Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-13
CITY EXCITED.
Desperate Race War Probable in
Guthrie.

Guthrie.
GUTHRIE, O. T., June 13.-There
is great excitement in this city, oc-
casioned by two criminal assaults by
negroes upon white women. A
negro lad named Holley assaulted
Mrs. Charles r. Moore. the wife of a
freighter. He was arrested and a
mob surrounded the Jail, threaten
ing to lynch him. The negroes
claim Holley is innocent although
lie confessed his guilt to the sheriff,
and race war seemed imminent for
time. "Judge" Perkins, a negro
lawyer, was spokesman for the coll
ored men. During The excitement
he said: Let the whites harm that
man and the town will be in ashes
before morning." The sheriff snug
gled the prisoner from Jail and took
him to Wichita, Kansas. The sec.
md outrage was made upon the wife
of James Genken, by an unknown
negro, who escaped. A posse is on
mis- trail, and will lynch him if he is
found.
AT midnight information was re-
ceived that the negro who outraged
Mrs. Genken has been overtakeu by
the posse, six miles south of town,
and shot dead. This news greatly
Intensified the excitement, and the
negroes are threatening violence.
GUTHRIE, June, l3.--At | o'clock
this morning one or two nervy
,fficers ordered lot of negroes who
we're stationed ON the corner next
to the Jail to move on. Several
,ffered resistance, but the officers
used their clubs effectively. Several
decent negroes jumped on dry goods
,oxes ard made speeches to the
excited crowds. Officers Rinehardt,
Kitchen, Kelly and Kehl were there.
Two or three shots were fired. A
Dig burly negro named Perkins
yelled chang the editor Of the
News.n No sooner were these
words out when Bill bingham, Jack
Tearney, Doc Roberts, Dick Reaves
Walter Taylor and others said "try
it on if you dare" Sheriff Hixon
aud deputies rushed in and quelled
the disturbances and the excited
people were quickly dispersed. Men,
women and children are at this
moment on the streets. The editor
of the News walked down Okla
homa avenne between two officers
at II O'Clock, seemingly secure.
A company to patrol the city has
been organized and placed under the
leadership of good men. Groups of
negroes stand on every corner, and
manifest an intention to take the
city if necessary. Reeyes's Broth.
ers' place on Second street, is the
rendezvous of the committee, and
the place is crowded with father,
and husbands. 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. e. P. McCabe, ex.auditor of
Kansas, is held responsible for the
crimes being committed and violence
is feared. He cannot be found to-
night and is evidently in no way
desirous of showing up. Whistles
are blowing and there are shouts
aud yells from every quarter Of the
city. This beautiful city of 10000 |
people is a pandemonium, and no
one sleeps this night. The yell of a
determined mob is momentarily eX-
pected, and no power on earth seems
able to now save the brutal ravisher's |
life. The electric lights have been
extinguished, and it seems now that
the worst may happen. Captain
Cooper, one of Payne's original Okla
lahoma boomers, reached here at II |
O'Clock with seventeen men. They |
are determined and nothing short of
a lynching will satisfy them. At ?
this morning large number of men
are parading the streets. There is
no telling what may happen. The
sheriff and police are resoluie. The
excitement is intense. Negroes are
congregated on every corner, and |
trouble at the Jail seems certain, as
another mob has assembled in the
vicinity.
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