Show LOSE LOS LAW THROUGH CONTESTS Four out of five t c land contests which have hac lave been tried before the register an and receiver of tho the local laud lanti office since ho tho first of the year rear were vere decided cc c this morning n against the homesteaders The contests were founded on the failure of the he homesteaders to establish re residence or to do the required amount of work ork The fhe decisions were signed bv by E. E D. D R R. R Thompson re register an and M. M Al M. uI Kai Kaighn hn receiver of the land office In the ca cat caso o of the tho United States against Thomas E. E Tidwell the assertion was made niale by the contestant William T. T T. T Smith a special agent with tho the field fold serice service that Tidwell had not es es- a T residence and had bail not done lone the he proper amount of cultivating on a homestead in the cast Tintie Tintic ale valley in Juab county He le was al given ven a b hearing arin January 4 r Tho c decision is that his entry be bc canceled I In the case caso of Mattison B. B Whitney near Emery in Emery count county I Lima lma B B. B Laing was tho the conies conies- ant tanto He declared that Whitney Whiner had hadnot hadnot bat not done clone tho the required amount of work ork on the thc land and ansi therefore contested the entry At a hearin hearing the tho allegations were cr proved and this morning the thc e entry tr was 38 canceled Frank Frnk Chase contested the ent entry of Thomas E. E Child Sr on his entry made in Utah count county claiming that I Child did lid not establish a residence Tho pIca of Child Chil at the hen hearing ring was that his lis wife bad had been sick and anil ho lie ha had been unable to leavo here bere The Tho 1 land lan officials took that fact into tion ion but decided that that it was not nol cause and therefore canceled tho the entry Special Agent William T. T Smith contested contested con con- tested the thc entry of Cyrus rus H. H Clark on ona ona onn a n Utah count county homestead cseLl in in behalf of the government on the ground that Clark Im had bad maintained his resi residence Cark at t Provo Pro instead of on out the tho land Clarks Clark's entry was canceled also 4 A government go special a agent ent contested the coal coul land entry of Margaret A. A L. L Fullmer Fulmer on out tho the ground that sho she hall had let leta a mort mortgage age on the thc land for tho the purpose purpose pur- pur pose of getting title to it i. i It I was a alleged al al' b by the government Q that the mort mortgage 3 0 would eventually mean the of a part hart of the land land to the tho concern concer holding the mortgage c The Tho de decision decision handed banded down was that no proof was ma made e at the hearin hearing by the government govern govern- over melt truant ment that the mortgage mort was on the tho coal land entry but that it i was instead a a promissory not note |