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
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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.
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