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Show .BATTLE WITH NEGROES. Men In Search of Alleged Cattle Thieves Given Warm Reception. Guthrie, Okln. On the scene ot tho famous Creek Indian uprising ot last year at Hickory settlement, threo negroes were killed, many wounded nnd forty negroes captured In n battlo bat-tlo between twenty deputy sheriffs nnG i00 negroes. Tho fighting began late Wednesday aftornoon and continued con-tinued with interruptions until 1 o'clock Thursday. A posso of five deputies went from Henrietta, eighteen miles to tho negro ne-gro settlement to arrest cattlo thloVcs thought to bo concealed in a negro's houso. Tho deputies wero met nt ho outer edgo of tho camp by a party of armed negroes who rofuscd .to nl-low nl-low them to enter. Tho deputies persisted per-sisted nnd wero fired upon. Outnumbered, Out-numbered, tho fivo mon tied for reinforcements, rein-forcements, when lighting continued throughout tho night. At daybreak firing censed and neither party mndo another move until 10 o'clock, when tho doputy sheriffs renewed their attack. at-tack. About 300 shots wero fired In tho Inst encounter, when the noarncs were dislodged nnd (led. Tho posso pursued nnd captured forty. |