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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13
Thoughtful Of Him.

"See here" said the lady. you
told me that work would only cost
me s13. ana here you've sent in
bill for s14."
"Yes'm." replied the carpenter:
"you see. when I a,me TO think the
thing over sfterward I was afraid
maybe you've be superstitious about
hat s13."-Catholie Standard and
Times.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13
Tough Chewing.

"You should have heard Knox
roasting Huskie last night. He used
some pretty hard words"
Yes. but they didn't seem so hard
20 Knox last night as they did this
morning"
How do you mean?'
"He had TO eat them this morn
ing. g."-Catholic Standard and Times.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13
Guide to Knockers.

An awful tyrant, this old gent;
He'd skin the folks IN heaven.
Where Others wanted six per cent.
He stood out for eleven.
You'd better keep your wallet sAut
Whenever you are near him, but
Really he was perfe.ly dear 20 his fam.
lily, and bs had a large family, too;
lie had a lovely wife.
Metropolitan Magazine.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13
A Kind Word For Railroads.

$50 you don't share the general in
dignation toward the railways?"
NO" answered Farmer Corntos-
sci; Il have always felt that a loco
motive was entitled TO a great deal Of
credit for sticking TO the track, in
stead of snorting up and down the
country roads like an automobile. -
Washington Star.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13
Enjoyed Talking.

Patience-"How is it you enjoy the
German opera so much, when you
don't understand a word of German?"
Patrice-"I don't have to talk in
German, you know!" - Yonkers
Statesman.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13

mouse; but unfortunately, the mouse
simultaneously disappears into the
hole in the box. Although simple.
this toy would prove interesting 10
the young ones. Star.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13
Terrible!

'Why don't you call in DR.. Flea?"
asked the friendly cricket.
Not for me-" promptly replied the
sick centipede. Il had him once"
What's the matter? Did he pull
your leg?"
"Did he? Why, he pulled all OF
them" - Catholic Standard and
Times.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13
His Three.

81 thought you said your son was
proficient in three languages?"
"He is. lie can talk stage slang.
baseball slang and slang. ."-Chicag0
Record Herald.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13
Need Not Wait.

"You know, they say in England it
takes 300 years TO make a lawn"
True, but one could give quite
Humber of lawn parties in the mean
time. brooklyn Life.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13

Your skin should be clear and bright
II your liver Ii in normal condition.
Rings Little Liver Pills act on the
liver: and headache. constipation and
biliousuess disappear. Price. 25 cents.
Sold by +. F. Grady 1916 Westmins-
ter street
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13
Knew What Was Coming.

Mrs. Boofer (meditatively, over her
book)-"How true this is!"
Mr.. Boofer (bracing himself)-
well, Maria, don't keep me in sus-
pense. What is it about us men?"-
Puck.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13
Modern Version.

Mrs. Fastsett-"Whatdo you think
of that latest story concerning Mrs.
Won Jaggerton?"
Mrs. Struckoyle-"Merely rear-el
avator gossip, dear. Puck.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13

Mr.. Ernest Jardine, the purch~5ei
of Glastonbury Abbey. has stated that
he is willing to sell the abbey to the
CHURCH of England for the same price
(s30,000) that he paid for it.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13

the top. The 'arge space required
for the table is thus dispensed with,
an additional chair being also pro-
vided. The top Of the table in this
combined piece of furniture also con-
stitutes the back of the chair
Washington Star.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13

A monument has been erected to
Anna Holzel in the Schlossgarden. at
Mannheim, Germany. She was the.
wife OF a carpenter. who. in 1884. saved
the poet Schiller from a debtors pris-
on.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13

The understanding is that the pro
posed brewery TO be erected in Manaos
Is TO become a reality.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13
Chair and Table.

