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terrorKuklux S Inauguratedj'In Eastern. ■ f m .KentuckyThe Kufelax Klan, that dreaded organisation oF murderers nad house burners, that flourished a few years Vgo, has again coinnicuced Its depredations, this time ia Keux^viky-Two years ago tbe klao was organis-t led by Blaine Coombs, a fearless yotiug ! mountain lighter, now 5n the Philip-pines, T3ie object of .the kiau was to X* whip lewd woiuek aiui drlfe them from• the eotmty. Camp Bra itch and Koch-house- Creek, in the western part of Letcher county* contributed she first!n .members, and ia those settlements a | number of- ioose clmracfers were wlilp-• peel. The membership of the klan rap-*h idly increased, .however, and in a short dll time 150 men were sworn to carry out j “ efcs the decrees of the -order. In many ia casco the decrees commanded that cjj„ death be done.r-' ' The serious depredations of the gan-‘ began IS months ago. :At that lime 24 : members of the kJsia, masked, matched !iC' at dead of night to the borne of .John I*. of Craft, a respected citizen, living near far- Boone's Fork, and in his absence took! St
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Lima Times Democrat
Lima, Ohio, US
Fri, May 24, 1901
Page 7
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Jamie T.
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