A very soggy Monday morning greeting - 2.3 inches of rain yesterday & last night and it would be a nice day to do nothing! Charlie has posted the puzzler for the week; click on the URL in my signature line called gensoup and give it a try - I think you'll find this one easy. The news clipping for the day is from The Washington Post, 10 Sept 1879: "A MAN FOR EACH MINUTE. "Deputy Collector RAY's Sharp Pistol Work Among Moonshiners. "The commissioner of internal revenue is in receipt of information, that, on the 2nd inst., Deputy Collector J. A. RAY met with a very serious encounter with moonshiners in Barren County, Ky. He and JOHN BRANNUM left Glasgow on the morning of that day to locate a still, and found it about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Thinking they were not known they attempted to make a peaceful entrance, BRANNUM remarked, "Good evening, gentlemen". This was all that was said, when RAY saw a shot-gun pass from behind a still tub to a man behind a tree. As soon as the gun passed the man raised it and fired hastily, taking away half of RAY's hat brim. Before he could straighten for a second shot RAY drew his pistol and shot the man through the heart, killing his instantly. Another man jumped up from behind a still tub with his gun, but before he could level it RAY shot him down. Another party behind a tree had shot at BRANNUM with no effect, and as he was preparing for a third fire RAY shot him down. The moonshiners then ran. RAY had no time to examine the field; the whole time of the conflict was only three minutes, and he killing three men out of four shots. It was raining hard, and BRANNUM's pistol got wet and would not go off, so RAY had to do all the fighting. RAY's injuries were a bullet hole through the boot leg, and one through his pistol "scabard." BRANNUM's clothes were filled with buckshot holes. The parties were not more than ten feet apart. The fight was the sharpest that has occurred in that section of the county between moonshiners and revenue officials. The killed man's name was JAMES ASHFORD." Sandi Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html GGP: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/