The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-27

congress and be opened to settlement
and entry in the following manner
and not otherwise:
July 10 is Named.
First~All persons qualified to
make homestead entry may, on and
after the 18th day of July ana prior
to and including the 5th day of Aug
ust, 1909, but not Heretofore or
thereafter, present to James w. Wit
ten, superintendent of the opening,
at the city of Occur d'Alene, in the
state of Idaho, by ordinary mail or
otherwise, sealed envelopes contain
ling their applications for registration
of lands in any or all of the said res
ervations, but no envelope should
contain more than one application,
and no person should present more
than one application for lands in the
same reservation.
Secnd-All applications for regis
tration must be on forms furnished
by the general land Office and they
must show the name, postoffice al
dress, age, height and weight of the
applicant and be sworn to by him
on or after July l 5 and prior to and
including August 5, 1909, before
tnd nv
said superintendent
Third-Application for registra-
ton must be sworn to at the follow
ing places and not elsewhere: APP
plications for Flathead lands must be
sworn to at either Kalispell or Mis-
soula, Mont; for Spokane lands, at
Spokane, Wash, and for Occur
d Alene lands. at Occur d 'Alene, Ida.
Veterans Through Agents.
Fourth-Persons who were honor
ably discharged after 80 days serv-
ice in the army or the navy of the
United States during the war of the
rebellion, the Spanish-American war
or the Philippine instruction, or
their widows, or minor orphan chill
dren, may present their application
for registration, either in person or
through their duly appointed agents,
but no person can act as agent for
more than one such applicant, and
all applications presented by agents
must be signed, sworn to and pre-
sented by them at the same places
and in the same manner in which APP
plicants are required to present their
applications.
Fifth-Beginning at 10 o'clock a
m. on August 8, 1909, at the city
of Occur d'Alene, in the state OF
Idaho, and continuing thereafter
from day to day, Sundays excepted
as long as may be necessary, there
shall be impartially taken and Sc.
lected indiscriminately, from the
whole number of envelopes so pre-
sented, such numbers thereof as may
be necessary to carry into effect the
provisions of this proclamation, and
the applications for registration con.
tanned in the envelopes so selected
shall, when correct in form and ex
ecution, be numbered serially in the
order in which they are selected, be
ginning with No. l for the lands
within each of said reservations, and
the numbers thus assigned shall fl,
and control the order in which the
persons named therein may make en-
ject to entry
List Will Be Posted.
Sixth-A list of the successful ap
plicants, showing the number as
signed to each of them, will be con
spicuously posted and furnished tt
the press for publication as a matter
of news and proper notice will be
promptly mailed to each person tt
whom a number is assigned.
notwithstanding at O'CLOCK
a. m. on April 1, 1910, and continu
ing thereafter on such dates as may
be fixed by the secretary of the in
terror, persons holding numbers as
signed to them under this proclama-
ton will be permitted to present
their applications to enter Cor file
their declaratory statements in cases
where they are entitled to file de-
claratory statements) at the land of
fee for any land district in which
their numbers entitle them to make
entry, in the order in which their ap-
plicatiOns for registration wer select
ed and numbered, but no person can
present more than one application or
enter or file more than one declara-
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