In households where space Is at >
premium The combination chair and
table shown here would be found ex
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-09-13

Prince Bismarck OF Germany
would never sit down TO a dinner
with thirteen at the table.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

The Bobby Fountain Show is
coming to Paonia again for one
night on Wednesday, August 2S.
the company is larger than ever
this season and has given excel
lent satisfaction every where.
The band has been enlarged and
is giving a Grand Free Concert
on the streets each noon that is
we'll worth your time to listen to.
The STREET PARADE is an
other feature that has been en-
larged and it is now the LARGEST
FREE PARADE that is carried
by any company Dramatic or
other wise that ever comes to
the Western Slope.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

Charles James, who shot his
step father. AL. Currier, has been
practically cxonerated over at
Glenwood Springs. 1t appears
that the dead man was making all
sorts of threats against his wife
and the boy shot him in an effort
o protect her.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23
Do You Want a Home ?

Then see |. ID. McFadden at
once and buy one of those choice
fruit farms with plenty of water
which he is selling to good work
ers who have nothing but their
labor to invest. Low prices. easy
terms and no cash required a,
time of purchase.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

LosT:-A writing board from a
desk. Supposed to be somewhere
near Mr.. Chapin's place on the
Crawford road. Finder will con-
fer favor on owner by leaving
either at this office in Paonia or in
the Chronicle Office at Crawford.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

w. K. Kreutzer. the forest re-
serve man, was over from Gun
nison last Thursday. He was in
specting several needed improve
ments in the territory of Robert
Underwood and among them is
the construction of several roads
that will be of great benefit.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

At Grand Junction this year a
new and annual feature will be
one of the principle attractions at
the Mesa County Fair which will
be held the last week in Sep
tember. beginning the 24:h and
lasting four days. AS an annual
event. the merchants and profes-
sional men of the city have sub
scribed the sum OF $1,000 which
will be given as purse for a
handicap running race, distance
eight and one half furlongs.
Think of a city the size of Grand
Junction having an annual handi-
cap at the county fair with 81 900
up. Even Denver with its Derby
has not tempted the horsemen
with anything better Every day
will be great day on the track
this year as $4,000 in purses have
been hung up in addition to the
81 900 handicap. Extremely low
rates on the railroads will allow
an opportunity to visit that ia
nous fruit section and enjoy a
week in the land OF peaches.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

Reports received from Denver,
where DR.. II. w Hazlett is being
treated for appendicitis. are to
the effect that he is rapidly re-
covering from the operation and
his entire convalescence looked
for an early date.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

We are compelled to announce
to those who have been talking to
us about lots in the Park Addition,
that they are all sold but that we
still have few choice lots in the
Clark and in the Hammond ad-
ditions. CLINE & HUFTY.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

Mack Davis took his son, Shir-
ley who has been dangerously
sick for quite time, to Denver
Friday morning where he will un-
dergo hospital treatment in hopes
of receiving material benefit
from same.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

1t is generally admitted that
the new signs painted for The
NEWSPAPER by l.. c. Stump, are
the incest and most attractive
signs in town. The gentleman is
now a permanent resident and his
card will be found in another part
of this paper.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

Mrs. w. T. Baetjer and Mrs. c.
Nj. Shorey entertained Mrs. c.
A. Frederick. of Cortez, last week,
Mrs. Frederick left for her home
on Sunday.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

Mr.. and Mrs. X. ]. Huff re-
turned home from their fishing
trip in the country around Sapin-
cro, Thursday.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

Coffee cans for Bread cans at
Woods Grocery and Bakery, 50
and 80 cents.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

Go to Woods Grocery ano
Bakery for Bacon and Hams.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23

For Sale or Trade:-A nice small
residence property in Paonia, close
in, two lots, we'll improved. Will
trade for cattle. Inquire this office.
The newspaper., 1907-08-23
LOCAL ITEMS.
We are still writing those Good
as Gold" fire insurance policies.
CLINE & HUFTY.

