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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1903)
2 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN. The Chemawa American. Published Week y by the Pupils or the Chemawa Indian School. &uh8cri)itn)i J'rce, 25 Gents l'er Year. Clubs ot Hoe and ov,r 21) Cen's pr year. Address ull Business Coinmuuicatl.Mis to The Chemawa Amkkican, Chemawa, Okeook. Entered at the Postoffice at Chemawa, Or., as second -class mail-matter. Note. If this space . is 1111 ked with a red cross it means: :tbat your sub scription has expired. Please renew. SOON BE TWENTY-TWO. , On Feb. 25th this school will celebrate ils 22nd binhd iy Men may dime and men .may go but old Chemawa goes on just the same increasing iis attendance, erecting new buildings and making many valuable .inprov'f me nts each year. We realize there is no standing st II in any undertaking if success is desired, and especially true is this in Indian school. We um.tei her go up, or else fall b-ick, either improve or re trograde , It is much easier to keep a scho il moving successfully when fairy started, than to arrest and chang' the motion when going in an. oppitsi'e direction. In . the . twenty-two years of Cheraawa's exi-tance .she h'S h id marry varied exp riences. It . has not always been calm an I peaceful sailing. But the old ship stood the storms and has niiracu'out-ly avoided ih" sun Is and rocks, whither faithless ai d deceitful sea'Men tried to steer lier. But it was not , to bef DisloyaMty, deceit fulness', and meanness must crop out as worthless ore is , always found aloi g with the good, but it is properly thrown out n tne dump pile, where it belongs. Many of Chemawa's ex-employes are the . best people on eartlr, and t tie school de eply regretted to lose t.he;r loy d an I faithful services. Bu'. years bri ig change'. We cannot expect to live and die here, aliho' we kmw of n better place on G rd'a green e.nlh. We will all mil Mr. Brewer at the next anniver.-ary meeting. He h 8 always oc cupied the post of honor, as ieing the old est an 1 on of our m st f.iilhi il em ! y.-s who fir-t c ime hare as a pu ii 1 wh n the schoo1 wissUr'ed. Mrs. Adair. Mr. ' hivop fo t an I m my others will a's 1 be iiii-s d on that occ isiori. The 22 nd annive sary promis 's to be a m st eventful one, nd an extensive and ineresiii program is being prepared. . Colonel J. L. Morris, one nf the mostfun ous of extern scouts and Indian fighters, dn d at Albiiq'ieique, New Mexico. Feb. 11, 1903, af era ong illne 8. In 1870 Moriis, wi h 13 men, k lied Chisf Jutneka and 30 Apache warriors who had been terrorizing the country. Morri whs wounded in the ntck ( n-1 of his me 1 kil'ed. nd 10 w 'Unded. Ttielead r, after b ing clin', killed Juuneka wiih li s lait bu et. Conres awa'de I Moriis a mda' f r br.ivery. Colonel Morris sewd with a K nsas region nt dur ing the Civil War. ' Murri d nt th redde C-1 of Mr. ,Toh ism Wiliann, J im -st'swn, CUhmn C u i' V, tVi8ii., by Rev Myr n Ends fSk koni-h, Mr Joseph Al en and .li.-8 A n.v Wi 1 am-, lioth "f J unestown Mr. AUen oh ain d a 1 irge s'i re of id education at. iUp r serva ii in wcho l at Puval up and Mi-s Willi ims flai.-h dh rs las summer at Ci.emawa. ' ' Will you accept tiie.co'oiielc,?"skpd a Siiiti ial reporter of C I R. H. Pra t, to il y, ref r ing to h;s prnuoijn recently frm Lieutenant-Colonel. ."Cirtdnly," Was the reply, "I have b n 40 years reaching it, and of cours I .naturally desire to accept the promotion. "Wi 1 V"U be obliged to. 'ewe Carlis'e?" was ihe in xt qn stion. "That d - en'fs on what th-g(ivernm'i't tells me to do, if ' orders me awny I of course mnt ohev or ders." "My regimen', the 1! ir eenth civ ahv, now in Dak ta, i-tord red ; go t. he P i ippin- Is ands. I will be ab'e t 'e ' in the rou 8 of five or six w -eks whether or no-I will bj able to s:ay." Carlisle Seminal.
