Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-13

and Saxon in Scotland, or Saxon and Celt
in Ireland, this would have sounded nat
ural enough But why should there be
''gang" in peaceful Pennsylvania? Why
feuds in Kentucky?
We'll, it isn't easy to explain to foreign
er or even to an Atlantic coast Yankee, yet
it is a fact that here and there in all the
states which have mountainous regions,
and in all the new states, few feuds linger
on in civilizations track as reminders OF
the barbariSm of our distant forefathers
They are unique now and worthy of the
newspaper readers especial attention be-
cause of their rarity, though there was a
time when they were so common that ex-
cept where the station of the participants
was high, as in the case of the Marmion-
Douglas row. or where there was some frill
of romance attached, as in the Montague
Capulet quarrel, the gossiping chroniclers
of the day made no more mention of them
than newspaper nowadays does of plain
murder.
The general rule is that these feuds con-
tinue till all the desperate men on both
sides are killed, or the state government
comes in with overwhelming force and
captures all the participants, or some pc
culiarly horrible tragedy creates such
widespread disgust and rage that the par
ties to the feud abandon it and the coun-
try in a general panic. The Sutton Tay-
lor feud of Texas, probably the worst
ever known in America, terminated in the
first named way. Every man in it was
killed (about a hundred in alp except John
Wesley Hardin, and the state hanged him.
The Hatfield Mccoy feud of Kentucky and
West Virginia terminated by the second
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county Miss, ended in massacre of the
Chisholm family and its supporters, which
left nobody to keep up that side of the
controversy.
No census has ever been taken of the
feuds in eastern Kentucky. Those since
the war, sufficient to interest the nation,
have been eight in number. They We're
the Turner-Sizemore feud, in Knott coun-
ty; the Strong and the Little feuds, in
Breathitt county; the Martin-Tolliverw war,
in Rowan county; the Turner-Sowders
feud, in Bell county; the TurnerHoward
quarrel, in Hardin county; the Hatfield
Mccoy feud, on the West Virginia horder,
In Pike county, and the French Eversole
war, in Perry county. They were no ten
cent affairs. There was no pulling of pis-
tolls for show. The participators meant
business every time. They terrorized en-
tire counties, slew scores of people, drove
hundreds more from home, broke up local
courts, stood off the militia and cost the
state hundreds of thousands of dollars be-
fore they were finally suppressed.
But the job was thoroughly done. There
is peace through all the once disturbed
region, and recently published roll of the
present condition of the survivors has
about it flavor of comedy. But the IA
nous dead are many. Craig Tolliver is
dead. Boone Logan and the Youngs are
practicing law. Andy johnson is a capital
ist. The Yellow Creekers have become land
Spectators or gone west. Wills Jennings
and the Hatfields are in the penitentiary.
dispatched Jerry Little. General" Sow
ders is quiet citizen, and his old enemy,
Avis Turner, is slain. Wills Howard and
Joe Henderson are awaiting trial. Talt
Hall has been executed, and B. Fulton
French is living quietly at Winchester,
doing all that in him lies to provide legal
defenses for his many old retainers who
are under indictment.
To write q full and philosophical history
of these feuds in the highland south would
require a Buckle. The Appalachians send
down great tongue in south southwest
direction, forming central mountain nu-
cleus from Maryland to Alabama from
which the affluents of the Potomac and
Ohio, of the Mississippi and all the streams
which flow into the gulf and south At
lantic run rapidly down their rocky beds
to every point of the compass. The result