Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-30
KILLED IN COURT.

Desperate Saa0ofdng A6fay In . 0Afveoeaa
Feud In Another County.
GALVESTON, Tex, JAN 22.-In the
court house here yesterday Kyle Terry,
nephew of the late Judge David Terry.
Of California, was shot and instantly
killed and two men badly wounded.
The killing was the outcome Of the Fort
Bend troubles which resulted some time
ago in q bloody battle between the cit
liens of Richmond.
Some months ago Terry, who was q
tax assessor of Fort Bend County and q
member of what is known as the Wood
pecker party, had difficulty with the
three Gibson boys, all members of the
Jaybird party. Five weeks later Terry
met one of the Gibson brothers in
Wharton and killed him. When the
case came up for trial Terry got .
change of venue to Galveston County.
Galveston had nothing to do with the
case further than to give fair trial.
Judge Parker, indicted for murder in
Fort Bend County, also secured a change
of venue to this county.
The cases were set for yesterday and
witnesses for both the prosecution and
defense had brought to this city a large
number of adherents of both factions
of Fort Bend County. A large special
venire of citizens had been summoned
for jury service in these cases to appear
at the court house at one o'clock. A few
minutes after that hour Kyle Terry, his
brother, Captain David Terry, of Cali
fOrnia, Judge Parker, Judge Weston and
some others entered the front door of
the court house.
Terry turned to the left toward the
stairway and had just reached the sec
| ond step when a shot was fired. 1t
struck him under the right arm and
| came out of the left breast and literally
| tore his heart to pieces.
There was moments 1ull and then
four or five shots were fired from differ
ent directions. One passed through the
arm of Judge Weston and through the
| leg of Henry Pittle. Galvestonian.
Eye witnesses say three men were
shooting-Vol Gibson, who killed Terry
and whose brother Terry had killed in
Wharton, Dan Ragsdale and young
Mitchell, all from Fort Bend County and
all Jaybirds.
| Immediately after the shooting siz
| arrests were made-the Ts-incipal one
| Vol Gibson, who fired the first and only
fatal shot He is young man about
twenty-five years old and treats the
matter coolly. He was the oldest man
in the attacking party, four of the
| others being under twenty-one years OF
age.
It was evident that the intention was
| to kill Weston and Parker as well as
| Terry-the two latter because they were
Woodpeckers.
Judge Parker is a member of the
State Legislature from Fort Bend
| County and is charged with having been
| the cause of the late riot in Richmond.
He is charged with the killing of negro
woman during the Richmond riot.
MUCH DISGRUNTLED.
A Cherokee Delegation That Visited Secre-
tary Noble Inquiring About the Strip.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-The Cherokees
are at last beginning to realize that the
days of their possession of the Cherokee
Strip are numbered and that the time is
soon at hand, notwithstanding their
opposition, when they must yield to
power of the Government and the de-
| mand for the advancement of civiliza-
ton.
A new delegation, consisting of three
| half blood Cherokees, visited Secretary
| Noble yesterday and had quite a pro-
tracted interview with him concerning
| the Cherokee Outlet and the action OF
the Commissioners appointed to nego-
| tiate for the cession of the Strip. When
they came away they were very much
disgruntled and told their friends that
Secretary Noble said to them that they
had already been paid once for the Strip
and they were now offered fair price
to buy it over again, which they were
| foolish1y declining to accept, that they
might as we'll understand and make W
| their minds that it would be but very
brief period before the plowshare of the
wkite man would be turning the sod OF
| the Strip which is now occupied by the
cattlemen, who were there without war
| rant of law.
FROZEN IN THE STORM.
Thousands of Cattle and Ten Men Reported
Lost.
TACOMA. Wash, Jan. 22.-At least ter
human beings and thousands of cattle
and sheep persisted in the blizzard which
began with the year and ragged over
Washington for week. Cattle
are dying by hundreds from starva
ton and thirst in the Collville reserva
ton, and the ground is covered with
over two feet of snow on the level. In