The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-02-15
LAW AND ORDER.
Citizens Aroused to Action AS
sembIe in Mass Meeting.
DENOUNCE UNLAWFUL ACTS
Whereby The Lives and The Property
Of The People are Threatened.
\ Demand for the Rcsigation - $udge
c. D. Hicks Was Adopted Snani-
1aouSly by gIany Citizens.
DENOUNCE UNLAWFUL ACTS

moved Yesterday 20 the nlSheSt degree VI
resentment. and it was a resentment"
ing from the realization of the danger
they had escaped from the unlawful acts
of miscreants which threatene@ eheir
property and their lives.
Until Saturday morning @s stizens
knew that the initial step to anarchy had
been inaugurated in their city, and when
citizens belated at theiq offices Or their
clubs Friday night related their expert
ence with tangled wires this Besent1nent
was intensified. 10 was such an outrage
kas had never been experienced IN the his
tory of this city. One gentleman, an ED
erly friend of the Caucasian, stated that
| he reached mis- home in the nick Of time
and believed that if he hal been Ater
his home would have caught fire from a
wire which had become charges with
deadly electricity. When shis outlawry
was made known citizens were called O.
the Board of Trade at noon where this
measured Germs. The Boar8 of Trade
room was crowde@ and from there it
was adjourned to the opera House at 5
pm. 1t should BE stated that at this
meeting of the Board of Trade there vas
introduced a resolution, unanimously
carried, demanding the resignation of
Judge c. d. Hicks, and al the same
meeting there was presented list of the
names Of men who are alleged to have
aided and allotted in this otltlawry. The
citizens in body, numbering a hundred
or more headed by Captain Peter You-
rec, president of the Commercial Ma
tional Bank. followed by leading bust
ness men, marched to the headquarters
of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Company,
from the porch of which Captain 4ouree
| read list of men who were ordered out
OF town. 1t may be said that the excite
ment increased at every step. Nor did it
allay until late in the afternoon.
The meeting at the opera house, with
Peter 4ouree chairman, was demon
| stration for law and order against dis
order and anarchy Hon. E. H. Randolph
and Hon. J. H. Shepherd made telling
speeches becoming the occasion. The
president of the. Electrical Workers
| Unien desired to speak and explained
that his men have had no. connection
with the oltlawry, but when questioned
! he admitted that he had no interest in
the Cumberland Telephone Company or
| in the city but was interested in the
| unions welfare. He may not have meant
| II In the spirit i'll which he spoke his
words but he left an impression on many
of his hearers which was not favorable.
Tie meeting at the opera house warmed
ZIP to the adoption of a resolution pro-
viding for the immediate organization OF
A Law and Order League and there
was distributed number of badges in
dicating the spirit and the purpose for
which they are to be worn. Such is the
glst OF what occurred yesterday as a
demonstration by citizens aroused to
act ion
But how was the plot to deal destruc-
| ton discovered?
Fortunately, Mr. Queries. in his ca
Ipacity as mayor, was advised through
mysterious medium of what was design.
ed. At first he was incredulous, but he
started on an investigation and when he
reached West Shreveport he was con-
fronted with the cowardly. the dastardlv
work of destruction 1t should be said
that as soon as he was advised by the
mysterious medium of this scheme Of de-
structlon. he communicated with Chief
OF Police Jones who was ready for eff
tectlve work in a few minutes, and hay
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