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Show JVDMAN DETERMINED -T8 BECOME FARMER Omission in Father's Naturalization Nat-uralization Does Not Daunt Miss Weiss. HAS LIVED ON ENTRY Question of Citizenship Put Up to Examiner and Goes to District Court. " When if a citizen not a citii-.euT" is the difficult and altogether perplexitg question that is causing Paul Armstrong, naturalization eianiiner, considerable trouble. Meantime pretty Miss Cecelia Weiss wants to know Tvhether she is a citizen of the United States, and, if she is not a citizen of the United States, what is ahef oiss, beiDg an unusually ener-"tHie ener-"tHie young woman, went down to Mil- lard county and took up a dry farm claim. She Uvea on that claim seven months of the year, working hard to improve im-prove it. Last summer she and her sister sis-ter due; postholes and fenced in a portion por-tion of her property. She proposes 'to make a real farm out of the place, and is meeting with considerable success. In ivinter she comes up to Salt Lake and works hard to save up money to carry her through the months she is on the farm. Ready to Apply. Xow Miss Weiss is about ready to apply for hor final papers on the homestead, home-stead, and therefore nas to prove, among other things, that she is a citizen of the United States. There is where she encountered en-countered trouble. She hasn't given up, not by any, manner of means, but she faces a serious problem, to say the least. It is all due to the fact that her father wfs careless in making out his citizenship papers baok in 1911. He was naturalized in Newport, Ky., when votes for a certain political party were much in demand, and he was rushed into citizenship citi-zenship to help out. In the blank where it -asked about minor children "Weiss .wrto that ho had none. At the time ('r'elia was a minor, having boen born in IS!)0. Her father became a citizen, and, has since moved to Los Angeles. Ontlssion Made. technically Miss Weiss became a citizen, citi-zen, but the papers held by her father il'i.jHit. prove it, because he left. out her rtfune as a minor child. Jliss Weiss has made application for naturalization papers-, but it is expected that the court will throw out her application, claiming that ho is already a citizen and cannot tfpply for what she already has. Tet, i whenMlss Weiss goes to the land office, t&on't have anything to prove that ue is a citizen, and the patent' to her claim may be held up. 1 The case is coming up this week be-Sipr be-Sipr Jndgo Morris L." Ritchie in the dis-sit dis-sit court of this county. There an-otui-Vproblem arises. Is the girl a resident resi-dent of Suit Lako county or of Millard county? Which court would have jurisdiction juris-diction f Meantime Miss Weiss declares she is going t'o get that farm, and is going to make a succoss of farming and all of Uncle Sam's red tape doesn't frighten her for a minute. |