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Causes of the Enmity Between Ihe Baker C^fl §
and Howard Families. tl
Manchester, Ky. (Special).—The
condition of tilings in Clay County,
where the Bakers have sworn to anni
hilate the whole Howard and White
families, bears such a close re
semblance to anarchy that the best
citizens have asked Governor Bradley
to put the county under martial law
and suppross the bloody feud at the
poirft of the bayonet. Kentucky is that the
The feeling in
fair namo of the State is blackoued by
the spectacle of three of her large
families going into the assassination
business on a wholesale scale.
The Baker-Howard feud, while one
of the youngest in Eastern Kentucky,
is one of the most bitter ever waged
It was all about a $40 spring wagon
that had not been paid for that the
feud started. “Tom” Baker had gone
into partnership with Israel aud
Cartor Howard to raft logs on
shares, lleese Murray hold a judg
ment for the spring wagon against
James B. and “Bal” Howard. Murray
offered the judgment at a low prioe to
Baker, and Baker bought it. This
enraged the Howards, and quarrels
followed when Baker tried to collect
the money.
Israel Howard and “Tom” Baker
met one day at a log pit. Hot words
followed and Baker drew a revolvor
aud jumped behind a fence post. How
ard drew his revolver and took
thej other side of the post. They
fired around the post at each other
until their pistols were empty. Israel’s
fifth shot was fired over the top of
the post and the bullet hit Baker in
the back of the nock, producing a
flesh wound, Baker fell on the op
posite side of the fence aud Israel
tired his last shot at him through the
fence, producing a slight flesh wound
in the abdomen.
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(She Is training her sous to avenge their
father’s murder.)
“Bal” Howard, who was riding a
spirited young stallion and carrying a
Winchester, was struck iu the back at
the first fire, but managed to hold on
to his fleeing horso. The next volley
struck Burch Store and knooked him
off his horse. The bullet broke his
neck and he was dead when he
touched the ground. Wilson Howard
fell off his horse, shot through the
hips. “Bal” Howard escaped to
Wilson Howard’s house. Two of the
attacking party then wont back to
xv he re tho men lay on the road, and
shot them both with explosive bullets,
which tore their bodies to pieces.
Wilson Howard lived long enough to
tell that it was “Tom” Baker aud
Charles Wootou who fired the explo
sive bullets.
When James B. Howard heard that
his brother was killed and that his
father was shot badly, ho armed him
self aud rode at a gallop to the scene.
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found a crowd, some of whom had
come after the grave clothes of Wilson
Howard and Burch Store. James as
sisted iu selecting them, aud was on
the point of leaving when George W.
Baker rode up.
Without stopping to consider that
this was the one mau'in Clay County
who never carried a pistol, young
Howard leveled his weapon and fired
a lmllet into the old man’s abdomeu,
producing almost instant death, lle
alizing that it would now be war to
the knife, James mounted his horse
and rode uway to the home of relatives
in Harlan County, There was a re
ward of $250 offered for Howard’s ar
rest, and he surrendered to a kiusmau
ho that the man might get the rewurd,
and came with him to Manchester,
where he was turned over to the
proper officers, He was released on
bail.
Sheriff B. P. White, Jr., summoned
one hundred deputies to arrest the
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THF, RENDEZVOUS OF THE BAKERS IN THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS.
Bakers, aud they were brought in for
examining trials before County Judge
J. W. Wright,.. The trials lasted three
days. . The Howards swore to seeing
the Bakers do the shooting, but the
Bakers proved by their witnesses that
they were five miles away at the time
of the shooting, aud Judge Wright
dismissed the Bakers from custody.
On the day after the trial, “Sid”
Baker, a son-in-law of “Bal” Howard,
but no kin to George Baker’s sons,
overtook Charles Wooton, xvho was
said to have shot Burch Store.
fp>They rode side by side for a quarter
of a mile, trying to get the “drop” on
each other. Finally they both drew
their revolvers almost at the same time.
