Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-08-11
AIDS THE
SETTLERS
Bill Passes Congress Giving S. D.
Homesteaders More Time
to Pay for Land.
CLARK VERY POPULAR MAN
The Boy Scout Movement Being
Aided by Senator Page
of Vermont.
Special to the Saturday News.

Washington, D. C. August IA
way of affording relief to the home
steaders of the Rosebud and other
Indian reservations in South and
North Dakota, has been found by the
South Dakota delegation in congress,
and the result is that Representative
Burke secured favorable action in
the house upon measure extending
the time of payment to homesteaders,
while similar action was obtained in
the senate. The legislation provides
that IAN extension of time within
which to make payment of any
amount that is about to become due
by filing an affidavit duly corroborat-
ed by two other persons, setting forth
that, by reason of drought, loss of
crop. sickness, or other unavoidable
cause, he can not make such payment
and if the register and receiver are
satisfied that the facts are sufficient
to justify the granting of an extension
and that such person can not make
such payment and that he is acting
in good faith and is complying with
all the provisions of the homestead
laws, they may grant an extension of
such payment for period of one year
by the payment of interest for one
year in advance at five per centum
upon the amount due, and any pay
ment SO extended lay annually there
after be extended for a period of one
year upon the same terms Provided,
That the last payment and all other
payments must be made within per-
iod not exceeding one year after the
last payment is due. That all moneys
paid for interest as herein provided
shall be deposited in the treasury for
the credit of the Indians as a part of
the proceeds received for the land"
The second section to the bill pro-
vides further that failure to make
any payment that may be due unless
the same be extended, will forfeit
the entry, which will result in the
same being cancelled.
Senator Warren's bill affording re-
lief to certain homesteaders, and
which passed the senate late in July,
has excited such wide spread atten-
tion that it's provisions will no doubt
prove of general interest to newspa-
rer readers in the regions affected.
The bill provides as follows: That
all persons who have heretofore made
homestead entries in Lennon, Timber
Lake, Rapid City, Chamberlain,
Belle Fourche, Gregory, and Pierre
land districts in the state of South
Dakota; in the Valentine, O'Neill,and
Alliance land districts in the state OF
Nebraska; in the Dickinson, Minot,
Williston land districts in the State
OF North Dakota; and in the Chey-
enne, Evanston, Sundance, and Doug
las land districts in the state of Wyo-
ming; in the former Spokane Indian
reservation in the State of Washing
ten, are hereby relieved from the ne.
cessity of residence upon their lands
from the date of approval of this act
to April fifteenth, nineteen hundred
and twelve: Provided, That the time
OF actual absence during the period
named shall not be deducted from the
full time of residence required by
law"
Standard Oil Reorganized.
The National Capital has learned
with perfect equanimity that the
Standard Oil reorganization is being
effected and that the decision OF the
Supreme Court is being strictly ad-
hered to. Abuse of the Standard
Oil has been going out Of style and
other great trusts" are being com
\ PEELED to bear the burden of political
cnslaughts The explanation may all
be traced to the fact that for several
years the Standard Oil Company has
been taking the public into its conf
dence, with the result that when the
reorganization decreed by the SD
preme Court has been announced
from the general Offices In New York,
I there is no one who questions the alb.
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