He worked briefly for a railroad, until he was injured in an accident in Kansas City, and returned to the newspaper business.
[1] After recovering from the train accident, Eugene Lorton moved to Idaho Territory, where he returned to the newspaper business.
[1] The Tulsa World had been founded in 1905, and had been owned by Missouri mine owner, George Bayne and his brother-in-law Charles Dent.
[3] By 1917, Lorton, with financial backing of oilman and banker, Harry Sinclair,[3] owned the Tulsa World outright.
[2] In 1919, Page sold his paper to Richard Lloyd Jones, who renamed it as the Tulsa Tribune.
Tulsa's quest for a satisfactory water supply in the early 1900s soon developed into an acrimonious political fight and a personal feud between Lorton and Page.
"[2] Lorton ran in the Republican primary of 1924 to be the nominee for U. S. Senator from Oklahoma, but William B. Pine defeated him soundly.