THE WEST SHOEE.
rt.t;nn have The Indian Industrial School at Che
mUch abuL The J mm&, Oregon, is Motion sum
.pportwd amon dbee- ed entirely by the government, and, al
Iigi0M denomuon d to thongh a large sum of money has been
f iteriaiiBap- expended, the results accomplished are
? u an o 5 "nta so highly gratifying and have such a no-
JStai self-respecting ticeable effect upon the tribes through-
Zt citizens. Schools out winch its influence extends that it
1 ould be undenominational, and indus- would be difficult to find an indmdual
trial rather than religious, in character, at all acquainted with them who would
There is no question about the benefi- not say the money has been well expend
cial effect upon the education of the ed. Such was not the opinion when the
young the breaking up of the tribal and institution had its inception seven years
reservation system would have. With ago. At that time it experienced much
Ihowj great breeders of laziness and de- bitter opposition, but its work has effec
pendence abolished, the leaven of indus- tually silenced the tongue of every op
try and personal independence brought ponent On the twenty-fifth day of Feb
home from the schools would have an ruary, 1880, Capt M. C. "Wilkinson, an
opportunity to do its work. Undoubt- enthusiast on the subject, who had been
edly, the schools which have done the detailed from the army for the purpose,
mot goal, aro those which the govern- established a school under the auspices
ment has established at various places of the government, at Forest Grove, in
rt moto from tribal and reservation in- the Willamette valley, twenty-five miles
fl nonces. There the pupil has both pre- from Portland. He began with fourteen
cept and examplo constantly before him, boys and four girls, all from the Puyal
and thus he makes vastly greater pro- hp reservation. To this number has
grow than when surrounded by all the been added from time to time, until now
conflicting influences of aboriginal life there is an average attendance of two
on the reservation. He returns to his hundred, representing tribes from Cali
bome letter educated and more thor- fornia to Alaska and from Oregon to
oughly impregnated with ideas of indus- Montana.
try and manly independence than is pos- For six years the school flourished
We to any graduate of a reservation and grew in size and influence, until
chooL The crying shame is that he is the old structures at Forest Grove were
at one subjected to those demoralizing destroyed by fire in 1885. It was then
influence, and degenerating mode of decided to place it on a better founda
me tt.th thee influences removal, tion and better equip it for the work it
t!!h M ! located on separate had proved itself capable of performing.
,'7 . 8? Atrial A tract of land was purchased five miles
uXaZ " rWVl the north of Salem, on the shores of Lake
w JrM7- r 8ideTed 6eU LaBi8h a "sort of the valley
Tfc.qtiJrfS7 U4? was known a8 "Cbemawa," meaning
fc ul U K" Tn 00116011011 f 8maU' rUd6 Bhake
now n-quiml T ho?se.8 built & occupied while the new
buildings were in progress of erection.