ON A QUESTION OF TITLE The has received the following A citizen of at the United States and of the state of Utah took up a quarter section of land under desert entry nine years ago He did not perfect title am and the government cancelled all his claim he having surrendered the land and the payments that had been made Can that citizen now secure lle ure a under the law If not can enn he take up a The question has been 11 referred to Captain Hare of o 0 the inferior depart department department ment meat His reply is that the citizen un under under under der the statement above Is entitled to toan toan toan an entire under the Smoot law lw precisely as if he had not at any anytime time taken up any portion of public land provided there were no fraud in his former transaction If I he pretend pretended ed ad to have hare completed service entitling him to a warrant for the tion under desert entry and the gov government government government had found that his claim was not true he could be barred from par participating participating in future benefits But In the tha absence of f fraud he would be entitled to his whole under the present law That being true it Is not necessary to answer the second question