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Arizona republican., 1907-08-12
TAKING HIS VACATION.

Sidney Moeur left with the rest of
the crowd Saturday evening for Los
and other California points.
While it is not an unusual thing for a
young man like Sidney to make a trip
of this kind, it is rather unusual that
Its expense is stood for by someone
else. That is the case in this instance,
however and Sidney is travelling at the
expense of The Republican, on trans
portation awarded him as a prize in
the contest last winter.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12
THE OIL BUSINESS RUSHING.

The Shattuck & Desmond Co. is
hustling for teams. II has adver-
tisements out calling for twenty teams
to haul oil to Roosevelt-with freight
haul back 1t seems that the work at
he dam is now being rushed and the
cement mill is working to its full ca
pacity. This means lots of oil and the
contractors must get the oil to the
mill. The recent prosperity in the val
ley has created a demand for teams at
various kinds of work. and the S. & ID.
Co. has had difficulty in getting
enough to handle the business.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12
HOME TO STAY.

Will Laird, who has been spending
a month or more in Texas and Arkan-
sas. has returned with the intention of
staying right here for some time to
come. The climate of the latter place
did not agree with him at all and he
comes home almost sick. He conclud-
ed long before he got back that there
was no place like Arizona.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12

L. B. johnson has inaugurated a new
set il hitching posts in front OF his
place. Heretofore the teams were
hitched to the awning poles. often with
disastrous results. Now, short square
posts with hitching rings more or less
adorn his sidewalk. The style Is to be
followed by others we understand.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12
School DAYS Are Comma.

You can't put off getting the chill
dren ready much longer. Our new line
of Ginghams. Madras, Percales. Chev-
lots and many other wash fabrics have
just arrived. Come in and see them
You'll be glad and so will we.
GEACH & GEACH.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12

These are days when much IS siren
uous in speech and feeble in execution.
Let every occasion be a great occa-
sion, for YOU cannot tell when fate
may be taking your measure for a
larger place.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12
FOR OVER s1xT1 TEARS.

Mrs. Windows Soothink syrup has been
used for children teething. II soothes the
child, softens the gums. sllays all pain,
cures wind collie. and IN the best remedJ
for Diarrhoea- Twenty-Five cents . bottle
Guaranteed under the food and
drugs act, June 30th. 1906. Serial num-
Der 1898.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12

Honesty is the best policy dorl
believe that. always When honeS1
gets to be policy It ceases TO Be a
longer a principle. See,
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12

Keep posted and happy while avg
on your summer trip by having n
Arizona Republican forwarded
trouble to change address as often
you wish. Phone. Main Al.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12

Prof. Fountain Music stores Nos
and 9. Special price for violin. mai
dolin and guitar lessons for the SUD
mer.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12

Davidson's Horseshoeing shop. after
Aug. 1. viii be at new shop, soi North
Center, next to Gregs's paint shop.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12

A. b. Tomlinson, real estate agent.
has the best bargains in city or country
property. once opposite Casa Iona.
Arizona republican., 1907-08-12
TEMPE

TELEPHONE ............ .351
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08

ling its 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, final letter which he had adj
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
found beside the barrel on which no
had written his farewell
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
Back to the Nest.

The buffaloes came from the west
and now they are going back. Years
ago the animals roamed the plains in
countless numbers. Indiscriminate
slaughter by hunters of big game and
by settlers and Indians for food Dur.
poses has practically exterminated
them in their old haunts. A few are
to be found in private parks and ZOO.
logical collections, and it appears that
from these sources the new supply
from the west must come, IL at all.
There is an 8,0O0-acre national reser.
walton in Oklahoma, established by the
United States government, and here
aC Is proposed to gather as many of the
Od1aloes as possible, turn them loose
under conditions approximating those
OF their native habitat and leave them
TO enjoy life and to increase and mul.
Glply after their kind Some Of the
ounaloes will come from the New
York geological park in the Bronx.
and cowboy naturalist" is about to
start from Oklahoma to round up tho
beasts and take them to their new
western home.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
Helping lmpecunious Man.

III you happen to have theater tick.
cts that haven't cost you anything"
said the bachelor girl, "and don't want
TO take woman, you must diplomatic.
ally go about asking some man you
know If you want his company. II
ne Is a man without money, and he
generally is if he is very interesting,
ne will have a dozen engagements
that prevent his accompanying you
he wants to go, you understand, but
This is what you must do. You
must explain to him quickly, in the
same breath that you ask him, that
you have a dinner engagement before
hand and that you must come home
straight after the theater. You cant
possibly stop anywhere for anything
IN the way of refreshments. 1t is out
Of the question.
You'll be surprised to see the
magical suddenness with which his
previous engagements take to them.
selves wings and disappear."-New
York Press.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
China's Bld Task.

