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KING OF cANNIBAL ISLANDS.
After Becoming Convert to Christian
ity, Makes Great Preparations.

Strange and wonderful tales of the
cannibals of the southern Pacific were
told by Rev. John Hopkins Denison,
pastor of the Central Congregational
church. who has recently returned
from the island of New Britain, OFF the
coast of New Guinea, says the Boston
Transcript. Rev. Mr.. Denison told OF
his personal observations of the habits
of cannibals, and especially those who
had recently been converted. The most
remarkable case was that of Tobogo, a
native chieftain, who, according to the
account given by Rev. Mr. Denison,
had gone with his sling INFO a neigh
boring village and killed five men
against whom he cherished grudge.
He carried all five bodies back to his
own hut and ate them one by one.
Shortly after this he was converted to
Christianity. He then returned to the
village and made a speech. Mounting
a stump in the presence of vast as
semblage, he said: Once ] killed my
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NEWS OF WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST IN
THE VARIOUS TOWNS.
RACINE GIRL DECEIVED
Goes to Join Her Aunt in Washing
ton State and Discovers She Is
in House of III
Fame,

Racine.-A warrant at North Yak
ina, Wash, for the arrest of Grace
Johnson, alias Smith, on information
furnished by young Wisconsin girl.
who is the woman's niece, charging
her with conducting a house of ill
fame, has been issued.
Months ago the niece of the John
son woman began to receive letters
from her aunt imploring her to go to
North Yakima and join her in the en-
joyment of a home of comfort and
comparative ease. Finally the young
woman, who is an orphan, but who
has been earning her own way in the
world by proper employment in the
homes of respectable people at Racine,
yielded to the importantly of the de-
signing aunt, she alleges, and received
a ticket from her home to North Yak
ina. 1t had been represented to her
that she would accompany her aunt to
a pretty farm which the aunt would
buy and they would live together in
this picturesque valley in comfort and
ease.
y
surprise when she was introduced into
the whirl and revelry and debauchery
of a house of ill fame of which her
aunt was mistress.
For six weeks the young woman
was practically prisoner within the
walls of that place of iniquity, being
forbidden to leave it on penalty of ar
rest and punishment by the courts.
Then she escaped, partially clad in
her night dress, and found police
man, who assisted her to reach tenn
porary home in Christian family.
At this juncture the ladies of the Y.
w. c. A. became interested in the
case, cared for the unfortunate young
! woman, protected her from her aunt
and finally made known to the prose
cutting attorney the pitiable nature OF
| tho girls case
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Willie's wife procured divorce from
him and married Gerrit S. Wheaton,
a welcome guest at Canonchet for
three years. Wheaton was a million
aire; Willie Sprague was an cratic
genius, at times exceptionally brill
liant, always impulsive, loving and af-
fectionate.
Canoncnet was having it's house par
ties and the halls were aglow with
oriental splendor. The Florentine
fountain off the dining-room was trick
ling it's crystals to the idle after-din-
ner chat of surfeited company.
1t 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.
1t had been written in a tent assigned
to young Sprague as one of a gang
of road laborers. In it 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
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great care, as carvers and decorators
they were unrivalled in the execution
of rock paintings and in carving the
ornamental figures of their dwellings,
their boats and sacred enclosures.
But the Maoris were also noted for
their remarkable tattooing, which was
designed to clothe as well as to decor
ate the body. The Maori artist knew
how to give endless variety to the
curves of his drawing, the natural fur
rows, the movements of the counte-
nance, the play of the muscles
everything was made to enhance the
charm of the design, and hale young
man certainly presented fine sight
draped only in this delicate network of
blue lines on the rudy brown of his
skin.
There are about $4,000 Maoris left.
These have retired to the northern
provinces of New Zealand, where GER
tain reservations have been set apart
as their exclusive property.
Schools have been established,
which the Maori children attend regu-
larly. 1t is said that such of them as
continue into the higher branches of
learning are worthy rivals of white
students.-National Geographic Maya
zine.
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Senator Robert M. La Toilette is
planning to organize two or three con-
gressional districts in Michigan by
counties and precincts, with a view
to capturing a part of the delegation
from Michigan. Already, it is said, he
has one county organized, with four
men in each precinct working for him.
"The people," said Mr.. La Toilette, in
Kalamazoo, "unquestionably approve
of the policies of President Roosevelt.
They want to see the work that he
has begun continued to successful
conclusion. l believe that they desire
that the president accept another
term. Personally, am Of the same
opinion. But the president has said
that he will not accept denomination
and that he will not recede from that
position. Much as they respect his
Judgment on matters of state, they
may not be willing to have him nomi-
nate his successor"
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Committee TO Boom La Toilette.

