Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-05-19
OPENS IN AUGUST
PROCLAMATION REGARDING RES
ERVATIoN LAND SALES.
A CHANCE FOR CHEAP HOMES
Entries Can Be Made from August 8
to September I, Registry After July
5 at Chamberlain, Yankton, Bone
steel and Fairfax, South Dakota.

Observation-Disclosures Roose-
welt has signed the proclamation open
ing to settlement on August the Rose
bud reservation lying in Gregory coun-
ty, South Dakota After deducting
lands withheld to state for school pur-
poses the proclamation opens to settle
ment about 3S5,O0O acres.
Under the provisions of the procla-
matiCn registration will begin July
at a. m, at Chamberlain, Yanltton,
Bonesteel and Fairfax and continue
until q O'Clock Saturday evening, July
20. AS has been stated heretofore in
these dispatches, land will be disposed
Of by drawing. The drawing will take
place at the Chamberlain land Office
commencing at 9 a, M Thursday, July
2S, and continuing for such period
as may be necessary to draw from
the box all envelopes contained there
in. Three persons of highest integrity
and of spotless reputation will be Sc
leCted by the commissioner of the
general land office, who will be pres
ent in person 10 supervise the draw
ms.
Entries will be made at Bonestccl,
beginning August and continuing UNI
til September 10 inclusive. The land
office, for convenience of entrymen,
will be temporarily removed from
Chamberlain to Bonestee in order to
facilitate the rush which is expected.
After September 10 subsequent entries
will be recorded at Chamberlain as
| usual.
Those contemplating filing registra-
ton must do so in person at one of
the four towns mentioned above, with
the exception of soldiers or sailors,
who may employ an agent.
No one person may register for
more than 100 acres. The actual
| opening of this vast domain will oc-
cur on the morning of August s.
The price of land as provided by
| law is as follows: Lands taken during
the first three months, 81 per acre;
within six months, SO; after six months,
| $3.50 per acre. All lands remaining
undisposed of after four years shall
| be disposed of by the secretary of the
! interior under such rules and regula-
tions as he may prescribe.
The proclamation, among cher
things, says:
All persons are especially admon-
ished that under the said act of con-
gress approved April %, 1904 it is
provided that no person shall be per-
mitted to settle upon, occupy or enter
any OF said coded lands except in the
manner prescribed in this proclama-
tion until after the expiration of sixty
days from the time when the same
are opened to settlement and entry.
After the expiration of the said
period of sixty days, but not before,
and until the expiration of three
months after the same shall have
been opened for settlement and entry
as hereinbefore prescribed, any of
said lands remaining undisposed of
may be settled upon, occupied and en-
tered under the general provisions of
the homestead and townsite laws of
the United States in like manner as
If the manner of effecting such settle
ment, occupancy and entry had not
been prescribed herein in obedience
to law, subject, however, to the pay
ment of 81 per acre for the land en-
tered, in the manner and at the time
required by the said act of congress
above mentioned.
After expiration of three months
and not before, and until the eXpira
ton of six months after the same shall
have been opened for settlement and
entry as aforesaid, any of said lands
remaining undisposed of may also be
settled upon, occupied and entered un
der the general provisions of the same
laws and in the same manner, sub
ject, however, to the payment of S.
per acre for the land entered in the
manner and at the times required by
the same act of congress"