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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1901)
t2$f rrmmriiiT-'' Fmm the Oregon Daily Statesman we. py the foiling: HIS LIFE WORK ENDED Elijah Brown Editor Of The Chemawa American, Is Dead. Was A Graduate Of Hie Salem Indian Training School, and Studied At Carlisle aitd Haskell ' ' t "' ' ' v Death of Elijah Brown. We are pained to announce the sudden doath of E. Brown, editor of the Chemawa American',' which ocoured on August 28tb, after a short illness, Elijah, as he was generally known, was a student of Chema wa for several years. Later on he attened Carlisle school and the Haskell Institute returning to Chemawa to assume charge of The American. He was a good faithful pu pil and a bright, original, young man. His ability as a public speaker and a debater is well known wherever he has been. ,-. While at Haskell he captured, the first prize at the oratorical contest at the school. Art an editor and newspaper man he has been very successful. Chemawa will miss Elijah in many ways. The Amekican will also miss his energetic hand; and inventive, humorous mind, as inauyofhis articles showed Considerable talent, as a writer and were seasonc d with a great deal of wholesome humor. Elijah-was president ot the Chemawa Y. M. C. A. and has been a delagate to the Y, M. C. A. convention . for many years. He was a member of the I Methodist church and a good active Christain worker. We mourn the loss of a faithfut pupil and ati Elijah Brown, Editor of the Chermwa American, the paper published at the Che mawalndlnti Training -diool, and a gradu ate of that institution, died at Chetnavva yesterday 'afternoon, after an illness of two weeks of Blight's Disease. Deceased was an Indian of the Mission tribe of Southern California, where he wps born, removing later, with his parents to TheDalls. He cume to the Chemawa Schoo,l a number of years ago, and graduated from the Institution, proving himself a most -industrious and apt pupil. After graduating from Chemawa he went to Car lisle, Pennsylvania, and the Haskell Insti tute at La wrence, Kansas, to pursue his studies, where he fitted himself for u liter ary career. Later he went to San Francis co, and secured employment as a reporter on one of t he leading daily papers of that city, and many interesting articles descrip tive of the Indian villages and trib s of California were from ' His. pen,, and were I read widely and with great interest. . But if having grown to manhood in Oregon's r balmy dim -de. he 1 mired nr the winter rains, the sp'endid summer weather and a sight of' the verdure-clad hills and , the magestic snow-peaks .of "Old Webfo't." and resigning his position in Sun Francisco where success had smiled upon him, ha re turned to Oregon.. ' ' Arrived here lie took c'large of the i "American,." the paper -.published at Chemawa, and conducted it with ability, and to the credit of hi nsel.f and the' school. He became en important factor in the examnlarv enmloveei He leaves a sister, brother, and many school, and was reg irded 'as one of the friends at Chemawa to mourn his depart-9 moPt uaef 111 n,-e" r,m,ul the is'itution. ure. Deceased was a devoted member of the