The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-24
Presence Of Troops the Deter
rent to Actual Clash
OKLAHOMA is STIRRED
White Men Shot and Held Up on Out
skirts of Coweta-Soldiers to Dis
arm Negroes-T Threats Made
That 1t Will Be Resisted.

Muskogee, Okla, Oct. 24.-With
state troops patrolling the streets, fol.
lowing night of terror when men were
afraid to even move their families from
within barricaded homes to the railroad
station to get out of town, the little
hamlet of Coweta was comparatively
quiet yesterday. There is, however,
sullen spirit displayed on every hand by
both negroes and whites over the lynch
ing of Edward Suddeth and the shooting
of two white men, and trouble may
break out at any moment,
The troops patrolled the town all
night and win remain on duty during the
day 1t viii be decided later whether
they shall remain another night. Ii is
believed, however, that the sheriff OF
Wagner county will be able to handle
the situation by swearing in 100 special
deputies.
The greatest fear arises from an inva-
sion of blacks from the surrounding
country. Coweta lies in the heart of
black belt, and II the negroes should be
determined they could put 1000 armed
desperate men into Coweta within
few hours.
Yesterday morning, John R. Thomp-
son, section foreman for the NJ, X. a.
II. railroad, was found lying beside the
tracks near town with his leg shattered
by bullet fred by negroes. He was
shot some time during the night, but
was not found until yesterday morn
ing, His assailants are as yet uniden-
titled.
Herman Rea, white man living in the
country, was on his way TO Coweta yes
terday morning when he was held up
by two negroes at the point OF rifles
and his arms were taken from him. The
negroes then ordered him to proceed.
A report has reached Coweta that two
white farmers have been killed in the
country, but this cannot be confirmed.
The troops yesterday morning
searched the houses of a number of
negroes and found arms in all of them
This search will be resumed and the
arms taken from the negroes. Some of
the negroes openly stated yesterday that
they would resist efforts to disarm them.
Twelve negroes have already been taken
into custody and sent in chains to Wag-
oHer, the county seat. II is expected a
notice win be posted before night for all
negroes TO leave Coweta. The negroes
have intimated that they viii remain
quiet so long as troops remain at Coweta
and after that they expect to get re-
yenge.
Oliver and Thompson, the two white
men who were wounded, are in a critical
condition and not expected TO live. o.
iver is in a hpsoital here. B. j. Beavers,
the white lawyer who was instantly
killed. was graduate of Leland Stan
ford university and was prominent and
popular in this section Of the state. He
and the other two white men were inno-
cent bystanders and Beavers death in
particular has aroused the whites to I'M
usual anger.
The riddliug Of Ed. Suddeth with bull
lets bv white men after he had once
been strung up with a rope and let
down before he was dead and after ne
had been turned over TO sheriff, to be
conveyed to the county jail at Wagner,
is an indication OF the increasing wrath
of the white men.
There has been race trouble twice be-
fore within the year in or near Coweta.
Sunday nights events were an outbreak
of cumulative events. While there Is
much peace talk in Coweta to-day. new
ertheless there is also much earnest and
secret planning for the final struggle,
the purpose OF which is once for all to
subdue the negroes of the section.