The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-05-26
ALL TO hAPPfN IN AUGUST
Month Fraught with Important Events
for Spokane Where Big Gather
ings Are to Assemble.

SPOKANE, Wash, May 25.-Officers
of Excelsior Camp No. 5174, Modern
Woodmen, are preparing elaborate
plans to initiate President Taft into
the mysteries of the order during his
stay in Spokane the second week in
executive will participate at the sew
enteenth session of the National Irri-
rigation Congress. The honors will be
conferred by A. r. Talbot, head con-
sui, assisted by William Jennings Bry-
an of Nebraska, United States Senator
Jonathan p. Dolliver of Iowa, United
States Senator Joseph w. Bailey of
Texas, Speaker Joseph Cannon of Ill
inois, Professor ]. W. Blackman of
Kansas University, Lyman Abbott, ed
itor of The Outlook, and other prom
inent public men.
The ceremonies will take place in
the state armory with from 5000 to
5000 members in attendance. A ban
quet at which President Taft will
speak, is to follow. The band con-
nected with 1.-The Fighting Third reg
iment infantry, organized in 1892 and
at 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 here
to greet the nations chief when he
takes the Woodmen's oath.
Another important matter which,
by happy coincidence, comes with the
opening of the meeting of the irriga-
tionists and experts in forestry, deep
waterways, good roads and home
building and the visit of President
Taft, is the beginning of the draw
ings on August 8, for more than 700,-
900 acres of lands in the Spokane,
Occur d'Alene and Flathead reserva-
tions. The registration officers will
be in Spokane, Occur d'Alene, Idaho,
and Kalispell and Missoula, Mont.
r. Insinger, chairman of the board
of control of the National Irrigation
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 successful 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
opening at Occur d'Alene, Idaho, "a
miles east of Spokane, which will be
the principal point. in the drawings
for the three reservations.
While the regulations regarding
the opening of the lands will not be
available until early in June, it is I'M
derstood that those qualified to make
homestead entry will be permitted to
register for any of the lands desig-
mated in the three reservations. This
must be done in person, while former
soldiers may register through agents.
Persons entering lands IN the Flat
head reserve, where 400 acres will
be thrown open this year, will be re-
quired to pay one-third of the ap-
praised value, ranging from 81 to
s1.25 an acre, at the time of entry,
while purchasers of government lands
in the Spokane reserve, 100000 acres,
and the Occur d'Alene reservation,
100000 acres, will be required to pay
one-fifth of the appraised value at the
time of entry, the remainder to be paid
in five equal installments.
These three drawings will provide
homes for at least $4,000 persons,
there being $500 and 5000 home
steads. other lands in the reserves,
which contain approximately 3,000,-
600 acres, will be opened in 1910 and
1911. Those familiar with the lands
to be opened this year say portions of
them are adapted to wheat, oats and
other small grains, also root crops and
fruits.
The Indians owning these lands sue
cessfully resisted all attempts to open
them to settlement until recently,
when they gave way to the ever-in-
creasing land hunger of the white
people, and, as a result, in a few
months the tepee of the Indian brave
will be supplanted by the home of the
settler, who will bring forth wealth
from land over which only wild things
cavort today.
The FIathead reservation compris-
es laps, 200 acres on the west slope
of the Rocky mountains in north
western Montana, tributary to Kalis-
pelI. a modern city OF 1900. This re-
serve has long been the home of sew
eral thousand Flathead. Kootenai.
Ko1icpelI and Pend Oreflle Indians,
noted for their answering friendship
for the white people. These tribes
claimed all the lands in Montana.
west of the main range of the Rocky
mountains and the northern port of
Idaho, more than so years ago. when
they entered into treaty, by the terms
of which they relinquished certein
lands to the government. They re-
served the right to choose certain
lands for their permanent abode, and