The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-08-24
WILL OPEN DAKOTA
LANDS
CHEYENNE RIVER AND STAND
ING ROCK DRAWINGS TO BE
HELD THIS FALL, SAYS JUDGE
WITTEN.


was made today by Supt. James w.
Witten of the opening in October of
the Cheyenne River and Standing
| Rock Indian lands in North and
South Dakota, the largest compact
area of all Indian reservations re-
| naming unopened.
The tract is about 80 miles long
| and varies in width from east to
| west, from 80 to Sd miles. The total
acreage of this reservation approx
mates 2,237,040 acres. of which q
019,6S0 acres are in South Dakota
and about 217,36O in North Dakota
| Certain Of these lands have been re-
served for school purposes and a GER
tain portion has been allotted to the
Indians
Besides the reservations for school
and Indian purposes some of the land
| has been reserved as coal land The
land open for registration and entry
|
tural lands of the first and second
class. timber and mineral lands Com
missioners appointed by President
Taft are now appraising the lands
Nineteen Days to Register.
Registration days have been fixed
between October 4 and October %,
1909, and the following towns have
been designated by Superintendent
Witten as registration centers: Aber-
deem, Pierre, Lennon, Lebau and
Mobridge, S. d., and Bismarck, n D.
NOtaries of the counties of which
these cities are the county seats will
be eligible for appointment as au-
thOriZed notaries to receive applica-
lions for registration.
The Cheyenne River and Standing
Rock Indian lands are bounded on
the north by the Cannon Ball river,
On the west by the 1920 degree west
longitude, and are about so to 10
miles west of Aberdeen, S. D. The
Missouri river forms a part of its
eastern boundary.
Applications for registration will
be conducted on the same lines as
for the Flathead, Occur d'Alene and
Spokane Indian reservations. The
same requirements of applicants will
be required, and the same latitude
will be allowed soldiers.
The drawing for the Dakota In
dian lands will take place at Aber-
deem, S. D.. the last week in October.
Letters containing applications must
be sent to Judge Witten at Aberdeen,
where these applications will be de-
posted in metal cans until the days
of the drawing, when the same pro-
cedure, found so successful at Occur
d'Alene, will be used. Applicants
must register in person, and after
1.-THE drawing winners will be informed
by mail of their success.
The Dakota lands will be subject
to filing and entry on and after April
| l, 1910, the same date designated
as that for filing on Occur d'Alene,
Flathead and Spokane Indian lands.
Filings must be made in person at
! the land Office for the district in
| which the lands they desire are To-
| Gated All of the lands not entered
or filed on before September /. 1910,
by persons holding numbers will
then become subject to both settle
ment and entry by any qualified
entryman, regardless of whether a
number has been assigned to him.
No rights can be obtained by settle
ment on unentered lands prior to that
date
| The same privileges to winners
will be extended for the Dakota lands
as for the lands in this section, and
persons may personally visit the res
ervations and inspect the lands and
| make their selections.
Actual residence on the land to the
exclusion of a home elsewhere must
begin by all persons, whether SOL
diers or otherwise, within six months
from the dates of their filings, and
it must be continued until patent
has been earned. Neither age nor
bodily infirmity will excuse either a
soldier, widow, minor or any one else
from residing on the land for the
period required by law.