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HOW TO LOCATE ON LANDS OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVE The detailed instructions as to the method of procedure in the registra tion and entering in, connection with the Flathead reservation opening, as set forth officially is as follows: Dear sir: You are informed that a registration for the opening of tne Flathead Indian reservation in Mon tana, the Coeur d'Alene Indian res ervation in Idaho and the Spokane Indian reservation in Washington will begin on July 15 and end un August 5, 1909. Any person qualified to make either an original, a second or an additional homestead entry may register for lands in any or all of these reservations. All who desire to register must go, in person, to the fol lowing registration points to swear to their applications for registration; to either Kalispell or Missoula, Montana, to register for Flathead lands, to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to register for Coeur d'Alene lands and to Spokane, Washington, to register for Spokane lands. Applications for registration may be sworn to before any notary public designated *by me for that purpose, and should not he sworn to before any other officer. The notaries before whom applicants are sworn will fur nish blank forms of application for registration and printed envelopes in which to mail the applications to me at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which is the only place at which applications will be received, and they must be for warded by ordinary mail and not by registered mail. No envelope will be received which bears a return card or-any other words which indlate the name of the person who malted it. Soldiers or sailors who were honor ably discharged after ninety days' service during the war of the rebel lion, the Spanish-American war or the Philippine insurrection, ur their widows or minor orphan children, need not go to either of the registra tion points for the purpose of regis tering, bet may register through agents appointed by them for that purpose. All agents must be ap pointed on blank powers of attorney, which will be furnished by me on ap plication at Washington, D. C., at any time before July 5, and after that date at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Sol diers, sailors or their widows or minor orphan children may appoint the same or different persons to act for them in registering for different reservations, but no person can ap point more than one agent for the same reservation and no agent can register for more than one soldier for any one reservAtion. A different and separate power, of attorney mutt he given for each reservation to the sanre or different persons. Powers of attorney must be swoin to by soldiers, sailors, their widows or minor orphan children, or their guardians, before some officer having a seal and authorized to administer oaths at some place within the United States, and the name of the agent must be written into the power of at torney before it is sworn to by the soldier. The application for regist,'a tien presented by the agent must be sworn to by him at a registration point for the reservation for which he registers. All applications for registration must reach me through., ordinary moil at- Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, before August 9 and all of the envelopes reteived prior to that difte which r-n taiO applications 'tor registration will then be thoroughly mixed and envel opes will be selected therefrom in discriminately, one at a time, and the application therein numbered as se lected. The numbers thus assigned will control the order in whin entries may be made: For instance,,- the person wvhose application is numbered one will be given the first choice of all the lands subject to entry in the reservation for which the application was presented, the person to wpom number two is 'assigned will be given the second choice, and so on. As. soon as numbers are assigned in this manner, notices giving the numbe's assigned will be mailed to the ad dresses given in the applications for registration, and in cases where ap plications are, presented by agents, J notices will be mailed to both the agents and the persons by whom they were appointed. Persons who register should be careful to give in 'their eppliulutions for xegistration the postoffice address (including street numbers) to which they desirte hei notices mailed, and if they change their addresses after registration, they should request the postmaster at the addresses given in their applications to forward their mail to their new addresses. Numbers will not be assigned to a greater number of persons thin may be rea sonably expected to induce the