The Washington times., 1909-06-20
Breathitt FeudiStS Take Win
cheSters From Their Unac-
cuStomed Resting Places.
SHOT AT CALLAHAN
STIRS BATTLE FIRE
His Recovery Expected TO Reopen
Bloody Feud About City
of Sudden Death"
Continued from First Page.)

against the accused men.
and they are legion. seem unafraid OF
the law. 1t appears TO be the way il
bloody Breathitt." whose hills ar,
dotted with the graves of more than q
score Of feud victims who have ''dieC
with their boots on" within the past ter
years
I'VE thought when Jedge Hargis was
kilt by his son Beach it meant peace.
said a mourtaineer, but It looks LAX
trouble is er brewin agin in this trou.
bled country"
Knows Not How
To Forget or Forgive.
The Kentucky feudist, apparently
does not know how to forget or TO for
give. He is as relentless toward an
enemy as he is kind toward a friend
no better indication of this peculiar
trait of rugged mountain character car
be had than through the hitherto IN
published story of the manner in which
Ed Callahan and his enemies recently
reached an agreement Of peace"
About Christmas time. a number OF
the Smith-Deaton faction, including
Willie Deaton. son Of the man whose
death ten years ago is still responsible
for some Of the present trouble. passed
The Callahan home after nightfaH. cal
lahan says they fired upon his barn
first: the Smith-Deatons say Callahan
and his henchnan opened FIRE. John
Sebastian was shot by one OF the bar
Ticaded Callahan clan. Willie Deaton' S
mule was killed beneath him. In all
about 100 shots were exchanged. Then
the Smith-Deaton boys went on up the
mountain, one Of them desperately
wounded, the other minus a steed.
In January Callahan was placed I'M
der arrest charged with instigating the
attack. He refused TO come TO Jackson,
II is said. unless accompanied by some
OF his friends. They came in, perhaps
a dozen of them. rifles across their sad
les, taking quarters at one of the
untain towns hotels. In the after
oe the other faction also came in
4t',.1the surrounding hills. They had
t Ties. Open threats were made
lia' 1Il' hotel at which Callahan and
- I,aen were stopping would be
oyiiS Inl'ed rat night
Led Way Ba,
To lis Old StsnohoIs
10 me mind or -aIlahan. the old aIIy
OF Judge Hargis, IT, MINER storv oe tba
noted Hargis store, .bere i ~ haar
testified, the death Of lsp,, = 49,, 49,
been planned. seemed id,s1 g . ,iace
OF refuge. The Callahan ne, yvsIl-sd
in took possession. and marcs.5 zto1,7.
" upstairs TO the old office - Tir,
Hargis, overlooking Main street 80
facing the court house in which --s1.
lahan soon was to face trial. and fr,-,
which several years ago. ATTORNEY. J. Z
Marcum and Jim COckriu had beel
killed by Curt Jett and his COMPANIONS
Here the Callahan feudists rename,
for two days. Across the street tn
armed men of the opposition lay in wait
expecting, half hoping, for trouble. Tn
authorities feared to open court. Medi
ators were put TO work. former judy
Blanton assuming the main duties o
peacemaker.
am for peace, Judge" Callahan
Eai6 at last. They viii have to fire tn,
first shot"
DO you mean that. Ed asked the
judge. And the cool, enlgmatic Gala.
han nodded assent.
The truce was made and that night
ths Galatians and the anti-Caliahan,
'weEt over the bridge together"
with the mountains OF Breathitt az
a stage no more dramatic scene has eve,
teen enacted anywhere than when these
disciples Of feudalism in its darkest
sense left behind them the little. SLOW
emily town of Jackson and lnafraid OF
the rifles that dangIed from every
horseUan'E shCulder-'sFent over the
Bridge together
Coming of Peace
Hailed by Mountaineers.
And that night In MANY a mountain
cabin lank Kentuckian hung a long
barreied rifle upon the wall and brieiv
told waiting hearthstone group that
peace had dawned on a troubled conn
Try. Mountain diplomacy knows no
greater triumph than that two enemies
should go over the bridge" together
Feudal lines arc closely drawn. of
times a creek viii mark the dead line
and 10 the minds Of the respective
feudal clans nothing good can come
%ADaAA eAetDEe tic EEAAA- IN the uiDGHF
French-Eversols feud. in Perry county.
which cost the lives OF half a hundred
men, a street was the line which no
man dared cross.
They have fred the first shot" said
Ed Callahan, propped up Ia bed at his
remots home, twenty-five miles in the
mountain Businesses from jackson. as
he told Of the peace agreement. Then
Callahan pulled down the covers and
exhibited stoically two large bullet
wounds, one just underneath the heart
where the missile entered the other in
the back where il emerged after &
downward course through his lntestincs.
GO out IN the store" he continued,
''and you win find a hole IN a candy
barrel The bullet that got me went
partly through IL. In the door you will
find several other holes, some from n
Mauser and some from a winchester
bullet. They kept shooting. the two Of