Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-13
INDIAN MAIDEN'S REVENGE.
Rejected. She Betrayed Her OUTLAY
Lover, Nose Miller

Lover, Nose Miller.
From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat
Nose Miller, the Cherokee outlaw, who
was captured last week in the Greenleaf
mountains, about fifteen miles southeast
of Fort Gibson. although refugee from
justice for the last three years. has not
been dead to society. In the Businesses of
those hills and mountains, where nature
has so lavishly provided natural means of
concealment, he was comparatively safe
surrounded as he was by friends who in
habited the scattered settlements, living
free and easy life, never coming in con-
tact 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 mar
shafs in their efforts to capture him, for
he had friends who warned him of any
impending danger and kept him posted on
the movements of every suspicious
stranger appearing in the neighborhood
Naturally, he was not a bad sort of a fell
low, and had friends everywhere in the
hiIiS-especially among the women, who
appeared to admire him for his reckless
bravery. During the past fall and sum-
rner he made numerous trips to Braggs,
the nearest railroad station, when large
reward was offered for his head riding
leisureiy into the town, trading as he
wanted to, and riding away unmolested.
Among Miiler's female acquaintance was
a young and splendid-looking Cherokee
girl of pleasing manners who had learned
to love the outlaw with true devotion, and
he professed to reciprocate the passion.
After 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 assist them. There was
to be dance in the settlement, and she
knew that Mile! and his latest girl would
be therein fact. had assisted in getting
up the affair. So, when the time for the
dance arrived there was a good crowd pres
ent-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 safe among his friends.
The rejected maiden was not idle during
all this time. She sent for the officers, who
were in waiting near by in accordance with
her plans. They came and peeped in at
the windows, watching the outlaw in the
glory of his revelry but thought 1t best
to bide their time until a favorable oppor-
tunity should arrive-which they well 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. To-
ward morning he became 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 marshals' opportunity came.
They broke in upon him, and before he
could realize the situation he was secure
ly bound and shackied, and the next af-
ternoon he was safely landed in the Mus
cogee jail where he now 1anguishes and
reflects 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
mountains. Both of his girls still live
there-the one Borrowing over the fate of
her lost lover; the other glerying in her re-
venge upon him for deserving her. All his
former companions and associates are still
there, frolicking. dancing and enjoying
other pastimes. There is to be q rousing
big dance Christmas, but Nose Miller will
be absent.
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.