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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD D. LPoync, Capt an European Thieves Go In for Large Scale Theft UzmarronOcouf & oma TUI o n Ct d S of vr F 0 surr ces at New I M r $ the s b WATSON By ELMO SCOTT of Oklahoma, Father E WAS the yet, except for giving his name to one of Its original counties, that state has done very little to honor CapL David L. Payne. True, in 1929 there was a proposal to remove his body from Wellington, Kan., where he died just 50 jears ago this month, and rebury liiin in Oklahoma City as a pait of the pi og min celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the opening of Okla-tna territory to white settlement not done because the citizens of , gut this was to permit the removal. They p, Jliitgton declined mted out that, Insofar as Pay ne had made j Wellington his home for several years and had a theie, It was peifectly fitting that Welllng-t- r should he his last resting place. Moreover, that his grave is In a beautiful fi i suggested 1 nun of Prali le Lawn cemetery wheie there penty of room for a suitable memorial If uhoma wanted to erect one, evidently that suggestion wa3 not acceptable, e the only marker at Paynes grave is a enfoot monument, giving a brief account of life, which was paid for by popular subserip-- i and erected a few years ago by the Welhng-- i G A. R. post to take the place of the orig-stone marker w hich recorded the fact that F of the Tenth i was a captain of Company f infantry. So Fajne continues to sleep Kansas soil and it is not w holly inappropriate 4 t he should. For, as a citizen of Kansas, he t n his first fame as the Cimarron Scout long bust-nesst- i this change the Father of Oklahoma." I ilie state of Indiana also has a claim upon this i rider notable, for he was born in the Iloosier other details of his early life, dearth of reliable Information. J. y. fcel Included a sketch of Payne in his Ileroes if the Plains and later writers, evidently deviling upon Buel for their facts but adding jroidery of their own, served to confuse the As for 4 le 8 re Is a ord badly. Instance, one of them calls him Daniel I. and says that his mother wras a cousin Darnel Boone. Fred E. Sutton of Kansas City thor of Hands Bobbs-luri- ll published i or lie by Up!, who was a follower of Payne, "Pawnee Ull was a first cousin of Davy Bill" Cr and he that was born In Fairmont, dtt lade onto lad on December 30, 183G. Since this was only falling asleep." the con amv months after Crockett had died It Is possible that Payne may have had some gloriously id. at the Alamo in Texas It seems reasonable to of the adventures with Indians which Buel und sur pose that his kinswoman would name her the other writers attribute to him at this time. nev born son ROME David. But one is inclined to doubt some of the details I ay ne s boyhood was spent much like that of of this yarn, In view of Custers simple other youngster of the pioneer day s In In- - ment that after the rescue of the tw o w lute 'a and by the time he had reached young women, the Kansas volunteer troops marched 10C(i be, like thousands of others, felt the back to Fort Hays where they weie mustered out of service." But whatever Paynes recoid as an Indian tighter was, politics next occupied Ins attention and in 1870 he was elected to the Kansas legislature, at the same time holding down a Sedg wick county claim. In 1872 he was nominated to x i the state senate but was defeated. However, he was consoled for this set back by being appointed doorkeeper of the house of repiesentatives in Washington, a job w hich he held until 1S79. While there he made the discovery, as he believed, that the lands In the western part of Indian Territory, which had been ceded by the Creek Indians to the government for occupation by the other Civilized Tribps and by freedmen, so men-- in reality belonged to the public lands of the ar department called upon Gov- - United States and weie therefoie open to settle, raw ford of Kansas to raise a force of ment. He had seen the richness of these lands W cavalry to cooperate with the regular during his Indian campaigning with Custer and subduing the hostiles. w hite men Payne was com- - he resolved that the ne of tbese troops which should possess them. So he formed the Okla hh!f'ta,n T en George A. Custer and the Sev- - homa Colony and for the next five years de ln Kansas and Oklahoma duiing voted most of his time to that project. t,ry ye,r3 Sutton says that lie was a born orator, says Sutton, end he Payne was I f the Washita or q ;;:;;Ule r It ac Kettief 10 destrJe(1 the camp of