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! Classified Advertising RATES—2 cents a word for single In sertions; 1% cent a word for two or more Insertions. No advertisement taken for less than 25 cents, Cash should accom pany advertisement. WANTED—A competent operatoi for hairdressing, facial massage and manicuring; good salary and perma nent position; railroad fare refunded after six months’ service. Address Mrs. Thompson’s Beauty Shop, Laurel Bldg., Muscatine, Iowa. DESIRABLE ROOMS FOR RENT Furnished rooms, strictly modem, one block from 24th street car line. Men only. Call Webster 4012. 4t First class rooming house, steam heat, bath, electric lights on Dodge and 24th street car line. Mrs. Anna Banks, 924 North 20th. Douglas 4379. Neatly furnished rooms for light housekeeping. 2901 Seward. Call evenings after six. First-class modem furnished room. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, xlo* North Twenty-sixth street. f*hOB* Webster 4769. . Nicely furnished room in modern home; 2604 Decatur street. Webster 4490. 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Guy B. Robbins. FOR SALE 3616 Patrick, 7 rooms, all modem, $3,000; $500 down, terms 18th and Paul, 9 rooms, all modem. $3,000; $500 cash, terms. 2913 Grant, 5 rooms, modem, except heat, $1,800; $200 down; terms. See Reed, Webster 5660. For Rent—Six-room apartments. For further particulars call W. H. Robinson. Douglas 1446. LODGE DIRECTORY Keystone Lodge. No. 4 K. of P , Omaha. Neb. Meetings first ant third Thursday* of each month. M H. Hazzard. C. C ; J. H. Glover, K. of R. and S. Ask the grocer, merchant, etc., with whom you trade: “Do you advertise in our paper, The Monitor?" Snow’s College of Dressmaking Fall term will open September 2. En roll now. Mrs. C. Ridley, 1922 North 25th St. DRUG STORES ADAMS HAIGHT DRUG CO., 24th and Lake; 24th and Fort, Omaha, Neb. «xf«x*aaaaaaaaaaa<4>*S“>aaaaaaaa 2 Res Colfax 3831. Office Doug. 7812 X 2 AMOS F. 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The Negroes had read and heard all about the East St. Louis, Washington and Chicago riots, and knew of the secret Ku Klux Klan movements among the white people in the south. They knew that race hatred on the part of white people was increasing by leaps and bounds and that riots were liable to break out in that section at any time. They were simply preparing to defend their homes and lives, for experience had trueht them that Negroes have no pro tection at the hands of the law. The police and deputy sheriffs either re fuse to check the mobs or else they join hands with the mobs. The as sembling of arms was for purely de fensive purposes. No Negro was fool enough to think of an "Insurrection” against white people. White Bully Paid to Start Trouble While the white men were meeting secretly and discussing means of “nipping the niggers in the bud." mat ters came to a head very suddenly in an unexpected way. On Sunday be fore the riot, John Clem, a white man from Helena, came to Elaine loaded up and drunk on “white mule." He proceeded to bully and terrorize the whole Negro population of over four hundred people by continuous gun play. The Negroes, to avoid trouble got off the streets, and phoned the sheriff at Helena. He failed to act. Monday Clem was still on a rampage. The Negroes avoided trouble because they feared that his acts were a part of a plan to start a race riot. Tues day some Negroes were holding a meeting in a church. A deputy sheriff anjj a "special agent.” white, and a Negro trusty came by in an auto. The white men stopped and proceeded to "investigate" the meeting. They were refused admittance. They attempted to break in and fired into the building. Some Negroes returned the fire, kill ing the special agent and wounding the deputy sheriff, so it is said. How ever, when the Negro trusty reported the shooting, he said that they bad been fired upon from ambush by two white men and a Negro. The wounded deputy also first reported that the party had been fired upon from am bush by two white men and he was quite sure he saw a Negro running from the scene. I-ater all mention of the white men was carefully avoided and suppressed, and the entire blame was laid upon the Negroes at the church and it was charged that all of them were armed, arid that the white men were proceeding peaceably on the road and only got out to fix their car which Just happened to break down right in front of this particular church, and that the Negroes fired on them without any provocation what ever. I-ater another white man was fired on and it was claimed that he just happened to be coming along the I road an hour later and was shot, by Negroes who were at the same church. I It never seemed for a moment un reasonable to the white men to be lieve that the Negroes would kill and wound white men at the church and then deliberately stay there for an hour or two longer for the purpose of : killing another white man. Every ane man knows that those Negroes would have fled from the scene after ; the first shooting, if they had been ! guilty. Thousands of Hen and Women Arrested Anyhow, the hue and cry was ! raised, "Negro uprising,” “Negro in surrection.” etc., was sent broadcast. The white planters called their gangs together and a big nigger hunt" be gan. They rushed their women and