Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-06-04
Opening of Reservations
CONTINUED from first page.

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 be well
for all persons who register to sub
scribe to some newspaper which will
publish list of the numbers assigned.
IN order that they may be more certain
to ascertain the numbers assigned to
them, as the notices mailed may not
reach them.
No entries will be made before April
l, 1910, and all persons given the priv
ilege of making entry will be notified
OF the exact date when they must ap-
pear and enter, and if they fail to APP
pear on that date they will lose all
rights under the numbers assigned
them. The rights acquired under
numbers assigned can not be sold or
transferred to other persons; but if
any person holding number dies before
the day he is required to make entry,
his widow or anyone of his heirs may
make entry in their own right, on that
day.
No charge will be made for registra-
ton, but at the time of making entry,
persons who apply for Flathead lands
will be required to pay one-third of the
appraised value and persons who apply
for either Coenr 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
installments and failure to make any
payment, when it becomes due, will
result in the cancellation of the entry
and the forfeiture of all former paw
ments.
Residence must be begun within six
months after the date on which the
entry is made and continued, with
cultivation, until patent has been
earned, either by five years residence
and cultivation and the payment of the
installments annually, or by fourteen
months actual and continuous resi-
dence 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 be obtained by five
years actual and continuous residence
and cultivation and the payment of the
annual installments, 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 declar-
atory statement, either in person or by
agent, on the day assigned for that
purpose, or may make entry at that
time if he prefers. If declaratory
statement is filed, fee of two dollars
must be paid at that time; but the first
payment of the purchase price
will not be required then. Within six
months from that day he must begin
his actual residence on the land and
make entry. At the time a soldiers
entry is made 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 remaining 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 required; if it amount
ed to three years, two years residence
will be required, and so on; but there
must be one years actual residence,
regardless of the lenght of the military
service. Persons who were soldiers or
sailors in the time Of peace and did not
serve during any Of the wars mention
ed above cannot register by agents or
claim the rights given by the law to
soldiers or sailors who served in time of
war.
The following persons are not qualif-
ed to make homestead entry:
l. A married woman, unless she has
been deserted or abandoned by her hus-
band, or unless her husband is in
capacitated by disease or otherwise
from earning a support for his family,
and she is the head and main support
of the family.
2. One not citizen of the United
States, and who has not declared his in
tention to become such.
3. One under twenty-one years of
age, not the head of family.
4. One who is the proprietor of more
than one hundred and sixty acres of
land in any State or Territory, and the
ownership of one hundred and sixty
acres and a town lot disqualfies the
owner from making entry.
5. One who has acquired title to or
claiming under any of the non-mineral
public land laws, through settlement or
entry made since August 80, 1890, any
other lands which, with the lands appli-
ed for, would amount in the aggregate
to more than three hundred and twenty
acres.
6. One who has previously made