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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
CROP PROSPECTS.
The farm and garden of Chemaiva
never gave better promise than the pres
ent season. The orchards are laden
with fruit this year so that there will be
a profusion of both small and tree fruits.
The indications are that there will be an
abundance of strawberries, blackberries,
apples, cherries, prune plums, prunes,
petite and Itallian, pears and some few
loganberries ' The latter, being planted
last year. Green onions, radishes and
lettuce are about ready W the t-ible and
new potatoes will be here long before
last year's crop is eaten. Peas, beans
and other vegetables are all looking well.
Keeping the weeds down makes the gar
deners hustle. The grain and hay crop
never looked so well as at present. This
is reassuring inasmuch as this season we
have in a smaller acreage than for the
past three years, but Nr. Swartz says
he thinks the returns from this year's
sowing will excell last year's in spite of
the reduced acreage. Next year with our
additional 100 acres allowed by Congress
this year, Chemawa will be able to take
another step forward along agricultural
lines.
FROM ABROAD.
The real opening of the Coeur d'Alene
Indian Reservation took place this week,
when the fortunate landseekers who
secured the first numbers at the great
land drawing last August, appeared at
the Coeur d'Alene Land Office to select
and file upon their homesteads.
Promptly at 9 o'clock, Isadore Selig, of
Myrtle Creek, Ore., wrho had drawn No.
1, filed upon an allotment two miles west
of the town of St. Maries. John
Hedmark, of Spokane, followed. He
held No. 2, and took land one mile
north of Chatcolet. Charles G. Crom
well, of Spokane, who held No. 3, tool
land near Cherry Meadows. V
There was some delay in the filincr
owing to the changes made necessar'
by the action of the Interior Department
Herman Neudauer, of Tacoma, was the
fourth claimant, and Ella Maloney 0f
Spokane, took the fifth claim.
A party sent out by an Eastern publi
cation arrived this week and is camped
at The Dalles at Grand Dalles. It came
down th" river frm Pao in a rowboat
piloted by captain Michael Martineau, a
well-knnwn half-breed nverman. Its
purpose is to gather data concerning the
Indians and it has made arrangements to
visit ihe old Indian village of Wishkum
every day This village lies about four
miles to the east, near the North Bank
road.
CHEM A WA-WASH INGTON HIGH.
; Last Friday we played the Wash
ington High School team from Portland
and were defeated by a score of 4 to 1.
The day was far from being an ideal one
for a base ball game, nevertheless both
teams played good ball despite the
slippery condition of the ball and the
wet grounds. Outside of the first inning,
when Haight threw wild to third with
three men on bases, Chemawa played
the Portland boys to a stand-still. Smok
er, our regular second baseman, played
a star game at the catcher's position.
The Portland boys were gentlemen, both
on and off the field, and it was a pleas
ure to have them play here. They were
accompanied by Mr. Earle, who a few
years ago coached our football team.
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