Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-02

ter. Here he was Joined by his half-bro-
Their, ANDY Baker, of Jackson county
who was member of the Amy faction in
the S5-year war in Breathitt county be-
tween Capt. "Bilr' Strong and Wash
Amy. ANDY during thatslong war, was
Shot at 20 or 30 times, and carried bullet
in his leg, while 45-caliber ball went
through his left lung. From candy Ba-
ker he received pledges of the support of
all the Deatons, Burtons, Standings and
Bakers in the upper counties. All the fam
lilies named are closely related by blood
and marriage to Bowling, and have been
for years known as expert fighters.
To give still greater strength to the bro
theirs of Tom Baker the powerful Phil
pot family is beginning to take sides
against the Whites and Howards. The
Philpots, while Republicans, belong to
separate factions, and the Philpots have
been the ''outs' so far as county offices
are concerned. for so long a time that
there is much feeling between the follow
ers of the two families. In one voting
precinct in this county every voter is eth
er a Philpot or kin to one. They are rich
and at the same time desperate men, isv-
ing been engaged in numerous pistol ard
AihC udtllcS- II 10 Sdlu VI the I7liilpOlo liidl
no man ever shot at one of them and lived
to die a natural death, if he remained in
Clay county.
The Philpots are friendly to Gen. T. T.
Garfield and his sons and this fact is not
pleasing to the Whites and Towards
While Gen. Garrard has taken no part in
the war, his sympathies are with the Ba-
kers. and he may yet be dragged into the
feud in a more active way.
On the other hand, the Whites and How
ards have not been idle. They have got
more and better guns than they had last
year. and have added to their stock of am
munition smokeless powder cartridges
which will render bush whacking much
safer than it was with the old-fashioned
black powder 1t was smokeless powder
that was used in killing Tom Baker, and
the same kind was used when the attempt
TO kill him on his porch was made a
month ago
Not satisfied with the smokeless powder,
the Whites and Bakers have secured a
supply of explosive bullet cartridges,
which, when fired into an enemy, produce
such an ugly wound that it resists all sur
gerry. Never before in the history of the
mountain feuds in Kentucky, has a war
been carried on with such terrible and sci
entific weapons, and to this fact is due the
great loss of life already chronicled.
The men doing the principal fighting on
the White and Howard side are those who
have been sworn in as deputies of Sheriff
''Bev' White. Among them are George,
'tChad" and DOC" Hall, who were the
most reliable lighters on the French side
in the noted French Eversole feud of Per-
ry county, which cost the lives of seven
teen Eversoles and nearly as many of the
French faction. 1t is the presence of
these three men. clothed with the author
ity of the law and armed to the teeth,
which caused Judge II. c. Eversole to be
afraid to hold court without a strong body
of State troops present.
One of the saddest features of the feud
is the desperate condition in which it left
Mrs. Tom Baker and her eleven children.
The oldest. Jim, is at Jail at Barbour
vile, charged with the murder of Wilson
Howard and Bureh Stores, while the other
ten boys, who range in age from fifteen to
one year, are at Tom Bakers old home
Their mother received warning that the
Whites and Towards threatened to blow
her house up with dynamite and to kill
the children, as one of the opposing faction
is said to have declared eve won't rest I'M
til we exterminate the whole Baker
brood 1t was the mothers wish to have
her children admitted to the Masonic
Widows and Orphans home in Louisville,
but thus far no arrangements have been
made.
Mrs. Iby Jackson, sister of Tom Baker,
had to leave Clay county two months ago.
She had carried pistol to kill jim How
ard for killing her father in cold blood,
and she was warned that she would be
shot from ambush if She did not leave the
country.