Show TROOPERS RULE COUNTI COUNTY PLACED UNDER MARTIAL LAW BY GOVERNORS ORDERS governors charge of lawlessness and terror bewilders general command of okmulgee action a surprise okmulgee olila okla okmulgee county declared by govenor J C walton to be in a state ol of lawlessness and disorder amounting I 1 to insurrection action against the civil law was under the rulo rule of the military forces ot of oklahoma wednesday and with the coming of 0 the military a bis big part of the countes coun tys population ula tion at least still bewildered by the governors sudden move was lo locking about lor for evidences ot of the condition ot of lawlessness and terror described by tile executive in his proclamation cla ot of martial law I 1 supreme command in the county is vested in brigadier general alva J niles ot of tulsa tuisa who was to lo arrive here wednesday morning whether tile the courts or any other branches bra 0 of the civil government goern ment shall continue functioning rests in the military commanders hands bands rational national guard units from tulsa oklahoma city muskogee and wo we dumka numbering number inz in all about and including machine gunners were to arrive during the morning local officers of the law either cannot or will not suppress the breaches of the peace the governor de declared lared in his proclamation which was accompanied with a statement signed by three okmulgee e county citizens detailing alleged abuses ot of power by the force of 0 sheriff john kussell and declaring the sheriff had been utterly indifferent to a series or ol depredations which threatened serious riots |