Van Buren Press Van Buren, Arkansas- Crawford County April 26, 1890 Fort Smith Call: Charlie Starr, ex-High Sheriff of the Cherokee Nation, was in the city Tuesday and informed a Call reporter that he had learned from Chief Mayes that the Watts family had been defeated in their suit for citizenship in the Cherokee Nation. The Watts family have been claimants for citizenship in the nation for a long time, during which they have lived in the Territory and raised cattle and farmed. Their case has been before all the courts, and was finally carried to Washington, and also to the Secretary of the Interior, and, if true that the case has been decided against them, they will suffer heavy losses. Fran Alverson Warren