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Show ECHO OF A COUNTY SEAT WAR. A rrrmlnnt Knti.nti llrntn'ly Murdered at Hunoloti YwMerilay. ! Kansas City. June 2-1. A dispatch from Hugoton slates that. Colonel S. N. Wood, one of the most noted men in western Kansas, was brutally murdered yesterday by James Krenutiu. This is another tragedy resulting from a notorious noto-rious county seat war between Hugo-ton Hugo-ton and Woodsdale. Wood was oue of tiie counsel of the defendants iu the Sheriff Cross murder case, and handled lireunan, who whs a witness for tho state, .severely., lirennan met Wood in Iliigoton and without warning shot him down. Wootl was very popular in Woodsdaie ami it is believed his assassination assas-sination will result in reopening hostilities. |