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Show Claiming Her High rs. Montana his a citizen named Miss Given Evans, who, as may readily be inferred 1'iom her name, is by birth a Welsh woman. About a month ago she entered the United States di trict court in Montana, Mon-tana, and asked to have a naturalization naturaliza-tion certificate made out for her. The puzzled functionary settled his spec tacles on his nose, examined the appli cant with surprise, and then plunged into in-to the United States staiutes iu which he found no legal reason why a woman should not be du y naturalized, and so Miss Evans received her naturalization papers, with which she boldly went to the land office of the territory. There she a.-ked a clerk to make out her declaratory statement to pre-empt one hundn-d and sixty acres of public laud. The gentleman, like the other, wa.s somewhat astonished by her rsnuest. but, examining authorities, he found no reason to rtpel the applicant, and her certificate was duly filed as No. 1,000. The energetic lady then went to work on her newly acquired land, and built a house, and set mo nr. to improve im-prove her farm, fencing it, and otherwise other-wise showing tnat, having it, she in tended to keep it. She now has a cow, a yoke ot oxen, and all the necessary neces-sary farming tools generally used by pioneers Her land is in IX-er Lodge valley, and some da' the .Northern Pacific railroad will run elose to it, aiakiug it quite a little fortune. |
