Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-06-25 | Page 1 | Tragedy Ends a Feud

TRAGEDY ENDS A Armed Man Is Met by a I Bullet When He Goes ! to Settle Trouble 1 r 1 I Hot Springs. Ark., June 25. When ! the family of W. R. Hibbs settled in the mountains near Hot Springs 011 a tract of land adjoining that of Eze-klel Eze-klel Cox. and engaged in the same 1 enterprise as that in which the Cox family had previously had a monop-; monop-; oly charcoal burning a feud be-! be-! tweeu the two families began. j Yesterday, arming himself with a rifle. Ezeklcl Cox went to the home of Ilibbs to effect a settlement of the 1 differences. As he approached the ! bouse of his competitor, he was met . by a bullet from a weapon similar to '. that be was carrying, j The coroner's jury declared that Cox had been killed by Hlbbs. but j held that the latter was justified. j