Van Buren Press Crawford County, Arkansas January 21, 1879 NOT STANDING ON THEIR ORDER OF GOING For two years past our Cherokee neighbors have complained long and bitterly that their rights and privileges were being ruthlessly assailed by the presence of the depot and railway of the L. R. & F. S. Railway in their territory. They had got so troublesome and persistent in their demands for the company's removal of their property that arrangements had been made, and the work nearly completed to go no further than Van Buren, and make the crossing to Fort Smith here. Still not satisfied, the sheriff f the Nation embraced in the District opposite Fort Smith, gave notice that he would on the 22nd day of January, (tomorrow) sell the depot building and other property of the company, as having been confiscated by the Cherokee Nation. To avoid litigation or any trouble, on Sunday last, Supt. Hartman had a large number of hands employed, and buildings of the company were taken down and transferred across the river to Fort Smith, where they will be re-erected for the accommodation of their business at that point. At this hour, not a visage of the property of the company remains in the Nation, and we imagine that when the Sheriff puts in an appearance in the morning to "knock off" to the highest bidder, the confiscated railroad property, there will be some tall swearing on the Cherokee line. This move makes Van Buren the terminus of the L. R. & F. S. Railroad for two weeks until the iron can be laid on the other side of the river and other work completed. Passengers and mails going East will be brought to Van Buren the night before and take the train the next morning. And on the arrival of the train at night a "buss" will take mails and passengers to Fort Smith. Fran Alverson Warren