entry of all the tracts subject to entry, and no notice will be mailed to any per son to whom a' number is not as signed, All envelopes not selected will be opened and the applications therein carefully scrutinized, and if it is.found that any person has present ed more than one application, he will be denied the right to make entry under any number assigned to him. A list of persons to whom numbers are assigned will be publicly posted and given to the press for publication as a matter of news. It wi$f oe well for all perspns who register to sub scribe to some newspaper which will publish a list of the numbers as signed, in order that they may be more certain to ascertain the num bers assigned to them, as the notices mailed may not reach them. No. entries will be made before April 1, 1910, and all persons iven the privilege of making entry will be notified of the exact date when they must appear and enter, and if they fall to appear on, that date they will lose all rights under the numbers as signed- them. The rights acquired un der numbers assigned can not be sold or transferred to other persons, but it any person holding a number dies be fore the day he is required to make entry, his widow or any one of his heirs may make entry in their own right, on that day. No charge will be made for the registration, bfit at the time of mak ing entry, persons who apply for Flathead lands will be required to pay 'nne-third of the. appraised value and persons who apply for either Coeur d'Alene or Spokane lands will be required to pay one-fifth of. the appraised value. The remainder of the purchase money on all these lands may be paid in five equal, annual in stallments and failure to make any payment, when it becomes due, will result in the cancellation of the entry and the forfeiture of all former pay ments. Residence must he begun within six months after the date on which the entry is made and continued, with cultivation, until a patent has been earned, either by five years' residence and cultivation and the payment of. Ithe installments annually, or by four teen months' actual and continuous residence and cultivation and the payment. of all the unpaid purchase money, on all of the lands except the timbered -lands in the Coeur d'Alene reservation, which can only he ob tained by five years' actual and con tinuous residence and cultivation and the payment of the annual install ments, as commutation is not allowed for them. A soldier, sailor, or his widow, or minor orphan children, to whom a number is assigned, may file a, declaratory state ment, either in person or by agent, on the day assigned for that purpose, or may make entry at that time if he prefers. If a declaratory statement is filed, a fee of two dollars must be paid at that time, but the first pay ment of the purchase price will not be required then. Within six months from that day lie must begin his ac tual residence on the land and make entry. At the time a soldier's entry is made the payments required of other entrymen must be made. After soldiers, sailors, their widows . or minor orphan children have actually resided on the land for twelve months they can claim credit on the remain ing four years' residence required by the law for the period of the soldiers' military service: For instance, if such service amounted to 'four years, only one year's residence will be re quired; if it amounted to three years, ttvo years' residence will be required, and so on; but there must he one year's actual residence, regardless. of the length of the military service. Persons who were soldiers or sailors in time of peace and did not serve during any of the wars mentioned above cannot register by agents or claim the rights given by the law to aoldiers and sailors who served in time of war. The following persons are not qualified to make homestead entry: 1. A marries] woman, unless she has been deserted or abandoned by her husband, or unless her husband is incapacitated by disease or other wise, from earning a support for his family, and she is the head and main support of the family. 2. One not a citizen of the United States, and who has noideclared his intention to become such. 3. One under twenty-one years of 'age, not the head of a family. .4. One whq is the proprietor of more than one hundred and sixty acres of land in any state or terri torv, and the ownership of one but. dred and sixty acres and a town lot disqualified the owner . from. saking entry. - . 