Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-08-04
,,rcrr PLOT TO DESTROY
>" y,p\ ,BY THRESHING OUTFIT
Wen out Under Bond For
Planting Dynamite In Oats

II:IV1llp OutN
4. .br result of an alleged plot to
.,trov thrcShing outfit, engaged
@ .trc.trr oats for a farmer who
u r,, u member of the Farm-Labor
- seven men, all living near
v.r,hy Thursday, were arrested
L. =" amc evening charged with
,nmrlia'y =. in the plot. The men un-
yr Ir ,rr,s are r. L. Bedwell, V. T.
Tr.lry. lin Wells, X. l.. Paison, f.
S.,,on Walter McTce and G. w.
,nsr Nost of these men are men
q GOOD >tandng in the Yarnaby com
mrnitv. where the plot is alleged to
saya born hatched. and almost. car
red ont. The arrests were made fol-
iovirr Investigations by Deputy
Sheriff F'chicson and Boydstun. The
won were all released on bond Friday.
Down two miles north of Yarnaby
live. G.. &. Jones. who was a member
n ,hr Farm-Labor Union, and who
!. at ,hi, time one of Sheriff Taylor's
IDENTITIES. The early reports said that
lone, had been expelled from the un-
ion, but other reports say that he
cav the radical bolshevist tendencies
n the organization and withdrew of
his own accord.
Jones was threatened in all sorts
Of way. he says. He was told that
he would be boycotted in every con-
eivahp way. This was given in
threats To his face and in underhand-
ed ways both, he says. He was told
that he would not be able to get his
Uain thrcshed. and that he would not
be able to get any help in any way
in his crops. The intimidation did
not work with Jones, who went about
bis business in his own way.
Malcolm Henry, who operates a
hre>hng machine. was also asked,
then told, not to thresh grain for
Jones. He also was immune to threats
and intimidation, and went about his
own business of threshing grain for
people who had it to thresh. The
threats increased. and his last warn
ing is said to have predicted dire
things should he attempt to thresh
for Jones.
Wednesday evening he "made a set"
in Jones field to thresh Jones grain.
Thursday morning the work started,
but before long, two iron rods, which
are said to have been secreted in oats
bundcS, were run through the separ-
ator and the result was disaster to
the machine, and the work tempora-
Hy stopped.
Examination Of hundreds of other
bundles of oats was made by the
'hcriff'S force. Sheriff Taylor told
representative of this paper Friday
morning that in eleven bundles of
oats sticks of dynamite had been Sc
cretrd. Any one of these sticks of
destruction would have torn a thresh-
er 70 atoms and killed every man
within twenty feet, probably killed
the entire thresher force.
The ucople of the community are
worked up to high pitch over the
mci1rnt, The very fact that union
memhrr> would resort to violence of
,lch kind toward men who did not
!on their organization. has caused a
mil To run up the backs of hundreds
o. pr"n'c, who do not tolerate wanda
Sm and roughneckism.
Al the county convention of the
Nfm labor union held here Saturday
resolution was passed condemning
sucn tactics by members of the or
low:
"Nhcrcas, it has come to the at
~n'lon Of this organization that cer-
"lh oi ITS members are charged with
al attempt to destroy property of
certain citizens of said county by use
OF explosives,
And. whereas. such conduct on
ne m Nart of any one is contrary to
'nc constitution and spirit of this or
saniHation and in violation of the
fundamental principles of this gov
.'nlneht' therefore, we, the F. L. U.
a. IN county convention assembled,
W hrrrby condemn such acts or at
N"'n'ed acts of violence and will
e"d'y cooperate with our officers
" Drlng the guilty to justice.
This july 90 1000