Chief ing up and down the border, preaching that Cheyennes and, If he was, he was a sinful waste for that rich soil to he held of va in, jnited S for a few Indians who would not till It, while so Kotr In c many farmers were eager to go In and possess a saw trh it and Improve IL Many thought him a dreamer contralto and a crank but he knew that every colony inridge I that went and was expelled stirred up the agiJust bet tation and hastened the day when the land would .. In 1927), his mother , V j 1 D land-hungr- y (1 , I v- -, o In the5 be opened. The principal opposition to Paynes project (dlat Published ln the old Gal- - came from the cattle barons, who were using the . doe? not niention Payne land for free grazing, and they had sullicient TREASl e nJV8'273) he Ksted oen'tlv among the scouts Influence with the fedeial authorities so that, mo Okla n. aned ln ks ai,y of Mrs. Custers every time Payne led his Boomers Into deain her husbands Indian cam homa, federal troops were sent to arrest and ,fr grs Wlld BUI" Ilichok, evict them. Despite studious efforts to keep the 1 Grover "n,a Joe leraI olhera nre referred to matter out of the civil courts where the Issue lath h the tl'avrfe v! Eneral and Mrs. Custer, could be tried on the merits of the case, Payne court. MdtuJ Of J1 leads to the suspicion that succeeded several times In petting It Into more once the Cimarron Scout back nl' was in- - where he wo" P by writers with dime novel to try again. a news To aid in his project Tayne established careers unusual most the paper which had one of Grace c os, Mis. Morgan and In the history of American lournallsm at the University Bay of the school of journalism of Parly Oklahoma her history in Oklahoma of It: about to say Newspapers has this y established The Oklahoma War Chief, Ms ( k of oflleinl orgm the as .u. uu,,;,.,, I David L. Payne like the ciony, command homa Colony, was, ha la turbu lent and ys, Captain, operation, and consequently and main established was uncei tain existence. It the for pmrosJ to notify our tained solely of the Iavnes policy of advocating flr-the-t opening pub Issue lb. settlement to Territory -, 1SN1, on January Kansas, lished at Caldwell, Issues in but it seldom published two moved from town was It for in the same place, as Is to set out from to town the Oklahoma Kansas hue, was llt fiTly Purpose mo'vcT.is colony which Pn minutes. finTedTo 6 Then the three Payne was nvv,i by fodL'ra : "bah 'v!Mld on nules and leading almost constantly pursued wetkly, mine or 'ss,cd Chief War T1ip of ammuand style, and some ' f s!e its tllri,,ing expei lonces, less regulaily, but ' nn nit.K k h ?10sllle as It perceptibly ln Klovvas, readied times even Its name, changed It was entitled Sometimes 1,110(1 . . ' finks ,, hours, the distance was moved about sometimes the Oklarlj tljMC(.o ',re rodclilng Hays Payne the Oklahoma Chief and 'n hla eyes to keep fiom homa iur Chief. ..... J , J 1- H 's who has made 1 fc ore he became A mail brought up at Chester assizes for stealing baggage was charged with no fewer than 77 different thefts, all committed a.nce he had last come out of prison about National Topics Interpreted eight months earlier. The value of the stolen goods was put at 1,3K). by William Bruckart This is by no means a record. Recently a German named Peter Fiink, ith assurance asidngton. ping, with perhaps the addition of who was sentenced at Cologne to that Joseph B. Eastman, federal the growing aircraft Industry, it is eight years' penal servitude concoordinator of admitted that there is a willingness fessed to 435 separate thefts ln one New Idea on railroads, is ou the part of those lines of com- year, the value of the goods being Control lug to recom-- merce to aid the nation in time of 3 4i,0. e n d In rewar. In Pans a man named Foerseliier ports soon to appear, that there be Khould the government engage in was arres'ed nnd charged with three more stringent regulation of the distribution of taxpayers money to burglaries. He hurst out laughing. railroads, it is to be noted that offset deficits in the lean years, opIliree burgluiles. I have broken Washington conversations lately ponents of the policy say that w into 2,0 houses since my last birthhave included a new Idea respecting should be headed for an even day, he said, and by all aecounts governmental relations with greater bureaucracy than has been this boast seems to have been coming under direet fed set up to accomplish recovery un- true one. end regulation. The diseusslon der the present administration. ObAnother Frenchman, Joseph Chiseems to center about some ides viously, many business