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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
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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