The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 27, 1889, Page 9

——— ns = championed the cause of Sheriff Mar- =|tin and won over the opposition of ; Cook Humphery’s faction Martin's » Slaughter of Kentucky’s Greatest administration failed to please his Outlaw and his Murderous anti election cohorts and a bitter Band of Roffians. feeling soon culminated in open war fare. Craig Toliver had seven dead men to his credit and he counted five scars of bullets in his own body. Four times he was driven from the ee Laves of Twenty-One men Made up state but he always rallied with a The Price of Peace that now force of followers. The Martins the Reigns, Humphreys and the Rameys were arrayed against him and set back Two of Kentucky's oldest and successively and then it came to the bloodiest feuds have been revived|Logans. The latter had for a time with their old time horrors of butch-| succeeded in preserving neutrallity, ery and assassination. Dispatches}a thing so difficult to do that few in the eveningNews last week gave | succeeded. : accounts of battles by the Harlan Boone Logan was a young lawyer county desperadoes and the Hatfield-)of good character, good name and McCoy outlaws. good business. His When Kentucky's most famous | devoted to civil busin and costly fractional fight was put | fused all proffered retainers to go to an end over two Years 260; there] into the criminal business growing was peace and quiet in the moun-| fon the feuds. But ghen King Craig Toliver Ruled and Terrorized and Where He Met Fata! Deteat. practice was and he re- there was a tains. The slaughter of Craig Toli-|time when vengance called upon verand his band of follewers at |hin to take a part. Two of his ’Morehead by armed : citizens is not! young cousins were wituesses to an forgotten. The writer of this WAS | assassination by the Toliver crowd} on newspaper work in Louisville in the spring of 1887. Court ae when that most famous feud was] spout to convene and the militia was | ended by death to the outlaws and |i, 4. on hand at the county seat of | went to the Morehead battle field Rowanlcounty) MWorchend. i Craig | and saw the regeneration of Rowan | Toliver and his iriends were then in county bought by blood and sealed possession of the little town. One! by death. bright afternoon, a week before the | In Kentucky there is much differ- | court time, a crowd of the Toliver ence between the feud of desperdoes | faction took the two young Logan | -~_ a a --: R. R. DEACON :-- ———-:—DEALER IN—.—-—_— HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENTS ——S$CUTLERY AND GUNS$o3—— Moline Farm Wagons, (Manufactured by John Deere.) "es E- EEUU E.G EB ES | feshy part of the left thigh, one en- ttered the left shoulder from the |rear, four entered the body from the | rear and two pierced his breast. women and children, the curses of enraged men and the unheeded pleas of mercy from those whose death ,rounded up a long career of merci- | The war was over. Ina battle of less conflict, gave way to peace. The ,&hbalf hour 1,000 shots were fired by sun came np and shone on red paths the attacking party, and although jand patches of blood, but there was the outlaws had several times fired ; peace. into the posse not a man was touch-| Over the hills and across the ed. When Craig Toliver was finish- jae of a valley the five bodies ed he lay a half square from his ho- | were carted in heavy wagons on the jtel. A nephew— hoy of 12 years— | following day and buried in Elliot jrushed from the hotel as Crail fell, | county, forty miles from Morehead, and holding a revolver pointed at} without ceremony. Craig Toliver's Pigman and his squad, commanded | wife and two children, the aged and t 4 . é B ————:The Best in the World: ___— BUCKEYE FORCE PUMPS. Gas Pipe Fitting and Pump Repairing. ———— i | them to stand back. took them by surprise aud he coolly the corpse and walked away. his boots on as they said he would,” replied the boy cally. | Toliver’s body into the hotel and jothers of the posse began to search for the remainder of the Toliv party. Jay Toliver lay dead with! his head down the hill. Bud = Toli- His audacity walked to his uncle's body, took the shoes, watch and pocketbook from “Why did you take away his shoes?” asked Logan. | “I didu’t want him to die with A half dozen men carried Craig ver was found in some tall grass in the rear of the drug store with a leg broken by a Winchester ball. He begged piteously. “Think of the little Logan boy you killed,” said | bent feudmen; the young wives of Bud and Jay Toliver, and the mother of Hiram Cooper, a good woman who wailed bitterly over the lifeless body of her wayward son, mouruers. | better bravery. he did right. mother of the chief of the were the A brother of Craig, a | substantial farmer, took charge of the burial, but he had litile to re- gret. He said: “I knew it would come and it is no use denying that Crai aig was an unworthy man. It is May he be forgotten as it is. rif net forgiven.” Hiram Pigman was lauded for his He was sei reely of age, a business man of snap and ability. He had been temperate and atteu- tive to business. He believed that During that slaugh- ter of the outlaws he often stood fully exposed to the Tolivers as he gave commands and