The Searchlight (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 7, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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VuKime 2
JUNE 7, 1911
Number 28
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JIM BRENNAN WILL NOT
HAVE TO FACE TRIAL.
Killing of Colonel Sam Woods in
Famous Kansas CountyrSeat
War Goes Unavenged by
the Court's Order.
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James Brennan, who is accused
of having killed Colonel Sam
Wood in a county seat fight at
Hugolon, Kansas, 19 years ago,
wiil not have to return to* that
state for trial, a court decided in
a habeas corpus proceeding at
Hobart, Okla.. on Monday. Bren
nan was released.
Since leaving Kansas Brennan
has prospered. He is a resident
of Gotobo, Okla., and is aetive
in politics.
Governor Lee Cruce recently
granted requisition for Brennan's
return to Kansas. Brennan lias
fought the case on the grounds
that he had twice presented him-
self for trial and that in neither
instance could a jury be obtained.
These failures to give him an op-
portunity to clear himself made
him exempt from the Kansas lalws
he averred.
Wood was shot and killed by
Brennan at Hugoton, June 23,
1891. As a lawyer, politician and
legislator, Wood Avas widely
known throughout Kansas, hav-
ing gone there in iearly days. So
great was the turmoil in Stevens
county over the county seat wars,
similar wars having been waged
in nearly every other southwest-
ern county^ that a qualified jury
could not fbe found to sit in the
case. Brepnan was released and
in 1892 yfhen the Cheyenne and
Arapaho^ Indian reservation ,was
opened tame to Oklahoma and to-
il cated in county H, now Washita
/ county, at Cloud Chief.
He became a deputy sheriff and
was a candidate for appointment
as sheriff by Governor A. J.
Seay, governor of Oklahoma ter-
retory. The killing of Wood
eaused Governor Seay to refuse
to appoint Brennan.
Brennan was never a fugitive
in Oklahoma. Scores of men
back in Stevens county and else-
where had threatened to kill him
at sight, however, and he lived
the life of a hunted max*. Plor
years he went heavily armed,
iweaTing two pistols. When lie
sat in a restaurant it was never
near a window, and always at the
rear of the room with his face to-
wards the door.
The Stevens county seat, war
was exceptionally bloody,the Hay
Meadow massacre being one of
the most sensational features. In
this fight five men were surprised
and shot to death by one of tin
factions. There were other fighls
scarcely less bloody.
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Foiling the finding of six
from different parts of the state
in the last t'e^K- weeeks, Sheriff
Ellsworth Hume and Under-She-
riff Bob Bebbs of Enid, accompdn
ied by Sheriff Burwell of Major
county and Sheriff McGhee of
Noble county, left Enid early Sat-
urday night in seareh of Charles
Tackett, white, who the officers
believe is responsible for the
thefts. Three of the horses foun
have been indentified as being
stolen. Two them, ft k" sTaid,
were stolen'from*Oklahoma City
and one from Enid.
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charge of counterfeiting half dol-
lars. The coins alleged to have
bcti. made by Franklin are a fair
imitation of the real article.
horses, said to lipve been stolen
Farmers near Chickasha report
the capture of a large halt! eagle
! that has been infesting that sec-
j tion for a long time. The big
l ird has caused havoc among the
j poultry and small domestic ani-
mals.
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John Franklin of Stringtown,
appeared before the United-State
commissioner at McAlester on a
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Pawhuska, Okla., June 6.-J
There is great! rejoicing by lots
of owners of good horse flesh in
Northwestern Oklahoma over the
capture of the king of horse
thieves, Kiser, alias "Tiger Mus-
krat," who it is said, stole not
less than 7<)0~fcorses and mules
while playing the avocation of a
horse thief.
Muskrat stole ,em by pairs,
hunches and carloads. He ofetn
hired smaller thieves in the busi-
ness, giving them shares of the
captured animals. . *
Kiser" Muskat" was and is a
realbad Indian, and it is passing.
strange that he managed to es-
cape the deserved bullet or halt-
he simply stole horses from rieh
• t is asserted that sometimes
men to give to the poor, horseless
settlers.
Riser 's reeord as a horse thief
beats that of "A Very Bad Fish"
allto pieces.
It is hoped that "Muskrat" will
not escape from the clutches of
tie law; and that the courts will
s ortly deal out to him what he
t0 have bad ten years ago.
' here being 'honor among thie-
ves it can be presumed that "A
with the imprisoned "Muskrat."
vei^y Bad Fish,"'frill sympathize
,with the imprisoned "Muskrat."
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The city government of Okla-
homa City remains status quo un-
til next Thursday, when the state
supreme court will announce a de-
cision that will, in all probability
end the warfare thre between the
commission officials and the ald-
ermanic adminstration of "May-
or" Lackey.
TThe grand jury called to make
an investigation of the lynching
of a negro woman and her son at
Okemah, Okla., has not rendered
, a report yet, though it has been
•very active in its work.
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Green, E. M. The Searchlight (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 7, 1911, newspaper, June 7, 1911; Cushing, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc285826/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.