The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-22

above cannot register by agents or
claim the rights given by the law to
soldiers and sailors who served in
time of war.
The following persons are not
qualified to make homestead entry:
1. A married woman, unless she
her husband. or unless her husband
is incapacitated by disease or other
wise from earning a support for his
family, and she is the head and main
support of the family.
.. One not a citizen of the United
States. and who has nox declared his
intention to become suclf.
8. One under twenty one years of
age, not the head Of a family.
4. One who is the proprietor of
more than one hundred and sixty
acres of land in any state or terri
tory. and the ownership of one hun
dred and sixty acres and town lot
dsqualifies the owner from making
entry ....
5. One who has acquired title to or
is claiming under any of the non
mineral public land laws, through
August 80, 1890, any othe, lands
would amount in the aggregate to
more than three hundred and twenty
acres.
6. One who has previously made
homestead entry. unless he is entitled
| to make second homestead entry,
which second entry may be made by:
a. One who committed a homestead
entry prior to June 5. 1900 and has
not since that date made additional
homestead entry.
b. One who, prior to May II. 1900,
paid for lands in a former Indian
reservation, to which he would have
been afterwards entitled to receive
patent without payment, under the
Free Homes" act.
G. One who for any cause lost, for
! fcited, orr abandoned his homestead
| entry prior to February 8, 1905 IT the
fraud or rclinquished for valuable
consideration. Where such entryman
sold his. improvements or sold the re-
linduishmcnt of his entry. he is not
, entitled to make second homestead
entry. regardless of the fact that his
! improvements may have cost him
more than the amount received for
them.
d. One who has already made
final proof on less than one hundred
and sixty acres may, if he otherwise
| qualified, make an additional entry
| for such an amount of land as will,
when added to the amount for which
| he has already made proof, not eX-
| coed in the aggregate one hundred
| and sixty acres
Commissioners appointed by the
government havo classified the lands
subject to entry in the TTIathead res
| ervation as follows: 1929 acres as
agricultural lands of the first class;
| 75.019 acres as agricultural lands of
! tho second class, and 3361S9 acres as
| grazing lands. These lands have been
appraised at from $l25 to $500 an
acre. Portions of the Glands thus
| classified in the Tlathead reservation
| have been withdrawn from entry un-
der the reclamation act and will not
be subject to entry under this open
ing. I cannot give you the area of
| the lands so withdrawn or tell you
the probable date when they will be-
| come subject to entry. The Occur
d'Alene lands are now being classified
| into agricultural lands. grazing lands
and timbered lands, and the lands in
| the Spokane reservation which will
| be subject to entry are being classi-
| fled as agricultural lands These lands
will DO appraised before they become
| subject to entry, but I am unable to
| give you at this time either the area
which will he embraced in the various
cassifications or the price at which
| they will DO appraised. There are
about 100000 acres in the C"""'
d'Alene Indian reservation, including
! the timbered lands. all of which Will
| be subject to entry under the home
stead laws at their appraised value,
and there will probably be about SO,
| 900 acres of the, Spokane lands which
i will be classified as agricultural and
be subject to entry. The timbered
lands in the Spokane reservation can
| not be entered.
| have no personal information as to
| the character or productive quality OF
these lands. 1T is reported that they
are best adapted and some of them
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