The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-06
INDIAN MAIDEN'S REVENGE.
Because Rejected She Betrayed Nose
Miller, Her Outlaw Lover.
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Nose Miller, the Cherokee outlaw who
was captured last week in the Green
leaf mountains, about fifteen miles
southeast of Fort Gibson. although a
refugee from Justice for the last three
years, has not been dead to society. In
the fastness of those hills and noun
tains, where nature has so lavishly pro-
vided means of. coneealment, he was
comparatively safe, surrounded as he
was by friends who inhabited the scat
tered settlements, living a free and
easy life, never coming in contact with
the outside world except at his own
pleasure.
Three years were spent in the midst
Of these surroundings, battling the skill
and daring Of the United States deputy
marshais in their efforts to capture
him, for he had friends who warned
him of any impending danger and kept
posted on the movements of every sus-
picious stranger appearing in the
heighborhood. Naturally, he was not a
bad sort of a fellow, and had friends
everywhere in the hlls-eSpecially
among the women, who appeared to
admire him for his reckless bravery.
During the past fall and summer he
made numerous trips to Braggs, the
nearest railroad station, when a large
reward was offered for his head. riding
leisurely into town, traC-ng as he want
ed to, and riding away again unmo-
Tested.
Among Miller's female acquaintance
was a young and splendid-looking
Cherokee girl of pleasing manners, who
had learnd to love the outlaw with
true devotion, and he professed to re-
ciprocate the passion. After a little
while Miller began to grow cold. when
she learned that he had taken up with
another girl. Then her love turned to
bitter hate, and she longed for revenge,
for. as the poet sings. Hell hath no
fury like woman scorned.' She knew
that a big reward was standing for his
capture; that the officers were after
him in earnest, and that she could as
sist them. There was to be dance in
the settlement and she knew that Mil
Ter and his latest girl would be there
in fact, had assisted in getting no the
affair. So, when the time for the dance
arrived there was a good crowd present
Miller and his new Girl among them,
the very gayest of the gay. 1t was his
last dance.
There was plenty of ''firewater' on
tap and the outlaw drank heavily-all
the boys seeming to be his friends. He
carried a huge siX-shooter strapped TO
his side and the dance proceeded, while
he considered himself perfectly saIe
among his friends.
The rejected maiden was not idle dur
ing all this time. She sent for the Off
GERS, who were waiting near by in ac-
cordance with her plans. They came
and peeped in at the windows, watch
ing the outlaw in the glory of his last
revelry. but thought it best to bide
their time until a favorable oppGrtun-
ity should arrive-which they we'll
knew was not far off-when they could
bag him without bloodshed for they
knew that if they attempted to take
him openly some one would get badly
hurt or killed. Toward morning he be-
came rip-roaring drunk. Then his
friends took him to a house close by
and put him to bed to sleep off his
Spree never once dreaming that he
was doomed to awake bound hand and
foot. 1t was then that the marshaPs
came. They broke in upon
him, and before he could realize the
situation he was securely bound and
shackled, and the next afternoon he
was safely landed in the Muskogee
JAIL where he now langu1SheS and re-
fleets upon the uncertainties of an out
laws life-even among his best friends
while awaiting the trial, conviction
and punishment that is surely in store
for him.
His friends still live in the Greenleaf
Both his girls still live
there-the one sorrowing over the fate
of her lost lover; the other glorying in
her revenge upon him for deserving
her. All his former companions and
associates are still there, frolicking,
dancing and enjoying other pastimes.
He is the last Of the famous Nose
Miller gang. his associates being either
captured or killed in the attempt to
capture them, two of them being at this
time in prison at Muskogee, l. I.