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In 1870, the population of the Indian Territory was 68,152, of whom 59,367 or 87 percent were Indians. The remainder consisted of 6,378 blacks and 2,407 whites. By 1885, about 25,000 whites lived in the territory. The 1890 census of the Indian Territory (which did not include the new territory of Oklahoma) showed a total population of 178,097, of which only 51,336, or 28 percent, were Indians. The remainder were 109,393 whites (including those claiming Indian citizenship) and 18,636 blacks (including those claiming Indian citizenship).

A circuit court’s business involved cases of “diversity of citizenship,” that is, civil cases in which the parties were from different states. The circuit courts thus provided a more neutral ground than the courts of the states of which the litigants were citizens, and the suits did not need to involve a federal question. 30 ISAAC C. PARKER In the earliest years of the federal judiciary, the secretary of state oversaw the system of United States courts; later, Congress gave the responsibility to the secretary of the interior.

Given the defective laws providing for their compensation, court officials faced much temptation for dishonest accounting. The marshal and the district attorney each received a nominal annual salary of two hundred dollars, supplemented only by fees. ” If a deputy killed a suspect, he received nothing. 40 ISAAC C. PARKER The law allowed a deputy marshal to employ up to three persons as posse comitatus to assist him. Posse members recruited in the Indian Territory were usually tough men who performed their tasks for the pay—three dollars a day—rather than as a civic duty.

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