The Forrest City times., 1893-04-14
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Jonesboro whitecaps.

A dispatch from Jonesboro regarding
 recent whitecap raid says:
 now turns out that the whitecaps were
 ,nlarly organized band, gotten up primarily
 the purpose of ridding the community of
 ectionable characters; but the reason for
 rdering George Black. an inoffensive man,
 not been learned. The coroner's jury. i'm.
 neled to hold an inquest on the body of the kitecaps' victim. finished their investigation
 d returned a verdict that George Black came
 his death from a shot fired from the hands of
 posse. consisting of Les J. Ware, Charles Snson, B. Ray. Al Counts. George Counts.
 n Ballentine, John Burrows and K. Payne
 the parties have been committed to jail
 thout bail
 WANT BAIL.
 XJoNEsBoRo, Ark. April Complication was nde to Judge Haywood yesterday on a writ of kbeas corpus for bail in the case of the eight hite caps now in jail. charged with the killing
 John Black. The evidence of only three wit esses was taken. but it was conclusive. It de- Hoped the fact that the parties were regular
 ganized band, whose object was to rid the k,nty of objectionable persons. Judge May bod placed the amount of bail at s2 800 each kr Al Counts, George Counts Charley Henson
 B. Ray John Burrough, Kelly Paine and Jim 6allentine, and 5000 for Attorney Les and J. rare.
 The Clayton Assassination.
 Hon. w. II. II. Clayton, of Fort Smith, Srother of the late John NJ. Clayton, Fas in Little Rock the other day. His mission was to confer with Gov. Fish lack and Attorney General Clark relative to be arrest of Frank Hickey. the alleged assas. |in Later in the day Sherin Whito, of Morrill, kpn accompanied by Detective Werner, of \ kived Burkhardt and Werner were in close Consultation with leading republicans the en- tire afternoon. Col. Clayton says he attaches bo importance to Hickey's arrest, but he can bot say what it will lead to. Hickey has sent gord to Judge John Mcclure of Little Rock khat he wishes to secure his services in his de- T 5ense. He also stated that he had plenty of money ts pay his attorneys.
 l BpT OF BURRHABDT's ALLEGED RECORD. . The Little Rock chief of police the other day 6ecein.d two letters bearing on the case-one From citizen of CohouIna, Miss. another from A. Potter superintendent of a secret-service rompany of Dallas, Tex. and thev related to Burkhardt's career in those towns. s. A. Car |der, of Cohouma says that Burkhardt was a operator af Lula in 1889; that he robbed an express package containing si00 and |was driven out of town He was arrested and |taken to Clarksyille. While in search of some EOH6 10 20 DOnu lOuflu a nOie lhe SlueWulK. Through which he fell. He sued the town for |sl 900, but the suit was dismissed. Detective |Potter writes that he worked up a case against him several years ago at Malvern. where he |was charged with factoring" tickets for more |than the regular rate. pecketing the balance Little Rocks New Administration. Col NJ. c. Hall and other recently elected city officers of Little Rock were inducted into office the other night. Mayor Fletcher. ln retiring from office re viewed the work accomplished by his admins tration during The past two years. The balance in the treasury is si00o0. At the present rate of payment the sity will be free from debt in eight years. The 1otal indebtedness is S238 593 20
 Mayor Halls inaugural address was short He said he proposed to give the city lifaiu business administration