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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1907)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 7 r 1 ELSEWHERE IN THE SERVICE Children Rewarded Muskogee, March 12. Two little ind ian children of Jim Weltone saved a train from going into a burning trestle a short time ago, the Frisco people have rewarded each with a $1,000 check. The Daily Democrat. Indian Musician & Piano Tuner. Aug. A. Breuninger. lately of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., has heen in the city for a couple of weeks and has decided to locate here. He is a musician and band master and will endeavor to get up a band here, also to instruct some of the neighboring band. He also tunes pianos. We hope that a band can be organized in Shawano as the town is certainly large enough to support a first-class band. The Advocate trusts that the gentleman will have success in the city. Advocate The Yainax School, Oregon has recent ly been abolished and the pupiU are being removed to the Klamath Agency School. Miss Josephine Roulette teacher at Yainax has been transferred to Gnoa, Nebr. PROPOSALS FOR BRICK BAKERY AND EQUIP MENT. Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C, MARCH 23, 1907. SEALED PROPOSALS, plainly marked on the outside of tne en velope "PROPOSALS for Bakery, etc , Salem, Oregon" and addressed to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Washington, D. C, will be received at the Indian Office until two o'clock p. m. of APRIL 22, 1907, for fur nishing and delivering the necessary materials and labor required to construct and i omplete a brick bake ry and equipment at the Salem School, Oregon, in strict accordance with plans, specifications and in structions to bidders which may be examined at this office, the offices of the "Oregon Statesman", 8alem, Ore., the "Chronicle", San Francisco, Cal., and the "Morning Oregonian", Portland Ore.: the Builders and Traders Exchanges at Omaha, Nebr. St. Paul Minn., and Minneapolis, Minn.; Northwestern Man ufacturers Asso., St. Paul, Minn.; U.S. Indian ware houses at Chicago, 111., St. Louis, Mo., Omaha, Neb,, New York, N. Y., and San Francisco, Cal., and at the school. For further information apply t K. L. Chal craf', Supt., Chemawa, Oregon. C. F. LARRABEE, Acting Commissioner. r r BREVI FIE.S .J Some of the McBride Hall girls are taking music lessons. We are all very glad to see Clara Rob inson out pf the hospital, and attending school, after being in the hospital a week. We are having some very fine weather here at school nowadays. Frank Coburn printed some blue and red ribbons for the Y. M. C. A. boys'. The society is divided into the Reds and Blues. Louise Thornton arrived here Sunday evening. The dairv boys challenged the bakers to a game of basketball and were ac cepted. Emma and Agnes Shepard are taking violin lei-sons. They both can read notes pretty well trow. We notice by the papers that there is a 15 year old Indian girl of New York state answering to the charge of murder. We also notice that she is only one eight Indian, while the one eighth was doing the horriblef deed we wonder what the seven eighths were doing in the meantime Miss Nora Mann who is attending the Willametty University is also taking lessons on the banjo from Prof. Long of Salem.
