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Supt. Wadsworth was called upon recently to go to Portland on a
mission for the Superintendent of the San Francisco Indian Warehouse.
While in Portland Supt. Wadsworth purchased nearly 100,000 pounds
of rolled barley for the use of the various Indian schools of the North
west.
Work will soon commence on our new steel tower and tank, for which
an appropriation was made by the last session of Congress. This will
prove a great improvement in our present water system. The contract
for erection was awarded to the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works. Some
of the material is arriving already. The capacity of the tank will be 50,-
000 gallons. The top of ihe structure will be 125 feet above ground.
Early last summer Ernest Brewer wras stricken down with an attack
of typhoid fever while at work in the Indian office at Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Brewer left at once to be at his bedside and as soon as he was able
to trav el brought him toChemawa, where he passed a couple of months
and grew strong again. On the 6th of this month he left for Denver,
Colorado, to attend the convention of the Society of American Indians.
From there he expects to go on east to Washington. Ernest has done
well in the service and is assured of a good future.
Through the courtesy of J. H. Booth, president of the State Fair Board,
nearly five hundred students of the school attended the state fair on
Friday, Oct. 3. Superintendent Wadsworth engaged special cars of the
Southern Pacific for the use of the school, making it possible for about
all the students to visit the fair. The students enjoyed the fair and ap
preciated the efforts of those who made it possible for them to attend.
The different exhibits showed marked improvement over former years,
this year being the best and one of the most profitable fairs ever held
in the state.
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Hauser and Mr. Robt. Depoe and family were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Smith on Friday and Saturday of State
Fair week. Messrs. Hauser and Depoe, and Mrs. Hauser were school
mates of Mr. Smith at Carlisle and Mrs. Depoe was a schoolmate of Mrs.
Smith at Haskell. All were in attendance at the fair and at the same
time holding a sort of school-fellows’ reunion and recalling events of
days gone by when they attended the two big schools. Mr. Depoe is in
charge of the day school at Siletz and from all accounts doing good
work. He is also conducting an orchestra which would be a credit to
any city. These efforts speak well for the graduates and should be an-
incentive to the under-graduates to put forth every energy to receive the
full amount of instruction and training which the schools afford. Mr.
Hauser while at Carlisle was one of the greatest football players that the
game has ever known. His big, square shoulders and clean-cut appear
ance furnish us with a fine specimen of what an Indian school graduate
should be.