children to Helena by auto and train. Train loads and auto loads of white men came from Marianna, Forrest City, Ark., Memphis, Tenn., and Clarksdale, Miss., armed to the teeth. Rifles and ammunition were rushed in. The woods were scoured. Negro homes shot into, Negroes shot and killed on the highways, who did not know any trouble was brewing. Tele j grams were sent to Governor Brough, i He called for federal troops and five hundred were rushed from Camp Pike, armed with rifles, cannon, gas masks, ! hand grenades, bombs and machine i guns. The colonel took "charge of all j strategic points." and “mobilized his men to repel the attack of the black army.” The country was scoured for a radius of fifty to one hundred miles covering all of Phillips and part of adjoining counties for “Negro insur rectionists.” The soldiers arrested over a thousand Negroes, men and women, and placed them in a “stock ade" under heavy guard and kept them there under the most disgusting, un wholesome and unsanitary conditions. They were not allowed to see friends nor attorneys, but all of them had to be separately and personally “investi gated" by the army officers and a white “committee of seven.” Even after “investigation" had proven com ' oletely that a Negro was wholly in i .iocent. still no Negro was released until after a white man had appeared and personally "vouched" for him as being “a good nigger.” The white man was usually a planter or em ployer and they refused to "vouch" for the Negroes until the Negroes had ; given assurance and "guarantees" as to work and wages. Finally all but two or three hundred were released All Negroes who owned their own farms, or were otherwise independent were held, as a rule, because no white man would vouch for them. In addi tion to these held by the soldiers, over three hundred were arrested end placed in the jail at Helena, charged with murder and rioting, and refused bond. They were not allowed to see friends or attorneys and were “in vestigated” by the "committee of seven." This committee was secret at first. Its membership was not dis closed, but was organized and did its work with the direct sanction of Gov ernor Brough. The next day after the first killing of the special agent, which occurred at Hoop Spur, 0. S. Bratton, a son o' f S. Bratton, arrived at Ratio. There he met many Negroes who had em ployed the firm of Bratton & Bratton to obtain their settlements and about fifty of them began to pay the cash fees agreed upon. Many had no cash so they offered him their Libert' bonds, which he accepted. While col lecting this money and giving receipt*, a crowd of white men, who were en gaged in the "nigger hunt" came upon him. They arrested Bratton and all the Negroes with him and sent them to jail at Helena, where they were Im prisoned on charges of "murder." an 1 held without bond. Bratton was on the train on his way to Ratio, w'ble" is twelve miles from Hoop Spur, and he and the Negro clients had not re heard of the trouble when they met to close up the payment of the ca-h fees intended for his firm. Afl tbl time the white press of Arkansas kept up a hue and cry to the effect that Bratton was there “incit ing an uprising of tbe Negroes and tear hing them social equality." The feeling was so bitter against youn - Bratton that there were grave threats and fears of his being lynched. The governor ordered special guards sworn in. patrols were stationed about the jail and only the utmost preca tions prevented the lynching of a mar who was not even a lawyer and whose onlv crime consisted in collecting f< for his father’s firm. It is now ope-ly admitted that Bratton is clearly Inn cent of any part in the trouble, still he is held without bond In jail be cause his father was about to obtain justice for Negro tenants and prevent them from being robbed by their white landlords. Whole Kaniilt killed for Being too Prosperous The saddest, and worst feature of the whole miserable slaughter of Ne groes was tbe killing of the fou Johnson brothers. They were sons of a prominent and able Negro Presby terian minister who is now dead. Their mother is a very prominent, woman and was formerly a school teacher She and her husband once founded and conducted a school for Negroes. The men were all able and prominent. I Dr. D. J. Johnson was a successful dentist and owned a three-story build ling in Helena. One brother fought In France and was wounded and gassed in the battle of Chateau Thierry. Dr. 1-ouis Johnson was a prominent phys ician and lived in Oklahoma, He had jcome borne on a visit and on tbe day of the first trouble, the four brothers had gone squirrel hunting early that morning and started for home in the ! evening wholly ignorant of the trou ble at Hoop Spur. While they were miles out in the woods hunting, word of the trouble reached Helena. A merchant told the deputy sheriffs and possemen that he had sold some shells to the Johnsons a day or so before the trouble. A crowd of men in an auto went to hunt for the Johnsons. They met them returning from the hunt. These white men were supposed friends of the Johnsons. They told them of the trouble and that a riot was in progress and that it would be j dangerous for any Negro to be on the country roads, especially armed. Tbe Johnsons told them they had just been hunting and had