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Show IGRAFT HEM WORKED 111 111 DRAWING Scheme to Have Applicants Pay Expense of Holding Land Lottery. Special to TIip Tribune. TWIN PALLS, Wn, Sept. 12. Many citizens hero aro in receipt, of letters from friends ami would -bo settlors from vnrous pnrts o the country, asking why they are o bo charged $1.50 for filing an application for lands in tliis and Owvlice cnnnlies, drawing for which is to be held by the state board of land commissioners of tho state of Idaho on September 2S. The company which has segregated the lands under the Carey act is an Iowa company, and in their form of application blank The applicant deposits de-posits $3.50 per acre as first payment on warer and, in addition, '2o cents per acre, the amount duo the stale for land. In other words, the applicant deposits $150 on forty acres, $.100 on eighty acres. ;?4o0 on one liundrd and twenty acres. :?U00 on one hundred and sixty acre's. In addition to this, $l.fi0 is added to each for an alleged fco of Si (o the stale and ;j0 cents notary fpi I The sum involved, $1.30, does not amount to much, but it indicates a petty graft. Tho stale charges 20 cents per "acre for the land outright. This the applicant must pay. For the water right, the irrigation company charges $10 per acre, the same io be paid in ten annual payments. There is no stato fee of $1. Should an applicant, not select lands when his name, is called, whv should there be a notary foe of .50 'cents? The notary does nothing, has no occasion to do anything hence, there can be no fee. The fact is that, as said, it is purely petty graft to fee ion)p favored lawyer or notary. It is exactly like the graft, which was foisted upon would-be settlers at a land opening here a little more than two vcars ago. when the same scheme, was worked. People who have written snv that they do not care for $1 -50, but if thai much is run in upon them Ihev have reason to expect thai, some other species of graft will also bo exacted, ex-acted, hence Ihey are writing for information. in-formation. The irrigation companies make their monev out of the $IU per acre for water wa-ter right, and the exacting of the $1.50 tee is an outrage and will have a tendency, to keep away many immigrants. immi-grants. An endeavor will be made io have this extra cut our from the dc-oir. |