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Show INCIDENT OF A COUNTY SEAT WAR. Humor or an IiiiImu Klslng to Frighten the IVopla of a KiTal Town. Four Woiii'ii. Tex., Feb. It. All day yesterday Fort Worth was in a furore of excitement over the wildest rumors from Salisbury. Wellington and Childress, Chil-dress, three little towns on the Fort Worth it Denver, lying near the Indian reservation of Kiowas. The news was that 10'iO Kiowa bucks had gone on the warpath, sacked and burned the town of Wellington, i.nd killed and scaiped thirty people. Captain McMurray, with a company I of state rangers and 40') volunteers, ' came down from Aiuarillo aud Clarendon, Claren-don, and companies from tuanan, Vernon, Ver-non, Bowie and oilier points pushed to the front. The Fort Worth Fcncibies and 400 men were ready to start from here last night, when word was received re-ceived that the whole affair was a conspiracy con-spiracy on the part of a few men to frighten the. people of Wellington out of the town and move tho county seat to the center of the county. |