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From: "Mike & Kathy Bowlin" <>
Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Higbee News, Friday, 9 Aug 1912
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:33:49 -0600


Friday, 9 Aug 1912--EDITORS FIGHT DUEL; BYSTANDER SHOT--Editors Hamilton
and Davis Empty Revolvers at Each Other In Post Office--Both Slightly
Wounded--Huntsville, MO, August 4--Bitter personal quarrels over the
Whitecotton-Rucker congressional campaign in Randolph county reached their
climax
when John N. Hamilton, 58 years old, editor of the Huntsville Herald, and
Van Davis, 35
years old, editor of the Huntsville Times, became engaged in a sensational
pistol duel
which started in the Post Office here at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon and
resulted in both
men and Pearl Gunn, a bystander, being wounded.
Several hundred persons returning from a Chautauqua lecture scattered as a
fusillade of bullets whizzed over their heads and many narrowly escaped
being wounded.
The Post Office in Huntsville opens on Sunday afternoon for an hour or two
to
give out mail. Hamilton was seen to go into the Post Office about 4:30 p.m.
Shortly
afterwards Van Davis entered. Seven or eight men were lined up waiting for
their mail.
Hamilton was at the end of the line. When Davis entered he turned. Both
men
uttered an exclamation and both drew guns. Almost simultaneously two shots
rang out.
Neither shot took effect. Davis was armed with a .32 caliber revolver of a
cheap make.
Hamilton swung a large automatic revolver and took another step toward
Davis. The
automatic barked once again.
Davis, who was about ten feet away, backed off, firing rapidly and emptying
his
gun. He was seen to stagger, then, steadying himself, he hurled the empty
revolver,
narrowly missing Hamilton's head. Then he turned and ran out of the Post
Office, with
Hamilton after him.
During the last two shots Pearl Gunn, who was standing back of the two men
in
the narrow Post Office, staggered and fell against the wall. A bullet had
entered his body
just below the heart, making a serious wound.
Davis ran from the Post Office and down the street. Several hundred
persons
returning from the Chautauqua lecture were coming down the street toward the
Post
Office. At their head was J. W. Morris, deputy sheriff. Hamilton sent
several shots after
the fleeing Davis, who was staggering and soon came to a stop. the crowd
scattered as
the bullets whizzed over the heads and sang about the cars of several
persons.
Morris grappled with Hamilton and took the revolver from him. Both men
were
placed under arrest. Davis was given emergency treatment at the Jail, where
it was found
that a bullet had entered his left hip. Hamilton was found to be suffering
from a wound
in his right arm. Both men will recover. Gunn, the bystander who was
wounded, is in a
serious condition.
Hamilton and Davis were released on $1000 bond for their appearance at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning before a justice of the peace. The clothing of
both men
showed several holes made by the bullets.
The shooting was the result of a quarrel between Hamilton and Davis over an
article which Davis printed in the Times last Tuesday and in which Hamilton
declares he
have him the "lie." The article was in connection with the
Whitecotton-Rucker race for
the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Second District.
Both papers are Democratic, the Herald supporting Whitecotton and the Times
espousing the cause of Rucker. Considerable feeling has existed between the
two men it
is said since Davis left the employ of Hamilton over a year ago and became
editor of the
Huntsville Times.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--B. B. Pyle is here from Texas for a visit with his
father, G. H. and
other relatives.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Misses Cora and Mollie Williams of Ft. Worth, Texas,
arrived
yesterday for a visit with their father, Jake Williams, of near Myers.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--The shooting affray between John N. Hamilton, editor of
the
Huntsville Herald, and Van Davis, editor of the Huntsville Times, is a very
unfortunate
affair both for the principals as well as the town and the county, and it is
to be hoped that
the friends of each will do all in their power to have the gentlemen shake
hands and
forget past differences.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Mr. Joe Lang, Jr, and Miss Rita Inman of Moberly were
quietly
married at the home of E. M. Whitmore here on August 4th by Rev. E. L.
Mitchell.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Mrs. Earl Simpson and son returned to their home in
Roundup,
Montana, Tuesday, after an extended visit with her parents, Henry B. Cubbage
and wife.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--T. L. Warford, who has been operating a bowling alley at
Macon,
was here Sunday and informed us that he had moved to Clarence, where he was
enjoying
a good business. He says Macon is a dead one.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Mrs. John Key is visiting her parents, F. C. Dodd and
wife, at
Clifton Hill.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--The Gem has been showing some extra good pictures this
week.
Some excellent views of the ill-fated Titanic were shown Monday night.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Thos. Evans and wife returned first of the week from a
month's visit
with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Thomas at Emporia, Kan. They
were
accompanied home by Miss Ester Thomas, who will spend a month or six weeks.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Born, on the 3rd, to Elmer Dennis and wife, a daughter.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--MISS KATHRYN BURKE DEAD--The relatives, friends and
acquaintances of Miss Kathryn Burke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burke of
this place
were shocked beyond measure when a message was received from Colorado
Springs last
Sunday night conveying the sad intelligence of her death there that day at
Glackner
Sanitarium, where she was taken on the 20th of last May in the hope of
restoring her
health, which began to fail last September.
Her death was a terrible blow to her family, as she was supposed to be
improving
and a letter had been received from her only the day before stating that she
was feeling
better, and that she could hardly wait for her mother and sister, who were
to have left for
Colorado Springs Wednesday, to arrive. The particulars of her death have
not yet been
received but it is thought that it may have been caused from hemorrhage or
heart trouble.
The body arrived Wednesday and was taken to the home of the heartbroken
family, and the constant stream of sorrowing friends who called at the home
to extend
sympathy and to take a last look at one they knew so well, spoke more
eloquently than
words of the esteem in which she was held.
Deceased was born in Salisbury, Mo. on July 8, 1888, and died on August 4,
1912. She came to Higbee with her parents in infancy, where she grew to
womanhood,
and it can be truthfully said of her that a more gentle, sympathetic or
refined spirit never
lived among us. She was popular with all of her acquaintance and will be
sadly missed.
In her death her parents have lost a loving and dutiful daughter and the
town one of its
sweetest characters.
The body will be taken to Salisbury today and laid to rest in the Catholic
cemetery, after services at the church there.
Besides her fond parents she is survived by three brothers and five
sisters, and the
sympathy of all go out to them in their great sorrow.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Born, on the 4th, to Rev. S. Quick and wife, a son.
(This child is Ray
Quick, son of Hattie Mae Atkins Quick, Harvey Jacks first cousin).