The Peoples Meat Market.
The cash shop. Coupon books,
at a discount.
PHIL EIsENKRAMER, Prop.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-11-16

episode, which eliminated In Conkling's
fight from the governors gun by way
Of . window ana . barred and bolted
boudoir door.
Sprague's Business Downfall.
II was In 1873 that the political and
social forces at work to ruin Senator
Sprague succeeded In accomplishing
their design. It soon became evident
that the fate of the A. and w. Sprague
concerns, estimated to be worth $780,
100000. would be destruction. The
Spragues had been ambushed. When
the concerns failed In 1873, with more
than $30,000,000 in actual assets and
less than $11,000,000 of indebtedness,
the state Of Rhode Island was almost
prostrated. 2. Chaffee was appointed
trustee of the estate. The courts
wrestled with It for more than 20
years, and enterprises which once in
volved all of Rhode Island were laid
waste.
Domestic discord and estrangement
now intervened to madden the prin-
cipals in this drama. The three daugh-
ters of Gov. Sprague and Kate Chase
were being educated abroad. willie"
Sprague, as he was called. the only
son, strange composite Of genius
and impulsive youth. was still at
home.
Robert thompson had been appoint
ed trustee for the personal estate Of
The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-11-16

Ling its crystals to the Idle afterdin-
ner chat OF surfeited company.
It was October. 1890. and the night
was chill when this self.absorbed party
suddenly learned the news of Willie
Sprague's death. He had shot him
self In laborer's tent In the suburbs
of Tacoma. The sign Of blood was
again upon the house Of tragedy. A
few days thereafter. when the poor
boys wasted body was being brought
home. a final letter which he had ad
dressed to his father came to light.
It had been written In q tent assigned
to young Sprague as one Of q gang
Of road laborers. In 1t he recited
some of his hardships. The boy com.
planned Of the coarse quality Of his
breakfast that day. Here the letter
abruptly terminated. His body was
found beside the barrel on which he
had written his farewell.
Fate's Relentless Pursuit.
A few years after this, Ethel
Sprague. one of the daughters Of
Kate Chase. adopted the stage. After
a short time she quit the profession
and, marrying, went to live in Balti-
more. Meantime, Canonchet had
again been startled by an elopement.
In the autumn of 1897 Mrs. Ines
Sprague, having studied grand opera
with some of the best French and
Italian masters. appeared in Boston
The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-11-16
Historic Canonchet,
"House of Tragedy"
viii No Longer Be
Home of Spragues

:" OR SALE. - A HIGHLY I'M
Ia proved estate at Narragansett
Pier. r.. l., consisting of $50 acres
OF land. with q beautifully furn-
tshed mansion, upon which and the
stables greenhouses and other buildings
about 81. .o0o. 900 have been expended. This
property Is historically known as Can
onchet." the palatial home which Kate
Chase Sprague daughter of Salmon p.
Chase) built about 35 years ago at the
cost stated.
SO runs the circular-the house of
tragedy goes under the hammer! Who
wants to buy It?
You may have 1t, with the story OF
the loves and hates of men and wom-
en- Of . half century ago. With it go
memories Of other days; of duels and
divorce; Of elopements, suicides, scan
dals and law suits without number.
Here Roscoe Conkling was once an
honored guest; and here law, diplo-
macy and political strategy were made
and unmade. Blaine, Garfield, Beecher,
Tilden, Ben Butler, Greeley, Dana,
Grant were all honored guests here.
It's rooms and halls are redolent with
memory to-day as they were three de-
cades ago.
Who wants to buy? Name your
price.
Canonchet, once the handsomest es-
tate on the Atlantic coast, is for sale
TO the highest bidder. It is on the mar
ket because girl chose to defy her
parents-Inez Sprague has eloped with
the son of her grandfather's bitterest
enemy.
As last Of the direct line Of the
Spragues, she was to have inherited
this baronial estate, worth at least ST.
100000 to-day. But she broke her en-
gagement with J. Harold Winpenny, of
Philadelphia, stayed in seclusion
year and then eloped with Harry VIII
Mams Stiness, son Of Judge Stiness,
associate justice Of the supreme court
Of Rhode Island.
Can Never Forgive Her.
"He did his utmost to accomplish
my financial ruin" declared William
Sprague, who was war governor of
Rhode Island when the north and
south decided to discuss their differ
ences at the cannon's mouth. II can
never forgive her"
The governor and Mrs. Sprague, his
second wife, retired to Canonchet to
make their plans. In order to gain
time they said not word when it was
asserted that they had forgiven the
eloping bride and that she and the
bridegroom would be welcomed there,
and that eventually she would inherit
the house Of tragedy, the home of a
thousand memories of bygone days.
But their silence did not mean con-
sent. For when all their plans had
been formulated, Gov. and Mrs.
Sprague instructed their lawyer.
Henry Wellington Wack, Of New York.
to arrange for the sale of the historic
estate, Just as 1t now stands. A great
inheritance has been forfeited because
q young girl saw fit to make a shop
ping trip to Providence and then sud-
denly make up her mind to get mar
ried.
Fall back A years and march along
with the events of the time, time
when Lincoln had that able and am
The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-11-16
THE STORY.

