The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1899-01-12
TWO AGAINST 4 MOB.
Al OLD TINE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
SHOOTING SCRAPE.

/ a TrsyjrI Iacidcut Th9t Led 10 the
Nrcr'-.np of tin" @id EsoN3o:. g., AID
/ q i'.trAeA Erttie In EghicI. seven
HIen We're Slain.
cone Of the worst shooting sara7os
tina; ever happened along the Missis.
sippi river" began the ,pan at the
! wheel, relaxing his hold on the tiller
/ which had been hard down, and per-
mittiEg it to spin around with the
velocity of a top, took place ont there,
/ just above the mouth of tha bayou,
about so years ago When t!ey-4uII Ieci
| the old roatoiIice and Che warehouses;
l. You can see where they stood ly gIo
/ piles Of bricks there cn the bank.
All admitted the ruins were plainly
| visible, when he changed to, the Op-
! posita sido Of the wheel, and after a
( spirited effort made to CoJutgiast tie
effects Of an impingiug current thu5
had caused the coat to sWervo from her
course lie continued:
'Ihe boat that l was or had G9t
caught in the fog, ard wo tied mp mn
der the point there about o'clock III
the afternoon, and a lot of US went IN
shore TO take little exercise. 1t was
on a Saturday, and good many people
had come in from the country TO do
their trading and get their mail Some
Of thefn were pitching Qu0ita and others
shooting at mark when we first i&n.t'
ed, but they quit when they saw the
man carry the mail bag we had Iroagtt
and went in and stood around waiting
for the letters TO be sorted. They bai
all Leen drinking and were pretty NOISY.
When the postmaster said there wcro
only two letters and that they wire
both for Bud johnson, a COlCr,d maR,
a murmur Cf disapprOval went around
and several Of them insisted ca a h,F
deal
" You can look fer yourselves, sail
the postmaster, tossing them the b.I,
but after searching and finding it CGpiy
they were i'll worse frame Of n.:&i
than ever. Presently one of tha nUiA-
ber !lcal politician, got mp aud uafo
a speech derJgatory to the adEiinistra-
tiOn. He insisted that tba government
was prejudiced against white folks, and
that lie had no use for the Ciiiop any
how. Several Of the others p,>sel.t CE-
pressed their approval OF taIS Salu-
ment, and Il general smashing up Of Cy-
erythin2 at once followed. Daring tie
row the coal OIL lamp was broken, tr0
house set Ga fire and everything Da;"cl
up.
"Colcnel Bunch, who owned til
property, noyi, g o. fire, ~ sa ~
a1s'za 8ss;.s :,,g.i D I. .s.;ti. 4-5 81, ,g
noGnoed the perpetrators CT the outrage
as yandals The colonel was a hi..l
spirited man ana dida't stand any foe!
ishness but was getting along in yeas
now aud couldn't do much but talk, 50
that when one Of the men declared h7
could whip any Bunch Oh earth h.
looked like he felt himself III pretty
close place. but the colonel st1.. ii iiI
ground until at last, when the c0Ltcud
ing parties were about to c0ue to blows,
his son appeared upon the scene, an1
learning the cause of the trouble, spTar1
between the two, and, drawing his ro-
volvcr, said, My name = Eaug!, a.s
defend himself | Can stand III his ,faah5
and take his part.
AT this junGture the shooting "uEl-
mencod, and made for the boat Ey-
erybody seemed to take sides against
the Bunches, and you woad have
thought them band of guerril!as trom
the way they kept tho fight up Pres
oFtf fl,y / Io ,gIl Il
the bank and stop just Ct the edge cf
the water, and then his scn came stag
gering down, too, aud fell near his side
They were both dead We wanted to e
leave, but tho men were afraid to 90 on
shore to unite the lines for the infuri-
ated crowd was still calling 4or moro
Bunches and the colored man who had
got the letters, but he had climbed
tree, and they didn't know where he
was An hour or SO later, when the
crowd had dispersed, be slid down from
his hiding place, came aboard the boat
and we had him in the hold until we
got away and be was over his fright.
He said there were five men lying on
the bauk that the Bunchos had killed
before they fell"
The boat at this juncture showing
disposition to become fractions, the
pilot gave his undivided attention for q
moment to the wheel, when he went on:
"But there is not nucn shooting
along the river now, and you hardly
ever hear Of foud. When there were
only about three families in county
two Of them were usually engaged in
an effort to exterminate the other On
account of some imaginary wrong, or
maybe prompted by jealousy. Since the
country has been settled up they are all
right. 1 used to think myself" he went
on TO say after brief tussIe with tho
tiiIer, THAT what man wanted was
room, Lut l have found cut my mis-
take. What h5 stands most in need Of
Is plenty Of good neighbors, and | find
hat the thicker y2u put people the bet
Ter they get along 1t makes them more
human, and besides they come to know
something which IL not the case when
hoy live alone. l have learned a good
leal myself by travelling around and
seeing what is i'll the world, for | usu-
lily 90 east every summer TO swap
nalarias. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Caused the First COoIness.
Mr. Nowlywod (reading) - Nobody
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