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Show !& KILLED 1 INMTTLE I amiBH FIQHT FOLLOWS ATTEMPT OP H AQENT8 TO OBTAIN WORKERS ! FROM PLANTATIONS Conflicting Reports Result In Charge Hsfl That Planters Sought te EsV Drive Agents From IH Nsgre Quarters isliH Vlcksburg. Threo men were killed fl and throe wounded ln a gun and pistol mM battle botween labor agents nnd plant- H ers at Duckport, La., on tho Missis- 11 slppl river noar here Saturday. aH Two men, Weston and Dangerfleld HJH came to Vlcksburg la a gasollao boat WM nnd went to tho pollco station whore HH thoy reported tho battle, H Roports of tho clrcumstancos lead- HH lng to tho tronblo wore conflicting. EaH Weston told authorities that Jake IbS Stevens, negro Intror agent, nnd htm- BH self, wero engaged by It. L. Klrtloy flU representing the Black rlvor (Land IS company, near VlckBburg, to go to H-H Duckport to get four ot flvo negro families who woro to work on th HH land company's plantation. H Accompanlod by Stevens and sov II oral otliors, ho ran his boat to a point fflH near Duckport. Fifteen or twenty H whl to men and negroes woro on the H rlvor bank. Thoy hailed the boat H and he mado for tho landing when H tho mon on shore opened flro with lH automatic guns and pistols, Weston H Stovons bad n revolver and returned B tho fire, according to tho story. A B socond fulslllado of shots from Uu H mon on shore brought Stoves and BVJ two others on tho bargo own. Wcs- H ton eald ho cut tho boat loose from H tho bargo find drifted down with HB Dangerflold. He said the men on HHJ shore continued to flro at his beat HHl until It was out of range. HBl Sheriff Andrew Sevier and District VH Attorney Jotf B. Snyder ot Madison BVJ parish, mado nn investigation of tin HHfl shooting and the latter declared ha BB will prosecute tho men who engaged flVJ Weston and Stevens tor going to H Louisiana to get labor, trespassing HHl and for shooting. BVJ Tho district nttornay said the man H arrived at a placo between Delta H point nnd Duckport nt midnight. Thoy HB went to tho negro quarters of a VB plantation and attempted to persuad BBj tho negroes to loavo nnd raised a dls- BBJ turbaurc. Tho homo negroos sent BBj word to tho planters, nnd In a short BBj time sovornl plantoro had como upon BB tho scono nnd asked what tho men BB wanted. Thoy nnsworod by firing nt BVJ tho planters, nnd according to the 'jH district attorney, tho phmtres ro BBj turned the flro. BB |