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Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-30
TRUANCY FROM HIGH SCHOOL
Matter Tries the Patience and Ingenuity
Of Principal Waterhouse.
SAYS He HAS DONE BEST NE CAN
Does Not Admit school Management
IL DereIictB Says Possibly
Parents Do Not Know
the Facts.
SAYS He HAS DONE BEST he CA'

Truancy from the high school by daugh-
tiers OF prominent families and the recent
remarks by Principal Waterhouse before
tho Womens club about abuses on the
methods employed to insure attendance,
has caused the subject TO be much dis
cussed In public school circles, 1t is ad-
mitted young girls, attracted by parties,
balls and entertainments of the social order
are absent from high school classes to a
marked and increasing degree The school
authorities say reform must be worked by
the parents Unless considerable additional
expense is sustained at the high school
Principal Waterhouse feels he has done
about all no can with the office force and
FUNDS at his command.
Waterhouse states His Views.
He said;
There must, of necessity from the large
number of pupils in the high school, be
many absences every day. Five per cent
of the number attending would not be an
unusual absentee list, 1 think. in school
attended from such distances as are found
in Omaha. The total enrolment for the
first term this year has been about l.6iO,
and the average attendance over 1900 Five
per cent of the lattsr would be seventy
live.
1T is evident the impression prevails
that we should send notice each day to the
parents of those absent | wish Il were
possible to do this. Such a practice would
tend materially to reduce the number OF
absences. No doubt in many cases trivial
excuses would he denied and the pupils
sent TO school. Daily notification is not
possible az present for several reasons. To
look up the addresses of the parents of
from seventy five to rs absentees, write
The necessary notices and address the en-
velopes would require the work of add
iitlonal clerk in the Office The postage
pill would he from $3.50 to 500 a year for
the item alone,
DerelIction Not Admitted.
II do not admit the high school manage
nent Is derelict In It's efforts TO notify
parents of absences. Under the practice OF
The whole school system we send notices
TO the pare0ts when pupils have been alb
sent three days and do not return on the
fourth, Feeling this is not sufficient, for
The reason that pupils might be shrewd
enough to learn Ct tho practice and tricky
enough TO remain out but one or two days
1t separated periods, We have twice during
the term just closed sent notices To parents
whose children have been absent four OF
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-30
DIAMoNDs-Frenzer. 18th and Dodge.

Altstadt still administers justice at the
''eld stand" Ass-4s4 Paxton block.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-30
Sale z,
On W ain Floor.

Here is where we are slaughtering some
of our own stock. President Suspenders,
S9c: Mems Suits. worth up to $3.50, for
$780, regular $500 Pants s1.0o: Young
Mems Suits, worth up to 5000, for Sass;
Mems Fur Lined Caps, S9c: Mems elegant
Worsted Suits, worth up to 5000, choice
$3.50; Overcoats, worth up to $3.50, for
$500; (your pick of any overcoat in the
house, except fur lined) former prices as
high as $500. your choice $500; Pants,
worth up to $780, your choice $1.9o; Pants
that sell everywhere for $500 are $500 at
this sale. Shawknit Socks, 2Oc; s1.O0
shirts, 4Sc; Silk Muffiers, 25c Mems fine
Neckwear 15c; Heavy Blue Jersey Shirts,
Rc; Mems Suspenders. CSC value, each in
a fancy box, l5c; $500 Sweaters, sc; I'm
liened Kid Gloves, 4Sc; Jersey Gloves, 15c;
Indian Tan Gloves, flannel lined 2oc
Armor Plate Boys Hose, 12nc; extra good
Underwear, 45c; 1850 all wool ones, now
75c garment; Ways Muffiers, 15c, etc.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-15
The Miller Sun.
Printed on Wednesday.
THOMAS STRATTON., Editor.

Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Waters and Mr.. Myers,
Thos. Trythall and family,
Ira Cree and family and
others whose names have
escaped us, intend to start
for California to spend the
winter about Jan. L.
There is little or no coal
in Miller now but the coal
dealers are expecting more
on every train. The farm
ers and others have laid in
a pretty good supply for the
winter, and there will be no.
suffering if the coal fails to
arrive for some time
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-15

A Mitchell special in the Sioux City
Journal says:
Gov. elect Coe |. Crawford while in
this city said he was making a trip
over the state personally investigating
the educational, penal and charitable
institutions. Mr.. Crawford said it was
his object, and he felt i6 to be. his
duty, to know thoroughly the needs
and the conditions surrounding each
institution, and he. believed that he
could not ascertain them better than
by personal Investigation
The reports, that are mAie by the
heads of the Institutions said Mr..
Crawford, do not convey the same
Information that Z can get by going
over the buildings, ascertaining what
is necessary in the way of additional
buildings and how much is necessary
in the matter appropriations to con-
duct the business, of the various prop
critics of the state. When the appEo-
pEiaticHs are asked for Of the legisla-
tnre this coming session l will be in a
position TO know something of the re-
anirements of the cases as they are
presented, and what have seen will
act asa pretty safe guide"
This is the first time in the history
Of the state that a goyernor-elect has
ma such a trip. He expects to fin
ish his trip in the course of week or
ten days.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-15
NOTICE.

All persons indebted to
us on account, will please
call at the old stand where
the books are and settle.
This must be done within
the next thirty days
Miller, s. D., Dec. s, '06.
Erickson & Catalan.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-15

Anna Flesner and Anna
Lewis are helping Maggie
Duekeck In the restaurant.
Mrs. Richard Spain and
Mrs. VIM. Spain expect to
depart for a visit with rela-
tives in Wisconsin.
Frank Hannah, represent
ing the Sioux City Journal,
was working up business in
town last Thursday.
It is presumed that Sher-
iff-elect Erb, will move into
the court house residence
as soon as Sheriff Abbott
vacates it.
Register of Deeds-Elect,
E. H. Schmeiter, has not
secured a house In town yet
but no doubt will find a
place to live in by Jan. 1st.
Sheriff. A. H. Abbott and
family expect to move to
Illinois shortly to remain a
year or two anyway. Mr..
Abbot has a fine farm back
there.
The light plants running
along smoothly. Ira Rob-
insIn, the superintendent, is
the right man to manage
the machinery and plant
He understands the skilled
work perfectly
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-15
As Heard in Minneapolis.
A. J. RUSSELL
In the Minneapolis Journal.

In the Minneapolis Journal.
Residents Of the west side at Miller,
S. d.. have been annoyed by sounds
like several ladies taking lessons in
the placing" or the voice. 1t was
discovered finally that wolves were
holding concerts of reveries about half
mile out of town. Last summer
Miller had secret dog poisoner busy.
He had killed off about all the large
dogs, who formerly entertained all the
wolves that sang in the vicinity. Now
all is changed and the wolves do night
ly voice culture, especially on moon
light nights. 1t is hoped that the
dog poisoner lives on the west side.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-15

The Christian Scientists Of Miller,
hold regular Sunday and mid-week
services at the home OF Mrs. S. v.
Christ, Third Avenue, Sunday, hoo
a. M, and wednesday 7:30 p. m.
All wishing to attend will be well
coined.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-15
Church and Society
Notices

CHRISTIAN
Special services next Lords day,
December Is.
A cordial invitation to all members
of the church ut 1l:o0. Also, to all
friends of the church.
Preaching at 745 p. M, S. S. at 12:45;
G. +. at TOO. A cordial invitation to
all. Come.
4 o. swartwood, Pastor.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-15
Now is the Time

to buy holiday goods Don'tl If you wait longer you
wait; but come now and court Disappointment and
pick your choice from our maybe the very thing you
large assortment of Christ liked best may be Sold
mas gifts.
Already big
on our Large collection Of Christmas Presents.
You nothing
we'll
Trouble Christmas We
long like,
People Christmas Time Something Different bod
W needs a place they feel that they
those for themselves
We Something
please bells Soul Recipient
We have the place articles fyon wish them We
sF your desires which, ever they trend
REMEMBER THIS.
That everything Dishes
broke packing material, WON'T
they will distance You mistake don't
them here
Our stock absolutely BRAID rhiup date and dust
in the American mOrket.
DON'T delay, but buy Holiday Goods
CraDtreeS' Cash Mercantile Co.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-15
S A Y !.

