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Show RACE WAR IN OKLAHOMA. Trouble Started by Negro Pushing White Girl From Sidewalk Into Mud. Coweta, Okla. Kd. Suddeth, a negro, ne-gro, was shot to death Sunday night by a mob of citizens, who had armed themselves following a battle Sunday Sun-day afternoon between blacks and whites In which Suddeth killed J. L. Heavers, city attorney, and wounded Carmen Oliver and Stellar Thoni-son, Thoni-son, white men. Suddeth was wounded wound-ed and then strung up to a water tank, but was cut down '-fore being strangb-d tn death. Leaders of the mob kept hlin captive In a vacant building. At night Deputy Sheriff Flowers attempted to tiike the slayer to Wagoner to jail. As the negro was being lifted Into an automobile the mob opened fire on him. Probably (Hty sho's entered his bedy. The trouble started when a telegraph tele-graph operator named Swazer was j walkln? with a y ung woman and I Kd Ku a r.egro. In passing, pushed the girl from the sidewalk Into the mud. A race war Is the result, and further trouble is expected at any moment. |