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Yesterday's Phillips County News Memories for week of August 12, 2015

100 years ago

August 13, 1915

Wagner shooting affair

E.M. Parmenter and Thos. Byers were arrested at Wagner early Sunday morning by Sheriff Shaw for the alleged shooting up of Phillip Douchette's claim shack. The shooting trouble grows, it is said, out of Byers' attempt to locate on Douchette's claim. The latter alleges that while he was away from his farm one day Byers squatted on the place and when he returned both Byers and Parmenter shot at his using rifles.

Byers is alleged to have appropriated 80 acres belonging to Homesteader J. A. Goss and had plowed up a considerable portion of th...

 

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