“Sid” shot from behind his back as he
drew the weapon from the scabbard.
Both meu rolled off their horses, aud
an they lay in the road emptied their
pistols at each other. “Sid” Baker
rode off’ unhurt, while Wootou,
wounded iu the back dragged himself
iuto the brush , where —itr e wa s found by
one of the Bakers an taken home,
where he died.
William L. While, a brother to the
former Sheriff, was soon afterward met
by “Tom” Baker, who shot him iu the
abdomen aud killed him.
For this murder, and on the charge
of killiug Wilson Howard aud Burch
Store, “Tom” Baker was arrested, au
indictment, which iucluded several of
his brothers, having been found. Upon
motion the trials were transferred to
the Knox County Court at Barbours
[ ville. The town of Manchester, the
j headquarters of the feud, was in a con
| ditiou of such lawlessness that the Gov
j ernor seut several companies of State
militia from Lexington to the scene,
They were charged with the duty of
taking the Baker prisoners to the Court
House at Barboursville, aud also of
protecting them from the murderous
intentions of tho Howards aud the
! Whites. They garrisoned the Baker
house. On all sides lurked Howards
and Whites, many of them dead shots,
' waitiug for ohauce to “plug” Baker
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Sheriff White sent bis family away
and filled his house with his frieuds.
The house looked upou the guard tent
where “Tom” Baker was a prisoner,
On June 10, while the feeling was at
its height aud preparations were on the
way for the march to Barboursville,
| “Tom” Baker came out of his prison
tent and begau tatkiug to his sou, Jim,
giving him instructions on how to run
the farm while he was in jail.
Mrs. “Tom” Baker ran up to advise
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TWO OF THE BAKEUS, YOUNG, BUT DEAD
SHOTS.
(These are sons of “Tom” Baker, who was
shot and killed from HherilT White’s
house while he was under arrest by the
troops, charged with two murders. Their
mother has dedicated them to the life
work of wiping out the Howards.)
her husband not to allow himself to he
a target for the Howards. Whilp she
was talking to him a shot rang out
from the White residence, aud Tom
Baker dropped dead before his wife’s
eyes. The woman hysterically called
upon Colonel Williams, who was iu
charge of the troops, to turn his Gat-
ling gun on the White house and de
stroy it.
The assembly was sounded and the
troops surrounded the White resi
dence. They moved upon it with
fixed bayonets, going at double quick,
and climbing over the yard fence.
Sheriff White came out with thirty
armed men to dispute the right of way.
Williams gave the order to charge
upon the house, and the Howards aud
Whites fled inside, loudly announcing
that they would kill the first man who
crossed the threshold. The Gatling
gun was then brought up and trained
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SHERIFF “BEN” P. WHITE.
(He Is the leader now of the Howard-White “Tom”
forces. It was from his house that
Raker was killed, aud he was suspected
of the murder.)
on the residence, and all those inside
surrendered. Sheriff White was ar
rested for resisting the guards.
The Howard-White faction then
tried to mobilize at the house of Daugh
White, the circuit clerk, but Colonel
Williams occupied it to prevent their
using it as a citadel. Meauwhiie mem
bers of the Baker clan were assem
bling from all sides aud swearing ven
geance. The dead man’s sons swore
that they would kill Sheriff White,
who they believed had slain their
father.
Who really fired the shot that killed
“Tom” Baker no one knows. The
Whites were very angry at Co enel
Williams and the troops. They sent
out and brought in, numbers of their
sharpshooter friends. They announced
that they would wipe out the soldiers
aud slaughter the Bakers. But the
troops marched to Barboursville with
their four prisoners—Wiley, Al, Bee
aud Jim Baker.
SlranRelv Cured of Stuttering.
