The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11
COMMISSIONER BENNETT MAKES
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
ENTRIES TO Be MADE IN MARCH
LAND WINNERS TO MAKE CHOICE
IN PROCEEDING MONTHS.
WHERE TO REGISTER, HOW, WHEN
Land Winners Below 4,oot viii Make
Entry Some Time in March, the
Winners between 1000 and 6.oot
Some Time in August. 1909.


Winners between 1000 and 6,oot
Some Time in August. 1909.
Official details of the land drawing
in the coming opening of Trpp county
have been furnished The News from
Washington by Land Commissioner
Fred bennett, the information in ad-
diiion to being more complete further
confirming the more concise details
first printed in The News
The failure of the presidents proc.
Iamation to be received in the Rose.
bud country, Commissioner bennett
writes The News, is due to the fact
that the proclamation has not been
printed by the government. The fail
ure of the proclamation to appear has
created certain feeling of uneasiness
in some parts of the Rosebud.
Information regarding the opening
which Commissioner bennett fur
nishes is as follows:
Any person desiring to register for
the opening of the Rosebud lands in
South Dakota "Trip county, under
the presidents recent proclamation.
and the instructions issued by the sec
rotary of the interior. must go be-
fore a United States commissioner or
a Judge or clerk of a court of record,
or notary public in one of the follow
ing towns, viz: Chamberlain, Dallas,
Gregory, or PreshO in South Dakota.
or O'Neill or Valentine in Nebraska,
and there sign and swear to an appli-
cation for registration which will be
furnished by the officer before whom
he makes his oath. This application
must be sworn to between October 5
and October II, 1908, and after it is
sworn it must be enclosed unfolded, in
an envelope, which will be furnished
by the officer administering the oath,
and the envelope must be addressed
and delivered to James w. Witten.
Superintendent of Opening" at either
Dallas or Gregory, South Dakota, be-
fore 4:3O p. m. on October II, and not
after that, either by mail or in person,
or otherwise, but not by registered
mail, and the envelope must not have
the name of the applicant written on it..
Sailors and soldiers who served for
ninety days during the war of the
rebellion, the Spanish-American war,
or the Philippine inSurrectiOn, will not
be required to go to either of the
above named towns to swear to their
applications, but they may appoint
agents to present their applications for
them, and these appointments may be
made and sworn to in any state or ter
ltit ,,;,,t, ,g
| by a soldier must be made in writing
on a blank form which may be OBJ
tanned by writing to james w. Wit
ten, General Land Office, Washington.
! ID. c." prior TO September %, 1908,
or at his headquarters at Dallas, South
| Dakota, after that date, or from the
officer in charge of the registration
blanks at either of the towns named
above, after October 4. The appoint
ment must be sworn to by the soldier,
and should not be made on any form
other than the one prescribed for that
purpose. The agents name must be
written into the blank form of APP
| pOintment before the soldier swears
to it, as appointments can not be
made out in blank and the agents
name subsequently written into them.
The agent must go to one of the towns
above named and swear to an appli-
cation for registration, which will be
attached to the soldiers appointment
and he can then deliver the application
and appointment to the superintendent
of the opening, by mail or otherwise
either at Dallas or Gregory, South Da-
iOta. The agent may register both
for himself and one soldier, but the
same person can not be agent for more
than one soldier, and no person will
| be permitted to take part in the draw
ing who presents more than one APP
pliCation in his own behalf, either in
person or through an agent. A sol
der who files by an agent can not,
, therefore, file in person. Soldiers who
did not serve during the wars men
toned above have no greater rights
than persons who have never served in
the army at any time.
A drawing will be held at Dallas, S.
d., on October 10, to determine who
of the persons registered will be given
the right to make entry. If a person
draws a number smaller than 4,OO1 he
will be notified by mail, addressed to
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unless he subsequently gives another,
to appear at some date, probably in the
month of March 1863, when he will be
permitted to enter enc quarter section,
or less, of these lands, for which he
will be required to pay the usual fees
and commissions and So per acre, If
the number drawn is between 1000
and G,OO1, the applicant will be mott,
fed in the same manner of some date
in August, 1909, when he can make
entry at $3.50 an acre, if any of the
I lands remain unentorod at that time
The fees and commissions and one
! fifth of the purchase money must be
paid when the entry is made, and the
remainder of the purchase money in
five equal annual payments, without
| interest, At the time he makes final
proof he will be required TO pay the
usual fees and commissions required
of homestead entlymen making proof.
II DeTSOn enters 100 acres under a