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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1906)
IDecKIy Cbemawa American VOL. IX. Salem Indian School (In Soptemer "Sunset "J The Salem Indian School, at Chemawa, Oregon, is one of the oldest institutions of the kind in the country. It was originally established at Forest Grove in 1880, and moved to Chemawa, five miles north of Salem, in 1885. The citizens of Salem, and Marion county donated 177.32 acres of land to secure its location at Chemawa, which was increased the next year by the purchase of 84.92 acres by the pupils of the school from their earnings in the hop fields and on farms adjoining the school, and later 82.83 acres, were pur chased by the Government, giving the school, at the present time, a farm of 345.07 acres of land. From the first, the school has had a steady growth until row it has a capa city of six hundred pupils, requiring a force of employe's and instructors num bering forty-one. Chemawa has always stood in the front rank as an industrial school, and the northwest has many faimers and gradu ates from its departments. The Southern Pacific Railroad parses directly tbiough the luautiinl giounds, which are kept up by labor of the Ind- No. 21 ian pupils. Trains, on the main line between Portland and San Francisco, stop at the main entrance to the school. The faculty includes many able in structors, and the school has had the benefit of their service for several years. The superintendent, Edwin L. Chalcraft, entered the service in 1883, serving at Chehlis, Puyallup, Salem, Wind River, Wyoming, then Supervisor of Indian Schools, and then back to Salem. His assistant, W. P. Campbell, cele brated his silver wedding anniversary in the employ of Uncle Sam on the first of September. He was disciplin arian at Carlisle for thirteen years, and superintendent at Sisseton, South Dnkota Wind River, Wyoming. Warm Springs, then to Salem. He has always taken a great interest in athletic work and in the social side of the life at Government schools. He has seen Chemawa grow from three hundred to eight hundred pupils. The corp of employes comprises physi cian, nurse, classroom teachers, instruct ors in farming, gardening, dairying, Mechanical trades, matron, and includes nine Indians, mostly graduates of the school. Continudrd on pigo OCTOBER 5, 1906