The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-09-24
Serial No U2ot2
Contest No SI22
NOTICE OF CONTEST
Department Of the Interior U. 5 Land
Office Mt Tucumcari, New Mexico

Department of the Interior Y, $ Land
Office Mt Tucumcari, New Mexico
September a., Ipi4
To the heirs e Henry H. Frazier, de-
ceased. Mclean, Texas. Contestee
You are hereby notified that Herman +,
DeOliervira. who gives Puerto, New Mex
leo. as his p%ostohice address, did on August
2sth. rqrl, file in this office his duly cor
robora,ed application to contest and secure
the cancellation of your Homestead Entry
No lagos, Serial No oloil made Ian, 10
zoos, Tor NI.2 SWt-l & ST. NWi'4
Section 81, Township y, Range J5E
n NJ Z Meridian, and as grounds for his
contest he alleges
That said entryman departed this life
on or about the ist day OF October 1910,
that the heirs are all unknown except one
nephew, Albert Haynes, whose last known
address was Mclean. Ten that diligent
inquiry has been made Of the neighbors
living in the immediate vicinity OF The said
entry and no one knows OF the heirs or
their addresses, except as stated above,
that the said entryman was a widower,
that his wife died two years after their
marriage, which wa riany years ago, and
that there were no children born to this
union.
That on or about the first day OF May,
zoos, the said entryman willed the said
entry in writing to n Mir T.. T.. Gragson
secured a leave Of absence for six months,
and lief, for Mclean, Tex Later. on the
expiration OF the first leave, he secured a
second leave for six months more, without
returning to the said entry, and without
any attempt as to the requirements of res
idence or cultivation, that on or about the
18th day OF July, 1910, the said + T.
Gragson returned the aforesaid will to Mr.
Henry II. Frazier the aforesaid entryman
who shortly thereafter willed the said entry
to his nephew Alber, Haynes.
That the said entryman Henry II Fra
zier had wholly abandoned the said entry
for more han twelve months las, past
prior to his death which occurred about
October 1910, and tina, the heirs Of the
said entryman have wholly abandoned the
said land since the en,ryman's death, aud
no residence has been established, nor no
improvements or cultivation has been
made. The land has been wholly aban-
doned since May the ist, 1905, more than
twelve months prior to eniryman's death,
that none OF the heirs have made any at
tempt at settlement or cultivation since
the death OF the en,ryman, that said
abandonment still exists and has no, been
cured, and the land has no, been earned
to pass the same to patent.
You are, therefore, further notified
that the said allegations will be taken
as confessed, and your said entry will
he cancelled without further right TO be
heard, either before this oNice or on ap.
peal, il you fail TO file in this Office
within twenty days after the FOURTH
publication of this notice, as shown be.
low, your answer, under oath, specif.
cally responding to these allegations Of
contest, together with due proof that
m have served a copy Of your answer
On the said contestant either in person
or by registered mail.
You should state in your answer the
name of the postonice 20 which you de.
sire future notices to be sent to you.
K. =. Donohoo. Register
Felipe Sanchez y Baca, Register
Date of first publication Sept a. 1914
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