Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-08-07
Rough Rider, State Builder
and Politician Was Hunter

two Iu politics anl quit the uopub
Nuuu panty when the HUpulHu wv.,
at their h,rhlu. ana ho wbH chair
ulau ~ the county organization 90
thst party and succeeded Boa clrCt
uE u ticket 300 Garfield county
Soon thereafter be- joined Uoosr
y.ItH rough riders and went "uyrl.
fnu iul' with the colonel AZ Slr
jguu lUIl Ever after that umr uu
was n close personal friend of
Colonel Huoscyor. ana ho came
back into the Republican party. and
was appointed clerk of thr federal
court under Judge lturucu ~ CtH
hnm1 rNy when the sI'rkshIp wp
un tho tee ayHtrm and worth tloN.
600 por onnum.
chairman State Committee
llo was made chairman uf tNl
NcpuhlIcun state ruWWltt.o boo tht
FIRST tor HtiehoodD campaign. uu
iuE elected 20 that position BOO ih,
city of Tulsa. and conducted iH,
campaign when FrnuF Ftpnr uuN
with the CUHdru rU ,Nwu4n. boz
Tulsa wna the candidate fNr rDt
prpvf
ChnrIcy iIunrer ent ms .ar.uud
commander In.rI.f or Ih" ruurN
riders uwu.'IN.r .I tnu United
states. uud ur.. .ftipIuu1 h..ur
chairman Ur r.r'I two frirr.
judges uf H. #pi. Campbell
and DurfF"I ..u..y.t appointed
Charlie, .IrN q. DuyfoII 70 Ilfc.
umr I.u 1uH.. 'uIirriI objected
ll 'mr., N.t.Ify iu hohgIt o'
Roosevelt .u .... .u' 'hnrlrr
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uIyu.I ...".. .H INn federal hDuDh
unl I.u.a...f hu1 appointed llm
N.. ... nHa Charley Hunter o.
r.u..,r oklahoma Newspaper man
and H.r .u|l WAS Is u pul.tlDnt
I'bf,r u ur. rnrfIss hut hc was ns
v.0 nr town builder nud railroad
promoter
Iiuiid. Railroad
Ilr ad ont and obtained rlho
I.I NHuthw rHtcrn railroad
.u.rrus from blackwell, OEU. 90
tgru.u Texas. tnuW % part OF tho
IT..Y HyrtomI ana d" built pruc.
u,uN uyory town ON that line, ia
Guiding Hunter named Boo honor ~
himself Roosevelt named ln honor
OF hH ulI colonel ana tho tuwua
uf luiryuW, Thomas. clinton. liDs.
HIr. Rocky Mountain Park. snyder
H.hUuyy MaultOu Frederick David
Hau ana many others. Ho hlHo laid
uff. large additions 90 blackwell
Enid. Cordcll. Hobart, Frederick
and Vernon. No other man in Okla
homa built more tuWnA or sold out
more additions than charley Hun
ter
Fate acted strangely with Charley
Hunter Like all active, nervous
energetic men NJ small stature.
Charley had some faults. when hu
SCARED ON the wings of prosperity
tnl popularity his Imagination
reached the zenith 81 the pedestal
NJ ccsiucy when bis political s'Hr.
was Ia tho asCcndenCy friends uuI
money and honor rolled over lm
lniil he WIS Amothered In tho sHf.
afactlou ~ living. Life 90 him Mln
,ne continuous round of pleasure.
but. 9n order TO make an open fEnI
Tor his old colonel FOR tho pros. .
irucy, he rcalgurd his lifetime posi- .
ton. spont his fortune Co aid tNr .
election OF Roosevelt and began clip. +
ping when his health failed him /
Kept scrap Book.
Charley kept "a scrap book
'vorything that was said ~ him iu I
he press he turned over 60 his. 1T
lc daughter 90 paste in tho book
A. one time he received. perhaps F.
moro favorable comment from tho
i,qte press than any man IN it and .
finally one dav his litile daughter /
Reid clipping which contained /
some naughty things about her