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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1907)
I nil "Wi ni'l - - wiiH'W"M"ilwl"we'f'l'i'' 'l"1'' ', r TERRORIZE TOWNS while great tobacco bams containing the year's savings and hard work of the whole family have been burned to the burned, families rendered homeless, ground. Wheat stacks have been burned threshing machine blown up with dyna 1 . ..... . . ........ - - m m. ,. LB -. I I I l "" ' " " t . " Wight Riders Spread Fear incite, tobacco factories burned to the Kentucky Towns. START WAR TO DEFEAT TRUST Planters, Incensed at Tobacco Combine, Burn and Explode Buildings Shoot and Torture Women State Proves Powerless. LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. S.-The lat fcstring no longer hangs outside the door of the "Old Kentucky Home." The night raiders, an organization similar to the Ku-Kulx of years ago, an spreading terror with the firebrand the rifle and the cowhide. Woman' and children have bee shot, ' m stripped of their clothes and whip ped Trith switches and cowhides, houses School Shoes FOR The Billy Buster Steel Bot tom Shoes The Shoe with a Sole that Don't Wear Out S. A. G1HRE 543 Bond St,, opposite Fisher Bros. JUST RECEIVED BY EXPRESS A NEW LOT OF UMBRELLAS COME. EARLY AND FRANK J. DONNERBERG, X:0R. ELEVENTH AND BOND STS. r.VT VrtTTf! PTr.ir i t X ground, Men and women are terrorized by notice scut with a bundle of switches of a package of matches, warning them that unless they obey the wishes of the night raiders their property will bo des sroyed or they themselves tortured. All this has taken place and is taking place almost nightly in Kentucky now It is a war between neightbors and for mcr friends who disagree aa to the prop i cr and best methods for handling the produce of the farms. The is known as the Planters' Protective association at association, an organization which was formed at Guthrie, September 29, 1904. The purpose was to force the tobacco trut to pay better prices. Many plan ters joined. Others said it was an or ganization gotten up to benefit ft few people and paT fat salaries to officers. These were called "Hilbillies," and soon there sprang up intense ill feeling be tween the association and the anti-association planters. Members of the as sociation failing to induce their neigh bors to join sought to prevent them from reaping any of the benefits in advanced prices caused by the organization by destroying their plant beds and tobacco barns: for the tobacco trust began pay ing the anti-association people an in creased price for their tobacco and re fusing to purchase -that of the associa tion people commenced the destruction of the plant beds of the "Hillbilles" the latter turned on them. Ia the fall of 1906 the battle opened with the destruction of the American Snuff company's factories at Elkton, which were blown up with dynamite; the burning of the Imperial Tobacco com pany's plant at 'Princeton; the burning of a big warehouse at Fedonia, one at Eddyville, and any number of barns be longing to anti-association planters. The state authorities were dum founded at the audacity of the ma rauders. Governor Beckham dispatched State Fire Marshall" Mott Ayres to the scenes and urged the circuit courts to call special grand juries and investigate the wholesale arson. This was done and indictments were found against John J. Jackson, John McGregor and William Winters in Caldwell county, charging them with burning the warehouses at Princeton. A mob. of a hundred men rode into the town of Elkton and took charge the lights, captured the town marshal and dragged from their homes Wil liam Benson and John Blair, who had dared to induce members of the asso ciation to sell to the trusts. The men were gagged and bound, their clothing torn from their backs and they were whipped with rawh'ides. Gove'Aior Beckam issued a procla mation warning the planters ajrainst the destruction of property and also of fering a reward of .."00 for the arrest and conviction of any person destroying tobacco or plant beds. Governor Pat terson of Tennessee followed with a like offer and Rip Tyle, Steve Sholt and Ned Pettit were arrested. Soon, however, the deviltry- broke out afresh and now planters are living in a state of terror Jest they be tor tured for belonging or not belonging to Planters' .protective Association. George Swift, a sewing machine agent, who was suspected of being a detective, was whipped, as were his two sons, all three being dragged from their home in Lyon county. Ed Hall and John Lockhart were taken from their homes at Guthrie and "flogged." Mrs. Kate Card well and daughter, X T A ESS? Correct Clothes fsr Boys' Before you pay another dollar for your boys' clothes, whether for every day orSunday best, insist on being shown out "HERCULES" Shower-Proof All Wool Suits Positively the most durable suit ever made It is CRAVENETTED and lined. The price is only $5.00 pants LINEN Get Your Ifflli Mi letter Get It Today Cravenette Raincoats. Over fifty patterns to show you in Genuine Cravenette Rain Coats $7.50 to $30.00 -i Correct Clothes for Men Ve sell them and there is such a vat difference in them and the ordinary sort that there is hardly room for comparison. You must see them to appreciate thcra. We want every man in Astoria to come in and inspect