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THE BALD KNOBBEKS.
An Organization That Violated Law in
Suppressing Lawlessness.
A dispatch from Jefferson City, Mo., to
the Now York Herald says: A remarkable
communication was read with all due formal
ity and solemnity in the House of Represen
tatives of this State yesterday.
It was signed by “B. F. Plummer, chief
of the Bald Knobbers,” anil notified the
Legislature that unless it adjourned the
extra session by the 25th inst. the entire
force of the Bald Knobbers’ organization
would be summoned to disband it.
The communication excited only amuse
ment, but a similar communication a year
ngo would have niet with a far different re
ception.
At that time the Bald Knobbers held un
disputed sway over Christian and Taney
counties. They Were above the courts and
the law. They controlled elections, filled
offices, dominated society and terrorized
the community. Their punishment for al
li-grd delinquencies ranged from whipping
to hanging, and their sentences were exe
cuted with but a pretence of secrecy.
Now, however, the Bald Knobliers are
scattered and their leaders are standing
within the shadow of the gallows.
The history of this remarkable organiza
tion strikingly illustrates the way in which
extra legal Ixxlies, founded with praise
worthy motives, become in the end the mere -
instruments of private malice.
From the close of the war to the spring of
1885 there had been thirty-eight willful mur
ders in Taney county, and not one person
had been convicted of the crime. Murder,
robbery" and malicious mischief became the
older of the day, and an honest man’s life
was constantly in jeopardy. The people
grew restless and impatient that they should
pay taxes and not be protected by the law,
and a few of the bolder spirits began to dis
cuss the feasibility of organizing a vigilance
committee.
WAR OX A SUNDAY SCHOOL.
A Sunday school was opened, and this
evidence of a desire for morality appeared
to irritate the evil doers. A baud of Broth
ers and their relatives, the Cogburns, a set
who were more reckless and depraved than
the famous Benders of Kansas, made open
threats that there had never been a Sunuay
school in this neighborhood and they did not
intend to have one started at this late date.
The school was opened and the whole family
attended the services. Robert Cogburn
took a prominent position in the building
and made blasphemous responses to the
prayers of the minister and the children.
At this outrage became clamor
ous to the county officials and demanded
protection. The officials acknowledged their
weakness and said they could do nothing, as
they could not get a jury that would dare
convict the outlaws. This effort on tie
part of the people only increased the
malignity of the men, and a series of per
secutions began. Stock was killed or muti
lated, barns and houses were burned, and
the tongues of all the cattle belonging to one
farmer were cut out from purely malicious
rantonness.
ORGANIZING AGAINST OUTLAWS.
A leader was wanted.
Who would be brave enough to take the
initiative in organizing opposition to these
outlaws?
The man was ready for the hour of need.
The most reliable men of the county re
ceived notice to meet on the top of a bare
ridge near Forsyth for the purpose of per
fecting an organization to protect life and
property. With fear and trembling a few
approached the spot indicated, in terror lest
it should be a trap into which they were
being drawn. On their arrival at the de
signated place they found a man typical of
the cause for which they were expected to
enlist.
Capt. Kinney was a giant in stature,
being six and a half feet tall and weigh
ing §5O pounds. He was broad shouldered,
straight as an arrow and as active as he was
fearless.
Here indeed, wrs a leader. He was the
owner of a large cattle ranch near Forsyth
and had been a pioneer all his life. He then
and there planted the seed which grew to
the now world-famed "Bald Knobbers.”
This little knot of men on the bald knob of
a jutting spur of the Ozark Mountains
banded themselves together for mutual
protection, and with clasped hands took
upon themselves the following obligation:
BALD KNOBBERS’OATH.
“I do solemnly swear to use every effort
in my power, and at all times, to preserve
the dignity and good orde# of this com
munity by hunting down and bringing to
justice all criminals and securing evidence
against the same, and to be always ready to
assist and protect the county officials in
the discharge of their duty, and in all cases
to stand by the members of this organiza
tion.”
