Show I I I END OF A KANSAS FEUD FEUDA A Trough That Cost Three Lives and Kan han March 10 The decision of murder against Chauncey Dewey of Chicago and two cowboys in his employ I ends the most famous case ease in the history of the supreme court dismissing a charge of the tho states feuds between cattlemen and farmers Two other cases are pend pending pendIng pendIng ing in the local courts against the trio and there is a damage suit against Dew Dewey ey ev e but none of ot these will ever come to trial tria 1 Chauncey Chaunce Dewey is remembered in northwest Kansas l ansas as the handsomest cowboy who ever eer crossed the Sixth prin principal principal principal cipal meridian He came out here to toma manage ma age his fathers lathers big ranch of some Z OOOO acres acre The ranch is the largest hugest In the state and is located between the Burlington and Rock Bock Island railways with headquarters at Oak Ranch The elder Dewey Dew came here and fitted up the place for his son There was a small village mage at headquarters tera Chauncey improved upon it itHe itHe itlie He lie built a dwelling for himself a four room house with bathroom hot and cold coldwater coldwater water lights and telephone connection with the cook house the bunkhouse and every point on the great ranch He could also talk with Chicago over oer the long hong dis distance tance lance telephone from Colby I Out back of the dwelling he had bad a gym gymnasium with punching bags bass and a bowl bowling bovlIng I ing lag alley aile He used to have hae contests with his cowboys cowls for the boxing champion champlon championship championship I ship of the ranch He lIe was athletic enough to hold nearly any an one of them 1 He lie brought from Chicago his riding mare Kentucky bred and rode her in rounding r un u the cattle The ranch was I stocked with 2000 head of cattle The cowboys were not particularly care careful careful careful ful of them and one winter the storms I drove droe a bunch of fine Herefords into a gully luU where a creek was on one side and the hills sills on the other Dewey brought out from Chicago some I of his friends and they the had a good time When hen they grew tired of chasing jack jackrabbits jackrabbits jackrabbits rabbits they the went to Manhattan where the elder eider Dewey had built a hotel on a little lake and was nas running it in summer resort style at a loss of a month The company had bad a pleasant pheasant time there th re Over Ocr on the edge of the ranch just where the farms came carne up to one side of the Dewey Dewe property and almost surround surrounded ed ott by b the great ranch lived lIed the Berry family famil There were several sons eons and they occupied a little cabin with a sod barn The Berry family did not like Uke Dewey and there was a complaint that the ranch cattle ran over Oer the farm fann and destroyed the crops But Chauncey gen generally generally emIly paid the damages claimed and for fora fo foa a time lime got on with them very well They The rode at will over oer the time ranch and frequently visited vl the ranch headquarters On one of these occasions they bor borrowed borrowed borrowed rowed from the ranch a n trough or tank an oak affair worth probably 3 l They took it home to water their cattle and left it by b the windmill near the granary Dewey sent word to the Berrys BerIs to bring brinE briD I home the tank They replied Come and get it The young oung Chicagoan was not afraid to He lie called his cowboys together they go armed themselves and started for forthe forthe forthe the Berry farm As they the were moving the tank the Ber Berrys Berrys Berrys rys came into the yard and opened fire The TIme Deweys Dewes hid behind a sod fence Time The Berry contingent stayed in the house or took refuge behind the granary In the he end three of the thc Berrys lay la dead on the ground The Dewey Dewe cowboys were unhurt arid and rode back to the ranch house where they prepared for a siege Plenty of or guns and ammunition were ready or them and they fitted up the bunk house hoube hou e elike like a fort sheriff But there was no siege The took them to town then they were hur hurried hurried ried ned to Topeka The trial was a celebrated one The best lawyers in the state were employed and it is said that it cost the theelder theelder theelder elder Dewey Dewe OOOO It was impossible to get a a verdict and antI the case was transferred to the adjoin adjoining adjoinIng adjoining ing county of Norton where northwest Kansas gathered to attend the trial The jury disagreed and there was talk of another trial but none ever eer came Chauncey Chaunce Dewey was as cool in the trial as ever eer He Hc gave a party at To Topeka Topeka Topeka peka later and ard the favors were some something something thing to make the Kansans eyes e es bulge out His father did not allow him to go so goback goback back to the ranch and except for a night trip across country with a days stay at the old headquarters he has never been in the t e county since the time of or the trial Two murder cases and a suit for dam damages damages ages together r with a suit charging the defendant with assault with intent to kill are yet et pending but they the will wilt not be tried When three terms of court have hae passed they will probably be dis dismissed dismissed dismissed missed The elder Dewey dropped dead two years ago aO of apoplexy He lie left something more than a million to Chauncey The big ranch has been run by superintendents dents and now is to be broken up and sold for farms The B ms have hae moved to southern Oklahoma The clubhouse at Manhattan II I where there the tho family spent a small fortune trying to educate the people of Kansas in the tho ethics of the swift summer resort life has been sold to the Odd Fellows and they the have converted it into a sani sari sanitarium sanitarium No more snore do the travelers on n the Union Pacific trains look from the I the window and see a reproduction of exposition out on the plains I Dewey Dewcy has ha had his fast riding horse i shipped back to Chicago The push but buttons buttons buttons tons with which he used to order high highl l bails alls and hot baths are arc out of order The punching bag is rotting in the gym gymnasium gymnasium Young Youns Chauncey has become a man of I affairs Together with an adopted son of his fath r he manages the great is ta tate He wanted to run for congress In Illinois last fall but was beaten at atthe atthe I Ithe the primaries He lie is likely to be heard from again In the tho meantime the tho K 3 tank over which three lives were lost and which has cost the Deweys DeweS yet et stands beside farm tarm the windmill on the deserted Berry I |