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# Missouri Kansas Texas Railway Company v. West

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United States Supreme Court
232 U.S. 682
Missouri Kansas Texas Railway Company v. West
Argued: March 3, 1914. --- Decided: March 23, 1914
Messrs. W. R. Allen, Clifford L. Jackson, and Joseph M. Bryson for plaintiffs in error.
Messrs. Charles H. Taylor, Benjamin Martin, Jr., S. Grant Harris, and Thomas D. O'Brien for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice McKenna delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway Company v. United States/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
92 U.S. 760
Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway Company v. United States
The decision in Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States, supra, p. 733, controls this case. Each company claims a grant of land within the Osage reservation. This case involves substantially the same questions as the other; with this difference, that the act of July 25, 1866 (14 Stat. 289), under which the appellant claims, was passed after the amendment had been advised by the senate, and the treaty was beyond its control.
In any aspect of this case, the appellant cannot recover. The amendment refers only to existing laws, and does not apply to the act of 1866, as it was not then in force. It is true that the bill, which subsequently became a law, was pending at the same time as the treaty; but if the senate intended the amendment to apply not only to existing but to contemplated grants, language appropriate to such a purpose would have been used. This remark applies to Congress also; for if it meant, notwithstanding the provisions of the treaty, to grant these lands, words would have been employed to include them, or at least take them out of the proviso. But the result is the same, whether the act is to be treated as taking effect before or after the treaty became operative by the proclamation of the President on the 21st of January, 1867. If it was in force for all purposes on the day it passed, then the Indian title even was not extinguished, as the treaty had not been ratified. But if it be considered as in any sense taking effect after the ratification, then the claim of the appellant is defeated by the terms of the treaty. These lands, having been thereby set apart to be surveyed and sold for the benefit of the Indians, were 'otherwise appropriated,' as much as they had been before the treaty was concluded, and were consequently reserved within the meaning of the excepting clause in the act.
Decree affirmed.
MR. JUSTICE SWAYNE, MR. JUSTICE FIELD, and MR. JUSTICE STRONG dissented.

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# Missouri Pacific Company v. Aeby

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United States Supreme Court
275 U.S. 426
Missouri Pacific Company v. Aeby
Argued: Dec. 1, 1927. --- Decided: Jan 3, 1928
Mr. Merritt U. Hayden, of Detroit, Mich., for petitioner.
Mr. Patrick H. Cullen, of St. Louis, Mo., for respondent.
Mr. Justice BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Missouri Ordinance of Secession

adopted October 31, 1861
An act declaring the political ties heretofore existing between the State of Missouri and the United States of America dissolved.
Whereas the Government of the United States, in the possession and under the control of a sectional party, has wantonly violated the compact originally made between said Government and the State of Missouri, by invading with hostile armies the soil of the State, attacking and making prisoners the militia while legally assembled under the State laws, forcibly occupying the State capitol, and attempting through the instrumentality of domestic traitors to usurp the State government, seizing and destroying private property, and murdering with fiendish malignity peaceable citizens, men, women, and children, together with other acts of atrocity, indicating a deep-settled hostility toward the people of Missouri and their institutions; and
Whereas the present Administration of the Government of the United States has utterly ignored the Constitution, subverted the Government as constructed and intended by its makers, and established a despotic and arbitrary power instead thereof: Now, therefore,
Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Missouri, That all political ties of every character new existing between the Government of the United States of America and the people and government of the State of Missouri are hereby dissolved, and the State of Missouri, resuming the sovereignty granted by compact to the said United States upon admission of said State into the Federal Union, does again take its place as a free and independent republic amongst the nations of the earth.
This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
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# Myths and Legends of British North America/When Sun was Snared (Ojibwa)

WHEN SUN WAS SNARED
Ojibwa
ONCE there was a poor boy who lived with his grandmother. He set snares for birds and rabbits because they were very poor. Now one day this boy set his snares, and then went home to his grandmother. But he had set his snare on Sun's trail.
The next day when Sun came up over the edge of the earth and started off on his trail, he was caught in the snare. He could not go on. There was only a little light and Sun did not rise all day. People began to be anxious at the gloom. They said, "What has happened?"
Then someone asked the boy, "Where did you set your snare?" and the boy told him. They went to look, and there was Sun caught fast in it. People said again, "What shall we do?" because Sun was so hot no one could go anywhere near him. Someone said, "We shall have to gnaw through the cords of the snare," and somebody else asked, "Well, who will do that?"
At last a number of the animals tried to gnaw the string. They were all burned. They said, "Let ​Beaver-Mouse try it. He has such sharp teeth." So Beaver-Mouse tried it, and he gnawed the string so Sun could rise and follow his trail. But Beaver-Mouse's teeth were so burned that they are brown even to this day.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/Why Lightning Strikes the Trees (Thompson River)