men will not cot, was a thief for live years before which be In favor of further extension of he was detected. concerning the obligation government owes whatever business biiieam racy. They have had their I have committed a burglary alit regulates and whose pioflts it fill of bureaucracy under the codes. most every night for tlie put five limits. The form of assistance is anoth- years, except on Chicot The talk one hears In many places er problem. If it were not ln the said when arrested.Saturdays, Is to the effect that if the governform of a money payment direct to Ho hid kept a diary with a carement, or any government, lays down the businesses concerned, then the ful record of some 1,500 climes. The rules which prohibit a business from subsidy must he worked out oil an- value of the stolen goods was noted reaping the profits that accrue ln other lusts. It has been suggesied In every case, and the total exgood years, by the same tokon It tint the regul itions themselves ceeded 120,000 (close to Moo.tNk)), no ought to consider some form of com- might lie used to enable gome re- cm ding to Pt irson's Weekly, London pensation to that business In the turns not now available. One theperiods of digression through such ory advanced was that the regulaas we are now passing because It tions should he flexible nnd that In has refused to permit that business the lean years there he some relaxto create a huge layer of fat upon ation of the lestilelutns so tint tho which it can feast In the had years. regulated busme-.- s might pioieed Advocates of such a theory, of more fieily In opeiat.on. ' course, have immediately found oppoAnother thought heard Is that nents. In other words, two very theie should he consideration given definite schools of thought have to competing businesses suili, for and although tho question example, as Is the condition beIs nowhere near a solution nor Is It tween the railroads nnd the highThe avenge mother likely that the foithcoming session way users. It Is of roemd, of gives any lixilivo the of congress will even approach an course, that trucks nnd busses and family may be using, answer, one can hear arguments pro pilvutilv owned vehicular traffic while f inuly doctors and con on the point most anywhere use national nnd state highways, rive children a liquid the subject is broaelied. built out of taxpayeis money and laxative of suitable The proponents of the theory that they do so with the very minimum ingredients, suitaLlo strength, and in suitable amount. the government owes an obliga- of taxation. The railroads, us comIf you want to know just what a tion to those busine'sses which It petitors of those lines, have no such tremendous diuereme this means to has regulated within an Inch of henelkent attitudes displayed toof any any youngster, just their lives contend that Investors ward them by the governmnt which, mother who has t,ied inquire ltl which means the public who own at the same lime, has been bearing She knows that a bilious boy or shares of stock aie being discrim- down with its regulations. pul needs a penile liquid I ixalivc when constipated, and a little Ins if inated against by their own govdoie is npeutid until bowels seem to ernment. Their claim is that a busiAs one looks backward upon the bo moving rcguhrly and thoroughly ness cannot survive unless It is encampaign of 1931, the methods Without need of help. abled to store away profits of the ployed by the UjO liquid laxative cent lin'ng good years against which It may Both Parties two major par- Fcnna (aa natural laxative). California draw when the prolonged economic Show Weakness1 Kyrup of 1iqs has the right amount appear The result Is, for childicn's use, nnd this rich, fruity depressions strike. woi thy of ex according to this argument, that un- anilnatlon. Observers in Washing svrup docs not harm or upset a childs system. less the fat Is stored away after the ton, I believe, are of the opinion Get a bottle of tho real California manner of the hear ln preparation that the campaign developed nn out for winter, investors can expect standing circumstance, namely, that Syrup of 1ips at any druggist's. All rluldrcn like its ogieeablo t ixte, and only to see their savings destroyed the Democrats lack defensive nbtl it nrrees with them. No need to pive a from time to time, and this with ity nnd the Republicans have child anything stronger, 'lhmiuify the sanction of their own govern- shown an litter inability as an ofsvrup is laxative enough; indoe I, ment. fensive party. many adults use it m picference to In opposition to this new theory pills and tablets. In all of