Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-24
Several Negroes Have Already
Been Killed.
CAUSE OF THE OUTBREAK
Was the Murder of a White MAN.
MODS Searching For More of
the Negro Ringleaders

Texarkana, Ark, March pa race
war is on in Little River county, and
during the last "a hours an indefinite
number of negroes have met their death
at the hands of an Infatuated white popu-
latlon. Seven are known to nave been
l~ynched, shot to death or slain in some
manner, and the work is not yet done.
The bodies of the victims of the mob's
vengeance are hanging to the limbs of
trees in various parts of the country,
strung up wherever overtaken, while that
OF another who was shot to death While
trying to escape was thrown into q creek
and left there. The country is in a state
of most intense excitement. White men
arc collecting in mobs, heavily armed and
determined, the negroes are eeing for
their lives and the community is in an
proar The exact number of negroes
who have been sunmarily dealt with or
those who may yet fall into the hands
of the mob before order is restored may
never be Known. Seven bodies have
been found and other victims are being
hunted and will meet q similar fate when
run to earth. The known dead to date
are:
GENERAL DUCKETT.
EDWIN GOODWIN.
ADAM KING.
JOSEPH JONES.
BENJAMIN JONES.
MOSES JONES.
UNKNOWN MAN.
Joe King and john johnson were also
taken in hand by mobs and whipped.
They were a~fterward turned loose and
have disappeared. Little River county
is in the extreme southwest corner of
the state, bordered on the west by the
Indian territory and On the south by
Texas. The negro population is large,
and has for a long time proved very
troublesome to the whites. Frequent
murders have occurred and thefts ana
fights have become common affairs. One
or two negroes have previously been &C.
verely dealt with when the people found
it necessary to take the law into their
own hands, but it was not until Tues
day that the trouble took on a very SER
iOus aspect.
+ The trouble arose over the killing of
James Stockton by Duckett Just prior
10 the lynching of Duckett the negroes
had planned the Inauguration of a race
war. Duckett was the leader, and at his
death the negroes let the matter out and
the citizens became greatly enraged. An
other negro, named Joe King, remarked
that Stockton should have been murdered
sooner. He was taken to the woods and
whipped, as was also John johnson.
Other negroes made threats, but moth
ing occurred until yesterday, when the
dead body of Goodwin was found hang
ing to q tree just across RedriVer from
the Stockton farm in Bowie county
Texas. He formerly worked for stockton
and was chased across Mud creek.
The place where the trouble occurred
is several miles from any town of com
munication. and it is difficult to obtain
details. as the people are very reluctant
about giving out the news. A justice OF
the peace went to where Goodwin was
hanged.
Advices from New Boston, Tex, to
night are to the effect that across tn;
riverseveral negroes have been lynched
. This morning Benjamin Jones was fount
lead on Hurricane bend, and from New
Boston it is learned that Joe King ant
Moses Jones were found hanging to tree
at Horseshoe curve today. Another Jone
ismissing. In the gang that was plotting
for a race war We're 90 negroes, and it l
likely that the entire number have bee
strung up in the thicketS. The negro
| are fleeing from the district. Today tire
wagons full arrived at TeXarkana, havin'
crossed Red river at Index at midniSh
last night. They were greatly frightened
-. The citizens of Little River county hay
suffered much ~recently from laWlessness
Some months ago the two races clashe
at Allene at a sawmill, and a small rio
: followed. From all accounts it seem
that, with Duckett, seven of the ring
leaders have been killed.