he never flinch- ed as they cpened fire on him. From Pigran and a mountaineer placed a} Winchester at the outlaw’s head aud scattered his brains on the grass. | and the outlawry of the moonshiners. More than one-half the counties of Kentucky has neither telegraph or railroad. They are peopled by a class whose only education is in the hand- ling of firearms. All are fighters and many are desperadoes. Real or fan- cied grievances are summarially dis- posed of by the aggrieved who is judge, jury and executioneer with no change of venue, nocontinuance and appeals barred. DO NOT LIKE LAW. In thd secret chamber of the grand jury the witness is free to tell the whole truth, but in the absence of the militia at trial time, belts full of cartidges and big revolvers cling- itg to desperate men serve as a warn- ing +o the prosecution that testimo- ny that is strong enough 10 convict means death to him who testifies. Jurors as well as wianesses are in- timidated. Guarded by the state troops prosecution is vigorous and conviction almost The feud runs through a generation or two, perhaps further. It was thus for years, but the authorities of the state of Kentucky have at last awa kened to the neccessity for aggress- ive action in the suppression of frac- tional differences before a feud is well developed. Delirium tremens has put an end to the life of the young man who generaled a posse that wiped out Craig Toliver, king of the fuedmen and his gang of outlaws. The turn in his life that brought a violent death is inexplicable to those who knew his bravery, his good citizen ship and whose reason teaches them that the extermination of King Craig andhis gang was within the sure. lines of justice and demanded by self protection. A dozen bullets from Winchester rifles pierced Craig Tol- iver before he surrendered to man boys, 14 and 16 years oldrespective \ ly, toa grassy spot near a spring | that came up at the base of the hills | and deaf to the pleadings of the! boys for mercy, shot them dead and | left them lying there to be preyed | upon by hogs. | A passer by found | bodies by the little} spring at sunset. | | quiet demeanor | was changed to one of frenzy and he declared vengance on the slayers | of the boys. The perpetrators and | the cause was known to him. At} night his house was surrounded and | he escaped in the darkness, leaving | his wife and two children. This was | the message Craig Toliver sent to! him: Leave at once or I will kill you | and send your wife into bondage.” | On the day following his flight Lo-| gan applied to the then governor of | Kentucky, Procter Knott, for aid in i meting out justice to the outlaws | who had driven him from home. All | that Governor Knott could or would | say was: “Organize a sheriff's posse | large enough to capture them andj put them in jail.” But the governor | would furnish no troops to aid in the arrest or armsto equip citizens | for such a raid. Boone Logan walk- ed the earth a wanderer. Governor | Knott in a day or two was away on his summer vacation and Logan ap-| plied to Lieutenant Governor Hind- man for aid. Said governor: “Logan, go on and re take your home and fireside. I ean- not by law give you guns; but if you their mangled LOGAN DECLARES WAR. Boone Logan's that gang Kentucky will stand by you in some substantial way.” “I will do it before a week and he did. And after the fierce battle the lieutenant | get them yourself and forever oust! much effect, as Toliver was owner of the | outhouses in the rear formed a pro- American house and occupied it. These sixteen men had taken full | possession of the little town and al- though the sale of \ them but without the American hotel near the railway station. tection to the hotel. This storm dis- organized the gang so thoroughly | that they forseok all attempts to do | intoxicating liq- | battle and fled like frightened sheep uors was, under the local option law | out of the front of tue hotel on the | prohibited, there were three saloons | of going in full operation. The biggest bar | street a square cast and thence in the town was in Toliver’s Ameri- half square north where stood can hotel and it was doing abig bus- | strong hotel, the Central, on a hill | Toliver had foccupied by two Mannings, who} probate judge and was running/| were members of the gang. One things in a high handed manner. | man fell dead and two wounded be | The king of the feudmen knew Boone Logan’s bravery and deter- mination and the alert for any attack. south, with a view to aj ai a iness. himself elected | fore reaching it. Craig Toliver hin- | self carried three ugly wounds, but was on | none sufficient to bring him down. THE FIGHT AT MANNING'S | Of the sixteen men but nine gain (ed the Manning heuse. Besides the | three who fell in the streets wound- in the early morning divided into | i SL oes d HG ed four crawled under houses along eight squads surrounding the litile PLACE OF THE SIEGE. Logan's ninety men on hand were ; 1 i | the way unobserved. The uniform eae a oe oS sae ue ae of the attacking party was to go any ob Sper. onven men ons nS: \hatless, and this afforded means of the town and were to await the arri- | aS 5 ae Jeseape of cleven of the gang, but val of the remaining forty, who were | Be Ae neulcadens