The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-06

barred in warfare between nations, but
in the Kentucky mountains, there are
no rules and if one starts out to Kill an
other the most effective way possible Is
the way most approved. The bombsheli
guns that Avis bought commanded I'M
bounded admiration, and ] do not doubt
that IL the lad had announced himself
as a candidate for Congress at the mo-
ment he would have had chance for
election.
young Turner went on with a SINGLE
mindedness that was most remarkable.
and the zeal that he put into trying to
kill off the Sowders' party was exceeded
only by the cost of his campaign. he
had a fair amount of success, too, ana
the feud was quite as bloody as 1t should
have been under the conditions. / recall
a sight of the first victim of the explosive
bullets man named Jem Bureh, VINO,
with a party of Sowdersites, happened
along a brdlepath near Pineville, at the
side of which Avis and a chosen few
of his followers were In ambush. Later
II was said that Avis regretted his haste
on the ground that II he had waited he
could have bagged the entire party.
at seems that the shooting with ex-
plosiye bullets began when Burch was
the only man in range, however, and the
others got away Burchs body looked az
II II might have been in a dynamite rae
tory blow-up. | cannot recall how many
others were killed in the Turner-sowders
feud, but the number certainly cut down
the population OF Bell county, while the
amount OF powder that was burned was
something fr1ghtful.
"When an English syndicate that own
ed much property in Bell finally brought
about peace by the novel method OF buy
ing the farms OF all the lighting men I'M
der the condition that they move out OF
the county, Avis Turner was said to have
spent all his fathers estate. The method
Of peace-mak king adopted by the English
syndicate I'm the meantime had so thinned
out the partisans on both sides that
Young Turner was almost alone, and the
lighting naturally died away to the point
that Bell county became too slow for that
Young man. He had burned up very
graf sum OF money, aud ] really think
he made more noise and stir with mis-
mountain fortune than great many OF
his miTion-dollar spendthrifts OF the
more populous East.
THE last ] heard Of Alvis Turner he
had made a swap OF several new-fangled
guns of a most murderous pattern for
a horse and saddle bags, and was going
TO start for Kansas. An old and Intimate
friend OF the Turner family talked with
Avis lust before he was ready to depart
and he reported TO me what Avis had
20 say about his little extravagances IN
the killing line.
"'Alvis had a good time the old
friend stated, and he went away salts
fed that he done all he could for his
father. He sure is a right peart boy,
and / opinion he will have luck and get
along IN Kansas II 1t is like l have heard
It is out there
1.-THE members OF the 6owders faction
began to come back after Alvis was gone.
but the lighting was not renewed, as
with Avis went the snews OF war Tho
military title of the head of the Sowders
clan puzzled me for while, and ] made
special Inquiry as 10 how he became
general II was simple enough when you
the out break OF the Civil War, ana u
seems that his father. in doubt as TO
name for his youngest. was so impressed
by the Importance OF the men named
General who were prominent at the
opening OF the war that he decided Gen
erar was just the name for his boy"