The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-17

the Flathead reservation opening, as
set forth officially is as follows:
Dear sir: You are informed that a
registration for the opening of tins
Flathead Indian reservation in Mon
tana, the Occur d'Alene Indian res
ervation in Idaho and the Spokane
Indian reservation in Washington
will begin on July Is and end on
August S, 1909. Any person qualified
to make either an original, a second
or an additional homestead entry may
register for lands in any or all of
these reservations. AL! who desire to
register must go, in person, to the fol-
lowing registration points to swear to
their applications for registra ton; to
either kalispell or Missoua, Montana.
to register for Flathead lands. to
Occur dAlene, Idaho, to register for
Occur d'Alene lands and to Spokane
Washington, to register Tor Spokane
lands.
Applications for registration may be
sworn to before any notary public
designated by me for that purpose
and should not be sworn to before
any other officer. The notaries before
whom applicants are sworn will fur
nish blank forms of application for
registration and printed envelopes in
which to mail the applications to me-
at Occur dAlene, Idaho, which is the
only place at which applications will
be received, and they must be for
Wafded by ordinary mail and not by
registered mail. No envelope will be
received which bears q return card
or any other words which indicate the
name of the person who mailed it.
Soldiers O: sailors who We're honor
ably discharged after ninety days
service during the war of the rebel
lion, the spanish-American war or the
Philippine insurrection. or their
widows or minor orphan children,
need not go to either of the registra-
ton points for the purpose of regis
tering, but may register through
agents appointed by them for that
purpose. All agents must be APP
pointed on blank pNwers of attorney,
which will be furnished by me on APP
plication at Washington, D. c., at
any time. before July 5, and after that
date at Occur d'Alene, Idaho. SOL
diers, sailors Or their widows or minor
orphan children may appoint the
same or different persons to act for
them in registering for different
reservations, but no person can APP
point more than one agent for the
same reservation and no agent can
register for more than one soldier for
any one reservation. A. different and
separate power Of attorney must be
zach ia ln
same or different persons
Powers of attorney must be sworn
to by soldiers, sailors, their widows
Or minor orphan children, or their
guardians, before some officer having
Il seal and authorized to administer
oaths at some place within the United
States, and the name of the agent
must be written into the power of at
torney before it is sworn to by the
soldier The application for registra-
ton presented by the agent must be
sworn to by him at q registration
point for the reservation for which he
registers.
All applications FOR registration
must reach mo through ordinary mail
ut Occur d'Alene. Idaho, before
August and all of the envelopes
received prior to that date which con-
tain applications for registration VIII
then BIO thoroughly mixed and envel-
opes will be selected therefrom in
discriminatory, one at q time, and the
application therein numbered as Sc
lected. Tho numbers thus assigned
will control tho order in when ,ntres
may be made: For instance, the
person whose application is numbered
one will be given the first choice of
all the lands subject to entry in the
reservation for which the application
was presented, the person to whom
number two is assigned will be given
the second CHOICE and So on AS
soon as numbers are assigned in this
manner. notices giving the numbers
assigned will be mailed to the adj
dresses given in the applications for
registration, and in cases Where APP
plications arc presented by agents
notices will be mailed to both the
agents and the persons by whom they
were appointed.
Persons who register should be
careful to give in their applications
for registration the postoffce address
Gncluding street numbers) to which
they desire their notices mailed, and
if they change their addresses after
registration, they should request the
postmaster at the addresses given in
their applications to forward their
MI 10 their new addresses. Numbers
will not be assigned to q greater
number of persons than may DO rea-
sonaby expected to induce the entry
of all the tracts subject to entry, anG
no notice will be mailed to any per-
son to whom a number is not as
signed. All envelopes not selected
will be opened and the applications
therein carefully scrutinized, and if il
is found that any person has present
ed more than one application. he will
be denied the right to make entry
under any number assigned to him.
A list Of persons to whom numbers
are assigned will be publicly posted
and given to the press for publication
as q matter of news. 1t win De vel
for all persons who register to sub
scribe to some newspaper which vii
publish list of tho numbers as
signed, in order that they may be
more certain to ascertain the num-
bers assigned to them, as the notices
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