| Show MRS LAKER IS SUCCESSFUL Wins Her Case Cas on Appeal Ap eI to the Secretary of the Interior and is Adjudged Rightful Owner of i o Acres of Land Lard A decision t cI lon w Wil w today toay received revel at th the bind lind odlee olce In which the secretory secretary Pl of f the lh Interior reverses revers ret the decision of ot th the register r auth receiver and the sinner loner of tho the general land once In the thu case caio of Grace Grce Spencer Laker The feels facts In this case cs aro are On March r r 5 1897 1817 Grace who wa WI and ever since has ban hll beet n a I teacher In the public schools of this county count m made d homestead entry on 10 acres of land Vhs The Te Iho at which Miss MI s Spencer was nl engaged In teaching being about IR Th IRmild Ii mIles mild front from the homestead It I was not lot convenient for her to be upon uon the lie land except at nt Intervals interval of perhaps one day in o Mch ch month During the season that the schools school are nr del Miss 1 s Spencer was 8 Ila on a I vacation as Is 18 the CUI cus custom ton tom tOl of teachers teacher techen generally gIlb This con condition on fl of affairs affaire existed until Slem her when Miss 11 Spencer married Mr Ir I I Laker ker anti and immedIately l started oa east t on her wedding welling tour tor from rein which the alto he did not return until Jim Jun Juno 1100 1500 t O a period of eight months her title bus hand band hAll remaining In Iti in II order oner to tn t complete his education at a I medical coi col 01 I loge I where he ho had hind lUnN to remain up lip 11 to o the time tune Mrs 11 aker Laker I offered tier her Irr Oral pi Mr Mrs Mr Luker on her return again n ln took tok up her profession us lS teacher On March 10 1802 IS five n yc years Iol rs Ird four lays days 1 from tile the time of making her homestead entry she Iho attempted to mke her html final homestead proof a n nn necessary n r requisite to patent In the meantime Special 81 Agent Sow How erg r l had hIl his attention called cali to the facts In the tho case cae and Instituted an nn Investigation Imet gation gatlon paton after ater which he lie earnestly opposed ed c Mr Mrs 11 Lakers ers application Tile Tho teg tog l Ur tr and onel receiver denied denIe Mrs M r Lakers right to make proof or o to obtain patent on lii the ground that the testimony testimony the lie herself show mony mOi of claimant that lint sIte she lino hl not complied compiled with tho the law lawis land landI latt is as R to r residency upon the theland tie theland R It I W V Senior Mrs Irl Lakers attorney carried arll the ease case ll on Oi appeal to the lie com missioner who sustained the tho decision of o the register anti receiver holding Pat t nt It Ij appears from rein all the testimony In the lie ewe case c on 01 the lort art of the tie plaintiff and upon her hair he own on showing that her resIdence ha lies h not nol been continuous but that lint she sh seeks or has sought ought by IW mere temporary to o establish liar her hI claIm to within the legal lerl moaning of or the term timm Hw lies attorney titan then carried thin tho case en n a appeal to the secretary of the In who now no reverses reverse the decision d o f C the local loal olilee or and the th ard erd frd holds that list while It Is li true tre that nc no netH tuni tH presence on the land I Is II necessary nerr nerrIn In itt the te first ln tance In order oer to 10 r It In Is II equally true tru that there thereafter thereafter after fler uninterrupted l pretence presence cm at fn th tb hint laim Is not e essential to tho ito continuity f such luch residence and that after rel risi 11 tenca mD lm hOJ hinx Ix ln mien n once established eta ube pubic lula i for a lawful Indicating no RU 10 Intention to abandon thi thu claim are art excusable anti and do not break brt this the continuity of the re ld ic |
