The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07
ASKS DEATH FOR:
ODRAFT FOES
Federal Prosecutor Serves
Warrants Charging Okla
hOmans With Treason.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 6.-Without
waiting for a conclusion Of the States
campaign against organized resistance
to the selective draft in central Okla
homa the United States Government to-
day moved to punish the 200 men under
arrest in connection with armed opposi-
ton to military service.
Warrants charging treason were
served on the prisoners, who were taken
to the penitentiary at McAlester or the
jail at Muskogee to await trial United
States District Attorney w. p. McGinnis
will ask that the death penalty be i'm
posed.
Announcement that extreme punish
ment would be asked was expected to
aid materially in bringing to terms the
few resisters still sheltered in the hills.
Posses in three counties-Seminole
Hughes and Pottawatomie-repor to-
night that isolated groups refused to
surrender, but that they apparently were
discouraged and seeking TO avoid an
encounter.
Except for the fact that several agi-
tators, regarded as leaders in the dis
turbance and dangerous to remain at
large, are among those maintaining a
be inclined to let the bands break up.
confident that the less important men,
bers could be arrested later.
Determination of the posse men to run
down all OF the leaders was strengthened
to-day by conflscation OF a freight car
half full OF dynamite which had been
run on a siding southeast OF Saskwa, in
Seminole county. An investigation Ii
being made to establish ownership. The
car was unaccompanied.
Clashes between the resisters and
posses have cost three lives and numeT-
! Gus injuries Two obJectors to the draft
have been killed and a traveller was
! shot when he failed to heed a posse Z
warning to halt.
1t has been learned that unrest has
existed in the affected district for more
| than two years. Agitators belonging tc
| the working Glass Union" and Jones
Family" and similar organizations cul-
| tivated discomfort due to economic con
| ditions OF the poor tenant farmer class
and when drawings were made for the
National Army the outbreak resulted.
Sheriff Turner, at Holdenville. late to
night reported a skirmlsh between citi
/ zens and objectors, in which William
| McCuen, a deputy. was wounded slightly
Correspondence found at Holdenvill,
| officers OF the Working Glass Union. in
| dicating that the membership of the or
| ganisation might be as high as $1,000
| Officers were inclined to-believe the mum
| ber too large for Oklahoma alone.
| EVANSVILLE, Ind. Aug. 6-Followinl
what Is declared to have been an at
4. tempt to do bodily harm to Frank S
Lamonte, Socialist candidate for Mayo
OF Evansville, at Elberfeld, a small tow
north OF here. last Saturday night, La
monte, who has been touring southern
Indiana speaking in opposition to tn
selectiye draft. has toned down his at
tack on the measure.
Lamonte had just finished his talk a
Elberfeld and got into a machine witt
his wife and baby to return here whel
an automobile containing six men ap
peared. One of the. men yelled to La
monte, who ordered his driver to pro
ceed. For three miles over countr
roads the machines raced. At n turr
when his car was hidden from his pur
suers for a moment. Lamonte, his wifi
and baby jumped out and the drive
proceeded with the other machine sti
in pursuit. The Lamontes spent the nigh
at q farmhouse.
Lamonte. declaring that the law wa
unconstitutional, had been advising con
scripted men that they did not have I
60 to war.