The Springdale news., 1888-08-03
BLOODY WORK.


 Details of the Recent Massacre In ro- Mans Isnd-The Trouble the Outcome ot the stevens Couhty-sest Fight-Gov- error Martin of Kansas Appeals to Com gross to Provide Relief. TOPEKA, Kan, July %. Governor Martin received several telegrams yester- day from Liberal, Meade Center and other points in the vicinity of Stevens County, which proves that the Stevens County massacre was worse than at first report ed. There being no telegraph line in Stevens County, it is impossible to get direct information to ascertain the state of affairs. Governor Martin dispatched Attorney General Bradford yesterday to the scene, and he will be joined by Brigadier General Murray Myers of the State Militia at Hutchinson, and together they will repair to Stevens County to in- vestigate and restore order if possible. strange feature of the case is the fact that even though murder has been com mitted as foul and blood curdling as de- scribed, the guilty wretches are not amen- able to any law, as o-Man's Land, the scene of the crime, is not within the jurisdiction of any court of the land as far as the law is concerned. Though murder was proved the men could go scot free. No Mans Land is q section of the country without law, and is ruled only bymight. It is a rendezvous for murder CTS, horse thieves and blacklegs general ly: in fact place of refuge. The Gov ernor yesterday telegraphed Congress- man Peters as follows:
 HoN. s A PETERS HOUSE OF REPRESENT. ATfvEs WASHINGTON. D C.-Fhe Sheriff of i Stevens County and four or five citizens of Texas have been killed in No-Man' s-Land, jus, south of the State line. That county is now, and has been for years, the home or hiding place of outlaws and criminals It is under nc jurisdiction, and has no laws. It ought to be attached at once to the district ef Kansas. so that the United States marshal for this State could drive out or arrest the outlays who infest it. To attach it to the district of New Mexico would not improve matters I hope Congress will speedily adopt some measure of relief.
 JOHN A. MART N.
 Governor Martin last evening received adispatch which says that the whole coun- ty is armed and that there is likely to be an outbreak at any moment, and the citi. zens of both towns have organized into companies, all armed and ready to fight at moments notice. Barricades have been built at Woodsdale, and sentinels have been stationed for distance of sev- l eral miles around the town. Instructions ! have been given that if Hugoton man ! attempts to pass he shall be fired upon. ! The feeling is so intense that clash be. tween the two towns can hardly be avoid- ed, and if it should come, there will be wholesale bloodshed. The Woodsdsle people Friday ordered one hundred Win chester rifles and a large supply of am- munition. Adv1ces from Hugoton state that the town is in arms, and no stranger Is permitted to enter until he gives satis- 1 factory proof that he is not friend of 1 Woodsdae Even the boys and women l have been furnished with firearms, an at- tack by the Woodsdale people being al. | tieipated at any time.
 The whole trouble grows out of a bitter county seat fight between Hugoton aud Woodsdale, which has been in progress for the past two years. Hugoton got the county seat originally by a small vote, and petiti on was subsequently, filed in the office of the Clerk of he Supreme Court, attacking the validity of the coun- ty organization. It has been a c constant fight down there ever since, and no hear. ing has yet been had on this petition, which is still pending, the county seat meantime remaining at Hugoton-
 Captain I. C. Price, mayor of Woods dale, who arrived from the scene of the war late Friday night, appeared before the Governor yesterday afternoon and implored him te take some action at once He filed q written statement, in which he gives the following facts regarding the murder of the sheriff: s'Cross and his posse were disarmed and stripped of everything valuable. They were then stood up and the command was given, in mn Tbraa liDeH and n least twenty shots were fired simulta- neously. The men fell dead in their tracks. Two men refused to line up, but one was shot. The other started on a run for the lake and reached it, but was rid died with bullets. The party then rode rapidly to the north As soon as they were out of sight the hay campers crawlee out of their tentand examined the bodies Every man was dead and every body wa' simply riddled.
 "Amessenger was at once sent to Voor' hees, the nearest town, eighteen miles tC | the north in Stevens County, and here tht people were informed of the occurrence ! From Norhees a messenger was dis patched to Woodsdale, and three wagon! were sent south from the former place tc procure the bodies. As soon as the new reached Ills about eleven o'clock in tn, morning it created great excitement. ! meeting was immediately called In th' town hall, and every citizen attended. j. D. Murray presided. Everybody was il favor of arming and proceeding at onet 10 Hugoton to burn the town and kill al many men as possible, in retaliation, bu ! finally wiser counsels prevailed and tha was abandoned. Arrangements were a ! once made to bury the men as soon al they arrived, which was Friday morning IL is hard to tell what the outcome will be The county and every citizen Is armed i and if the trouble comes to a head ther' will be more lives lost
 A dispatch received last night by Gov ernor Martin says that the total numhe | of killed is seven.
 \ Youthful Murderer and Suicide. PARIS, July 3o.-The mother of Alphonst and Louis Siausead, aged respectivel lJ eight and six years, residing in the hu' | T poxr; ,.tr GanaJ yaStprIaV morn