The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-15
LASH, TAR AND ... 1 FEATHER L.W.W.'S
Tulsa. Ok, Men Wearing Masks and Long Black Robes Apply se- were observation-disclosures or
 Victims Making Threats.

Tnlsa. Ok. Nov. i0.-Three motor oor loads of |. w. W's, in charge of nolicemen. were halted on Boulder .venue. near Archer, last night at M fl o'clock by crowd of men garbed in long black robes and wearing hIaek masks. The officers were forced to drive their prisoners to a secluded spot west of Irving Place, q where. with impressive ceremonies, each of the |. w. WIS was lashed with a cal-o'- -nine-tails Then a coal of hot tar was applied to the bleeding back and feathers applied.
 With each stroke of the brush the black robed man in charge of the ceremony uttered the words; Tn the name of the outraged women and children of Belgium.
 Rifle Shots Hurried Them. With nothing on but their trous- CTS. the men were started toward fine Osage Hills. Hundreds of rifle and revolver shots were fired in the air. and they speG into the inky darkness of the night. The officers were ordered to drive their prisoners and members of the mob, clinging to the running boards flo a wooded rayine two miles from lhe city
 strip to the waist ordered a spokesman. And the seventeen prisoners were made Co remove their clothing.
 One by one they were tied tu a tree and lashed with "blaeksnake' whip
 Each received sixty lashes, the leader counting aloud as each blow was struck The whipping did not cease until blood ran from each mans back
 The biggest men in the mob took turns at the whipping The vic tins begged and pleaded and screamed in pain, but the man with the lash never paused in his work.
 Avenged Women of France.
 Take this for the women and children of France a whipper would shout.
 Take this for the little fatherless children of France one cried.
 And the mob murmured it's ap- proval.
 When the seventeen men stood in circle with bleeding backs, some one shouted bring on the hot tar.
 From a nearby kettle buckets of steaming pitch were brought and the fluid was applied to the bleed- ing back of each of the seventeen.
 Bring on the feathers. some one said.
 And twenty of the mob came with sacks from which they took hand fuls of feathers and smeared into the tar.
 Run and Run Fast
 Now beat it." shouted the spokes- man. Hit out thru the woods away from Tulsa and never come back again. And run and run fast
 Not one of the seventeen hesitat- cd, Wearing nothing but trousers and shoes and their feathers, they ran away thru the woods.
 The Victims.
 The names of the deported [ w. WIS, according to the records at police headquarters were as fol- lows; John McCurry, Tom McCaf- fery John Myers, E. NJ. Boyd, John Doyle, Charles Walsh, w. H. Wal ion, Jack Sneed. L. NJ. Mitchell, Joe French. J. R. Hill Bernard Johnson, Bob Mcdonald, John Fitzsimmons, Joe Fisher, Gordon Dimikrow and J. F. Ryan.
 When the residence at Tulsa of J Edgar Pew, vice president of the Garter Oil Company, was blown up October 20 by a nitroglycerin bomb, city, county, state and federal offl- eials asserted it was asserted it was the premature breaking of gigantic !. w. w plot to terrorize the oil industry of which Tulsa is the center. The reign of terror was scheduled to be launched November | Many of the leaders were ar rested, and the reign of terror has not been carried out to any extent.