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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1909)
tUeekly Cbtftiawa;; Jlmericari VOL. 11 E ti APRIL 30, 1909. NO. 45 Thousand Indians in Prohi Campaign A recent dispatch from Fort Lapwai, Idaho, says : One thousand copper color ed followers of Chief Joseph, a once powerful leader of the Nez Perce tribe in the panhandle of Idaho, will join the prohibition forces in the fight against the rum shops in Nez Perce county, when the campaign is started to make the dis trict a part of the arid zone. The' Indian Voter's league has organized its forces under the direction of James Stuart, dis trict forester, and is instructing the reds in the duties of citizenship. The Nez Perce treaty contains a clause for absolute prohibition, inserted by the United States Government at the urgent request of the chieftains, who declared they would not otherwise ratify the com pact, as they had watched the effect of rum on the reds. Many of the Indians in the country are educated and wealthy. Thy own considerable farming land on the reserva tion, and will noon receive more than $150,000 from the government, most of which will be deposited in the First Americans', bank at Fort Lapwai, where Corbett Lawyers, a full blooded Nez Perce Indian, has full charge. ... : ; James Stuart is a Chemawa graduate' of the class of 1885. Ed. ... ; -m 1 id (!i LOCALS Wm. Ingram visited the school Friday. Miss Ethel Parrish, of Salem, vvi?ited -Miss Dohse, Friday and Saturday, .1 Mr. Franklin P. Olney was here the first part of the week visiting his daugh ter and son, Ellen and Grover. a; - :' Harry Queachpalma can be seen these fine days resting on .a new ''hoe' -handled We are inclined to believe- the old ''one broke down. .:. v.;-: .d"i Our first team Went to Salem to1 jlay1' the high school team' of that'city',' but' in the middle of the game1 we were ha n'ded a package. We put it in our ' bat "bag,-1 threw the bats in on top 'of it, arid :c'ame home.' . : - .;'' , ' "Do all the good you can to all ' the people you can all the time you can'"' This "seems to be one of the rujes adopted by some of the McBride Hail girlsv especially when you have something good to eat.
