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The Result* of the WnrThim Fnr.The remits of the Lincoln County War, thus fur, have been moat fatal. There were two parties, generally do. signaled a' ibe MeSween party and the Murphy, Dolan «h Riley party.08 the IHlli of February, J. If. Tunstu.'l, alleged to be in par inert hip wilh McSween, was killed by the po*-e of Sheriff Brady, while serving a warrant of attachment. The posse, ii i' claimed, were in sympain, ,.~j were working iu llie interest of Dolan Co.On March 9lli, Brewer’s party of regulator*,claimed to be iu sympathy with .McSween. killed Frank Baker, \V. S. Morton and MuCloskv, to revenge the (lentil of Tunstall.On the Dili ni March Tom Ilill wr.s killed and .let ie F.vans wounded, viiile robb'ng an emigrant tiaiu near Tulorosa.April lM. Sherifl’ Willif.m Brady and Oeorg'. [liitdiuau nmbiishcd and killed Iiy Bi'ewer'-. party, in I to town of Linn hi, A:.trim, the ••Kill” and •I 1111 French, of Brewer’s party, wounded.A ‘■oldicf shot anil lritad, while at-templing to puss a sentinel at Murphy’..; home.April .‘rh, Andrew I.. Huberts, a!-1lt; ;,i I lo have been present at the killin'! ..f Tin. mil, ‘hot ami killed by I'li v.ei'-p.irly, at Blarei Mill. Roberts, ii .never, in the light killed Brewer, 1 :;dcr of the regulator*, and w. u:i' ! Mi.l.lli uni, Charles Bowd-ry and (jeorge Coe.About this time Jr.hn M. Copeland W; appointed sheriff by COHIlty Asm-- i rs to iBl tbo vacancy occasioned by the death of Brady.April CJih. Brady's deputies rnlll-■r! and killed Frank McXab and w.I'd ■ A. - Hinders, of llm r* giilalors. A light afterwards oc-. liri'cl in Lincoln, in which three Of B.'aily’d dtp titles were mortally wounded..I',:!!-' !.7«1iii X. Copeland removed by lie Governor, for tuiliiro to give bond, and George V\ i’cppin appointed.During the first week in July two lt;f 1’i ppia's p‘so wounded and two l.orso killed in a fight with Hie regulators.Several skirml.-lies and much man-oeUvrciiiTbetween belli parties, from lire I I to il e VOtli of July, without Important mnulth, duringwliieli timo slialu eiig'.aei’ieuis look place at Lin-. riii, Sum I'nirii ilt; and oil the Pecos, in one of wlib h ('barley Crawford,of !.’c| [ irB- posse, was umi.ally woun-d d.July Cblli, a heavy Battle hotwcm the -i.i rill's pi.yso mid MtSwcon’a parly, in wldeh the hillcrwiukilli.il and Id- house in Lincoln burned; also of Ihai party Harry Morre-. Vieentn l.’.or.eio m.d I'raiieiM'o .‘•amorn wero 1.illi’il. Robert Beckwith, of tho iherifTs pr.sse killed.On lie .'•■!. ,,f \ugusl, Iho Indian Aley w '• s atlu. I. d by Koine thirty ii.‘‘U and Morris J. Bernstein, tho •■Ii. rh. who had no interest on either aide, killed.The ahii-.e ern=titnlcs the cansual-I'. s. up io iln present time, as near emi iho. riiiiii from data at h: u I. il L .. .ile probable tlmt ;cv-. rid were killed, or died of wounds,•' In.-names h.i'.e not been reported In the paper*.To nun up briefly, and taking no i'(•*.*'nl if tin; wounded, properly • l.-l:--’\ed and horse* l.illnl, the re-| Of tl.o.c aiie . i in have belonged lo iIn- Mr . f Mi „ ecu, slieriirCnpp-1 .ml ilie regulators, wero killedi •I. II. Tun-laM. Richard Brewer. F. Mi-N tb. \. A. M '-wa’ii, Henry Mor-ri . Yin a1,• Romero and Francisco Siimm a. or m veil In alt. Of those re-l oried io belong to l!i ■ side of Dolan A Co., and f.lc rlfl’s Brady and Pep-pin, v. ■. • Lilt.-1: Sheriff Wm Brady.lt; ,vo. Mindioaii. Andrew L. Huberts, Frank Baker, \Y. s. Morton, MeClos-] ky, ('ha*. Crnwfoi'il, Robert Beck-w ith and three oilier* mortally wounded; lun names Hot given, or eleven In all. Tin »e. added to the soldier, Toni Ilill and Bernstein, make 21 men slaughtered in the Lincoln Couuty war.The number* killed on each tide Indicate that the light has been a» equal ; a* desperate, while barbarism and - lawlessness hnve marked the contcM throughout.
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