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Show I mwv the i.'kub AWlEATH OVHRTAKF.8 THE LAST F PAltTICII'ANT IN VENOETTA. se Llrely Vntk with Sll-tlioottn an.l ftbnt-l" ftbnt-l" In l(tn. Jilt tu.if till- lnuihna tha tmm-lllllrlota. n,l III.kkI II. Ik tbo Affair. , V lly the death nf Chartca Vaughn, fifteen miles touth of Crdarvnle, Knu , In tho Osnge resertntlon, tlto hit sur-' sur-' vlror of a feud hlch wan fought along tho border with all the flerrvneM cf a Corilcnn tendetta far months was , wiped out. The participants ncre on the one hand Jim and Charles Vnuglui, cowboys who ere (ouslns and Tom Wlllier and Dennis Alum, who ran a "Joint" In Cnnejr. Kan, In 1579 mid 18S0, and the feud began In thin Joint In August, 1SS0, when Tom Amos In a tamo of poker brat Jim Vaughn out of J70. Vnuglin was by ucildcnt unarmed un-armed at the time, but left swcnrlnr; that he would return In threa ita)n nnd hill alt tho Anioses Accordingly Vaughn returneil to tho ranch on which ho was working In tho territory, procured a brnrn of slx-hootern, nnd on tho npiolntel day went back to Coney, Co-ney, The Amines, barricaded In their Joint, nnd armed with three double-barreled double-barreled shotguns, wcrn waiting for him. Vaughn hitched his liorao and pulling his six shooters began firing nnd walking toward the Amos Joint Tho Amost-h replied with a broadside H from their Rhotguus, nnd when the rmoko had cleared nway Vaughn Iny In I tho street with his body full of btick- idiot nnd Tom Amos lay on tho Hour I with his Jaw shattered by n bullet. I Illood poison set In nnd four weeks later Amos was burled. On tho other H hnnd, Vaughn, who was thought to Bj lmro been mortally wounded, rccoer-B rccoer-B rd, and In two months was nblo to gn B to work again. Vaughn was a crack H shot nnd tho Amoves lived In constant B terror of him, nnd utter they found B that bo bad gotten well they swore out B a warrant for his arrest which was B an unusual proceeding In thoso days B A deputy sheriff, who was n warm friend of the Jolnl keepers nrrretrs Vaughn and put the Amo-.is an I ono ol i their friends on the Mm t gturd him tho night after the arr Pur lng the night while the d nu'y s p' the Araosea. shut and killed Vaughn They claimed thai ho had trie! to ei rape However three nf the five shots which had pierced the itead man s bddV , were fired after he had fallen so the. direction of the bullets r nusis Indented. Ind-ented. The Anioi.es it that time did ' not know of the existence of Charles Vaughn who was cmplnycd on n ranch In Tcjns nnd, after tho had killed Jim. settled down to quiet life Wllber remained In Cane) nnd Dcjnli . Amos, with his young wife and child located on farm Jtwt east of CcJnr-vltle. CcJnr-vltle. A friend of Jim Vaughn In the meantime notified Charlea Vaughn of Ihe manner In which his cousin hid been killed, ami Charles theicupLii boarded the next train and went to Caney He remained quiet a day nnd by Inqulr) learned of tho whorcifeouts I of tho Anioee On the second diy after af-ter hlk nrrltnl he met Wllber Amos In n drug store, nnd, walking up to him I Informed him that ho was there fcr I the purpose of killing him Amos reached for his gun. but Vaughn was , too quick for him and sent a 5-caIlbcr bullet through his brain The dead ' man had hardly struck tho lb or beforo j Vnughii wna on his horse riding nl n breakneck speed toward town. Dennis i Amos was. entlng dinner when Vaughn reached his house, nnd without Introducing Intro-ducing himself tho Texan opened flro i nnd sent ono bullet through Dennis" breast nnd another through his head Tho Infuriated cowboy then picked up tho child nnd dashed Its bralnh out I against the Moor lie nlao II red n shot nt the worn in, but sho escaped Into tho bedroom, nnd Vaughn, thlnklni: his pursuers were close upon lilm, mounted his horse and rodo nway. Al- j though n pefsso pursued him for two da)s ho was not ocr taken and his wherenbouta had ncer been known from that day to tho day of his death. Yesterday, when, after n six weeks' struggle with tho fover, ho found that ho had to die, ho told his attendants that ha was Charles Vaughn and narrated nar-rated the above story, which tho older residents of this town know to b true. Kansaa City Times. |