One was a dispute over a broom, another over a horse
blanket, another over food, another over a twenty-five cent
bet in a pool game, another over a loan of fifty cents,
another over ten cents in a crap game, and still another over
one dollar and thirty cents in a crap game. Five men were
killed in drunken rows which had no immediate cause except the
desire to "start something." One man killed another because
he had not prevented the theft of some lumber, one (a
policeman) because the deceased would not "move on" when
ordered, one because a bartender refused to serve him with any
more drinks, and one (a bartender) because the deceased
insisted that he should serve more drinks. One man was killed
in a quarrel over politics, one in a fuss over some beer, one
in a card game, one trying to rob a fruit-stand, one in a
dispute with a ship's officer, one in a dance hall row. One
man killed another whom he found with his wife, and one wife
killed her husband for a similar cause; another wife killed
her husband simply because she "could not stand him," and one
because he was fighting with their son.
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