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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1890
Page
8
Fragmentary lines evoke a fading golden light and a twilight landscape. The speaker, Ellison, reflects on mountains, the ocean, and morning’s return as the day declines. Strong imagery of departure and distant horizons frames a quiet, lyrical meditation.
In Tuna valley a crowd of men gather to march on the Combined Pipe Littes office in Hartford asserting oil producers’ stakes. Jim Croffut, amid a tense scene at the pump station, helps a injured torpedo man and ferries news to Rogers as the group threatens to seize equipment or demand action, while townsfolk react with wary resolve.
In a tense confrontation at a pump station, Jim Croffut guards his oil pump against a mob of producers led by Harbaugh. A gaslit scene, a glycerine bomb, and a rescue by sheriff deputies follow as the widow Stearns and townsfolk witness a risky stand amid threats to property and life.
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