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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-01
A PRODIGAL Son.

Mclle,te, Okla, July az, I9Io.--
With much interest have just read
YOUR ''COme back to Missouri move
ment as published in a Missouri pa
per. have to acknowledge that |
am one of Missouri's prodigal sons
who came to this country in 1901,
and have been here with my family
ever since.
For the state of Oklahama have
no words OF condemnation, but, in
the language of the article referred
to do sometimes get little "homc
sick" was raised from boyhood
in Howell county, and afterwards
lived for five years, just before COM
ing ont here, in Reynolds county.
Kindly mail me copy of your
"Red Book" together with maps
and other information relative to your
project, and oblige.
Merrill, WIS.,, July aS, I9Io.--l
was once a resident of Missouri, and
like great many more moved away
to try and better myself, but have al
ways been in touch of what was 60
ing on through friends and Missouri
newspapers, to which am 4 regula
subscriber. am thinking of moving
back and engaging in general farm
ing and stock raising. ] would like
to have some Of your advice anC
literature. Also let me know if there
is any government land around Ava
Mo-, still open and how many acre
can be taken up. Also If you can as
sist me in getting reduced rates il
decide to come back. Tell me al
you can in regard TO the soil, climate
and people in and around Ava ant
east of Ava. | have iathcr ant
mother and one brother living in Lad
donia, Mo-, and one brother in st
Louis. Would like to hear from yo'
soon, as I am anticipating tril
down there this fall.
BACK TO MISSOURI.
Sherwood, Ore, July 20, 1910
Saw in 4 81. ..ouis paper that YOU ar
trying to form a crusade to get Nils
sourians back to the native state.
! wish you would please send me, ant
also one of my friends, book apiece
! did live in Galloway county, Mis-
souri, and am not AZ sick as som
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-01

seem to be, ! expect to move back
to Missouri. am native born Mis-.
souran. Born in St. Louis, lived a.
years in Missouri and expect to be in
Missouri as soo'n as I can sell my
farm here. can give you names OF
several people that have left Missouri.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-01
Ncattcred Items.

Jasper Scoggins, of Akinsviile visit
ed at Spring Garden, Miller county,
last week. He was accompanied
home by his brother -in-law, Rev. Ed
IMmpkins, who preached Sunday at
Syracuse.
Last spring Uncle Pete Blosscr
bought S pigs for about IS and Mon
day he sold them for SII5. They
"growed" some.
One day last week Mr.. a. II. Car
ricre of st. Louis, visited with Miss
Eula Dale. We would tell more but
we are afraid. Bachelors are scarce
you know.
Uncle James Vows of Barnett, died
at his home last Thursday, and was
buried at Big Rock Friday. A large
crowd attended the funeral.
James Campbell of southwest oi
Versailles, came in Saturday from
Climax Springs, where he bought ~
nice mules.
A lot of Fast end farmers delivered
fat hogs at Versailles Monday io,
which they received $3.50
Mrs. Laura Schannep Of N. w
Versailles left Tuesday for visit with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will Estes,
of S. McCollistcr, Okla. She was
accompanied by Mrs. Dosia Nevis
and son, Claude.
Grandpa Crutchfcld. of Latham
visited last week with his daughter
Mrs. Frank McCollister.
Mrs. Henderson, in company w,tl
her boys, spent several days last week
fishing on the Gravois.
Joe Schanncp bought 2 mule colt.
and is in the market for few more
good ones.
Last Saturday, while Cy Williams
was threshng fax ior Fleet llargctt,
! the lint pile caught fire from spnrt
from the engine and burned. Th,
machinery was ali saved.
The schools are opening up each
Monday now. Sunny Side is tausb,
by Miss Berry, Prairie Dale by Mics
! Williams and Salmon by Miss Ivy.
- The Fast end people have shipped
! in lot OF pmms from Windsor and
peaches from Garden City, 50 they
have fIut.
lanes Ensmingcr last Mondny
y bought a nice lot of sheep for whici
! he paid IS per head.
> Mrs. Aubrey Buell. last week visited
II her parents and other relatives II
Il Cooper county. Mo. Mr.. Il. wen
& the BunCeton fair and accompanied
l. her home Thursday.
C Tom Brown is visiting relatives il
d Wyoming, looking after business ant
- taking an outing Tor his health.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-01

nav the incumberance so he sold his
hors.s and s,r,;,rre n,;d ,he interest
on the note and went TO Chicago to
work At his trade an electrician.