At a conference of 80 Republican lead
ers a committee was organized to pro-
mote the candidacy of Senator Rob-
ert M. La Toilette for the Republican
nomination for president. An execucu-
tive committee composed Of the fol-
lowing members was also chosen:
State Senator A. w. Sanborn, of Ash
land, chairman; Assemblyman Herman
Ekern, Whitehall; State Treasurer A.
H. Dahl, John f. Puelicher, William
]. McElroy, and August G. Backus, all
of Milwaukee; Alfred T. Rogers, Mad
ison; Walter Owen, Hudson; and
State Senator Harry G. Martin, OAR
lington.
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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
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RISE OF THE MAoRIS.
Advance in Fifty Years from Savagery
to Civilization.

The Maoris are in many respects the
most remarkable savages with whom
the white man has come in contact.
Fifty years ago cannibalistic feasts,
at which the flesh of their fallen enc
mics was served, were not uncommon.
To-day several members of their
race are members of the New Zealand
parliament, and Maori women as well
as the white women of New Zealand
exercise the right to vote.
When the British first occupied the
islands, in the early part of the nine
teenth century, it is estimated that
there were about 100000 Maoris in
New Zealand.
The English found that they had a
genius for war, showing unusual abili-
ty in building, fortifying and defend
ing stockades, and they experienced
considerable difficulty in subduing
them.
The Maoris were also skilled in sew
eral arts. They titled the soil with
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Sprague succeeded in accomplishing
their design. 1t 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
Frustrated. z. 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 we're laid
waste.
Domestic discord and estrangement
now interviewed 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, a strange composite of genius
and impulsive youth, was still at
home.
Robert Thompson had been appoint
ed trustee for the personal estate of
his mother. On November 6, 1888
Willie was arrested for shooting at
Thompson as he attempted to visit
Canonchet. The boy was largely given
to impulse all his life. A court In
quiry resulted in his discharge.
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enemies. Again I come with five
stones; but they are stones of love-"
He then read them five verses out of
the Bible and returned all the money
he had stolen.
No one, said Rev. Mr.. Denison, has
ever dared to cross the island of New
Britain, even at its narrowest point,
where it is only eight miles wide. 1t is
one of the most active seats of canni-
balism and has never been explored
ten miles from the shore. The lee
turer was told by reliable witnesses on
the island that the chieftains often
killed as many as 200 persons at
time and hung them up to keep, cut
ting them down one by one as they
were wanted. Tobogo's exploit of five
bodies was one of the milder cases.
Mr.. Denison also exhibited a skull
obtained from the top of one of the
poles, which are known among the ma.
tives as tapu signs. He was told that
it had once been the property of boy
who had come down from the noun
tains and had been knocked on the
head for decorative purposes. Rev.
Mr.. Denison also had many other
curios and implements Of peculiar na-
tive use.
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Killed bv Gun Accident.

