Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-07-22
INDIAN LANDS.
Drawing in October Details of the
Method of Procedure.


eral land Office at Washington that reg
istrations would be received in Octobe,
for another big land opening in South
Dakota has already started food oI
inquiries at tho local land Office which
indicate that there will this year be nc
diminution of interest from former
years in this opening. The officers oi
the local land office have received de-
tailed information in regard to the com
ing registration in order that the public
may be informed, from which official
information the following facts have
been cleaned:
The places of registration will be
Chamberlain, Rapid City, Dallas and
Gregory. October 2 is the day the first
registration will be received, and the
work will continue for three weeks at
each of the four registration points. In
all total of 466, 562 acres will be thrown
open to settlement in the Rosebud and
Pine Ridge Reservations.
All persons who desire to register
must present themselves in person at
Chamberlain, Rapid City, Dallas or
Rosebud, between October 2 and Octo-
ber 81, inclusive, and registration appli-
cations cannot be sworn to at any other
time or place, excepting widows or
minor or orphan children may register
through legally authorized agents. No.
body will be eligible to register who is
the proprietor of more than 100 acres.
Applicants must be 81 years of age be-
fore the time set for receiving filings
next spring, and must be citizens Of the
United States or have declared their in
tention to become such, and who has
not commuted to homestead entry prior
to June 5, 1900, or who has not disposed
of homestead by REIMBURSEMENT or
other valuable consideration. A person
may register who prior to Feb. 3, 1911,
made entry under the homestead laws,
but who subsequent to such entry from
any cause lost, forfeited or abandoned
the same. All persons acting as agent
for persons who have served in the army
or navy or their widows or children,
only during actual war, must be appoint
ed on blank powers of attorney accord
ing to form provided by the department
for this purpose, and anyone is eligible
to act as such agent who is over IL years
Of age.
All the names registered will be placed
in large cans provided for that purpose,
and ut the conclusion of the period of
registration will be taken to Gregory, s.
d., where they will be opened on Octo-
Der "A, when the drawing will take place.
After thoroughly shaken up they will be
drawn from the receptacle one at a time,
and numbered in the order of their
drawing, aud the names indicated will
be privileged to file in accordance and
in the order of their numbering. About
March lst the general land office will
designate a time and place where filings |
will be received for the lands in the
order or preference as indicated ut the |
drawing, when each person must appear
in person and make filing for the partic-
ular tract of their selection. A person |
relinquish his chance without
first having filed and established their
residence upon the lands.
At the time of making filing claimant
must in addition to paying the usual
homestead filing fee of $l4, also pay one
fifth of the appraised value of the land
selected. The balance of the appraised
value of the lands must be paid in four |
annual payments, at the end of two,
Ihree, four and five years of settlement. |
If commuted proof is made all the pay |
nents specified may be made at the
lime of making proof Residence and
cultivation az per homestead law.
There is no charge for register except
4 notary fee of 25 cents.