Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-03-25
II Is Said That Twenty-Three Are
Sought by lhe LyncherS Now
Searching the Woods.
AN ASSASSINATION
STARTED THE TROUBLE.
The Whites Claim They Discovered a
Plot Of the Negroes TO Stay
Several White Men In
the Vicinity.

Texarkana. Ark. March IA race
war is ON In Little River county. this
state. and during the past three days an
indefinite number Of negroes have met
their death at the hands Of the infuriat.
ed white population. Seven are known
TO have been lynched. being 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 10 the limbs Of
trees ia various parts Of the county.
strung up wherever oyertaken, while
that OF another who was shot 10 death
while trying TO escape was thrown into
a creek and left Tor the fish to feed upon.
The country is in a state Of the most
intense excitement White men are col
lected in mobs heavily armed and deter
mined negroes are fleeing for their lives
and the community Is in an uproar The
exact number Of negroes who have been
sunmarily dealt with. or those who may
yet fall into the hands Of the mob be-
fore order is restored may never b.
known.
The known dead 10 date are: General
Duckett. Edwin Goodwin. Adam King
Joseph Jones. Ben Jones. Moses Jones
and an unknown man
Joe King and John johnson were tax
en- in hand by the mob and whipped and
were afterward turned loose and have
disappeared.
Little River county is In the extreme
southwest corner Of the state. border
ing ON the west by the Indian Territory
and on the south by Texas The negro
population Is large and has for long
time proved very troublesome TO the
whites. Frequent murders have oc-
CURED and thefts and fights have BE-
come common affairs. One Of the two
negroes have previously been severely
dealt with when the people found il
necessary 10 take the law into their own
hands, but II was not until Tuesday
that the trouble took ON very serious
aspect II then developed that care
fully laid plans had been made by a
number Of negroes 10 precipitate a race
war. and that many white men had
been marked for victims II Is learned
that 2a negroes were implicated la this
plot and the whites are now bent on
netting out summary punishment to the
entire coterie Of oonspirators. Seven
men have been killed and the work Of
wiping out the entire list continues
Two whose names were ON the list Of
conspirators got good start Of the mob
who were detailed 10 look after them
and these succeeded In reaching the Tex
as state line before being captured.
However, they did not escape They
were overtaken and swung up without
ceremony.
The trouble arose over the killing OF
James Stockton by Duckett
just prior TO the lynching Of Duckett,
the negroes had planned the Inaugural
ton os a race war Duckett was the
leader and at his death the negroes lei
the matter out aud the citizens becam,
greatly enraged.
In the gang that was plotting for q
race war were % negroes and 1t is like.
" that the entire number have already
been strung up in the thickets.
The place where the trouble occurred
is several miles from any town Of com
munication and II is difficult TO Obtain
details rs the people are very reluctant
/ about giving out the news