Show dined with cannibals retired army officer tells fellow clubman ca I 1 gruesome experience in th the west wiest A silence deep an ani profound hal hat fallen upon the quartet around the table on the broad veranda of the country club it was broken by tho retired army officer I 1 do you felloes know that there ta Is a tribe of cannibals in this country coun addressing bis his question to no one in to particular t know ti alere ere waa was a tribe replied the cynic but I 1 ve often seen individual cases aa as for instance the consumption of pork by the man who enids on to the en enl I 1 sea in an open tt olley car and make makes every one else calia over him no I 1 ion don t mean that eald said the first speaker 1 I refer to real canut bale balm who aca actually ally eit e it or did cat with in recent years the flesh of their fellow being beings the people I 1 refer to are the tonkawa indians indian a tribe which had its home in cower california during finx tie civil war I 1 was stationed at a post near their reservation and was once an unwilling witness of a can feast east the Ton tonkawa kawas who were enlisted in the confederate ar my were attacked by the shawnees who bad espoused the causa cause of the union and in the battle which followed several shawnees were captured I 1 too fell into their hand hands on the day following the battle one of 0 these shawnee captives wa was killed cut into small sections and boiled in a pot then tho the whole tribe about two hundred of them feasted on thil horrid stew the tribe Is almost ex now but there are tire still about tifty of them on a reservation near their old hunting grounds the three listeners of at this ghastly tale turned pale ono one of them banged the cull call bell bring me ine a brandy and soda buick he said to the waiter i want to settle my ael me ito tze too ct ruml the new york ift |