The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-29
MOUNTAINEERS.
The Kentucky Highlands Present
Strange Scene.
The Feud Costs Four More Lives with Six
Observation-Disclosures Of Reform School
Boys-Moses w. Field Said to Have
Been Poisoned.

PrNEvILLE. KY. March pa thousand
men armed with Winchesters are in the
mountains watching each other. They
are composed Of the Sowder, Turner and
other factions and several sheriffs' posses
determined to break up the lawless gang
Near Salt Trace last night in a fight four
men were killed and six wounded. This
city has for years made the reading W orld
| shiver once or twice a year by the des.
clans Of desperadoes. For two years,
however, comparative quiet has
reigned. The last killing that has
any direct connection with fractional
disputes occurred little over .
year ago when General Sowders deliber.
ately shot Lee Turner. Since then Sow.
ders, who has killed eight men. has been .
fugitive from justice. The feud between
the Sowders and Turner's began several
years ago. when Marsh Turner, who was
a member of posse sent to the mountains
to arrest near relative Of Sowders, was
literally shot to pieces. General Sowders
was accused Of the deed and feud that
was intensely bitter began. Sowders
himself married Miss Turner. but never.
cousin; Lee Turner, her uncle, and Tom
Turner, her own brother. As a result OF
this Sowders- Turner feud it is said that
forty people have been killed
A little over two years ago seven mon
were killed in a single fight at the court.
house here over the capture of a man
named Harley, a member of the Sowders
gang. About the same time at Baptist
m in oil
miles from here. five people, including a
woman and small boy, were killed in the
church. Three years ago Jonah Hoskins,
man named Napier and a little girl who
was with them, were shot by Andy
johnson because they ventured over
a dead" line that had been
mutually agreed upon. These are but a
few of the most fatal fights. Among the
March, Jack Carroll and Tom Turner. As
a result of this feud there are said to be
5000 Winchester rifles i'm Bell County, and
the "Bellicans" declare they could whip
the United States army. James Birch
is one of the Sowders' faction, and
Tuesday night a posse under Albert
Turner, a boy not over twenty, went to
his house on Yellow creek and arrested
maintained by the Smith and Turner
factions, and early this week
pitched battle was fought in which it Is
said more than 500 shots were fred and a
number OF people were wounded, but the
injured were spirited away and the mum.
Der can not be learned. A sherif's posse
was sent to arrest the rioters. but they
We're fired upon and driven back to Bar
bourville. 1t was then that Judge Gull
himself headed a posse aud made
for the mountains. Another pitched
battle resulted, but the judges party,
strong and well armed, were victors, and
succeeded in arresting five of the despera.
does, among them two of the Messers and
Galloway Carnes, a brother of the deputy
sheriff of the county. The sheriff IS posse
is still in the mountains after others of
the outlaws, and beforesthe month ends it
is likely n dozen lives will be lost i'm the
effort to enforce the laws. Nobody VEN
lures out unarmed and few unaccompanied
by friend.
Last night word was received by courier
that in fight near Salt Trace four men
were killed and half a dozen wounded
REFORM SCHOOL RIOT.
CINCINNATI March IS. - Yesterday
morning an exciting riot occurred in the
house of refuge in which 200 boys were
engaged. Some days ago three or four
boys returned to the institution after an
absence Of some weeks. They were sullen
from the start. This morning while play.
ing ball the ring leaders made a dash for
the gates followed by most of the
boys. The guards fought them back,
while some Of the best boys
h. IL l...r
and all the officers and teachers rushed to |
the spot. The boys. finding themselves
repulsed, turned their attention to de- |
stroying all the property possible, smash.
ing windows. breaking doors, tearing up |
beds and demolishing flower beds. Major |
Oliver, the superintendent finally re-
stored order and the boys were sent to
their rooms. The boys confess they had
to get out.
SUSPECTED POISONING.
DETROIT, Mich, March a5.-Prominence
was given by q Detroit paper yesterday
70 the rumor that Moses w. Field was
poisoned. The article says the body will
be disinterred. 1t does not intimate who
lid the poisoning. The report says that
Mrs. Field had her suspicious aroused
rom the first, and this is why she refused
% heed Mr.. Fields wish that his re.
Mains be cremated. Last July Field
made over $4,000 life insurance policy
o Mrs. Mary Goring. and two days before
lie died he gave her a $4,000 note. The
PAPER says that the insurance company
will demand an investigation. DR.. Don.
Id Mclean says Field died from the
fleets of an apoplectic stroke, and John
ioring, Mrs. Goring's husband, says that
I Field, who was taken sick at the Cor
ngs', had stayed there he would be alive
o.day.