St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-28
Citizens Of Stevens County
Go Cunning for One
Another.
Contradictory Reports as to
the Exact Number
! q Killed.
Attempt to Blow UP a Chi
eago Residence with
Dynamite.
Negroes Chop a Mans Head
Off with an Axe---Other
Items.

LIBERAL, Kan, July 27.-Shorty, a
livery stable keeper at Hugoton, gives
the following particulars regarding a
terrible encounter between Hugoton
and Woodsdale men in Stevens county,
whereby no less than seven men lost
their lives. Sam Robinson, the city mar
shall of Hugoton, and Nj. Cook, of the same
place, went to the Dudley ranch, near
Pom Y Creek, yesterday, accompanied
by their wives, to look up some cattle
which they were trying to buy. While
taking dinner, Deputy Sheriff Short, a
WoodSdale man, accompanied by five
other WOOdSdale men, rode up to the
party and asked Robinson to surrender,
as he had a warrant for his arrest.
Robinson said he would go short dis
lance from camp, leaving Cook and the
ladies behind, and then
GIVE HIS ENEMIES
chance to take him. He did so, and
upon reaching convenient spot both
parties opened fire, with the result that
four WOodSdale men turned up their
toes. The other two fled to the strip
and Robinson escaped without a
scratch. Cook fastened to Hugoton
and gave the alarm, and soon an
armed crowd went to their assistance,
Meanwhile q lot of Woodsdale men
came, and an encounter took place, in
which three persons were killed and
number wounded. The whole country
is at war, but Sam Wood has again dis
appeared. John Cross. sheriff of Stew
ems county, was one of the men killed
in the second fight. The names of the
other killed
COULD NOT BE LEARNED.
James Gerard, U. L. Linn, G. S.
Toby, George A. Pierson, D. Grisup, Fl.
Torrents, W. Webb, Billy Chadman,
Mckee, Charles Shaltz, George S. Hof-
fer and Jim Williams, all of WoOdsdale,
Stevens county, came in this morning,
as they say, to look after Herbert Tony,
one of their young men, who was
and who has since disappeared.
James Gerard, deputy sheriff
of Stevens county, gives the following
account of the affair: GA warrant had
been issued to Ed Snort, constable and
city marshal of Woodsdale, for the ar
rest of Sam Robinson. Robinson had
gone to the Neutral Strip, and Ed
Short, William Hausloy and Dick Will
son went after him. They found him
in a dug-out and ordered him to sur
render. He said he
WOULD NEVER SURRENDER
to Ed Short. Ed told him he could get
as many men as he wished from the
strip, to go with him to the state Kan
sasf. Robinson did not surrender, but
got on his horse and made run of six or
seven miles to the Beaver river, whele
he got a fresh horse and soon
distanced the boys, who then
gaue up the chase. Sheriff
|, Il ~ ~
had been cOrralled down in the strip,
but'they could not find them, so started
back up the trail and went into camp.
While they were asleep a HugotOn
party
SURPRISED AND DISARAIED THEM,
made them stand up In line and shot
them, killing four and wOunding one"
The deputy sheriff did not give any
names besides those mentioned above,
but c. S. Toby told your informant that
the four killed were Sheriff John Cross,
Robert Hubbard, c. w. Eaton, and that
Herbert Tony was wounded. He also
said that there might be one or two
more killed, and that he heard Herbert
Reed was wounded, but could not say
how he got hurt. There
MUST HAVE BEEN SHOOTING
besides the above affray, for boy
named Nathan Jones, who was on his
return from Stevens county to Liberal,
states that he passed near two squads
who were firing at each other. The
latest report that came in is that eleven
men have been killed. So far reports
are very contradictory and many of
them unreliable, but there is no doubt
that Stevens county people are in ter
rible state of excitement and that more
shooting may be expected.