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NOTICE or CONTEST

States Land Office at Glasgow, Mont
: September. q, 1920.
70 Herman LANCE Of Wolf Point
4 Montana, Contestee:
You are hereby notified that Ccnni'
Shenkenberger, who gives Wolf Pom
Montana, as his post office address
did on August 81, 1920, iflein thu
office his duly corroborated app11ca
ton to contest and secure the cancel.
lation Of your homestead Entry, 6er
ial No. 049098, made June 18th, 1917
for Lot 4, SWASEA, and ShSWA
Section 81, Township ~ N. Range A
E., Montana Meridian; and as grounds
for his contest alleges that said con-
testee has OF complied with the home
steand laws as to the cultiyatio of said
land and has never cultivated any OF
said land although over three years
have passed since the date OF said
entry; that said contestee has never
at any time nor at all maintained q
a residence upon said Land or any
part thereof, that said conteStee has
wholly abandoned, and has been who'll
I ly absent from said land for a greater
period In the last residence year than
is allowed by the homestead laws;
further that said contestes was in the
military service Of the United States,
but was discharged from said military
service more than one year ago. to-
wit: on the 18th day of May, 1919, as
appears and is of record with the War
Department, office of Adtutaut Con
eral, Washington, ID. G., at the time OF
his discharge gave his future address
as South st. Paul, Minnesota. Copy OF
| the AdJutant Generals notice OF dis
| charge is made part hereof and Is as
| follows, to-wtt:-
Address: The Adjutant Generals
Office, Washington. D. c. CAB LIT
War Department, The Adjutant Gen
erals Office Washington, August, 4,
1920. Respectfully return to II. A.
Schoening, Attorney at law, Wolf
Point, Montana. with the information
that the records of this office show
one Herman LANCE who enlisted on
March rs, 1918, at Fessenden, N. D.,
and was assigned to Co. r, 4th Br.,
163rd d. b.. Camp Dodge, Iowa, was
discharged May IL, 1919. 1t which
time he gave his address Tor future
reference as South St Paul. Minnesota
2 P. G. Harrts, ThA, Adjutaat 0eneesl
Per F. J. NJ" And that said couteste6s
absence from said land and failure to
establish and maintain residence
thereon, and failure to cultivate said
land. as hereinbefore stated was not
caused nor is due to contestee's er.
vice in the army, navy, marine corps
or other organization defined by the
Act of July %, 1917. That l have per-
sonally seen said land numerous
times and passed over the same with
in the past three years and know from
my own personal observation that no
part of said land has ever been lulti-
waited, that there has been no one re-
siding on said land during said time,
and that said land during said time
has been wholly unorcupied and aban
doned.
You are further notified. therefore,
that the said allegations will be taken
by this office rs having been confess
sed by You, and your said entry viii
be cancelled hereunder without your
further right to be heard therein. eth
or before this office or on appeal, II
you fail to file in this office, within
twenty days after the FOURTH pub
location OF this notice, as shown be-
ow, your answer under oath, spectfl-
,ally meeting and responding to these
allegations of contest, or If you fail
within that time to file In this Office
Tue IrOof that you have served q COPY
If your answer on the said contestant
,ithe- in person CT by registered mail
tbs service is made by the delivery
II copy of your answer to the con-
estant in person, proof of such ser
ice must be either the said contest
nts written acknowledgment OF his
eceipt of the copy, showing the date
# its receipt, or the affidavit OF the
'erson by whom the delivery was
made. stating when and whcre the
opy was delivered: II made by reg
stored mail, proof of such service
must consist of the affidavit Of tho
erson by whom the copy was mailed,
tating when and the postoffice to
Which it was mailed, and this affida-
1t must be accompanied by the post
laster's receipt for tho letter.
You should state In your answer the
anne of the post: office to which you
eeire future notices to be sent to you
THOS. r. JONES, Register,
First PUBLICATION October 8th. 1899.
Fourth publication. Oct. 18th. 1920.
H. A. Shoening, Wolf Point. Mont.
Attorney for Contestant.