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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1901)
2 CHEMAWA AMERICAN. PROPOSALS FOR THREE BUILD INGS AND EXTENSION OF ELECTRIC LIGHT AND STEAM HEATING SYSTEM. department ok the interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C, Au gust 24, 1901. Sealed Proposals, endorsed "Pro posals for improvements, Salem," and addressed to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C, will be reeieved at the Indian Office until two o'clock p. m. of Thursday, Sept. 26, 1901, for furnishing and delivering the necessary materials and labor required to construct at the Indian School, Chemawa, Ore gon, one (1) dormitory, one (1) in dustrial building and one (1) laun dry, (all of brick, with plumbing,) and an extension of the electric light and steam heating systems in strict accordance with plans, spec ifications and instructions to bid ders, which may be examined at this office, the office of the " "Oregon Statesman," Salem Ore., the "Morn ing Oregonian," Portlond Ore. , the "Chronical," SanFrancisco, Cal., The "Times-Herald," Chicago, 111., ie Builders' and Traders' Exchange, Omaha Nebr., the Build 'ers' and Traders' Exchange, Mil waukee, Wis., the Northwestern Manufacturers' Association, St. Paul, Minn., the U. S. Indian Warehouses at 815 Howard St., Omaha, Nebr., 235 Johnson St., Chicago, 111., and 77 Wooster St., New York, N. Y., and at the school. For further information apply to Thomas W. Potter, Superintendent, Indian School, Chemawa, Oregon. W. A. Jones, Commissioner. One of the most vital questions in the Indian. School Service is the transporta tion of pupils from the Reservation to the Non-Reservation Schools. It is a question that needs radical measures on the part of those in authority. We do not blame our Reservation friends for trying to hold on to their pupils even though they drift back into the tribe when they attain a certain age and then never get the opportunities that they should have, because for every pupil lost the chances are that the employe list for the coming year will be jepordized. Asa result our Non-Reservation Schools throughout the service with one notable exception have a large per cent of mixed bloods and those beyond the influence of the reservation school people.- This truth may hurt some but it is the truth and the remedy.qugtyt to be supplied and a mana found to place more reservation Indians in our Jargs'schools. ' , : Supt. Potter has returned from his Eastern trip, lie visited Buffalo, Wash ington, Carlisle and Hamilton and reports having haa a pleasant time, tie was spe cially pleased with visit at Carlisle where he was a teacher in 1890-91. He says: "I 1 was proud of the Carlisle "Sai d, and every 1 Superintendent in the Indian Service I am j sure would feel the same if they could have heard the Indian boys play at Bufta-j lo. In my judgment their playing was su-' perior to other great bands employed hy ' the Exposition, and did great credit to their leader, and to Col. Pratt their superintend ent who was determined to show the world that the Indian if properly trained need not take a back seat to the white manor any other race. The Carlisle school in a great factor in solving the Indian problem. j