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Show May Lose Homestead Nllhilrannl f ov Mllltiirj Itesene Works (lre.il Hardship on l.ehl Citizens Hyruin Smith may Iobu his home-stead home-stead In Ced..r Valley, at tho ,,ioutli of tho Wei canyon. After living on It faithfully for tho reipilred three years under tho new homestead law clearing und cultivating a largo part of It, fencing the tract und i-rectliiu a good home on It, It nppcars that he may lose out entirely. After comply lng honoBtly and faithfully with the 1 .. ih every respec : ns he thought went In to provo up. coho mVcs-Honing mVcs-Honing by thu receiver. hov,i,.r ii... yeloped that Mr. Smith ow,,ed n large tract of grnz ng land lu the Wet cnii. on. which he was purchasing from ho state. As the government law pro-vldes pro-vldes that tho homesteader must not lie tho owner of moro than 10(1 acres other than his homestead, the rulinu Invalid ,U Mr" Sm,Ul'8 ,,omP"", "'" Ho then filed relliHiulBhnient n favir of his son, Dut H uppeura thut before his son mnue an actual filing tho department nt Washington mado tho big withdrawal of 7,000 acres for military purposes, Mr. Smith's homestead Is included in thft big withdrawal and unless some special ruling Is made in his bchnlf his farm will possibly bo used by the Kuto militia or Fort Douglmfl tor u purado ground. H Had Mr. Smith known UutH Innd for which ho had not-ttH a patent would have been clfl to Mm, ho could have itiH troublo by selling It to hliS nominal price. H |