Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-13
EPIDEMIC OF CONTESTS
RAGING HEREAbOUTS
Land Surrounding Mountain Home is
Valuable and Claimants Must
Protect Their Rights.

There have been numerous con-
tests filed against homestead entries
and desert land claims in this vicin-
ity during the past two weeks. The
ground on which the homestead
contests are based are that the en-
trymen have failed to establish a
residence on the land. In the case
of desert land claims, it is alleged
in most cases that the entrymcn are
not and have not been residents of
this state, and in other cases that
proof OF annual labor has not been
filed, both being requirements of
federal law.
Just why this movement has
been started at this particular time,
it is difficult to explain. 1t has
been known here for a year past
that the filings on desert lands by
non-residonts, many of which have
been made, were illegal, but local
sentiment has been to permit no
interference il the entrymen would
move out and begin the necessary
work of improvement. This they
have been slow to do and in some
cases it begins to look as if they
were merely taking flyer, in the
hope of selling their relinquish-
mcnts. In this they will be dis
appointed; but if their intentions
are bona fide, if they will come out
to remain permanently and comply
with the law, the chances are
that they will secure their lands
without encountering any obsta.
. cles.
All the available lands within {
radius of a dozen miles of Mountain
Home have already been taken up
the certainty of ample water fol
much more land than can possibly
be put under cultivation for severa
years to come, makes every acre IL
this area very valuable; there ar
scores of people here waiting to Sc
cure possession OF every quarter o
half that can be picked up, ant
5 from now on the man who fails t
comply strictly with the law ma
expect to lose his land. The follow
: ing are some of the more recen
I contests filed.
Theodore La Forrest agains
Charles j. Lee, N } section 2, town
ship a S. range E., alleging the
he is not nor has been a resident {
> Idaho. Hearing set before w.
7 HOWE, United States commissioner
y January 80, final hearing at Bois
: land office February 8.
John D. Johnson, of Mountai
q Home, filed a contest against Oh,
N. Rushfelt, charging nonresident
,. and non-cultivation. The hearir
u is set for February g, before tt
= Boise land office.
Christian H. Wasem, of Moul
tain Home, against Emma 4
Rushfelt, charging that the conte
tee is not bona fide resident
the state of Idaho. The contest
set for hearing before the Boi
70 land office on the 7th day of Fe
1t ruary, 1907.
RS William H. Wilson again
&c LOUISE 4NOtllt1iCl, wiz AlOAAo
s. desert entry the southeast quart
10 and the south half of the northea
Is quarter and lots 1 and 2 in secti'
p s, to wnship south, range cas-
ne The contest is based on the char
he that the contestee is not reside
on of the state of Idaho. The hearii
ed will be before w. c. Howie,
r. Mountain Home, February 2, al
of the final hearing will be at t
lis Boise land office February 9.
he Willard ]. Hughes, of Mounta
se Home, against Charles D. Fos'
,r. holds a desert entry for the mort
he west quarter and the north half
v the southwest quarter Of section
by also the east half of the northe;
IS quarter of section 80, township
lit south, range 7 east. 1t is chare
Ter that Foster is not now, and me-
er. has been a resident of the state
a daho. The hearing will be h
in before w. c. Howie, United Sta
no commissioner at Mountain Hon
ice February and the final hearing
nd the Boise land office, February 1
yas Louise Rasmussen, of Mount;
nat Home, against Clara B. Fost
7t'1 charging that the contestee has