thing of tbe organization* but who will not join it.The civil law east of the Trinity river is almost a dead letter. In some counties the civil officers are all. or a nortion of them, members of the Klan. in other counties, where the civil officers will not ioin the Klan, or some other armed band, they havo been compelled to leave their counties. Examples are: Van Zandt, Smithand Marion counties—the county seat of the latter is Jefferson. In maDy counties where the county officers have not been driven off, their in-