Salt Lake Herald | 1891-08-05 | Page 1 | Trespassers on the Cheyenne Reservation

Trespassers on the Cheyenne Reservation KIXGEISSERX Oklahoma Aug 4On complaints of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians In-dians in the territorial courts against tbo Cragin Cattle company D R Pant Benjamin Ben-jamin Barland William Quinton Major Eldridgo James F Ellison Short Bros and Drum A Snyder for unlawfully holding hold-ing and grazing cattle upon the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations Associate I reservatons Justice Seay of tho territorial commission issued a writ of seizure against the defendants I i defend-ants The court held all persons holding live stock within tbe limits of the Cheyenne and Arapahoo reservations were subject to I a penalty of l per head and the stock is subject to seizure and sale in payment of the penalty The order is now In the hands of the United States marshal who will proceed at once to execute it It covers two or three hundred thousand head of cattle which it is claimed are now catte upon the reservation unlawfully