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Show Father peculiar. Thin vet Can l Tur ptat la lha t burlaw lla. Atoka. I T., Oft. 81 The recent trial and eonvletion of one Allrii in the I'nited States court at South MeAHster. and tho subsequent annulment of the eiitenee through a writ of habeas corpus grauted by by the federal court at Fort Smith, h developed the fact tliai.the crime of larrenv ran not be punliilied in thin part of the Choctaw nation, which Is within th" jurisdiction of the I'nited Slates court at Paris. Tex. "The I'nited States court f Pri, Texm, ha ruled and now holds that the United State eourt for the Indlau territory alone hat Jurisdiction of the crime of larceny committed Iu the Indian oountrr, aiid all rases of that rharncter have teen transferred trans-ferred to lh latter eonrt. Judge Parker Par-ker of the Fort Smith federal court, on the contrary, hold that the Juris-dietion Juris-dietion is not iu the Indian riiurt. I he statu or thee ene is practically this, thee: The Part court denlx it own jurisdiction and therefore can not try them, a matter of coure; the MeAlister court cannot effectually try them, because It nridictUn I denied de-nied by the Fort Smith court, and the latter cannot try them hecan It I not even iimpected of having JurUdli-tion. In the meantime the evil doer of thi dlacrlptlou are abroad In the land. |