Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-09-24


occurred between the new community and
the neigbborinp marshes. the now narish Tor
couutvS Of Red river was created and at
tached to the DIST Senatorial District At
the election of that wear NJ II Twi,chelI
was elected Senator and + w Devices to
the Loyer Housp from the adioininv narisb
of De Soto. In 1872. Mr.. Devices having
moved back to the new parish. was therein
reelected to the Iover Unueo Johp 4,
Yates was elected Sheriff. and having re-.
signed last spring was reDIared nv Frank G.
Fdperton also a northern man q p
Dickens an old Confaderotn soldier was
elected Parish Judge in 1879 hnt having ra-
signed to accent the Attorneysbip of the l7th
Judicial District. was replaced in the legal
manner by Hon. A. G.. Penny. NJ C.. willis
was elected Justice of the Peace in 1872 w.
H. Howell was appointed Parish Attorney in
the legal manner Clark Holland. a mer-
chant of Coushatta. was one month aco an
pointed Supervisor of Registration in the
usual manner. The f,ots stated th,t thnsc.
gentlemen. or such of them as hela ofi.es
CURED to be elected by the neoDle. we're 1uIv
elected. are admitted nv the Dnmorra,;a
party. The Warmotb and Forman Boards of
returning officers both run in the interests Of
the Ku. Klux Democracy of Ionisiana. hntl,
returned the Republican candidates for An
maiorities VARYING from $50 to GGO. About
the middle of last month the White League Of
Red River Parish. in pursuance of n pr,cou-
certed and general plan, demanded of these
officers the resignation of their several offices.
They refused to resign, and f. S. Edgerton,
Sheriff, in accordance with his sworn duty.
summoned a Posse cou2itafvs of 65 men II Of
whom were white, to protect himself and the
other officers in the discharge of their duty.
The White League alone summoned from the
surrounding parishes every desperate sroun.
drel who for drink of whisky and the
chance to steal a horse would commit a nur.
der, to rally at Coushatta, and about 400
how ling, drunken desperAioes assembled
there from Natchtoches, De Sofa. Cndio.
Bienville, Bossier, Grant. Jackson. W oh.t.~.
Claiborne, Lincoln parishes and ovprp3yyrred
the sheriffs posse After killing Gilbert
Came, ESQ, Deputy Sheriff. and six colored
men. to save the lives of their political friends
then in the power of the desprrate mob the
officers of Red River Parish and Il 4. De-
wees, Esq, a Collector Of De Soto. who vas
present, offered to resign their several offices
and leave the State. The White League on
their part released the captured posse comita-
tbs, and pledged themselves to guard the of.
fcers out of the State via Snreyenort thar
night. II J. Twi,chell, r. A. Devices. NJ. c
Willis, Clark Holland, w. j. Howell and f.
G. Edgerton were lodged in Coushatta Jail
guarded by the League. The pext aav a
guard was selected to take them to Shrrye
port. They actually took them bv an unfrp
quented road into B0ssier Parish and there.
80 miles below Shreveport. were foullv mur
dered by the guard given them for thrir nro-
lection, assisted by about 40 men who rode
| out from Shreveport toward the sceoe of ,,,pr.
der the night before | state nothing here
men had married in Ionisi,n, all bad ,-o,-