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Show t t i Ail:r.:::3 rcstz:3t:r Hc-. Hc-. s!:s E:cansc cf Pc-litical Pc-litical Fcud WASIUNQTOK, March 1 Postmaster B. 8. Farnell of Junction, Union county Ark.', has resigned his offlce, and in his letter to the Fostmaater-Oeneral says ths action Is dus to a political feud, to escape which bs Is going to leave ths Stats. Grows Out of Xeud. LITTLE BOCK. Ark., March 1 Former Postmaster P am ell is said to have moved to Oklahoma,' where he has at brothen The latter reoently resisted a requisition frsm ths Governor of Arkansas on a charge of embestleinent, alleged to havs keen committed In Union county, Arkansas. Arkan-sas. Upon a bearing ths Governor of Oklahoma refused to honor ths - requisition. requisi-tion. It wss alleged that It would bo un-safo un-safo for Parnell to return to Union county, coun-ty, Arkansas. The Tucker-Psmell feud had rt origin at Eldorado. Guy B. Tucker, then City Marshal, beaded ths faction in opposition to the Parnells. In a street fight several of ths Parnells were slain. Tucker was wounded and Constable Con-stable Dearlng was killed. A few months later Tucker killed another of the Parnells. Par-nells. He has -not been tried on ths charge. All ths parties to ths feud' are whits man. Potrtofiod Lyiiamlted. LITTLE ROCK. Ark., March I. Conflicting Con-flicting reports reach hers concerning ths dynamiting of the postofflos at Humphrey, Ark. One report says the act was committed com-mitted with robbery as the motive. Another An-other Is that it was prompted by prejudice against J. B. Greer, ths nerro postmaster. At Humphrey It Is said that Postmaster Greer Is In Little Rock, but Inquiries hers have failed to locate him. It is also reported re-ported from Humphrey that Greer has expressed a desire to resign. The post-office post-office was situated In the store of A, B. Quetermous, and has recently been in charge of. a negro girl and man, as deputies depu-ties of Greer. |