ioe : The faces of to be divided around as they arriy- | many were unknown to the farmers | ails . BAGS tyened Ge ans) who were in the charge and taking sooner than was expected and chang- | a ‘ial : jadvantage of the situation © matens sathe;plansiind out. Le- knowing the reason of the hatless genkaksaendot Ko ee with five men the outlaws shed their hats and trusty en to Toliver’s hotel and! Sa | gained the brush alive, although two render to arrest. and and his crow = 5 Chis crowd sur | carried bad wounds. If there was a re- | The attacking party began closing ome! Logan was to fall back and ab |in on the anaae pane? its oc- a seul ihe Pesee “ to close in | cupants, save one, fled from it. All and open fire and continue it until | but three of them escaped hatless in |Toliver surrendered. It was not | the confusion. These three were the order but it was the understand- | Bill Day, Craig Toliver and his cou- ing among the members of the sin, Jay Toliver. Day fell with six posse that if they were compelled | wounds in his body at the north (ee SSA OY ea oles | door and the Tolivers without hats ‘shown to the outlaws and that every or guns fled down the hill on the i during the siege of the house pro 8 5 I 3ill Day's lifeless body was taken away from the Central hotel te be put with the others in the American Then the Central hotel was | entered and after a search of some} house. uinutes Hiram Cooper, who was | with the crowd that killed the Lo gan boys, was found in a closet. He | was dragged yelling from it and fel! upon his knees implormg his eap- tors to spare his life) As he knelt there with his arms uplifted three of the posse tired simultaneously in his breast. Boone Logan had retaken his tire: | side and family and the death of lis { two innocent cousins wasavenged. TOLIVER'S | All others of the oliver faction | had eseaped, some wounded, others | uninjured, but all{completely routed The men who had slain the outlaws dressed the bloody bodies aud laid them out in the iver’s hotel. C dren and the chief feudman’s young varlor of Craig Tol- s wife, two chil- nephew were all the time housed in the American house. They sought tection between a large cook stove and wood bax in the kitchen none were injured I was not in the least interfered with by either faction and I had the | freedom of the city in pursuing my duties as “war correspondent.” I was 2bout the town alone and with out arms until late at night. At that} time it was positive protection to the stranger to be without deadly weap- ons. The night was clear but there was no moon. At two o'clock in the morning a solitary man went from and jmember of the gang should die. Fomine: A boy who was in the Manning that forever stopped the Toliver reign of terror he sent the lieuten- ant governor received the following | Boone Logan took command of foar squads on the north side of the |}, ouse during the short time that the Toliver crowd was in there said charge of four squads on the south. or death, and the twelfth from the rifle of Hiram Pigman, commander laconic dispatch: | “I have done it.” GETTING READY FOR TROUBLE. {Both the east and the west gaps ‘were well guarded. The first of the |railway and Hiram Pigman had j that although Craig said nothing yet he was like a wild man in bound ing here and thereas bullets crashed isville train pulled up and. called upon me to assist lifting five coffins and boxes from the baggage car. One mammoth one—one for a broad shouldered man of 203 pounds who steod in life six feet three inches— drank the hotel with a lantern as the Lov ' the morning following the battle he intoxicants excessively; his business went to rack as he did him- self. In nearly two years afterward he died inthe agonies of delirium. F. W. G. Soils and Carbuncies Cured. For years I have been constantly troubled with humors in the blood, which caused the breaking out of boils and carbuncles all over my body, that when bruised would make alasting, ugly sore. I consulted many eminent physician without any perceptible benefit. Nothing helped me but Swift's Specitie (S. S. 8.) | That medicine cured me! Iam now enjoying excellent health, and there is not a blemish of any kind on my body. Michael McHale, Bulo, Nebraska. Inherited Scrofala Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.) cured my little boy of hereditary scrofula, which broke out all over his face. For a year he had suffered and I had given up all hopes of his recov- ery, when at length I was induced touse S.8.S. After using a few bottles he was entirely cured. Not a symptom now remains of the dis- ease. This was three years ago. Mrs. M. L. Mathers, Matherville, Miss. A Sexton Speaks. Mr. John A. Cleary, sexton of Oakwood cemetery, Waco, Texas, says: “Swift's Specille (S. S. S.) isa sure cure for any description of blood poison. About a year ago I eontracted a poisonous blood dis- ease, and tried a number of reme- dies without avail. I was about to become disheartened, when a friead induced me to try (S.S. S.) After taking a part of one bottle Iwas a sound man, and no symptoms ofthe fell disease have ever returned.” Treatise on Blood and Skin diseases had on the lid a silver plate and on | mailed free, SWIFT SPECIFIC CO. ! of the attacking party and