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Show May Lose Homestead Ulllulnuwil if New Milllnrj lleM-nc Unrks (.'real HnriMiips en Lelil CHIen. Hyruni Smith may lose his honie-.lead honie-.lead in Cedar Valley, at the mouth of the West can) on. After living on II faithfully for the reinilred three i earn' under tho new homestead Inw, eleiiriug and cultivating a large pnrt It. fencing the trad and erecting a '.'mil homo on It, It appears that lie may lose nut entirely. After complying comply-ing hoimatly and faithfully with the law in every respect as lie thought, he went In to prove up, .A close questioning ques-tioning by the receiver, however, developed de-veloped that Mr Smith owned a large tract or grazing laud lu the West canyon, can-yon, which ho was purchasing from the stnto. As tho government law provides pro-vides that tho liomestCHder must not be tho owner of more than Ifin aercti other tlinn his homestead, the ruling was that Mr. Smith's homestead was invalid. Ho then filed a relinquishment In fimir of his son. Ilui U appears that L before his sou made an actual filing tho department at Washington made the big -withdrawal of 7,000 acres for military purposes. Mr. Smith's homestead Is Included In tho big withdrawal and unless some npcclul ruling Is mado lu his bchulf his farm will possibly bo used by the slate mllltla or Fort Douglass soldlorn . . jM for a paradn ground. Bfl Had Mr. Smith known that tho statu mm land for which ho had not yet received HI a patent would hnvo been charged up , OB to h'.m. he could havu avoided all tfgl Itroublo by selling It to his wife at u.. , MM I nominal price. ! DS |