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Show An Indian Challenge. St Nicholas. Two tribes of Indians in tho upper part of California had as boundary between be-tween their district a low ridge where where the streams headed. If you should go where one of these streams Potter river, rises you would see still standing a pile of stones beside a never failing spring; on one Bide of this cairn Was the territory cf the 1'onio Indians, and on the other the land tf the Chum-aia. Chum-aia. These tribes were enemies and were often at Avar. When the Chum-aia Chum-aia wished to challenge the others to battle they took tliruo little sticks, cut notches round their ends aud in the middle, tied them at the amis into a fagot and laid it on this cairn. If the j I'omos accepted the challenge they lied a string around tho middle of the three sticks and left them in their place. Then agents of both tribes met nn neutral neu-tral ground and arranged the time ami place of battle, which took place accordingly. |