Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-08-19
JUDGE WITTEN
ISSUES LETTER
plaining the Rights and Du-
ties of Those Successful in
the Land Drawing.

Judge Witten has just issued the
blowing circular-letter, and tho
me will be mailed to each person
blding number in the drawings of
e three reservations:
I'm order that you may be fully in
rmed as to your rights and duties
der the number recently assigned
Su, am sending for your careful
rusal copies of the homestead laws
ID regulations, and Of the proclama-
b and regulations opening the
BUR d'Alene, Flathead and Spokane
DIS.
All persons holding numbers are
liberty to go onto the reservation
which their numbers were as
gned at any time after this date
the purpose of inspecting and ex-
Inning the lands which have not
en- reserved or allotted to Indians,
t they should take with them the
tice they have received which gives
cir number, and exhibit that notice
any one who questions their right
be on the reservation.
1T is impossible at this time for
E to tell you how many successful
plicants will be permitted to make
ngs, as l have not been informed
to the exact number of quarter
etions which will be Subject to
try.
"Notices of the right to file will be
allied before March /, 1910, to such
hmber of persons as will equal the
hmber of available farms, and later
hers will be notified if persons
plding lower numbers fail to file.
pr instance, if there are but 1900
arter sections in the Occur d'Alene
Derivation, only the persons holding
b first 1900 numbers win be first
ptified. If one of these, say number
B, fails to file, the person holding
amber 1901 will be notified and
ven thirty days or longer within
hich to make his filing after the
fst 1900 have had opportunity ia
e. If number 25 should fail, then
hmber 1902 will be notified, and
on.
Filings must be made at Coeu,
Alene for Occur d'Alene lands, al
pokane for Spokane lands and a.
Their Kalispell for Flathead lands IL
Ae Kalispell district, or at Missoult
r Flathead lands in the Missouls
strict The map hereafter to b
allied to each person to whom
lite for entry is given will show thu
ne separating these districts, ant
e Flathead applicants must choos
themselves in which of these dis
cts they will make entry.
when a tract is entered it will b.
ecked on on a large wall map II
leland Office, and the map will, con
quently, at all times show all land
en- subject to entry and will b
bed by applicants in making thei
Elections.
"Only applicants whose names ar
Alled and their locating agents,
hey have employed agents, will b
PRINTED to enter the room wher
map is exhibited. and no othe
erson can enter the room or inspeC
be map while the entries are bein
babe.
The government will not furnis
appoint locating agents. or Civ
pplicants any assistance in the seleC
on of their claims further than t
hform them as TO the classifcatio
md appraised value of each trac
which will appear both on the wa
nap mentioned and the small ma
nailed to them.
ut Is usual at all Land opening
or persons to engage in the bushes
{ locating. or selecting lands for al
iieants. but the government has n
Onnection with. and Is In no way II
ponsible for the acts Of such loci
ors. To protect applicants. as far {