The name of “Bald Knobbers” was chosen
and the perfection of the organization was
completed secretly. All who were known to
lie honest and law abiding citizens were in
vited to join, and soon they felt them
selves to be strong enough to take active
measures to rid the county of the out
laws who had so long terrorized the com
munity.
Orips, signs and papwords were used,
and Capt. Kinney was given almost abso
lute power over tho movements of the mem
bers.
REGULATING THE REGION.
The first to come under the notice ox the
organization were the Taylor brothers.
These were a set of young desperadoes who
kept the whole county in a state of terror.
They would ride on the porches and into
houses, firing their guns and pistols through
the doors and windows at the frightened in
mates. At times they would be absent for
several days, and on their return would sho w
quantities of money, saying that they did
not have to work so long as there was any
one to rob.
In a drunken spree they went to the post
office at Eglinton and deliberately shot down
the wife of the postmaster because she re
fused them credit for a pair of shoes. The
Pli us band attempted resistance, but was in
stantly killed.
The call went forth and the Bald Knob
bens started on their first errand of justice.
Silently the forces were marshalled and
silently the work was performed. The
morning sun shone on two dangling
corpses, whose bodies bore the following
placard:
BEWARE !
: These are the first victims to the wrath of:
: outraged citizens.
1 More will follow,
"THE BALD KNOBBERS." :
The secrecy and swiftness of the work fell
like a thunderbolt on the community, and
hundreds of citizens from ail parts of the
county becam# anxious to join the organiza
tion and receive its protection. The
work inaugurated was continued, and
evil doers began to fear the silent
vengeance which seemed certain to overtake
them.
The county books were overhauled hy a
committee and the perpetrators of frauds
were ousted. Elections were called and
honest men were placed ill charge of the
affairs of the county. Justice was fear
lessly dealt by the officials, who now felt
strong with the backing of a powerful
organization.
The disappointed, and ousted officials began
now to plot for the downfall of the Vigi
lance Conmvttee.
While the investigations were in progress
the court house was burned down and all
the ii•cools w ere destroyed The evidence
of tiled - guilt being in ashes the murmuring*
of the ousted officials took shape and a
militia company was organized by ex-Judge
Reynolds, with William Miles for caption.
They appointed a committee to confer with
Gov. Marmaduke for the purpose of being
regularly mustered in and supplied with
arms.
The Governor at first was disposed to grant
their ropiest, but the Bald Knobbers, learn
ing of the intention of Capt. Miles to declare
the county under martial rule and drive the
Bald Knobbers out, sent Col. Philips with
the tax roll of the oounty to show that no
member of the to-called military company
was a taxpayer, and those whom they
wished to destiny were all heavy property
owners. J
Ihe Governor then ordered the militia
company to disband. This they refused to
do and continued to enroll new members,
buying urms and uniforms and declaring
that they would make trouble for the Bald
Knobbers, who were not as good as the
Taylor boys.
CIVIL WAR IN MINIATURE.
The elements of a civil war were now all
present, and it only needed a spark to start
the explosion.
It soon came.
A Sunday school convention was called,
to be held at Oak Grove church, in Septem
ber, ISBS. When the committee went to
open the doors ofj the church they found a
coat hanging on the door, with a skull and
crossbones and a coffin chalked on it, with
the folio-wing legend:
CAPTAIN KINNEY’S, CAPTAIN OF THE
BALD KNOBBERS.
‘ .
111 it w'as enclosed a buckshot.
hen the services began the Cogburn
boys came in in their shirt sleeves, unarmed,
and when the convention debated on the
prevailing lawlessness the bo3's were boiAer
ous in their mirth.
Capt. Kinney announced that the man who
wrote the letter would need a coffin first if he
attempted to interfere with the proceedings
of the Sunday School Convention. When
the meeting was called to order in the after
noon every man was armed with two re
volvers and a shotgun, and there was an
armed neutrality.
From this time on Capt. Kinney and
the Cogburn boys were on the alert, each
fearing the other would take undue ad
vantage.
