The Republican journal., 1902-05-01

Charlie Webber is at home from a short
furlough from the gUnboat Castine
| Funeral services for the late Luther Gan
nett, who lost his life in the burning of his
house, were held at tie grave in Grove
Cemetery Tuesday afternoon, Rev. A. A..
Smith officiating
! The Portland papers report that Deputy
|, :, Marshal Is. O. Norton returned from
trip to the northern part of the State Fri
| day bringing with him as prisoners Mar
! eelluS Turner Of Montvile and Aaron
| Nevers of iiod4don. The charge against
Turner is that of being retail liquor dealer,
While Nevers is charged with smuggling
| potatoes from Canada.
| As an indication of the improved business
conditions The journal notes that during
the first quarter of 1901 there We're record
ed in Waldo County Registry of deeds 2sS
conveyances, of which % We're MORTGAGES.
| During the corresponding months of 1902
the total number was 100, with IS mort
cages. This does not include attachments,
tax deeds, discharges, power of attorna ~ or
property transferred by will, but only such
as are transferred by warrantee, quitclaim,
guardians, administrators or executor S
deeds.
STEAMER NOTES The Ruth was on Gil
chrest's marine railway last week for paint
ing. etc. The Golden Rod took the Free
dom Academy base ball team from Belfast
to CaStine by special trip last Thursday and
IL, ~.
dom boys reported defeat, Castine, "a,
Freedom o.. General Manager Calvin
Austin and Treasurer James T. Morse of
the Eastern 5. 5. Co. have been at Bath, in
specting the company's new steamer Ran
som Is. Fuller, building at the New Eng
land Co.'S yard for the service between
Boston and kennebec. They expressed
themselves as very much pleased with the
new craft. Steamer Silver Star went on
Snow railway at Rocllland last week to be
painted inside and out and have her ma
chinery oyerhaued =. The steamer City of
Reckiand is expected to 90 into commission
about the 9TH of May, under command of
capt. lngraham, who has been off duty al
winter. The steamer Penobscot will be
thoroughly overhaued, after which her flu
ture viii be decided. The Florence is
hauled up in Belfast on account of an acci-
dent to her engine. The cylinder head blew
out of the engine at Cape RoZier Monday,
and the boat was towed back to Belfast
Capt. Bennett went to Bangor yesterday to
get another boat to use while the Florence
is undergoing repairs. The Penobscot
will be withdrawn from the Boston and
Bangor route on her arrival in Boston May
9th. The City of Rockland and City of
Bangor will thereafter make six trips per
week, arriving from Boston at about 7.3O p
m. and leaving at 5 p. IN. r. P. Coombs is
to be purser on the Rockland and Frank T.
Parker freight clerk Cd the Bangor.
EXHIBITION AND SALE OF INDIAN POT-
TERY The ladies of the North Church
will give at an early date all exhibition of
Indian pottery sent from New Mexico by
Mr.. Albert W. Thompson. This attractive
collection consists of olas, or large water
jars, bowls, pitchers, Indian pipes and many
smaller curios. The prices range from tif-
teen cents to five dollars, according to the
size and decorative value of the pieces
This curious pottery was made by the In
dians of Taos pueblo, double pueblo in
the extreme northeastern part of New Mex
| leo, three or four miles east of the Spanish
| town of Taos Fernandez. The pueblo itself
is an adobe citadel as old as the records of
the Territory. An interesting feature of
this pueblo is the bridge from one adobe
house across a stream to another on the op-
| posite side. 1t is made of two long logs,
perhaps fifty feet in length, and unusually
| large, which serve as bridge. One of the
Oldest citizens of this pueblo was asked how
| long these logs had been there, as they
seemed deeply worn and perfectly smooth
by the crossing and re-crossng of the tribe
for years. He could give no authentic an
swer, nor could much be ascertained about
mains to-day in much the same condition
as at the time of the massacre of the Span
ish priests in 1920, when after many of their
people had been whipped and hung for re-
fuSing to give up their own religion and
accept the Catholic faith, they rose in
revolt against the Spanish governor Four
miles below this pueblo at the Spanish
town OF Taos Fernandez was the old home
of Kit Carson. Here is his grave, and his
wife, Mexican woman, lies buried near
him. The first American governor of this
Territory, Governor Bent, was cruelty as
sassinated here in the winter of 1S48. Taos
itself is an extremely interesting and beauti-
full spot, miles from railroad, and is as
free from the encroachments of modern
civilization as one could possibly imagine.
The Indians use the bowls and jars for
cooking purposes, boiling beans and cook
ing meats and chile in them. The ollas
serve as water vessels, in which the Indian
women carry water on their heads from the
ders and down again into the pueblo. This
pottery is all genuine, made by the Indians
by hand, as is evident from the crude dec
orations, and it is hoped the novelty of these