amount of money secured was OF
considerable proportions. as there has been
a great deal of coin and currency going to
the northwest in recent weeks to nelp S,ove
crops.
superintendent Bignell said tnts afternoon
that he felt confident the robbers would be
caught. The clues have been intangible and
many, but the hunt has been narrowing
down steadily.
orders were Issued at police headquarters
today to bring in certain men and ihsse will
be nailed as soon as they can be found and
the sweatbox applied.
Lincoln police officers promise develop
ments Of some Importance in the Burlington
train robbery within the next twenty-four
hours.
What these are they will not disclose, but
1t is thought arrests are contemplated in
connection with the theft OF three horses
near the town Of Raymond, which were
seen on a country road near that town. Ar
rests, II there be any. will be in Lincoln.
Not much Importance attaches to the sus-
poets detained at Hubbell, as they fail in
all essentials to At the descriptions given
Of the robbers. In local circles vigilance
has been doubled, with the growing suspi-
clon that the robbers, or their friends, are
in this city.
Mickey Talks to Students.
Last Wednesday W.. H. Thompson. fusion
nominee for governor. addressed the stu
dents Of the State university. This morn
ing ]. H. Mickey, the republican nominee,
was their guest Of honor. He made no ref
erence to politics in his remarks, which
were as follows:
The work OF this university Is of the
greatest Importance to the development of
this commonwealth. Thirty-four years ago
II wac my privilege to become a citizen OF
our state. My homestead entry was the
nrst business transacted In the Lincoln
United States land Office. Thirty-four years
ago our state was admitted into the union.
1 am gratihed to be In touch with and to
share with others the benefits and bless
ings OF the high standard of education we
have reached In the thirty-four years OF
statehood.
The free public school system is intensely
American. The money we have expended
will; bring us greater returns in character
building, and the preparation of our young
men ana women to grapple with the busi-
political questions OF this. the beginning OF
the twentieth century, than any other out
lay of the state or individuals have made.
No one has ever set forth so well the true
worth and grandeur of our free public
sGho0l system as did our late martyred
permanently grated upon the policy and
legislation OF the state, 1t is free to all; to
II all are invited and welcomed, without
money and without price. 1t is supported
with poundless generosity by the people of
the state, open to the children Of the hum
gates, as freely and ungrudgingiy as to
the native born or the children Of the most
opulent. Within its jurisdiction all dis
tinctions. social, political and religious, are
banished; all differences hushed, all bar
riers removed. 1t recognizes, neither party
but free as the air we breathe. its bounties
and benefits fall in equal measure to all"
Nebraska has been liberal IN It's appro-
priations for this university. It's iiberality
In these appropriations must continue COM
mensurate with Twentieth century de-
mands. Nebraska, measured by its financial
resources, is excelled by no other state IL
the liberslity of it's appropriations for
must be maintained. The money appro.
prlated and with prudence expended for
this university is not extravaganza. It Is
, fare of the people. This also applies witt
equal force to the State Normal school al
Peru as well as to every public institu
be wisely liberal in its appropriations anC
prudent In its expenditures for public in
situations. It must not discourage priyat,
enterprise fraught with public good. Their,
= are private and parochial schools. acade
r mics, colleges and universities In his grea
commonwealth, which the state should en-
D courage. not by public taxation or appro
priations, but by the good will of the pub
lie in wishing them Godspeed.
Violate Child Labor Law.
= Deputy Labor Commissioner Watson re
turned this morning from Omaha and soutl
Omaha, where for the last week he hai
been conducting an investigation Of tn
operations Of the child labor law in tn
two cities. 1t is learned that both Il
Omaha and South Omaha he found wha
appeared from external evidences to be vic
lations Of the Jaw. Children we're found a
work in several OF the big institutions VIII
: were palpably not 16 years old. but thei
parents had supplied their employers wit
afhdavits tending to show that they ha
reached the age limit. In one of the Sout
Omaha packing houses It was found tina
T there were 10 children employed, and on
Of the big department stores in Omaha ha
y filed reports showing the employment @
eighty-eight of them. These reports pur
e port TO set out the age of the minors thu
employed. and probably do so as far as re
ports from the parents are concerned
Some Of these reports will probably be com
pared with the reports MED by those VIII
have taken the school census for variou
years in Omaha and South Omaha, and
cases are found wherein the ages given I
the two reports do not agree someone wi
be called upon to explain. II any parent
I; be thus found to have made false afidavI
as to the ages Of their children so that the
n may be kept at work and thus deprived {
their lawful amount OF schooling, il
/. probable that someone will be subjected
! the process Of making an example.
Al II is learned that some of the employer
% Of women in Omaha and South Omaha al
preparing to test again the law regulatin
" the hours OF their employment. Petition
S. are now being circulated among employer
lS OF women with a view of raising funds
that end.
Harmon TO Return to Oklahoma.
IS Governor Savage has granted extraditiC
= papers for the removal to Oklahoma
Claude d. Harmon. who is in the custoC
of Sheriff Ira McReed at Alliance, and WI
q is wanted at Hobart, Kiowa county. Ok
3 to answer a charge OF highway robber