Show HOW KIEL KILLED FIVE MEN IN SINGLE COMBAT AND AI D THEN TEEN TOOK HIS OWN LIFE LIFE I Building in o of Oregon rc on Short or orne Line ne Through rou Vegas a as asa Valley a er Recalls eca s Thrilling ri in inor Story or o of Border or er Life i e. e The Ore Oregon on Short Line now In course bf bt construction between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City will wUl pass through the Vegas Yes valley in Nevada Ne where two forty years a. a ago o was established a 3 prosperous Mormon colony which however some years cars afterward was abandoned b by order of Brigham Young because of or c certain Nevada laws which were mere not agreeable able to his purposes The Tho penetrating of or this fastness recalls re recalls re- re calls nUs to the mind of or an old Salt Laker the flue stor story of or the famous rancher of or that valley aile Fighting Ed Kiel Icel It was about bout thirty years ago that Kiel established his ranch within the thc limits of or the Mormon Jormon cOlon colony an and 1 his Industry an and 1 enterprise made the Kiel ranch noted note 1 throughout the thc West cst Five livo Men to His Credit Kiel Klel was well built sized medium a pleasant faced man of oC quiet ways way nn and 1 fats wor words He Ile was modest And retiring log ing in his way and was vas natured good and tender-hearted tender as an any man could be Notwithstanding this he had hall snuffed out the lives of or five men when whenn a n ln self Inflicted wound ended his ca ca- reer Kiel Riel was a n. New York man He left rolle college c to accompany a sick father Into the desert in search of oC health In the course of ot their travels they happened upon the Mormon settlement and this fertile spot In the midst of or Q a country of ot burning sands led him um to the he determInation determination determination deter deter- to moke this hl his home He lIe secured land and as has neen peen said made his ranch famous for Its tI In those tho e days Nevada Nc was infested with outlaws and and Jumpers claim-Jumpers men who reverenced re 1 no law save c that of or force orce and respected d no mans man's rl rights except that man got sot the drop on them It was the meeting and dealing with men of this stripe which brought out the qualities In Kiel which gave t e him the thc nickname of or Fighting Ed Kiel Klel His First Killing His first experience was with a n man named Lane This man came to the Kiel Klel ranch one da day sick and weary from desert travel tra He lie was accompanied accompanied accompanied by his wife a Mormon girl Irl of more than ordinary beauty Kiel Klel kept the pair till the man regained his health and strength th and then gave him employment employment em em- ment on the ranch The woman busied bURied herself about the place doing JJ light ht housework and things went well with them Lane however was mere mere- merely 1 ly waiting an m opportunity He had no intention of or lon long earning his bread h by the sweat of oC his brow biow and one day when Kiel had hart business down to the Mormon settlement Lane gathered to together ether the most valuable horses to be found on the ranch and decamped Whether or not he told his wife what he was going to do is It not known knon At any rate she did not accompany ac accompany ac- ac company compan him I 1 When Kiel Klel came home and learned that several veral of his best horses were missing and noted the ab absence ence of Lane i it did not tal take long lonE to figure out what had happened He lIc said nothing to the woman hut but taking his rille rifle and plenty of ammunition he mounted a horse and took the trail The third da day out he overtook the horse thief In a little canyon canon canyon can can- yon on where he had pitched his camp A Fight With Guns Th The The- Theman o man was fatigued and had thrown himself down dow n for a l nap when II Kiel came upon him Kiel Klel awakened him and told him that for the sake sale of his wife he would give Iv him one horse to ride across the thc de desert ert but hut gave fair warning that he would shoot him If he ever caught him In the Ve Vegas as again Lane Lan pretended to acquiesce In that arrangement arrangement arrangement ar- ar ar ar- but a si few tevi minutes later he lie attempted to get the drop on Kiel Klel A fight with guns suns ensued which h resulted 1 in fn the death of Lane Kiel returned home with the hor horses hordes c and when hun h hr he arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived he handed Lanes Lands v. v wife sufficient mone money to take her back to Salt Lake City and a few days later he lie put herin her herIn herin in charge charre of a 3 pack train hound bound for this city Nothing was said to the woman L regarding th the fate fale of or her husband but ut she hc under understood tood She returned to the home borne o of her ier parents where she resided re- re re resided sided f till 1111 she h wedded a better belter man than her fir first t husband proved ruo to be Gets His Third Victim Some months later one of the border attempted to rustle some of Kiel's Kiels cattle catlIe and he met n a fate similar sin sim ilar to Lanes Then Ihen Kiel got his third victim in an attempted up hold-up when he W was s returning from St. St Thomas Thoma Lincoln count county Two or three years later there was a a. mining boom in the mountains bordering border border- in ing the Vegas Kiel Klel went to prospecting prospect prospect- ing and located a n. rich claim He lie erected erected erected erect erect- ed his monument set Bet the corner stakes and then went to the county seat to file his claim He returned to find a low low- bewhiskered ruffian occupying his property The original stakes es had been pulled the monument thrown down and the newcomer was busy pi plying plying ply ply- ing the pick when Kiel approached It took about two minutes to convince Kiel that the man than was a 11 deliberate and premeditated Jumper claim-Jumper and the battle opened up It was short and blood bloody Kiel Klel got two flesh wounds and the he Jumper claim-Jumper got six feet of earth Demoralizes a n Man There Is something in the taking of human blood which demoralizes a 0 man no matter how great the provocation pro or how liable justifiable the act Had Ed Kiel Klel never shed human blood the tha altercation which he had with his own brother Wo would ld n never er have provoked the tragedy which was the closing act of his life The quarrel the quarrel the cause of or which has ha been was forgotten forgotten was a bitter one and led to Eds Ed's swearing to take his brothers brother's broth broth- ers er's life lite Upon his hia uttering this threat the younger Kiel drew his revolver and fired six shots at sit Ed then seeing that they had not taken effect lie he turned and ran The quarrel had taken place In front of the ranch house and when lien hl his brother had hall finished shooting Ed turn turned tamed cd and went Into the house took down his Winchester an and stepping to lo the door took look deliberate aim at his fleeing flee flee- In ing brother He fired three shots shota Every shot took erf effect ct and an any one of them would have proven fatal Theman The Theroan roan man dropped dead In his tracks Ed EC Edwan wan walked cI down to where the body la lay and examined it It then returned to the hou house e went to his and shot himself through h the heart The father had long before beCore succumbed succumbed suc suc- to the disease which had exiled c him to that climate and the estate went to a nephew of oC Eds Ed's the son flon of oC a stater sta- sta ulster l ter who still possesses the tho property The new roa road which la is being built buill will wll i. i pass through the estate |