The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-06
GOVERNMENT
TO DEMAND
EXECUTION OF
ALL RESISTERS
Charges of Treason to Be
Preferred Against Okla
homa Bandits Who Object
to Draft.
TWO men ARE KILLED

MUSKOGEE. Okla. August Omit
ed States District Attorney McGinnis
announced this afternoon that the men
| arrested on charges OF resisting the
draft, In connection with the Oklaho-
ma uprising will be tried for treason
and that the death penalty will be
asked by the government.
District Attorney McGinnis has sent
two deputy attorneys to the infested
district of the state to gather evi-
dence
Three Men Killed.
Three men have been killed in the
four days OF guerilla warfare In which
hundreds Of heavily armed men have
stalked each other through the rough
and tfmbered country. Wallace Car.
gill, an aged leader of the objectors,
was killed Friday.
Full blooded Indians. many Of whom
at first, were reported to be among the
hostile bands Of government enemies.
have rendered valuable assistance in
hunting down the resisters. They
have followed trails over the difficult
country that would have been impos-
| sible for white possemen to have no.
ticed.
Although many Of the tenant farm
ers who have neglected their crops to
take to the warpath have sent in word,
usually by women. that they were
redy to surrender and return to their
civil pursuits, officials said that sev-
eral Of those still at large are among
the more dangerous element.
They expressed the belief, however.
that with the augmented force of pos
semen in the field today the uprising
| would soon be brought to an end
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Angus,
6.-The center Of the uprising OF arm.
ed bands of objectors to the selective
draft which for nearly a week has
spread terror through four central
Oklahoma counties. changed today
from Seminole county to Huges coun
ty, where two men were killed and
two were injured last night.
Shortly before midnight, Ed Blay
lock, an objector, was shot to death
near Holdensville and two members
of the posse which his band encoune-
cred, were wounded.
Later, J. F. Moose Of Okemah was
shot and killed as he drove a motor
car toward Holdensville.
He was apparently unaware Of con-
ditions that had resulted in a Gordon
of armed men being thrown around
the town. He was killed when he
did not heed or hear an order to stop.
Possemen Start Out.
It was reported that one Of the
wounded possemen, Jack Paige, had
been carried off by the resisters and
a heavy reinforcement of possemen
started to his rescue. 1t developed
that Paige had not been captured and
1t was expected that the posse which
went to his aid would capture the
band.
More than two hundred members of
the various bands-mostly Of the poor
tenant farmer class, with number
OF negroes and few Indians-had
been placed under arrest today and it
was announced from the base Of oper
ations at Sasakwa, Seminole county,
that with the exception Of two bands.
lieved the section had been cleared
of organization Of the malcontents.
Among the resisters captured are
said to be several Of the leaders Of
the plot, while at least three Of the
men held responsible for spreading
the propaganda with the mythical
promises that resulted in the uprising
are believed to be large. 1t was indi-
Gated that their names are known and
officials expressed the belief that
with their capture. the outbreak will
be put down completely.