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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.
Date: May 1860
Item Number: 444975
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 8, Folder 39
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444975
Collections - State Archives - U. S. District Court of Kansas (Kansas Territory) - Criminal Case Files
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
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
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Courts - Third Judicial District
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 - 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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
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