5. One who has acquired title. to or. is claiming under any of. the non mineral public land laws, through settlement or . entry made sine August 30, 1890,. any othe' lands which, with the lands applied for, would amount in the' 'agregate to more than three hundred and twenty acres. C. One who has previously made homestead entry, unless he Is entitled to make second homestead entry, hich second entry may be made by: a. One who commuted a homestead entry prior to June 5, 1900, and has not since that date made additional homestead entry. b. One who, prior to May 17, 1900, paid for lands in a former Indian reservation, to which he would have been afterwards entitled to receive patent without payment, under the "Free Homes" act. c. One who for @ny cause lost, for feited, or abandoned his homestead entry prior to Februaiy 8, 1908, ft the former entry was not canceled for fraud or relinquished for a valuable consideration. Where such entryman sold his improvements or sold the re linquishment of his entry, he is not entitled to make a second homestead entry, regardless of the fact that his improvements may have cost him more than the amount received for them. I. One who has- already made final proof on less than one hundred and slxty acres, may, if he otherwise quaPfiel, make an additional entry ,for such an amount. of land as will, when added to the amount for which he has already made proof, not ex ceed in the aggregate one hundred and sixty acres, Commissioners appointed by the. government have classified the lands subject to entry in the Flathead res ervation as follows: 40,229 acres as agricultural lands of the first class; 75.019 acres as agricultural lands of the second class, and 336,189 acres as grazing lands. These lands have been appraised at from $1.25 to $7.00 an acre. Portions of the lands thus classified in the lelathead reservation have been withdrawn from entry un der the reclamation act end will not be subject to entry under this open ing. I cannot give you the area of the lands so withdrawn or tell you the probable date when. they will be come subject to entry. The Coeur d'Alene lands are now being classified' into agricultural lands, grazing lands and timbered lands, and the lands in the Spokane reservation which will be subject to entry are being classi fled as agricultural lands. These lands will be appraised before they become subject to entry, but I am unable to give you at this time either the area which will be embraced in the various classifications or the orice at which they will be appraised. There are about 200,000 acres in the "'we d'Alene Indian reservation, including the timbered lands, all of which wit he subject to entry under the home stead laws at their apraised value, and there will probably be about 50, 000 acres of the Spokane lands which will be classlfled as agricultural and be subject to entry. The timbered lands in the Spokane reservation can not be entered. I have no personal information as to the character or productive quality of these lands. It is reported that they are best adapted and some of them well sulted for the growing of wheat, oats, and barley, and other small grains, root crops and fruits. Appended hereto are. reports fur nished by the United States weather bureau, showing the rainfall and tem peratures at the points near each of these reservations. All the registration points are I cated on railroads at the following distances from St. Paul. Minnesota: Kalispell, 1,207 miles; M issoula, 1,254 miles; Coeur d'Alene, 1,462 miles and Spokane. 1,476 miles by one route and 1,511 miles by the other. Spokane is located 322 miles by rail from Coeur d'Alene, 257 miles from Missoula, and 268 miles from Kalispell. If you contemplate attending this registration, it may be to your ad vantage to investigate the cost of transportation to and from the points as compared with the cost of the round-trip excursion ticket to Seattle, Washington,. which will be on sale at reduced rates, with stopover privi leges at the registration points, by all or most of the railroads during the time of registration is in progress. These are the only Indian lands to be opened this year, except the Cheyenne river and Standing Rock lands in North and South Dakota, which may be opened in October next. Information as to the opening of those lands will be mailed to you a's soon as it is ready for distribution. Very respeptfully, JAS. W. WITTEN, Superintendent Opening and Sale of Indian Reservations. Department of the Interior, General Land Office, Washington, D. C., May 24, 1909. ANY PERSON MAY ACT AS AGENT. More particulars in regard to regis tration for the reservation lands were received of the Missoula land office. received of the Missoula land office. The latest information refers to the qualifications which may entitle an agent to act for, former soldiers. The letter, signed by James Witten, super intendent of the Opening, states that many Inquiries have been received in the Washington office from people in this district, and