BLACK AND WHITE.

Northern Advocate, 12 January 1912, Page 2

BLACK AND WHITE.

RACE WAR IN AMERICA.

Oklahoma > one of the latest States to be admitted to the Union, is just as prone as some of the older Southern States to conflicts between whites and negroes. A serious race war occurred there last month, v.bich. was quelled only ♦after State militia had been ordered into the town cf Cowota. Several lives were lost, including that of J. B. Beavers, the city attorney, and a negro was lynched. The trouble started when a colored man named Ruse was alleged to have jostled a white girl off the sidewalk into the mud. The girl's escort beat the negro with his fists, while anothe." white man held him. A second negro named Sud<leth interfered, and opening fire with his revolver, killed the city attorney, who was standing by, and wounded two other men. Then the crowd took Suddeth, put a rope aLout his and swung him up. Before he was dead, however, they lowered him, fearing to precipitate a general race war. Suddeth's respite was but short. As the sheriff attempted to take him in an automobile to gaol the crowd opened fire on the colored man and killed him. Probably 50 shots entered his body. Following this, outrages occurred all over the country, white farmers being attacked rat several points. The negroes, who are numerous in that part of the country, began to organise to march in a body to Cowota, which is a settlement of 1200 people. However, the arrival of the militia ended the trouble. Many arrests of colored people were made, and all negroes were searched for aims.