Osceola.-George H. Manhart, a
drayman of Mortified, Mimi, is dead
with a gun wound in the left breast.
In company with his brother-in-law,
Dr. William Gloyd, of Minneapolis, he
came here for a short time, staying
with Manager Adolph, of the Mineral
Spring company, another brother-in-
law, to enjoy few days hunting. 1t
is supposed that the gun was accident
ally discharged while the man was go
ing through the thick underbrush.
Manhart was about 81 years old and
leaves a widow.
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Historic Canonchet,
"House of Tragedy"
Will No Longer Be
Home of Spragues

| when Lincoln had that able and am
bilious man, Salmon P. Chase, in his
cabinet as secretary of the treasury;
time when Kate Chase dominated
Washington 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, a
dashing young fellow from Rhode
Island-its civil war governor and
later it's United States senator-brave,
handsome, clever, entered upon ca
reer which makes fiction seem tame
and tragedy commonplace.
Kate Chase is dead-she died in the
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 it 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 20 the gov
ernor of Rhode Island. This was In
1850
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, it belongs to
the Spragues."
He was governor-the youngest war
governor. AS chief in command of the
states military forces he insisted on
taking the field in person.
He went to the United States senate
in 1863 and served II years.
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Penny Savings Fund Successful.

The phenomenal success OF the
Penny Savings Fund in the ward
schools during the past two years
has spurred on the men and women
interested in this phase of the school
work to make still more elaborate
preparations for 1908. Mrs. G. H.
Tenney, head of the educational de-
partment of the Woman's club, has
been most enthusiastic in getting the
weak points in the system which was
used in taking care of the money last
year. entirely different arrangements
having been made for the present sea-
son. Greater attention will be paid
this year to the educational value of
saving.
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Seeks oratorical Prize.

The date of the Hamilton contest
in Chicago, one of the most important
intercollegiate oratorical contest in
the west, has been fixed as January
IL, and Wisconsin will be represented
by Carl N. Hill, middle law school
student Of Spring Green. Hill VOL
the annual preliminary contest
against two other contestants with an
grafton on naturalization in Democ-
racy." The grafton Will be submitted
with those Of other contestants to a
jury November Is, when they will be
Judged on thought and style.
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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 it now stands. A great
inheritance has been forfeited because
a 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
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Brilliant Kate Chase.

While United States senator he mar
ried Katherine Chase, famed as Kate
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
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27 COWS, 4 HORSES BURN.
Fire of Unknown Origin Causes Heavy
Loss at Stoughton.

Stoughton = Twenty-seven cows,
four horses and several hundred dol
lars worth of machinery were burned
in a fire which destroyed the barn of
Jorgen Strommen in the town of
Christiana, three miles southwest Of
Cambridge, at an early hour. The
fire was of unknown origin and is be-
lieved to have started about midnight.
It was not discovered until after one
o'clock. The loss is over $4,000, COW
cred partly by insurance.
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the grandest mansion on the
coast. It 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. It is palace within,
strangely, voluptuously featured, a
labyrinth of halls, hooks, salons.
chambers, towers, eerie dens, the
alter, library-68 rooms in all.
It had $4,000 worth of hand carving
in the dining-room, and other appoint
ments of a similar extravaganza. 1t
stands to-day, dark but proud; heir of
it's 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 is indelibly
stamped upon the place and time, and
the man whose memory goes back to
the early seventies will recall the high
jinks and the Sprague-C hase-Conkling
episode, which eliminated in Conkling's
flight from the governors gun by way
of window and a barred and bolted
boudoir door.
Sprague's Business Downfall.
1t was in 1873 that the political and
social forces at work to ruin Senator
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Coal Tar Tank ExpIodes.

Kenosha.-The explosion of coal tar
in a tank car here resulted in Antonio
Progrinio, an Italian 10 years of age,
being badly burned. The man had
gone to see how much of the tar had
been emptied into it and he dropped
a lighted match into the car. In the
explosion which followed the Italian
was blown 40 feet off the car and peo-
pie in all parts of the city felt the
force of the explosion.
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Unfortunate Willie sprague.

After few silent and pathetic years
down there by the sea, the household
of Sprague was again disrupted. Willie
Sprague had again come under the in
fluence of his mother. He became a
reporter on a Washington paper, then
shifted to a similar position in New
York. A beautiful girl was born to his
wife-Inez Sprague-and the present
Mrs. Sprague became at once an aunt
and a grandmother.
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DeIsv River Improvement.

