The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-06
Mob Operation Suddenly Shifts
to Hughes County, Okla.
More Than 200 Members of Va
rious Bands Now in Jail.
NORTHUMBERLAND is KILLED
Riding in. Auto Didn't Heed Call
of Posse to Halt.
Mythical Promises of Land
Grabbing Cause Uprising.

Oklahoma City, Aug. 6.-With the
uprising of organized armed bar DIS OF.
directors to the selective draft that
for nearly a week has spread reign
of terror thruoout four central south
ern Oklahoma counties. thought to
have been brought under control and
the seat of the trouble isolated in
Seminole county with sufficient heav-
lily armed posses to hurriedly stamp
it out, the war map unexpected.
shifted late last night to Hughes
county. Two men were killed, two
others wounded and the resulting con-
dition has not been cleared up early
today.
More than two hundred members of
the various bands-mostly OF tho poor
tenant farmer class with a sparse
sprinkiing of negroes and fewer In
dians-had been placed under arrest
last night, and it was announced from
the base of the posses operations at
Sasakwa, Seminole county, that with
the exception of two bands, one COM
paratively strong. it was believed the
section had been cleared of organiza-
ton of the malcontents. With the as
sistance of representatives of the fed
eral marshaPs and district attorneys
offices, who will arrive today, it was
hoped that but little difficulty would
be encountered in running down and
prosecuting the registers.
Director Shot Dead.
Early last night it was reported that
trouble was brewing in Hughes conn-
ty and shortly before midnight Ed
Blaylock, an objector. was shot to
death near Holdenville and two. men,
bers of the posse his band encounter
ed, were wounded. 1t was reported
that one of the wounded possernen-
Jack Paige, had been carried off by
the rioters and a heavy reinforcement
of possemen started to his rescue.
Later it developed that Paige had not
been captured and it was hoped early
today that the posse which went to his
aid might effectively dispose of that
certain band.
Later J. F. Moose of Okemah, was
shot and killed as he drove a motor car
toward Holdenville. He apparently
was unaware of conditions that had
resulted in Gordon of armed citizens
being thrown completely around the
town.. He was killed when he did not
heed or hear an order to stop. Among
the resisters captured are said to be
several of the leaders, while at least
three of the men held responsible for
spreading the propaganda with the
mythical promises that resulted in the
uprising are believed still to be at
large. 1t was indicated that their
names are known and officers express
ed the belief that with their capture
the outbreak, already in a. stage of
disintegration, will be put down COM
pletely.
Three Total Number Killed.
With the death last night of two
men, but three men have been killed
in the four days of guerilla warfare in
which hundreds of heavily armed
men have stalked each other thru the
rough and timbered country. Wal
lace Cagill an aged leader of the OBJ
jectors was killed Friday.
| Full blood. 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,
mostly Seminoles, have followed trails
over the difficult country that would
have been impossible for the white
possemen to have noticed. In some
| instances they have brought in pris-
oners singlehanded. One old Indian
came upon a party of three women
| but heard one speak in a coarse voice.
| He damned his rifle into the bonnetted
ones ribs, the bonnet flying off and
disclosing a bald head. The objector
was marched to town and there being
no place to imprison him, the Indian
tied him up with a chain and stood
guard until relieved to further pursue
| his hunt.
Ready to Surrender.
Many of the tenant farmers who
have neglected their crops to take to
the war path sent Mn word yesterday,
usually by women, that they were
ready to surrender and return to their