The curious freaks the Mauser bul
let has performed iu its coursings
through the systems of fighting Amer
icans iu the late wars have resulted in
some queer tales. The latest is tli6
experience of Private H. E. Redmond,
Company C, First Colorado Volunteer
Tufautry, who, when he enlisted,
stuttered so badly that the recruiting
officer came near leaving him oft' the
rolls. Private Kedmoud was wounded
iu the battle of Mariquiua.in the Phil
ippines, on March 31. Now his wound
is healed aud he stutters no more.
A Mauser bullet struck him in the
face, passed diagonally downward
through his mouth aud made its exit
near the back of the neck. It was
considered a frightful wound by the
surgeons, but Redmond proceeded to
recover even faster than patients with
less painful injuries. Now all that cau
be seen of the wound is a small, livid
spot to the left of the uose aud above
the upper lip. Redmond chews hard
tack with the greatest zest and tells
stories he has not been able to finish
in years on account of his halting
speech. He insists that the Mauser
bullet carried away his vocal impedi
ment.
The Famous Paris Htaler.
A special cable despatch to the New
York Herald from Palis says that the
authorities have decided to prosecute
Dr. Edwards, who claims that he is ;
iu some mysterious way the represen
tative of St. Paul, and has been prac
tieing so-called miraculous cures, for
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which Cleo de Merode, Emma Calve
and Loie Fuller vouch among others,
while many persous say the man is
their savior and thev will follow him
if he be driven away, Dr. Edwards
lives in magnificent apartments iu the
French capital and his rooms are
thronged day and night by devotees
who come to be healed of their ail
ments, real or imaginary. Conspicu
ous in the front room is a basket
overflowing with gold coin to which
the patients are required to contribute
before they are ushered into the
healer’s presence.
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HaVdest Kind of Animal Training:.
The hardest thing to train a wild
beast to do is to perform with a weak,
defenseless animal. In one of the big |
circuses some years ago an effort was '
made to persuade a very docile old
lion to lie clown with a lamb. The j
idea was certainly a good one, but it j
took several lambs and also several
months before the lion which was
willing to do any kind of trick, would
allow a lamb to enter his den with irn- .
pumty. Twice he killed a lamb in the
presence of his trainer, who tried to
pull away the carcass Finally, the
lion would tolerate the lamb in the
deu just so long as the keeper stood
over it with an iron bar But the per
formance was so evidently forced, and
so lacking in smoothness and interest
hat it was abandoned aftei two or
lee a cup s.
Tli« Fastest Times.
The fastest times reported toi the
mile are: Railway, thirty-four seconds;
iceboat, one minute; steam yacht, one
minute thirty-five seconds; bicycle,
one minute thirty-five and two-fifth
seconds; horse, one minute thirty-five
and a half seconds; oceau liner, two
minutes twenty seconds; running,
four minutes twelve and three-quarter
seconds; rowing, four minutes forty
five seconds.
Tlie 3Io»t Valuable Stone in the World.
The Rosetta Stone is a small basalt
stela or tablet bearing a decree of
King Plolemy V , of Egypt, in three
languages—hieroglyphics, Greek aud
demotics, or common speech. It is
this stone which has made it possible
to decipher the inscriptions on Egyp
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tian obelisks, This valuable stone
was discovered in 1799, near Fort St.
Julien, Egypt, by a French officer
named Boussard. The stone is now
iu the British Museum.
Chicago Women Save Horses.
This is the badge worn by Chicago
women who belong to au anti-cruelty
society. It is au “authorized police
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call,” and gives the wearer the right
to order any policeman to stop ahorse
beater from treating his animal cruelly,
aud if necessary to arrest him.
Great Britain controls 2,570,926
square miles of territory iu Africa on
which dwell 41,000,000 inhabitants.
ROOSEVELT VISITS M’KINLEY
New York’s Chief Executive Was an Invited
Quest at the White House.
TEDDY APPROVES WORK OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
Declares That No Mistakes Have Been Hade—Philip
pine Policy Is Sustained.