Now he ;s not only -, g,od electrician.
bu. good farmer as we'll. rs he was
raised on a farm. NV object in writ
inc 70 Won and have Won write to him
is, ne has a wife and four children
and know h, wor,d do better on a
farm and I almost believe he would
come hack il no, to his old place. to
some other ploce in oood old Mis-
souri. Hopinp am not asking too
much.
WANTS To CONE BACK.
c;ro;r,,,; A-,,,s,s1 would
lilo ,o co,,. h,cl ,ot c, Io,;s
=,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-01


ror in leaving the Imperial State"
STAY AT HOME.
Supervising Statis,ician A. T. Ed
monston OF the Bureau OF Labor sta
tistics. who has been placed in charge
OF the "home coming crusade by
Commissioner Hitler, gives out for
publication the following letters just
to show that the movement is fast be-
coming a reality. and to let others,
who are thinking OF leaving this good
old state, to try their fortunes else
where, know what has happened to
the majority Of those who roamed
away, and how anxions they are to
"comc back" to Missouri.
Newman, Scott County, Arkansas.
Send me your Red Book please.
] want to come back and am going to
come back to dear Missouri. If you
want to know my reasons | have
twenty-five good ones. want to be
within the boundary 10y January next.
Imperial. California, Aug. 10
have just read your appeal to all
Mssourians to return home to old
Missouri 10y January, 1911. for
one. aim to Join the home coming
crusade. | have been away from old
Missouri every since January, 1906,
and have tried several different
Western states and none of them seem
to me like my home in Missouri
where | was born and raised. |
think it will be great home coming
for us all, and won't it bv happy
: meeting to see that great multitude o
900 to 10000 Mlssourans flock
, ing back to their native state. ] an
living in Imperial Valley in the ex
trcme southwestern part of California
The thermometer has stood every da,
for the last two months from no t,
I22 in the shade. | tell YOU it make
= person feel like they will melt away
We have killed over 100 rattle snake
around our house this summer.
there is anyone that doubts this state
mcnt can show them. for we hav
i the rattles here in our house to prov
our statement. While am writin
this letter the thermometer is stand
b, my at Iz2 in the shade here is be'
= wishes to all MiSSourianS and wishin
c success to you in your grand under
s taking. Please send me literature.
IS CAss COUNTY FARMERS.
Harrisonvlllc, Mo-, Aug. 1, 1910
The following named men are
. few OF the good farmers that hay
gone from our county (Cass county
Mo. } during the past year OF Sc
They, We believe, want to come bac
to the state OF good homes. Sen
them some printed matter, or sen
US some and we will forward il I
y them and others We know, that al
only waiting for an invitation 10 con
V home. These good Missouri peop
hate to acknowledge that they mac
mistake, and are only waiting Il
some one to ask them to come baCI
~ believe they Will come If Invitc'
lust an excuse to come Is all that
- necessary. VIII send you 9TH
'' names later on: Mr.. X. +. Manle
- 9oS Kentucky Ave, Roosevelt,
~ M; VIM. Daugherty, Artesia, N. NJ
" +. f.. McCrory, Hereford, Texa
- y. A. McCrory, Stratiord, Tcxa
J. II. Stair, Douglas, Oklahoma; v
80 Z. Do,tch, Stratiord, Texas; J.
:" Wilson, Amorila, Texas.
= St. Louis, Mo-, July 81, I9Io.-
Having read a good deal about ii
home coming crusade in Missouri
~ want to state my sons case to y'
J |
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-01

plshed all these things and is now
perfec.ing the reforms instituted.
Shall he abandon these things--give
up the good work he has been doing
and can do for the state-and plunge
into contest for seat in the United
States Senate? TO this question he
has given an emphatic NO, and in
stead of becoming candidate for
any other office will make the Office
he holds more effective, il possible, ,
and more potent for the good of the
people.
Governor Hadley will now 20 be-
fore the people not as a personal can
didate but as their governor, appeal
ing to them TO sustain the work he
seeks to accomplish and to give him
the legislative cooperation denied
him the first year OF his administra-
ton. He has well defined. practical
and necessary rohclcs to propose
ard effective, popular measures tc
advoCatc---measurcs far more import
ant and profitable to the people OF
Missouri than anything he or any
other man could discuss as ,andi.
date for United States Senator.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-01

Rather than yield to his ambition
to become a member Of the greatest
legislative body in :hc wor! Govern
or lladlcy will stick to his guherna-
torial duties and seek to seCurc home
rule Tor the larger cities; to enforce
the laws; to make more efficient and
economical the management Of State
Institutions: to carry ont policy OF
development and conservation of ma
tural resources: to scCur" better
roads. better schools, honest elections.
simple and Just judicial procedures
and the best possible public service
in every department OF state govern
ment.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-01

necessary, to show them that we hold
no grudge against them for their er-
ror in leaving the Imperial State
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and ordered Mauki to receive them from her hand.
