The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-01-18
WHITE CAPS WORK.
Fifty of Them Making Things Lively
in Kentucky.
AN EXCITED COMMUNITY
They Murder One Man, Give Another Fifty
Lashes and Read the Riot Act to
Several Others.

HARRoDsBURa, Ky, Jan. 15.-The reg
ulators, or white caps, who have for the
last two months been terrorizlng not
only the west end of this county, but
also the adjoining counties of Wash
ington and Boyle, were out in force
last night, numbering not less than
fifty mep. These midnight mauauders,
masked and armed to the teeth,
visited quite number of country resi-
dences and called out the men, whip
ping some very severely and reading
the riot actlto others, warning them to
mend their ways, leave the country or
take the consequences.
They then went out to the village OF
Leesburg, six miles from this place,
and surrounding it, keeping guard.
They forced open the cabin door of
Josh Mitchell, .forcibly dragged him
from his bed, carried him about Atty
yards from his home and tried him be-
fore Judge Lynch. So soon as Mitchell
took in the situation and was convinced
they meant to do him great bodily
injury, he broke through their line and
made haste for his cabin, where he
had loaded shotgun. His wife had
gotten up and lighted lamp and just
as Mitchell was nearing his door, his
body, outlined by the light, was per
forated by not less than twenty-five
buckshot and he fell a corpse on his
own doorsill.
Immediately after killing Mitchell
they attacke the residence of Brack
Bottoms and forced open his door
They made his wife strike light, bu
could not find their man. His wife
averred that he was absent from home
but this they did not believe, for the
children kept begging that they woult
not kill their father. After making I
thorough search and when about tt
leave, one of them perceived some 500
falling down the chimney into th'
smoulderidg fire. Looking up thu
chimney he saw Bottoms, who ha'
Mitchell was killed and had climed u
the chimney for safety. Dragging hin
down by the heels they carried him Of
and gave him fifty iashes on his bar
back, lacerating the flesh at ever
stroke. Bottoms had been dragge
from his cabin by rope slipped aroun'
his neck, but the pitiful cries of tn
little children and the earnest praye
of the grief-stricken wife aroused
feeling of sympathy in the hearts c
his prosecutors and they relented
aittle and concluded instead of hant
ing him to give him severe beating
and this they did with vengeance.
Their next attempt to take the la
into their own hands and to punish
man without fair ard impartial tri;
was frustated. Oscar Reynolds ha
been two weeks since warned to leav
che country, but he publicly proclaime
that he had done no wrong and woul
stand his ground, his house being h
castle. They visited him, and, hndir
his doors so strongly barred that the
would not give to their heavy pressur
commanded him to open the door. +
refused, az he had heard the shootir
and the cries of Bottoms, and was reat
for them. His reply was, "never; bres
in or scratch under" They held
council of war, but as the night was a
vancing and they had some OF them
long distance to go they concluded
postpone their marauding. Mounti'
their horses they rode away. There
great excitement In the neighbor moo