The Springdale news., 1917-03-16
FAMILY ROW IS BAD AFFAIR Son and Father Have Bloody Battle When Father Attempts to Act as Mediator Between Husband and Nife-Son Now in Jail.

Two sticks of stove wood. four rocks, 9 pocket knife, and a steel drill, abeut twenty-0fur inches long were the principal weapons used in d hard fight early Wednesday morning be- tween Henry Phenix, of Cushing, Okla, and his soon. k. P Phenix, of this place. The fight occurring at the home of the son, a short distance south of town.
 The elder Phenix is now at his sons home with three knife wounds in his body, h}s face scratched, and his head badly skinned. Two of the knife thrusts are near his left lung, one of which penetrated the lung, and is ser ious. the other Is not so bad. The other stab is in the back Mrs Henry PheniX, mother of the boy also be- came mixed in the melee, and has two knife wounds in the back neither of which are serious.
 The son is now confined in the county jail at Fayetteville. His head has four bad gashes, cut by blows from stick of stove wood, his left arm is cracked, caused by blow from the heavy steel drill; he IS bruised over the shoulders. and hands.
  strangers to this section, the son com ing here only last fall from Oklahoma, and taking charge of the farm pur- chased by his father. He is married, has wife and two children, a son aged two, an ia girl one year old.
 The father arrived in Springdale only few days ago on a visit to his son. He is prosperous merchant at Cushing, Okla, and he and wife came here for brief visit, to look after the drilling of well on the farm, and the setting out of some apple trees
 Had it not been for the timely ar rival of Gregory. who was drilling the we'll on the place early Wednesday morning. the trouble might have end ed fatally, ds both the son and father were badly hurt when he arrived, but the son was chasing the father down the road carrying the steel drill. The older Phenix was placed in the hack of Mr Gregory, and hurried to the doctors office where his wounds were dressed.
 While seated in the doctors office, and suffering intensely from the knife wound in his lung the father attemp ted to give a version of the trouble. It seems that the son, and his wife were in the house, and were quarrel ing. The wife called to the elder PheniX to help her, and after she had called twice he hurried to her aid. He tried to reason with his son, and the son grew angry. After scuffling around for time, the father finally over powered the young man and held him on the floor After gaining the promise from the son that he would not continue the abuse he was allow ed to get up. No sooner had he done so than he started the trouble anew.
 The mother attempted to part the two, and her knife stabs in the back were the result.
 Officers hurried to the home, and the son was brought to town where his wounds were dressed, only thin partition in the doctors office sep eratne the son and father The son accused the father of striking him over the head with stick of wood, and striking him over the arm with a steel drill.
 Warrants were sworn out for both father and son, the former charged with assault and battery, the latter with assault with intent to kill.
 The father was released on bond, and the son sent to Fayetteville. The hearing will not be held until the father improves At last reports the father was resting nicely, also the mother, also the son, and nothing more serious was anticipated,
 The father was fifty-six years of age, the son thirty.