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Show KU KLUX run ram NAMED IN SUIT i . CITY EDITOR OF EL PASO TIMES TWIN BRINGS ACTION FOR TO DAMAGES Artli'e Declaring Newspaper Man Dead Was Placed In Jail (or Driving Mi Car While Intoxicated, Intoxi-cated, Cited 151 Paso, Tex. Tho Ku Klux Klnn Twin Is namott In n suit for ?W),000 dnmagos myatorj filed In stnto court here Tuesday by celobral Hal F. IColloy, city editor of tho El hero w Paao Tlmos. bura 11 0 L. Slrmnna, S. J. Issacks, Chnrlos Filer, d DcGrotf. J. A. Bordors, J. M. Craw- hoaplta ford and W. J. Moron, named In the suit of petition . na " dofcndiints, "with many grains others whoso names aro unknown to weeks i tho plaintiff." nro alleged to ho pub- colvod Ushers of a weekly "shoet" known as jicr the Frontier Klnnsmnn. sopaml It Is alleged that Slrranns, who modioli "purports to ho tho owner anil editor that It of tho Fronllar Klunsman, Is hired by beon I tho defendants, and tho dofondnnts wns re nro responsible for tho nets complain- with c( cd about." ' denied V. J .Moran Is nllogod In tho potl- that h tlon 'to bo tho 'owner of tho printing sendlni establishment "whoro tho ahcot" Is sent I)uhlIahod. th0 ,cr It is fiirthor nllogod that tho "or- nllogod gnnlzatlon meets In tho dark and se- Eari3 cret and rcfusos to dlBClose tho names wn8 nI of Its momhors. whllo at tho anmo Hurst tlmo It makes claim that Its momhors shortl nro all 100 por cent Americans: that rCli tli It poes as, a power for Rood and that strlckc It clnlms an nll-soelng oyo; that In- though stond of bolntr n power for good In mally tho community, It has had tho op- his wll poslto offoct In this community, and thoy s that whoro before thero existed a togotlu spirit of harmony and cooporntlon portod thero Is now suspicion nnd distrust." numhe C. L. Slrmnns Is nnmcd as ono of reason tho fow who admits his momborahlp mol. nnd calla himself "kllgcraph," and as such has chargo of tho roster of mom- Immlgi l.n..hln TIfin |