We have 1900 apple and crab-trees
that will bear fruit in two years after
setting them out, also all kinds Of
small fruits such as goose-berries cur
rents, raspberries, etc. :.
Carolina and Norway Poplars for
shade trees; in fact everything that Is
South Dakota grown.
At less than one-half the price you
pay tree pedlers from Iowa, Missouri,
Arkansas, Wisconsin and Nebraska.
If you want to plant any fruit trees
this next spring, shade or forest trees.
see ]. Ii. Warke before Jan. 18th
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-15

J. II. WARKE.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15

form an ~anti-lobster union, and be so
gay the people would think we were
young Vandergoulds. Since pa and l
were captured b, the Hole-in-the-Wall
gang I have found that all is not glori-
Gus in the ~train-robbing and capturing
for-ransom business, and that robbers
are never happy except when a robbery
is safely over, and the gang gets good
and drunk.
The first day or two after pa and I and
the traitorous cowboys were captured,
we had a pretty nice time, eating
canned stuff and elk meat, and pa was
kept busy telling the gang of what had
happened in the outside world for sew
eral months, as the gang did not read
the daily papers. When they robbed a
train they let the newsboy alone for
fear he would get the drop on them.
Pa told them about the wave of reform
that was going over the country, and
how the politicians were taking the
railroads and m%onopolists by the neck,
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15

and shaking them like a terrier would
shake a rat; how the insurance compa.
MES that had been for years tying the
policy holders hand and foot, and search
ing their pockets for illicit gains had
been caught in the act, and how the
presidents and directors were liable to
have to serve time in the pe~nitentiary.
Pa told the Hole-in-the-Wall gang all
the news until he got hoarse.
"And how is my. old friend Teddy, the
rough rider?" asked one of the gang,
who claimed he had gone up to San Juan
hill with the president.
THE president is in fine shape" said
pa, land he is making friends every day,
lighting the trusts, and trying to save
the people from ruin"
Gee, but what a train robber Teddy
would have made, IL he had turned his
talents in that direction, instead of
wasting his strenuousness in politics."
said the leader of the gang. II would
give q thousand dollars to see him draw
a bead on the engineer of a fast mail,
and make him get down and do the dyna-
mite act, and then load up the saddle
bags and pull out for the Hole-in-the-
Wall. That man has wasted his oppor-
tunit!es, and instead Of being at the
head Of a gang Of robbers, With all tho
world at his feet, ready to hold up their
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15
COURAGE vs.. coWARDlcE.
The Opinion Of a Military Man Re-
garding the Two Quail
tiles.

Courage" observed an old military
man, lis a quality very difficult to ana
lyze.
II have known men who, in ordinary
life, were shy, sensitive fellows, dis
rlay the utmost pluck and GOODNESS
en- the battlefield; just as, on the other
land, have seen self-possessed,
sturdy blades, almost panic-stricken in
the same circumstances.
"One thing l have learned by expert
ence, and that is the falsity CT the say
ing that DULLES are always towards
7 have known clustering fellows, whq
delighted in hectoring their comrades,
fight like Trojans when their turn
came, without any sign of fear.
ut seems to me that courage is very
much q question of the Imagination.
A dull man will plunge fearlesly into
danger, because he does not realize his
reril. If he had the imagination to
do so, he might turn tail, or, at I'M
rate, shrink and hesitate.
ION the other hand, the intelligently
brave man is aided by his imagination,
for while 1t enables him to understand
HIS danger, 1t makes him keenly alive
to the shame of cowardice and tha
glory of heroism."
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15

take my boys, when our funds get low,
and ride away to a railroad, and hold up
the choo-choo cars, and take toll, but not
OF the poor passengers. Who do we rob?
Why the the railroads are owned by
Standard Oil, and If we take a few thou
sand dollars, all Mr.. Rockefeller has to
do is to raise the price of kerosene for q
day or two and he comes out even. The
express car stuff is all owned by Wall
street, and when we take the contents of
a safe, ten thousand or twenty thousand
dollars, the directors of the express COM
pany sell stock short In Wall street and
make a million or SO to the loss by
the bandits of the far west, and pocket
the balance. So you see we are doing
them a favor to rob a. train, and my con-
science is clear. l am always sorry when
an engineer or expressman is killed, and
when such a thing occurs'I find out the
family and send money to take care of
them, but of late years we never kill any
body, because the train hands don't re-
sist any more, for they do not care to dia
to save Wall street money. Now when
| say to an engineer: Charley, turn her
of and stop here in the gulch and take
2 dynamite stick and go wake up the
express fellow by blowing of the door Of
lis car the engineer wipes his hands on
his O.. erals and says; All right, Hill,
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15

