Show CHICAGO WATCHMAN KILI KILLED D IN A FIGHT Quarrel Over Lake Shore Property Brings Death to Frank Fank Kirk Hirk CHICAGO Feb 12 During During a fight with Winchester rifles rUles last evening between between between be be- tween the followers of rival claimants t to property lying along the Lake Shore drive the most aristocratic boulevard In Chicago Frank Kirk a watchman for one of the claimants was shot through the head hood and killed The property in dispute consists of made land lying east of the Lake Shore and between It and Lake Mich Mich- igan Captain George W. W Streetor who has has for many years been a thorn Inthe in inthe inthe the the side of North Side property owners owners owners own own- ers because because- of his propensity to settle on vacant VaC gro d and then claim In Inthe Inthe inthe the courts the rights of a squatter has erected several small shanties upon this ground and asserts that Inasmuch as it was not originally included In the Government surveys of the State of oC it does not belong t to the State but is public property open t to settle settle- ment Last night Henry L. L Cooper a lawyer who has been been active artive In his opposition tI n nI I to Streetor accompanied by Policeman went vent venton on the ground of the district and was attacked by Streetor Street Street- or who knocked him down with the butt of a revolver Several of Streetor's Streetor's Streetor's Street- Street ors or's followers covered O l e with ther weapons and he was ordered to leave or be shot Shortly after alter Cooper and had left the ground a pitched battle broke out between three of followers William Mc William and John and two watchmen employed by Cooper Frank Kirk and Samuel Kirk and 1 were standing just outside a small shanty of ot their own and one of the first shots fired struck Kirk in the top of the head entered the shanty and returned the fire tire of the Streetor men with a a. Winchester The police pollee arrested Streetor and all the participants in the lIght fight i |