the debates and the TIIC LIQUID, TEST. of relationship between government speeches and the stateim 'its forth First: and business, one hears the usual coming from candidates on either select a liquid lxntive of the proper strength for cluldicn. bccomi: give denouncements of the sins of the side, there is pi oof of the conclusion the (lose suited to the child's ago. railroads and the public utilities, above rent hod. Some political Third: reduce tho dose, until tlie but one also hears complaint that writers ln Washington anil some Lowels are moving without any help. If the federal government should political lenders take the position An ideal ix itive for this embnrk upon a policy of compen Hint when the Democrats were put fs the pure C.iliform i Svrup purpose of I igs, bating those businesses which it reg to tho necessity of laying down a but be sure the word California is Mates, It might he placing a prefiesli program, they failed on the on the bottle. mium on mismanagement nnd even Job. They gave the Impression of downright crookedness. It Is ar- politicians running largely on mo wkyynw t gued likewise that the federal gov menltim. ernment must not use taxpayers' Tho minority party, if such the money In this manner nor that It Republicans may ho called, was should employ the policy of com wholly unable to take advantage of ponsatlon, as that amounts to a sub known vulnerable points in the eldy. Democratic armor. The net result Manufactured by baking At any rate a new field has been was obviously that there was much powder Specialists who On each side are to he haranguing and much mud slinging opened. make nothing but bakfound vigilant and virulont defend In what should have been real naing ers nnd from this time it Is made tional Issues, but nothing came of It. to appear that congress la eventu supervision of expert The campaign, therefore, has demchemists. be to deto In onstrated ally going compelled my opinion the need cide how far this regulation of busifor a strong minority party whether ALWAYS ness can properly go. From all of that party be Republican or Demothe arguments here, it would seem cratic. lie party In power necesthat each side has solid ground sarily is on the spot because It Is It may be charged with the responsibilities of upon which to stand. .. hJ? i possible that from this controversy government. It is the function of something ln the way of a new eco- the mlnoiity party to erltlele and nomic policy will develop. The offer counter proposals. The most .... Roosevelt administration has gone astute politicians Bee that condition Sams farther than any other In history In and, I believe, are at a loss ns to its regulation of business, and what it imnns for the future. 44 there are those who believe that a 25 25a reaction is due. If that be the case, Tlie federal communications coin then it appears logical at least that mission, one of the new agencies set FULL PACK the two opposing forces may bring up by the Itoose-Favo- r NO SLACK FILLING about a compromise that will be fa admlnlstra- velt "iwm rorable to general business, which y ' t,on 88 perma Mergers nent is subject to regulation, and enablo " part of the LL a those who place their savings In nations regulatory structure, is artjwfriiawni stoeks or bonds of such utilities to preparing to ask congress for an fee reasonably secure about some amendment of the communications Ago nd the Mind sort of annual return. act of 1931 enabling It to approve Middle age Is a state of mlnq rather than a chronological reckonmergers. Of courso, the particular ing. George W. Coleman, founder Solution of tMs question of equity problem Involved ln the communibetween the government and the cations program is tho question of of Ford Hall Forum. businesses which mergers of suih gigantic corporaSolution it regulates Is not tions as the Western Union and the Postal Telegraph companies and a Not Simple simple as It some of the radio companies The may niperflclally and the a iniea r. For implications potentialities the example, question of this movement, Is put forward whether it is poshowever, go sible to evolve any method of meas much further. It Is too early to attempt a foreuring, even roughly, the extent of " to"', mPAI I .o' cast of congressional opinion on the the public oblig itlon. It Is likewise communications proposal hut it is ncossfiry to determine In advance an opportune time to consider what of a final answer to the question, whither thp past lneinali"es and may happen If cnngiess should appast treatment of piddle Utilities Is prove this stop toward creation of single lines the furtor to he