The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-27
THIRD ROSEBUD RUSH
FREE OF OBJECTIONS
CONDEMNED IN PAST
Care Taken by Department.
to Provide for a Square
Deal for All.

Gregory. s. D.. July 22.-Citizens OF
this city who have passed through two
Rosebud homestead openings, freely
predict that a great many more psople
win file their registrations for the Mel
lette and Bennett county lands than did
SO for either the Gregory county or
Tripp county opening. There are many
things which point to the correctness Of
this view. Much more is
being furnished by the department. of
the interior than has heretofore been
the case.
superintendent Jas. w. Witten, who.
conducted the Trip county opening
and who Will also be personally in
charge with headquarters at the
United States land office in this city
during the coming rush, has taken a
personal interest in seeing that the pro-
visions governing this opening are fully
understood by everybody, and has pre-
pared a pamphlet fully setting forth
the laws and the provisions applying to
ii. The only important change made in
The matter of filing upon and paying
for the lands is also a change very evil
IDENTIFY In the interests of the home
leaders and will tend to max tho
opening much mere popular than 1t
otherwise might have been.
Prices and Free information.
Under The new plan the price of the
n is not fxed by the order in which
the claimant files. based upon the num-
Der assigned TO him at the drawing, as
has been the case in the two drawings
previously held in the Rosebud. About
il year ago the president appointed a
special commission of three to inspect
and place a value upon every acre Of
,and in Mellettc and Bennett counties
subject to homestead entry, II the
prices which We're thus fixed are the
prices which the horleStcaderS Will pay
for the land. regardless of the time they
make filing. The prices have been fixed
ct from 25c to Sc per acre. Two OF
these special commissioners or apprais-
ars will also have headquarters in the
land office building in this city during
,he registration, where they Will con-
duct a free information bureau and
from their official field notes made at
the time OF the appraisement win be
able to accurately describe every quar-
ter section to prospective honesteaQers.
Whus it viii be seen that 4 determined
Effort is being made by those in au-
thoritN 10 see that this time the home
steaders sha not be left entirely at
the mercy OF 'locaters' or other adven-
tuners whose services are seldom CO
ordinate with the fees they charge, and
are sometimes even entirely worthless.
Registration Points.
The failure Of Winner, the county
seat of Trip ounty and the present
terminus of the G. u N. w. railroad, %
miles west OF Dallas, to be designated
as one of the registration points, makes
It evident that his city will be called
upon to entertain n much larger pro
portion of the crowd than would have
otherwise been the case. With no
registration point closer than IS miles
to the land to be filed upon, and with
the closest railroad 20 miles away. most
Of the applicants will content them
selves with simply registering and will
not go to inspect the land unless they
draw 2 number emitting them to Il fill
Ing. Under these circumstance it is
presumed that the greater part of the
crowd Will register at the land office
here, so as to avoid the danger of their
applications going astray in the nails.
hs happened to so man who registered
at other points during the last regtstra-
ton, and also in order to take adVant-
age Of the free official information
bureau above mentioned.
The local Commercial club and also
All local fraternities and other organi-
cations are keenly alive to the situation
and are cooperating with the local
land office officials in every way in tho
effort to see that proper information
Is thoroughly disseminated in advance
ard that every facility is had to han
die the crowds comfortably. No
gambling or grating of any kind VIII
be permitted during the opening.