Pape v. United States

HUNT, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit in equity, brought by Elsie Wilson Pape, guardian ad litem, under the Aet of August 15,1894 (28 Stat. 305, as amended, 31 Stat. 760 [Comp. St. § 4214]), to secure allotments of Indian lands for her children.

Elsie Wilson Pape, formerly Elsie Hawk, appellant, was a full-blood Indian, bom in 1889 at Bay Center, an Indian village on Shoalwater Bay, Washington, where she resided until 1915. In July, 1903, she married Clarence Wilson, a white man, by whom she had three children (plaintiffs in this suit), Ernest C., Dorothy J., and Pearl A. Wilson. In 1908 or 1909…