The C3.?ese government is instHit
ing various reforms, and in some ca~es
Is employing drastic means. With %,
gard to'induIgence in opium, for IN.
stance, ,the government appears to
have Resolved fully that the habit
must go, and is prepared to adopt Sc
we're measures to effect the purpose.
Regulations are now in force against
the use Of the drug, and the govern.
ment evidently is convinced that the
Jaw IS not invariably complied with
An imperial ediCt condemns several
princes and others high in office for
dIsregarding the law, and suspends
them from exercising their official
functions. Some leniency is shown to
men fairly well on in years, as those
or 6O years or over who have acquired
the habit are given reasonable time in
which to discontinue it. But if they,
"itnln Re prescribed periodand others
within i SHORTER time do not stop using
opium, all hands will be fired" from
the office and lose their rank as well.
Of course as regards the smaller fry
and the ordinary subjects, all caught
at hitting the pipe" or otherwise in
dulging in the drug will be dealt with
in exemplary fashion. This is reform
with stern front, and it remains to
be seen whether it will succeed COM
pletely, says Troy Times. The govern
ment can at least plead great provoca.
ton. The opium habit, which, by the
way, was introduced from elsewhere.
mas a powerful hold upon the Chinese
people, and its effects are most de.
plorable and demoralizing. The better
sentiment of the world will sympathize
with the Picking government in its de.
sire to stamp out the evil.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
Husbands Ghost Stops WeddIn,

Declaring that her dead husband
had come to her in spirit and warmed
her against marrying again, Mrs. MARY
Lincoln Of Wilmerding, widow Of
Charles Lincoln, refused to proceed
with her intended marriage to Jc
seph Parker, also Of Wilmerding. and
the guests were dismissed, says a
Pittsburg dispatch to the New York
Times.
A little over a year ago her hus
band died. After a brief period oi
mourning she agreed to marry Mr..
Parker. He furnished a house and
invitations were issued.
The other afternoon Mr.. Parker
found her In tears. Her mother
said that some time during the pre-
vious night her daughter had come
sobbing into her room and declared
that she had just been visited By
the spirit Of her dead husband. He
had warned her against marrying
again, she said, and when she pro.
tested the spirit had taken hold Of
her arms and held her until she prom.
tsed that she would give up the mar
riage. She asserted that her arms
ached from the encounter.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
Unfortunate Willie spraaue.

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.
fiuence Of his mother. SEIe became a
reporter on 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 grandmother.
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 bril-.
liant, always impulsive, loving and af.
fectionate.
Canonchet was having its house par.
ties and the halls were aglow with
oriental splendor. The Florentine
fountain off the dining.room was trick.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
Fashionable Craze of switzerIand.

Lunch and dinner parties above the
clouds in Switzerland. Prince Pie
OF Savoy recently gave a lunch in
honor Of Prince and Princess Nicola
OF Greece, at the Bernina hospice
1875 feet high, overlooking st. Nor
itz. Recently Mr.. and Mrs. H. Muir
ray entertained party on the top Of
the Brevent, S,285 feet above Cham.
onix, each guest receiving a bunch Of
edelWeiss as souvenir. Alpine par
ties have also been given this season
on the Pilatus, Rockers de Naye
Brienzer Rothall and Gornergrat.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
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
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 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 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.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
Historic Canonchet,
"House of Tragedy
Will No Longer Be -.
Home of Spragues

tn OR SALE. A HIGHLY IN
| "A proved estate at Narraganset
Pier, r. l., consisting of $50 acres
of land, with beautifully furn'
shed mansion, upon which and the
stables green houses and other buildings
about 81 100000 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 80 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 it, 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 Opponents, 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
Its rooms and halls are redoIent 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 1t is on the mar
ket because a girl chose to defy her
parents-Inez Sprague has eloped with
the son of her grandfathers 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
stayed in seClusion a
year and then eloped with Harry Will
liams Stiness, son of Judge Stiness,
associate justice of the supreme court
Of Rhode Island
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
Separated by Divorce.

Meantime, Kate Chase brought her
sensational suit for divorce. Gov
Sprague filed counter charges. So,
clety glutted itself with gossip of the
case. A compromise was finally effect.
ed by which both these charges were
withdrawn and charge of cruelty in
terposed. On May q, 1882, Kate
Chase-Sprague got the decree divorc-
ing her and giving her the right to re.
sumo her maiden name and the CHS
tody of the three daughters, Ethel,
Portia and Kitty.
On March s, 1888, the governor mar
ried his present wife. She was Dora
lnez Weed, of Virginia. She was then
20 and Gov. Sprague SO. They imme-
diately went to Canonchet, where Mrs
Sprague has since reigned as its chat.
elaine.
For a while this romance seemed to
work revival of the governors olden
power. The Independent state con.
Vention nominated him for o"ernor
VII Mdrcn H. 1885, lew Ola " he
had come north with his On
March p, the Democrats also nomi.
mated him, and it looked as if the little
war governor would retrieve his for
mer place.
Soon after the governor married his
present wife, his son, Willie, married
her sister, Avice Weed, of Whining.
ton, Del. The governor then became
his sons brother-in-law, and Willie's
wife was at the same time his sister.
in-law and his daughter-in.law, and the
governors wife was Willie's sister-in.
law and stepmother. Meantime. Kate
Chase had retired to Washington with
her three daughters.
There was a hot campaign. But the
war governor was not reflect.
ed 1t almost broke his heart-he
governor of Rhode Island in the civil
war, leader of her troops, United
States senator for two terms, defeated
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
BEST EVER WRITTEN
PRESCRIPTION WHICH ANyo,.
CAN EASILY MIX. %
Said TO Promptly Overcon. ~,
and Bladder Af'ictions-s..,
Simple ingredients Well
in Bottle.