| used to think would like to be 4
train robber. and have a nice gang of
boys to do my bidding. l have often pic
tured my gang putting a red light on the
track and stopping a train laden with
gold, holding a revolver to the head Of
the engineer, and compelling him to go
and dynamite the express car. Then we
would fill our pockets and haversacks
with rolls Of bills that would choke. a
hippopotamus, and ride away to our
shack in the mountains, divide up the
swag, go on a trip to New York, battle in
champagne. dress like ~millionaires, go
to theaters morning, noon and night.
eat lobster until our stomachs would
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15

hands at the slightest hint, living n life
OF freedom In the mountains, there he Ia
doing political stunts, and wearing
boiled clothes, and eating with a fork"
And the bandit sighed for Teddy.
well he will make himself just IS
famous" said pa, "if he succeeds In land
ing the hold-up men of Wall street. and
compelling them to ~disgorge their steal
hiss. But say" said pa, looking the
leader of the bandit gang square in the
eyes, why don't you give up this bad
habit of robbing people with guns, and
go back east and enter some respectable
business and make your mark? You
are q born flnancier, l can see by the
way you divide up the increment when
you rob a train. You would shine in the
business world. Come on, go back east
with me, and l will use my influence to
get you In among the men who own auto
mobiles and yachts, and drive fourth
hands. What do you say?"
mo, 1t is too late" said the leader Of
the Hole-in-the-W Val gang of train rob-
bers, with a sigh. IL should be out
classed If | went into Wall street now.
I have got many Of the elements in my
make up Of the successful financier, and
the oil octopus, and If had not become
a train robber I might have been a sue
cessful insurance president, but I have
always been handicapped by a con-
science. could not rob widows and or
phans If l tried. 1t would give me a pain
that medicine would lot cure to. know
that women and children were crying
for bread because l had robbed them
and was living high on their money. If
1t wasn't for my conscience l could take
the presidency of a life insurance COM
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15

pany, and rob right and left, equal to
any of the crowned heads who are now
in the business. But If l was driving in
my automobile and should run over a
poor woman who might be a policy
holder, I could not act as would be eX-
pected of me, and look around disdain-
fully at her mangled body in the road,
and sneer at her rapidly-cooling re-
mains, and put on steam and skip out
with my mask on. l would want to
choke off the snorting, ad-smelling
juggernaut and get GU and pick up the
dear old soul and try to restore her to
consciousness, which act would cause
me to be boycotted by the automobile
murderers' union and / would be a
marked man.
GAS president of a life insurance COM
pany l could not vote myself a hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year salary,
and take it from fatherless children and
widows and retain my self respect. Out
here in the mountains l a occasionally
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15
THE WEEKS NEWS
TERSELY OUTLINED
An Epitome of the Most Important
Events at Home and Abroad
the Past Week.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH.
4 Glimpse mt what Congress IL Do
ing Together with = Carefully
Digested and Condensed Compiia-
tion of Current News Items, Both
Domestic and Foreign.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

The bill providing for the control OF
the waters of the Niagara river was
passed by the senate.
The senate decided to send the rail
road bill back to the conference for
further consideration.
The house passed the bill extend
ing the act of March 3, 1901, to officers
of the navy and marine corps al
vanced at any time under sections
1906 and 1905 for eminent n con-
spicuous conduct in battle,
MIS-
The house passed the naturalization
bill, the provisions of which are in
tended to put a stop to wholesale and
fraudulent naturalization of aliens
and place citizenship on its proper
plane.
The senate passed the naval appro-
priation bill, with an amendment re-
curing the secretary of the navy TO
submit plans for the proposed big
battleship to congress before proceed
ing with its construction.
The house passed a number OF bills
providing for the erection OF monu-
mentS in commemoration Oh important
historic events and persons, among the
latter being John Paul Jones and Hen
ry w. Longfsllow.
The senate took the usual notice OF
the death of Senator German, of Ma
ryland, and adjourned without trans
acting any business. Both houses ap-
pointed committees to attend the fu-
neral.
The conference report on the bill to
prohibit aliens from fishing in Alas
kan waters was agreed to in the
house; also the senate amendments
to the bill forbidding the importation,
expectation or carriage in interstate
of falsely or spuriously
stamped articles of gold or silver or
their alloys.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15
The LONGWORTHS
ARRIVE IN LONDON

