Sweetly solemn ceremony: Paying respect at Baker City’s Chinese cemetery involves oranges, tea and wine

The pungent smoke of incense wafted on the September morning breeze, drifting over the sagebrush hill in east Baker City where 46 Chinese were once buried.

Although most of the remains were exhumed and returned to China long ago, one marked grave remains — Lee Chue, 1882-1938.