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NOTICE OF CONTEST

Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Miles City, Mon
lana, May 4th, 1920
To Henry A. Noffke, of Savage, Mon
tana, Contestee:
You are hereby notified that George
E. LEM, who gives Rose Valley, Mon
lana, as his pOst-office address, did on
May 4th, 1920, file in this office his
duly corroborated application to con.
test and secure the cancellation of
your Homestead, Entry No, Serial No
039126, made May, 18th, 1917, for Lots
8, 4, 5, & 6 and SEA of NWA and E1s
of SWA of Section 6, Township 81 N,
Range 44E., Montana Principal Meri-
dian, and as grounds for his contest
ne alleges that you have not complied
with the requirements of the home
stead law as to the cultivation thereof
and have never cultivated any of said
land altho over two years have ell
apsed since the date of your entry;
that you have never at any time nor
at all maintained a residence upon
said land or any part thereof suffi-
Gent to meet requirements of the
homestead law; that you have been
wholly absent therefrom for a greater
period in the last residence year than
is allowed by the homestead laws;
FURTHER That the said absences
therefrom and failure to establish and
maintain residence thereon, and fail
ure to cultivate as required by the
homestead laws, as is hereinbefore
stated, is not due to your employment
in the military service of the United
States rendered in connection with
operations in Mexico, or along there
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elsewhere, or in any military or nav
al organization OF the United States
or in the National Guard OF any of the
several states thereof
You are,' therefore, further notified
that the said allegations will be taken
by this office as having been confess
ed by you, and your SAID entry will be
Hereunder without your fur
-her right to be heard therein, either
oeIore this office or on appeal, ii you
tail to lille in this office within twenty
lays after the FOURTH publication
Il this notice, as shown below, your
answer, under oath, specially meeting
Ind responding to these allegations
>f contest, or If you fail within that
line TO file in this office due proof
NAT you have served copy OF your
answer on the said contestant either
n person or by registered mail. Ii this
service is made by the delivery of a
,opy OF your answer to the contest
INT in person, proof of such service
must be either the said contestants |
written acknowledgment of his re-
elpt OF the copy, showing the date of |
Is receipt, or the affidavit of the per- |
on by whom the delivery was made |
tating when and where the copy was |
elivered; if made by registered |
hail, proof of such service must con-
list OF the affidavit of the person by |
HON the copy was mailed stating
hen and the post office to which it
as mailed, and this affidavit must
e accompanied by the postmaster's
eceipt for the letter.
You should state in your answer
lie name of the post office to which
on desire future notice to be sent to
on.
G. w. Myers, Register.
First publication May 18th, 1920
Second publication May 81, 1920
Third publication May % 1920
Fourth publication June 4th, 1920.
lorenzo w. Stephens
Attorney for Contestant
Circle, Montana.