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Show Squatter Claims at WiGard Turned Down SALT LAKE, May 19. Land squat-1 ters claims on 600 acres adjoining! Willard, on tho shores of Great Salt Lake, in Box Elder county, have been rejected in a decision handed down by Commissioner Clay Tallman of the: United States general land office In j Washington. The decision was received re-ceived yesterday by Gould B. Blakely, registrar of the local land office. The original settlers have been given au opportunity to file upon their holdings and to obtain patent by the payment of a small sum an acre to tho government. gov-ernment. In a survey of Willard made in 1S51, a straight line was made to represent tho meander of the lake. Either be cause the water was unusually high at the time of the survey, or has since receded, there are now 600 .acres of land between the lake and the survey line. The land was tised by the farin-ers farin-ers for pasture, but later squatters settled set-tled upon it, their action resulting In a controversy over thc land, i |