The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-28

negroes are deelng for their lives, ana
the community is in an uproar. The
exact number of negroes who have
been snmmarily dealt with or those
who may yet fall into the hands of the
mob before order ia restored may never
be known.
Seven bodies have been found and
other victims are being hunted an will
meet a similar fate when run to earth.
The known dead to date are:
General bucket,
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 after wards turned
loose and have disappeared.
Little River county is in the extreme
southwest corner of the State, bor-
dered on the west by the Indian Ter.
ritory and on the south by Texas. The
negro population is large and has for
a long time proven very troublesome
to the whites. Frequent murders have
occurred, and theft and fights have be-
come common affairs.
One or two negroes have previously
been severely dealt with when the PEG
pie found it necessary to take the law
into their own hands, but it Was not
uutil Tuesday that the trouble took on
a serious aspect. 1t then developed
that carefully laid plans had been made
by q number of negroes to precipitRte
a race war and that many white men
had been marked for victims. It is
learned that twenty three negroes were
implicated in this plot, and the whites
are now bent on meeting out summary
punishment to the entire coterie of con
spirators. Seven have been killed and
the work of wiping out the entire list
continues without relaxation. All i'm
plicated in the plot are known, and
parties of white men varying in num-
bers from twenty five to fifty, are
securing the county for them Wher-
ever one is found he is quickly strung
up and his body perforated with bull
lets. The work of dispatching the
first two or three was an easy matter.
But the news soon spread among the
negroes, who, instead of making the
resistance and offering the battle that
they had threatened, became panic
stricken and began getting out of the
community as quickly az possible
Two whose names were on the list o.
conspirators, got a good start and sue
ceeded in reaching the Texas State
line before being captured. They were
swung up without ceremony.
The trouble arose over the killing o.
James Stockton by Duckett. JUS
prior to the lynching of Duckett thu
negroes had planned the inauguration
of a race war. Ducket was the leader
and at his death the negroes let tn,
matter out. The citizens becamO
greatly enraged. Joe King and JOIN
Johnston were taken to the woods AM
whipped. Other negroes made threats
+ but nothing occurred until yesterday
when the wholesale lynching began.
In the gang that was plotting for
race war we're tWenty-three negroes
and it is likely the entire number hav
been strung up in the thickets. 1t j
known to certainty that the sever
ring leaders are dead. The negroe
are fleeing from the district. To da,
three wagons full arrived at TexaI
kama, having crossed Bed River at In
dex last midnight.
THREE NOR DEAD.
TKxARKANA, ARK, March % DE
tails of the Wholesale lynchings re
ported to have occurred in Little Rive
county, are slow in coming in. Tire
> more dead negroes have been found il
, Red River bottom between New Boe
ton, Texas, and Rocky Comfort, Ark.
; two of them Joe King and Moses
Jones have been hanged or shot Il
death. The third body was strippeC
entirely naked when found.
. A justice of the peace held an inques
over these bodies and a verdict wa
} returned by the jury declaring tina
! the men ''came to their death from
natural causes, or were frozen t
|, DEATH" The verdict is regarded as
> gruesome joke.
Many sensational reports r reach
ing here to day from the scene Of tn