Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-26
BLOODY SKIRMISH.
Angry Coloradans Set the Win
chester Going.
CORY WORK ABoUTA COUNTY SEAT

Four Men Fatally Wounded and the De-
tails Very Mesgre So Fsr-A Three
Story Building Put on Rollers and
Hauled Five Miles Before Its Loss Was
Discovered-The Opposing Towns Lay
ing i'm Ammunition and Getting Ready
for Another Fight.
DENVER, Colo, Sept GA dispatch
from Lamar, Colo, says: Word has been
received of serious trouble between the
towns of Boston and Springfield, in Baca
county. Since Baca count; was created
from Las Animas county by the last gen.
eral assembly there has been strife be-
tween these two towns as to which should
have the county seat. The act organizing
the county provided that Springfield
should be the seat At the election last
fall it is alleged that by manipss lation of
ballots it was made the permanent seat
The people of Boston claim that Spring
field has not the 5000 worth of county
property necessary to prevent the county
seat from being moved by vote this fall.
Adopted Vigorous Measures.
The only available building for coun-
ty court house was a hotel building in
at sheriff's sale and bought by Spring
| field parties Saturday night party left
Springfield for Boston with machinery to
move the building to the former town for
use rs court house, thus preventing the
county seat issue from being raised this
fall on the ground of insufficient property.
Rollers We're put under the building,
which Is three stories high and the finest
in the county, and twenty teams were
hitched to it. Inside the house We're sta
toned twelve men armed with Winches-
ter rifles
The Boston People on the Trail.
The building was moved about five
miles toward Springfield, which is about
twenty-fiv miles from Boston, when the
people of the latter place discovered the
trick and Immediately organized. All
| available horses and rifles were brought
into requisition. and strong party start
| ed pursuit. Upon orertakIng the build
| ing movers the pursuers commanded a
halt, which was answered by vOlley of
shots from the men in the building. The
Boston men then fired, and fierce battle
ragged, which ended in the Springfield
party being driven from the building
Reduced the Building to Ashes.
Coal oil was then procured and the
hooio Va tHe DulluluS SijuTdltl. 10t
building was then set on fire and con
| sumed. Great excitement prevails. but
owing to the remoteness of the scene,
| news is hard to obtain. Parties arrived
here Wednesday night from Springfield
| and departed hurriedly after buying all
the cartridges they could secure Several
persons are reported AS having been
wounded. and two are said to have been
killed during the fight This however, is
doubtful
Iater-Four Fatally Hurt.
dispatch received last nj ht by courier
from Boston says that four of the wounded
will surely die, and that the condition of
several Others is critical. 1t is also said
| that the building over which the battle
was waged was not destroyed. The men
who attempted TO apply the torch were
| shot in their tracks. The probabilities
| are that the battle will be resumed by an
| invasion into Springfield. This the Spring
| field people will resent. and bloody Sc
quel will follow. Baca county is in the
extrt me southeastern corner of the state.
| and remote from railroad facilities.