The Worthington advance., 1876-08-03
A CARD.

A CAltD
EDITOR ADVANCE: I wish through
the ADVANCE to present a few facts to
the people of Mobiles County for, tile
purpose of benefiting any that might
possibly get supplantedf.s I=have been.
Often the experience Of one person is;
of great benefit to others. The SOUTH
east quarter of section 20, range 40
township 1O3, was taken as Il tree claim
ny Mrs. Mary A. Heath (Widow). She
had 4O acres broken for which l think
She paid $40. The fall of the same
year that the breaking was done she
had ~ acres backset, costing $40, and
the next spring had 20 acres put in
wheat and about acres in corn. This
crop was all destroyed by the grasshop-
l'erS. THIS misfortune, with Others.
caused Mrs Heath and her son, Capt.
Heath, to remove from Minnesota back
to Ohio. This change made it inexpe-
dient for Mrs. Heath to try longer to
cultivate said tree claim. though she
intended, in case the surrender with
the improvements could not he sold, to
plant 10 acres of trees this year, us the
time i'll which the law required the first
| 10 acres Of trees to be planted does not
expire until next Sept. 5th. AS l had
not taken the benefit of the tree law.
and said claim was only half Il mile
from my place, l concluded to buy Mrs.
lleAth's surrender Oh said tree claim.
and did enter into Il bargain with Mrs.
Heath, through Capt. Heath, early in
May, to pay the sum of $500 for her
surrender, TO be paid when / received
my papers. l received her surrender
and had the business attended to ut
the land office in Worthington. l was
told to look for Il notice of the cancel
lttlon ut any time after the 1st OF July.
L was promptly OH hand the morning
ot the lst and Sd, sent to the otlic.. the
4th, but received no notice. l went
AGAIN the morning of the 5th, and
though f;siled to receive Il notice I
called ut the land Office and found that
the cancellation had arrived. | then
filed OH said land as /, tree claim, paid
| the required fee and came home. The
next morning Mr.. Moultun sent me 4
notice that Il mistake had been made:
that the day before my entry was made
soldiers homestead entry had been
put on the same piece of land. | went
10 the Land Office and fo@nd such was
the fact. 1t appears that Mr.. Miner,
OF Wortlington, had d, en- watching tile
and Office for some time; also that lie
had an attorney in Washington EN-
ployed to notify HIM when siaid cancel
iatlon left Washington. lis received
such notice, and when the cancellation.
came he, having il little better chance
to be ut the office early in the morning
than l, made sure work in getting the
cla1M for Mr.. Nm. Bushnell. | have
done all l can to get justice at the
hands OF these two gentlemen, but have
entirely failed. Mr.. Bushnell :,ck,lowl-
edges that he knew that | expected to
get The claim, but us he lad not used
hls soldiers right he thought where
ever ne could liild government land lie
had us good Il right to it as amy other
person. Mi. Miner Says lie w,s simply
;ln attorney, and if he llad not entered
said piece OF land for Ills client son Z
other person might have got it.. The
above IS Il plain statement of the facts,
le;tye the people to draw the conclu-
sion. Yours truly,
VIII. Mock.