Beam v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Oregon.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
Lester Beam, represented here by his prochein ami, the appellant, was born on March 14, 1889, the illegitimate son of an Indian woman. In the year 1891 land in the Umatilla Indian reservation was allotted to his mother under Act Cong. March 3, 1885, c. 319, 23 Stat. 341. On September 21, 1890, she and the appellee intermarried. They lived together as husband and wife until January 26, 1894, when the wife died, leaving no issue living, except the said Lester Beam. A daughter born of the marriage reached the age of two years and died, shortly before the death of the…
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