The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-19


method of procedure in the registra-
ton and entering in connection with
the Flathead reservation opening, as
set forth officially is as follows:
Dear sir: You are informed that
registration for the opening of the
Flathead Indian reservation in Mon
tana, the Occur d'Alene Indian res
ervation in idaho and the Spokane
Indian reservation in Washington
will begin on July 15 ana end un
August 5, 1909. Any person qualified
to make either an original, a second
or an additional homestead entry may
register for lands in any or all of
these reservations. All who desire to
register must go, in person, to the fol-
lowing registration points to swear to
their applications for. Registrations; to
either Kalispell or Missoula, Montana,
to register for Flathead lands. to
Occur d'A]ene, Idaho, to register for
Occur d'Alene lands and to Spokane.
Washington, to register for Spokane
lands.
Applications for registration may be
sworn to before any notary public
designated by me for that purpose,
and should not be sworn to before
any other officer The notaries before
whom applicants are sworn will fur
nish blank forms of application for
registration and printed envelopes in
which to mail the applications to me
at Occur d'Alene, Idaho, which is the
only place at which applications will
q nd =,
warded by ordinary mail and not by
registered mail No envelope will be
received which bears a return card
or any other words which indicate the
name of the person who mailed it.
Soldiers or sailors who were honor
ably discharged after ninety days
service during the war of the rebel
lion, the Spanish American war or the
Philippine insurrection, or their
widows or minor orphan children,
neeG not so to either of the registra-
ton points for the purpose of regis
tering, but may register through
agents appointed by them for that
purpose. All agents must be APP
pointed on blank p>>wers of attorney
which will be furnished by me on APP
rlication at Washington, D. g., at
any time before July 5, and after that
date at Occur d'Alene, Idaho. Sol
diers, sailors or their widows or minor
orphan children may appoint the
same or different persons to act for
them in registering for different
reservations but no person can APP
point more than one agent for the
same reservation and no agent can
register for more than one soldier for
any one reservation. A different and
separate power of attorney must be
given for each reservation to the
same or different persons.
Powers Of attorney must be sworn
to by soldiers, sailors, their widows
Or minor orphan children, or their
guardians, before some officer having
a seal and authorized to administer
oaths at some place within the United
States, and the name of the agent
must be written into the power of at
torney before it is sworn to by the
soldier. The application for registra-
ton presented by the agent must be
sworn to by him at a registration
point for the reservation for which he
registers.
All applications for registration
must reach me through ordinary mail
at Occur d'Alene, Idaho, before
August 9 and all of the envelopes
received prior to that date which con-
tain applications for registration will
then be thoroughly mixed and envel-
opes will be selected therefrom in
discriminatory, one at time, and the
application therein numbered as Sc
lected. The numbers thus assigned
will control the order in when entries
may be made: For instance, the
person whose application is numbered
one will be given the first choice of
all the lands subject to entry in the
reservation for which the application
was, presented, the person to whom
number two is assigned will be given
the second choice, and so on. AS!
soon as numbers are assigned in this
manner, notices giving the numbers
assigned will be mailed to the adj
dresses given in the applications for
registration, and in cases Where APP
plications are presented by agents,
notices will be mailed to both the
agents and the persons by whom they
were appointed.
Persons who register should be
careful to give in their applications
for registration the postoffice address
Gnc1uding street numbers) to which
they desire their notices mailed, and
II they change their addresses after
registration, they should request the
postmaster at the addresses given in
their applications to forward their
mel to their new addresses. Numbers
will not be assigned to 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 if 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 well
for all persons who register to sub
scribe to some newspaper which will
publish list of the numbers as
signed, in order that they may be