The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-17
WILL OPEN LANDS
FOR ENTRY soon
Flathead. COeur d'AIcne and
Spokane Reservations to
Be Opened.
WORK WILL BEGIN o.,
9TH OF AUGUST THIS YEAR
Occur d'Alene Will Be First En-
tered: Others VIII
Follow.

Before August Q it is expected that
hundreds of thousands of applications
for registration for lands in the Flat
head. Coeur 'Alcnc and Spokane reser-
vations will have been received nj
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, by James W,
Witten, superintendent of the opening,
who has established his headquarters in
that city.
The public opening will take place on
August o, on which date the drawing
for the Coeur d 'Alene lands will take
place. The drawing for the Flathead
reservation will follow the Occur
'Alene drawing, The drawing for th2
land In the Spokane reservation will
be last
Applications for registration must be
made on forms furnished by the gen
cral land office. which can be obtained
at the United States land Offices in Spo-
kane. Wash; Occur 'Alene. Idaho, and
Kahspell and Missoula, Mont The
blanks must be filed out and sworn 10
before notaries public designated by
the land commissioner before August
>. according TO information furnished
10 George &. Whitson, former member
OF the Oklahoma legislature, by Senator
t. P. Gore
Before August the applications for
registration must be sent IN plain en-
velopes TO superintendent Witten 3t
Coeur Il Aleno. Idaho. Any marking on
the envelopes that would permit identi-
dcation. return address IN the corner
or anything to indicate the sender Will
cause the application to be discarded.
The envelopes must he three and one
half inches wide and six inches long
and bear the address, flames W. Wit
ten, superintendent, Coeur d'AleEa,
Idaho and the name Of the reserva-
riou embracing the lands which the APP
plicant wishes TO enter.
Exceptions Made
All applications for registration must
he sworn to personally by the appli
cants. except when the application IS
made by soldier or a sailor, houorably
discharged after ninety days service
or more in the civil war. the Spanish
American war or the Philippine ipsuI
rection, or by their widows or minor
children. These may present their APP
pllcations by an agent, who must have
their power of attorney. No one can
act as agent for more than one per-
son, nor can any soldier, or the widow
or minor child Of soldier. appoint
more than one person agent for him or
her,
Such applications. sworn to by the
authorized agent, must be sent by mail
10 Superintendent Witten at Coeur
q d'Alene. Idaho. as in the case of others
No envelope should contain more than
one application and no person should
present more than one application for
lands in the same reservation.
Besides former mem bers of the United
States army or navy. or their widows
and minor children, for whom special
provision is made, applica tions for reg
istration may be made by a man ut
the head of n family, or man more
than twentv-one years old, unmarried,
who must be citizen Of the United
States, or must have declared his in
tention to become a citizen. A woman
who is at the head of family o. who
is more than eighteen years old, may
also make entry. AS soon as the su-
perintendent of the opening receives
an envelope addressed TO him with the
name of the reservation indorsed ppon
il, he will, il the envelope bears no dis
iinctive marks or words indicating the
name of the person by whom it has
been mailed, deposit it in metal can
set aside for the reception of envelopes
bearing Endorsements for taat Teserva-
ton,
Drawing of Applications.
On August 9, 1909, the cans contain
ing the applications for registration
presented by persons who desire 10 en-
ter Occur d 'AleDe lands Will be public
" opened and the envelopes mixed I'm
der the direction Of Superintendent
Witten there will be picked at random
as many applications as witt DO consi1-
ered necessary TO secure entries for the
200 900 acres which will be thrown opcE
in tho Occur d Alene reservation.
The applications drawn IN this way,
If correct and conforming 80 the DrU-
visions or the department shall be num-
ll,r rhn IL 1,
they ere selected and the nJmhsrs thus
assigned Will fix the order lc which the
pcrscns named therein In&T make en-
try after the lauds shall become sub
iuct to tntry,
After the drawing for the Occur
d'Alene reservation is completed "A i'm.
liar process will be gone through with
for the Flathead reservation. Numbers
viii not be assigned to a greater mum
Der of persons than will be reasonably
necessary 50 induce the entry OF all
lands. Notice Of the time and place
he must make entry viii be mailed 10
the successful applicants, and If he
fails TO present himself on that date or
notifies the register that he does not
intend to make entry, the person hold
ing the highest number TO whom no
date has been assigned will be 1t once
notified that he VIII be permitted on
n date named in such notice TO make
entry, after all persons holding mum
bers higher than his have had oppor-
tunity 10 make entry.