The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
FAMOUS PENNSYLVANIA DUEL
Only the Referee Was Hit-How Valu-
able Coal Lands Were Divided.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
There are few people in Pennsylvania
who have not heard of Maj. Sanford Lo-
gan. He is famed throughout the Key
stone state. He is 60 years old, short,
heavy-set, with florid complexion, snow
white hair, and heavy white mustache.
Herwas in New York two days last week
He dropped into the Hoffman House one
afternoon, and, while sitting at a table in
the cafe nursing a bottle of whisky told
the story of famous Pennsylvania duel.
81 got this story from my grandfather"
he SAID, who was a man pretty much like
a Bible out in Pennsylvania; everybody
swOre by him The duel was fought in
1913. 1t was in that part of Pennsylva-
mia which is now occupied by parts of
Clearfeld and Jefferson counties, within
twenty miles of Punxsutawney. The par
Elephants were Wash Faulkner, Isaac
Kinch and my grandfather. The three
men owned pretty much all the land upon
the mountains in that vicinity. They
lived within a mile of each other, in log
cabins set in the center of a clearing.
Faulkner was short SCraggy and had a
long beard His left leg was shorter
than his right, and he walked with de-
cided limp. 1t was on account of this de-
formity that he was called 'Limpy
Fotch.' For short he was known as
Limp. He was the best wood-chopper
in Pennsylvania.
''Kinch was a long, lanky man, with
SlOping shoulders and a loose, awkward
gait. He was always chewing tobacco,
and it was for that reason that he was
called Cud Kinch.' The cabins of Kinch
and Faulkner were not over a quarter of
mile apart. The two men and my
grandfather were together about ali the
time. They would chop each others
wood, put out each others potatoes, clear
each others land and kill each others
hogs. Kinch had a big hog that was
famed far and wide, from the mountains
clear down into the Tuckahoe valley in
the Juniata. Kinch war very proud of
the hog, and never failed when the oppor-
tunity offered to tell wonderful stories
about it. He allowed it to roam as it
pleased about his clearing.
''In 1918 Faulkner moved his potato
patch from the clearing near his shanty
up to a clearing which the three men had
made half way between Kinch's shanty
and Faulkner's cabin. Just about the
time the potatoes were coming around in
good shape, Kinch turned his big hog out.
The hog wandered down toward the po-
tato patch, and when Faulkner got around
on his way to my grandfather's cabin, he
found about third of the potato patch
rooted up as if by plough. He was at a
loss to know how it had been done He
went straight back to his cabin and got
his dogs and took them with him to the
potato patch In less than five minutes
the hounds had cornered Kinch's big hog.
Faulkner was mad clear through, and he
Kissed the hounds on the hog, and in less
time than it takes to tell 1t Kinch's big
pig was dead
Faulkner then went to Kinch's cabin
and told him about his potato patch being
rooted up. He didn't say anything about
the hog being dead. He thought he
would let Kinch find that out for himself.
My grandfather happened in while the
two men were talking about the uprooted
potatoes, and the three went down to the
potato patch Kinch stumbled across
his dead pig the first thing He accused
Faulkner of having killed it.
% OF course I had it killed, said Faulk-
ner. 1t came down and rooted up nv DO
tato patch, and any hog that will do that
ought to die
If it was a common hog like one OF
yours, it ought to have been glad to live. ,
replied Kinch. You killed that hog out
of iealously.'
zone word led to another, and soon the
two men were on the point of coming to