Show EDITORIAL GOSSIP ABOUT MANY PEOPLE LE AND THINGS THE KENTUCKY FEUDISTS The bloody battle recently fought near Middlesboro l Kentucky between a Sheriffs Sheriff's posse and what is ts known as the Turner gang of mounta mountain n toughs in which nine men were d or wounded revives interest in the peculiar peon peon- liar conditions which obtain in the eastern part of ot the Blue Grass State and affect about ten thousand square miles of mountain territory Although the degree of ot lawlessness varies in different different dif dH- dif dif- ferent terent counties and Joca localities Ues it may be said sald in a a. general genera way vay that the arm of the law is too weak to saddle a mule Inmost in hi inmost most parts of the area area mentioned mentioned a as against ne neighborhood opinion The State has spent a great deal of money and repeatedly has used troops to re restore restore re- re store or maintain order among these mountain in hi fastnesses but all to little purpose The natives go on with their vendettas and manufacture moonshine in n defiance an and derision of ot laws and courts The wise men of the commonwealth commonwealth common common- wea wealth Ui have been puzzling their brains for years In Inthe the the effort to find out some someway someway someway way of pacifying a most valuable part of the Kentucky domain As A's yet they have not made much progress |