The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-10-26
WARNING ORDER.

MCAicbNcTt DeCemOer hernt
1902.
The Chootaw and Chickasaw Nations,
or tribes Of Indians, plaintiffs.
Versus
j. T. Riddle.
ID. S Riddle,
L. A. Riddle
Elizabeth Casey,
Joshua Casey
Andrew b. Hl,
l.. T. Hill.
James w Balthrop.
T. ID. Arnold and
John II. Bratcher.
for themselves and as representa-.
tiyes Of all persons similarly situ-
ated, claiming TO be members OF the
Choctaw or Chickasaw Nations or
tribes OF Indians. by virtue of al
legged DEGREES of the United states
court for the Central aud Southern
districts Of the Indian Territory,
sitting respectively at South Nc
Alester and Ardmore, and common
ly known as Court Claimants" de-
PENDANTS
The President cf the United States:
To ]. r. Riddle, D. S. Riddle, l.. A.
Riddle, Elizabeth Casey. Joshua
Casey, Andrew b. Hin, T.. r. Hill
James w. Balttrop, T. d. Arnold ard
John II. Bratcher and all persons not
made defendants, by name i'm the
above entitled action, but similarly
situated to the ten persons named as
defendants, as representatives OF the
entire class of persons 80 situated,
and claiming 10 be members of the
Choctaw or Chickasaw Nations or
tribes of Indians, by virtue Of al.
leged DEGREES Of the United States
court for the Central anu Southern
districts of the Indian Territory, sit.
ting respectively at South McAlester
and Ardmore, and comlcnly known
as Court Claimants" You are
hereby warned to appear in this com {
on the first Monday IN December.
1902. the same being the first day of
December, 1909, and answer a bill In
equity filed by the plaintiffs. the Choc.
taw and Chickasaw Nations or tribes
of Indians.
The nature Of said Dill is that the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations or
tribes of Indians own their lands in
common, so that each and every mem.
ber of either tribe shall have an
equal, undivided interest In the whole /;
that the United States court for the
Central and Southern districts Of the
Indian Territory, sitting respectively
at South McAlester and Ardmore, and
proceeding under the act OF congress
approved June tenth, ono thousand
eight hundred and ninety-six, upon ap
peal from the Commission to the Five
Civilized Tribes, rendered alleged de
crees purportins 90 admit several
thousand persons to citizenship or tC
enrolment as such citizens in the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, re
spectively without notice of such
proceedings having been given to each
Of said Nations that such notice was
indispensable, and that judgments arc
therefore void; and also that sucl
proceedings should have been con
fined to a review of the action of the
Commission to the Five Civilized
Tribes, upon the papers and evidence
submitted to such Commissions, ant
should not have extended to tria
de noyo of the question of citizenship,
that such proceedings are, for tha
reason, illegal, and that all of sale
judgments are therefore void; anC
also that If said judgments are en-
forced property Of the tribes of tn,
value of many millions OF dollars will
be taken, and the snare of eaci
member Of either tribe will b,
thereby proportionately diminished
and that the plaintiffs have no ade
quate remedy at law.
The prayer Of said bill is that al
Of said judgments be annulled ant
! vacated and that all of said proceed
ings in the trial of said cases de novo
upon appeal from said Commission L
the Five Civilized Tribes, be declared
! null and void
! Witness the Honorables Spencer h
Adams, Chief Judge, and Henry S
Foote and Walter l.. Weaver, asso
!. ciate judges of said court and th
seal thereof, at South McAlester, In
dian Territory, this twentv-sixth da,
Of September, 1902.
. (Signed) JAMES CkSCAnA