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Show IN RUSH FOR FlATHEHr ACRES KALISPKLL, Mont., Feb. 17. The land rush for u ffcw naos of tho Flathead Flat-head Indian reservation which started start-ed yestprday from Poison and was communicated to this city, caused business busi-ness men to hurry to tno office and register for land on the belief that a part or the Flathead Irrigation project proj-ect had been abandoned and that rich alluvial hoII In the lake slto was to be opened to homostoaders. took visible form this morning when the luud of flee opened. Long before that hour nearly a scoro of meu had gathered to be first at the door to register for tho choice sites. So far as the land office of-fice knows, it -was not opened, but filings fil-ings weru tentatively accepted, tho land seeker being confident that they knew tho situation aud that tho land would soon bo proclaimed open to mtry. Thoy hnd driven during je terday evening und this morning bv loam. All held tholr places in tho line but fcome affected to bcllovo tho matter mat-ter was wild, rumor, still maintaining, however, that the lands -woro the host on tho reservation, and If not to be submerged, would prove a valuable prize for the man who got It. |