London,-After a voyage which
both declared to have been the most
pleasant in their experience, Mr.. and
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth reached
London early Sunday afternoon, hav-
ing %journeyed from Southampton,
where they debarked from the Ameri.
a line steamer St. Louis, in a beau
tifully appointed royal carriage at
tached to the American liner special
on the London & Southwestern rail.
road. The weather was ideal and the
country traversed by the train on the
short trip to London was looking its
best, so that their first impression Of
England, where they will spend the
opening fortnight of their European
outing, was most favorable. Only a
short trip to London was looking it's
The mayor of Southampton and the
American consul there, Mr.. Swain,
were the first to greet the travellers
on British soil.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15
COL. HENRY ]. LATSHAW
DEAD AT KANSAS CITY

Kansas City, Mo.-Col. Henry
J, Latshaw who, several years ago,
represented the Fifth Missouri district
in congress, and who has been active
in Missouri politics since the civil
war, died in this city, Sunday night,
aged II years. Col. Latshaw in his
early life was a civil engineer and he
first came to Missouri to build what is
now n of the Burlington lines in
northern Missouri. He was an inti-
mate friend and associate Of the late
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, and they CO.
operated in organizing an Illinois reg
iment during the civil war.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15
New and Simple Barometer.

DR.. Eydam, a noted German meteor.
ologist, has discovered a new and ex-
tremely simple kind Of barometer. 1t
consists of the telegraph wire which
Is strung from pole to pole along thu
roadsides. DR.. Eydam declares that by
listening closely to the sound made
by the wind blowing across the wires
anyone can tell exactly what the
weather is likely to be several days In
advance. # the wires emit q deep mel
low and sustained note, like that of an
organ. It means that the weather will
be showery. with possible gales. A
sharp, high note foretells cold, stormy
westhsr. with. in winter. snow and
sleot.--Electricity.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15
COBURN DECLINES,
BENSON ACCEPTS
JUDGE A. w. BENSON TO WEAR
KANSAS SENATORIAL ToGA.
COBURN HAVING DECLINED
The New Appointee Announces That
He viii Be a Candidate Be-
fore the Legislature
Next Winter.

Ottawa, Kas.-Circuit Judge Al
fred Watson Benson, Of this city, who
was offered the appointment of United
States senator to succeed Joseph r.
Burton, following the d%eclination Of
Mr.. Coburn, will accept the appoint.
ment.
Judge Benson expects to start for
Washington this week.
In an interview, Sunday, Judge Benz
son said:
81 do not see why I should not ad.
NIT at this time that l have decided to
accept Gov. Hoch's offer. I shall go
to Topeka and formally inform Gov.
Hoch that l accept the appointment.
viii Be Candidate Next Winter.
II presume that l shall be a candi-
date for regular election to the senate
before the state legislature next win.
ter. My inclination is to ask the peo-
pie to SEND me back If my services are
satisfactory. The whole thing comes
as a surprise to me, as | had never
for a moment considered my appoint
ment to the senate a possibility"
There Are Several Others.
II otilClllClib VI JuuSc DtllSOu
that he will stand for reelection next
winter adds much interest to the
Kansas senatorship, for which ther-
have been several avoNed candidates.
The term that Judge Benson will fill
expires on March 8, 1907. A half doz.
en- men in the state have either pub.
licly expressed themselves as being
candidates for the new term, or have
been prominently spoken of for the
place.
Names Now Prominent.
They include w. e. Stubs, of Law
renee, a railway contractor and for
mer chairman of the republican state
central committee; Representative
Charles Curtis, of the First Kansas
district; j. L. Bristow, editor of the
Salina Journal and former fourth as
sistant postmaster general; Frank
Nelson, state superintendent of
schools, and ex-Gov. William j. Bal.
ley.
1t is stated that r, D. Coburn, who
declined the appoii9ment, had the
pleasure of suggesting to Gov. Hocn
the lame of Judge Benson.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-06-15
DEMOLISHED BY A TORNADO.
Several Residences and Two Hundred
Oil Derricks Raced at Dewey,
]. Tone Life Lost.

Dewey. l. IA fierce tornado
here, Saturday night, demolished sew
eral residences and wrecked 200 oil
derricks, causing a loss of $4,000. In
the destruction of the home of Charles
1snelman, Mrs. j. J. Knowles, of Los
Angeles, CAL, was killed. and her
daughter. Mrs. IsheIman, was serious
ly injured.