Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-05
Bullet Thru Stomach Lays
Low Cargill, Veteran
Mob Leader.
KON0WA THREATENED
Three Hundred Reported
to Be Marching to Fire
and Plunder.
BULLETIN

OUlIC lin
OKLAHOMA CITY. AUG. A.
FIGHTING BETWEEN OEJECrORs
TO THE SELECTIVE DRAFT AND
A POSSE OF CITIZENS Is RE-
PORTED At KONAWA. IN SEMI
MOLE COUNTY. FURTHER INFOR-
NATION Is LACKING.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug A.
With one mob leader dead,
others captured and at least
twenty-five of their bands in
the hands of peace officers,
posse leaders tonight were of
the opinion the backbone of the
rising Of objectors to the Sc
lective draft in central Okla
homa was under control. The
outlaws have been scattered
into such small bands that fur
ther successful resistance is
believed impossible. Sheriff
Grail of Seminole county de-
clared tonight he believed that
after tomorrow night he can
handle the situation with a
small force of men.
A disturbing influence to
mar the apparent successful
eradication of the trouble was
presented tonight at Konawa,
in Seminole county, where it
was reported that three hum
dred slackers were expected to
arrive with the announced pur-
pose of pillaging and burning
the town. A special train has
left Ada, the county seat, for
the scene of the expected at
tack.
Sheriff Grail. on his drive south
east OF Wewoka. captured a man CIV
ing the name of Boggs. said to be a
leader of the outlaw forces, hidden
under n fence. armed with two high
powered rifles and plentifully sup
piled with ammunition. He surren-
dered without offering resistance and
a lynching was narrowly averted
by action of cooler heads in the
posse. section foreman for the
Katy railroad brought in two men he
claimed to have found today near q
bridge on the line on which he was
working. The men were compelled to
mount his motor car and were
brought in on 1t.
Other arrests are reported from
other parts of the terrorized districts,
altho names are not given Of the men
taken into custody.
Whole Countryside on Guard.
Every hillside in the embattled dis
trict tonight was fairly brstling with
guns. the possemen not being willing
to relinquish their task until feeling
assured there is not vestige of the
revolt left TO spring UP again when
their vigilance Is relaxed. The base
OF operations from which the differ
ent posses are working was estab-
lished q mile north of Lone Dove to-
night. where detachment Of national
guard members. working under the
leadership of former Adjt. Gen. Frank
M. Canton, are encamped.
The women of Sasakwa, tiny VIII
lage of about $50 inhabitants, have
not been lacking in their efforts TO
make the man-hunt successful. To-
ward evening a vacant store was COM
mandeered and the tired possemen
were regaled with lunch which
must have robbed every fruit cellar
in the community.
Bail Granted Prisoners.
In federal district court here late
OF the II alleged members of tho
Jones Family" also called antidraft
orcaHzation. was overruled by Judge
John H. Cotteral. Bail in each case
was fixed at $500. Trial OF the men
will be in Enid. carly in September.
Judge Cotteral announced The de-
murrer was argued on the three
counts returned against the men by
the last session OF the grand jury. The
first two virtually were Identical,
charging interference with the cons
scription laws of the United States.
The third demurrer which charged
conspiracy and attempted insurrection
to defeat the draft laws by urging
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