The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-06-28

press agency that is working in sea-
son ana out OF season to keep his name
Delore the public. He is the shallow
est performer that has ever gone to
congress from this. or any other state.
lie cares nothing but for self-advance-
ment, and is constantly posing in the
lime light. From the little that he has
accomplished 1t Is evident that he Is
wlthout ability to accomplish. And
yet this man Is held up as q little god,
whi!e hardly possessing brains enough
10 lift him above the cOmmOnRlty.
some day the eyes Of the people Will
be opened and they will feel ashamed
or themselves for having been made
such egregiOus dupes by a monthly
political montebank.
but let posterity weigh the merits of
the two men. Here Is what Senator
Jones has been instrumental in doing
for the hOmesteader:
An act to amend section twenty-five
hundred and ninety-one and section
twenty-five hundred and ninety-se
or the Revised Statutes Of the United
States relating to homesteads.
he 1t enacted by the Senate and
House OF Representatives Of the United
states of America in Congress assem-
bled. That section twenty-five hundred
and ninety-One and section twenty
two hundred ninety-seven of the Re-
viscd Statutes OF the United States be
amended to read as follows:
Sec 1921. No certificate, how ever.
| shall be given or patent issued there
for until the expiration of three years
from the date OF such entry: and II at
the expiration of such time, or at any
time within two years thereafter, the
person making such entry. or II he be
dead his widow, or in case of her
death his heirs or devisee, or in case
OF widow making such entry her
heirs or devisee, in case Of her death,
proves by himself and by two credit
able witnesses that he, she, or they
have habitable house upon the land
and have actually resided upon and
| cultivated the same for the term of
three years succeeding the time Of
filing the affidavit, and makes affldavit
that no part of such land has been
alienated. except as provided in sec
ton twenty-five hundred and eighty
eight. and that he. she. or they will
bear true allegiance to the Govern
ment Of the United States, then In
such case he, she. or they. II at that
time citizens of the United States,
shall be entitled to patent. as in
other cases provided by law: Provid-
cd, That upon filing In the local land
Office notice of the beginning Of such
absence. the entryman shall be en-
| titled to continuous leave OF absence
from the land for a period not exceed
ing five months In each year after es-
tablishing residence. and upon the ter
minatlOn of such absence the entry
man shall file n notice OF such termin-
alton In the local land Office. but in
case of communication the fourteen
months actual residence as now re-
quired by law must be shown, and the
person committing must be at the
| time citizen of the United States:
Provided, That when the person max
ing entry dies before the Offer Of final
proof those succeeding to the entry
must show that the entryman had conf
piled with the law in all respects TO
the date of his death and that they
have since complied with the Law 10
all respects, as would have been re-
quired of the entryman had he lived,
excepting that they are relieved from
any requirement OF residence upon the
land: Provided further, That the
entryman shall. In order to comply
with the requirements of cultivation
herein provided for, cultivate not less
than One-sixtcenth Of the area of his
| entry, beginning with the second year
of the entry, and not less than
One-eighth, beginning with the third
year OF the entry, and until final proof.
except that In the case of entries un-
der section six Of the enlarged home
stead law double the area of cultiva-
ton herein provided shall be required,
but the Secretary of the Interior may,
upon a satisfactory showing, nnder
rules and regulations prescribed by
him, reduce the required area of cml-
tivatiOn: Provided, That the above
provision as to cultivation shall not
apply to entries under the Act Of April
twenty eighth, nineteen hundred and
four, commonly known as the Kinkaid
Act, or entries under the Act Of June
seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two
commonly known as the reclamation
Act, and that the provisions of this
section relative to the homestead per-
i0d shall apply to all unprotected en-
tres as well as entries hereafter made
upon which residence is required:
Provided That the Secretary OF the
Interior shall, within sixty days after
the passage of this Act. send copy OF
the same to each homestead entryman
OF record who may be affected thereby,
by ordinary mail to his last known
address, and any such entryman may.
by giving notice within one hundred
and twenty days after the passage OF
this Act, by registered letter to the
register and receiver Of the local land
Office. elect to make proof upon his
entry under the law under which the
same was made without regard to the
provisions of this Act"
"Sec. 2297. If, at any time after the
filing of the affidavit as required In
section twenty-five hundred and nine
ty and before the expiration OF the
three years mentioned In section TWEEN
ty-two hundred and ninety-one, 1t Is
proved, after due notice to the settler.
to the satisfaction Of the register OF
the land Office that the person having
filed such affidavit has failed to estab-
fish residence within six months after
the date Of entry, or abandoned the
land for more than six months at any
time, then and in that event the land
so entered shall revert to the Govern
ment: Provided. That the three years
neriOd of residence herein fixed shall
date from the time of establishing &C
.,ol nar,nanpnt residence uDOn the