The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-22
HOW TO LOCATE ON LANDS
OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVE

careful to give in their applications
for registration the postoffice address
Gncluding street numbers) to which
they desire their notices mailed. and
If they change their addresses after.
registration, they should request the
postmaster at the addresses given in
their applications to forward their
mail to their new addresses. Numbers
will not be assigned to a greater
number of persons than may be rea-
sonably expected to induce the entry
of all the tracts subject to entry, and
no notice will be mailed to any per-
son to whom a number is not as
signed. All envelopes not selected
will be opened and the applications
therein carefully scrutinized, and IL it
is found that any person has present.
ed more than one application he will
be denied the right to make entry
under any number assigned to him.
A list of persons to whom numbers
are assigned will be publicly posted
and given to the press for publication
as a matter Of news 1t will De we'll
for all persons who register to sub
scribe to some newspaper which will
publish a list of the numbers as
signed, in order that they may be
more certain to ascertain the num-
bers assigned to them, as the notices
mailed may not reach them.
No entries will be made before
April l, 1910, and all persons iven
the privilege of making 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 as
signed them. The rights acquired I'M
der numbers assigned can not be sold
or transferred to other persons, but it
any person holding 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 he made for tho
registration, but at the time of maxi
ing entry, persons who apply for
Flathcal lands will be required to
pay onethird Of the appraised value
and persons who apply for either
Occur d'Alene or Spokane lands will
be required to pay one-fifth of the
appraised value. The remainder of
the purchase money on all these lands
may be paid in five equal, annual in
stallments 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
off r ~, ri, no
eptry is made and continued, with
cultivation, until patent has been
earned, either by five years residence
and cultivation and tho payment of
the installments annually, or by four
teen months actual and continuous
residence and cultivation and the
payment of all the unpaid purchase
money, on all of the lands except the
tInhcled lands in the Occur d'Alene
reservation, which can only be OBJ
tanned BY five years actual and con-
tnuous residence and cultivation and
the payment of the annual INSTALL
mcnts, as communication is not allowed
for them.
A soldier sailor, or his widow
or minor orphan children to
whom a number is assigned,
may file a declaratory state
mont, either in person or by agent,
OH tho day assigned for that purpose,
or may make entry at that time if he
prefers. II a declaratory statement is
filed, fee of two dollars must be
paid at that time. but the first pay
nent of the purchase price will not
be required then. Within six months
from that day he must begin his ac-
tual residence on the land and make
entry. At the time a soldiers entry
is maze the payments required of
other entrymen must be made. After
soldiers, sailors, their widows or
minor orphan children have actually
resided on the land for twelve months
they can claim credit on the remain
ing four years residence required by
the law for the period of the soldiers
military service: For instance, if
such service amounted to four years,
only one years residence will be re-
qured; if it amounted to three years,
two years. residence will be required,
and SO on: but there must be one
years actual residence, regardless of
the length of the military service
Persons who were soldiers or sailors
in time of peace and did not serve
during any of the wars mentioned