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Show Homestead Law Broadly Construed. Washington. Frank Pierce, acting secretary of tho interior, has written a letter to Senator Reed Smoot construing con-struing the largo homestead act in sc far ns it provides, "That after entry and until final proof the entry-man entry-man shall reside within such distance of the land as will enable him sue ccBSfully to farm tho same." If tho homesteader "personally farms tho land entered or personally supervises tho cultivation and improvement of tho same," tho department win not Inquire In-quire into his place of residence. |