Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-16
CURTIS KENDALL
SLAIN BY SHARP
Young Miner Shot Down at GoIdfield---Dies
After Thirty-Seven HOurs---OId Feud
Between the Men.

Cdt lio 1ACudAlAf WCil- htlOWH III lU-
uopah and sourrounding country, was
shot in Goldfeld Wednesday morning
at $50 O'Clock by Howard Sharp,
better known as DOC" Sharp. Ken
dall died Thursday evening at 8
O'Clock in Goldtield, as result Of the
wound received in the shooting.
The shooting was the outgrowth
OF bad blood that has existed between
the two men since last October,
when Kendall accused Sharp OF NOV
ing some monuments on property in
which the latter was interested.
Later Sharp gave Kendall an option
on a piece of property which Sharp
had located, The option was for
twelve hours and the price to be paid
was 5000. The option was allowed
to expire, and when a request was
made by Kendall for an extension
and it was refused by Sharp,
and since that time the men have
had fist fights, in which Sharp has
always come out victorious
kid Kendall is perhaps as well
known as any person in the district,
coming here about two years ago
from Utah, where his parents reside.
He was known to be troublesome aud
irresponsible when drinking, although
considered harmless when sober. He
had located considerable property in
the Goldfeld district, all of which had
been sold recently Since that time
he had worked on the January lease,
owned 10y his brother, Zeb Kendall,
and others and was employed there
at the time he was shot.
Doc Sharp has been in Tonopah
for almost three years, working at
mining, and has always been hard
working man. He is known to al
most every resident of Touopab, and
up till the time he left for Goldtield
last fall had never been in any trouble
Of serious nature, and is known TO
have tried TO avoid Kendall when he
knew that the Kid was drinking.
However it is hard to avoid man in
place like Goldfeld and as q eonse-
quence the men have met frequently,
when threats have been made by both
parties
According to party who claimed
to be witness TO affairs leading up
TO the shooting, the trouble started
Tuesday evening, when Kendall,
Nay and man named Johnson met
in Goldfeld saloon. Nay had been
with Kendall when be and Sharp had
previous trouble, and after several
drinks had been taken, once more
the fighting blood commenced TO boil,
The whole controversy was gone
over, Nay insisting that he would
help Kendall "clean" Sharp. This
kind OF talk was INDUCED IN on the
streets, before crowd Of men, for a
long time; threats being made oI
what one and another OF the three
men would do TO Sharp. Finally
about 1890 o'clock Nay suggested
that he, Kendall and johnson go tC
Sharp's cabin and settle the matter
ESCAPE FROM TENT.
They started for Sharp's tent
which is in the fiat west of Brearley''
saloon. Some one in the crowd who
heard of their determine ation to 90 tc
Sharps abode, had gone on ahead
and told Sharp who was coming and
what they were coming for A mo
ment later Sharp leard the sound o
mems voices and knew that he woul(
have to fight If he stayed there, anC
not knowing how many persons h,
had to combat with, decided to leav,
the tent, which he did, and dropped
down into the gully to the west
When the intruding ones looked int
the tent Sharp was gone, although
he could see Nay, Johnson and Ken
dali from where he was watching
their movements, Persons who were
close by claim that II was not Ken
dali who went up to the tent ant
looked in the door, but that Nay ant
Johnson did this, while Kendall stooC
back fully fifty feet from the tent.
About this time Constable Doc
OToole appeared and notified th
lighting men that all of them woulC
be thrown in jail, if they did not ge
TO bed at once.
Nay and Johnson were taken d
their wagon, which was in the cora
and started to their home at Colum
bla mountain, Kendall was sent I
bis cabin on the hill and was in be-