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Show TO WNSITE ENTRIES. Neither Women, Nor Aliens, Nor Minors Ara Barred from Slaking Them. Guthrie, O. T., Nov. 22. The government govern-ment townsite board rendered a decision which will be of the greatest importance when more government lands are thravn open to settlement in Oklahoma. It has been held that minor or married women could not take up land. The board holds that this is true in the case of homesteads, bnt there is no provision in the townsita laws to prevent any one from taking up ati.i. securing title to town property, providing ' they occupy it and make the requisite improvements, im-provements, and neither minors, married women nor aliens are barred. - |