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El Paso,
Tex. April 9, .—The History of
one
of the worst feuds In western Texas
was
recalled last night when news was
received
here of the killing at Fort
Stockton
of Barney Riggs, a prominent
cattleman,
frontiersman, feudist and
fighter.
Riggs was shot five times and
instantly
killed by "Buck" Chadborn,
also
a cattleman, son of ex-Sheriff Chadborn
of
Jeff Davis county and son-ln-law
of
Riggs. The killing Is said to have
been
the outcome of a family quarrel.
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FRONTIER CHARACTER
IS GONE
Barney Riggs,
Feudist and Fighter is
Killed at Fort
Stockton.
SPECIAI. TO The
NEWS.
El Paso,
Tex., April 9, 1902—News has reached
this
city of the killing in Fort Stockton of
Barney
Riggs, frontiersman, ,feudist and
killer.
Riggs was a prominent cattleman
of
that section. He was shot five times and
instantly
killed. The killing is the outcome
of
a family quarrel.
Twenty years ago
Riggs and his bride went to
Arizona. There he became a, cowboy
and
during the intervals of his absence
from
the ranch owner's camp on
round-ups
Riggs' employer wronged him,
and
so it came about that Riggs, in good
old
Texas style, speedily killed the rancher.
Riggs was given a
life sentence at Yuma.
One
day a half dozen convicts sought to
kill
the warden. Armed with knives, they
made
a murderous attack upon their keeper, but Riggs. rushing unarmed into
the thick of the fight,
hurled a rioter to the
floor.
Grasping' the man's knife, he fought
until
two desperadoes were killed. The
guards
rushing up. saw Riggs with the
dagger
upheld and fired but missed. Riggs
was
forthwith pardoned. Coming back to Texas he was married to Mrs. Johnson,
a sister of Bud Frazer, who
was
then the Sheriff of Reeves County. He
became
a prominent rancher. Frazer had
a
deputy; with whom he fell out, and then
was
become a prolonged, battle and celebrated feud.
Twice
their were duels on the
Streets
of Pecos, and the deputy was twice
wounded,
but In the meantime Con Gibson.
a
brother of the present District Clerk of
Reeves
County and a friend and deputy to
Frazer,
was killed by a cousin of Frazer's
enemy,
living at Eddy, N. M.
At an election was
defeated and moved over
into New Mexico He came to
El
Paso, but went back to
Reeves County and ran for
office again. His former deputy hearing of this, went there and,
opening the door to a saloon, discharged
both
barrels of a shotgun into Frazer's
body,
killing him Instantly.
The
circus came to Pecos, and so did
Riggs;
likewise John Denson and a. friend
bearing
a reliable gun. Meeting
Riggs in a saloon, one of them
made
a, gun play, and so did Riggs, and
when
the smoke had cleared away a man
named
Earheart and Denson had bullets in
their
brains. Something bloodier would be doing at Pecos
folks
thought, with Frazer' deputy
should
meet Riggs, for both were good
shots.
The meeting never
came but in Its stead was
another, and Riggs, man-killer, hero
of
the Insurrection at the territorial prison,
fearless,
Intrepid, met death at the hands of a heartless boy, with whom he
was romantically related.
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TWO DEAD AND ONE DYING.
Young Man Poisons a Family
and Commits
Suicide.
Dallas, Tex., Jan.
19, 1903— Reports received here from Fort
Stockton state that J. T. Ray and
Misses Lou_ and Amy Ray were
poisoned there by Ray's nephew, who
committed suicide In Colorado City
Friday after having been arrested.
According to the report, the two girls are dead
and Ray is in a critical
condition. No particulars of the supposed
poisoning and the subsequent suicide have been received here
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29 May 1933 Dallas (TX) Morning News
FORT STOCKTON, Texas, May 28 - Charles E. Hart, 46, Fort
Stockton postmaster for ten years, dropped dead of a heart
attack on a golf course here Sunday. The body will be sent
to Houston, his boyhood home, for burial
Illinois State Democrat, Oct. 3, 1860
Arrival of the Overland Mail. Fort Smith, Ark., Sept. 27.
The overland mail, with five through passengers and San Francisco
dates to the 7th inst., arrived here this morning at 1˝. Senator Latham
and family were to leave San Francisco on the 15th inst. for Washington
by the overland route. An extra outfit embracing everything essential to
their comfort and convenience during the journey was placed at their
disposal. They will proceed at easy stages, and expect to occupy 40 days
in reaching St. Louis.
A train in charge of a man named Smith, from Decatur, Ill., was
attacked by a party of Apache and Camanche Indians at Doubtful Pass.
Seven horses belonging to the train were killed and others stolen. The
day following the same party of Indians attacked another train and drove
off 100 horses. Eight mules belonging to the overland mail company were
stolen by the Indians at Horsehead Crossing of Pecos river.
They were subsequently re-captured by the station who took them from
the camp of the Indians by stratagem. Two companies of mounted troops
are reported en route for Salt Lake to Fort Brewster, on Members river.
The suspected incendiaries are leaving northern Texas in large
numbers. About 300 wagons belonging to this class are now strung along
the road north of Red river. Their destination is supposed to be Kansas
and Missouri.
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