Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-04
MICKEY AND EATON CLASH
Governor Wants Records Of School Land
Deeds More complete,
EATON TAKES EXCEPTION TO REMARK
story About PitiabIe Condition of
wife of Convict IL Investigated
and Found TO BE with
out Foundation.
(From a stan Correspondent


LINCOLN. Feb. 8. - Especially - Between
Governor Mickey and Land Commissioners
Eaton there is something doing. At an ex-
ecutive session of the Board Of Educational
Lands and Funds this morning the two be-
came SO excited over a proposition that
Mr.. Eaton left the meeting in hun. after
hotly exclsiming to the governor:
Well, you had better come over and
run my office yourself
The proposition was whether a record
should be made when the board had de-
cided that person was entitled to a deed
10 school lands. Heretofore IL has been
customary for the land commissioner to
make out the deed and take il to the gov
ernor TO sign. The latter has always
signed without looking up the record, of
course leaving that entirely in the hands
Of the land commissioner. This morning
the governor suggested that It would be
a good idea for the board to meet and de-
eide who were entitled to deeds and make
a record of the boards action. Then the
deeds would be made out and properly
signed.
This Of course would add much 10 the
work In the land commissioners ONCE,
which is Just now being performed by a
force not at all too large and Eaton OBJ
jected to the new duties. II was when the
governor insisted Eaton suggested that the
governor had better run the land COM
fnissioner's office.
The board probably will decide 10 have
the record made of the purchasers right
to the deed. so in case a mistake should be
made in the deed the board could fall back
on its record.
Good story, hut Not True.
An Investigation made by Secretary Piper
Of the State Board OF Charities and Correc-
tons at Newman Grove has completely dis
credited a yellow, though interesting. story
published here and sent east. The story
was to the effect that Mrs. Nels Anderson
the wife OF a convict in the state peniten-
tiary was not permitted to secure a deed
to the homestead upon which she had filed
because the husband was a convict in the
penitentiary 1t went on to say that Mrs
Anderson had been thrown out in the cold
cold world. with ten children and no money
with which to support them. A party in
New York saw the article and sent il "a
Governor Mickey. The governor at once
appointed Mr. Piper TO investigate and re-
port to him the true facts IN the case. Mr.
Piper has Just returned and his report will
shortly he fled with the governor
Mr. Piper found that Mrs. Anderson had
on It she had resided on the homestead o.
a brother OF Anderson's. which adjoins the
Anderson homestead. H S. Clark fled q
contest against Mrs Anderson, getting q
deed to the property. alleging that she had
not resided on II. A day for the hearing
was set and Mrs Anderson was notified &c
be present. She did not attend the hearing
and in view OF the showing made by Clarh
the entry made by Mrs. Anderson was can
celled
Mr.. Piper located Mrs. Anderson at New
man Grove where she is living on ar
eighty-acre farm with her parents. and he
volunteered his assistance and the help Of
the governor TO see that she got a squsr.
deal. Mrs. Anderson, so Mr.. Piper said, tolt
him that she could not make a living or
the homestead and neither would she re
move to II as II would not raise a croI
and was only At for grazing. She was sat
isfied. Mr.. Piper said. and instead OF beinI
In Strengthened circumstances was doint
very we'll and had a good home.
The part OF the story that a woman
whose husband was a convict could not Al
on a homestead was also false, said Mr.
Piper. as the law allows a woman deserted
by her husband or divorced or who Is de
pendent upon herself TO take UP a home
stead Mrs. Anderson filed as a deserte,
wife
Anderson was sentenced 10 the peniten
tisry IN 1913 for eighteen years. At tina
time he was a. years old.
Work for Printers.
The State Printing board this mornin
authorized the secretary to advertise 70
bids for printing 1000 copies each Of vol