Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-11
THE NEW COURT.


Jurlsdlctaon Of the Court KstabliShe0 II
the Indian Territory.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The jurisdfc-
ton Of the new court for the Indian Ter.
ritory extends over the Indian Territory
bounded ~ follows: North by the State OF
Kansas, east by the States Of Missouri and
Arkansas, south by the State of Texas and
west by the Territory of New Mexico. The
judge holds his Office for four years and
until his successor 10 appointed and quail.
fed. The salary 10 $500 year. The
court has exclusive original Jurisdiction
over all of1enses against the laws OF the
United States committed within the Indian
Territory not punishable by death or by inn
prisonment at hard labor; also jurisdiction
in all civil cases between citizens OF the
United States who are residents OF the In
dian Territory and citizens Of the United
States, or any State or Territory, and any
citizen Of or person or persons residing or
found in the Indian Territory. AMI when
the value of the thing in controversy or
damages or money claimed amounts to
500 or more, providing that nothing con-
tanned in the act creating the court shall
be so construed as to give the court juris-
diction over controversies between persons
of English blood only and all laws having
the effect to prevent the Cherokee. Choctaw,
Creek Chickasaw and Seminole Nations, or
either Of them, from lawfully entering in
to leases or contracts for mining coal for
q period not exceeding ten years are re.
pealed and the court has jurisdiction over
all controversies arising out of the mining
leases or contracts and of all questions of
mining rights or invasions thereof where
the amount exceeds 500 and the provi-
sions of chapter 18, title ID. of Revised
Statutes govern the court 40 far as ap-
plicable, and all practice pleadings and
forms of proceeding in civil causes must
conform as near as may be to those of the
courts OF record of the State of Arkansas,
and the plaintiff is entitled to like remedies
by attachment or other process against
the property of defendant and for like
causes as are now provided by the laws
of said State. The final Judgment or de-
cree of said court in cases where the value
OF the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs,
to be ascertained by oath of either party,
or Of other competent witnesses, exceeds
$1,000, m ay be reviewed and revised or
affirmed by the Supreme Court Of the
United States upon writ of error or appeal
in like manner and under the same regu.
lation as final judgments or degrees of q
circuit court Two terms of court are to
be held each year at Muskogee on the first
Monday in April and September and such
special sessions at such times as the judge
may deem expedient for dispatch Of bust.
sessions to any other time previous to a
regular term. In all criminal trials had
in said court in which jury shall be de-
manded and in which the defendant OF
defendants shall be citizens Of the United
States none but citizens of the United
States shall be competent jurors and
the judge shall have the same au-
thority to issue writs of habeas corpus
and injunctions mandamus or other rad.
ical process exists in the Circuit Court
of the United States. All proceedings in
said court shall be had in the English
language and bona fide male residents O,
the Indian Territory over twenty lone
years of age and understanding the Eng.
lish language sufficiently to comprehend
the proceedings of the court shall be com
petent to serve as jurors in the District
Court, Western district of Arkansas.