Governor Theodore Roosevelt, of
New York, was th– gnest of the presi
dent at the white house Saturday
night. He arrived in the afternoon
from Oyster Bay in response to a tele
graphic request from President Mc
Kinley to come to Washington for a
consultation.
Governor Roosevolt was met at the
depot Cor'telyou, by the president’s secretary, direct
Mr. and driven to
the white house, where he was received
by the president. There was a short
conversation between the two distin
guished men before dinner. After
wards, together with Secretary Hay,
Secretary Long, Attorney General
General , Corbin, they sat
Griggs and
upon tho western veranda of the exec
utive mansion for a long'consultation.
His visit set afloat various rumors,
among them that he had been called
to Washington to be tendered the of
fice of secretary of war, to be given
command of a brigade in the Philip
pines aud to designate an entire
regiment for service there. He de
clined to discuss these, protesting the
president’s purpose was merely to
consult him regarding the organiza
tion of the new volunteer army, espe
cially the personel of the officers. He
waa asked in *so many words whether
president had tendered him the
gecretaryship. He replied to this ques
tion ou]y wilh a laugh,
The governor ’ 8 best friends in
Wa8 hi n gton say that regardless of the
f ac j. g ag t] ie president’s tender or
failure to make one , ’the governor
WQU j^ much prefer his present po
gitiou ag of the Empire state to
a j ract j onal term in tlie war depart
me audhis treatmeut of the ques -
rendera this tb ag to his atti .
tude most pffiusible. dictated
Govornor Roosevelt the
fo]lowi ° interv iew to the Associated
r f^ e presid eut has told me that he
recommendations based upon
cfficiency y of the men recommend,
^ aud tbat he will heed no others,
The president’s attitude in the matter
in the t? c ; e which . terrific is and political will
pressure to he ue
subjected is such as to intitle him to
the support of all men who feel that
politics has no place in the army, who
feel that it is, in a peculiar sense, the
property of the whole country, and
that in the giving of commissions and
promotions alike absolutely no con
sideration should enter outside of the
merit of the men as soldiers,
“My own recommendations will be
liihited to the men I had under me, oi
saw in action, and to the members of
the New York volunteer regiments of
whose merits I have, as governor, not
merely official knowledge, but also the
knowledge gained from personal in
quiry among their superiors.”
Referring to the general situation
in the Philippines and the policy of
the administration with reference to
those islands, Governor Roosevelt said:
“Ofoourse any American worthy of
the name must staud behind the pres
ident in his absolute purpose to bring
the insurrection in the Philippines to
an end. I have no question that by
the beginning of the dry season Gen
eral Otis will be in shape to stamp out
all resistance. Then the president
can and will see that the reign of ab
solute law and justice follows. It
cannot be too clearly kept in mind
that the whole trouble is due to the
men who for two months prevented
the ratification of the treaty of peace
and to those who declined to give the
president the troops he needed upon
the terms he asked. Those who took
part in the first movement to oppose
the treaty have on their souls the
guilt of most of the bloodshed both of
our own troops and that of the natives
of the Pbillippines; and the would-be
traitors who have since been encour
aging Aguiualdo and his followers to
the limit of their small capacity share
the guilt so far as their feeble powers
permit. opposed giving the
“Those who ns
forces we needed thereby showed
themselves enemies of their country
and of the flag. Every man who so
voted in the senate may have the satis
faction of knowing that he has done all
that he could to bring discredit on the
flag and disgrace upon our arms. It
is all the more to the credit of the ad
ministration that it has steadfastly pur
sued the path of national honor and
steadfastly upheld the interests and
the good name of the nation as a
whole, iu spite of the way it has been
hampered by those who sought to be
tray the nation. We have a right to
NOT A GIFT TO BRYAN.
Nebraskan Placed the Carload of Melons
On the Market As Instructed.
