Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1913-08-22

ana SelecJeu luulScrlmlnalely from
the whole number of envelopes SO
presented such number thereof as
may be necessary to carry into effect
the provisions of this proclamation
and the applications for registration
contained in the envelopes so select
ed shall, when correct in form and
execution, be numbered serlally in
the order in which they are selected,
beginning with mum Der one. and the
numbers thus assigned shall fix and
control the order in which the per-
sons named therein may make entry
after the lands shall become subject
to entry.
3. A list of the successful appli-
cants, showing the number assigned
TO each of them, will be conspicuous
ly posted and furnished to the press
for publication as a matter of news,
and a proper notice will be promptly
mailed TO each person to whom a
number is assigned
s. Beginning at 8 o'clock a. m. on
May l, 1914, and continuing there
after on such dates as may be fixed
! by the secretary of the interior, per-
sons holding numbers assigned to
them under this proclamation will be
permitted to designate and enter the
tracts they desire as follows.
When persons name is called, he
must at once select the tract he de-
sires to enter and will be allowed 10
days following date of selection to
complete entry at the proper local
land office. During that period of
| 10 days, he must file his homestead
or desert land application at the
proper land office, accompany the
same with one-fifth of the appraised
value of the tract selected and, if
a homestead application, the usual
filing fees and commissions. To
save expense incident to an addition
al trip to the land and to return to
the local land office, he may, follow
| ing his selection, execute his applica-
| tion for the tract selected within the
proper land district and file same in
the proper local land office, where it
will be held awaiting the necessary
payments. In that event, the pay
ment must be made within the 10
| days following the date of selection.
/ Do I,
Or by certified checks on national
and state banks and trust companies,
which can be cashed without cost to
! the government or by postoffice
money orders, made payable to the
receiver of the proper local land Of
flee. These payments may be made
in person, through the mails or any
other means or agency desired, but
the applicant assumes all responsible
lily in the matter He must see that
the payments reach the local office
within the 10 days allowed, and
where failure occurs in any instance
where the application has been filed
in the local land office, without pay
ment, as herein provided for the APP
plication will stand rejected without
further action on the part of the
local officers. In case of declaratory
statements, allowable under this
opening, the same course may be
pursued except that the filing fees
must be paid within the 10 days fol-
| lowing date of selection, the party
having six months after filing within
which to complete entry. Soldiers
or sailors or their widows or minor
orphan children, making homestead
entry of these lands must make pay
ments of fees and commissions and
purchase money as is resuired by
other entrymen. The remaining
four-fifths of the purchase money
may be paid in five equal INSTALL
ments, at the end Of one, two, three,
four and five years after the date of
entry, unless the entry is sooner
commuted, or unless final proof is
/ sooner made, under a desert land
entry. If Communication or final des-
ert land proof is made, all the un-
| paid installm ents must be paid at
that time. If any entryman fails to
make any payment when it becomes
due, all his former payments will be
forfeited and his entry will be can
celed. No person can select more
than one tract or present more than
one application to enter or file more
than one declaratory statement in
his own behalf
7. If any person fails to desig-
nate the tract he desires to enter on
the date assigned to him for that
purpose, or if, having made such des-
ignation he fails to perfect it by max
ing entry or filing and payments as