Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-10-17
VICTIM OF A FEUD.
The French. BYsrsOls Vendetta The
Cause Of Another Murder
JUDGE COMB, FATALLY sHOL
several Leaders OF the French Fact
tlon Arrested aud More irou'
bic Feared.

Bro sroSE Gar, Va, Oct. 1.-THE
French. Evefsoie feud has started
afrcsh In Perry county, Ky. Bot
May, an ,x-mtmber OF the Kentucky
iegisl allure. ana one OF principals on
the EversOlu side,is here iTUm Hazard,
the peat u the county anu Of the war.
Judge Comb, the fatnvr.in'lnW VI the
ueh1 Evufslle leader, II dead. Tue
leaier OF tho French faction, whose
name was Frazer, Fulton Ffguch aud
two others OF his faction, have been
arrested Tor bis murder aud more tf0u.
bic viii follow. Judge & mus WIS ~
yUafs old aud lived Ia Hsz4ri. Early
on Sunday morning two weeks ago he
stepped across the street where yOuns
Cush Evcfs1ln aud two Oihuih were
t.lking. a rife cracked from the CON.
iirlj jus; over the fruce nud tnu bullet
truck the oil man IN HE htonsi and be
full. Cush EN.ssyiu wheeled aud saw
n man with blackenoi iacu fpring up
nud Dash through the c1ru.hp.d. Hu
says the man was Joe Adhinr. At the
sane iimp some other ffonChu
began iiung and shouting from
another direction TO divert Aticn-
ton from Adkins. Young Cu.h
with several others fan across a little
spur aud hid themselves In favine.
Othcr men with blackeuel faces soon
appeared, VINO, the EvefslltH SAID,
we're Adkins, Frazer and Jutsr Field.
A. they climbed over bauk VIII
Martin, a boy in the Evcfsll' crowd,
fred aud killed Frazer. Tue other
twu mon usoapri tut we're captured
later with Fulton French In Bruathiu
county. Adkins iB sad tD have e..
capped, but French anu Field are held.
They arc trying b. get the county
Judge O. cImu To the Bfeathiii line aud
icy them A. TIA y are afraid 90 10 to
II ztrd. Only .nat night they received
an anonymous lcuersayingth they would
be shnt the moment they put foot
across the county line, Juugu CO0mbs
diod Ia a lew hUuta. Hu mai never
taken part la the frud, though he was
man OF wealth anu In sympathy with
tile Eyef.oirs aud has always tfiud to
get mo Ffruchs to trial. IL was he
iuiueuco that WIS., feared. Adkins IN n
noted despcfAdg. More than thirty
men have Teen Killed In this icud Ia
the last half a dozen year,. IL began
with the killing Of the Confederate
Gamhfiils, a strong Rreaihit county
family, ~ the Union Evers0ies,d during
the war.
soon the Gambrills killed the EveTsolc
leader anu dusuitoTy lighting went GA
after the war until 1854 Tnen Fulton
FfoDoh came from Niryinia 70 Hand
aud taught school oud rcd law with
joe Evstsole, tue lozder OF the Ever.
soils isotiOn. The Evsfsolss were tho
richest aud strongest family Ia the
country and they always had a store
IA Hazard, which was the Rvpu Olioan
headquarters.
French rented this store from Joe
| EversOle Tor n year aud opened with
his CLERK, Bob May. French and
May disagreed and May opened just
sotOsi the street an made his store the
/ Democratic headquarters " the Town
When + snuh's year was up, Ever
/ sole sent him word that hr must move
out. French refused Tor some reason
/ and ON the tease expiring Evrfsolt
dfuvo into town and moved French
| Into the street, That started the war,
| The Gambfills took sides with lht
/ Ftenchs against their FOES, May anu
Eyrrsole. SHERIFF., mayors anl
| Judges have been with the EverHo lcs
French IL said to have hired many o.
his fighters.
Trouble IL feared In the immediat,
future ~ the men ON both aides are ou
cunning iof their eurmits.