But this could not be, and Mauki went without his
tcbaccu- In the same way he made TO miss many
q meal. and to go hungry many day He was or
dered to make chowder Of the big CLAIMS that
in the lagoon This he could do. for CLAIMS
fambO Six times in succession he refused to touch
the CLAIMS. and six times he knocked senseisss-
Bunster knew that the boy would die first but called
his refusal mutiny and would have killed him had
there been another cook to take Ills place
One OF the traders farorite tricks to catch
Maukis kinky locks and his head against the wall
Another trick was to catch Mauki unawares and
thrust the live end of cigar against his flesh This
Bunsfer called vaccination. and Ma. was yaccfnated
a number Of times week Once. in rage. Bunster
ripped the cup handle from Naukfz nose bearing the
hole clear out Of the cartilage.
.Oh what 4 mug :" his comment when he
SURVEYED the damage he had wrought.
The skin nf shark n like sanfpaper. but the skin
r. --r Ash Is ike rasp. In the South Seas the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-06
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natives use 1t wood file In s,nooths ,owa
skin. The first time he tried It Mauk with
Of the hand 1t fetched the skin OF his back from
his wife taste OF the mitten and tried il thoroushy
the boat boys. The prime minis ers came In for
stroke EACH and they had to grin and take Il for
joke. Laugh. curse you laugh. !" the Cue he
gave
Mauki came in for the largest share of tho mitten
Never day passed without caress from It. There
times when the loss OF much cuticls kept him
awake at night aud ofte the half healed surface was
raked afresh by the facetious Mr. Bnnster Mauki
continued his patient wait. secure In ne knowledge
that sooner or later his time would come. And he
knew just what he going to do when the time did
come.
One morning Bunster got up in mood for knock
ing seven bells out OF the universe. He began
Mauki and wound up Mauki. In the interval knock
ing down his wife and han,merng all the boat bows.
scaldlns contents Of the Gun into Mauki's face By
ten o'clock Bunster was shivering with ague, and
half an hour later he was burning with fever Il
was ordinary attack 1t quickly became pernicous,
and developed into black-water fever. The days
passed. and he weaker and weaker. never leaving
skin grew intact once more He ordered the boy. to
beach the cutter. scrub her bottom and give her
general overhauling. They thought the order enan-
ated from Bunster and they obeyed. But Runster At
the time lying unconscious and giving orders.
When the worst Mas pas s and lay
valescent and conscious. but weak as baby. Mauki
packed his few trnkets, Including the china cup
handle into his trade box Then he went over to the
village and interviewed the king and his two prime
ministers
much" he asked
They explained in one voice that they liked the
trader not at all The ministers poured forth re-
cital of all the indgnties and wrongs that had been
heaped upon them. The king bloke down and wept
Mauki interrupted. rudely:
.You save meme big fella nlarster my country.
You like IN this fea white marster. Me no like
IN. Plenty good yov put hundred coceanut. two
hundred coeoanut three hundred cocoanut Along cut
ter. Him finish. you so sleep m good fella. Alto
gcther kanaka sleep IN good fella Blme BY big fela
noise along house. yOu save hear m that felIa
nOiSa YOu s.
In like manner Alauki interviewed the boat boys
Then he ordered Bunsters wife to- return 70 her
family house. Had she refused he would have been
in quandary. for his tOnbo would not have per-
mtted him to lay hands on her.
The house deserted. he entered the sieepins room
where the trader lay In doxe .,Aauki drst removed
the reviewers then placed the ray-sh mitten on his
hand. Runsters first warning was z stroke o. the
mtten removed the skin the full length Of his
"Good feIla, eh?" Mauki grinned, between two
strokes which swept the forehead bare ana the
other of which cleaned on one side 81 his race auRn
curse you. laugh
hiding n their houses. heard the big felia noise
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him. and he was captured and brought back more
dead than alive.