considered. T!we single businesses of service In this country. Is a question whether tho governIt Is regarded also ns Inter sting ment la openy to assume a direct to ex imlne tlie effeit upon the In voke the m magi t of proper" 7- If it were to be subjected I Itching, roughness, tbs vhhh It regiilati s If there Is a country to a well regulated monopoly of all Cracking. eaxi'y relieved compensating arrangement to proi VU and improved with J tect Investors In thus businesses tlie business In that line stub ns i. I In has tho occurred case of the Bell Thin, It goi s Into the question of svs'em. government ownusldp or govern-min- t TeUphone Home menders of the commission control of private Industry. ami its staff Del that a merger of Some of the advmitis this the large telegraph companies, fur U XU w -- 31 pogiim Of rompi tis itlan call t Inxtame, would result In establish(lid. on to the pubbe neoMNuy for ment of n more closily knit netli '.nil min e of c,vv mnn a rut- sirvne, sin ft g the work of telegraph lines and ofi'u MVM SI Inru tna Unit will n k. n rt.ioids seppy, for example. In tti in now I nl In UtriB jriM nn tr exists, 11 I" I ""1 "It I ktirt VVrlm muxnr" iMk e f tlie rillrmils and ship 1 War Chief irvMournmq for Capt Payne 1 In one of its Issues the publisheis stated that they had been having tiotihle In getting paper and supplies with which to piint the paper. Hds Issue was printed on brown wrapping paper, and was smeared with grease. Whether it had been punted on some paper in width the bacon and other supplies had been wrapped, or whether it was stained with grease nfter being piloted is a matter for speculation. But the result was a newspaper that was scarcely legible. The two inside pages were blank, indicating either that there were other shop difficulties besides the shortage of paper or that the camp was forced to move before the entire edition had been piinted. Payne had made many visits to Washington to argue his case before the federal autlioiities but without success. After his last visit in he returned to Wellington, Kan., strengthened his colony and again entered the territory. He was arrested again by the soldieis and taken to Tort Smith, Ark., but there the court, presided over by Judge Isaac Parker (the famous Hanging Judge of those days) said It would have nothing to do with the case. A week later Payne was In camp In Indian Territory opposite Fort Smith, badly erlpplod with rheumatism and suffering other Illnesses caused by bad tieatment at the hands of his captors (or so he alleges In some of his letters which are pi evened by the Oklahoma Historical society). On September 7 he wrote fiom Foit Gibson, This makes three days here (lo not think they will undeitake to hold us longer than five. . . . They may yet take us to Fort Scott. . . , One thing seems evident now and that Is to keep ns up ln the Territory until the Court at Wichita adjourns they do not want us to get before that Court now. From which It will be seen that Payne was just being "pushed around by the authorities who were loath to bring the Issue to a court test Two months later he was ln Wellington again and there on the morning of Kov ember 28 he died quietly while sitting at breakfast In the Hotel De Barnard. Of his death Sutton says: "UIs fiiends believed then, and I believe yet, that he was poisoned by tlioM who opposed the opening of Oklahoma. His death filled the Okla- bourn boomers with resentment, focused public attention upon the opening of the territory nnd hastened it. The first opening came soon theie- after. Moss led the Israelites to the edge of Canaan, hut died ju-- t Ik fore they went In to pos- sess it. So Payne led his Oklahoma boomers thiough a wilderness of struggle and was per-- 1 mitted only to view the proml el 1ml. He will live in history ns the Father of Oklahoma." Inynes work was cuirled on by some of Ins followers, notably Cupt. W. L. Condi, CoL Sam. uel Crod.er, Captain Coopt r, SI lney (Ink and who MaJ. Gordon W. I.lllle ("Pawnee came to he known as the Big live. They livid n to settlement by! to see Oklahoma thrown op nnd to take pnit President of the itlon proclatn In the Mg run of April 22, hv). But of n'l these Pawnee Bill, Chief only one survives tod ly of the Pawnees, chief whl'e the Bear," Little In penee and who Is spending ids dee lining vears oomfe.it at ids buffalo ranch, Blue Hawk Peak near Pawnee, Okla. lSi rill), l.y WesUro Ntiiper luljn. under powder 11 , . price today years ago as enatti lr i "I" kEF fr Skirt Torment m.-n- id I I 3 Resmolr j Mii-Miv-v- iir I u , f) VVMtora tlolea. liLAUUOOl. 1 1DW10, VV tor i!.;n , |