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Show ANTIPICKETING LAW IS PASSED BY UTAH LEGISLATURE . . . .. - . . - . CONFESSIONS OBTAINED BY AUTHORITIES Startling Statement Is Made by Arkansan, Said to Have Been Picked as First Victim. Three Negroes Slain by Mob in Georgia; Troops Still Besieging Suspects in Canebrakes. HELENA. Ark., Oct. 6. A sitiie-meiit sitiie-meiit was made today on the recent riots by E. M. Allen, of tho committee of seven, authorized by local officers .-aid Governor Brough to investigate the trouble, charging that the affair was an organized negro uprising, fostered by a negro who preyed on "the ignorance igno-rance and superstition of a race of children for monetary gains. ' Mr. Allen, who was one of twenty-one twenty-one leading men marked for death, after af-ter hearing confessions, examining circulars cir-culars and other evidence procured by state and military officers in. connection connec-tion with the work of the committee, i saved the following statement to explain ex-plain what the committee had found to be the situation leading to the killing kill-ing of five white men and upwards of a score of negroes: "The present trouble with the negroes ne-groes in Phillips county is not a race riot. It is a deliberately planned insurrection in-surrection of the negroes against the whites, directed by an organisation known as tho 'Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America, es-' tablished for the purpose of banding negroes together for tho killing of white people. STARTED FOR MONEY-MAKING MONEY-MAKING PURPOSES. "This union wajstarted by Eobert L. Hill, a negro twenty-six years old, of Winchester, Ark., who saw in it an ' opportunity of making easy money. He had been a farmer all his life, but lately had been posing as a 'private detective detec-tive doing work in this and all foreign countries. 1 "He started his first union work in April of this year'. He organized the 'Ratio Lodge' in May of t his year. He told the darkies that he was 'an agent of the government and because the senators sen-ators and representatives in "Washington "Washing-ton were white men and in sympalh: with the white men of the south, it was impossible . for the negroes to get the rights that have been promised them for service in the army and so the government gov-ernment had called into existence this organization which would be supported by the government in defense of the negroes ne-groes against tiie white people. Ho told them it was necessary for all members mem-bers of the union to arm themselves in preparation for the day when they should lie called upon to attack their white oppressors. BATTLE FOR RIGHTS, SLOGAN OF BLACKS. ' ' The slogan of the organization is 'We battle for our rights.' The password pass-word of all tho negroes was 1 We have just begun. ' ''He told tlirin that those members who were unable to buy ammunition would be supplied by flic union from I lie government storehouse at Winchester. Win-chester. ' ' The purely mercenary side of i L develops as follows: "Negro men were charged $1.50 entrance en-trance fees and negro women 50 cents. At tN1 second or third meeting, he would bring Dr. V. E. Powell, of Winchester, Win-chester, with him who purported to be the examining physician fur tiie government gov-ernment in its work of registering the negroes in defense of their rights. A cert if ieatt' was filled out and signed by the doctor and given to each negro upon payment oi 50 eenls. This certificate cer-tificate was HuppoBcrf to be the registration regis-tration d"MMinien1 . Those negroes who (Continued cn Pae 15, Column 1.) meditated as far as the negroes wore eouoi'rtiod, as thoy wor. ovi: a nir.i mr thoir forces Wednesday moraine; to attack and capture 10 la inc. hut when runners Informed In-formed the leaders that while men were entering t he woods at 1 1 oop Spur they decided to ;;o up and wipe out the uani? he tore entcrin:;' upon the more serious task of capturing LOlaine. They under-es under-es Li ma led the si.e of tho force from Helena and the battle resulted. "10 very nero who joined these lodges was e,tven to understand that ultimately he would he called upon to kill white people. peo-ple. V iii ues tUmably, the. time for n t-taok t-taok had been pel, but pla ns had not been entirely perfected, and the shooting of tho. officers brought on Iho Insurrection Insurrec-tion ahead of schedule. "A neither so home used by 1 