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These legal documents, including an indictment and arrest warrants, relate to the case of the United States versus Carlton Douglass. Douglass was accused of selling liquor to Thomas Lafontaine, a member of the Miami Tribe, on November 20, 1859 on Miami Tribal Land in the Kansas Territory. Douglass was arrested on December 12, 1859 by Marshal Philip J. Colby. In the mid-19th century, the Miami Nation was relocated to a reservation in Lykins (present-day Miami) and Linn Counties in Kansas and later to Oklahoma.
Date: 1859
Item Number: 444974
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 8, Folder 38
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444974
Collections - State Archives - U. S. District Court of Kansas (Kansas Territory) - Criminal Case Files
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Alcohol
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Vice - Alcohol use
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Courts - United States District Courts
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Case file
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Judicial
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Warrant
People - American Indians - Indian lands
People - American Indians - Tribes - Miami
Places - Cities and towns - Fort Scott
Places - Counties - Bourbon
Places - Counties - Linn
Places - Counties - Lykins (1855-1861)
Places - Counties - Miami
Places - Indian reservations - Miami
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
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