La Crosse-Congressman John J.
Esch, who will be one of the leaders
in congress next session, does not be-
lieve congress will take any important
action relative to the improvement of
the Mississippi next year. ''The gen.
eral tendency" he says, "at all ses-
sions just previous to a presidential
election is to save money"
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Man of 70 Saves Children at Fire.

Marinette - Dashing through
sheet of fame at the risk Of his life,
Charles Windorf, aged 70, saved
three children of Mr.. and Mrs. j. j.
Koehler from burning to death at
Middle Inlet, Marinette county. Mr..
Windorf was badly burned, but is
expected to live.
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pairvmaids Threaten to Strike.

Waupaca.- working out
are threatening to strike unless their
wages are doubled. They are now get
ting from 81 to $3.50 per day. They
also want two afternoons and three
evenings off each week.
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State Capitol Contracts.

The state capitol building commits
sion had session in the Office OF Gov.
Davidson to consider the progress OF
the work and the letting Of contracts
for the tearing down of the east wing
of the old building, the letting OF con-
tracts for the foundation work on the
new east wing, contracts for the con-
struction of the new heating plant
and connecting tunnel. 1t was decid-
ed to advertise for bids for the equip
ment of the heating plant so that the
equipment could be installed as soon
as the progress of work will allow.
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BADGER CABBAGE Are World Famous.

Badger Cabbage Are World Famous.
Cabbage has carried another big
bunch of Badger state fame clear over
to India. The other day a newspaper
correspondent received a postal card
from Lieut.. Col. E. Hudson, superin-
tendent of the central prison, Alfalfa
bad, Naini district, India. The card
read: Il have read with great inter-
est your article Cabbage Growing in
Wisconsin and shall be glad if you
will kindly tell me the name of the
firm in Holland from whom you i'm
port your seed" After reading the
same story of Wisconsins wonderful
success in producing cabbage, w. l..
Jenkins, Ogden, Utah, writes: 81
would be willing to pay a good round
sum for pure strain of the seed" A
year ago wide publicity was given to
reports showing the wonderful growth
of the cabbage interests along the
Milwaukee road between Racine and
Burlington. Since that the subject OF
seed has been agitating a great many
minds, as it is shown, in both this and
other countries. Leonard Vaughn of
the Chicago seed house of that name,
tells of the efforts of seedmen to i'm
port and distribute a pure cabbage
seed in this country. Mr.. Vaughn says
that American seedsmen look to that
little point of land in the Netherlands,
between the North sea and Zuider
Zee, to furnish them with what is
known as the short stem Holland cab
bage seed. Mr.. Vaughn says that
great quantities of this seed is sent
to the state of Washington, and from
the growth in that state Is produced a
deal of the cabbage seed that is plant
ed in Wisconsin and other localities.
The growers in and around Union
Grove and other Wisconsin shipping
points, however, claim that the seed
they use is imported from Holland, so
that all agree that this is q good kind
to plant. 1t is a good thing to inquire
closely into the quality of the seed to
| be planted. There has been a great
deal of trouble from the stem rot, and
Mr.. Vaughn says that he believes 1t to
be in the seed. Reputable seedsmen
recommend the seed that from expert
rot 1t is claimed that the big tracts
of land on the south side of Chicago
that formerly were given to the growth
Of cabbage no longer are titled for
that purpose. The rot got into the
product and killed it out. 1t is claimed
that it is possible to cabbage out"
| tracts of land, and acres that once
were sown to this plant in time be-
came unfit for this kind of a CROP
Prices of seed vary greatly. The
Washington seed grown from the HoI-I
land or Dutch winter is sold for from
three to four dollars pound. 1t used
to be that pure strains of cabbage seed
sold for SIS pound. From one locali-
ty in Wisconsin the production OF
cabbage increased in ten years from
IA to $50 carloads that was shipped to
nearly half the states of the union.