The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-06-10
VICTIM or
THE BREATHITT FEUD
Excitement In Feud Country
Has Been at Fever Heat
For Several Days.

.IE SuShoOhb n.y. IullG J.--E-A-oDGIlu hu-
ward Callahan, famous throughout this
section OF the state for the BART he
played in the numerous feuds that have
disrupted Breathitt county for years,
was shot from ambush early today,
and 1t is believed fatally wounded, at
his home in Crockettsyille, 16 miles
from Jackson.
Callahan had swept out his store pre-
paratory to opening for the day, and
was brushing the refuse from the front
door when the shot was fired. The bali
took effect in the left side OF his alb
domen. Two doctors left early for
Crockettsville. Bloodhounds have been
put on the trail OF, the assassin, who,
II is understood, hid behind q pile of
coal to fire the shot. Excitement in
this region is intense over the shoot
ing.
Callahan was in Jackson Saturday
In attendance upon court, a warrant
having been served pon him for
malicious shooting in a family affair
some time ago. His case was con-
tinued and he at once left Jackson,
telling one or two friends that lately
he was fearful of his life.
Same Old Feud.
With a new outbreak of the Hargis-
Cockrill feuds, the town has been ter
rorized for several days. Armed re-
tainers of both sides rush in from the
mountains to reinforce their friends.
Albert Sidney johnson and Jake
Noble, recognized leaders of the anti
Hargis faction, went OH the warpath
the other night, and before the officers
were able to place them under arrest
more than n hundred revolyers had
been drawn and serious bloodshed was
narrowly averted. Johnson and Noble
accosted a prominent democratic law
yer and friend of the Hargis faction
n threatened him with death If he
carried out his determination to run for
the democratic nomination for circuit
judge this summer.
This threat greatly angered the bit
ter partisans of the Hargis faction and
several of them armed themselves and
started in pursuit of Johnson and
Noble. In the meantime. however, the
town marshal had been notified Of the
attitude of Johnson and Noble and had
arrested the latter and started to Jail
with him, when members of the Dea-
ton faction, which is regarded as the
successor of the Cockrill boys since
they became extinct, attempted to pre-
vent the arrest.
At this instant the Hargis henchmen
appeared and assisted the officers in
landing both Johnson and Noble in
tail. .... ..-
Church Row Cause.
Lexington, KY. June 9.-It is reported
here that the immediate cause OF the
shooting OF ex-Sheriff Edward Gala
a was a dispute over the manage
ment of a church he built, and of which
he Is deacon, at Crockettsyille. A tele-
gram from Jackson say Callahan was
standing in the front door of his home
In Longs Creek at 4 o'clock this morn
ing when he suddenly fell backwards
to the floor. At the same time there
a crack of a rife and a curl of
smoke from the woods $50 yards away.
The bullet struck Callahan in the stom-
Rch, passed through his body and splin-
tered a door on the other side of the
room. One of Callahan's friends rode
on horseback 25 miles yer a rough
mountain road to jackson and tele-
graphed to Lexington for surgeons and
bloodhounds. Captain v. G. Mullikin
left here with his hounds to trace the
this morning.
Hareis' Chief Man.
Callahan was the chief lieutenant Of
Judge James Hargis, who was shot and
killed by his son, Beech Hargis. Judge
HargiS several years ago appointed
Callahan sheriff of Breathitt county
and the enemies of the Hargis clan as
serted that they were being prosecuted.
Six years ago Attorney J. b. Marcum
was assaSsinated on the street near the
house in Jackson. Callahan and
Hargis We're arrested. Later the widow
of Marcum entered suit for damages in
the civil court. The death of Judge
Hargis had caused delay. Many of the
members of the Hargis clan had re-
moved from Breathitt county and it
was believed the feud had ended. Cal
lahan supposed that he had recently
made peace with the Deatons and
Smiths, his worst enemies.
Callahan's former wife was a Deaton
and she eloped with John Smith.
Last January a Deaton was shot and
killed from ambush near Callahan's
home.