THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 3
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Employes and other1: To be prompt,
set your watch with the office clock, which
keeps Western Union time.
Why is the Chemawa baseball team
like a woman with a market basket?
Because it has become a family affair.
In a private letter we found last quar
ter the Phoenix School had 610 full
bloods enrolled. They certainly have
the genuine camp Indians in the vicinity
of Phoenix.
Misses Grear and Earlougher were in
Portland on Saturday. When met by
an "American" reporter they each had a
copy of the "Portland Journal" and
were eagerly searching for "the myster
ious Raffles." . '
The Mt. Angel baseball team had an
easy game last Saturday when they de
feated Chemawa 5 to 1. The Mt. Angel
pitcher put the ball right over the base
and would laugh to see the Chemawa boys
ving at hot air.
Leon Reinken is now employed by
Geo. V. Johnson & Co., clothiers of Sa
lem, as tailor for that establishment.
Lion is a product of Chemawa's tailor
si op and is another example of what a
boy may do at the Chemawa Indian
Training School if he will but take ad
vantage of the opportunities afforded at
this institution.
The American has received an invita
tion to attend the Quarter-Centennial of
haskell Institute, which will be celebrat
ed during commencement week, June
10 to 17. The purpose of the centennial
is to show in a definite way what Haskell
has accomplished in Indian education;
to foster a spirit of co, operation and sym
pathy between Haskell and Indians, par
ents, ex-student&, ex-field officials, and
others interested in Indian education;
and to afford an opportunity for old stu
dents and others to renew their friend
ship with one another and to spend a
week in social pleasures.
REVIVALS AMONG
YAKIMA INDIANS
The wave of religious, enthdsiasm
which struck North Yakima some weeks
ago seems to have penetrated into the
wilds of the Yakima Indian reservation.
Two of the churches near Fort Simcoe
are just now holding big revivals which
are drawing Christian red men from all
over the 360 square miles which the
reservation embraces, says a recent
report. The more pretentious of the two
revivals is in charge of a party of 40 or
50 Nez Perce Indians from the Idaho
reservation.
These Indians have been coming to
the nearby reservation regularly each
summer for years. They camp near the
church at which their services are held
and there is a continued period of relig
ious activity from the day they arrive
until the day they depart.
AGED CHIEF PAIN DEA'D.
NORTH YAKIMA, May 17. Chief
Spencer, aged 110 years, a Klickitat, died
on the reservation at Fort Simcoe, Friday.
In 1843, he saw whites come to the Coast
across country as settlers. In 1856 he
was a guide and scout for Col. Wright
and Maj. Raines. He had always been
faithful to the whites, in spite of the
fact that volunteers, in 1850, killed
every member of his family, which was
going down to the Columbia river, near
the Cascades, in canoes This, he said
was accidental. Children of Chief Spen
cer's second family are Wilbur and Lan
caster Spencer, of Toppenish, prominent
buisness men of that town. Seattle P.
I., May 18, '09.