The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-10-07
WARNING oRpER.

In the choetaw and chiekasaw ciu.
zenship Court, Sitting at South
MoAlester December Term,
1902.
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.
or tribes of Indians, plaintiffs.
Versus
J. T. Riddle.
ID. S Riddle,
l. A. Riddle
Elizabeth Casey,
Joshua Casey
Andrew b. Hill,
l.. T. HILL
James w. Balthrop,
T. d. Arnold and
John II. Bratcher,
for themselves and as representa-.
tives Of ali 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.
citing respectively at South Nc
Ales,er end Ardmorc. and common.
ly known as Court Claimants" de-
PENDANTS.
The President Of the United States
To j. T. Riddle, d. S. Riddle, L. A.
Riddle, Elizabeth Casey, Joshua
Casey, Andrew b. Hill, |. T. Hill
James w. Balthrop, T. D. Arnold and
John II. Bratcher and all 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 80 situated,
and claiming TO be members of the
Choctaw or Chickasaw Nations or
tribes Of Indians, by virtue of al.
leged decrees Of the United States
court for the Central anu Southern
districts of the Indian Territory, sit
ting respectively at South McAlester
and ArdmOre, ana commCnly known
as "Court Claimants You are
hereby warned to appear ia this court
on the first Monday IN December,
1902, the same being the 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 bill IS that the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations OF
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 Uniteu States court for the
Central and Southern districts of the
Indian Territory, sitting respectivel!
proceeding under the act OF congress
approved June tenth, ono thousand
eight hundred and ninety-six, upon az
peal from the Commission to the Fiv
Civilized Tribes, rendered alleged dc
crees purporting to admit severa
thousand persons to citizenship or I
enrC llment as such citizenf in tn
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, rC
spectively without notice of sue
proceedings having been given to eac
of said Nations that such notice wa
Indispensable, and that judgments ar
therefore void; and also that sue
proceedings should have been col
fined to review of the action OF tn
Commission to the Five Civilize
Tribes, upon the papers and evidenc
submitted to such Commissions, an
should not have extended to a tri,
de novo of the question of citizenship
that such proceedings are, for thi
reason, Illegal and that Bli Of sal
judgments are therefore void; an
also that If said judgments are ei
forced property Of the tribes of II
J value Of many millions of dollars wi
be taken, and the snare of eac
member of either tribe will I
thereby proportionately dlminishe
and that the plaintiffs have no ad
quate remedy at law.
The prayer Of said bill Is that a
OF said Judgments be annulled an
vacated, and that all of said procee,
ings in the trial Of said cases de nov
, upon appeal from said Commission
the Five Civilized Tribes, be declare
: null and void.
Witness, the HonOrables Spencer
Adams, Chief Judge, and Henry
Foote and Walter L. Weaver, asst
ciate judges OF said court and tn
seal thereof, at South McAlester, II
dian Territory, this twentv-sixth da
, of September, 1902.