1 111 to obtain ob-tain money was to appoint leading nouroes or several of them in each lode as 'private and foreign detect I vos.' fur- i nishins t hem with larpre nickel -pla ted stars and a pair of nickel-placed hand cuff, for which they paid him $50 each White Men Participate. "His mooting at Winchester in An trust was at tended and a d dressed by white men. Ho simply played upon the ignorance igno-rance find supers! itlon of a race of childrenmost chil-drenmost of whom neither read nor write. "I havo rro?s-eamlned and talked to at least too prisoners at Elaine. Thoy belong to different lodges in that section. The stories they tell are almost identical as to the promises and representat Ions made by Hill. He even told them that probably some of the negroes would bn called upon to die before 'equal rights' would be assured, but they must look upon themselves as crusaders and die if necessary to secure t he freedom of the other members of their race. "A remarkable thins about the developments develop-ments is that some of the ringleaders were found to be the oldest and most reliable re-liable of the nosroes. whom we have known for the past twenty-five years. "All lodae meetings were reop'ired to maintain an armed 'outer guard' of six sentinels. Hill's continual expression was, 'Get your racks filled for the day to come.' "As far as oppression is concerned, many of the negroes involved own mules, horses, cattle and automobiles, and clear money every year on their crops after expenses ex-penses are paid.'' iFEsiislir TOJUTIfiillTIES Arkansan Picked as First Victim Makes Startling Statement. (Continued Trom Page One.) wore jiossosroil of funds in amounts from $5 to $-5 were enrolled in :in advanced ad-vanced section of tho union and upon payment of whatever sum he (Hill) could procure in excess of Ti a certificate cer-tificate was given ?ntitlinsl tho holder to attend the congresses of tho union at Winchester and speak on the floor of the meeting resrardini; any questions brought up and to assist in keeping the constitution of the VniW States from being questioned. ANOTHER FORM OF EXTORTION PRACTICED. "Another lorin of extortion was to sell shares of $10 caoh to the negroes in a proposed building to be ereetcvl bv the union nt Winchester. Kill had so plnnivd his campaign that any negro ne-gro possessing front fifty cents to fifty dollars was pven an opportunity to invest in something connected with the union. "He then advised the members that tho general attorney of the union in Lit tic Kock would, for an additional consideration, represent all of the negroes ne-groes in their seti lenient with landlords du rin g the gi n n i n g s e :i so n . He w e n t to several of the meetings with typewritten type-written powers of attorney, which he had signed by tNe negroes collecting amounts to and $o0 and pledging pnvment of the balance of $"0 each with the crop as security. "He further told the negroes that the p'.an of Secretary Lane' to provide homesteads home-steads for the soldiers had been carried out where the white soldiers were concerned, con-cerned, but the negroes had been refused re-fused participation in it. NEGRO SOLDIERS ' ALSO DEFRAUDED. "We found where negro soldiers at Elaine had sold their discharge papers for sums ranging- from $o0 to $100 on the theory that such discharge entitled the holder to forty acres of government land. He produced government maps of state lands in the Klaine country, which, he said, could be bought for $200. This amount was raised and paid to him. The land was all described and certain negroes had designated which parts of the various farms (all in cultivation) they dasired to take over for themselves after the white people had been driven off. "He urged all lodges to decide upon a plan of campaign when the day came to strike and designated the part to be played by every man. He told them that the government was erecting at Winchester Win-chester three huge storehouses where arms, ammunition and trained soldiers would be ready for instant use. On Wednesday morning, after the first-fight at Hoop Spur, the negroes crossed the track and lay in the weeds all day waiting wait-ing for Hill's army to materialize. They were within easy range of automobiles going to and from Hoop Spur all day and could easily have fired into them, but they wished to wait for Hill's army in order to clean up in one feli swoop. "The fight at Hoop Spur was unpre- |