Show A LONG WAIT one of the first contests filed orl on the reservation not yet decided about stockman who founded Stock more Il fileppo leppo charello of bingham can von utah is pondering where ile he Is at in his contest against henry ideary stock man the case is most interesting and a little out of the ordinary the contest was one of the first ten filed after the opening of the res er in 1905 and Is adill pending charello Gh arello charged that stockman Nio violated the homestead law when he crit entered ered into a contract with three men whize nain miniee are not now alno known n to establish an addition to vic the townsite ansite to of Stock more stockman ians s attorneys claimed that their client nas ft as insano insane at the time he made the contract when the first proceedings were had in the land office charello won the commiss commissioner lonor of the general land office reversed the decision on the grounds that proper service had not been given ghen stockman had ben declared insane at provo prove and the commissioner held that aenice sen ice have hale had upon the guardian bertha malters alters the present stenographer steno grapher for the district Di court the difficulty difficult of locating the guardian and the insane man then confront ed Cha charello reIlo thay wree finally local ed in ono one of the tha southern I 1 states either cither florida or alabama and ser eer vice was had upon the guardian and also upon stockman s wife charello again won on the case went to the commissioner of the general land office and the commissioner BUS rained the decision of the local land office stockman s attorneys took an appe appeal alto to the secretary of the interior and that official has not et handed down his opinion tha present whereabouts of stok man are not known and neither is it known whether vh ether lie he has regained gained xe his reason ile he was an interesting figure nebout the time of the opening of the ceseri reservation adon he secured a quarter section eeck kin of land where the town of Stock more now cow stands and located and established that town soon afterwards he filed ou on the quarter I 1 ejection now in dispute so c i into a contract contla ct to build nn an addition to the town the important Imp orant question involved after charello chapello filed the contest was waa whether stockman was insane at the tha time he made the contract |