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Show RUSH FOil LAND 1,1 ' MILFORD COUNTY IS EXPfCTED TOMORROW When the doors of the land office la the federal building are opened tomorrow tomor-row morning at t o'clock It la expected mere will bo the greatest land rueh In the history of the local office. Th occasion oc-casion will be th opening for entry under the enlarged homestead act of about !,A acres of laad east and northeast of Mortens en th msln' line of the Belt Ike rout. The outlook Is that th entire tract. Including over slaty entries, will be tsken simultaneously. As a result of th wholesale filings there promise to be all kinds of lend contents and qushbte of other kind regarding prior rlshta and aqualters' rlghta. va-rtoua va-rtoua methods having been resorted to lately by homestrsdora to get prior tt- iiea. It la expected more than 10 persons wNI be on hand to fit and only sixty of them can secure land. AU, however, have elaitna to make. Announcement waa made a month a so that the land was to o opened and Immediately Im-mediately pwpl hurried to the tract to maka aeletlona. All the way from on to a dosen families- have settled on manv tracts and have made Improvement Improve-ment of vartoua kit a In an effort to secur title. Th matter of whether or not there are such thlnera as prior rhrhta on en-lanrd en-lanrd homestead tracts hs been considered con-sidered pro and con at the rand office this week and while no dectakm on the matter haa beea readied It Is declared prvibabi that certain kinds of claims I will valid. It la aald that If a per 1 son noes on the land and plows up twenty or thirty a errs and plant It It la sufficient to constitute a claim under the "squatters' rlaht." The matter will not. however, he decided until the com-miss com-miss toner of the general land office ta beard from. The matter of simultaneous filings will also be considered and fur that sea- son all the nemona deairtnar to file on the landa will be on the ex-wne when the doors open and will make rush to irvt filed first. The exact thns at films will be recorded by the land office olfkia-S on each entrv. Persona ftlinc are wanted be land of- ; fW men against brtnclna bank checks I becnuaa the irovrnmeni la not allowd to take them and tlx apoilraikn of the i neman offvrtna a check will not bo-taken until the cash la preaented alsv t'hf hont-sstr-a Jera are advlstd dlao to hie : their entries made out ami their a I ft- ' dmvlta sworn iK heause the cterfca will not have Ittuo to till out thw papers dur- 1 ImM k rvsiv |