The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-13
Citizens Declare That the Ne
gro'S Reign Must End.
TROUBLE DUE TO AWFUL CRIME
Two White Women Outraged by Bes-
tial C0lOred Ruffians.
Ono OF the MaIefactors Shot to Death
by . POsse-Armed Men Swarm the
Streets and Demand the Life of the
Other Criminal.

GUTHRIE, o. T.. June l2.-Great excite
ment in this city was occasioned tonight
by two criminal assaults by negroes upon
white women. A negro lad named Holly
assaulted Mrs. Charles Moore, wife of
freighter. He was arrested and mob
surrounded the Jail. threatening TO lynch
him. The negroes claimed that Holly was
innocent, although he confessed his guilt
to the sheriff, and a race war was immi-
nent for time. "Judge" Perkins, a ne
gro lawyer. was spokesman for the col
ored men. During the excitement he said:
Let the whites harm that man, and the town
viii De in ashes before morning.
The sheriff smuggled the prisoner from
the Jail and took HIM to Wichita. Kan
The second outrage was upon the wife of
James Genken by an unknown negro, who
escaped. A posse is on his trail who will
lynch him if found
There seems to be considerable doubt as
to the removal of Holley to Wichita. Kan.
The negroes say the report was circulated
so that they would disperse and give the
whites free field for lynching. A great
mob OF negroes now surrounds the Jail
and Is increasing every minute. They
have sent to Langston City, negro col
ony ten miles away, for reinforcements,
and have determined to protect Holley
from the white mans vengeance. The
negroes are well armed and the whites are
carrying Winchesters. Intense excite
ments prevails. Sheriff Hixon and Chief
of Police Kelley are busy disarming the
negroes.
At midnight information was received
that the negro who outraged Mrs. Genken
hQQn Ean hv
south of town and shot dead. This news
greatly intensified the excitement and
the negroes are threatening violence.
GUTHRIE. o. T., June 13.--At l o'clock
this morning one or two nervy citizens
ordered lot of negroes, who were sta
toned on the corner next to the Jail, to
move on. Several offered resistance, but the
officers used their clubs effectually. Sew
eral decent negroes jumped on a dry goods
box and made speeches to the excited
crowds. Officers Rhinehardt, Kitchen,
Kelly and Kehl were there. Two
or three shots were fired. A burly
negro named Perkins yelled: "Hang the
editor of the Nems!" No sooner were these
words uttered when Bill Dilgam, Jack
Learney, Doc Roberts, Dick Reaves,
Walters Taylor and others. said /:
TRY it on, if you dare.' Sheriff Hixon
and deputies rushed in and quelled the
disturbance, and the excited people were
quickly dispersed.
Men, women and children are on the
streets, but it seems as though the i'm
pending danger would be averted.
The editor of the Ne,cs walked
down Oklahoma avenue between
two officers at II o'clock, seemingly
secure. A company to patrol the city has
been organized and is under the leadership
of good men. Groups of negroes stand on
every corner and manifest an intention to
take the city if necessary.
Reeves Bros place on Second street is
the rendezvous of the committee, and the
place is crowded with fathers and hus-
bands. Republicans and Democrats alike
take the stand that the negroes reign is at
an end in Oklahoma. The city is actually
alive with armed men. who are ready to
fight to the death if need be.
+. McCabe, the negro ex-auditor of Kan
sas, is held respon sible for the crimes be-
ing committed, and violence to him Is
feared. He cannot be found tonight and
is evidently in no way desirous of show.
ing up.
At o'clock large number of men are
| parading the streets. There is no telling
what may happen. The sheriff and police
| are resolute and the excitement is in.
tense. Negroes have congregated on every
| corner and trouble at the Jail seems Ger.
! tain, as another mob has assembled in the
| vicinity.
| Whistles are being blown, and there are
shouts and yells from every quarter of the
| city. The beautiful city of 10000 people
is pandemonium, and no one sleeps thi:
| night. The yells of the determined moi
| are momentarily expected, and no power
| on earth seems able to now save the bruta
| rayisher's life. The electric light:
| have been extinguished, and i
seems now that worse may happen
| Captain Cooper. one of Payne's origina
| oklahoma boomers. reached here at L
| o'clock with seventeen men. They ar,
determined that nothing short of lynch