Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-07-29
WHITECAP RAIDS.
Arkansas Counties Terrorized BY
Acts Of Lawlessness.
GANGS OF 1RANPS BECOME BOLD.
They Board Trains in Nebraska and Defy
the Crews to Collect Horrible Case
Of DestitutiOn- ."Tll Shoot
My Fool Self"

LITTLE Rock, Ark, July s2.-The
people of Randolph and Lawrence
counties, this state, are terribly
wrought up over outrages committed
by a band of lawless whitecaps, or ku-
klux, as they style themselves The
depredations have been going on for a
month or six weeks past, and partic-
ulars of the most infamous treatment
yet visited upon a citizen Of that see
ton reached here yesterday. The
whitecaps make no distinction as to
whom they shall visit their seeming
wrath upon-men, women and even
children being dragged from their beds
at dead of night and logged I'M
mercifully. To-day's report comes
from Pocahontas, Randolph county,
and says that Tuesday night the ku-
klux took a lone widow from her home,
just across the line in Lawrence coun-
ty, and whipped her to death. In one
case man and wife are said to have
been tied to Il tree and whipped be-
cause they refused to send their
daughter to a public school. A few
nights ago they visited the home of
Newton Gray, respected farmer Of
Lawrence county, and carried him off,
and nothing has been heard from him
since. The mob has been operating in
the Rich woods settlement for the last
week, and, it is said, has the people of
that section frightened almost to
death.
GANGS OF TRAMps BECOME BOLD.
OMAHA, Neb., July 22.-Numerous
gangs of tramps in Nebraska have be-
come so bold that municipal authori.
ties are powerless; trains are boarded
and the crews defed to collect, and
other lawless acts are committed; but
when n freight train TINT ,sft hsra m
the Omaha road in the morning was
held up at Tekamah by gang Of the
tramps, just as it was pulling into the
yards at the south end Of town. As
the train slowed up at the switch a
band of men, 50 in number, rushed
out from lumber ward. Some of
these men boarded the engine. while
others climbed into the caboose and
upon the box ears. One man. who
seemed to be the leader of the yanp
demanded of the conductor that the
train be run ON through the town.
This the conductor refused to do.
whereupon the tramps took complete
possession, but they were unable to
move the engine. the engineer having
exhausted the water 1t is said that
the tramps are not inclined to do anv
damage to the railroad property. sim
ply demanding that they be carried to
the end of the line. They saw that
they are laboring men. irving to reach
the Minnesota harvest fields
HORRIBLE CASE or prsrlrurIoN.
LITTLE Rock, Ark. Julv s9-A most
horrible and terribly pitiful case of
restitution came to light at Fort Smith
Yesterday when the emaciated form of
Mrs. John llauer was discovered almost
under the caves of the county jail
lying stretched out in little hut she
called her home IIerform was covered
with fragments of an old quilt as her
only cover while she rested upon an
Did wornout mattress. Her body was
almost naked and parched with high |
ever In another part of the room
ay cold in death her two children one
Tx months, the other four wears old,
The babies had died from starvation
IN further investigation Mrs IJnner,s |
mother Mrs. Mary Jordan and three
,ther children were fouud IN Ina all
lick from lack Of food. Tbe c;tiyons
.ook charge of the case and removed
Mrs, Hauer to the hospital She will
,robablv die.
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