Volume 17 , Issue 21

1906 - No News From Posse

It was in Bismarck North Dakota, Bismarck Daily Tribune, Thursday, March 15, 1906, front page, these headlines were reported: "No News From Posse." Pursuit of Indian Territory outlaws continued.

Vinita, I.T., March 15 (1906) -- No news from Marshal Darrough or his posse pursuing the Wickcliffe Indian outlaws had been received up to noon. The weather was bitterly cold. It was believed that the cold weather would operate more to the disadvantage of the outlaws than the officers, for the latter were warmly clad, while many of the Indians were practically destitute.

It was believed that the Wickcliffes, aside from their attempt to escape, were taking advantage of the situation to arouse the Cherokee Indians to hold against the allotment of their lands. It develops that the Indians had been holding dances regularly for the last three Fridays. At one of these James Wickcliffes, an uncle of the outlaws, was credited with having counseled the "nighthawks" to continue their resistance to allotment, promising that in twenty days, it they hold out, the tribal laws of the Cherokee Nations would be restored. They would never, he said, submit tot he allotments.
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