The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-01-12
HOW A FEUD
AROSE
BY EVAN CAMERON
opyright by American Press Asso-
citation, 1911.

ping, lnen DlaZlnE ure, Inen
ng conflagration. And the worst
Of quarrels are those between
Ids.
70 pioneers, Daniel Simpson and
y Underwood, emigrated with
families to the far west and en-
land owned by the government.
had been schoolmates and owned
IS side by side. There was no oc-
ln for a dispute to arise between
so long as they remained In the
for their boundaries had been sur
ID and fixed generations ago, and.
well fenced, the stock OF neither
trespass upon the others prem
Therefore their affection for
other grew stronger, and the fami-
were further bound together by
Engagement between Eliza Simpson
Frank Underwood, the oldest
hter of the one and oldest son
g other.
e two friends each entered
T. ter section of land, the two farms
- side by side. Simpsons land
more largely covered with tim
than Underwood's, and this fact
me a wedge between them. \
pad soon after their settlement on
and was projected to run along
their property, and 1t became at
apparent that the timber would
|aluable for ties. AS soon as this
learned Underwood became In
ted in his boundary line covering
luch of a wood as it could be
ched to cover, living on the line
cen the two properties.
e morning Simpson went out to-
his friends property and found
hrwood driving stakes on what he
dered to be his own land. He
Rsted, and Underwood declared
that was the dividing line and he
intending to begin the next morn
70 fell trees in order to be ready to
ly the railroad with ties as soon
ere was need. Simpson declared
every tree he cut beyond a GER
point would be robbery. Then
Prwood called Simpson a pig an6
ight was on.
next morning the e4friends met
be line of dispute. each having an
18th which to fell timber, and be-
the day was over instead of fell
rees they felled each other. Nei-
coming home to supper, their re-
i've families went out to look for
and found their dead bodies, the
s of both being clOven.
trouble threw gloom over both
les. 1t was especially deplorable
rcount Of the engagement Of the
young people. Frank Underwood.
der that there might be no more
le, sent to the county seat for
Pyor. who fixed the boundary. 1t
ID out that neither his father nor
f. ather's friend was right, the true
dry being a diagonal line with the
Rbout which they contended.
was this all that was mistaken
e matter. The disputants had not
been buried when the railroad to
e contractors they had expected
II so many ties was discovered to
inning the line several miles away
the property Of either and
Ugh its own timberland.
night when Eliza Simpson was
ing at home she was awakened
e sound OF axes being driven into
runks Of trees. The sound SEEM
her to come from the direction
e boundary line. She sat up in
and listened. The ak men were
rently vying with each other,
striving to strike more rapidly.
got up and went into her moth
room to awaken her, but by the
she had succeeded in doing so
ound had ceased
? next morning when she had told
hat she had heard all considered
she had been dreaming. Never
ss she declared that she had
\ the axes distinctly, the sounds
hg from a point between the
sons and the Underwoods' dwell
When she told her lover about
declared that If any such sounds
existed he would have heard
more readily than his fiancee,
the Underwood house was nearer
me on which the timber bordered
the Simpsons. Eliza, who was
Ce as to what she had heard,
him a sharp reply. and he left
b anger.
pa Simpson heard again the
Is OF axes on the boundary line.
the double murder OF the heads
e two families the conditions had
embarrassing, and the day after
s having heard the mysterious
ben again Mrs. Simpson went to
Underwood and told Of the oc-
nee. Mrs. Underwood had been
a strain ever since the catas-
e and upon Mrs. Simpsons visit
her self control completely, de-
be that she believed Simpson had
erred her husband, who acted sim
p self defense.
families Of the men who had
each other now came to open
hre. The match between Eliza
Frank was broken off. and no nnn