Mix the following by shakID, -,
In a bottle, and take in teasn o vel
doses after meals and at bedtime.
Fluid Extract DandelioD onn,
ounce; Compound Karg.n, one orra sa
Compound Syrup SarsapariIIa h.
ounces. A prominent physician is N y
authority that these simple barr., ~
ingredients can be obtained al no~ va
inal cost from any druggist ever y
the smaller towns. +"
The mixture is said to cleanse -,
strengthen the clogged and inao,,-
Kidneys, overcoming Backacbe PI.s
der weakness and Urinary trouble :,
all kinds, if taken before the stago '.
Bright's disease.
Those who have tried this say tim.
itively overcOmeS pain in the bsoL
clears the urine of sediment and revr
lates urination, especially at nigb,
curing even the worst forms of bI.a
der weakness.
Every man or woman here who feel,
that the kidneys are not strong or Art.
Ing in a healthy manner should mi,
this prescription at home and give !,
a trial, as it is said to do wonders %,
many persons.
The Scranton pa Times was Are,
to print this remarkable prescription
in October, of 1906, since when all tbs
leading newspapers Of New York, Bos.
ton, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and otbe,
cities have made many announcement,
Of 1t to their readers.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08

chambers, towers, eerie dens, a the.
alter, library-6S rooms in ALL
1t had $4,000 worth of hand carving
IN the dining'room, and other appoint.
ments of similar extravaganza. 1t
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 is indelibly
stamped upon the place and time, and
the man whose memory goes back to
the early seventies will recall the high
Jlnks and the Sprague- Chase Conkling
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
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 lannon's mouth. Il 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 a word when it was
asserted that they had forgiven the
clipping 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 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, a time
when Lincoln had that able and am
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
Spraque's Business Downfall.

Sprague's Business Downfall.
1t was in 1873 that the political and
| social forces at work to ruin Senator
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 $l1,OOO,OOO 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
yolved all of Rhode Island were 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
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08

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,
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 % the gov
ernor of Rhode Island This was in
| 1860. His advent as such and as COM
mander-in-chief of the Rhode Island
soldiery, put him into the eye of the
country as a subject altogether out of
the ordinary.
The civil war was on.
Sprague was a mere youth, and one
Of the heads of business enterprises
involving the employment Of $4,000
"b%NlISH' Iilo SllOpS, ullIIS anu lOul-
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 was
always dashingly brave; so said his
soldiers. The masses hailed him as |
their hero; others looked on in won
der.
He went to the United States senate
in 1853 and served u years.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08

King Chulalongkorn of Siam Is
going home, but Europe will long re.
member the wide swath he cut there
and the cash he sowed broadcast. The
climax was reached in his birthday
celebration in Germany, when he "cut
loose" for three days and cornered the
Wine and beer market in search Of an
adequate supply of those beverages
which were furnished free to all com.
ers. He also spent several millions in
paying hotel bills and buying iewelrv
and there is not the slightest doubt
that the departure of his majesty will
ne sincerely mourned by all who
shared in the royal largess. The kings
return is in keeping with his triumph.
a. progress through Europe. He has
chartered the entire first cabin Of the
steamer on which he and his suite are
70 take passage for the east.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08

bilious man, Salmon P. Chase, in his
cabinet as secretary of the treasury:
q time when Kate Chase dominated
washington society and influenced her
fathers eminent associates by the
.orce OF her beauty and the spirited
brilliance of her wit,
Then and there William Sprague, a
oashing young fellow from Rhode
lslsnd-its civil war governor and
later its United States senator-braye
handsome, clever, entered upon a ca
reer which makes fiction seem tame
and tragedy commonplace.
Kate Chase is dead-she died In the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08

London lays claim to the champion
lazy man of the world. In support of
the claim 1t gives his statement that
ne never voluntarily did an hours
work in his life, and the fact that
ne went to sleep while the court
was sentencing him to the workhouse
Indiana ought to be able to produce
some man who is too lazy to go to
sleep.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
Lillian Russell is quoted 90 sor,r,

III"lI NuSSeII IS quoted as saving
Hhat divorce is the greatest blessing
In the world to-day" She has IN.
doubtedly had experience enough to
l'speak with authority; but her expe.
eFience is equal with matrimony, and it
mas been observed that her divorces
nave been follo-sd by further matri.
mon:al ventures. Perhaps her argu.
ment is that divorce is blessing be.
cause 1t opens the way to so varied an
acquaintance with the blessings of di,
versified matrimony.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08
Fate's Relentless Pursuit.

A few years after this, Ethe.
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 eIopement.
In the autumn of 1897 Mrs. Inez
Sprague, having studied grand opera
with some of the best French and
Italian masters, appeared in Boston
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-08

his mother On November 6, 1883
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.