Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-24
RATION
Some of the Ru1eS--ThoSe Who Can
not Draw Lands. August
5th the Last Day.

careful to give in their application
for registration the post-office add
-esses (including street numbers)
to which they desire their notices
mailed. and if they change their
addresses after registration, they
should request the postmaster al
the addresses given in their appli-
cations to toward their mail to
their new addresses. Numbers
will not be assigned to greater
number of persons than may be
reasonably expected to induce the
entry of all the tracts subject to
entry, and no notice will be mailed
TO any person to whom a number
is not assigned. All envelopes not
selected will be opened and the
application therein carefully scru-
tinized, and if is found that any
person has presented more than
one application. he will be denied
the right to make entry under any
number assigned to him.
No entries will be made before
April /, 1910, and all persons
given the privilege of entry will be
notified of the exact date when
they must appear and enter, and
if they fail to appear on that date
they will lose all rights under the
numbers assigned them. The
rights acquired under numbers
assigned can not be sold or trans
ferred to other persons; but If any
person holding a number dies be-
fore the day he is required to make
entry, his widow or any one OF his
heirs may make entry in their own
right, ON that day,
No charge will be made for the
registration, but at the time of
making entry, persons who apply
for Flathead lands will be required
to pay one-third of the appraised
value and persons who apply for
either Coeurd' Alene or Spokane
lands will be required to pay one
fifth of the appraised ualue. The
remainder Of the purchase money
ON all these lands may be paid in
five equal, annual installments
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
ments,
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 installments ann
ually. or by fourteen monts' actual
and continuous residence, cuitiva-
ton and payment of all the unpaid
! purchase money, on all the lands
except the timbered lands in the
Occur d'Alene Reservation, which
can only be otained by five years
actual and continuous residence
and cultivation and the payment
OF the annual installments, as COM
mutation is not allowed for them.
A soldier, sailor. or his widow OF
minor orphan children, to whom 8
number is assigned, may file dec
laratory statement, either in per.
son or by agent, on the day assig'
ned for that purpose, or may make
entry at that time if he prefers
If a declaratory statement is filed
a fee of two dollars,must be paid a.
that time; but the fret payment o
the purchase price will not be re
quirsd then. Within six months
from that day he must begin hi
actual residence on the land entry
, At the time soldiers entry i
made tho payments required o
other entrymen must be made
], Aiter soldiers. sailors, their widow