THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
9
News of The Week
The boys have started drilling.
Mr. Hilb spent Sunday at the metrop
olis. Rev. St. Piere conducted services in the
chapel Sunday evening.
The garden boys are digging potatoes
this week. About 20 acres remain to be
dug. ' .
A number of our people went to see "Sis
Hopkins" at t the opera house in Salem,
Thursday evening.
Johnny Benson and Joseph Lane were
fixing the windows in the printing office
Wednesday morning.
The boys and girls of Miss Miller's grade
can be heard practising a song these days
and it sounds very well.
The boys and girls from Siskiyou
County, Cal., express themselves as be
ing well satisfied with Chemawa.
Edward Sam writes that he is employed
at the Fort Simcoe school as teamster.
He desires the American sent to him.
Fay Charles and Edith Dedrick arrived
last Friday evening, and their friends
were all very glad to see them back.
Henry Davenport and Bishby Lawson
returned to school on Monday evening.
They have been at Siletz visiting their
friends.
Mrs. W. R. Hunt, of San Francisco, and '
Mrs. R. Haller, of Siletz, were vkiting1
their friend, Mrs. Williams, at Chemawa
last Tuesday.
Alice Williams surprised her friends
by her fins debating Monday night in the
Nonpareil Society. She gave some ex
cellent arguments in favor of "city life.'
Albert Payne a former Chemawa boy,
played withh Ilw3) football team
against Astoria recently, the score being
30 to 0 for Ilwaco. The papers, in men
tioning the game, speak very highly of
lbert's playing as a fullback.
Herbert Campbell saw Mr. Brewer at w
the football game in Seattle Saturday.
Mr. Brewer is looking very well and
evinces his old time interests in ball
games.
Recently, while examining the prune
trees, Mr. Westly discovered that some
of them were wormy about the roots. A
large force of boys were at once put to
work with knives digging them out and
the work will continue until the worms
are entirely exterminated.
Mrs. Campbell brought home some
beautiful Indian baskets which she bought
from the Indians of Siskiyou County, Cal
ifornia. These Indians are expert basket
makers and should be encouraged in their
work: They are poor aud can And little
work to do. "
In a letter to Mr. Hilb, M. L. Scott, at
one time blacksmith at Chemawa, states
that he has opened a blacksmith shop of
his own at Fort Klamath and is building
himself a new residence. He recently re
turned from a ten days" hunt, during which
time he killed six deer.
Jn the childrens' dining room, during
the past week, the table girls have all
done well, the difference in appearence of
the tables being so little that it is hard to
say which has been best. The following
tables have not failed once to be doae up
on time: One and two, five and six, first
row, five and six, second row. The hos
pital girls also deserve great credit for the
neat work done in the hospital kitchen.
The stage going from the Fort to Yreka
met with an accident Suuday morning, in
which fortunately none were seriously
hurt. In descending the mountain on the
Yreka side, the brake refused to work and
at the turn near Hold-up Rock the stage
upset. The passengers were almost all
Indian youths on their way to the Che
mawa school. Only two were hurt, Sam
Gardner who parted with some epidermis
from his face and whose shoulder was
wrenched, and Mr. Graves who received in
the face a slight cut. Fort Jones (Cal.)
Farmer. -