This state of affairs cotftimiod until March,
1886, when one of the Cogburns lay in
near a church which Capt. Kinney attertn
ed. He was seen by a young man, -wfio at
once notified Kinney, who armed himself
and proceeded to the church. As he neared
the building he noticed a man skulking and
ordered him to throw up his hands. The
man threw up one,, but with the other
attempted to draw his revolver. As he
did this Capt. Kinney fired, killing him in
stantly.
Kinney was arrested and tried, but was
immediately acquitfed on the grounds of
justifiable homicide.
A VENDETTA.
War was now declared to the knife, and
each organization swore to destroy the other.
The lawless element flocked to the militia
organization and were told that its object
was to stop night riding, annihilate the Bald
Knobbers and avenge the death of Cogburn
and the Taylor boys. This was to be done
by killing off the prominent ones, and if this
did not have the desired effect to drive the
rest out of the county.
The terror caused by the Bald Knobbers
was increased by the mysterious manner in
which their executions were carried out and
by the absolute secrecy of their intentions.
It was an unequal fight, and soon the evil
doers and outlaws were compelled to give up
and peace and contentment earn > to the
county where so many bloody scenes had
been enacted.
This in brief is the history of the organiza
tion of the band, and could the history stop
here it would be praised for the good it has
done.
But there is a sequel.
GROWTH OF THE BALB KNOBBERS.
The leaders of the Bald Knobbers were
human, and when they realized what an im
mense power they wielded through the se
crecy and mysteriousness of their actions
began to perfect the organization while they
enlarged its rules and regulations. New
members were admitted and subordinate
branches were formed until it extended its
dictatorial sway throughout the Ozark re
gions.
Conceived for the welfare of the law
abiding citizens of the community it gradu
ally widened its powers. The silent, oath
bound company assumed control of the
affairs of the county from the selection of
officers to the midnight castigation of those
who dared to desecrate the Sabbath by cast
ing a fly for the speckled trout in the stream
which passed the door.
Extending its ramifications through tho
entire region to the Arkansas line, growing
in power and waxing fearless from the ter
ror which its very name spread over tho
county, it assumed still higher powers and
passed the death sentence on those who dared
to disobey its orders.
Executions followed. Those who came
under its ban were taken from their homes
in the talent watches of the night and pun
ished either by death or by well laid lashes
on the bare back.
A REIGN OF TERROR.
A reign of terror began, and aid was
asked that the country might be rid of the
horrible incubus which had fastened upon
its vitals.
Lying far away from telegraph and rail
road lines, the outside worla knew little of
the trouble, and only occasional rumors had
reached the newspapers of the actions of a
band that was supposed to be composed of
rough outlaws. But the cry for assistance
was too earnest to be ignored, and the law,
which was invoked, began an investiga
tion which ended in the arrest of 180 men
and boys, who have been indicted by the
grand juries of Taney and Christian coun
ties.
And who are these who have taken the
law in their own hands?
They are the moral, wealthy and respect
able people of the community. Ministers of
the gospel of love were members. Judgos
of the courts who swore to execute
the laws were members. High officers of
the county and prosperous citizens were
members.
Here was a remarkable anomaly.
It was fanaticism run riot.
The intelligent and moral citizens became
lawbreakers and preyed on the lower
classes.
That tho law will be vindicated, and that
after the usual delay the offenders will pay
the penalty of their crimes, is a foregone con
clusion.
The prosecuting attorney, in an interview
with the correspondent of the Herald says:
“The plea of the Bald Knobbers is the same
that ,s always made to justify mob law.
Their claims of innocence are not based on
freedom from crime, but on the idea that
they had equal power with the government
to punish criminals The crimes for which
they are indicted can easily be proven, and
their defense will not hold In any court. It
is simply a case where it is a question
whether'constitutional law or mob law shall
rule. There is no doubt that the Bald Knob
bers have done great good in ridding the
country of outlaws, but the trouble is thoy
did not stop there. When there were no
more outlaws to punish they begun wreak
ing their personal malice on those who hail
offended, not the laws of morality, but the
individual members of the organization.
