The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-05-26
LAND DRAWING PROCLAMATION.


days eXcepted)
Land drawing at Spokane-July 27
Land entry-Septembe 5 to Octobe
us.
Reservation open to general settle
Iment--October Is.
Residence must be established be
fore May |, 1917.
President Wilson's formal proclama
ton for opening to settlement the
lands of the diminished Colville lndiar
Preservation, was received from Wash
lington.
The proclamation complete reads as
Follows:
| |, Woodrow Wilson, president of the
United States of America, by virtue OF
the power and authority vested in me
by act of congress approved March %
| 1906 (34 Stat. H., SO) do hereby pre-
scribe, proclaim and make known that
|all the non mineral, unalloted and un-
reserved lands within the diminished
| |Colville Indian reservation, in the state
| of Washington, classified as irrigable
lands, grazing lands, or arid lands
shall be disposed of under the general
provisions of the homestead laws OF
the United States and of the said act
of congress, and shall be open to set
itlement and entry and settled upon
occupied and entered only in the man
ner herein prescribed
Provided, That all lands classified
as timber or mineral, all lands within
the following townships and parts OF
townships shall not be disposed of un-
der this proclamation.
| Townships 81, 80, 33, 81 north, range
30 east; township 80 north, range 81
east; township 81 north, range 80 east
north half of township 81 north, range
2S east: townships 80 33. and "a north
range 2S east, south half and south
half of north half of township 33 north,
range q east; and fractional part
north and east of Lake Omache of
township 80 north, range q east.
|. A registration for the lands will
be conducted at the cities of Spokane,
Wenatchee, Colville. Wilbur, Republic
and Omak, Washington, beginning July
IA and ending July %, 1916, Sundays ex-
| cepted, under the supervision of John
McPaul superintendent of the opening.
| Any person qualified to make entry
under the general provisions of the
homestead law may register.
2. Any person who was honorably
discharged after at least 80 days ser
| vice in the United States army, navy
or marine corps, during the civil war,
| the Spanish-American war or the
Philippine insurrection, or the widow
or the minor orphan children of such
lperson may register either in person
or by agent. No person shall present
more than one application in his own
behalf and one as agent.
Each applicant for registration must
| show the applicants name, post office
address. age, height and weight, and
| must be inclosed in an envelope bear
| ing no distinctive marks or any paper
other than the application No envelope
| shall contain more than one applica-
| ton.
3. Each applicant must himself
| sign and swear to his application on
or before July 5, and not later than
July %. 1916, at Spokane, Wenatchee
Colville, Wilbur, Republic or Omak,
Washington, before a notary public
designated by the superintendent. EX-
cept soldiers or sailors application
and power of attorney appointing an
agent may be signed and sworn to by
the applicant at any time after the date
hereof and prior to the close of the
registration, but the agent must sign
and swear to the application during
the time, at one of the places and in
| the manner herein prescribed for exc
cution of other applications. After ap-
lplications have been properly executed
they must be delivered to the super
intendent or to some person designa-
ted by him to receive them.
4. Beginning at 10 o'clock a. IN. on
] July 27, 1916, at the said city of Spo-
kane and continuing thereafter from
day to day, Sundays excepted as long
as may be necessary there shall be
| impartially taken and selected indis-
criminately from the whole number of
envelopes presented, such number
| thereof as may be necessary to carry
| the provisions of this proclamation in
to effect, and the application for reg
istration contained in the envelope so
selected shall, when correct in form
and execution, be numbered serially
| in the order in which they were select
| ed, beginning with number one, and the
numbers thus assigned shall fix and
control the order in which the persons
named therein may make entry of the
| lands.
g. A list of the successful appli-
| cants, showing the number assigned to
each, will be conspicuously posted and
furnished to the press for publication
as matter of news and a proper no.
tice will be mailed promptly to each
of these applicants.
6. Beginning at o'clock a. m, on
September 5, 1916 and continuing
thereafter on such dates as may be
by the secretary of the interior