Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — To Obtain a Patent. [ARTICLE]

To Obtain a Patent.

If a man purchases a homestead from the settler who has lived on the same for four years and then lives on the land for the remainder of the unexpired five years he cannot obtain a patent to the land. The patent vests only in the locator after a five years’ residence upon the land, and in the case of his death before the expiration of the five years in his widow or children, or if there be neither widow nor children, in his legal heirs, providing each of the class named shall live upon the land, cultivate it and carry out the purpose of the original settler so far as complying with the homestead law is concerned. The fees for homestead entry vary in different states. —San Francisco Call. It is astonishing how soon the whole conscience begins to unravel if a single etitch is dropped. One little sin indulged makes a hole you could put your head through.