Cherokee Outlaws, from The Advocate, 2/6/1846
Cherokee Co. OK Archives 
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The following was transcribed from THE ADVOCATE, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, 
Thursday, February 6, 1846.

THINGS ALONG THE LINE

The good citizens of Washington County, Arkansas, are becoming alive at last, 
to the dangers to which they expose themselves by allowing Cherokee murderers 
and desperadoes to find refuge on their soil.  

Anxious for their own security from these murderous villains, and from the 
evident knowledge very many of the refugees have of their movements, we have 
been told, that they held a meeting near Evansville, since Fish was killed, 
adopted some Resolutions, and appointed a committee, who waited upon Captain 
Boone, of the U.S. Dragoons, and requested the removal of nearly the whole of 
them to some other place, declaring that they could no longer remain there.

We have also been informed that Capt. Boone, having learned that the outlaws 
and the persons suspected of the murder of Fish, with others, were in the hills 
near that place, sent some Dragoons in pursuit, but they received information of 
their approach, and left a few minutes before they reached their camp.  

One of the gang, however, who run across the line into the Nation, named Twist, 
was taken by the Cherokees, and a horse found in his possession, which he says 
was stolen by Ellis Starr.  He is now in the hands of the Sheriff of Going-Snake 
District, and will be tried for stealing.

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	Stealing Horses. - We understand that several horses and mules have been 
stolen recently, in that section of the nation bordering on the line.


The Advocate, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Thursday, February 5, 1846