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Show TROOPERS RULE OKLAHOMA COUNTY COUNTY PLACED UNDER MARTIAL MAR-TIAL LAW BY GOVERNOR'S ORDERS Governor's Charge of Lawlessness And Terror Bewildcs General Command of Okmulgee; Action a Surprise- Okmuk-ee, dkla. (ikmuk-ee county, declared by Govrnor .1. C. Walton to be In a state of lawlessness and disorder dis-order amounting to Insurrection against the civil law, was under the rule of the military forces of Oklahoma Okla-homa Wednesday. And with the cotnln; of the military, mili-tary, a Id,- part of the county's pop. ulation, at least, still bewildered ty the i'0ernor's sudden move, was looking about for evidences of "the condition of lawlessness and terror" described by the executive in his pro. i -Initiation of martial law. Supremo command In th" county Is vest.-d in l'-rkadl-r (b n. ral Aha J. Nkc.-i of Tuls i, who was to arrie h'-re We.lne-d.iy mornin.-. Wln-ih't tho courts or any other branches o' the chll government shall continue functioning rests In the military com. man d'-r's hands. Nation I ttu.ird units fr-.m TuNa. til.lahotna Cily. Muskovee and Wc tutu!. a, n-imb'-rin; In ail about 'Jen. and im ludin.- machine pinners, were to nr. he durln,- th" mornin.-. "Local offlc. rs ' f th- law cither onnn.'t or will not supprer-s the bre.T-ln s of (be p.-a -e." (tie cmfrn-T d'-'lar. 1 In bis proclamation, whbh was accompanied wdh a statement signed by tbr. e iikinul.-ee county 1 1 1 -ens detailing nlb-.-cl nbus.-s of power by the force of Sheriff John t!.-!l and de.-ar!n.- Iho ii'ieri'f bad been "utterly Indifferent" to n series of d'-predatlons which thr.-a'cned "serious riots." |