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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1936)
i il i: n o N M ' TF N i, i i i> \ 'i r u I5 0 > h i un» w I F \, >\ i 'm in nu-in r. 1(110 telegrapn station. Thclf ni iiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiimiinuuiiuiiinmiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiinnim,,,,,,^^ comma \d vent forth that n dances or Ink i takas, would b by progrès % Í r a day. On Itie T h r o n g ! ) pointed ton • t day «'in h village -! , a certain qu >ta of to furn fot ffO A W OM AN Dunn AN EYE iiniimiiiiiiiiiiiiimniiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiimimiiiimnmni^f— ||||[|ii[it ^ « 1 : 11 . 111:1 \ .<es of many k.ml- r i «>ri i if fl n* ■ 1 .1 !• S T ■, • hat the wash the fam ily noto he apologized and ive gum; othi’rs « c r u very old |(.f| nil he |>OS' Cl*■ c d . three 1 fine me h n .its. pri zed as reí- ,j0| he purch*- e <>f gifts, in referring to this up- At the iipi- anted hour. the high dy it not to t>| tine the chief emerged surrounded by func We knejw nodun ■ of tionaries. and seated himself > n the the- c u e uit.- tancr a o f thc• Incut • » veranda > f the radio t ■ ’ '■ ng Clan which preceded the trag Hi after clan can -- Í rw.ird, each rep their nu resenting a v iltau • tlic bead syrnpath and v arn Hut th irrur of this thii war dauct The w : |»a ren í ñ «•'"‘T* r>': V ' A--... r mu f ✓ • V -J í gr und in a straight line, and sing- that the lr lau 4 rid J steps ar.d graceful motions of the 1 (ii J t ' f ■ South Sea Islander Puling His ( a noe. Pr»i rmi by National o. - «i«’ -s<- s .ctety. f Wealth consi-its o f land, planta Washington. 1». C.—WXU > rvic**. ! . HE sovereign of Tonga is- t‘ ons' mats- a» d ta!’ ls- mats is r respected lands m th.* South Pacific is o of f many and fine mats;»s esp ect« Queen Salo'.e S 1 (Chari tte) 1 • r r* ’ Punier- (Charlotte), who. fr-m her capital Nukua • ous silver shillings circulate from lofa, on pert of the archipelago, gov the traders in return for copra and erns the islands under a British pro back to the traders’ stores for . . . . . . , . tectorate. The curr ncj used is Eng shirts, cloth, and cn-wing gam. . . .. lish money. In language and cus Of native markets there is no . . . toms, the Tor.gans are like the Ma sign. Each adult male hat his own uris of New Zealand and the Sa- eight ar.d a quarter acre» of planta mcans. Being P lynesians, they dif tion lands assigned to him by the fer decidedly .from the Fijians, who government. He- is required to cul are mostly Melanesians. Tongan so tivate this ground and plant a cer ciety is distinct, with hereditary tain number of coconut trees. Men and women work hard, sub lines of chiefs, ar.d N iuaho has its own peculiarities of culture. The ject to the orders of the government, people are e-ntircly civihz.d ar.d on the roads and cisterns and other Christian; they are strictly gov structures required for the progress erned by a high chief, a magistrate, of the community. Pigs and chick and police service. There are usu- ens are abundant, but there are few ... ~ . 1 cattle. Each householder has his ally seven or eight Europeans at . , , . . . . . . . _ 3 Angaha | truck garden in the hills. To this Wesleyan churches with native he goes leading an old pack horse, ministers and elders are conspicu- and gathers what is needed of yams. 11 .. ... _ _ j taro roots, sweet potatoes, oranges ous in all the villages. On Sunday. . ,, , * ... * f’ . , # , ,. . \ breadfruit. or the like. The cirh services start before daylight, with think nolhi of trud m „ e* t(j crowded congregations singing chor- wash thc family clolhi , t the al music in parts without any cr- , , kc. All arc free, happy, and smil T tiroly hand and body gc lures of girls s-at 1 cross-legged. Drum* A l u n t Healing. The beating of the drums is < nr of the characteristic n ..