Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-05-29
SPOKANE READY TO
ENTERTAIN THE
PRESIDENT
WOODMEN WILL TAKE HIM
INTO THEIR ORGANIZATION
Irrigation Congress Promises
to Draw Great Crowds to
Northwest City; Great Land
Drawing at Same Time,
,s,oclal correspondence TO Morning Journal

,s,cciL Correspondence 10 Morning Journal
snokano. Wash, May 2S.-Ofhcers
~ excelsior Camp No. STA, Modern
Woodmen, are preparing elaborate
rions to initiate President Taft into
the mysteries of the order during his
STAY in Spokane the second week III
Aupust. when il is expected the chief
cyecutive will participate at the seven
toanth sessions of the National Irri-
cation congress. The honors will be
conferred by A.. II. Talbot, head con
snl assisted by William jennings
Bryan of Nebraska. United states
senator Jonathan +. Deliver of Iowa
United States Senator Joseph "
Bailey Of Texas, Speaker Joseph Can
non OF Illinois, Professor j. w. Black
man of Kansas University, Lyman Ab-
hott. editor of The outlook, and other
prominent public men.
The ceremonies win take place in
fine state armory with from 5000 to
5000 members in attendance. A ban
quet. at which President Taft viii
speak. is to follow. The band con-
nected with the Fighting Third reg
imcnt infantry, organized 1892. and al
one time commanded by Mad An
thony'' Wayne, to be stationed at Fort
George Wright, three miles north
west Of Spokane, this summer, Will
furnish music for the occasion, and
representative members of the order
from all parts of America will be hero
to greet the nations chief when ho
takes the Woodmen's oath.
Another important matter, which
by happy coincidence, ZONES with the
opening of the meeting of the irriga-
ti0nists and experts in forestry, deep
waterways. good roads and home
building and the visit of President
Taft, is the beginning of the drawings
on August 0 for more than 100000
acres of lands in the Spokane, Occur
dAlene and Flathead reservations.
The registration officers will be in
spokane. Occur d'Alene, Idaho and
Kalispell and Missoula, Mont.
r. I%nsinger, chairman of the board
Of control of the National I%rrivation
congress. has received advices that
registration will begin on July IS and
close on August 5, the time for MAX
ing the entry being fixed for April,
1910, thus enabling successfuf appli-
cants TO make personal Investigations
Of the lands subject to settlement and
entry. Applications for registrations
must be delivered through the mails
only to the superintendent of the open
ing at Occur d'Alene. Idaho, "a miles
cast of spokane. which will be the
principal point in the drawings fol
the three reservations.
While the regulations regarding the
opening of the lands will not be avail
able until early in June, it is under
stood that those qualified to make
homestead entry viii be permitted t.
register for any of the lands desig-
mated in the three reservations This
Il be done in person, while former
'olGiers may register through agents.
Persons entering lands in the Flat.
mead reserve, where 10000 acres Wil
De thrown open this year, will be re
CURED to pay onc-third of the APP
praised value, ranging from 81 t.
Sl.25 an acre. at the time Of entry,
while the purchasers Of government
ANA in the Spokane reserve, 100, 00t
acres, and the Occur d'Alene reserva.
non, zoo, 000 acres, will be required t
ray one-fifth of the appraised value a
tno time of entry. the remainder t.
N' paid in five equal annual Install
mcnis.
These three drawings viii provide
homes for ~ Innet ~ mn ,.nrent,u
there being between 4S00 and 5000
loinesteads. Other lands in the re
serves, which contain approximatel,
''pVo,o00 acres, win be opened in 1910
Jhd 1911. Those familiar with til,
Rhds to be opened this year say por
nuns OF them are adapted to wheat
cats and other small grains, also roo
crops and fruits.
N Indians owning these lands sue.
''Ssiully resisted all attempts to oper
'"'m to settlement until recently
men they gave way to the ovcr-in.
Teasing land hunger of the white
topic, and, as a result. in a few
'"ohths the tcpee OF the Indian BRAY,
"ll be supplanted by the home of tt
't'er' who will bring forth wcaltf
'lom land over which only wild thing
'"vort today.
me Flathcad reservation compris
I'A2a,OOO acres on the west slope
W the Rocky mountains in ncorthwes-
~" Montana, tributary t o Kalispell
Z modern city of 1000. This rcscrv
naS long been the home of severe
uloOsand F1athead, Kootenai, Kalis-