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JIM CUMMINS HERE
Talks of His New Book That is Soon to Be Published.
Jim Cummins, who was a member of
Quantrell's band that played not a little part in border warfare in the
early sixties, and who it is said was closely connected with the James
Boys, was a Metz visitor last Saturday. He has been with a
theatrical company a short time, but during the past year he has divided
his time with friends at Excelsior Springs and at the Confederate home
at Higginsville.
Jim has a new book almost ready
for the press that he will sell at 25 cents, and it promises to bring
him big returns. An edition of 5,000 copies will be printed.
It will be a history of his life and will be his own words.
Jim is not taking much part in
politics. Of course he is still loyal to his party, but he says he
will in the future give the best man question more consideration.
His new book will tell of his meeting with W. J. Bryan when the Nebraska
states man visited the Confederate home. He says he has met a
number of great men, including Gen. U. S. Grant, Gen. George B.
McClellan and Senator Roscoe Conklin, but the Nebraska man was the
greatest he ever had the pleasure of meeting.
Incidentally Jim mentioned the
time a reward of $5,000 was offered by the state of Missouri for his
capture, then he proudly boasted of a namesake he had down in Arkansas,
the mother of whom he had done a great favor and caused the law to
punish a brutal man.
Jim Cummins may have been pretty
wild in his younger days, but he has been guilty of many kind acts that
he will have credit for.
The Metz Times, Metz, Missouri.
Friday, February 7, 1908, p. 1.
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