Hazel Green Herald - May 28, 1896 O.J. Burnett, who shot Dan Sid Davis at Rousseau a short time since, has been admitted to bail in the sum of $1,000, his employer, Floyd Day, going on the bond. Deputy U.S. Marshall W.A. Byrd passed through here Monday evening en route to Goodloe, in Magoffin county, where he will meet with twenty other revenue officers under command of Chief Deputy Gates and make a two weeks' rain in the Sandy valley. W.B. Lykins and wife attended the burial of their little niece here last Wednesday. The remains of little Lillie Lykins, the 11 -years old daughter of Raney Lykins, was brought from Omer to the cemetery for interment. May the bereft family ever remember that better far is eleven years of purity and innocence than a "cycle of guilty lust," and to them is extended the sympathy of all. Feb. 4, 1896 A strenuous effort on the part of one E. H. Bostic was made to indict Detective George Drake and William Prater, charging them with highway robbery, alleging same had been committed upon him. The grand jury made a thorough investigation of said charge and found that Mr. Drake did not yet merit the notorious traits of Jesse James, or Cole Younger, but that he deserved an unlimited amount of praise for his true manliness and undaunted courage, displayed so frankly in establishing his innocence. The grand jury, which was composed of a set of Magoffin's best citizens, found no true bill against Mr. Drake or Mr. Prater, but found a true bill against Mr. Bostic for carrying a concealed pistol. Mr. Drake is a refined gentleman and, as yet, has never betrayed that confidence in which he is held by the good law abiding citizens of Eastern Kentucky, but still can (there are parts of this I can't read my copy was smudged) (the little that I can make out,) is they didn't believe the charge made by Mr. Bostic who is a citizen of Virginia, and was on his way home, from the Louisville jail, where he had been confined for sometime under a judgement of the United States court, at the time he alleges the crime was committed. One Boyd Park, son of Wayne Park, stole Logan Lindons' mare a few nights since, for which he is now under arrest at Daysboro. This is the same mare that John Ratliff took two or three years ago and is now serving a term of seven years in the pen, and no doubt Mr. Park will enter the same door. Born on the 22nd inst. To the wife of Fletcher Kincaid, a bouncing girl. Boyd P.Simer and Miss Mary Williams were joined in matrimony on the 24th inst. May they live a happy life. We learned that there was a fight Sunday on the creek near Eaton mill between Marion Adkins and Tobe Rogers, the latter being slightly wounded. The Sunday excursion train last Sunday ran a horse belonging to J.E. Morris into the Walker's creek bridge and killed it. The horse ran for about a mile and half before he run on the bridge. No. 12 school district held a meeting and decided to build a new school house and change location, which will be about one mile from where the old one sits. The contract was awarded to Crate Kincaid. Carole