Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — The Main Street; a Dead Line. [ARTICLE]

The Main Street; a Dead Line.

Hill City, the county seat of Gresham County' in Western Kansas, Is a very email place, but Large enough to contain a feud that for deep hate and wild fury pas si s anything eVer heard of in the wilds of Kentucky. The feud divides the town into Two faction* that relent not day nor night. The rival factions center each about a leader who is rich. On the one side is Pomeroy; on the other McGill. The principal street of the town is the line between the two. No Pomeroyite ventures into the territory of the McGillites, and no McGillite ever crosses into the Pomeroy regions. This main street is a frequent battleground, and many’a fray has been waged there, with the town officers divided between the two contending parties. < n.