Show MANY DESERTED WIVES GET IN ON homesteads GRAND JUNCTION colo aug 8 quito it number of women registered last aaa week under tile deserted wife provision of the law there has boon been an of about fifteen a day seeking land en on the tile reservation or seventy five in nil all frequently they aie ate reluctant to confora that they have been forsaken but bat are tire required to do so in one term form or another before tho are tire registered men asked if it sho as married one bomon enid she was told she could not stio ahu she was the bead head of a it fa nill asked how that was all she said site had hail not seen her tier husband for two bears eare the clerk said he would class her us as tin an abandoned wife under tile circumstances she site that that definition would 11 lit t the case another woman oti tati declined to admit that she was abandoned but suld her tier litis husband band would not rt horand hor and she alto would not and did not lit with him hill but did she sho was rr registered alste M 1 |