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... Chronicles of Oklahoma On Feb. 2nd, 1891, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down... of these were murder cases. They are reported as Alexander vs. United States, 138 U. S., 353, and Crampton vs.... United States, 138 U. S., 361. In one case the judgment was reversed, and in the other case the judgment... and Senator from the State of Arkansas, and former Attorney General of the United States in Cleveland... for the Sixth Circuit, President of the United States, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Certainly, both

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..., but a second conviction was affirmed in Davis vs. United States, 165 U. S., 373. Candor compels the statement... language. 27-Chronicle of Okla. Ems In Allen vs. United States, 164 U. S.... United States, 160 U. S., 480; in Alberty vs. United States, 162 U. S., 499; and in Starr vs. United... not appreciate. For instance, in Brown vs. United States, 164 U. S., 221, Parker had admitted testimony... States, 164 U. S., 627, an almost identical charge brought about reversals, because in each

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... of error to the Supreme Court of the United States. Pending the appeal, Cherokee Bill was in confinement... commented adversely on the failure of the Supreme Court of the United States to expedite criminal cases.... The conviction in the first case was finally affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, and is reported... as Goldsby, alias Cherokee Bill, vs. United States, 160 U. S., 70. The opinion discloses a fiendish murder... of the United States. That court had hitherto dealt with but few murder cases, and, on many of the questions

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... of error to the Supreme Court of the United States in all criminal cases tried before any United States... by the Supreme Court of the United States in all cases tried in the district or circuit courts of the United... mentioned, we find the Supreme Court of the United States, during a period of five years, writing opinions... States where there had been a conviction for a capital, or otherwise infamous, crime. These two Acts made

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... tribal laws by Fritz Sittle. About the time South McAlester was being laid out the United States... of not more than three hundred persons, chiefly railway officers and attaches of the United States Court which... had just been established there to handle principally cases where United States citizens might... of the United States, and formed the nucleus of an attractive and cultured social life. The chief officer

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... man, unless the President of the United States granted executive clemency. One is reminded... recognized, that just as the sixth amendment to 5Cross vs. United States, 145 U. S., 571; United States vs.... Sanges, 144 U. S., 310; Yarbrough vs. United States, 110 U. S. 651; exparte Kearney, 7 Wheaton, 38-42

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.... England made treaties with them in 1721, France in 1755, again England in 1760, and the United States... of land west of the Mississippi River was added to the territory of the United States, it seemed to offer... themselves and maintain their own governments undisturbed by the laws of any state. In 1802 the United States

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... it was in Mexico.43 The Indians replied with a discussion of the recent attack made on them by the United States Army... complied with they would return to the United States. After wasting many hours listening to the chiefs... by their tribesmen and returned to them, once they were in territory belonging to the United States. After

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... Commissioner of Indian Affairs, N. G. Taylor, recommended that the Indians formerly of the United States... the citizens of Texas would doubtlessly bring about difficulties of a most serious nature between the United... States and Mexico when they attempted to redress their own grievances.'0 ances.'0 According... to the information supplied, the Indian Office believed that the Indians greatly desired to be removed to the United... States, and that the Mexican authorities were willing for them to be brought back

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... instructing them to assist the United States Commissioners in their work and advised the Indians to return... and Williams wrote to the United States Consul in Mexico City requesting him to make such efforts as he saw fit... to this communication, but the commission of Antonio Montero, the gentleman selected by Cepeda to accompany the United... States Commissioners, was not revoked and he was permitted to assist them.35 The Commissioners lost

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... of explaining why they, as representatives of the United States Government, could not return the captives when... In this council most of the Kickapoos and all of the Pottawatomies agreed to go to the United States, but first... in good faith and that they would return to the United States when they had received the supplies

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... provided, in substance, that the general laws of the United States providing for the punishment of crimes... committed in any place within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States should extend... Mayfield, 141 U. S., 107, and Lucas vs. United States, 163 U. S., 612. 677

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... Judge Isaac C. Parker United States in Garland vs. State of Washington, 232 U. S., 642... is insisted, however, that this Court in the case of Crain vs. United States, 162 U. S., 625, held..., it is necessarily overruled." The Act of Congress of March 1, 1889, 25 Statutes at Large, 783, had created a United... States Court in the Indian Territory with jurisdiction over minor offenses, but not over those punishable

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... attempt be made for their removal from Mexico to the United States in the near future.26... would probably result in international difficulties between the United States and Mexico.28 Nothing... Congress, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1872-3, p. 395. Nothing came of this attempt. 698

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..., Grover Cleveland, then President of the United States, signed the bill that authorized the opening... of April 1889, and not before, be opened to settlement under the homestead laws of the United States

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... the United States having the right to question the authority of any State to regulate its affairs within..., and only subject to their own laws, and be under the care of their father the President of the United... States. Where they now are, say to them, their father cannot prevent them from being subject to the laws

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... reversal in Crain vs. United States, 162 U. S., 625, and the subsequent history of that case. In the Crain... conviction. Thus spoke the Supreme Court of the United States in April, 1896, only a few months before Parker

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... immediately to the United States by the Indians to whom they were being taken. The answer to the telegram... to pass into Mexico. The goods reached the Indians August 23, 1873, and only those leaving for the United... States were permitted by the chiefs to share in the supplies.50 After the necessary delays to prepare

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... for them. These papers contain accounts of the relations of the Indians with the United States Government..., the relations of the tribes to the United States, traders, settlers, and other Indians. Both incoming

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... to his appointment as judge of a tribunal unique in the United States. In 1875 President Grant appointed... on the appointment the president withdrew it, and appointed Parker United States district judge for the Western