Picturesque Pala

nd New Ac

e Spaniards. When Padre Peyri, however, came to Pala, his far-seeing eye at once noted its possibilities, and he set about bringing water from the headwaters of the river. He laid a line for a ditch from

eplaced again with ditches when necessary. So long as Peyri remained the ditch was in constant use, but after he left in 1832 it be

on the north side. So the Indian Department was again appealed to, the appropriation made, and, in due time, the work begun. The government engineers found that the line of old ditch could not be improved upon, so the I

years strenuous efforts have been made to prohibit the sale of liquor to the Indians, and the government also has abolished gambling. The influence of Father Doyle and Agent Runke have

t last, the government had recognized their claims to the land which they had been tilling the past ten years and granted them their p

dry land. Much of this dry land has been put under irrigation since the first allotment. In addition, the head of each family is given two lots, one for his house an

so would it be at Pala. They could be moved about, they said, at the whim of Washington, without a guarantee of a final competency for themselves or their children. But now they have been rewarde

f the Franciscan Order from San Luis Rey were in

how tenaciously the Indians cling to

being discernible only as a dim streak in the dark; but before the fire, his rough and seamed face illuminated by the unsteady flames which leaped, as now and then he picked at a brand, and revealed his audience as motionless as though chiseled out of lava, stood the aged Cecelio Chuprosa. His hands were clasped behind his back and his head bowed. At long intervals, he spoke brief

g, but the Indians soon slunk away. The padres do not appr

with corns. Instead of the peace-pipe, the glow of the cigarette dawned and died everywhere through the stoic night. Oil-filled lanterns took the place of the sta

on the warpath, and fought in all the tribe's battles from his youth up. He is particularly

he rode forty miles on horseback to Warner's Ranch to see a game and when he returned he was so stiff that he had to be li

famed and much coveted iron-cross which German royalty and the Kaiser himself salute whenever it is seen on the breast of a veteran. But Father Damian,-and that is his only name in the cloister where he has

the hero of wars which Germany waged against Austria and France, lost even his

ough an interpreter, each told of the battles the other had fought. Although seventy-two years old, the father is still rugged except that he feels the effect of cholera which attacke

Washing Clothe

Entrance to the

Pala Gr

et Makers

as there in his or her best. The ceremonies opened by a solemn high mass condu

ssed the water which poured itself for the first time over the Indians' lands since the old ditch crumbled away, and as he did so he stood on the very sp

f the table mainly provided by an old-fashioned barbe