The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-17
HOW TO LOCATE ON LANDS
OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVE

ing entry, persons who apply for
Flathead 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 rcquised 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
stal)ments 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
ment,,.
Residence must be begun within six
months after the date on which the
entry is made and continued. with
cultivation, until a patent has been
| earned, either by five years residence
and cultivation and the payment of
| the installments annually, or bv 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
| timbered lands in the Occur d'Alene
reservation, which can only BIO OBJ
/ tanned by five years actual and con-
/ tinuous residence and cultivation and
| the payment of the annual INSTALL
mcnts. as communication is not allowed
i io.' them.
soldier, sailor, or his widow,
or minor orphan children, to
whom a number is assigned,
, may file a declaratory state
| ;,,
on the day assigned for that purpose,
or may make entry at that time if he
prefers. II a declaratory statement is
| filed, Il fee of two dollars must be
paid at that time, but the first pay
merit 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 soldiers entry
is made the payments required of
| other entrynen 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
such service amounted to four wears
only one years residence will be re-
CURED; 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 We're soldiers or sailors
in time of peace and did not serve
during any of the wars mentioned
above cannot register by agents or
claim the rights given by the law tc
soldiers ana sailors who served In
time OF war.
| The following persons are not
qualified to make homestead entry:
l. A. married woman, unless she
has been deserted or abandoned by
her husband. or unless her husband
is incapacitated by disease or other
wise from earning support for his
family and she is the head and main
support of the family.
g One not a citizen of the United
States, and who has no4 declared his
intention to become suc1.
8. One under twenty-one years OF
d5c, rlioL lIt Iedu VI d ldHllIy.
d. One who is the proprietor OF
more than one hundred and sixty
acres of land in any state Or terri
tory, and the ownership of one hun.
dred and sixty acres and a town To-
disqualifies the owner from making
entry.
g. One who has acquired title to ol
is claiming under any of the non
mineral public land laws, through
settlement or entry made sine.
August go 1890, any other land.
which, with the lands applied for
would amount in tho aggregate tt
more than three hundred and tWent,
acres.
6. One who has previously made
homestead entry, unless he is entitled
to make second homestead entry
which second entry may be made by
a. One who committed q homestead
entry prior to June 5, 1900, and ha
not since that date made additional
homestead entry.
b. One who. prior to May H. 1900
paid for lands in a former India1
reservation, to which he would hav,
beens afterwards entitled to receiv,
patent without payment, under thu
"Frea Homes act.
C. One who for any cause lost, for
feited, or abandoned his homestead
entry prior to February 8, 1908, II thu
! former entry was not Cancelled TO
fraud or relinquished for valuable
consideration. Where such entryma1
sold his improvements or sold the re
linouishnent of his entry. he is no
entitled to mako a second homestead
entry. regardless of the fact that hi
improvements may have cost hin
more than the amount received TO
them.
4 d. One who has already mad.
final proof on less than one hundred
and sixty acres may, if he otherwise
qualified, make an additional entr,
for such an amount of land as will
when added to the amount for which
he has already made proof, not ex
coed in the aggre gate one hundred
and sixty acres.
Commissioners appointed by tn
government have classified the land
subject to entry in the Flathead res
ervation as follows: 40,22a acres a
agricultural! lands of the first class
75,019 acres as agricultural lands o
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