The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-12-31


walls OF truce, lives had been snurec
out In the hurcely burning hate ot
these men whose ancestors had beer
comrades.
Old spicer South and his nephew
Samson were the direct lineal descen
dants " the manner Of Misery. THEFT
kinsmen dwelt about them: the Souths
the Jaspers. the Spicers. the Wileys
the Millers and McCagers. other fam
lies. related only by marriage and
close association, were. I'm feud align.
mcnt. none the less "Souths." And
over beyond the ridge. where the
springs and brooks flowed the other
way TO feed Crippleshin, dwelt the
Hollmans, the Purvises. the Asberries,
the Hollises and the Daltons-men
equally strong In their vlndictlve
foalty to the code Of the vendetta.
by mountain standards old Splcer
South was rich. His lands had been
claimed when tracts could be had for
the taking. and. though he had to make
his cross mark when there was a on.
tract 20 be signed. his instructive mind
was shrcwd and FAR seeing. The tinkle
OF his cowbells was heard for a long
distance along the creek bottoms. HIS
hillside fields were the richest and his
coves the most fertile In that country.
Some day. when a railroad should bur
row through his section. bringing the
development OF coal aud timber at the
nnnH ~ tho MnNtm an nNaaa.a. .WN.HaA
would yavn and awake % enrich him.
There were black outcroppings along
the Cl.fs. which no knew ran deep In
veins OF bituminous wealth. But 70
that time he looked with forabodinc.
for he had been raised 70 the stand.
ards Of his forefathers and saw In the
coming of a new regime a curtailmeut
OF personal liberty. For uew.fangled
ideas be held only the aversion %
tecp.rooted prejudice. He hoped that
he might live out HIS days and pass
before the foreigner held his land and
the law became a power stronger than
the indiyldu;s or the clan. The law
was his ener J. because IL said 10 him
Thou shalt not. when he sought to
take the yellow corn which bruising
labor had coaXed from scattered rock.
stfewn fields TO his own mash vat and
still. II meant. also. a %tyrannous
power usually seized and administered
by enemies, which undertook to forbid
the personal settlement OF personal
quarrels. But his eyes. which could
not read print. could read the signs
OF the times. He foresaw the inev.
liable coming OF that day. Already he
he had given up the worm and mash
vat, and no longer sought to make or
sell Illicit liquor, That was a conces.
sion TO the federal power, which could
no longer be successfully fought. State
power was still largely a weapon in
factional hands, and in his country
the Hollmans were the Office holdcrs
To the Hollmans he could make no
concessions. In Samson. born to be
the fighting man. reared TO be the
fighting man, equipped by nature with
deep hatreds aud tlgerish courage.
there had cropped out from time 10
time the restless spirit Of the philos.
Tho, No. 80 ""'"'e"t'
"'"',,' !" ""l,h the Ola
".@, -" 20 o'''''eS' anu most Sc
'u's'o"'
II was at this house that George
's'''su'sne landscape paint
er ol Ne" iorh ana the world at large,
"',.n'u III '"e '"lhght
Whatever enemy might have 10 be
8-L0
met tomorrow, old Spicer South rec.
oRn'"td as a more Immediate call
upon ms attehtlon the wounded guest
OF To-Day one oI the kinsmen proved
y" nave a rude WORKING knowledge OF
o'ne setting n before the half hour
""a passed i'scotts wrist was IN a
'p''H'' ana MS INJURIES az Well tended
as possible, which proved 10 be quite