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Show "JTJNIPERO SERRA.' ' Name of California's First Franciscan Given to Lofty Mountain. The Order of Native Daughters of the Golden West, having learned that there is an unnamed peak. 10,510 feet in height, in California, have adopted resolutions 'asking that the peak bo named "Junipero Serra." The resolutions st-t forth that the life work and extraordinary achievements achieve-ments to Father Junipero Serra. in the exploration of the unknown territory which afterwards b'-'came known as the state of California are worthy of the admiration and praise of all who love that state, and the government, the press and the public are requested to accept the name given to the peak and to assist in making its use accepted accept-ed and general, to the end that the pioneer of pioneers may be duly honored hon-ored in the land for which he worked and in which he died. The order has honored another religious re-ligious in the person of Sister Anna Raphael, of the San Jose College of Notre Dame by unanimously electing j her an honorary member. Sister Anna Raphael, herself a native daughter, has written many verses typical of California, Cali-fornia, and her election is a token of j appreciation from the native daughters daugh-ters who have been indebted to her on many occasions for their dedicatory poems, notably for the celebration of the golden jubilee of California, the dedication of the order's souvenir gift to President William McKinley, and the California poem for the celebration celebra-tion of California day at St. Louis, Sept. 9, 1904. |