The St. Johns herald., 1888-08-09
War in Kansas.

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 terrible encounter between Hugo l tan and Woodsdale men in Stevens l County, whereby no less than sever
 men lost their lives. Sam Robin
 son, the City Marshal of Hugoton
 and M. Cook, of the same town
 went to the Dudley ranch, neal
 Pony Creek, yesterday, accompa
 nied by their wives, to look up some
 cattle which they were tryingto buy
 While taking dinner Deputy Sheriff
 Short, a Woodsdale man, accom-.
 panied 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 a short distance
 from camp, leaving Cook and the
 ladies behind, and then give his
 enemies a chance to take him. He
 did so, and on reaching a conven-
 tent spot both parties opened fire,
 with the result that four Woodsdale
 men turned up their toes. The
 other two fled to the strip, and Rob- inson escaped without a scratch. Cook hastened to Hugoton and gave the alarm, and soon an armed squad went to their assistance. Meeting a lot of Woodsdale men an encounter took place, in which three persons were killed and a number wounded. According to our informant, the whole county is at war; but Sam Wood has again disappeared. John Cross, Sheriff of Stevens county, was one of the men killed in the second fight. The names of the other killed could not be learned.
 Later.-Jas. Gerard, U. L. Lynn, 0. s. Toby, George A. Pierson, D. Grisup, H. Torrents, ". Webb, Billy Chatham, Billy Mckee, Chas. Stalts, George s. Hoffer and James Williams, all of Woodsdale, Stew ems county, gives the following ac- count of the affair:
 A warrant had been issued to Ed Short, constable and city mar shal of Woodsdale, for the arrest of Sam Robinson. Robinson had gone to the Neutral Strip, and Short, Wm Hansley and Dick Wilson went af- ter him. They found him in a dug out, an ordered him to surrender. 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 States { (Kansas). Robinson did not surrender, but got on his horse and made a run of six or seven miles to Beaver river, where he got a fresh horse and soon distanced the boys, who then gave up the chase. Sheriff Cross, hearing that Short and his posse had been cor raled down in the Strip, started with four men for their relief, but they could not find them, and so i started back up the trail and went 1 into camp. While they were asleep a Hugoton party surprised and dis 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. $. Toby says that the four men killed were Sheriff John Cross, Rcbt Hub bard, c. ". Eaton. R. Wilcox, 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 be- sides 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 have been killed. So far reports are very contradic-