Malaita boys They got down the coast twenty miles.
and were hidden in the hut Of Malaita freeman.
two white men who were not afraid Of all the
vinage people and who knocked seven bells out of
the three ruraways. tied them like pigs. and tossed
them c.o TIE whaleboat Rut the man in whose house
they had hidden-seven times seven bells must have
skin and teeth new, and he was discouraged for the
rest, Of his natural life from harboring runaway
aborers
For year Mauki toiled on Then he was made
house boy. and had good food and easy times. with
g.t work In keeping the house clean and serving the
white men with whisky and beer at all hours of the
day ard hours Of the night. He liked 1t. but he
liked Port Adams more. He had two years longer to
serve. but two years were too long for him In the
throes of inconsistencies. He had grown wiser with
his year Of service. and being now house boy. he
and he knew where the key to the storeroom was
hung
He planned the escape and one night ten Malaita
boys and boy from San Crstoval sneaked from
the barracks and dragged of the whaleboats down
opened the paddock on the boat and It was MauE who
equipped the boat with a dozen Winchesters. i'm
mense amount Of ammunition case OF dynamite
with decorators and fuse. and Of tobacco.
The northwest monsoon was blowing. and they fed
south In the night time. hiding by day on detached
and uninhabited isets, dragging their whaleboat
into the bush the large islands Thus they gained
Guadalcanar skrted halfway along it. and crossed the
Indispensable Straits to Florida Island. 1t here
that they killed the San Crisoval boy saving his head
and cooking and eating the rest Of him.
The Malata coast was only invent miles away but
the last night strong current and banning winds pre-
vented them from gaining across. Daylight found
them still several miles from their goal But daylight
brought a cutter, in which two white who
were not afraid Of eleven Malaita men armed with
twelve rifles.
Mauki and his companions carried back to
Tulagi. where lived the great white master Of all
the white And the great white master held
court. after which. one by one. the rVpaways were
tied up aud given twenty lashcs EACH and sentenced
to ~~e Of fifteen dollars Then they were sent back
to New Georgia. where the white men Knocked seven
fc''; cut OF them ell around and p-,t them work
T.. >fnuki was longer house hoy. He put in
IT, road-making gang. The nne Of fifteen dollars
had been paid by the white from whom he had
run away. and he was told that he would have to
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they would knock bells out Of him II he did
certain thing when he did that thing seven bells
invariably We're knocked out Of him. Mauki did not
know what seven bells We're but they occurred in
bcche-de-mcr, ard lie imagined them to be the blood
and teeth that sometimes accompanied the process OF
knocking out seven bells One ether thing he learned:
no boy was struck punished unless he did wrong.
Even when the white men drunk, they
broken
Mauki did not like the plap.aton He hated work,
and he was the OF chief Furthermore it was
ten years since he had been stolen from Port Adams
by FanfOa and he was homesick. lie home
sick for the slavery under Fanfoa. So he away.
He struck back into the bush. with the idea
ing southwark to the beach and stealth. canoe in
which to go home to Port Adams. But the fever got
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only white man during Maukf's reign who ventured
the bush and came ont alive This man not only came
out but be bra..tt with him hundred ana nifty
dollars IA gold sovereiyns-the money price Of EIGHT
and half Of labor plus the cost price OF rffe
and Of tobacco
ManH no longer weighs one hundred ana ten
Pounds His stomach r. three times Its former 9frt.
End he has foHr wives He has nany other fhings-S
rfhes and revolverx the hr-dIe Of china an
excellent collection # b..shrnens heads. But mor0
precious fhan the estirc collection u another head.
nerffcflv dried md cured with randy hair ana yel-
Jewish heard which II kprsf wra1, II the finest %
ares bevnnd hts re~Im he inv.-tebsv 1ets onf this
nead ara rlnrA n his prI@~A rrr.rsnrlafes
orR ann efieaniv At En~h fivre4 fF~ hush Of death
maze nsifa The BOD Is e~feensas fhe most power
.u desaIes1 or Mst-fs- sra 10 the possession Of II
= asrrIbed MI Of MankFs greefnees
cosys0Af 1910 y Netvops1ffes Eerspaper s,n16s6A
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calm mornings. Is about the only evidence the seafar-
Ing white men have OF the teemng interior population
For the whites do not penetrate Malaita.
When Mauki was young man Of seventeen. Fanfoa
ot ont OF tobacco He got dreadfully of tobacco
~ was hard times In all his villages. He had been
f'uisty Of a mistake. Suo harbor small that
large schooner could not swing Mt anchor in It,. 1t
later II was trap. and into the trap sailed two
"htc men In a small ketch. They after recruits,
~ nothing Of three rides and penty Of ammunition
Now there saltwater living at Suo. and
y was there that the bushmen could come down to
me sea- The ketch did splendid traffic. 1t signed
twenty recruits the first day. Even old Fanfoa
signcd on. And that same day the score Of new re-
'rults chopped of the two white mems heads; killed
the boats crew. and burned the ketch.
