The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-10-24
WARNING capeR.
In The choctaw and chiekasaw Gill
zenship Court, Sitting at South
McAlester, December Term,


or tribes OF lndiaus, plaintiffs
Versus
j. T. Riddle.
d. S Riddle,
L. A. Riddle.
Elizabeth Catey,
Joshua Casey.
Andrew b. Hill,
l.. r. Hill,
James w. Balthrop.
T. d. Arnold and
John II. Bratcher.
tiyes of all persons similarly situ
ated, claiming TO be members OF the !
Choctaw or Chickasaw Nations or
ribes OF inGians, 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, end common
ly known as Court Claimants" de-
PENDANTS.
The President of the United States:
To j. T. Riddle, d. S. Riddle, /. A.
Riddle, Elizabeth Casey, Joshua
Casey, Andrew b. Hill. I. T. Hill.
James w. Balttrop, T. d. Arnold ard
John H. Bratcher and al persons not
made defendants. by name in the
above entitled action, but similarly
situated to the ten persons named as
defendants, as representatives OF the
entire class of persons 50 situated,
and claiming to be members Of the
Choctaw or Cnickasaw Nations or
tribes of Indians, by virtue of al
leged DEGREES Cf the United States
court for the Central ana Southern
districts of the Indian Territory sit
ting respectively at South McAlester
and Ardmore, ana com,1cnly known
as Court Claimants" You are
hereby warned TO appear ia this count
on the first Monday IN December,
1902, the same being tho first day Of
December, 1902, and answer a bin 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
her 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, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-six, upon ap-
peal from the Commission to the Five
Civilized Tribes, rendered alleged de.
crees purportins 20 admit several
thousand persons to citizenship or tC
enro llment 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 wa:
: indispensable, and that judgments ar,
therefore void; and also that suci
proceedings should have been con
fined to a review of the action of tn,
Commission to the Five Civilized
Tribes, upon TIE papers and evidence
submitted to such Commissions, anC
should not have extended to a tria
de novo of the question of citizenship
that such proceedings are, for tina
reason, Illegal, and that al of saiC
judgments are therefore void; ant
also that If said judgments are en-
forced property Of the tribes of tn,
value of many millions o. dollars will
be taken, and the snare of eacl
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
n of said judgments be arnulled an
4 vacated, and that all of said proceed
ings in the trial Of said cases de move
Il upon appeal from said Commission t
d the Five Civilized Tribes, be declare
Il null and void.
Witness, the Honorables Spencer !
\ Adams, Chief Judge, and Henry {
i Foote and Walter L. Weaver, ass,
A ciate judges of said court and In
seal thereof, at South McAlester, II
4 dian Territory, this twentv-sixth da
of September, 1902.
\ (Signed) JAMES s. CASSADA,
Clerl