Applicants of Forty Years’ Standing Get Their Tithe From the State. The annual rush for land patents which marks the first week in June culminated in more than fifty being issued from the state auditor's office. In the last three days 114 have been is sued, and since June 1 a total of about 125 applicants have secured titles from the state. June 7 is the date for payment of the annual interest and there is always a rush to pay up bal ances and get a patent before that date, to save another year's interest. Some of the patents taken out are on land purchased from the state thirty or forty years ago.