This indictment and arrest warrant relate to the case of the United States versus Tarlton Douglass. Douglass was accused of selling liquor to members of the Miami Tribe on January 1, 1860 on Miami Tribal Land in the Kansas Territory. Douglass was indicted during the May court term of 1860 by the Third District Court. In the mid-19th century, the Miami Nation was relocated to a tract of land in Lykins (present-day Miami) and Linn Counties in Kansas and later to Oklahoma.
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United States versus Tarlton Douglass for selling liquor to the Miami - 3