The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-01
]. WARDMAN, SQUARE MAN
EVEYED UP WITH FRIEND HIS
 WTFE HoRSEWHIPPED.

whip Him to Square Up Their Ae- count.
 "Jack Wardman, who lost his life in the big Oklahoma flood Ie" " eeNS ago, was a man of almost unoXaIipIed ia airnaas" said an inspector or h. dian agencies. "He was a hoIS9 ",,.- tl ''NTl and his home was at Poncd Ci1g. GJus an Ponca City, eleven years ago " olu man figured in an affair that proved how perfectly square man ne vas
 .Wardrnan's wife was a halt Mexl- can woman whom he had married III Tevas She was handsome dark woman. devoted to Jack, and a good housewife but her temper was very | violent. o,,,,o, ;,, Ponca was Ned Frailey a contractor for Indian supplies. The two men Ia1 nao nunched cattle alongside or eacA oliier on fine Texas ranges, and were sworn comrades and pals long before elther of them had thought Of marrying lack married his half Mexican girl nrst and then Ned slipped up to Wichi'a and married girl he had got hls eye an soma wears before. She was teach- inq school when Ned got her, and she was a fine, nice looking woman Wlth very sweet and amiable disposition.
 "Jack and Ned set up housekeeplhB in Ponca with their wives, ana TOT lime things went on swimmingly In so far as the relationship of the TWO couples was concerned. Then the two women fell out. Frailey's wife, it was understood. had let slip some harmless little remark that Jacks wife con- strued into an insult. Wardman's half Mexican wife worked herself into a rage over the remark and oVerWhelmed Frailey's wife with a storm of vitupera- tion.
 "That stopped the pleasant intimacy between the two families. Jack and Ned went on as usual, never referring to the business of their wives. One day, quite a while after the falling out between the two women, Frailey re- marked to Markham that he deemed 1t pity that their wives couldn't gel along pleasantly. It was raw subJec' with Wardman, who knew that his wife as to blame, and in his rawness he made some kind of a snappy reply Then he and his old time pal had short growl, and they went their two ways, and they didn't speak to eacf other after that.
 lon St. Valentines day eleven year: ago. the violent tempered Mrs. Ward man received a comic valentine in al enevolpe that had the St. Louis post mark on it. The address was typewrit ten. The comic valentine pictured black negress in tantrum. Being half-Mexican, Mrs. Wardman's skin was very dark. Therefore the eoml valentine was like knife stab to hei
 "She knew that Ned Frailey was I St Louis on business. She instant jumped to the conclusion that Ne Frailey had sent her the insultin valentine.
 'She did not show the valentine t her husband nor did she say a Wor about the affair to him. Two after moons later Ned F'railey was walkin down the main street of Ponca on hi } wav from the station to his home. Ii was carrying a bag,
 nAt an intersection of streets MT Wardman suddenly turned a cornf and stood in front of him, not tou 5 feet away.
 You will send me foul valentln t will youH cried Mrs. Wardman, an y she drew a thick rawhide whip fro t beneath her cloak.
 f Frailey was too much stunned to sa e one word Mrs. Wardman laid u E whip across his right check with q e of her power. Frailey never winc' : nor moved. After the first cut he a - lowed the bag to drop from his han {. and then he folded his arms. MI n Wardman, in a state ungovernable raj
 cut him across the left check.
 "She might just as we'll have bet
 cutting at the face of a manniki
 Frailey just stood and looked at U
 woman. She slashed him cruelty aero
 the face, right and left, about elg
 more times, every blow raising a ho
 rible welt and drawing blood, b a Frailey never moved until she h. q gone a hundred feet down the stre' l Then He pullGA Oub 4llp OehAhAeNAAAA~Ni " Ah
 away the blood and walked to I
 home, where his wife was waiting f
 him.
 "An account of the affair was prir
 ed in all of the papers througout
 two Territories next 1Sy, and the
 Louis papers published stories about
 1.-Two days after the occurrence Ja l Louis. The note was from a you } woman who had been employed clerk and cashier in a general store V Ponca until a few months before, 1T
 young woman and Wardman's wife h
 a falling out before the girl left Pon
 for St. Louis.
 CT have read in the St. Louis papt
 the story of how your wife cut N
 Fraliey up with a whip, the you
 wonlan's note ran. Ned Frailey did
 send her that valentine. It was jl
 A piece of cattiness, and I am the e ]. sent the valentine to your wife m
 self I'm not bit sorry I sent
 either, although I am mighty sor
 that poor Ned Fralley had to stand
 such a cowardly beating through ]
 act
 l. "In the same mail Ned Fratley a
 received a letter from the girl, c. which she confessed ito having sent i v. valentine to Mrs. Wardman.
 'It was about o'clock in the aft 'u noon when Jack Wardman got his n lp at the post office from the girl in Louis. He walked right up to \ Frailey pleasantly to his old time lV | and he rose and held O t his hand +orl,ipo +binps over-Nad with