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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1901)
CHEMAWA AMERICAN. " H. L. Lovelace, Manager, Published Weekly by the Pupils of the . ChQmawa Indian School. Subscription Price, 25 Cents Per Year. Clubs ot live and over 20 Cents for year ! . ' Entered at the Postoffice at Chemawa, Or., " as second-class mail-matter. Address all Business Communications t j The. Chemawa American, , Chemawa, Oregon. The boys of Chemawa are not behind , the rest of the world iu their interest in . athletics. , A visit to the south end of the grounds any evening after school will . convince the most skeptical that Indian boys are just like white boys. Full of life,, energy and that superabundant vitality and "get there" quality that makes life .worth living. If athletics assures the building up of a future race of physically strong and perfect humanity, the Chemawa boys are laying the right kind of a foundation. The In dians of the future will have a fine heritage. When our boys' forefathers roariied the forests of Oregon in search of game arid ''fished the streams for the salmon' to sup ply their families with food, tuberculosis v- and. scrofula were unknown. Herded on a reservation, fed and clothed by a mistaken paternal government they degenerated with a feeble diseased people. But now their children are breaking, a v; ay from the squalor of . the resevatipna. They eyes are opened by the contact with civlized people, education has thrown its electrifying light upon them 'and eagerly do they add their voices to the cup of the times physical training along with mental and iudustral work. - .A printer, when his. fellow-workmer went out to drink beer during the working hours, put in the bank the extra amoun1 which he would have spent if he had gon to drink. He thus kept his resolution foi five years. He then examined his banl account and found he had on deposi $521.86. In the five years he had not los a day from ill health. Three out of fiv ot his fellow-workmen had become drunk ards, and were discharged. -Ex, Last night Supt,'C, W. Goodman wbc for the past three years has been in charge of the Chilocco Indian training school, lefi for Washington, D. C. He has been trans ferred from Chilocco to Phoenix, Ariz, and will take charge of that school in th( near future. The present superintendent of the the Phoenix school, Mr. 8. M. Mc Cowan, will be transferred to Chilocco, This change is a promotion for Mr. Good man as the Phoenix school is a larger in stitution than the Chilocco, It has on roll a i avtrage about six hundred pupils while the Chilocco only averages about four hundred and fifty, Mr. Goodman was called to Washington to make the necessary arrangement for the transfer and will be absent about two weeks, Since he has been in charge of the Chiloc co school he has made- mny friends in Arkansas City who will regret to see him leave. His successor comes very highly recommended. ; Arkansas City Traveler; , Farmers about Chemawa complain at scarcity of freight cars to ship potatoes; on ! ions and other products. They have peti tioned the 8. P. Co. to put in a platform and covered station with better facilities for handling freight, as the businrss then1 would reach several hundred carhmds t year if they had proper facilities fur sliif' meut. . ' Saluni Journal A covered plattorni anustauon won