Had they left tho courts of justice to con
tinue the good work which they began, and
abided by their first oath, all would have
been well—the law would have been well
executed and we would have hail as flue a
community as is in tho State of Missouri.
But they could not stand the accession
of almost unlimited power, and the con
sequence is that pains and penalties await
them.” .
A Multitude of Ailments.
The ajjpicnts which afflict the kidneys and
bladder are so numerous, that merely to name
them would fill a space far outrunning the limits
of this article. Suffice it to say that they ere
both olistlnatc and dangerous. To their preven
tion Hostetler s Stomach Bitters Is well adapted.
The stimulus which it lends to the action of the
kidneys when they arc lethargic, serve tocoum
tcract a tendency in them to lapse, first, into a
state of pernicious inactivity and afterward
into one of positive organic disease, which soon
destroys fthelr delicate Integuments, poisons
he Mood and causes ileattn A double purpose
is scried by this depurent. It promotes activity
Of The kidneys and expels impurities from the
blood which have no natural channel of outlet
except those organs. Constipation, biliousness,
fever and ague, rheumatism aud dyspepsia are
also remedied by this' medicine of thorough
action and wide scope.
A complete line of Underwear at Appel
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MILLINERY.
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We are now ready for business, and our previous large
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We also continue to retail on our first floor at wholesale
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bright newt, amount in packages, or (nr ffotnena
of color, or non fading qualities. They do not
crock or smut. For sale fry 11. F. Ulmer. M. D.,
Pharmacist. comer Broughton and Houston
streets; P. B. Rsid, Druggist anti Apothe
cary, comer Jones ami Abereorn streets;
Epwarii J. Kir.FFgR, Druggist, comer West
Broad and Stewart streets.
WOOD.
'•WOODr
Bacon, Johnson & Cos.
Have a line stock of
Oak, Pine, Lightwood and Kindling,
Comer Liberty and East Broad street#.
Telephone 117,
’ OFFICIAL.
QUARANTINE NOTH'E?^
Office He.ii.th Officer, 1
Savannah, Ga., May 1,1887. f
From and after MAY Ist, 1887, the city ordl
nance which specifies the Quarantine require
ments to he observed at the port of Savannah,
Georgia, for period of time (annually! from May
Ist to November Ist, will be most rigidly en
forced.
Merchants and all other parties Interested
will lie supplied with printed copies of the Quar
antine Ordinance upon application to office of
Health Officer.
From and after this date and until further no
tlco all steamships and vessels from South
Amei ca, Central America, Mexico, West Indies.
Sicily, ports of Italy south of 40 degs. North
latitude. and e..ast of Africa l-eweeu
1° degs. North and It degs. South latitude,
direct or via liner,can port will be sub
jected to close Quarantine and lie required
to report at the Quarantine Station and be
treated as being from infected or suspected
ports or localities. Captains of these veteeia
will have to remain at Quarantine Station uftUl
thetr vessels are relieved.
AU steamers and vessels from foreign port*
not included above, direct or via American
ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise,
will be required to remain in quarantine until
boarded and passed by tbe Quarantine Officer.
Neither the Carhiins nor any one on board of
such vessels will be allowed to come to the eity
until the vessels are inspected and passed by the
Quarantine Officer.
As pi its or localities not herein enumerated
ore reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori
ties, Quarantine restrictions against same will
be enforced without further publication.
The quarantine regulation requiring the flying
of the quarantine flog on vessels suhjeetea te
detention or inspect r< m will be rigidly en forced.
J. T. McFarland, m and . Health citfioor
ORDINANCE.
Ah Ordinance to amend article LX. of the Sa
vannah City Code, adopted Feb. 16, 1870, so ad
to require all occupants of houses, merchants,
shopkeepers.grocersand tradesmen occupying
promises to which no yards are attached to
keep within their premises a !>ox or liarrel of
sufficient size iu which shall be deposited all
offal, filth, rubbish, dirt, and other matter gen
crated In said promises, or to put such box of
tsirrel In the streets or lanes under condition*
prescribed herein.