Thereafter ard for three months. there tobacco
md trade goods in plenty and to in all the bush
villages Then the man-ofwar. that threw
shells for miles into the hills, frightening the people
the @ gent landing I parties The
lagos were NIL burned along with the tobacco and
trade stun.
II taught raufoa a lesson but in the meantime he
out Of tobacco. Also. his young men were too
frightened to sign with the recruiting vessels That
why Fanfoa ordered his slave. Mauki to be car
ried down and signed on for half a case Of tobacco
advance. along with knives. axes. calico and beads
tions. Mauki was sorely frit htened when they
brought him on board the schooner. He was a lamb
White men ferocious creatures. They had to
be- or else they would not make a practice OF VEN
two a schooner when each schooner carried from
fifteen to twenty blacks rs boats crew. and often as
high - sixty or seventy black recruits
!ster many days on the schooner and after behold
Ing land nrd islands than he had ever dreamed
Of. he landed on New Georgia and put to work
In the field ,,c'ring Jungle and cutt.@~ cane grass
For first time H. k.,- What work was, Even as a
slave to Fsnfoa ne HI no. worried like tis And he
did not like work. 1t v-"s - : dawn and in ut
dark, on two meals day. And r. food tire
some For weeks at time tbs W: zen nothing
but sweet potatoea eat and for weeks * time 1t
would he nothing but rice.
Among otlRr things he learned bechc-dc-mc" Eng
lish, with which he could talk with all white Even.
and with all recruits who otherwise would have talked
In thousand different dialects Also. he learned Ger
tain things about the white principally that they
kent their word II they told boy he was going to
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make for m hour or more.
When Mauki was done. he carried
the beat compass and all the rides
and ammunition down to the cutter,
which he proceeded to ballast with
cases az tobacco. 1t was while en-
gagged N this that hideOtls. skim
less thing came out Of the house and
ran screaming down the beach TIL Il
fell In the aard and moved and
gibbered under the scorching sun.
Mauki looked toward = ana hest
tated. Then he went over ana re-
moved the head. which be wrapped
In mat ard slowed In the stern
locker Of the cutter.
So sOundly did the kanakas sleep
through that long. hot day that they
did not Gee the cutter run ont
through the passage and head south.
close hauled on the southeast trade.
Nor was the cutter ever sighted On
that long tack to the shores of
YeabeI, and during the tedious head
beat from there to Malaita. He
IAnded at Port Adams with 4 wealth
Of rifles and tobacco such - no one
man had ever poasessed before. But
he did not stop there. He had taken
q white mans head. and only the
bush could shelter him. 30 back he
went to the bush villages. where he
shot old Fanfoa and half I dogen
OF the chief men, and made himself
the chief over all the Villages When
his father died. Mauki's brother
ruled In Port Adams, and. Joined to-
gether. saltwater men and bushmen.
the resulting combination was the
strongest Of the ten-score fighting
tribes Of Malaita.
More than his fear Of the British
Government was Maulrf's fear o. the
all-powerful Monaghan Soap Com
pany: and one day 4 message came
nm to him in the bush. reminding
him that he owed the company eight
and One-haH years Of labor. He
sent back favorable answer, and
then appeared the inevitable white
kb<a <.0 <na, - 49, Z
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Thirdly. he must touch crocodile. nor travel
In that carried any part OF crocodile, even
R only large as a tooth
OF different black were his teeth. which were
Gcepback. or, perhaps better, Idmp-black They had
been made IA a single night, by his mother. who
hed comrresscd about them powdered mineral which
was dug from the landslide back Of Port Adams.
Tort Adams IL n saltwater village on Malata, and
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3 weighed o:.c hundred and ten pounds.
His hair was kinky and negroid. and he
was black. lie was peculiarly black.
He was neither blue-black nor purple
black. but plum-black. His name was
Mauki, and he was the son of chief.
He had three fdmb0s. Tdmbo Is Melan-
esian for taboo, and is first cousin to
that Polynesian word. Mauki's three
tambOs were as follows: First, he must
never shake hands with n woman, nor
have a woman's hand touch him or any
Of his personal belongings. Secondly. he
must never eat CLAIMS nor any food from
n fire LII which claims had been cQOkptl