THE -CHE MAW A AMERICAN
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Mr. Beck has the first three companies
of boys completely uniformed now ac
cording to the new pattern. Native
American.
The lower house of the Oklahoma
legislature last week passed a measure
prohibiting the smoking of cigarettes in
the state and providing fpr the infliction
of a penalty of not less than $5 or more
than $25 for each separate offense.
Native American.
We are always glad to see the Weekly
Chemawa American from the Chemawa
Indian Training ' School (Oregon).
High Schojl Bell, San Jose, Calif.
A conference of persons interested in
opening the Standing Rock reservation
in North Dakota, to settlement and en
try was held at the Indian office late
yesterday, as a result of which it is
probable that Representative Marshall
of North Dakota will shortly introduce
a bill on that subject. Probably the
bill will be modeled on other measures
of a similar chracter which have become
laws, leaving the president to designate
the manner in which to dispose of the
land. Weekly Review.
The Grand Junction Reveille on one
page longs for weather that would give
them ice for skating and snow for sleigh
ing and on another page, presents a nice
picture of boys "cutting ice for the school's
summer use," which is apparently
18 or 20 inches thick. Either the
weather changed between the printing
of the different pages,, or it requires
thicker ice for skating in Colorado than
in South Dakota. Weekly Review. v
Many do not like the Commercial
Department, but if they d o not, it is
mostly their own fault for they do not
work with a will, but simply because
they think they must. Parker Papyrus.
The annual valentine party at Sherman
was given on Friday evening. Every
student recieved one or more valentines,
and a delightful evening was spent. The
occupants of the Tepee and Wigwam
received their valentines through the
school post-office. Sherman Bulletin.
Miss A. C. Egan, the new superin
tendent of the Yuma Indian school, holds
a session of court regularly every morn
ing and deals rigorous justice to the
Yumas who have fallen by the wayside.
Sh 9 gives them jail sentences of from
three days to a week and keeps them
hard at work building fences and clean
ing the camp while doing their time.
Miss Egan has succeeded in breaking
up a malicious practice sometimes re
borted to by a' few members of the tribe.
Two Indians testified to buying whiskey
from a Mexican in order to get a trip to
.San Diego to appear as witnesses in
court. The Mexican accused was found
to be innocent and the Indians respon
sible for his arrest were, given a scare
which will make them tremble to reap
pear in Miss Egan's court.- Ex.
Preparations are being made for track
work. At a meeting of the athletic
association held February 18, Arthur
Wilson was elected track manager. Altho
it is still early in the season, there is
prospects of a good track team for the
season of '08. The Crescent.
James Big Heart, former chief of the
Osage Indians, who it is claimed, was
the richest Indian in the United States,
is dead of paralysis at his home near
Big Heart, in the Osage Reservation.
Big Heart was born in Henry County,
Missouri,, sixty-seven years ago. With
forty other Osages he volunteered in a
company of Kansas cavalry and par
ticipated in several battles of the Civil
War. The New Era.