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Show GOVERNMENT LANDS ARE OPENED TO SETTLEMENT NEAR POCATELLO, IDA. SBBBBSBSSSBSBBBasBBBBSBSSBBBBat ' BLACKFOOT, Ida, Sept. . Promptly Prompt-ly at t o'clock this morning the United States Land office at this place opened Its doors and at the same time formally opened to filing those lands lying on the Fort. Hall reservation within a radius of five miles of Pocatello, and known as the "Five-mile limit lands." More than a . hundred weary home-seekers, home-seekers, some of whom had slept In line tor nearly two weeks, to take advantage ad-vantage of the Government's generosity generos-ity and to acquire a sagebrush home at 12.50 an acre, were on hand. The episode of yesterday wherein a Pocatello harness-maker attempted to usurp ' a place In the front rank and which but for the timely interference of the Sheriff, who ejected the usurper from the line, might have resulted seriously, se-riously, had a sour effect on the men, which was evidenced -in bulging hip-pockets hip-pockets and holsters that spoke of artillery ar-tillery of the flour-barrel caliber. The civil authorities, however, are on hand, and are maintaining perfect order. The Land office is disposing of the applicants at the rate of about thirty an hour, which should clear the line by tomorrow evening. Of the lands opened to settlement about 6400 acres are susceptible of irrigation. Those now in line will doubtless take the greater part of the agricultural lands. A canal which has been dug to within six miles of the north end of the land Is the hope of the settlers. Without water the land is valueless. |