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Show "DEVIL ANSE" PRESIDED. 4 Barbecue at AVUch a Xoted Vendetta ) Leader .Mastered ttie ceremonies. The otner day the people of Logan oonnty, W. Va., held a grand barbecue to celebrate the division of the county. Tables were spread in the street, and all traffic was suspended. Hundreds of stalwart mountaineers came iu with their wives and children from the region re-gion rountlabont. Eight big black bears had been shot within a mile or two of the town, and their carcasses, served in barbecuo style, were the piece de resist ance of tho feast. The bears were flank yd and surrounded with roasted and bhked 'possums, wild turkeys, pheasants, quail, rabbits and all sorts of domestic fowk- Potatoes by the barrel were roasted, and pumpkin pies by the hundred hun-dred lined the tables. Hard cider was the beverage. Devil Anse Hatfield, the noted leader of the Hatfield-McCoy vendetta, was master of ceremonies. He stood at th hoad of tho table with a hfJf open valise, va-lise, from which th3 butts of three big revolvers protruded. Though thero is a generous price set upon Devil Anse'a head, it is said there was not a disturbing disturb-ing word spoken and that the barbecue w?. a. great success. The popular satisfaction satis-faction with tho presiding officer largely large-ly grew out of the fact that thero ara over a score of graves on tho adjacent hillsides testifviiu? to his deadly skill iith tnoa fiRt Nw YorJrTrihno |