The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16
NEBRASKA LOTTERY PLANS.
Registration For Opening to Begin
October 18th, and Closes
October 18th.

James w. Witten, superintendent OF
the sale of public lands Of the Unit
ed States has arrived in Valentine to
prepare for the opening of the aban-
doned Fort Nibrara military reserva-
ton.
Forty-fOur thousand, four hundred
and eighty acres of the land to be
thrown open under the lottery sys-
tenn is that which was held formerly
for Nibrara, and 100000 acres OF
the land is that of the forest reserve
in Mcpherson and Grant counties.
The registration for this land will
begin Sunday. October 10, at mid
night, simultaneously at Valentine,
North Platte and Broken Bow, and
will close at midnight October 25.
Two days after the registration
closes the drawing will take place at
North Platte, beginning at noon Oc-
tober %. The Nibrara lands are in
Cherry county, adjoining Valentine
on the north.
There is a perceptible difference
between this and all previous regis
trations. Proprictors of 100 acres
or more, and those who had once
exercised their homestead right were
ly, but now they will be given an OPP
portunity to register for this land.
The qualifications for this land are
that the persons registering must be
American citizens, or must have de-
clared their intentions Of being such.
All of the forest reserve land in
Grant and Mcpherson counties will
come in under the Kinkaid law, CIV
ing each successful applicant who
has not before exercised his home
stead right $40 acres.
Must Appear in Person.
All applicants must appear in per-
son at one of the three cities desig-
mated and file their application in a
sealed envelope. No envelope shall
contain more than one application,
and no person can file more than one
application for himself or for a SOL
der or sailor. Blank forms for the
filing of applicants are furnished by
Supt. James w. Witten, and will
show the applicants name, postoffice
address, age, height and weight, and
must be sworn to before some notary
public designated for the purpose by
Judge Witten
In order to prevent an influx of
notary publics who are incompetent,
Judge Witten has made an infleXible
rule that no one shall be designated
for the purpose of administering
oaths to applicants for registration
who was not appointed prior to Aug.
/, 1913, and who on that date was
a resident of the county in which he
shall act.
When Supt. Witten, or some per-
son designated by him, receives an
envelope addressed to Judge Witten,
and marked with the words "Regis-
tration Application" it will be plac-
ed in metal container and kept
rives. The envelope must contain no
mark of distinction to show by whom
the envelope was presented, or it will
be rejected.
The government has made special
provision to permit the registration
of persons who served in the army,
navy or marine corps in any OF it's
wars, or their widows or minor Or
phan children by the power of attor-
ney. All these applications filed by
an attorney must be sworn to at one
of the registration points, and pre-
scented in the same manner as if ar
ranged by the person themselves. A
person may act only for one soldier.
An old soldiers headquarters has
been opened for the convenience of
the old soldiers and sailors and their
widows, whereby they will be regis
tered for a fee of $40.
The method of drawing will be
practically the same as that OF other
recent drawings. The metal recep-
tacles containing applications will be
taken to North Platte from the other
registration points as soon as the
registration closes, and One October
20 they will be opened and the con-
tents placed upon large platform,
which will be entirely screened in
with wire netting. The envelopes
will be thoroughly mixed together
before the drawing begins, thus CIV
ing all applicants an equal chance.
Persons who are successful in
winning numbers at the drawing will
be notified in time when they will be
required to file. Such notice will be
stamped, giving the numbers imme-
diately after the drawing. A second
notice will be sent later with circular
OIL lulOIllldLlOu .dllu Il COpy VI lAC
presidents proclamation of the open
ing of these lands. The notices will
be sent out April 1, 1914, and will
specify the date and hour at which
the number assigned will be called.
When a name is called the person
must select the tract he desires from
the large map in the land office, and
to give the applicant time to examine
the land and determine it's value, he
will be allowed about ten days fol-
lowing the date of his selection in
which to complete his entry at the
local land office.
In the ten days he must file upon
the land. All successful registrants
winning numbers at the drawing,
October %, have an optional choice
of filing under the Kinkaid law in
Grant or Mcpherson counties for $40
acres, or filing for 160 acres on the
Nibrara reservation in Cherry coun-
ty. If the successful homesteader de-
sires to file for the GAO acres in
Grant or Mcpherson county he must
do so on November II of this year,
but if he desires to file on the 100
acres he must wait until April !.