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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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