IHE 0JOHYs
II AIRED nursed within the heart Is
IL slow poison which at last per-
meates all the life, destroying the bet
ter impulses and giving rein to the evil
passions.
So It was with Absalom, the hand
some and prepossessing son Of King
David. For nearly two years now
there had ranked In his heart the evil
passions which had been aroused when
his beautiful sister lamar had poured
into his sympathetic ear the story Of
her grievous wrongs at the hands of
her half-brother. Amnon, and certain
1t Is that time had not softened his
anger. or weakened his .murderous re-
solve.
Day after day he had fed the fame
Of his hatred, and day after day he
had plotted and schemed how he might
compass the destruction of Amnon
without danger to himself.
Secretly. Absalom rejoiced that he
had found occasion against Ampon.
for with him out Of the way Absalom
would be heir TO the throne Of David.
From his earliest boyhood he could r.
call how his mother had encouraged
him In the hope that some day he
should be heir, to the kingdom. His
grandfather Talmai was king over
Geshur, and why should not he b hing
over Israel and thus unite two strong
kiukdunnaT Abo1l0m'o mother Ioo1kod
The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-11-16

and made her debut with the Boston
Symphony orchestra. Among other
numbers she sang the suicide aria
from the opera "Gioconda." Boston
critics caused Mrs. Sprague to quit
her proposed tour and return to
France. Defeat lay in ambush wher-
ever a Sprague ventured forth. That
same year Mrs. Kate Chase died in
poverty in Washington.
There was, for instance, the case of
Orestes Alvord Weed, brother of Mrs.
Inez Sprague and her sister Mrs. Gerrit
s. Wheaton, who, in 1903 eloped with
Miss Katherine D. de Roulhac, of New
York. Last year young Weed was
found dead at the Grand Union hotel
in New York from morphine poison
ing. His young widow and two hand
some children are all that remain of
his little household household
founded after many affairs of the
heart in which young Weed was the
debonair hero.
Five years ago Gerrit 8. Wheaton
died and left his large interest in
Standard Oil to his young widow, SIS
ter Of Mrs. Inez Sprague, one time
wife OF Willie Sprague, and mother
Of Inez Sprague the second. The lat.
ter was a beautiful girl. And she has
just blasted the great hopes of the
little war governor" and his wife, by
eloping with Harry Williams Stiness,
son Of Chief Justice John H. Stiness,
Sprague's implacable enemy in the
Rhode Island supreme court, between
whose family and the clan Sprague
a feud has existed since 1874.
Marriage Promised Much.
Many had courted the girl. Finally
last year, when she was 21, she be-
came engaged to young Winpenny,
member of prominent Pennsylvania
family. BY this marriage, the
Wheaton fortune. coupled with Canon
chet and Its acres, might yet make the
score even between the Spragues and
their enemies.
But fate was against It.
One day hast spring Miss Inez an
nounced the breaking of her engage
ment 10 Mr. Wlnpenny. On day IN
June she left Canonchet to go shop
ping in Providence. There on June
II, at st. Stephens church. she mar
ried Harry Williams Stiness without
previous announcement. Rev. Her
bert Barker performed the ceremony.
w. C. Rhoades and wurst White were
witnesses. The spirited young lady
was not to be bothered with the forms
and frills Of q conventional marriage.
1t is merely matter OF theory that
the acquisition Of q husband on her
shopping tour was the item Of chief
concern to Miss Inez. There was Z
new hat. for instance.
And because Of Il Canonchet goes
under the hammer at once. The
Spragues are to quit Rhode Island and
America forever.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-11-16

