The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-18
HOW TO LOCATE ON LANDS
OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVE

ing entry, persons who apply for
Flathcal lands will be required 10
pay one-third of the appraised value
and persons who apply for either
Occur d'Alene or Spokane lands will
be required to pay one-ffth OF the
appraised value. The remainder of
the purchase money on all these lands
may be paid in five equal annual in
stallments and failure to make any
payment when it becomes due, will
| result in the cancellation Of the entry
and the forfeiture of all former pay
| ment,.
Residence must be begun within six
months after the date on which the
entry is made and continued, with
cultivation, until patent has been
! earned, either by five years residence
and cultivation and the payment Of
| the installnents annually, or by four
| teen months actual and continuous
| residence and cultivation and the
| payment of all the unpaid purchase
money, on All of the lands except the
| tmbered lands in the Occur d'Alene
reservation, which can only be OBJ
tanned by five years actual and con-
tnuous residence and cultivation and
| the payment of the annual INSTALL
I ments, us communication is not allowed
for them.
A soldier, sailor or his widow,
| or minor orphan children, to
whom number is assigned,
may file a declaratory state
ment, either in persons or by agent,
on the day assigned for that purpose,
or may make entry at that time If he
| prefers. Tt a declaratory statement is
filled, fee of two dollars must be
paid at that time. but the first pay
1 ment of the purchase price will not
he required then Within six months
| from that day he must begin his ac-
! tllal residence on the land and make
| entry. At the time a soldiers entry
| is made the payments required of
/ other entrymen must be made. After
| soldiers, sailors, their widows or
minor orphan children have actually
resided on the land for twelve months
| they can claim credit on the remain
ing four years residence required by
J the law for the period of the soldiers
| military service: For instance, If
such service amounted to four years,
only one years residence will be re-
! quired; if it amounted to three years,
. two years residence will be required,
! and so on; but there must be one
years actual residence, regardless of
the length of the military service.
-, Persons who We're soldiers or sailors
| in time of peace and did not serve
+, during any of the wars mentioned
! 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
has. been deserted Or abandoned by
her husband. or unless her husband
is incapacitated by disease or other
wise from earning a support for his
4, family, and she Is the head and main
support Of tho family. 49,
2. One not a citizen of the United
- States, and who has non declared his
intention to become such.
g. One under twenty -one years of
age, not the head of a family.
a. 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 hum
dred and sixty acres and town 10,
disqualifies the owner from making
entry. III
S. One who has acquired title to OF
is. claiming under any of the nom
mineral public land laws. through
settlement or entry made since
August 80, 1880, any other lands
which, with the lands applied for
would amount in tho aggregate tc
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 S, 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.
C. One who for any cause lost, for
| feited, or abandoned his homestead
entry prior To February g. 1908, IT the
former entry was not Cancelled for
fraud or, relinquished for valuable
consideration. Where such entryman
sold his improvements or sold the re-
linquishment of his entry. he is not
! entitled to mako q second homestead
! entry, regardless of the fact that his
| mprovements 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 have classified the lands
! subject to entry in the Flathead res
| ervation as follows: 4o229 acres as