the letter is sent out as an answer to these inquiries. It. is stated that any person, mar ried or sigle, male or female, may act as agent for former soldiers, provid ing that the person is over, the age of 21 and possesses a power of attor ney dqly executed, No person can act as agent for more than one soldier at any, registration point,. bjt the same agent may register for the same or different soldiers for each of the three reservations, but " a separate power of attorney is required for each registra tion. Public jale. Notice is hereby givep that I will, On the 2131 day of June, 1909, at the' 'hour ,of 2 o'clock p. m., at the oity pound on River street, in the city of Missoula, Mdnt., expose the following .described stock at public auction, to pay the pound fees and..costs'of keep ing and sale, to wit: 'One roan horse, branded V on the left shoulder. Witness my hand this 18th day of June, 1909. J." A. VEALEY, Chief of Police.' Pound Notice. Notice is hereby given that I have, on the 19th day of June, 1909, taken up and impounded the following da scribed stock: One bay work horse, weight about 1,200 pounds; branded MV on- left hip; shod all around. And unless the owner or owners of the same make satisfactory proof of ownershin and pay the pound fee of $1, together with 50 cents per day costs of keeping same whil.3 so im pounded, on or before the 29th day of June, said stock, will be sold at pub lic auction to pay the fee and casts above mentioned. Witness my hand this 21st day of June, 1909. J. A. V1EAIEY. Chief of Police. Sale of School Bonds. Victor school district No. 7, Ravalli county, Montana, will sell $5,300 10-20 optional school building bonds at par. The lowest rate of interest, payable semi-annually, January 1 and July 1 of each year, to. determine -the sale. Certified check, $300. Denominations, nine $500 each, one $800. Bids opened' 10 a. m. July 1, 1909, in county treas urer's pffice, Hamilton, Mont. Bonds to be signed and delivered to county treasurer July G, 1909, to be taken up July 15, 1909. J. J. BOND, Clerk School Board. Notice. To Whom It May Concern: James E. Smith, having sold his saloon and logging house, wishes to notify all creditors and persons owing him to call at 225 West Railroad street and settle. $15 Butte to gait Lake and Return $15 Tickets on dale via the Oregon Short Line railroad, June 26, final return limit 15 days. Reser"9 berths now. :hort Line city nfae, No. 2 North Main street, Butte, Moit,. F. D. Wil. eon, D. F. & P. Why Not Try Popham's Asthma Remedy? Gives prompt and positive relief in every case. Sold by druggists; price, $1.00 Trial package by mail, 10 cents. Williams Mfg. Co., Props., Cleve land, O. For sale by Missoula Drug Co., wholesale and retail, Missoula, Mont.. B. Be M. CO. DEALERS IN COAL Selephone 106, MEMORIALS PLANNED FORFORMER FIGHTER Statue being made expressly for the Turnfest and known as "' he Wres tlers." This statue is 16 feet, high an d will he placed in front of the sta dium on Flifth avenue. Cincinnati, Ohio, June 17.-"Frisch, Frei, Stark, Treu." Those four words, or the monogram formed of their initials, will be the most conspicuous decoration in Cin cinnati and its environs from the nineteenth and the twenty-eighth of June, and for some days prior and subsequent to those dates. They stand for a motto of the North American Turnerbund, which is scheduled to pull off on the dates mentioned the niftiest, snappiest, altogether greatest Turnfest that has yet been held on the American continent. And that is going some. What is a Turnfest? .Ask your Ger man neighbor, if you don't know, or read on and find out. The transla tion on the official bulletins, which are printed in two colors and as many languages, says it is a "gymnastic festival." But it is a lot more than that-a whole lot ilore. Of course, the gymnastic part of it is a big feature. In the approaching Turnfest over 3,000 "active" Turners will partici pate. As is usually the case when any event of an athletic nature takes place in Cincinnati, the Turnfest is under the direction of August Herrmann. "Garry" Iprrmann is president of the National Turnfest'and head of the executive committee of the Turner bund: I: has been giving up his nights and days for a long time in preparing and laying out the program. In his work he has been ably assisted by Henry Hoefle, vice chairman of the committee, and Gustav Clemens, sec retary. The program as arranged pro THE FISHING DAYS HAE COME CAPTAIN FRANK HATCH TELLS OF THE LOVE OF THE SNAP PING TURTLE. St. Paul, Minn., June 22.