The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-01-10


Missouri, on SATURDAY. evening, April
o3rd, A. ID. 1881. Twas born nm Adair
county, Missouri, eight miles southeast
of Kirk>ville. My parents are both
dead. My mother died i'm June. 1874.
My father died on the 5th of April,
} 1873. ! lived i'm Adair county until
was four years old. / went with my
parents la Cedar county, Mo. and lived
there until was sixteen Years old.
went back To Adair county and lived
there one year. | came tn Saline
county and will have been here four
years next September. j was born OH
the 18th Of September, 1859. ! COM
menced work for Mr.. KeytOn March
Sth, 1880, OH his farm i'm Saline county.
hear Arrow Rock. | worked for him
up to September -. lSS0. then Went
To work for John Dur EFT and worked
for him until January -, 1851. i then
went {. work for Mr.. Keyt N again.
Mr.. Keyton said he could not get q
hand up at his farm near Herndon,
-four miles SOUTHWEST and took me
with him. This was on the 18th of
this month We went out there. | drove
the wagon and he rode horseback |
drove two bay horses. We got To the
farm about haif-past seven o'clock i'm
the evening. On the next day, Fri
day, we went To hauling pOsts. Mr.
keyton, myself and Mr.. Charles Wood
hauled the posts. Mr.. Key on put
thirty-seven 0n my wagon. Wood
put on fifty. My team could not pull
the load up the hill, and i went To
make short turn and broke the wagon.
MIR. keyton hauled all his posts home
and Wood threw all his off but thir
| ty-seven. went home without any
load. When / got home Mrs. Wood
asked the reason why did not bring
a load of posts. told her broke my
wagon and could hot fetch them. Mr..
keyton said Eyes, the heIled fool went
that far To break wagon down this
morning" | said
YES, SIR, AND DONE IT TOO"
] went after the team and Mr.
Keyton said you've got 10 team
{, haul posts" After he hitched the
team up he showed ne where he
wanted ME To work. H. put me Ia
digging post holes and setting posts. i
set posts until Thursday night. Fri
day morning he put ME to fiattening
, pickets, and Saturday he had Mr..
Wood and myself to put the pickets i'm
the wire. Mr.. Keyton came out about
eleven O'clock where we were at work.
He asked us what was the reason We
had not gotten any further in putting
i'm the pickets. Mr.. Wood told him
we had never made any fence If that
kind, and Mr.. Wood asked him il he |
thought We had not done enough. |
Mr.. KeytOn said, "no, think I could |
have gotten along faster" Mr. Wood |
told him if he (keytonl was not salts |
fled with his work Ia say SD and he |
would quit. Mr.. keyton then went to |
putt ng i'm pickcts and I trestl,d the |
wire for him. When he would go Ia |
put i'm picket, wo III have the w.re
trest Ell and he would say:
"BE DODs. WANT THAT WIRE
TWISTED"
ami not be standing there
doing nothing" He put i'm
twenty-five or thirty pickets and
said they would count how many they
put i'm yesterday, and ace if We had put
i'm as many as they did. Mr.. Keyton
then left and went TO Brownsville.
After he left Mr.. Wood said if Keyton
fooled with him he would take club
and knock his brains out. just said
to him, "Mr. Wood you have not got
nerve enough to 10 that" / Just told
Wood if he would say nothing abour it,
that would
KNOCK Mr.. kEYToN IN THE HEAD.
Mr.. Wood said, 81 wish YOU
would. 1 have thres ened to do it
myself" MIR. Wood said if 1 would
knock Mr.. keyton i'm the head that
we would bury him and tell his family
and others who inquired about him,
that he (KeytOn) had gone southwest.
This is Charley L. Wood have been !
speaking Of. Wood then said, 81 will
tell You better plan than that" Ill
asked him what it WAS Wood said, 1
I'VE will get him to go and watch the {
oat stack and when We got him to the /
st aw stack we would kill him and /
put him i'm the straw stack and set fire
TO it and burn him up. This CONVEX
sation took place while we were at !.
work. We both weut to the house to- /.
gether about z O'Clock Saturday even !,
ing. April BIRD, 1851. stopped at the |,
stable To feed and Wood went to the
mule lot. Mr. Wood said, "JOhn, I
want to have talk with YOU" and
We then went To the granary out i'm the |,
yard and Wood said,
JOHN, VOC CAN GO AND Oct THAT !,
AXE" y
Mr.. keyton has gone to the !
ar part of the pasture and {
,ou can go up there 10 the mule lot and v
when he comes along you can step up S
behind him and knock him i'm the 4
read" Invent down to the barn and {
rot the AK and went around the hollow a
forth of the house on the outside of {,
he fence until got within about lOJ q
ards of the northeast corner Of the
wheat field in which the house is sit 7
lated. In crossing the hollow going n
Ip / jumped the rAyine. then crossed J.
ver the fence anc went through the =,
,ate where Mr.. keytor WAS found =
ead-the gate into the pasture east of \
he house. saw Mr.. Keyton coming a
md I 10t inside of fhe fnula Inf soufh -