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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1903)
The Chemawa American, Published Weekly. Vol. VI. APRIL 3. 1903. No. 28. The Value of a Trade. I remetnb r some years ago when t was young man, ruefting John Roach, the prea'sluphuiid. r, in hisshipyard atChester, I'a , I remember, too, what, he s-iid about the value of a trade to the bov. "Young man,"' tie said, laying his great broad hand on my shoulder and looking at. me with his keen steel blue Irish eyes, '"next to a clear conscience a trade is as good a thing as a man cin h;ive in this country. You carry it wi h you all your life long, you have to pay neither rent nor taxes upon it and it helps y.ni around a sharp coi ner when most other things will fail." I have never forgotten that utterance fpim a man who started in life after land ing in New York from Ireland a helper to a mach'iiist, who. became the leading ship builder of his time and who up to the hour . when tie was stricken with a fatal illness could take the placeof any of his workmen, whether it was a man driving rivets or an expert putting together the most delicate part of a steamshin's machinery. Some thing very like what John Roach said I heard another great man say. This was Peter C oper, a man wher American boy a can not too much admire. "If I had tny way," paid the venerable philanthropist on the occasion to which I refer, "I would give everybody trsi(i Then j wou,d j)live h-m stick to it, 1 ,ve it and be good to it. If he does it will do hiin good." Weeklv Bouquet. Indians Kill Deer. The Indians of Alaska have been unable understand the Alaska game laws, which j ;.")a their killing deer. Borne of the n ans hav ceased to hunt for then), but "'"era are still bringing in the hides and endeavoring to find some white t'ader will ng to take them off their h-ndi. The obs ancy of the whites is puzzling to the Indians ''Of course, they know in a general way that the Government has forbidden the killing of deer," said 0. P. Gill, of Port land, yesterday. Mr Gill U engaged in business in Alaska, with headqtiar'ers at Juneau. He is in this city-arrakping busi ness details for another trip to the n r h. "But it is a difficult matter to convince the Indians of the justice of the new rules," Mi. Gill continued. "They have been accustomed to make an easy living killing deer, and selling b th hide and meat. With a p irtion of their revenue cut off Middenly, the Iudians are at a loss as to whut to do. "It is impocsiblo to prevent the red men from slaughtering the game, but as they find there is no market for their hides and meat, they are turning their attention to other matters. The Indians are compelled now to hunt ' for small game, and to engage more gen erally in fishing. The returns from the i killing of small game are not very remun erative, but the Indians can make good money fishing. The red men are good fishermen,- and the canneries are glad to employ them. As a rule the Alaska Indians are not worth much in other employments. Oregonian. . The fourth grade B class pupils are sorry to leave Miss Miller. Considerable new and up to-date machin ery has recently b.en installed in the laun dry, Albert Duke, a former student of this school is visiting with his Chemawa friends this week.