WHY LIGHTNING STRIKES THE TREES
Thompson River
THUNDER BIRD was angry with people and tried to drown the whole world, but he could not make the water rise high enough, so some of the people escaped. Then Thunder Bird shot arrows at them. He really did hurt many, but all the people ran away and hid in a cave.
Then Turtle came out. He shouted out to Thunder Bird, "You cannot kill people. Your arrows fly wild. Shoot at the trees and rocks; perhaps you can hit them." Turtle mocked Thunder.
Thunder said, "Oh, yes, I do strike people. I have killed many of them!"
Turtle said at once, "Well, then, prove it by killing me." So he drew his shell down tight and moved about very carelessly, not hiding at all, while Thunder shot many arrows at him. They only glanced off his thick shell.
Then Thunder Bird believed that he really could not hit people, so now he shoots his arrows at trees and rocks. But if people stand under a tree in a storm, it is likely that Thunder will hit them.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/Wiske-djak and the Partridges (Algonquin)

WISKE-DJAK AND THE PARTRIDGES
Algonquin
WISKE-DJAK wandered over the swamps and mountains feeling all out of sorts with himself. It was just after the Indians had stolen all his ducks and geese as they cooked in the coals. All at once he came upon a little flock of partridges, just newly hatched. Their mother was away.
"Kwe!" said Wiske-djak. "What are you doing here?"
"Nothing," said the partridges. " Just staying here."
"Where is your mother?" asked Wiske-djak.
"She's away hunting," they said.
"What's your name?" he asked one of them. And then each little partridge had to tell him his name until he came to the very last. "What's your name?" he demanded.
"Suddenly Frightened," answered little partridge. "Oh, you!" said Wiske-djak, "what can you frighten?" And he picked up a big lump of soft mud and threw it all over the clean little partridges. "What can you frighten now?" he said. Then he walked off. ​He walked for a long time until he came to a high mountain. When he had climbed to the very top he found a nice breeze blowing across it.
"This feels good," said Wiske-djak. "I think I'll stay here," and he searched around until he came to a place clear of trees just on the edge of a great chasm. The rock broke straight away for hundreds of feet, and over the edge of the cliff came a delightful breeze. Wiske-djak lay right down there and went to sleep at once.
By this time Old Partridge had got home, and found them all covered over with mud.
"What has happened to you? Where did you go?" she asked.
"Nowhere," said the little partridges.
"Who did this?" asked Old Partridge.
"Wiske-djak came along," said the littlest one. "He asked us a lot of questions, and then he asked us our names. When I told him my name, he said, 'Well, what could you frighten?' and threw mud all over us."
Old Partridge was angry. She cleaned up the children, and washed them and dried them, and gave them their supper. Then she asked them which way Wiske-djak had gone, and she went straight on his trail.
Old Partridge tracked Wiske-djak to the high mountain. Then she kept right on until she reached the high, ​rocky cliff. There lay Wiske-djak, fast asleep. Old Partridge went close to him, on the upper side of the rock. She spread her wings, went close to his ears, and flapped her wings and gave her warwhoop. Wiske-djak waked up so suddenly he could only see that something terrible was whooping right above him. He moved backward and fell right over the edge of the cliff.
"Well," said Old Partridge, "now you know what 'suddenly frightened' means."
# Myths and Legends of British North America/When Raven Married off his Sister (Haida)

WHEN RAVEN MARRIED OFF HIS SISTER
Haida
RAVEN wanted to find a good husband for his sister. He went out one day and cried, "Who will marry my sister?"
"I," "I," "I," "I," said all the animals. So Raven began to question them.
"What can you do?" he asked Grizzly Bear.
"When I see people, I will roar," said Grizzly.
"You are too bad-tempered," said Raven. He refused him.
Wolf offered. "What can you do?" asked Raven.
"I snap at people if I am alone. When the pack is with me, I devour them," said Wolf.
"You are too bad-tempered," said Raven.
Then Elk offered. "I can crash through the forests," said Elk. Raven refused him.
"What can you do?" asked Raven of Deer and Porpoise. They were cousins.
"I can pull out any skunk cabbage with my teeth," said Deer. Porpoise said, "I will always eat clean ​things. I always eat herring." That is why, when Deer swims to an island, Porpoise always swims with him.
So Raven consented. He let Porpoise marry his sister.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/Wolverene and Brant (Eastern Eskimo)

