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NOTICE OF CONTEST

Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Miles City, Mon
tana, 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
tana, 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
3, 4, 5, & s and SEA of NWA and Eh
of SWH 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
OF, or in any of the mobilization camps
or in any military OF 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
I'd by you, and your SAID entry will be |
hereunder without your fur
-ner right to be heard therein, either
before this office or on appeal, if you
all to file in this office within twenty
lays after the FOURTH publication
# this notice, as shown below, your
answer, under oath, specially meeting
md responding to these allegations
ii contest, or If you fail within that
line to file in this office due proof
nat you have served copy of your
nswer on the said contestant either
:, person or by registered mail. If this
ervice is made by the delivery of a
opy of your answer to the contest
mt In person, proof of such service |
1ust be either the said contestants
7rftten acknowledgment of his re-
efpt of the copy, showing the date of
IS receipt, or the affidavit of the per-
on by whom the delivery was made
Eating when and where the copy was
elivered; if made by registered
lail, proof of such service must con-
Ist 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
2 accompanied by the postmaster's
,ceipt for the letter.
You should state in your answer
lie name of the post office to which
,u desire future notice to be sent to
III.
G. w. Myers, Register.
First publication May I4th, 1920
Second publication May 21, 1920
Third publication May 2S 1920 :
Fourth publication June 4th, 1920. :
orence w. Stephens e
Attorney for Contestant s
Circle, Montana. Il