The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-05-13
.vI0 mEv' OF KENTUCKY
|.r -. a, Fatal Tragedies Of This
T 0,te Ocur and Why.

~ YORK INDUCED in some Vetoai
u,.oSnics concerning the Ken
L., readiness to use a gum
y Sl,med the rather sanguine re-
,, !. g Of bis native state upon the
.ns,eEy mountains and their dead
VA, he might have appeared a
IA, less heroic, but he would have
4 nearer the truth
a, course A man who is hunting
,,ouble in the Blue Grass, the
-, GAS or the Pennyroyal, can
,Sh We have no record that a
:, ever came to the quiet. peace
\. ci,v Of Hickman really itching
I, trouble and left without being
,.ommodaied. /, is as simple as
,aking sticks TO get ones sell
ma ,Syvhere between Pond Gap
a N, Mississippi river. The
T,,,uekian believes that a sir
{sSO,.r-or even a 5S-caliber-is
!, great equalizer Of physical in
qualities.
b., sIcsp, for some blood.letsing
y nish, riders nov and then. a
aching 1nee In a while. a gentle
Eauly street duel here and there,
Ma colonel or tvo occasionally
IniI,ed BY Bowie knife or bullet to
r,p across the almost inhnitesimal
ridine line between the Blue Grass
ID h.sven-all Kentucky lying out
b, ID. eastern hills is quiet and
Aubiding.
But the tradition Of personal ven
|ance throws It's tragic shados over
!, bill country occupying all the
sasrn part Of the state. An eye
b. A. eye is the Law Of the noun
Airs. Feuds in these hills are not
",hick as au,umnal leaves that
r,y lhe brooks in vallombfosa"-
~ almost. There are few that have
81 cost at least half a hundred
ives.
There is no comic opera quality
boz, the Kentucky mountsineer on
i path. he shoots to kill. He
ots 10, oikilling fromambush--this
10 make sure Of killing and avoid
Implications With little Law there is
bis hills. Blu, be fights face 10 face
% in pitched battles when be has
D There is no question Of his
ruags among those who know him.
]; doesn't care how he kills enemy.
be kills him.
kountaineers say feuds never end.
anIiiss are handed down from
,nsa,ion 10 generation. Hatreds
r bred in the bone. They are part
the mountain baby's heritage.
isud that appears dead today
pay have a bloody recrudescence
lily years from now.
The Tolliver.Logan, the French
wrsols, the Hargis.Markum. the
toEafd.Turner the Hatheld.Mc-
oy, the Jones' Wright, the Johnson
lgFnef isuds and the old-iime war
which Jesse Underwood was the
ao-one Of the bloodiest OF them
A-are some Of the noted family
aH that have led the rest OF the
anon to think Of Kentucky as a
ace where the smoke OF empower
eis' the place Of morning mists.
mere have been many more. The
st Is long and bloody.
ScatisTed among the valleys,
aInlng, keeping store, making
0onshlne shiSky-and, contrary
'as novels, making il in broad day
ga' almost as openly as farmers
'' corn dwell fighting men Of
s'ss vendeitas. Their tragic re-
0Ia' are not fables, as the ere
''as' Of so many western "bad
nn are. The notch.s on their
sI' stand Tor dead men. You can
4 he graves and verify the
r''ehes Il you care TO.
ClayOOuns Jones of Knott county.
.I Aeniuckian will tell you, killed
,'.u'y,sight men with the same rife.
I Sun Wright, liking of Letcher,"
~, &C. Wenty-three. "Bad Tom"
s -'n Oh Ferry admitted that twelve
~. .'1 'l'p' in his private grave yard
NV ~ ae saw their ghosts every mid
a. I ~ sneh he awoke screaming in
NJ, W. hazard jail before his eIecu.
co,I %1s Howard Of Harlan. who
M, INA /. u''vs a bowie knife up to the
| l M a a! = beech tree at twenty PAGES,
We. a Yen Of the Turner'S In two
I,,v. '' out being unwise enough 10
VIA. S a au native hills, passed to a
Ola gailovs. inc "aP-aoor
t,r =, niue y Ear Tom" Prather Of Car
N, g. t., slasT inthechurch. famous for
|pravs' ,'0' OF his eIhortations and
gou s '.,,. found time between reli-