WOLVERENE AND BRANT
Eastern Eskimo
WOLVERENE once called all the birds together. He said, "Do you not know that I am your brother? Come to me and I will dress you in feathers." So he dressed them all up in feathers, and made wings for himself. He said, "Now, brothers, let us fly."
Brant said to Wolverene, "You must not look below when we are flying over a point of land, when you hear a noise below. Take a turn when we take a turn."
The first time they took a turn, Wolverene did not look below, though he heard a noise. At the second turn, when the birds came over a point of land, he heard the shouting of Indians below. At once he looked down. And down he came like a bundle of rags!
All the Indians ran up to him, shouting, "A brant has fallen down." They found nothing but an old dead wolverene.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/Wiske-djak and Great Beaver (Algonquin)

WISKE-DJAK AND GREAT BEAVER
Algonquin
WISKE-DJAK was traveling about, looking for adventures. He never succeeded in anything he tried to do, and he was always hungry. In his travels he came to Turn-back Lake. White men call it Dumoine Lake. He had no canoe, but he was a good swimmer, yet when he came to Turn-back Lake, he found it too broad to swim. Therefore he started to walk around it.
Wiske-djak wanted to hunt beaver. On one side of the lake he came to a high mountain, very round, which looked just like a beaver lodge. And a little way offshore, in the lake, was a small island, with many grasses. "Hm-m-m! " said Wiske-djak, "This must be the home of Big Beaver." And so it looked, with the great, round lodge and the island of grasses.
Wiske-djak tried to think how to catch Big Beaver. At last he went to the lower end of the lake and broke down the dam, so the water would run off. He lingered there while the lake drained. He even took a nap. When it was low enough for him to get at Big Beaver, ​he found that Beaver was gone. But as he looked about, he saw Big Beaver just going over the dam. So he began to chase him.
Wiske-djak followed Big Beaver past Coulonge River and the Pembroke Lakes. But when Big Beaver reached the Calumet Chutes, he was afraid to go through and took to the portage. When Wiske-djak got to the lower end of the portage, however, he had lost sight of Big Beaver and started back up the Ottawa River. When he got to the upper end, he saw fresh tracks.
"Somebody has been here," he said very quickly. "I wonder if I might be able to trail him? I might get something to eat."
Wiske-djak followed the tracks to the lower end of the portage, and found they turned toward the upper end, so he raced back there. He did not see any beaver, however, so he turned back again to follow other fresh tracks to the lower end of the portage. Then he saw he had been following his own trail.
Even today one can see Wiske-djak's footprints in the stone on the Calumet portage.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/Why the Sun is Bright (Lillooet)

WHY THE SUN IS BRIGHT
Lillooet
ONCE a whole village moved away. They were angry with a boy, so they left him behind with his grandmother. Now it looked as though they would starve. Grandmother said, "Snare small animals. Shoot the birds." So the boy snared rabbits and squirrels and many small animals. He shot many birds with bright plumage. Grandmother cooked the animals and birds, but she made him a robe from the skins of the birds. The robe was very large and bright. The boy wore it when he went to spear fish.
Now Sun, when he followed the trail in the Sky Land, saw the robe when the boy was spearing fish. He saw that robe many times. One day Sun left the trail and came to visit the boy. Sun always dressed in a goatskin robe, with long fringe.
Sun said to the boy, "I will exchange blankets with you." The boy looked at the goatskin robe, and said, "Oh, no!"
Sun said, "You do not know the value of my robe. It can catch more fish than you can spear." Sun placed
From "Memoirs, American Museum of Natural History"
Haida Blanket Border Designs
Symbolical of the raven and the killer whale
​the fringe of his blanket in the water, and at once a fish caught on each tip of the fringe. When the boy saw that, he exchanged blankets at once.
Before Sun traded for the boy's robe of birds' plumage, he was pale, and his light was like the light of the moon. Therefore people could look at him. Now he became bright and dazzling as he is today, because of his bright robe. People can no longer look at him.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/Why the Moon is Pale (Wyandot)

WHY THE MOON IS PALE
Wyandot
NOW Small Turtle made Sun out of lightning when she climbed up into the sky. She also made Moon for his wife. Moon was smaller than Sun, but she was very bright. Then the animals bored a hole through the edge of the earth so that Sun and Moon could pass through at night, and begin their trail again at the east.
Small Turtle never meant Sun and Moon to travel together. But one day Moon ran into the hole at the edge of the earth much too soon. She also ran in ahead of her husband, Sun. Sun was very angry. Moon stayed under the earth for a long while. Small Turtle went after her one day to see what was the matter. She found Moon small and pale because of Sun's anger. Then Small Turtle tried to make her large again. Moon would grow larger for a while, and then remember Sun's anger, and fade away again, until she was only a strip. She does so even today. That is why Moon is so pale, and why she keeps changing as she does.
# Monongahela National Bank of Brownsville v. Jacobus

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United States Supreme Court
109 U.S. 275
Monongahela National Bank of Brownsville v. Jacobus
D. T. Watson, for plaintiff in error.
Thos. C. Lazear and W. W. Douglass, for defendant in error.
HARLAN, J.

