Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 26 | Rancher is Citizen but Can't Prove It

RANCHER IS CITIZENS CITIZEN UT GANT PROVE IT i r bames James Lockhart of Ordway C Cant Can't nt Find Record of His Fathers Father's Naturalization By IDs' The Telegram Sp Special vial News New Sen Ice I DENVER Colo Dec Because Because of an archaic and faulty bookkeeping system tem tem Item which could produce no record of ofus Ills lIs us fathers father's naturalization Lockhart Lock Lock- tart hart a rancher near Ordway Colo land lid veteran of the civil war after ex- ex all the rights of an American zen for two fifty yeas has been to take out his own naturals naturals- ion ion papers apers in Denver just as if he heh I h had never nover voted or been regarded as a citizen of this country The case is said to be the only one of similar nature arising within the jurisdiction of the United States courtin court in the Colorado Color district A year ago Lockhart filed on government nt land in southern Colorado He claimed to hold citizenship through his fathers father's naturalization naturalization in Gibson county Indiana years ago go but no record could be found I of this so Lockhart was forced to apply I Ifor ifor j for his own papers paper although he had had I voted for half a century had been commissioned commissioned com com- com I in the thEl United States army had served as sheriff sheriff in In Indiana and I had attended as delegate at the Republican I scan lican nation convention which nominated ed d Benjamin Harrison for a second term erm enn as president The rhe elder Lock eder-Lock elder Lockhart rt came camp to America from rom Londonderry Ireland When lames James ames Lockhart was 15 the father took but ut his naturalization papers which should hould have ma made e the son a a. citizen had the he records of the action been properly Kept ept ept in Indiana Lockhart enlisted in inthe I the he union army in the second pond year of ot the hp war and sEr E served l until the end I