I A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch says: W.
i J. Bryan denied Sunday that the car
j load of melons sent him by J. D. Mc
Eachern – Co., of Morven, Ga., was
intended as a gift. He was merely
asked to place them on the market in
Lincoln. He turned the car over to a
j merchant, freight who bill. sold the melons aud
| oa i d the
demand the support of every true
American for the administration’s
policy in the Philippines, and every
American who is far-sighted and patri
otic should join in denouncing alike
the men who strive to give aid and
comfort to the foes not only of Amer
ica but of civilization in the Philip
pines, and also those other men who
would prevent our army’s being made
equal to the national need.”
TRAIN MANGLES SEVEN.
Han, Wife and Four Children
Meet Death at a Rail
road Crossing.
All but one of the seven members of
the family of William Reinhard, of
Columbus, O., were killed and the re
maining one badly injured by a pas
senger train Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Reinhard and their
five children, ranging in age from
nine to fourteen,were out for an after
noon drive in a surrey. They were
crossing the tracks just as the
westbound passenger train, due at
3:15 p. m., came along. The vehicle
was knocked into splinters and Mrs.
Reinhard and Arthur and Karl were
killed outright. Edward aud William
were so badly wounded that they died
after being removed to a hospital.
Clarence sustained a fractured collar
bone and other lesser injuries, but it
is believed he will recover. The horse
which was attached to the surrey was
literally ground to pieces.
The crossing has long been regarded
as a dangerous one, the view of in
coming trains being obscured by a
high fence around the fair grounds.
The train was running at a high
speed.
CIGARMAKERS LOCKED OUT.
The Strike Trouble At Tampa, Fla , Comes
To a Focus.
Twenty large cigar factories in Tam
pa, Fla., closed Saturday afternoon on
account of labor trouble.
Four thousand men are thrown out
of employment and already many
threats are being made and incendiary
talk is being heard. The large major
ity of the men belong to the Latin
races, being Cubans, Spaniards and
Italians.
Some twelve weeks ago there was a
strike in the Ybor Manrara factory,
400 men going out because the filler
tobacco was weighed. All efforts to
settle the matter was futile and at last
it became known that the cigar makers
had designs upon other factories as
soon as this one was over with. This
caused the manufacturers to form an
association and settle the matter by a
lockout. This means that a cash
weekly payroll of over $80,000 will be
cut off until the affair is settled.
MAXY SUBJECTS OF CHARITY
Is One of tlie Results of the Disastrous
Floods In Texas.
Governor Sayers, of Texas, has
stated to an Associated Press corres
pondent that judging from all the re
ports' he had received officially from
the flooded district, there had been
great loss of property, both personal
and corporate;- that hundreds of peo
ple had been bereft of their homes and
belongings, and that at present there
were in the neighborhood of 45,000
people, the majority of them being ne
groes, who were dependent entirely
upon public charity for sustenance.
The suffering of water-bound refugees
has been very great.
The governor figures ( the reports
out to show that the loss of life has
been comparatively small, not exceed
ing fifty persons. The heaviest farm
ing losses will fall upon tho owners
of the big plantations in the bottoms,
who have lost all their crops and much
of their physical property aud are not
being protected in the distribution of
charity, which is being expended only
among the poor.
On Charge of High Treason.
Advices from Pretoria state that the
Transvaal government has decided to
prosecute on the charge of high trea
son the three principal defendants
whose complicity in the attempt to
promote a rebellious rising at Johan
nesburg has been under judicial inves
tigation. __
North Atlantic Squadron.
The North Atlantic squadron ar
rived at Portsmouth, N. H., Sunday,
and will leave for Portland on Thurs
day.
War Material For Transvaal.
A special dispatch received in Lon
don from Rome says that the German
steamer Reichstag has sailed from
Naples with 15,000 rifles, 500 tons of
war material and 500 mules for the
Transvaal.
Carriage Struck By Train.
A carriage containing William M.
Diem and Miss Lizzie Frequezel, was
struck by a Wabash train at Buffalo,
N. Y., Sunday night and both of the
occupants were instantly killed.