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# Nashville St. Railway v. Wallace

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United States Supreme Court
288 U.S. 249
Nashville St. Railway v. Wallace
Argued: Dec. 12, 1932. --- Decided: Feb 6, 1933
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee.
[Syllabus from pages 249-251 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Fitzgerald Hall, of Nashville, Tenn., for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 251-255 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. W. F. Barry, Jr., and E. F. Hunt, both of Nashville, Tenn., for appellees.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 255-257 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Edwin M. Borchard, of New York City, and Charles E. Clark, of New Haven, Conn., amici curiae.
Mr. Justice STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Nashville St. Railway v. White

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United States Supreme Court
278 U.S. 456
Nashville St. Railway v. White
Argued: Jan. 11, 1929. --- Decided: Feb 18, 1929
Mr. Fitzgerald Hall, of Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff in error and appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 456-458 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Walter P. Armstrong, of Memphis, Tenn., for defendants in error and appellees.
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Nashville St. Railway Company v. Alabama

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United States Supreme Court
128 U.S. 96
Nashville St. Railway Company v. Alabama
Oscar R. Handley, for plaintiff in error.
T. N. McClelland, Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.
FIELD, J.

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# Nashville St. Railway v. Tennessee

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United States Supreme Court
262 U.S. 318
Nashville St. Railway v. Tennessee
Argued: April 11 and 12, 1923. --- Decided: May 21, 1923
[Syllabus from 318-319 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Blackburn Esterline, of Washington, D. C., for the United states.
Mr. J. Carter Fort, of Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.
Mr. Wm. H. Swiggart, Jr., of Nashville, Tenn., for appellees.
Messrs. Fitzgerald Hall, of Nashville, Tenn., Charles N. Burch, of Memphis, Tenn., and John B. Keeble, of Nashville, Tenn., for Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry.
Mr. Justice BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# New York Halvey v. Halvey

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United States Supreme Court
330 U.S. 610
New York Halvey v. Halvey
Argued: Feb. 5, 1947. --- Decided: March 31, 1947
Mr. B. E. Hendricks, of Miami, Fla., for petitioner.
Mr. Samuel Shapiro, of New York City, for respondent.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# New York Herald/1867/A Horse Dealer In Trouble

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Charles Frederick Lindauer (1836-1921) in New York Herald on May 1, 1867. Charles Frederick Lindauer (1836-1921) was not a horse trader. When arrested he would give false information. He was the head of the Lindauer organized crime gang during the Gangs of New York period. $2,000 in 1867 would be about $40,000 in 2024 when adjusted for inflation.
A Horse Dealer In Trouble. On complaint of Daniel Carver, No. 136 Varick street. Charles Lindauer was brought before Justice Dodge, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, yesterday. The complaint set forth that on the evening of the 29th alt. the accused went into the house of complainant and took therefrom a quantity or clothing and a meerschaum pipe, in all valued at $116. The prisoner was detected in the act of leaving the premises with the property by a man named Samuel J. Jackson, by whom he was followed until he attempted to escape by running away and dropping the stolen articles. Lindauer says he is a horse dealer by profession, and is not guilty of the charge. He was held to answer in the sum of $2,000.
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# New York Herald/1863/The Wounded

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Charles Frederick Webber (1825-1863), and others, in the New York Herald on July 6, 1863. The entire issue was devoted to details of the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Wounded. In the hospital, while taking the names of the Brooklyn Fourteenth boys who were wounded, I chanced upon two who brightened up when they found I wanted their names for the Herald, and said they "used to type" on that paper. Charles F. Webber was standing in front of the hospital, holding his hand, from which the ends of all four of the fingers had been shot, smoking his pipe with the most provoking nonchalance. I asked him why he did not go in and have his wounds dressed. He guessed there was enough in there worse than him to keep Dr. Farley busy. "The hooks have got to come off and I can wait. They are nothing but sore fingers." I went in, and sure enough there was Surgeon Farley cutting off the leg of James Woodward, of Company C. There were over fifty of the Fourteenth boys there wounded, many of whom fell into the hands of the enemy when we left the town.
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