Section 1. Beit ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council
assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the
authority of the same, That section 2 of said
article lie ameuded so as to read as follows: The
owners, tenants or occupiers of houses having
yards or enclosures, and all occupants of houses,
all merchants, sbopkee|iers, grocers and trades
men occupy lug premises to which no yards are
attached shall keep within their yards or
premises a Isvx or barrel of sufficient size, in
which shall tie deposited all the offal, filth, nib
bi 11, dirt, and other matter generated In said
ImihUngnnd enclosure, and the said filth of every
description as aforesaid shall lie placed in said
box or liarrel, from the first day of April to th
(list day of November, before the hour of 7
o'clock a. m., and from the first day of November
(inclusive) to the last day of March (Inclusive)
before the hour of s o'clock a. in., and such mat
ter so placed shall be daily removed (Sundays
excepted) by the Superintendent, to
such plats* two miles at least
without the city as kIiaII Is: designated by the
Mayor or a majority of the Street and Lane
Committee. And it shall lie unlawful for any
occupant of a house, merchant, shopkeeper,
ffrooer or tradesman to sweep into or to deposit
n any street or lane of this city any paper,
trash, or rubbish of any kind whatsoever, out
the same shall Is; kept .in boxes or lutrrete as
hereinbefore provided, for removal by the scav
enger of the city. Any person not having a yard
may put tbe box or Isirrel containing the i iffal,
rubbish, etc., in the street or lane for removal
by the scavenger, provided the box or liarrel so
put In the street or lane shull tie of such char
acter and size os to securely keep the offal, rub
bish, etc., from getting Into the street or lans.
And any person other tlian the owner or scaven
ger interfering with or troubling ilie box or h*r
rel so put in the street or lane shall he punished
on conviction thereof In the police court by fins
not exceeding SIOO or imprisonment not exceett
ing thirty days, either or both in the discretion
of officer presiding said court.
Ordinance passtii in Council June Ist. 1887.
RUFUS E. LESTER. Mayor.
Attest: Frank E. Kkbahkr. < 'lerk of Council
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Office Health officer, I
Savannah, April sth, 1887. f
Notice is hereby given that the Quarantine
Officer Is instructed not to deliver letters to vos
ich are not subjected to quarantine de
tention, unless the name of consignee and state
ment that the vessel is < irdered to some other
port appears upon the face of the envelope.
Tills order is made necessary In consequence of
the enormous bulk of drumming letters sent M
the station for vesse.ls which are to arrive.
j. t. McFarland, m. and.,
Health Officer.
QUARANTINE NOTIC E.
Office Heai.tr Officer, (
Savannah, March 25th, 1887. I
Pilots of the Port of Savannah are informed
that the Nupelo Quarantine Station will be open
ed on A PHIL Ist. 1887.
Special attention of the Pilots is directed to
sections Nos. 8d and 14th, Quarantine ReguU
Hons.
Most rigid enforcement of quarantine regula
tions will be maintained by the Health autnorf
ties. J. T. McFarland, m. and„
Health Officer.
City Marshal s office, i
Savannah, April 23d, 1887. j
THF. City Treasurer has placed in my hands
Real Estate Executions for 1886, Privy Vault
Executions for 1880, Stock iu Triple and other
personal property executions for 18H6, and Spe
cific or License Tax Executions for 1887, com
manding me to make the money on said writs
by levy and sale of the defendants’ property or
by other lawful means I hereby notify all per
sons in default that the tax and revenue ordi
nance will lie promptly enforced if payment is
not made at my office without delay.
Office hours from 11 a. m. to 2 v x.
ROBT. J. WADE,
Citv Marshal
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AT
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Delineator jjl
Harper's Bazar 200
New York Fakhlon Bazar ,300
F.hrich's Quarterly 208
Revue do la Mode 400
Address orders to
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Mailed to any address on receipt of advertised
pri*.
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-OF THE
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Mornino News (payable In advance! at tbe fol
lowing rates:
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