-June has come and almost passed. The bass are biting. The trout have given up the worm habit and are turning to flies. The leaves never were so green, and many a strong man is polishing his of fice chair with nervous restlessness, while the devil-tempter with a fish ing rod sits in the corner holding up three fingers and grinning. Its awful. But up at Sylvia Beach things are doing. Since the ice went out this spring Captain Frank MIatch has been assiduously cultivating the' acquain tance of one of the finest snapping turtles in Minnesota. He is 18 inches long and almost as broad, and has a neck that looks like a ham sausage after it has wrinkled in the heat oft the sun. The captain loves animals, and the politeness with which the turtle has regularly appeared at the end of the dock and waited until it was invited to partake of the leavings after the captain's nightly fish cleaning sprees, won first hi. regard and then his af fection. The turtle reciprocated, and has recently become so tame that every time the captain calls he comes tearing along the grassy bottom, and, rising to the surface, waits with a most affectionate expression for the tid-bits the captain has in store-a piece of yellow perch or a couple of fins from a bass. The choicest mor sels, and those which the big. turtle has seemed to especially regard, are the backs of the common sunfish after they have been dressed of scales and fins, and these ,,e tastily chews with a content and joy so apparent as to wring the profoundest, admiration from any animal lover sdho watches. Turtle Absent. The turtle was absent for several days about a month or so ago, and when he appeared there was an enor mous dogfish following him. The cap tain hates dogfish, AS# gave the turtle vides for a series of competitions which will be of unusual interest. Cincinnati has joined heartily in the efforts to make this a great success and has appropriated $60,000 to be spent in entertaining the guests. Most of the excitement will take place at Carthage fair grounds, though government square has been hand soimely decorated in the heart of the city and many of the events and drills will take place there. What will perhaps attract the most attention is the "tent city" at one cnd of the grounds, Olesides 350 con ical wall tents loaned by the United States government by special act of congress-sand protected by a bond for $12,000 given by the committee, It may be added-there will be a large number of other tents for various ad ministrative purposes, and it is ex pected that at least 2,500 of the active Turners will live right down here on the Fest Platz during the time they are in attendance upon the Turnfest. These tents are of khaki-colored can Vas, 10 feet high and 16 feet in diam eter, and will each holc 'eight cots comfortably. The committee has to furnish'the cots as well as the tents, although a nominal charge that will partly cover the cost is made. A block divided by seven streets has been laid, out for the tent city, and every possible arrangement for the comfort of the active Turners pro vided. Not only will the "actives" and a good many of the Turners who are not so active sleep on the hest Platz, but they will eat ,there,4too. All that has been provided for. his tid-bit and left the dock. But the chore buy asserts that immediately afterwards he saw the turtle pick out several choice morsels and carry them into the deeper water, where the timid dogfish waited. After several minutes he was able to see that the turtle was delivering the choicest bits to his strange companion, jnd observation of different days convinced him that an affection had sprung up between th' turtle and the fish. He reported to the captain, but the captain simply sniffed. Now this is what happened after wards as the captain tells it: 'I didn't believe the chore boy's tale, although several times I saw that big turtle with the fish close by. I no ticed thon'h, that the turtle didn't come quite so quickly to my call. Then something queer happened. A little boy came up with his mother for a few days and amused himself most of the time by fishing off the, dock. One afternoon about 5 o'clock I heard an awful noise down there, and from the terrtble splashing I fig ured at once that thie little fellow had fallen in and I went down with a rush, and what do you suppose? That boy had anchored his hook into the jaw of one of the biggest dogfish you ever saw and was landing him, hauling him I on inch by inch on the shelving, sandy beach. T was mad, of course, and T started in to hell) him land that slip pery reptile, and just as I got my hands into the gills the oddest thing I ever saw occurred. Heaving in Water. "Fifty yards out there was a heav ing in the water and something was ('omine in shnre with the speed of a locomotive. When it got close I saw it was my big snapoing turtle. I was so surprised I couldn't let go of the fish. and just stood