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Show A CLERGYMAN TERRI3UY MISUSED. I White Cue. W h.paoUOUierwUa Abuae Hlaa U lle-pa, tA at. Ransvs t in. Sept. ft. White cap, on Tuesday U'ghl, o brutally maltreated mal-treated Henry S nith. a clergyman who live in a lonely pice of wO-kIs near Keno. Kan . that Ins life U despaired cf. Five mounted men. dressed in w.iiie. and wiih Ion p.ked cip on their heads, surrounded his house, and a he refused to open the door they burst it in. A gunny sack was thrown over his head, and he was dragged out and the sack made fast by a rope lo the pommel of the s while of one of the party, and he was dragged' through the wood a distance of a mile, the horse going at a fast gallon. Alter amusing themselves In tins manner until Ihev were tired, the W h ie j Caps stripped Smith naked ami fa-teneil j hiui to the ground bv means of forked j sticks, his arms and legs extended, and beat him mercilcslv with wil.ow H w as left unconscious and bleeding, ami when found yesterday was unable to .peak or move. He s removed t neighbor's house and medical aid summoned, sum-moned, but if is doubtful whether ho will survive. Hu Is about to fr,':'r, at'C and the onlv objection which the White ( wps had to him was that he ha.1 proposed to a widow of to ho the neighborhood. |