Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-21
Offer to Settle at $4,000
Turned Down BY De-
PENDANTS.
DEMANDED SIS, 900.
Other Recent Happenings
In the Tobacco
Troubles.


reach settlement, representatives
of the defendants in the Hollowell
night rider damage suits returned
to Caldwell county yesterday. They
held a conference with the plaintiffs
local attorneys, Miller & Miller, but
the figures submitted were several
thousand dollars apart. 1t is said
the attorneys offered to settle all
three suits for SIS, 900, but the de-
PENDANTS representatives would not
go over $4,000, and left, stating
they would fight it out in the courts.
Rode on Rubber Tires.
| Night riders created havoc near
| Campbellsburg in Henry county Sat-
urday night. They scraped twenty
eight tobacco beds and no one knew
of their work until Sunday morning.
| The only clew they left was the
tracks of a rubber-tired buggy
through Boke Edridgton's wheat
field. A barbed wire fence was cut
to give passage for the vehicle.
| The growers who suffered do not
belong to the Society of Equity.
They are: W. N. Taylor, Boke Ed
rington, John Lyons, M. L. Scott,
M. L. Oren, John Ransdell, William
Brent, James Clark and Charles
Rowland. Aroused over the daring
deeds of the night riders, Judge B.
+. Hill announced that he would at
once organize company of men to
patrol the county day and night and
prevent further destruction of plant
beds.
The Trigg county circuit cour
convened Monday morning. In hi
charge to the grand jury Judge Cool
laid great stress on night riding anC
the illicit sale of liquor. He said h
did not believe Gov. Wilson had
right to send troops to Trigg county
but requested the grand jury not tc
6 return indictments on this groune
: liz they could get around it, as il
! would be pouring oil on fire.
! Night riders raided the farm Of
Mrs. John Bishop, located two mile:
] south of Cumberland City in Stewart
: county, Tenn, Tuesday night, des
troying all the tobacco thereon
Three large beds were torn up. Mrs
Bishop was never opposed to the AS
ISOLATION, and last year her son solC
7 a crop which he raised on her farm
: through the Association.
Civil suits for damages against al
legged night riders are soon to be tilet
!. in the United States District Cour
of Kentucky by former residents O.
!. Bracken county, who have been rur
out of this State as a result Of raid
:. by the bands of lawless men VIII
Q have been in and around Brackel
county. In addition to these suits
~ is expected that numerous arrest
9 will be made in Bracken county thl
,. week.
F. The night riders are scraping tc
bacco beds near Waddy, KY. Tn
tobacco beds of John r. Smith an
George Hudson were destroyed FIR
I. day night, and notices were sent
: other prominent farmers of tia
= neighborhood.
g -
d A large barn owned by R. j. Ston
: of Neptune, Cheatham county, WI
L destroyed by fire. The building col
tanned 500 barrels of corn, sever
tons of hay, some farming impl
ments and several sacks of woo
). about 81, 900 in value, with an insu
f. ance of 81, 300. The fire is suppose
-e to have been the work of an ince
" diary, and bloodhounds were put {
the trail but no arrests have be-
made. Mr.. Stone is member of Il
lie Dark Tobacco Growers Associate
r and a prominent citizen of that SC
IL ton.