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Show FARMERS SLAIN BY CATTLEMEN. Feud in Kansas Which Results in the Death of Six People. A special from St. Francis, Kan.,, says: In a desperate battle in the southwestern part of this county last night between cattlemen and the fam- . ily of E. M. Berry, six people were killed and two others wounded, one fatally. The dead are: E. M. Berry, owner of the ranch; A. J. Berry, G. A. Berry, and three cowboys. E. F. Berry was-probably was-probably mortally wounded, while Sam. Bury was seriously injured. The Berry version of the matter is that three of them were working in the field and two of them at the house, all unarmed, when a gang of the Dewey men, with Chauncey Dewey at their head, rode up and deliberately attempted to kill them all. Dewey al- leged that they went over to get a water wa-ter tank that belonged to the land, that the Berrys opened fire on them, and they did the killing in self-defense. There had been bitter feeling between be-tween the Berrys and Deweys ever since the Deweys invaded the country. About two yars ago the Deweys commenced com-menced to acquire title- to all the land they could in the souhtwestern part of this county and the adjoining corner of Rawlins, Sherman and Thomas counties. The Berrys are among the few who have stayed at their homes, and have been in continual litigation. It is said that Chauncey Dewey and his men, two in number, did the shooting. shoot-ing. The Deweys belong to a rich Chicago Chi-cago firri. They own thousands of acres of land. |