The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-25
Talks Of Matters and People OF the
Southern County.
WAS ELECTED SllERIFFIN MlNGO
In the Face of Democratic Majority Of
0oo-A Ainn Well Equipped for the Po-
sltion IIo Occupies Recent Iklllings
'n Ills County Not Connected with tho
Old IatfieId-,IcCoy Feud, which Has
Been Ended-The Mounts Amir.

wheeling and he rather likes the town.
He was made sheriff of Mingo county
on the formation Of the county two
years ago. and this time. Republican
though he is, and strong one, ne was
elected In the face OF Democratic ma
jorlty OF nearly six hundred. Mingo
could not have better man for shcr-
III; medium stature, genial, kindly, Ke-
adle Is made Of stout stun. He has a
cool head and the nerve OF a dozen or
dlnary men. He was good reserve Of
hcer under Collector A. B. White, and
he has been good sheriff. An Intelll-
gencer reporter asked him about the
recent killings In Mingo county, and
whether 1t was true that there had
been thirteen within thirty days.
YES" said the sheriff OF Mingo, "but
II is not true, as some newspapers have
said, that these troubles had anything
to do with the old Hatfield Mccoy feud.
Hatfield figures In one affair, but
that has nothing to do with the old un-
pleasantness. 1t should be understood
mat the Hatdelds are not bad people.
There Is no longer any Hatfield Nc
Coy trouble. The Hatilelds stay on the
west Virginia side and the McCoys on
the Kentucky side. ! think either
would 80 ten miles out OF the way to
avoid the other. Anse Hatfield Is con-
,ductlng big timber operation on Beach
creek, In Mingo county, employing a
good many men. OF his sons, Johnse Is
tmeering on the upper end of Guy
andotte river, in Mingo county; Cap.
who Is now In trouble, lives on his farm
on Mate creek. Bob lives at Warren
Clln, on the Norfolk 6 Western, where
ne mas good store and does good
business; Elliott, Is located at Delorum,
where he Is practicinS medicine and do
Ing well. Elias Hatfield, Anse's bro
ther, IS Jailer at Logan court house,
of his sons; Grcenway Is deputy
marshal. DR.. Hatfield, wko lives at
Thacker, is a Norfolk & Western sur
geon and an expert one: Wayne is a
student in the West Virginia Univer-
slty. SO you see the Hatfields are, after
all, good citizens. The young men Will
make their mark. They are good, sturdy
stock and not the kind of men to seek
trouble. ~ I..--... =
well. about the recent killings. Some
time ago DR.. Estep, who lived on the
Kentucky side, opposite Gray, got mad
at an italian over some chickens and
In trying to shoot him shot John Rob-
erts, through the heart. Estep came
over on the West Virginia side to GET
cartridges. PreSJack and John Roberts,
-and-Joha-Dinsess met Estep and
riddled him and ended him. Their men
stay on the Kentucky side and haye not
been arrested. The next killing was at
Breedin, In the lower end OF Mingo, the
night before election. On that day Dick
Evans went there and got into a row
with old Jackson Vance and his boys,
OF whom there are nine Dick Evans
Killed Albert Vance instantly and shot
Charley in the thigh. Evans Is in jail ut
Williamson. Evans shot his man at
about fifty yards with a thirty-two,
Smith & Wcsson. He Is q farmer and a
man of grit.
"On the Sunday before election Char
ley Williams killed KcntuckIan at
Hunters Camps at Matewan. Williams
walked up to his man. put his Win
chester against his breast, fired, killed
his victim and got away. He has not
been found.
The eiintficld.Isuthcrford rd Shooting.
"On election day came the Hatfield
affair. Cap. Hatfield and his fourteen
year-old step-son, Joe Glenn, were at
Matewan. John Rutherford and Cap.
Hatfield had been at outs for years, and
this day they made It up and declared
that they would be friends. Cap. Hat
held gave his shot-gon to DR.. Ruther-
ford, father Of John Rutherford, and
mayor of Matewan, to keep for him.
When Hatfield got ready to go home he
met his boy, who had Winchester.
Just then John Rutherford and Hat
field met.
Then the shooting began. Ruther-
ford was killed. A stray ball hit Hense
Chambers, one Of the challengers, at
the poll. The ball went through his
stomach, and In n day or two he died,
1t Is supposed that this was shot from
the boys Winchester. This stirred up
che community and general fusIlade
on Hatfield began. Hatfield took refuge
under the abutment of the bridge. Tha
boy got behind sycamore tree. Elliott
Rutherford, nephew of John, and
Cap. Hatfield engaged In sort of duel,
Rutherford shooting down at Eattlcld
and lodging and Hatfield at Ruther-
ford and lodging. Hatfield had then n,
shotgun and n revolver, and the bpy
was banging away with his WInches-
ter. The boy killed Elliott Rutherford.
Cap. Hatfield and the boy took to the
mountains and, sent Dan Christian to
Thacker to telegraph me to come and
get them. Christian went to Thacker,
but there was such crowd there that
Christian feared Hatfield might be
mobbed. and so he Went back to Hat
field without telcgraphing. Hatfield got
j. Fl. Clark to go with him and they
started for Williamson At Thackcr
they boarded the train and got In the
baggage car. Clark thought 1t better
to take them on to Huntington and
there they went. There they telegraph
cd me. ] went for them and brought
them back TO Williamson, where they
are now in jail.
The Mounts Trouble.
"The last killing? That was the
Mounts affair. Some time ngo Ander-
son Mounts killed a cousin of the same
name, over In Kentucky. They had
trouble over woman and Anderson
Mounts beat his cousin to death with n
club. had n capias for Anderson
Mounts for mlsdemeanor on the West
side. Hia father, Jim Mounts,
hearing of the capias, brought Ander-
son to me. kept him for some time,
Meanwhile n reward of 500 was offered
for him on account of the Kentucky
killing. Jim Mounts came and said his
wife was III and he would like to take
his son TO SEQ his mother, He promised
to bring him back us soon rs the moth
cr recovered. BIZ Bevans went to
Squire Terrell and swore out fugitive
warrant for Anderson Mounts, EGo got
Jim Clark to help to make the arrest
They went TO john Trents, q halr-bro-
ther OF Anderson Mounts. Anderson,
seeing them coming, got ont of win
dow and started To run. Bevans saw
him, took aim with his Winchester and
Anderson Mounts fell dead. Bevnns and
f,l n Il A.,lE Mnilil %, aai In a.