Show Iw NEW LAND RULINGS MAKE MAI FRAUD HARDER HARnER Register and Receiver Get Instructions In Instructions In- In Regarding Desert Land The Tho register And receiver of tho thc local land office have received recel a confirmation confirmation con con- oC or the report sent out sometime some sometime sometime time ago that second desert land Jand entries entries en en- tries would he be allowed In cases where the first t entry h not been boen abandoned Ahan- Ahan h by fraud or sold for Cor a 3 valuable consideration With the dispatch from th the general land lanil office came nino a n. ropy copy op of the net act of the last st congress q approved March 28 8 J ions which makes several M changes inges on the desert land lanti law The new act net places added aIMed re restrictions ro- ro on those thOM who mn may take lake land under the tho act tho the most Important of oC which are Entries may not be made on tin 1111 sur oyed lands the entry Is not assignable as M- t to a corporation or association association association tion entries ma rna may not bo assigned unless unless un un- less the assignee is himself qualified to make the entry himself the time I of or final proof is extended three years beyond tho the four previously pre allowed In which to make mako final proof In cases ca s g where It can be satisfactorily shown that the delay was not caused by mere mero laches Inches on the part of oC the The three restrictions placed are I considered most important ones b by bythe bythe the land department and while the they will doubtless cause fewer entries they will tend to bring more hona fide tide settlers to tho the arid lands of the West Vest It was with the view of or offering less chance to land con conspiracy and fraud cases that tho the act net was passed and for forthe forthe forthe the further purpose of sl In saving the tho land for Cor settlers |