These legal documents relate to the United States vs. Silas Biths for trespass on school lands in Breckinridge (now Lyon) County, Kansas Territory on November 1, 1859. Biths was indicted by the U. S. District Court for the Kansas Territory, Second District in November of 1859 for cutting down trees and timber worth five hundred dollars from land owned by the United States government and used to fund public schools. Arrest warrants issued for Biths were returned unserved.
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United States versus Silas Biths for trespass on school lands - 3