The Dickinson press., 1915-04-17
MAY 10 IS DATE
FOR LAND FILINGS
ENTRIES WILL BE TAKEN FOR
STANDING ROCK INDIAN
RESERVATION LANDS ON
MAY 10Th.
President Wilson's Proclamation and
General Rules for Filing Home
steads Given to Public.

Homestead applications for lands
within the Standing Rock reservation
in North Dakota, may be made at
Fort Yates between May 3rd and 18th,
before Y. S. Commissioner johnson,
County Judge Beede or Clerk of Court
Wells. These are the only officers
located on the reservation authorized
to accept homestead applications, and
can receive applications for lands in
North Dakota only. These applica-
tions will be forwarded to the Bis
marck land office, where proper desig-
nation of lands applied for will be
made on May 10. This will be a
great convenience for prospective
homesteaders, and make Fort Yates
the most feasible point from which
to inspect the lands in North Dakota.
After making selection the home
steader can make application for the
tract he desires without the additional
expense of making a trip to the land
office.
Notwithstanding repeated state
ments from the General Land Office
that there would be no drawing. in
connection with the opening Of the
Standing Rock reservation, the OPEN
ing will be a lottery pure and simple.
Registration, the only desirable fea-
ture of the old system under which
the former opening was made is climi-
mated.
Under the rules governing the open
ing any number of applications may
be made for the same tract of land.
These applications will be considered
simultaneous filings. On May 10, at
Bismarck, and May 21, at Timber
Lake, a drawing where more than one
application for the same land has been
filed will take place.-Sioux County
Pioneer, published at Fort Yates,
The following circular, giving in
formation relative to the opening of
the Standing Rock indian reservation
in North and South Dakota, has been
issued by the general land office of the
United States government and
through the local land office is given
out for the information of the public:
"A copy of the presidents procla-
nation of March IS, 1915, authorizing
the opening of the Standing Rock In
dian reservation in North and South
Dakota, is transmitted herewith.
"Allotments within the reservation,
to Indians, have been completed; but
the states of North and South Da-
kota have not yet made selections to
which they are entitled. After the
states selections have been made,
there will remain approximately 49,
900 acres in North Dakota, and ap-
proximately Al, 900 acres in South Da-
kota, which will become subject to
1rf,,y t. &c 1o1ox,ol that %h@ -o@cf
desirable lands have been allotted to
Indians or will be selected by the
states.
"Maps or schedules showing the
lands which will become subject to
entry will be printed as soon as pos
sible, and will probably be available
for distribution by May 3, 1915. Des-
ignations under the enlarged home
stead acts, within the reservation,
will be made in proper cases, and, if
made in time, will be indicated on the
maps OF in the schedules. The desig-
nations will include all lands that
are subject thereto under the law and
nothing will be gained by applying I'M
der the enlarged homestead acts and
the amendments thereto for lands not
designated. Application for a copy
of the map, or schedule, should be
made to the register and receiver of
| the United States land office at Bis
marck, North Dakota, or at Timber
Lake, South Dakota.
Gail the lands within the reserva-
ton, in North Dakota, are in the Bis
marck, North Dakota, land district,
and the boundaries of the Timber
Lake, South Dakota, land district will
be extended before May 3, 1915, to
include all the lands within the reser-
walton, in South Dakota"
President Wilson's proclamation,
opening the lands in the Standing
Rock reservation, has been received
at the local land office of the land de-
partment. A synopsis of the procla-
nation follows:
Any person qualified to make entry
under the provisions of the homestead
laws may swear to and present an
application to make homestead entry
of these lands on or after May 8,
1915.
One-ffth of the purchase price of
the land applied for must be paid at
the time of entry and a sum equal
thereto must be rendered with all ap-
| plications to make homestead entry.
Such sum will also be required with
declaratory statements presented on
or before May II, 1915, and when so
rendered will be disposed of as here
inbefore provided. In addition, each
application to make homestead entry
must be accompanied by a fee of SIS,
if the area is 80 acres or less, or SO,
if mor than 80 acres, and commits
sions at the rate Of 2k cents for
each ere applied for; and each de-
claratory statement must be accom-
panied by a fee of So.
The Drawing
All applications and declaratory
statements received by the proper
register and receiver on or after May
8, 1915, and on or before May II, 1915,
will be treated as filed Simultaneous
ly, and where there is no conflict such
applications and statements, if in
proper form and accompanied by the
required payment, will be allowed on
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