The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-31

got the better OF his Judgment and he went on-
'Up to ole Rand'ls there couple. Up In hills
thr" with a nod his shoulder "One o. them
Sheriff fcllers come along-an ole man down
yonder"- pointlng-"aud couple o. more maybe
the last as though man or TWO were not worth
counting
Bur 1t was not all done with musket of 'G3 cap"
Hatfield has eight dead mems scapS at his belt and
he Will show you with pride his shooting Irons. Two
revovers OF recent pattern he reserves for his own
use. His oldest boy, dragged 10 the front pro-
ducc m older pair guns that have good service
And each child. In turn, IS armed according 10 his
age. They trained to firearms from the cradle
and to look upon reyovers rs necessity OF life.
cap" Hatfield Is as cblldlike about some things
any OF bis children. He Will go the railway station
with their freight Of humans from the outside world
He was just much interested in US and we were as
queer him he and his family could possibly have
been 10 us He showed his knives. made out OF
butcher knives. sharpcned on both edges and worn
with until their original purpose Is no longer ap-
parent The women have no knives Tor cooking, out
all the children have knives for killing men. and when
some meat Is needed they borrow man killer TO
the bacon.
There was little enough to show but Gap" Hatfield
did the honors with pride Nav. where's thet there
collarf' he questioned when bis tools had been care
fully handled and praised.
'Aiaw" did not know. but the children scrambled
bed all Of the little helping 20 bring the
collar 10 view. II WAS gaudy affair, The Kind few
COWBOYS. even In the good old days. have worn But
Jonce Hatfield Gaps" brother went to Colorado once
I'm 1881 and when he came home couple OF years
later he brought complete cowboy outht, such as
broldeUed the brim Hts coat was leather frinHed
the seams and with embroidered conrs and Guns
done in silver and scnrlet. lie as proud OF that
outfit Hatfield girl could have been with SIX
dress
All Of the Hatfield men fell victim to It's charm.
For I'm their lives they were ndlscreet they went
10 the photographer In body, and one by one
they put the hat and coat armed themselves WIN
rcvolvers after the true cowboy fashion, and had
their pictures taken. Needless 10 say they had never
bad their pictures taken before and never would
again
The coat and hat gone worn out by the hand
ling OF admirers but the collar remains the treasured
possession OF the leader who lives TO wage war
upon the world. Jonce Hatfield, now dead was the
ugest OF Devil Anse Hatheld's children. He fell
I'm love with Rose Ann Mccoy and carried her or to
his fathers house. Two years later he drove her
away by his brutality and she went home carrying
her baby boy with her When the boy nine years
old u band Of Hathelds, led by Jonce. made raid on
the cabin night They battered down the door OF
the cabin where the boy sleeping with the girls
of the family. Alfnra Mccoy, the eldest GIRL stood
in the doorway TO protect the others and was shot
Ellison Hatfield afterward captured, tried and
hanged for the murder Jonce Hatfield. breaking into
the the girls dead body, the figure OF
lying I'm bed covered with blankets. He
fired and almost killed his boy, incident which
considered great joke among the Hat6clds
This the cabin Of Randolph Mccoy Of the
orlGinators OF the feud, II all came about two
"huwgS' MS the mountaneers would call them. Ran
dolph Mccoy and Floyd Hatfield claimed the
two razorbacks. and when Floyd Hatfield brought
suit recover them he had the case called before
Justice Matthew Hatfield. The settlement naturally
In favor Of the Tatneds caused bad blood and a the
next county election when there was too much moon.
shine whskey, the Hatfelds and McCoys got together
In their first real fight After that iutermlttently for
years the war was ragged. They made raids on houses
at midnight, Killing men, and children: they
set fire 10 cabins and lay IN ambush shoot and kill
1t was barbarlc warfare, such might have pra-
vailed n century before The mounaineers Mt
least hundred years behind the times and strangers
to the present ways and doinGs OF the world
Cap HatGelds eldest girl took the red neck ribbon
handed her and cuched II to her breast with savage
joy in her eyes. She Ike u wild animn She did