The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-29

their representative, W. G. Sutton,
is here to secure the right OF way,
arrange for concessions and attend
to other preliminary matters, a
survey has been made from Ardmore
20 Sherman, and it is probable that
this survey and map will be Sc
cured for the building of this road.
Also a survey has been made from
Ardmore to Duncan and beyond
there also to Lawton, and the task
OF surveying is practically done.
Mr.. Sutton, Mr.. Hamon and Mr..
Robertson who have been here for
three days in connection with the deal
will leave here this morning at
seven o'clock by auto for Oil City.
They will pass over the proposed
route and will return here next
Thursday to attend to the details
of closing the contract. These men
have given to Ardmore committee
abundant eveidence that the build.
ing of the line is a certainty. Their
him at Annapolis. The outbreak of
the civil war spoiled this plan and
the youth ran away and enlisted.
During a charge at the battle OF
Pittsburg Landing his horse ran
away with him and carried him
into the Confederate lines against
General Johnson's Black Horse Cav
airy.
A cavalryman aimed a blow with
his saber and was shot dead by
young Boynton, but the saber pierre
ed his right cheek. leaving scar
which he carried all his life. Boyn-
ton was left on the field for dead,
but recovered sufficiently to escape
to his own lines, where he was
placed in a hospital.
Resigning from the service he lived
in Chicago for a time and at 2l,
when he received a fortune by in
! heritance, he bought a vessel ana
became "A blockade runner. After
four successful trips, all accompanied
by peril, his ship, the Letter b, was
fired upon, but he escaped and sold
her.
He returned TO New York in 1864
and bought the old Franklin Ave
nue Distillery in Brooklyn, later
taking Jim Fish into partnership.
They tried to obtain a patent for
diluting whiskey, a scandal resulted
and the business waY c;sposed of.
Boynton then turned to filibustering,
a calling which thereafter he fol-
lowed for many years, combining it
with carrying contraband goods on
occasions.
His first ship was the Edgar
Smith, in which he took a cargo of
arms to Cuba, returning with ci-
| gars. which he sank in New York
| harbor in water-tight chests until
oportunity came to recover and sell
them to tobacconist in Broadway.
The authorities got after him. 80
he repainted his ship on the high
seas, took out a British register
and pointed for Baltimore, where
he had a narrow escape, which led
to Cuba.
He piled hazardous trade in
the West Indies for a time before
going 20 Washington. where Presi-
dent Andrew Johnson engaged him
on a personal mission, at the con-
clusion OF which he went to England,
where he used the name of George
MacFarlane. Thence he led an eXpe-
dition to the relief of Don Carlos,
pretender to the Spanish throne, car
rying arms and ammunition.
He always charged Don Carlos
with planning TO assassinate him,
and attributed his escape to a beau.
tiful gypsy girl, whom later he took
to London. In the years that fol-
lowed. Boynton engaged successively
in the Franco-Prussian war, took
three ships into the China seas to
fight pirates. hunted slave traders
in the Indian sea, and ''black-birded"
in Australian waters.
He was arrested in Rio Janeiro
harbor in 1898 while trying to tor
pedo the Brazilian insurgent fleet,
and was then brought to the Brook
lyn navy yard, where he was re-
leased. His most recent arrest in
this city was in 1906. when he was
charged with counterfeiting silver
coins of Venezuela for the purpose