-¡cs of the country. At all hours of th,- day the sound can be heard by one wander ing in the jungle. The beating means something w.lh reference to village timekeej mg. i r -ignift--, *;>c- landers gu.it- their ti. r lives by i U nder, guide wd of it n il th< right to resp ect .inst h it. A eh : : feci tli ► • Í . r V l,* p k ? fT '' " ok Q f & w r . fK . T ), o and the clanj j ^ T h o r n t o n W B u r g 'e s s on the other. ». , . _ i Niuafoo, alias Tin Can island, is T H E D A N C E It SI GNAI. ~ . . . , , ^ r. I I one of the T -nga islands. Like a . . 1 1 . . vast angel cake in shaiie. Tin Can I island was formed wli.-n a volcanic T ' HE HE was n grr.it dr. 1 casin'-»* in tli-- b.g barn where poak, protruding from the blue wa But R n’t dark «hen ters of the Pacific, violently blew the Robb r Rats lived. V/. ild Ri|!> .•cr i if its head and left only a hollow -'l*nk return, or 1 1 he *just mad« ■ udd< nlv I outer shelL On the shores of a ' i : \ •Iso Tli I ic il tr r * i , v. ii i r,.. of the tiu- day. Y< i lee. di felt that places the molten lava and sulTucat- zuld re- VW lil I‘ at, ing gasses of ns crater, a wise . : be I bird, the malau, lays largo citgs in en a rat r f t? m tl-S t t e very m Nature's incubator, thc hot volcan- lil<‘ r 1 I turt •d iru ic sand. - V • the iivr rats th thc No springs or streams arc found f| •r nccd lcsi i y fri on the i.lo. so the natives rnu.t de gray eld __ pend on rainwater for their drink ing supply. Neither arc there har bors. for f nm-fleck'-d lava cliffs, U he h . 1 b -n a rat inste rising abruptly from the ocean, sur ve retniin n mml. he n round the i land with hardly a t1t-r II * u break. A t n can, b bbing in the is very it I cam e II water offshore, push d by a sw im care of h: j his ability T a h,harmonious, . i n g . and all are fine specimens of ming native, to be picked up by a • -iat no on ipiHid out 8 Vm P b a s s ™ CCS of muscular humanity, leading a nat- pa .ing steamer, is the islanders' about mail bag. the men and the soprano of the worn- ! ura, W c of cultivation of the S0J, f v. d, i under t! en is pleasing. The music has a j Llke other Polynesian*, these p e o - __________________ under the minute la quauty quite unlike Hawaiian mu- T e - , i thi Then it v sic, and the Sunday services are cuslom# are .. . the d 1 w o S *', r c , e " o { M o u n t a i n ■ e i ' was loun e • no w d ior a tut. , Of a host of ancestral tradi- S h e e p , l a V M t ig t r S n - 5 watching the 1 e through • pipe org.m. tie ns which center about the guilds In North Amerma th.-re re two Hilly « : ti-r -d It v. it cr. c f One evening service ir. the dimly of the craftsmen, the requirement* sp ecl-s of mountain *h* ^n t h e on from r .it ’ i t until every # ° ------------------ ui uit: i Jiiuiv tomp-l.« ch.ur.gh 111 Angat"‘ o' ton II,. ,„d order. „1 .hr R in « k th'- , MounS J cn a brim knew that ,,, their of a mus.cal competition between chieftainship, Alaska white sheep, st ites a writer had returned the choirs from several villages. Method of Fish.ng. in the Washington Star. The desert "H e ’ ll Probably Sleep All llay. WNt' ton '• « j T W lluiarM The each usually composed The fishermen Thought the liray Old Leader. . . . choirs, . . . . ..... •-‘ ••"-i* use canoes cdiinis of oi hewn newn uignorn is or of tr... bighorn is or-«- of the sub pi-cies of rise in turn in thc-ir places and sir.g. When a song is finished a rev- crent chorus of bravos, or the equivalent in Tongan. goes up from t.iC- congregation. The duiky faces in the lamplight, many of them beautiful; the splen- did figur s of tne men draped in spotlessly clean vnlas. which sug- gest a Roman toga; the minister S ^ í n d ’n f a r n a r ^ Û t ï l Z S to m a k e côî s V n V ï f f V h ' maitc the . « n e ‘ e n -ver tL L« forgotten flow the « _____ i Ke The T o n g u í ruceáis dom inen,„ « ï