The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-10-01
Serial No o2oi2
Contest No. S322
NOTICE OF CONTEST
Department of the Interior U. g.. Land
Office at Tucumcari, New Mexico


Department of the Interior U. 8. Land
Office at Tucumcari, New Mexico
September ~. 1914
To the heirs Of Henry ". Frazier, de-
ceased, Mclean, Texas, Contestee
You are hereby notified that Herman Il.
DeOliervira, VINO gives Puerto, New Mex
leo, as his postofiice address, did or August
2s,h. 1914, file in this Office his duly cor
roborated application to contest and secure
the cancellation of your Homestead Entry
No. lagos, Serial No o2oi2 made Jan, 10,
1908. Tor Ma SWI-4 & Sta INVITA-
Section 81. Township sN., Range 33E
N. NJ = 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, Tex, that diligent
inquiry has beer 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 was many years ago, and
that there we're no children born to this
union
That on or about the first day of May,
1905. the said e~ntryman willed the said
entry in writing to a Mr.. T.. L. Gragson
secured a leave Of absence for six months,
and left 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 luly, 1910, the said f T.
Gragson returned the aforesaid will to MIR.
Henry II. Frazier the aforesaid entryman
who shortly thereafter willed the said entry
to his nephew Albert Haynes.
That the said entryman Henry II Fra
zier had wholly abandoned the said entry
for more than twelve months last 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 entryman's death, and
no residence has been established, nor nc
improvements or cultivation has been
made. The land has been wholly aban.
doned since May the Ist. 1908. more than
twelve months prior to %entrymans death,
Ina, none Of the heirs have made any at
tempt at settlement or cultivation since
the death OF the entryman, that said
abandonment, still exists and has not beer
cured, and the land has not been earned
TO pass the same to patent.
You are, therefore, further notified
that the said allegations will be taken
rs confessed, and your said entry viii
be cancelled without further right to be
heard, either before this office or on ap
peal, If 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
on have served n 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 p~osto0ico to which you de-
sire future notices to be sent to you.
X. T.. Donohoo, Register
Felipe Sanchez y Baca. Register
Date Of frs, publication Sept ~ 1914
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