our new fall models $10.00 to $25.00 ,. Brownsville Woolen Mfflls Store Judd Bros., Proprietors Commercial St. Near 12th i Fancy Gravenstien Apples, Luscious Pomegranites, Hubbard Squash, Pumpkins. A. V. AULEN. Mrs. Jennie Freeman, who refused to divulge the whereabouts of their hus bands, were dragged from their homes and made to wade in the snow barefoot ed and subjected to other tortures. Nathan Hester was whipped with a rawhide, and when hi wife fell faint ing from fright, which ultimately caus ed her death, the night raiders laughed and jeered at her A hundred men with masks over their faces went to the home ! of S. P. Mosoly, at Roaring Springs, and fired through the doors and windows, shot his wife, woumlij:g her twice and fatally wounding his on Myron. Three of their Miialler children saved their lives by hiding m a closet, lbe, home oi Joseph Coyle was binned to the ground and his tobacco barn was blown up with dynamite. His wife and five children were made homeless while the raider jeered at them. The raiders next turned their attention to the wheat crop in Christian county, where the threshing! machine of John. Fields was blown to fragments by dynamite and many simi lar outrages were committed. Although prk-es have been almost doubled, the planters have lost thou sands of dollars through the Planters' Protective Association. At a meeting resolutions were adopted offering re wards for any members of the associa tion detected in committing crime. So intimidated are the people that no wit nesses can be secured to testify. The law is therefore powerless and the state is in the hands of the nhrlit raiders. Cheney, Wash., where they are attend ing the state normal st-hool. Threshing is about done in thjj' vic inity, and ranchers- are rushing, their grain to market as fust as possible", con sequently warehouse are getting nearly all filled up. MONEY AND CHECKS STOLEN Construction Foreman Robbed at a Bail road Camp. UNIVERSAL Stoves and Ranges jj BRANCH UNIONTOWN PHONE MAIN 713 PHONES MAIN 711. MAIN 8871 Sole Agents for Baker's BarringtorxHall Steel Cut Coffee BAT IRON & BRASS KB ASTORIA, OREGON MN AND BRASS FOUNDERS' LAND AND MARINE ENGINEERS UV-to-Dftte Saw Mill Machinery! Prompt attention given to at. repair wort 1h and Franklin Av Tl. Main 2451 IN TREE WITH WILDCAT Ernest East Left and Hurried to Get a Gun. SPANOLE; Wash., Oct. 7. While Hall and East's threshing outfit was thresh ing this morning on J. G. Johnston's farm, one and one half-miles east of town, on the ranch formerly owned by Ernest Diebet, Mr. East went into the orchard to pick some plums. After picking a few he heard a noise up the tree, and on looking up saw a large wildcat. He ran for a gun. ArthuraJohn son brought "a rifle and shot the animal down. Mrs. Charles E. Sires returned home vestreday after a two months' visit ,vith relatives in New York ctyy The Misses Jennie and Grace Sulli van were home for a short visit from TKKOA, Wash., Oct. ". A report Im-f just reached here that one of tlie fore men of Olaf Olsen's railroad rump on the Milwaukee was robbed of a wal let containing about $55 in money and the following check: No. 21, for the sum of $3201, Xo. 75 for $17.13, no. 127 for $46.30, X. 14 for $3.25. These checks were made payable to different workmen on the railroad con struction gang and signed by the con tractor. Business men. inTekoa were notied and the numbers of the checkH given them, but it is thought that no at tempt w ill be made to cash them here. Spokane and' Harrison, Idaho, are the most likely places where the attempt will be made. No particulars could be learned, antf so far no clue has been found. I Napoleon Bonaparte showed, at the battle of Austerlitz, he was the greatest Leader in the world Ballard'a Snow Liniment hag shown the public it is the best Liniment In the world. A quick cure for Rheumatism. Sprains, Burns, Cuts, etc., A. C. Pitts. Rodessa, La., says: "I use Ballard's Snow Liniment in my family and find it unexcelled for sore chest, headaobe, 6orns, in fact for anything that can be reached by a liniment." Sold by Hart's Drug Store. Every one Guaranteed' We Buy them in Car Load Lots ! The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co iHCdYporated, t Successor U Fftui Ik Stokst C. f THE G EM C. F. WISE, Prop. Choice Wlnss, Llqnors Merchants Lunch From and Cifars 11:30 a. m, to 1:30 p jn. Hot Lunch at all Honrs " sv'CwiU Corner Eleventh and Commercial; f' ASTORIA OREGON FINANCIAL. First National 'Bank of Astoria, Ore. Afflicted with Sore Eyes for 33 Years. I have been afflicted with sore eyes for thirty-three years. Thirteen years ago I became totally blind and was blind for six years. My eyes were badly in flamed. One of my neighbors insister upon my trying Chamberlain's Salve and save me half a box of it. To my sur prise it healed my eyes and my sight came back to me. P. C. Earls, Cynthia na, Ky. Chamberlain's Salve is for sale by Frank Hart and Leading Druggists ESTABLISHED 188U. !, Capital $100,000 1. Q. A. B0WLBY, President. 0. L PETERSON, Vice-President. rRANK PATTON, Cashier. J. W. GARNER, Au!ttant Cashier. Astoria Savings Bank Capitol Paid in HOMOS, Surplus and Undivided Fronts f0,000 Transact a General Banking Business. Interest Paid on Time beposlts FOUR PER CENT PER ANNtJif Eleventh and Duane streets. f ASTORIA, 01