Volume 9 , Issue 34

100 Years Ago Today

100 years ago today, these are just a few of the front page headlines you might have read in The Oklahoman, dated Saturday, August 24, 1907.

Big Secretary Will Parade Public Streets In An Auto - Thousands Will Gather Here Today to Hear Taft; U. S. Officers Killed by Mistake for Moonshiners; Elopers Walk 25 Miles, Wed At Midnight; Parboiled In Steam Cloud, Man May Die; Famine In Meat Threatening N. Y.; Control of C. & A. Sold by Hawleys; Primary Results Still Doubtful; Crop Conditions Much Improved; Street Duel Has Fatal Ending; 'Black Hand' Slays; Raisuli Routs Sultan's Army; Jealousy Causes Threat To Kill; The Telegraphers' Strike Still Remains Unsettled. Quantrell Man Tries To Murder - Shoots at Famous Ex-Bandit at the Annual Reunion - Cummings Near Death - Deadly Assault Follows Guerrilla's Attempt to Settle Old Trouble.

With that, we shall lead into the near death of Jim Cummings with this August 23, 1907 news article out of Kansas City.

1907 News - Cummings Near Death... Kansas City, Aug 23, 1907 -- "David Edwards, who was a member of Quantrell's band of guerillas, and Jim Cummings, a follower of the James and Younger boys in the days of their marauding, quarreled today at the annual Quantrell reunion in a grove near kansas city and Edwards drew a pistol and fired at Cummings. The bullet missed Cummings struck the shoe of W. H. Perkins, glanced off and struck the foot of Dr. Shelly of Independence, Missouri, inflicting a slight wound. Dr. shelly was sitting at a table a few yards away. Cummings was unarmed.

Edwards, who is 73 years old, and Cummings, who is 60, live at the confederate Home at Higginsville, Missouri.

Edwards was taken to the county jail. He explained that he and Cummings had trouble eighteen months ago, that he offered today to compromise and Cummings refused, and that as a Quantrell man he was obliged to shoot, and shoot to kill.

Edwards took part in the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, in 1863."
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