The Chemawa American, October 01, 1914, Page 27, Image 27

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Not long ago Supt. Symons brought a party of children to Chemawa
from Owyhee, Nev. The children are from the Western Shoshone
school.
Mr. and Mrs. V. R. Page arrived at Chemawa on October 8 from
Round Valley, California, in charge of a party of children for enroll­
ment here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Johnson have gone on transfer to the San Juan
agency in New Mexico, where they have positions in connection with
one of the day schools.
Miss Lucile Fitzgerald was recently transferred from Blackfoot, Mon­
tana, to Chemawa, where she is assured that she is a very welcome ad­
dition to our academic staff of teachers.
A fine new direct-current combined engine and dynamo has arrived
for installation at the power house. It is of such large proportions that
it will take some little time to get it in commission.
Wm. Minor and wile of North Yakima, Wash., were numbered among
our recent visitors. Mr. Minor is a former graduate of Chemawa and
his successes are a source of genuine pride to all of us. At present he
is engaged in the tailoring business and is doing well.
Four hundred and twenty-two years ago on October 12th Christopher
Columbus discovered America. In Oregon and many other states Oct.
12 is a legal holiday in honor of the occasion. In many places in Ore­
gon this year the date was observed with due ceremony.
Our students attended the State Fair at Salem en masse on the open­
ing day. Chemawa was in evidence with a very attractive booth and
great interest was displayed as regards it. It was a most attractive
fair in every way and had the weather been more favorable part of the
time it would have proved a still greater success.
From Dr. Chas. M. Buchanau, superintendent at the Tulalip Indian
reservation, we have received an item relative to a sale of timber on that
reservation, which is of immense importance to the Indian people thereof,
as it is a $1,000,000 deal. The item follow: With only two firms bid­
ding, both of these located at Everett, the largest timber deal in the North­
west in a long time was consummated when 400,000,000 feet of stand­
ing timber in the western part of the Tulalip reservation, the property of
the Indians, was sold at auction. The price paid involves $1,000,000.
A. W. White, representing an association of himself, Roland Hartley and
S. H. Miller known as the Everett Logging Company, was the successful
bidder. He paid $4.50 per thousand feet for cedar, $3.87 per thousand
feet for fir, spruce and white pine, and $1 per thousand for hemlock and
all other timber.