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242 though, men have been seen lurking near the jail, and it is believed that the dispersing of the mob was only a ruse to throw the officers off their guard. It is feared an attempt will be made tonight to take Dollar and Keffer from jail and hang them. Only the regu- lar guard is at the jail. Dollard killed Frank Bryant in a saloon on Wednes- day night, after having brained Ross Stringer with a board in the street. He was a rough rider, and was " shooting up " the town at the time. Keffer was con- victed of murdering William Marrin, a stage tender on the Lander-Rawlins line, two years ago, and was sentenced to be hanged, but a stay of execution was granted pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. One Negro Lynched; After More Natchez, Miss., Aug. 15. — Bee Washington, a negro, who killed Stanley Wood, eighteen years old, a clerk at the Line Store, which divides this State from Loui- siana, last Monday, has been captured by a posse at Red River Landing, taken to Tarbert, a river point near the scene of the crime, and, it is reported, lynched. The posse is in pursuit of several negroes who sup- plied Washington with money, clothes and provisions. It is by no means difficult to find men holding the highest positions in the Christian Church who are in favor of lynching negroes, as the following clipping from the New York Times (September 18, 1903, page 1), will vouch for : — BISHOP'S VIEW OF LYNCHING Arkansas Ecclesiastic, Formerly an Ohioan, Thinks No Other Remedy Adequate to the Crime. (Special to The New York Times.) Cleveland, Sept. 17. — Bishop William M. Brown, of the Arkansas Diocese of the Episcopal Church, for-