Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1899 — SIX MORE KILLED IN A FEUD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SIX MORE KILLED IN A FEUD.

1 White-Baker Trouble the Direct Cause of Another Tragedy. I As a result of the White-Baker feud, six more victims have been found dead in the mountains near London, Ky. All

are allies of th* two factions, and the direct, cause of the present is assigned to tte fact that the Griffin* took the side of the Whites, and that the Philpots, the strongest faction in the mountains, numbering 750 votes, sided with the Bakers. “Bob’j Philpot was ed one morning re-

cently and was shot while giving a bond. A general fusillade followed, in which five men were killed, and the sixth, Richjtrd Loven, was found three miles from town with his head severed from hi* body. Deputies are being hurried from all over the State into Clay County and ‘more shooting is expected. The dead on the White side are Hugh Griffin, James Griffin and Edward Fisher. The Baker allies dead ate Robert Philpot, Aaron Morris and Richard Loven. Besides the dead several members of both faction* are seriously wounded. The Baker-Howard feud began in De-

cember, 1897, over the purchase by Tom Baker of a judgment for S4O that had been handed down against A. B. Howard. Baker had some of Howard’s good* seized, and thus originated a bad feeling which developed into quarrels. From quarrels it went to fist fights,

then clubs, then revolvenfand rifles and knives. . Tom Baker is the eleventh man to lose his life in the feud and the end is not yet. It is said there are not twelve men in Clay County who are not person* ally interested in the feud to the extent of doing desperate deeds if the occasion seemed to demand it. If the trouble ia not soon straightened out it looks as if Clay County would, before long, be the

scene of a small but bloody war. Judge Onear of Mount Sterling says troops will have to be withdrawn, and that the only way will be to let the Howards and Bakers fight it out among themselves.

TOM BAKER.

SHERIFF WHITE.

CLAY COUNTY COURT HOUSE.