Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Border Patrolman Cheatham had been chasing Gordon through the woods, whither he had fled when U. S. agents had forced his car into a ditch on the highway. Patrolman Cheatham had "fallen flat over a rock," struck his elbow on a stone, discharged the rifle he was carrying. Getting up, going on, he had come upon Gordon, shot in the back, dying...
...took White Rock up with the General Land Office in Washington. U. S. officials had never heard of it, refused to believe its existence until it had been officially surveyed and "claimed" by the U.S. Having rescued the island from geographic oblivion, Mrs. Morton was more determined than ever to possess it. She asked the Land Office to sell it. But the U. S. does not sell such public domain...
Government officials told Mrs. Morton there were two ways she could "own" White Rock: 1) Go to it, "enter" it, make a "habitable home" on it, live on it for three years, thus acquire title to it under the homestead...
...Purchase enough Valentine scrip to exchange for White Rock...
Valentine scrip dealers were hard to find. Mrs. Morton finally discovered one in Colorado from whom she bought enough to acquire White Rock. Recently she presented the scrip at the General Land Office, received her patent to White Rock, was thoroughly happy. Said she: "I never owned an island before. It seems even now that it may be the result of a belated reading of 'Cinderella' and an indiscreet rarebit. I am quite frankly undecided what to do with it and am open to suggestions...