Moonshiners In A Battle

Middlesboro, Ky., May 25.- The Heitfelds and Cawans, rival moonshine factions plying their business in the Ponville ridge mountains, Hancock county, Tenn., met at an entertainment at Coal Branch school house. A fight ensued which lasted for an hour. Several hundred shots were fired and James Heitfeld was killed and Tom Cawan was mortally wounded. The Ponville ridge mountains are inhabited almost entirely by moonshiners and no arrests are ever made for lawlessness. Human Ufe is cheap and the Winchester is the arbiter of all disputes.