The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-16

method of procedure in the registra-
ton and entering in connection with
the Flathead reservation opening, as
set forth officially is as follows:
q Dear sir; You are informed that a
registration for the opening of tins
Flathead Indian reservation in Mon
tana, the Occur d'Alcne Indian res
ervation in Idaho and the Spokane
Indian reservation in Washington
Will begin ON July Is and end ur,
August ., 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 CO. in person, to the fol-
lowing registration points to swear to
their applications tor registrations: te
either kalispell or Missoula, Montana.
to register for Flathead lands, to
Occur d'Alene, Idaho, to register for
Occur d'Alcne 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
winch to mail the applications TO nle
at Occur dAlene, Idaho which is the
only place at which applications will!
be received, and they must bo for
Warded by ordinary mail and not by
registered mail. No envelope will be
received which bears q a~rcturn card
or any other words which indicate the
name of the person who mailed it,
Soldiers OF sailors who were honor
ably discharged after ninety days
service during the war of the rebel
lion, the Spanish American war or the
Philippine instruction, or their
widows or minor orphan children,
need not go 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 powers of attorney.
which will be furnished by me on APP
plication 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
separate power of attorney must be
given for each reservation to the
same or different persons
Powers Of attorney must be sworn
70 by soldiers, sailors, their widows
or minor orphan children or their
guardians, before some officer having
n seal and authorized to administer
oatlls 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 mo through ordinary mail
at Occur d'Alene, Idaho, before
August 8 and all of the envelopes
received prior to that date which con-
tam applications for registration VIII
then BIO thoroughly mixed and enve}-
opes will be selected therefrom in
discriminatory, one at q time, and the
Application therein numbered as Sc
lected. The numbers thus assigned
will control the order in when ,ltrles
may be made: For instance, the
person whose application is numbered
one will he given the FIRST choice of
all the lands subject to entry in the
reservation fur which the application
was presented the person 10 whom
number two is assigned will be given
the second choice. and 50 on. AS
soon as numbers arc assigned in this
manner, notices giving the numbers
assigned will be mailed to the adj
dresses given in the applications fcN'
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
Gncluding street numbers) to which
thev desire their notices mailed, and
If they change their addresses after
registration, they should request the
postmaster at the addresses given in
their appications to forward their
IN" ! r. 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 q 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 makes entry
untier 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 matter of news 1t viii De well
for all persons who register to sub
scribe to some newspaper which will
publish q list of tho numbers as