nothing but shotgun and squirrel shot. They were advised by tbelr friends to turn back and go home by a train that would pass a little station several miles down the road. They took this j advice and went to tbe station to go j by rail to Helena. They left their I car with a friend whom they told of | the situation. They had bought the!." tickets and were on the train when j up rolled a car with some deputies. They arrested three of the men and took them from the train. The fourth brother, from Oklahoma, also got off. The officers had with them a man named Lilly, a friend of another white man whom Dentist Johnson had thrashed the week before. This white man had tried to whip John son and Johnson beat him up. The Johnson brothers were men who did not truckle and cater to white men. They never looked for trouble but If a white man tried to bully one of them, they always took their own part. They were known as brave men who knew no fear. When Dr. John son got off the train, the officers told him to go back. He refused, saying "These men are my brothers. If you arrest them, I will go too.” Then the officers said, “Well, If you are one of the Johnson brothers, we want you too.” They then arrested the Okla , homa man. whose only crime was th^t of being a brother to the other three. The men were loaded into an auto and the car went back down the sam road they had come over. After go ing a few miles, a crowd of white ni appeared led by the very “white friends" who had warned the John sons to take the train. They tele phoned or sent word to the officers as to where they could get the John sons. As the mob approached. Lilly and the officers began to get out of t.W- auto. The Johnsons then saw that they had been led into a trap by their supposed "white friends.” They were handcuffed, but they tried to put up a fight. Just as Lilly was climbing out of the car, preparing to turn the helpless men over to the mob. Dr. D. J. Johnson, although shackled, man aged to grab Lilly’s pistol from his hand and shot him. The officers an I the mob then shot the men literally to pieces. They were sowed with bullets, so much so that they face had to t e severed at the funeral, and part o their bodies were in shreds. The noble mother had to endure th • te - rible ordeal of seeing four of her fine promising sons buried in one grave. The work of "cleaning up” our peo ple is not yet finished. The grand jury is at work and hundreds are to he indicted on charges of murder, riot ing, conspiracy, etc. White lawyers at Helena are preparing to reap a har vest of fat fees from Negroes against whom there is no evidence, but who have money and propertv and Libertv bonds. The Negroes are to be stripped to the bone. For many other Negroes there are long prison terms and the death chair at Little Rock, sheriffs From Manj toiintJe* f ame for Instruction* A white man. J. C. Wilson, came all the way from Mississippi, and sheriffs from all parts of the Black Belt came to Helena to "learn how to hand).' tfie Negroes,” and all have issued state ments to the press approving the "A - kansas plan.” The plan is to raise the cry of “Negro uprising, Negro Insurrection,” etc., and give the Negro a bad name and alarm the whole community. Thu officers and the mob do the rest. Thi plan i.1 to be resorted to whencve Negroes attempt to go to court fo I their rights, especially when they band together for their mutual pro tection. and whenever it becomes known that they are buying guns and ammunition to defend their homes against the wave of mob violence that is sweeping the country. Conservatives Aroused The Negroes In the Black Belt are much demoralized, discouraged and depressed. Hundreds are preparing 1 to leave. Matty Negro leaders, who have stood by the white people and who have counseled their race to stay here, now have not a word to say and many of them are also preparing to wind up their affairs and get out of the south. Hr. R. A. Williams just got away in time and went to Chicago. Other Negro heads of fraternal so cieties are getting ready to transfer their headquarters to the north. Ne groes here live in fear and terror, afraid to even discuss the situation ■except in whispers and to well known friends. Governor Brough Slates lie Mill Sup press Crisis and Defender Governor Brough has issued a state ment to the public press that he in tends to have the Defender and the Crisis suppressed. The Arkansas Ga zette, white. haB issued an editorial demanding that Negro leaders give their people “proper advice," an 1 warning them their race is in danger of annihilation unless Negroes cease to be led by the lure of liberty and equal [Kditieal rights, and also warn ing them that the freedom of the Negro from had economic conditions Is not to be obtained by the methods which were resorted to by the Ne groes of Phillips county. Also any white man who fights, either In court or elsewhere for the rights of the Negro is to be put In jail and suffer social and business ostracism from the white people of the south. | nMEDMAN’S PLACE | X Fine Watch Repairing. Red 7914 A We Buy and Sell *1* y Jewelry, Clothing. Shoes, Trunks A y Suit Cases, Etc. A V MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS V 5: y <~x~x~X"XK“X-x--x--x~.-.-x~x-<x~: K. & M. 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