holding him. The turtle came up almost to my feet, and then he got up In the water-you would think lie was standing on the end of hIs tail. and his head and neck stuck out and he rolled his eyes and wagged his flippers. Say, if you ever saw grief on a turtle's face it was on that one's. I didn't understand at first, but when I looked again there were actually tears in that turtle's eves. Then I knew, and I carefully unhooked the big dogfish and slipped him hack into the pellucid waters of Sylvia. The turtle saw, and with e'ery. evillenr of great joy stood on the tins of his four lees and bowed actually bowae three times-while eR pressing the greatest joy and satisfac tion. "And the little boy and I stood there, ride by side, too surprised to talk, and saw that pair move slowly Into the deep water together." !Nrice Thursday week there has been a new sign ..a the Sylvia dock. It teals. "wa' ,.tTHEFT OF CLOTHES CETS HIM IH JAIL Tom Publer, a man brought from St. Regis, was arraigned yesterday before Justice of the Peace Dyson on the charge of petty larceny, it being alleged that he stole several articles of wearing apparel, which he appro priated to his own use. He pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 30 days in the county jail. Clarence Taylor, an alleged "vag," was before Justice Dyson also. He was found. guilty and given 10 days in the county jail. The sheriff wants the man hiem, as he is thought to hi, il man desired by a sheriff in North Dakota. Born in Iowa. Our family were all born and raised in Iowa, and have used Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy (made at Des Moines) for years. We know how good it Is from long experience in the use of it. In fact, when in El Paso, Texas, the writer's life was saved by the prompt ise of this remedy. We are now en gaged in the mercantile business at Narconssee, tla~, and have introduced the remtedy here. It has proven very successful and is constantly growing in favor.--Ennis Bros. This remedy is for sale by all druggists. MISSOUTAAN WANT ADS BRtING QUICK REIULTS. Money In Dairyinpy The world over and particularly so int Montana. Look at the price of dairy products in Missoula. Is in any wonder that the dairymen are rich? We are going to offer you an oppor tunity to get rich. We have for sale-- exclusively-- 35 acres 4 1-2 miles from Missoula that is especially fitted up for a dairy. It has a good five-room plas tered house, first-class milk house, ice house, root cellar, and a barn that will stable 75 head of cows. Two good wells and spring water on the property. Also good water right. There is a fine grow ing crop; and in addition there is 65 acres of leased land all in crop. This makes a growing crop of some 85 or 90 acres. This property, which is but one mile from Fort Missoula, which is now being made a battalion post, is for sale at $8000. This price includes the growing crop, which is valued at $2000. We- will make very easy terms, or will exchang for good city property, in full or in part. We are also authorized to offer the purchaser of this property a contract for all the milk he can furnish at a good price. Forty or fifty cows can easily be handled on this place, and the right man can make $5000 per year. Call at once or write for particulars. W. H. Smead Company HIGGINS BLOCK Phone 212-Red Missoula, Monl. PRINCESS I IN_'SPA A DAUGHTER GLADDENS THE HEARTS OF KING ALFONSO AND QUEEN VICTORIA. Lagranja, Spain, June 22. - Queen Victoria gave birth to a daughter at 61:25 a. in. today. When it was seen last night that the aceouchment was imminent the members of the royal family, the premier and a number of high court personages were hastily summoned to the palace. The birth of a princess is particu larly pleasing to both the king and the queen, as they had hoped that this child, the third, would be a girt. The first two children are boys, Prince Alfonso, born May 10. 1907, and Prince Jaime, horn June 23, 1908, The eldest, the heir to the throne, is fair, like his mother, but he has the protruding lip of his father, a pronounced char niteristic of the Spanish Hapaburgs. The second son, Jaime, is dark com plexioned and looks the real Span lard. He was named after Jalme, the conqueror, King of Argon, as a com pliment to the province of Catalonia, which formed a part of the ancient kingdom. Queen Victoria of Spain is a daugh ter of the late Prince Henry of Bat tenburg and Princess Beatrice, daugh ter of the late Queen Victoria of Oreat Britain. She was married to King Alfonto of Spain, May 31, 1900. A London scientific journal that analyzed samples of snow taken from the roof of its building found that week-day snows contained about five t lines. the Impurities of those gathered. on Sundays.