Show OLD FEUDS IN THE NORTHWEST bamo bomo venomous yo arrela maintained by Ia for generations that wyoming feud which the press dispatches say lasted ten years was a mere child compared with the affairs where I 1 come from said the kentucky colonel to the milwaukee journal man ive bieard of some quarrels which have been carried on since 1830 and it is nothing out of the common for a man to be killed because some forty years ago there was a dispute about a calf the turner feud as it was called bean in tennessee long before the civil war and ended about two years ago when the last member of each side killed the kotlier the turners were two young brothers both married alio lived on the same farm next door was a neighbor who had six children one day the children of the two families quarreled and one of the the neighbors children told their father that one of the turners struck them the father rebuked turner and there was a fight turner was bested hiis brother came to his rescue and the next day both families engaged in a general fight one of each side was killed the turners then act another farm there was but one school in the neighborhood and the children of both families attended day after day they fought one day one of the turner children returned home from school badly hurt the childs father avenged the injury by punishing one of the children of his enemy another general fight ensued in the grown male members of both families were killed this stopped the feud until the boys grew up in the meantime both 1 eions removed to texas the turners first they renewed alii there and two members of the other family were killed A year later one of the turners was killed two members of both factions now remained one christmas eve both the turners were found murdered in their homes their bodies were sent to relatives in tennessee who removed Q tho turner homestead in texas A month later one of these turners was assassinated while riding horseback through the country A few weeks later a member of the opposing family was mysteriously murdered then there was but one member of each family still alive christmas two years ago they met near their old tennessee homes and in a duel which followed both were killed thus the feud was ended but not until both families had been wiped off the earth |