Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-24

The registration for the opening
of the Flathead Indian Reservation
in Montana, the Occur d'Alene
Indian Reservation in Idaho and
the Spokane Indian Reservation in
Washington began on July Is and
will end OH August 5, 1909. Any
person qualified to make other an
original, second or an additional
homestead entry may register for
lands in any or all of these reser-
vations. All who desire to register
must go, in person, to the following
registration points to swear to their
applications for registration; to
either Kalispell or Missoula Mont,
to register for Flathead lands, to
Occur d'Alene, Idaho, to register
for Occur d'Alene lands and to
Spokane, Washington, to register
for Spokane lands.
Soldiers or sailors who were
honorably discharged after ninety
days service during the War of the
Rebellion, the Spanish American
War or the Philippine Instruction,
or their widows or minor orphan
children, need not 60 to either OF
the registration points for the pur-
pose of registering, but may register
through agents appointed by them
for that purpose. All agents must
be appointed on blank power OF at
torney, which will be furnished by
james w. Witten on application al
Coenr d'Alene, Idaho. Soldiers
sailors, or their widows or minor
orphan children may appoint the
same or different persons to act fol
them in registering for different
reservations, but no person can ap.
point more than one agent for the
same reservation and no agent can
register for more than one soldier
for any one reservation. A differ
ent and seperate power of attorney
must be sgiven 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 theil
guardians, before some officer hay
ing seal and authorized to admin
lister oaths at some place within the
United States, and the name OF the
agent must be written into the
power of attorney before it is sworr
to by the soldier. The application
for registration presented by thu
agent must be sworn to by him a.
registration point for the reserva
ton for which he registers.
All applications for registration
must reach me through ordinary
mail at Occur d'Alene, Idaho, before
August 9th, and all of the envol-
opes received prior to that date
which contain applications for regis.
tration will then be thoroughly
mixed and envelopes will be. select
ed therefrom unfortunately, one
at a time, and the applications
therein numbered as selected. Thu
numbers thus assigned will contro
the order in which entries may b,
made: For instance, the person
whose application is numbered ONT
will be given the first choice of al
the lands subject to entry in th'
reservation for which the applica
ton was presented, the person T.
whom number two is assigned will
be given second choice, and 80 on
AS soon as numbers are assigned II
this manner, notices giving tn
numbers assigned will be mailed +
the addresses given in the applies
tons for registration. and in case
where applications are presented b
agents, notices will be mailed
both the agents and the persons b
whom they we're appointed.
Persons who register should