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Subject: [KYCLAY-L] MT VERNON SIGNAL NEWSPAPERS
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:39:30 EST

This message appeared on KYROOTS today. Mrs. Crawford has been
transcribing from microfilm the Mt. Vernon SIGNAL Newspaper.

Betty Eddy

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JUNE 23, 1899

BRADLEY MEANS BUSINESS
The Governor is Determine to Restore Peace in Clay County Regardless of Cost
Frankfort, Ky, June 18 Gov Bradley has not the power to declare martial law
in the county of Clay, where a reign of terror exists as the result of the
assassination of Tom Baker last Saturday, but he intends to restore order
there, regardless of cost. The governor received a letter Friday afternoon
from Circuit Judge Eversole denying that he had as reproted adjourned court
at Manchester because of the fear of personal violence. The judge says
that court was adjourned becasue he realized that justice could not be
meted out with affaris in such chaotic condition. He says that he will
hold a special session in Clay within the next few weeks. The troops will
probably be sent back then.

If order can not be restored and thos under incictment tried a special
session of the legislature would be the only remedy. Under the present
Kentucky law the governor cannot even appoint a special judge until the
regular judge has refused to sit and the circuit clerk notifies him that
the members of the bar have failed to elect. In Clay county the circuit
clerk is a member of the White faction, and if Judge Eversol should decline
to sit he would practically have the selection of his successor. If an exta
session wer held the county of Clay would either be abolished and divided
up among adjoining counties or the governor would be given power to appoint
sepcial judges at will and special grand juries from other counties to go
to a lawless county and investigat and find the incictments.

The governor Friday night declared to be false the special dispatch sent
out from Lexington Thursday that he was equipping soldiers in Eastern
Kentucky to go to Harlan county. Teh condition there is much better than
it is in Clay county.

MRS TOM BAKER
She will take her Children and Settle in the Indian Territory-A Peaceful
Outlook in Clay County
R.B. Lucas of Manchester who is here as a delegate to the democratic
convention says the BAKER-HOWARD feud is at an end. He says that Mrs Tom
Baker has decided to go to her father who is a prominent farmer in Indian
territory. She will take her children with her.

Dr Lucas declares that the men who have been corraled and armed in the
mountains have laid down their weapons and returned to their homes and to
their work. A better and more secure feeling prevails throughout the
terror stricken section. Everybody now appears to be satisfied to let the
law take its course and the members of the factions are disposed to have peace.

Leading citizens who have taken no part in the feud are now edeavoring to
get the Whites, Howards, Bakers, Philpots and others involved in the
fighting to agree that they will do all in thier power to prevent further
bloodshed. These men are said to take kindly to this idea and when each
faction is assured that no one of its side will receive harm at the hands
of the enemy it is thought peace will be permanently restored.

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