The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-03
BURIAL OF THE RATCHET.
Woman's Sacrifice Heals Bitter Feud
Among Usage Indians.

Woman's Sacrifice Heals Bitter Feud
Among Usage Indians.
If the end of the family feud between
the Williamses and the EIarlowes of the
Usage Indian nations now seems in
sight, 1t is because woman's sacri-
fee has made that vision possible. For
ten year and more they have shot anu
killed without any cause other than
that a Williams woman eloped with
Harlow.
The feud ended in a strange manner
Jack Harlows wife ran off with James
Williams and the enraged husband
killed Williams. Then over his grave
20 members Of the two families met ana
vowed to shoot each other no more. The
officers of the Usage nation are SO well
pleased that they presented each OIL the
families with q gold medal for daring
and bravery. It is to the credit OF Har-
lows wife that the feud was just END
ed. She planned the scheme all by her
self, and it worked out exactly.
Mry Harlow is a very pretty woman
for a person who has had to work all
of her 80 years of life. When she Went
to town she improved the opportunity
to buy herself new clothes of the latest
pattern, and she was consldereo very
attractive by the mountaineers where
she lived. Jim Williams was very much
in love with the Harlow woman. but
he was afraid of her husband, VINO had
not long ago killed his brother as
consequence of thief eeud. Mrs liar
low allowed Jim to see her often in th0
woods near her home. and when he
prosed that they elope she readily con-
scented. She wrote her husband what
they had dor- ''
be found at a certain place In the
woods, where Jim had ranch. Jack
Harlow went there and found his wife
alone. He threatened to kill her, but
she got the drop on him and ordered
him to leave. Then as he was going
she told him that Jim would be home in
short time and that he was coming
along a certain path. This was
strange proceeding for her, but 1t was
all in the scheme she had arranged.
Harlow ambushed his wifes COM
panion and killed him. Then he went
back to the house, told Mary what he
had done, and asked her to come back
home with him. She readily consented
The next day the news spread that
another killing had occurred between
the two families and that Mary Har-
low, the cause of it all, had issued
to be present at Jim's grave and she
would tell them why she had done 1t.
They came-sturdy pioneers, all armed
with pistols and guns-and stood over
the grave until the dead man had been
lowered into it. Then the woman
stepped forward ana IN calm voice
told them story which brought tears
to the eyes of many of them.
She said that the trouble between the
two families had been going on for ten
years and over 40 persons had been
killed by the two families bullets. 1t
was all commenced because Williams
girl had once eloped with Harlow. To
equalize things she had eloped with
Williams and then her husband had
killed the man, just as Williams had
killed a Harlow ten years ago. On
either side, she said, about OF had been
killed, and now that the two families
were even she believed they should
quit and make up.
There was little eloquence In her
voice. but it touched the crowd. They
looked across the grave at each other,
and the leaders dropped their guns to
the ground and strobe forward TO
shake hands. All followed. and now the
feud Is no more.-Chicago Chronicle
New Trinkets.
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the neck being set with row. of dia-
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rubies
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