State v. Gower

Ames, C.

This cause originated as an information in quo warranto exhibited in the district court for Thurston county. The relator is county attorney, and the respondent was county judge of that county, and it is charged in the information as follows:

*305“That heretofore, under and by virtue of the acts of congress of August 7, 1882, and February 8, 1887, the land belonging to the Omaha and Winnebago tribes of Indians situate within the county of Thurston, was and now is allotted in severalty, in tracts of 80 to 160 acres each, to members of said tribes of Indians to the number of nearly 3,000…