The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-09

had many close relatives. who fought for
him without price.
I The wages paid those ''nghting menn
was a per day and found This came
out Ia the testimony. BY found ID meant
guns. pistols and ammunition, together
with bacon and bread.
These men. In squads OF three. built
blinds along the highways Travelled by
Their opponents. and sometimes they walt
ed for days before any member OF the OPP
posing faction attempted 10 pass. II FREE
quentiy happened that squad lay out fer
a week or more without seeing the enemy
and frequently had 10 move half dozen
times and make new ''blinds'' before they
got a chance to fire a shot. The "biinds'
are screens made Of branches of trees well
filled with leaves They are usually con-
structed about forty TO sixty yards from
the road. and new limbs with fresh leaves
have to be cut every three or four days.
for the practiced eye Of the mountaineer
can tell dead leaves at great disiance.
and thus the blind could be detected.
The Bakers have no money with which
10 pay men 10 engage In this sort Of work.
Even the lawyers who prosecuted i'm How
ard for killing old man George Baker werc
not paid for their services and they sued
for the money and got Judgment only 10
find that the Bakers. who employed them.
had no valuable property subject 10 at
tachment. The Towards and Whites, on
the other hand. are abundantly able to
buy guns pistols and ammunition for their
men and 10 provide them with provisions.
besides paying them their per diem. To
equip leo men with Winchester rifles and
revolvers OF Is caliber would cost. with the
necessary ammunition, not less than s2a10
and II would require 500 week 10 pay
their wages. 10 say nothing OF the cost OF
keeping them supplied with bacon and
bread Therefore II would cost 10 carry on
a feudai war, with fifty men on a side for
three months. not les sthan $4,000 Az
the Bakers are now practically bankrupt.
and as none OF Their active friends will pat
up the necessary money. IL looks as II this
has come to te Cns-sided fight. With
Wiley and John Baker in the BarbouryiIle
Jail. old George Baker and Tom Baker
dead. Doc Baker and his cousins Bob and
Carlo Baker and Chris jackson Tom Bak-
ers brother-iu-iaw. at London, twenty
scur miles away. there seems little ikeii.
hood OF the Eakers Offering very stub
born resistance Just now.
The Towards and Whites have already
not less than fifty men. well armed and
equipped at their command Many Of
these men have been sworn In as deputy
sherins by Bev. White. and a more ac-
compfshed iof of pistol and Winchester
users IL seldom seen. Many Of them have
been under fire In mountain fights and
not a few OF them have been wounded In
open encounters.
Sheriff Rev. White. who Ia the recog-
nlxed header of the Howard faction. since
Milton Howard was killed by the Bakers
began his career as a pistol user when he
was not over Is years old. There was n
general fight In Manchester and man
was stabbinx his s,epfafher In the back
when Bex.. ~ho had a small 3s-caiiber
pistol. began blazing away at the knife
user. but only hit him once. Before this
sghs was over Bev.ss stepfather and .
man named stivers were killed and an
other man badly wounded. Bey. escaped
unhurt.
Daugh White. the circuit clerk. who ix
now also acting In the capacity of depss-
~ sheriff IL one af the yDosf determined
pistol users I'm Clay county. When he aYd
Rev Whites brother. John G. White. got
into the fight with the Rockers and LIT
ties al the courthouse door several years
ago. pauxh was shot In the hib by Jack
Hooker Jack tried 10 90 up the steps AZ
Daugb sank TO the floor, bat before Hook
or bad reached the first landing Dauxh
raised himself on his elbow ard shot kill
Ing Hooker. bis body falling ON the land
tng. Sid Baker. the s9s-sn.law Of A.
.sEaig' Howard. haa also smelied powder
from hostile pistol He had shooting
hout with Charlie woosen. In which the
,afssr was % badly wounded that he can