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--AFTER BIG FORTUNE---There was a meeting in Higbee
Saturday
at the home of Mr.and Mrs. A. G. Atkins which may eventually mean the
bringing of
several
barrels of money, and then some, into this community, the meeting being of
those who
believe themselves heirs to a vast estate in the city of New York--160
acres, in fact,
situated in the heart of the city and covered with skyscrapers and costly
buildings of
all kinds.
The property in question is known as the Enyart estate and land in
question was
leased several generations ago for 99 years. The lease expired last year,
we learn, and
heirs in different parts of the country have put in claims for the property.
The heirs here, among whom are Mrs. Atkins and some sixty or seventy
others, can
prove beyond a doubt, we learn, that they are the direct descendants of the
original
owners of the property. This vast estate, we learn, is not on paper or in
the imagination
of some scheming lawyer, as generally happens in such cases, but really
exists. If the
heirs here can ever get their part of it they will have more money than they
will know
what to do with, for the estate is estimated to be worth 500 million
dollars.
At the meeting here Saturday, at which were other heirs from Kansas
City,
Keytesville, Salisbury and Macon county--about 100 in all--it was decided to
get in
correspondence with other heirs in Pennsylvania who are to hold a similar
meeting
some time next week, that an understanding may be reached and all act in
harmony in
taking proper steps to get a division of the property. Here's hoping that
the anticipation's
of each will be realized.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Thos. Lessley of Salisbury is here visiting his brother,
Joseph.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--JAS. R. LYON--In the death of Jas. R. Lyon, who died on
July 31,
1912, brief mention of which was made in our issue of last week, the county
has lost a
mighty good citizen and his wife and children a kind and indulgent father.
Mr. Lyon was a native of Kentucky, being born in that state August 20,
1840.
When the Civil War came on he naturally took up the cause of the South, and
saw
some very hard service in the Confederate army, being engaged in some of the
biggest
and fiercest battles. After the war he returned home, and in 1874 moved to
this state,
locating at Clifton Hill, from which place he removed shortly afterward to
his late home
west of town, where he had since resided.
he had been married three times. His first wife was Marry Wood, whom he
married in 1866. To this union five children were born. His wife dying in
1879, he
married Miss Emma Hayden, in 1884. Two children were born to this union,
both dying
in infancy, and were followed by the mother in 1903.
In 1907 he was married to Mrs. Annie Hersman, who with the children by the
first
marriage, survives him.
Mr. Lyon was converted in 1875 and joined the Salem Baptist church, and so
far
as we were able to judge lived a truly consistent christian life.
Funeral services were held at Mt. Salem by Rev. D. B. Clifton, his old
pastor and
friend, and the body laid to rest by the side of his first wife.
All who knew Uncle Jim, as he was familiarly called, liked him, and all who
had
dealings with him knew him to be a man whose word was as good as his bond.
peace to his ashes!

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Mrs. J. M. Meck and children of Moberly, are the guests
of her
sister, Mrs. O. L. Farris.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Mrs. John T. Dougherty of near Myers, is spending a few
days at
Moberly with her son, Edward.

Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Porter B. Stamper, a prominent Moberly citizen, was
found dead in
bed at his home Monday afternoon, Bright's disease being the cause of death.
He had
been an invalid for years.

Kathy Bowlin


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