The Green Forest tribune., 1908-09-25
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 ARKANSAS
Might Riding" Fake Is Exploded.
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l 'iSht IhihiiS dNS iS EHPIOOChs Reports to the effect that night | riders have appeared recently near | Lake City were exploded Saturday | when it was learned from a num-er
 of reliable sources that no night riders have appeared anywhere and | that the reports to that effect were the result of joke played on William Craddock of Lake City.
 Mr. Craddock owns horse, which is alleged to have created a disturb
 ance in Lake City and which, it is | said, caused some of the residents of | that place to remark, in a joking man. her, that they intended to have an ordinance passed in the city council prohibiting the animal from appear ing on the streets. Shortly after | ward, according to information se- | cured. the switches were found by | Mir. Craddock pinned on the door of
 his barn in which the horse was kept. Investigation has brought to light | the fact that the joke on AIr Craddock resulted in the scattering of rumors | to the effect that night riders had appeared in that section and that the | a joke, was the sole and only basis | for all of the reports which gained in | magnitude as they were spread, until | it has been flashed across the entire | continent that night riders, supposed | to be members of the Arkansas Farm
 CTS Union, have appeared in Craig head county and made many dire | threats.
 The reports have caused general | consternaton among officers of the | Farmers Union, who have started an | investigation. According to the re- ports the band of night riders who
 were alleged to have appeared last
 week were members of the union and
 made threats which were directly con | nected with the Farmers Union in | terests. It was alleged that they | warned a number of farmers to hold l their cotton for the minimum price set by the union and that they also
 warned planters not to charge more
 than S4 rent for land which they had been renting for S5.
 Seven Negroes Held Up By Four White Men.
 | Seven negroes, employed as labor
 CTS on the construction of the Mis-
 souri and North Arkansas Railroad,
 who had been to Marianna Saturday | to draw their wages, claim to have | been held up and robbed of S100 by | four white men while on their way | back to the construction camp at 12 o'clock Saturday night. Two of the negroes showed fight and the rob bers fired upon them, a shot taking effect in the abdomen of one of the
 blacks and another being wounded in the hand After the hold-up the
 negroes went back to Marianna and
 Sheriff Ford was informed of the
 attack.
 Taking three deputies the officer rode at once to the scene, on the Alabama road a short distance south of Mariana, and few miles further
 on, in what is known as the Nixon settlement, came upon four white
 men, all intoxicated and quarreling
 among themselves about the division
 of some money, it is said. Suspect
 ing the quartet to be the guilty par
 ties, all were placed under arrest. It
 was then found that one of the men,
 who gave his name as Brown, had
 been wounded by a pistol shot in his
 right Anee, fired he claims by one of
 his companions, named White. The
 other two gave the names of Woods
 and Clarke All are now in jail
 charged with the robbery of the
 negroes. None of the four is a resi-
 dent of Marianna or of the state and
 told the officers that they were work
 ingmen searching for employment.