Joe Hargis and his tenant, Mr. Schmidl, engaged in a fierce combat at Lake City Monday and when it was over both wore highly ornamented faces. The two men have not been getting along. There was bad blood between them for some months, but the thing that brought them together was a disagreement over five shocks of feed. Hargis, it is claimed, in dividing the feed, hauled away or caused to be hauled away, five shocks of Schmidl's feed. They met in a store at Lake City and words soon led to blows. Hargis attacked Schmidl with a knife and cut a deep gash in his cheek. Schmidl fought back with his fists and succeeded in removing considerable epidermis from Hargis's face. After they were separated both came to town to attend to the legal end of it. As County Attorney Field was not at home, the matter was postponed until today and a warrant will probably be issued for Hargis's arrest this morning. Hargis has employed J. N. Tincher to defend him.
Also see:
Joe Hargis Arrested
Barber County Index, February 10, 1909.Lake City Plot Map, Barber County, Kansas
From Standard Atlas of Barber County, Kansas, 1905.
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