chambers, towers, eerie dens, a the
ater, library--68 rooms in all. z
It had $4,000 worth Of hand carving
in the dining-room. and other appoint
ments Of similar extravaganza. II
stands to-day, dark but proud; heir OF
its hospitality to the distinguished
men and women of two continents
Horace Greeley used to visit there and
toast his shins before the library
crate: Conkling's name 10 indelibly
stamped upon the place and time. and
tho man. WHOSE. memQry goep beck to
the early seventies win recall the high
iinks and the Sprague.C Chase Conknng
The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-11-16
HEZz cpRAGUE pZzlEe&f

bitious man, Salmon p. Chase. in his
cabinet a. secretary of the treasury:
time when Kate Chase dominated
Warrington society and influenced her
fathers eminent associates by the
force Of her beauty and the spirited
brilliance of her wit.
Then and there William sprague, .
dashing young fellow from Rhode
Island-its civil war governor and
later it, United States senator-braves
handsome. cleyer. entered upon ca
E)sse< which nakss Astion seem stams
\ and tragedy commonplace.
- Kate Chase II dead--she died In the
The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-11-16

direst poverty. Her only son lies in a
suicides grave. Her daughters tried
the stage, but did nothing of conse-
quence. But the life of "Gov." Sprague,
as they call him still in Rhode Island,
Is as eventful to-day as 1t was in the
times of war.
William Sprague's. membership In
the A. & w. Sprague Manufacturing
company. doing business In all parts
of New England in the sixties, AFFORD.
ed him In wealth the power which
made him at the age of % the gov
ernor of Rhode Island. This was in
1860. His advent as such and as COM
manderin-chief Of the Rhode Island
soldiery, put him into the eye of the
country as subject altogether out of
the ordinary.
The civil war was on.
Sprague was mere youth, and one
Of the heads of business enterprises
involving the employment Of $4,000
workmen. His shops, mills and foun-
dries beclouded the sky with their in
dustry, until it was said, Whenever
you see smoke in Rhody, 1t belongs to
the Spragues.".
He was goyernor-the youngest war
governor. AS chief in command Of the
states military forces he insisted on
taking the field in person. He was
always dashingly brave; so said his
soldiers. The masses hailed him ~
their hero; others looked on in won
der.
He went to the United States senate
in 1863 and served IL years.
Brilliant Kate Chase.
While United States senator he mar
Chase, the beautiful daughter of Sal
mon p. Chase, Lincoln's secretary of
the treasury. With this brilliant mar
riage began the social career which
sent the name Of Chase-Sprague to the
greater salons of Europe and America.
Kate Chase in that day was account
ed the most brilliant woman in the So
ciety of her own country. She was
beautiful, she was diplomat of mar
velous methods. the homage Of the
greatest statesmen of that time was
hers, she was the queenly leader OF
Washington's social and official life.
And what was her quest? The older
generation will recall the plot and the
Interpreting of those years to make
Salmon P. Chase president Of the
United States. The fact that this great
ambition Of a daughter was never graf
flied was probably the precursor OF
that adverse fate which has relent-
lessly pursued and gnawed the heart
of every Sprague ambition felt since
that time.
Early in her married life Kate Chase
Sprague built Canonchet, on an estate
of $50 acres at Narragansett pier.
The house was at that time
the grandest mansion on the
coast. 1t stands on the favorite
camping ground of Canonchet, chief of
the Narragansett tribe of Indians. 1t
cost a million dollars. It's furnishings
were brought from the stores Of many
countries. 1t Is palace within,
strangely, voluptuously featured. a
labyrinth Of halls, hooks, salons.