Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-23
WIDOWS ARE TO Be WATCHED
Commissioner Hermann Issues Circular to
Land Registrars.
PLAN TO CHECK ILLEGAL ENTRIES
Names of Promoters TO BE Reported
to WashinEtOn-superintendent
saunders Head in
Danger.
(From a stan Correspondent

From a Stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-(special Tele-
gram.)-Colonel John S. Mosby, special
agent of the general land office, left Wash
ington tonight for Omaha. Colonel Mosby
will spend a few days in Omaha to consult
with District Attorney Summers as to suits
to be instituted against cattlemen, who, It
is charged, have illegally fenced public
lands in Nebraska.
Binger Hermann, commissioner Of the
general land office, has issued a general
circular to receivers and registers Of his
office, notifying them to look askance at
widows desiring to make homestead en-
tries under the act of June s, 1872. The
circular issued by Commissioner Hermann
is as follows:
II has been reported to this office that
persons are systematically engaged in the
business of inducing, by false representa-
lions of law, widows of soldiers to make
homestead entries under the act Of June
3. 1877, for the benefit of other persons
than claimantsi that these persons seek
represent 10 them that they are entitled
by law to make. entry of 100 acres of land
and perfect title to it without residing
upon or c~ulttvating II, and that they are
permitted TO lease or enter into a con-
tract to sell their claim as soon as they
make the original entry. 1t is reported
In car lots from their homes in eastern
states to the vicinity of the land to be en-
tered, and all their expenses paid by in
terested parties, who induce them to make
entries and who secure lease or purchase
Of land SO entered.
You will report at once whether entries
by soldiers widows have been made at
your office. in considerable numbers, al
about the same date, and under circum-
stances which would raise suspicion that
they were not made for the sole use and
benefit OF claimants. If any such entries
of names, giving number of entry, date
and names and postofice address of entry
men. You will also give names and resi-
dences Of parties who appear to be pro-
noting these entries, and state your rea.
sons Tor supposing that the entries are
not made in good faith for homes. In
cases. where a soldiers widow appears per
sonally at your office, you will, before al.
owing her application to enter, see that
she understands the homestead affidavit
which she Is required 10 make.
Insists that Vncnte,
The official days Of George w. Saunders
superintendent of the Indian school al
santee agency, seem to be numbered. To-
day the civil service commissioners, who
some time ago demanded his resignation
inquired of the interior department re.
garding the case and urged immediate
action. There are no charges against
Saunders, but he secured his present posi-
ton In a manner which civil service
commissioners do not consider accordins
to law, and they therefore decline to re-
ceive him into the classified service. SEN
ator Willard has written Commissioner
Jones requesting that he hold UP the
Saunders case until he reaches Washing
ton. Civil Service Commissioner Garfield
does not take kindly to this suggestion
and wants Saunders to vacate at once,
apd aacnrfa ha uf1I ha gotIzaod anI, ,,ha.
Saunders resignation is on hand. Then II
Mr.. Saunders desires to undergo the
ordeal OF an examination for superintend-
ency of an Indian school he may do SO.
Commissioner Garfield, in other words, will
not countenancel any method but straight
out-and-out catch-as-catch-can competi-
tive wrestle for a position under the
classified service.
The secretary of the treasury today Sc
lected a site for the public buildings at
Evanston, Wyo., and Yankton, s. d. At
Evanston the site selected is situated at
the corner of Fifth and Center streets,
owned by Mrs. Juda B. Booth, price
1000. The site at Yankton, s. D., was
offered by M. P. Gilman and others and is
situated at the corner Of Walnut and
Fourth streets. Price, $1,000.
Paymaster LInch Goes North.
Captain John R. Linch, paymaster, will
proceed at once from Omaha to st. Paul
for urgent temporary duty at the latter
place until December /, when he will return
to his proper station.
Second Lieutenant B. ]. Kerfoot, artillery
corps, has been relieved from duty as
assistant to the recruiting of1cer at New
York city, and in charge Of the recruiting
station at Brooklyn, and will proceed to
Omaha and relieve Captain Herbert N.
Royden, Twenty-sixth infantry, In charge
of recruiting station at that place. Cap
tain Royden upon being relieved will join
his regiment.
Frank b. Bonney, Frank J.. Swanson and
A. q. Apalm have been appointed rural
letter carriers and Mary A. Bonney, Bet
sey Swanson and Aaron F. johnson substi-
tutes, at Akron, Ia.
The postmaster general has accepted the
| proposition Of the Masonic association &c
lease premises for the postmaster al
Marion, Ia.
Miss Lulu s. Eddy of Washington has
been appointed a teacher at the Sac and
Fox Indian school, Iowa.
The following Iowa rural free delivery
routes have been ordered established Jan
uary 1: Galva, Ida county, one additional
area. twenty-one square miles, population
3e9. Hawarden, Sioux county, one add
tional area twenty-seven square miles, pop
ulation, 500; Maurice, Sioux county, two
routes. area forty-seyen square miles, pop
~ulation, 731.