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Show More Land-Claim Jumping. Dove tailed in the township site of . Salt Lake City, on the western side, is a piece of land forty acres in extent, laid out in city blocks, fenced, and having on it improvements worth about ten thousand dollars. From iu portion por-tion the owners believed it was included in-cluded in the township site of the city, and consequently thought it was duly entered at the land office. Learning differently a few days ago a gentleman went to have it entered, when he found it had been filed upon by a person whose whereabouts and residence be had difficulty in getting any information informa-tion concerning. Acting upon the provision pro-vision allowed by the law as an old settler, ho dated back his claim ninety days, which gave him precedence. The owner of the land resides just outside the quarter section line marked bv the survey, as may occur in hundreds of ea-s in this Territory, where men have built their residences Dear each other for purposes of neighborhood and protection, throwing several residences in the mtni quarter section, though ;su;h settler may be legally entitled to enter a hundred and sixty acres for himself. .Now, no man could go and lwk id that land, cultivated for years, laid out in ret'iihir city blr;k, well fenced and improved, and lx:ing mill cultivated, without knowing that it was rightfully claimed by another, whether that other through ignorance or iii'eipprflbcn'ion had failed to comply, with the utrlo, letter of I Juj Uw. Under thesis i-.ir-euiii-.l.'iiicef to enlT upon ev)i hind is simply an attempt Ht robbery, Wid it js uiiiin-,1. such iiltemptu that, have |