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Show Thousand Oidahomans After Armed Bands of Draft Objectors. i j ARDMORE, Okla., Aug. 4. A posse guarding a highway near Stonewall In Pontotoc county exchanged a bom 40 shots with a band of alleged draft rcsisters early today. None was Injured. In-jured. A detail of national guard cavalry cav-alry has left Wevoka for the troubled districts. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 4. Indulgfcg in a dream of revolution and defying the draft law. half a dozen armed bands of tenant farmers, half-breed half-breed Indians and negroes arc running rampant throughout five counties In east central Oklahoma today. As the disturbed territory is about -100 miles long by 90 miles wide, -the topography of which is rugged and full of thickets, only nn estimate can be made of the total number of rioters, riot-ers, this being placed variously at 500 to 1500. . One thousand armed possemen, with orders to shoot to kill, began a drive at dawn on 400 of the draft resistors who were said to be encamped near Sasakwrt, in Seminole county, where the anarchistic campaign was reported report-ed to have had. its birth. Hard Fight Expected Determined resistance is expected. Last night rioters burned a railway bridges In Hughes county, another near Tyrola and a third near Maud. Telephone and telegraph wires were cut at many points. The districts affected af-fected include Pontotoc, Seminole, Okmulgee, Ok-mulgee, Pittsburg and 'Hughes counties. coun-ties. Some of the troublo is reported to have been caused by the dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion of tenant farmers. Large blocks of land, owned by landlords residing' in the larger cities, are rented out in small farms to tenants whose poverty has been marked for many years. More or less friction between the landlords and tenants has occurred for years owing to differences of opinion evictions and alleged efforts to con- trol elections, according to the testl-j mony before the Industrial relations I committee in 1915. ' OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.. Aug. 4. More than' 1,000 possemen, with orders to "shoot to kill," at dawn today began be-gan the search for armed bands of draft objectors who for the past few days have terrorized central Oklahoma. Okla-homa. The objectors made their first appearance ap-pearance in Seminole county, from which the disorder spread to Pottawatomie, Potta-watomie, Hughes and Pontotoc counties. coun-ties. Tenant farmers, Indians and negroes are said to compose the half dozen or so bands of objoctors. One band is said to number 400 men. Objectors Led by Agitators Predominating among the objoctors are said to be members of the Working Class union with a membership of 300 with a sprinkling of Industrial Work-ors Work-ors of the World ugltators and a smaller, apparently local group, known as the "Jones family." The motto of the rioters is said to be "This is a rich man's war. Let us fight to the death at home rather than be killed in the trenches." Destroying Property jue oojeciors ycsieruay paruaiiy destroyed two railroad bridges and cut telephone and telegraph wires into various towns outside which they gathered. The first clash with the authorities was reported near Ada last night, but a report from there early today declared de-clared that the- officors had encountered encoun-tered no resistance and that but ono band of sixty men had been sighted. Sheriff Robert Duncan, of Seminole county, led a posso of forty men against the objectors and captured twenty men. Ten wore found to have been Impressed into the rnnks of the resistors and were roleasd. The others were Jailed at Ada MUSKOGEE, Okla., Aug. 4. W. G. Humphrey, general superintendent of the Missouri,, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad, rail-road, received word this morning that Ian M.. O. & G.' bridge near Calvin, eighty miles south of Muskogee, -in Hughes county, was burned last night. All wires have been cut and details wore not obtained. , |