bronght | forty men who were to arrive came him down dead. vere th ds: Atlanta, Ga. thick and fast through the thin ———— i es At Cincinnati Logan bought 130 | up on the south side of the track |} ard and plaster walls. On the out pa eee \ The New York. World: says; “A FAMILY AFFAIRS OF THE TOLIVERS. | Winchester rifles and had them bill-| and was sent by Pigman to Logan | .:3, wasa roar of musketry and | eee oye | condent of meneyoage. ta. le aa ‘The Toliver--Humphrey--Logau | ed as hardware to a dealer at a sta- /on the north. He was instructed to ie ee 5 smoke from the rifles hid from view. | \the senatorship would indeed have. feud began where nearly all of them | do, in polities. The Tolivers and the Humphreys were on different sides ina local election. A fight with revolvers aud a Humphrey fell shot to death by a Tohver. Humprey's death was avenged by a relative who kills a Toliver and thus they go on Killing alternately a Toliver anda Humphrey until the whole section of the country is taking sides and joining in the muderous work. There | | the county and enlisted the servic of 130 determined men who were to ;goas deputy sheriffs and arrest the Morehead band. ‘The sheriff made Boone Logan his chief deputy for the raid and turned the charge over {to him. Hiram Pigman just arrived jat his majority, a merchant of More- had been warned to leave because he came a time when all the Humphrey were killed or driven from the coun- try. Then the Tolivers turned on Men were cut down by rifles in ambush, assassinated in the court room or killed on the street. Then a- bloody wind up, a pitched battle when al of one faction were killed and then the end. The Toliver-Logen polities! difi the Logans. the leaders feud was ihe out growth of 2 which originated in 1884 in Ro county. Toliver rence a and his nds would not join the Toliver faction, izer of the little party took charge of & division. The raid was to be made at 11 o'clock on the forenoon of Thursday June 21, 1887. 90 camped in hi nd 40 n at 8 o'clock in t ambush beyond the were to join them morning. nd fifteer od and on he lookout had his headquarters at head, who had been neutral, but who | was chosen by Boone Logan to be | ‘chief commander, while the organ-! On the night before | tion ten miles from Morehead. For go under cover of the bushes, but | Craig and Jay Toliver started Southit = Srete = erase 2s ng | railway among the bushes. A vol- jtteran dor a thicket and toliver Jey from there brought Jay down opened fire on him. E This was 9 o'clock and the battle |opened two hours earlier than the | _ appointed time. The June morn- ling was clear, bright and still. Pig- man, who was chosen by Logan to KING CRAIG CASHES IN. From the front platform of a drug back. He threw up beth arms. be the chief commander, gave thes... And yet he was not finished. signal for opening the attack. He was then within fifteen feet of Forty rifles poured a volley from | the railway. the four squads on the south of the | from the bushes in front of him track into the front of the American pyoucht him down again. He strug- g a ‘hotel where the T rer faction were gled to his knees and Hiram’ Pig- housed. Before the volley was sent \in Toliver took in the situation and 4:1, at his tottering head. The rifle had fled inside and shut the door. | eracked and Kin The bullets pierced the thin walls of the house slightly wo three men. The strer @ Craig fell without lead Dar Het a word was a groan aud was i. g all unded tie battle not a ye agth of the at- peard from 1 and m. Twelve bullet h tack bewildered the outlaws and \.rein his giant body. One was i they fedto the rear of the house, ASS whe paee = ©: the forehe : gh th where 30 guns poured a volley upon | jaw. two in the left arm, one store near a volley poured into his’ | wheeled once round and fell on his; He arose and a volley) man, walking up to the railway took; Not a light could be seen in the the | Not asoul could be on streets. At daylight 1 was out of| | and Craig ran on toward the track. | bed and saw men with Winchesters, vit Head in their hands dropping froin this {house and that. Thirty of them were put to patrolling the city |kept on guard for six days. Re dents of the little town said that it was the first night that they had months. All were in constant i ror of the awful Tolivers That day dawned bright and fresh on 2 new Morehead, long red with blood. sickened by assassiuation—its regeneration washed in the blood of desperadoes after years cf strife, a tragedy that fear and re ge. e of al ° bal > cut down by the d the drop.” The ck of Winchesters. the 43 JT. ls blighting effect upon the party. |two days and nights he rode over |he shortened the re, by going | down the hill toward the railway. | town save from the _window of the | There are too many in the senate al- across an open space, and was seen | 4 squad stood thirty feet from the | 700m where lay six daring men dead. | ready. Give usa William's Australian Hert Pill. If you are he, bad breath, drowsy, no | appetite, look out your liver is out of order. Onebox ot these Pills will drive the all troubles away and make a new byyng out of you, Price 25 cts. Dr. E. Pyle, Agert Colonel W. H. 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