Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-17

oners here in fear of another raid to bear them off to the mountains. A small company of military men await the governors orders but sure ly cannot be used in the mountain seawch. Detectives from an agency, hitherto employed chiefly in rail- road work, are gathering to the num- Der Of perhaps a score. But there is no head yet and the pursuit cf the Aliens has not been organized.
 Conditions just now are so favor able to the mountain clans that it would almos.. be murder to send body of men untrained to the noun tains, and the moun5ainee, style of warfare against the fighting Aliens and their supporters. Every noun tain brook is a creek and every creek a river, due to the rains of the past are impossible for horses and to abandon the main travelled roads in these mountains would be to inyi'a death.
 Mountaineers must be depended upon for quides. Some of them are members of families that have feuds hundred years old with che Aliens and would be too glad to head a band to their strongholds as .he N1 o,,ie of I q aNpndpta were to lead the blues agains.. their neighbors and brothers, Royalists who were the whi'ca cockades.
 But even could they be sure oi their guides, ..he posses from the lowlands would make little headway in a pursuit of the Allen clan under the present conditions and while some of the posses are out the or ganized pursuit of the Aliens may not commence before Monday.
 In their retreat into the heights Of the Blue Ridge the Aliens cut all telephone wires and cut off all com munica..ion. The only word that has came leaked out on the other side of the bridge in North Carolnia, by the underground system of commun- ication which has been a Huzzle 70 all bu. the natives since the moun- taineers declared theid independence of revenue and law began heir fiftetA years defense against invasion.
 Rumors of clashes between the AL lens and posses, of desperate battles in which Sidney Allen was wounded defending his mountain castle, con creted and loopholed, and his wife, vertable fury, shot dead while fir ing across her husbands body, Of other stirring encounters have found circulation from the towns and cities anywhere within reach of the Blue Ridge country which have been be- sieged for news and these reports have been sent back to this town, ,-he scene of tn raid of the Aliens.
 Not a word of them is true. There has not been shot fired by the AL lens or the authorities since the parting valley of defiance as the three members of the Alien clan who had participated in the ba.stle at the court house rode out of this little town Thursday morning.
 The Aliens strike from cover Their feuds have been ds an assassl- na.. ion of individuals of their enemes or duels at best. Their dash into the, open shows that they have bee'l made desperate. They are hunting in pacts and is will be no quarter on either side now until every member if the clan under arms is takens alive or dead. The state has decreed this and it looks like "a war of eXterml- na.ion for the Aliens.
 Four lives have already paid 1or- feits tothe effort of these gaun' mountaineers to put their oHn code of law in ,he state. A fifth may DC added before this is over, as Jufo' Fowler. "a member of the jury which dard to fined Floyd Allen guilty, IS unconscious and his physician ho'dS Eo,+ bu+ 1i.t1e hone fer his recovery