The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-07-23

slavery among Chinese residents in
Chicago through a clearing house
organized for such traffic, according
to the reports made to the police
Wednesday. Many Of these girls
are daughters of refined families
and all are now voluntary or in
voluntary inmates of Chinese dens.
Pending efforts to find and rescue
the young women, the police refuse
to reveal their names. This whole
sale marketing of young womanhood
was made public following the arrest
of Sam Gee and Gee Fong Both
are under arrest at the Cottage
Grove Avenue Station. Their &C
cuser, Isabel Held, II years old,
said to be from St. Louis, amid sobs
and tears, told story to Lieut.. Joel
Smith which convinced that official
that the clearing house for the white
slave traffic was in his precinct. Miss
Held's revelations tended to show
that of all the white girls missing,
at least twenty-seven had been abb
Quoted in a plot to sell white women
through a slave clearing house to
Chinese men.
A posse Of citizens organized for
the purpose captured wild woman
in the thickets of Gregg county,
Texas, Tuesday nigst, who has been
identified as Mrs. Martha Wilkes,
wife of a wealthy young farmer, who
disappeared from her home in Sa-
bine county ten years ago, and had
never been heard of since. She was
rs years of age. She was mourned
as dead, and her husband, after
spending fortune trying to find
her, dead or alive, left Texas four or
five years ago. She is strange
looking creature, with three-inch
finger nails, stained, Drowned and
tough as leather. Clad only in
short, wooden garment, she carried
a small bag of nuts, herbs and roots.
She is evidently demented, and her
memory a blank. 1t required the
strength of six men to restrain her.
Night riders have threatened H..
B. Bennett of Dycusburg, Lyon
county, Ky, with death within the
next two weeks, and he is in Padu-
cab to escape them. Several months
ago Bennett was brutally whipped
with thorned switches, $50 small
thorns being taken out of his body
after the cruel punishment. Since
then he has slept every night in the
woods, being afraid to remain at
home at night. He says the night
riders have ruined him financially.
Lying on his own bed, with fatal
gunshot wound in the side and the
bed clothing in flames, John Morris,
a well-known farmer of Charlotte,
N. c., was found by his wife. Two
young men, burglars, who had en-
tered the dwelling, rushed out just
as Mrs. Morris was awakened by the
report and made good their escape.
Mrs. Morris, snatching up the burn
ing bedding, threw it to the floor
and extinguishing the flames, reach
ing her husband just as he died.
A windstorm which tore things
up around Fairview has served to
disclose a new fad which Lincoln's
| (Neb.) young women have taken
up. The wind showed the embroid-
cry on their hosiery bore the likeness
of great men, past and present. One
girl whose skirts were caught by the
wind had pictures of Washington,
BRYAN and Taft worked on her stock
ings and blushingly admitted that
"all the girls were taking up the
idea"
Slaughter of the jews throughout
Russia, according to information re-
ceived at Vienna, is planned by the
notorious anti-Semitic leader, NJ.
Krushevan, who organized and led
the Kishineff program of 1908.
Krushevan, it is declared, has form
ed a committee and his agents are
threading all Russia to organize a
massacre, which, he hints, shall be-
gin at the time of the Jewish new
year, early in October.
James Lyons, one-legged tramp,
with crippled arm, made a heroic
J Int unsuccessful ATTEMPT to save