The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-01-18


AS the result Of double filing on a
half section Of Uncle Sans grazing
land In the vicinity of Lucille, compli-
cations have arisen over the question
OF prior rights and state of war is
said 20 exist between the applicants.
The hOstilities began proper when JOS
hua AlkiRe a young rancher of John
LAY rode down to White Bird the lat
ter part OF the week and made entry
upon q tract of land adjacent to the
homestead of +. TwilIegar A portion
OF Alkires entry, embracing 100 acres,
was taken as an original homestead
while the balance of the land adjoin-
ing was fled on as his additional Twill
leger who also owns land adjacent to
the Alkire filing, Immediately got busy.
took UP Joshua's trail and followed him
10 the local land office where he made
entry upon the same plat. Alkire had
already established residence upon the
tract, and in anticipation of the con-
fiict manned the rim rocks with a bat
terry of centimeter guns, and fortified
the premises with subterranean mines.
Twillegar forthwith set about to con-
struct fleet of Zeppelins and submar-
ines OF the Y 20 type, and the conflict
Is on In earnest. All kinds of confusion
seems to have resulted from the new
Is indefinite and very ambiguous. The
new law permits different applicants to
file on the same land, and the govern
ment Will use its discretion in prorating
the ground at some future date This
is unsatisfactory to the entry man, as
most of them could make better selec-
tions If permitted to make their own
adjustments. Complaint is also being
heard from an entrymen located on the
forest reserve, as the new law excludes
them altogether. A large percentage
Of the homesteaders Of Salmon and
Snake river country are located on the
reserve, and the fact that they were
left out has caused considerable hard
feelings Some of these men are hold
ing down original homesteads Of less
than 100 acres with no opportunity to
secure anything more
Big Business for Land Commissioner.
u. s. Commissioner g. j. Wright will
doubtless retire from business in the
very near future and subsist Off the
interest of the big bank account piled
up last week from commissions deriv-
ed as filing fees About 70 applications
have been received for land in the last
ten days and at So per clip, g. J.
has certainly made clean up. Nearly
a. dozen or the entrymen came down
from higgins to make their filings be-
fore Mr.. Wright, although higgins Is
located In the Boise land district The
reason for the avalanche of applica-
lions from other districts is explained
by the fact that when Mr.. Wright ac-
cepts an entryman's filing and sends
his papers to the department for APP
proval he usually gets what he asked
for-mistakes hardly ever occur.
Following is a partial list Of names
which have taken land during the last
ten days: Ellis Harness, M. G. ellis
pie, Dan Hill, Sam Jones, Emmett
Jones, ID. s. Vincent, l.. T. Kelly, Robt.
McCulley, Joshua Alkire, Seth Jones,
Powell Gibson, Minnie Mcconnell, Bail
ey Rice, Texas Roberts, Ed. Joubert,
w. d. Smith, NJ. A. Bingham, Bob
Gill, M. 0, Tweedy, Mike Meyers,
Emma Holden, Joe Clever, w. r.. Aber-
crombie, w. r. Rankin, Cleve Hill, Will
liam Reed, u. w. Rhett, Geo. Upton,
Lawrence Upton, Dick Upton, Il.
Twillegar, Fred Yarrus, Harry Twille-
gar, Ed. Clark, Earl Hinkley, M. o.
Cox, Helen Toney, VIM. Egbert, j. s.
Aitkin, G. @. Jarrett, III. r. Twogood,
Clarence Morgan, Thomas Large, nd.
Thomas, WiIfred Baker.