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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