ï 2 K * . « « í '- ? ■ ing product. A. Niuafoo intervals between shipments of copra are long, for the bnd anchorage and landings make visits by even tramp steamers rare. . The. four villages immediately around Angaha represent half thc population of thc island. Each fam- ily lives in an elliptical, thatched house, with woven matting for the walls, but th<->se curtains do not lift up as in the Samoan houses. There are doors in the ends and sides cried, and they Went abi ut th. r Q r i p i n o f C liir tz Goe* tinguished by its small size and business of stealing b <-<1 and gnaw B a c k to Indian Pro pale color. Its natural range in mg holes wherever there seem ed Chintz. , • i by the Lr. cludes the arid mountainous re a chance of finding a new f'*od sup gions of the southwestern states ply. just as if nothing had happened. first a ip ' i red in flrc.it Britain i and parts of M exico. However, each hole which led into Eighteenth century. bcinR br by sailing ship fr, -a India, •n eaten by 1 bighorn* includes cactuses a n d ,jy •harp eyes. Those r.its did not first printed i c t the ! ; l other thorny plants. Tin- tender intend to be tfiken by surpri ¡e a ' of large old j for bed' pr< leaves of the sp.riy. polelike ocotillo second time. t t '1 cactus are a favorite food. In times | Rats prefer the hours o f darkness. "Palau.|. : f life." •] ■ ’ " T V ™ * ^ I buU Per- I design was "tt j on m a n y B t 'u i t^ ;' 7 w ‘ "'rl,,w s' n «H » way 1 ou their d i chintzes, state. ñ h. r " w'V * ' lhe I ^ " f b#rrel « ■ * « ■ - the ...........Iced* o f darkm i S c r m i L ST T , ; ; ' ' U ' Ju,/ ,y pulp ln,ide th« dayl gl t c a m . ......it o f the rata ra- j engo Tribune. 0f rr.-'ikinK the I The marine r 1 chintzes in Ind ^ and complient I pr jo » tMl i . A l « * . capture, he rem ove» ,hc dU .tn ce uppélra a , a S “ r,1 *» fabric brought ti. H-ndous Prlj . . fish from the hook and strings it on m oving aero : th» h ; ' t L -k gr ,und run about seeking whet m ischief I The demand P t chintzes M they might get into. the splinter rod. He then swims of the desert sands. lJuring spring md h Hut the wise, gray old leader saw such leap away slowly with the floating log. and summer, however, thc-ir coat* that so n Km i <* Two or more baits may be operated are bleached by tne sun into a dull to it that a watch was kept on each w ere fo r c e d ! < / * ' * ' * ? } at the same time; and two fisher- yellow. Many <>t the old rams have hole just the sam e as during the l e s * expen ive P " * * * " night. He didn't think Hilly Mink men may work from a single log. fine horns — long a cherir bed tro would com e in the daytim e, but ed i i The fish arc small and not abuii- phy of hunters — which are larger Them some one ln ‘ ^ jn he was wise enough to know that dant, and many of thc species found in proportion to the weight of their (jijo. i in these seas are said to be in- bodies than the horns of larger Hilly Mink is forever doing the un m i thod " . wfre edible. With the canoes large sharks species. Predatory animals that at expected. He suspected that Hilly Color, ami th*1 1 and mauve of that 1 * " ^ ,« would take great p e n s not to let are occasionally taken. tack mountain sheep usually make the farm er who owned th.it barn Recently, the Tonga natives cele a hasty retreat after one or two l.now that he was anywhere about. chintzes, ami so 11 1 husin" brated the completion of the govern- well directed butts. " H e ll probably sleep all d a y ," where were entering tht o“* device of thc light wood of the fau (same ns thc Hawaiian hau. spe cies of hibiscus), to which a splinter rod is lashed tightly lengthwise. with one end free for the purpose of stringing fish by thc gills. Hooks are made from pieces of bone at- tached to short shanks of wood, The fishline is a sennit (a braided coconut fiberi. Jastcned to the log. . ii.
