Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-10-30
CONTEST NOTICE.
U. S. Land Onice, Portland, Oregon,


September %, 1908
sufficient contest affidavit having been
filed in this Office by Thomas Walters, contes-
tant, against homestead entry No. 1885, made
August 2S 1901, for Lots Is. 81 and 50, section
g. township south, range IL W. by Francis NJ.
Terman, contestee, in which it is alleged that
he is well acquainted with the tract of land
embraced in The homesteae entry and knows
the present condition of the same; also that
said Franc Is NJ Terman, before or after max
ing said homestead entry, never made any
settlement or made any improvements of any
kind on said described land; that said entry
man has wholly abandoned said described
land from the date OF said homestead entry
to the present time: that suid land is at the
present time in its original stale of nature;
and that said alleged absence from the said
land was not due 70 his employment In the
Army, Navy or Marine Corps OF the United
States as private soldier, officer, seaman or
marine during the war with Spain or during
any other war in which the United States may
be engaged Said parties are hereby notified
to appear, respond, and offer oridence touch
ing said allegation at 10 o'clock a. m on De-
cember l, 1908, before the Register and Re-
Portland, oregon.
The said contestant having, in IL proper anl-
davit filed Septemb ber 81, 1905, set forth facts
which show that after due diligence personal
service Oi this notice can not be made, il is
hereby ordered and directed tina such notice
be given by due and proper publication.
ALGRNoN $. DRESSER, Register
Notice is hereby given that the lands dcs-
cribed below, embracing 40 acres, within the
Siu>law National Forest, Oregon will be sub
iect to settlement aud entry under the pro-
visions OF the homestead laws of the United
States and The act of June II. 1906, GA stat
233), at the United States land office at Port
land, Oregon on December 2S 1908 Any sell
tier who was actually aud in good faith claim
ing any OF said lands for agricultural purposes
prior to January |, 1906, and has not abandoned
same. has preference right tu make II home
stead entry for the lands actually occupied
Said lands were listed upon the applications
of the persons mentioned below, who have II
preference right subject to the prior right of
any such settler, provided such settler or an
plicant is qualified to make homestead entry
and the preference right is exercised prior to
btNClliI ICl 60 lIVo' Oll NnltH uNlt lhe lunuS
be subject to settlement and entry by any
qualified person. The lands are as follows: A
tract of $50 acres situated in what will prob.
ably be, when surveyed, the SD of sci /, the 81,
of swl4, sec. IS, the nl2 OF nelt and the nl5 of
nw14, sec. 10, T. II $, H. 10 W. bounded and
described as follows Beginning at the ne
corner OF sec. "A, T. II $, X. II W: extending
thence 10 chains; thence e 70 chains; thence
II 30 chains; thence W 10 chains; thence 10
chains; thence W 60 chains; thence 10 chains
to the point of beginning. Listed upon the
application OF Guy T.. Lewis, of Ona, Oregon.
The sea of se.I, sec. H. the sw of sw14, see.
-, the Nwl4 of nwl4, sec. l3, and the net4 of
nelI, sec. H. T. 7 $, r. 10 ", application of John
Funk, address care Of Aprlres Wendeln. of
Pitner, Oregon. The swl4 of SCI sec. II, the
nwl4 of nel4, and the - Of neIi see. II, r. $,
h. 10 W, application OF JuIi Joggi address
care of Andres Wendeiin, of Pitner, Oregon.
FRED DENNETT, Commissioner of the General
Land ONCE. Approved october 10, 1903, FRANK
PIERCE, First Assistant Secretary of the In.
terror.