Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-08-09
MUCH FAKE I'M STORY.

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the government will tolerate no resist
ance to the draft n is taking such
steps as 1t deems necessary to meet
resistance, no doubt is felt that the
situation will be met without any great
d1fftculty. Officials take the view that
many of the reports which are getting
into print about organized resistance
are exaggerated.
1t Is felt that for the most part the
ordinary court processes will be ade-
QuAte. To q considerable extent the
opposition to h draft comes from
pacifists. and believers In socialism,
persons from whom serious organized
resistance is hardly to be expected. Per
sons familiar with the Oklahoma situa-
ton said today that they did not x
pect n extensive opposition to the
draft there. They look for lukewarm-
ness and indisposition to respond to the
country's call from the p~acifist ele-
ments. but they express the view that
there is a good deal Of imaginative
writing going on about the troubles
there.
On the whole the government Of
ficials feel well satisfied with the way
the process OF raising the new army
is going.
Oklahoma City, Okla, Aug. 4.-In-
dul2ing in a dream of revolution and
defying the draft law, six armed bands
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ana negroes are running rampant
throughout five counties IN east cen
trail Oklahoma today.
As the disturbed&territory is about
100 mileH long by 80 miles wide, the
topography Of which il rugged and full
Of thickets. only an estimate can be
made of the total number of rioters
this being placed variously at 500 to
1900.
T~enantry Growth Blamed.
n thousand armed possemen, with
orders to shoot to kill began a driye at
dawn upon 400 Of the draft resisters
Who were said to be encamped near
sasakwa In Seminole county. where
the anarchistic campaign was reported
to have had its birth. Determined re-
sistance is expected.
night rioters burned q railway
bridge IN Hughes county, another e
Tyrola n a third near Maud. Tele-
phone and telegraph wires were cut at
many points. The districts affected In
clHde Pontotoc, Seminole. Okmulgee,
Ptttsburg and Hughes counties.
Posse TO Shoot 10 Kill.
Some OF the trouble is reported to
have been caused by h dissatisfaction
OF tenant farmers. Large blocks OF
land, owned by landlords residing in
the larger cities are rented out In small.
farms to tenants whose poverty has
been marked for many years.
More or less friction between the
landlords and tenants has occurred fol
; years owing to differences Of opinion
respecting the crops to be raised, evic.
tions and alleged efforts to control
elections. according TO the testimony
before the Industrial relations com.
mittee in 1915.
Muskogee. Okla, Aug. W. G. Hum
phrey. general superintendent Of the
Missouri. Oklahoma & Gulf railroad.
received word this morning that an NJ.
o. @. bridge nea Calvin, so miles
south Of Muskogee.I In Hughes county.
was burned last night. All wires have
been GU and details were not obtained.
Wewoka, Okla. Aug. "A posse OF
$50 armed men, headed by Sheriff Grail.
Seminole county. left This morning to
for g concerted drive against the anti.
draft rioters. who are terrorizing south
eastern Oklahoma.