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Show DRMHC FARMERS FROM KENTUCKY Reign of Terror Inaugurated by the Raiders Responsible for Inn of Tobacco Beds. Many Tenant Farmers, Tired of Con- dltlons, Preparing to Leave the State. While Farm Owners Are Placing Their Property on the Market, I I Ixlngton. Ky Ilecnuse of warn-I Ing letters nnd visits from night riders, rid-ers, many farmers In nearly nil of the forty two counties In tho whllo hurley tobacco districts nrc builly destro)lng their tobacco beds and nt tire present time less than one-third nf tho ntim-Iter ntim-Iter usually planted hnxo been start. wl. lu many counties huge signs haxu been erected on buildings nnd In high places near by declaring tho Intention Inten-tion of the farmer not to raise n crop 'this season. Realising the difficulty of making n 111 Ing for tholr families In caku the decision to raise no tobacco Is adhered ad-hered to, many tenant farmers nro I preparing to moxo to other states, ' whllo many farm owners liaxo placed tholr property on tho market xxlth the ntowed puriKtso of leaxlme Ken. tucky. Tho murder nf Farmer Hedges In Mchnlas county, nnd tho raids In Woodford ami other counties last week, have Incrviscd the alarm. In announcing their determination to go t-lsowhvru tho tenants declare that It will be Imiiosalble to tiuhslst mm tho pi Is of crops nf hontp. w hunt nnd li, jo neighborhood nf Mount Storting Stor-ting many farmers hnxo rocelxed threatening letters, with which wero matches, pnwdor nnd poison, and In both farm districts and tobacco towns tinned guards haxo been pluced at the threatened points. |