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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
ENGINEERS.
Joseph Nix is the most modest young
man in the engineering department, but
he had a smile on his fane Tuesday
morning when the engineer entered the
boiler room and inquired about steam
and why not? The steam guages reg
istered at seventy-five pounds. Water!
Water! was the cry Monday afternoon.
Now 6ince the leaky elbow on the water
system has been replaced nobody wants
water.
John Hunter is a record breaker, he
is still on the night shift. The most
lucky '"chap" among the engineers is
Harry Jonea. He gets a "hand out'
wherever he goes, or rather he know? all
the good places on the grounds. While
informing the Domestic Science as to the
reason of the lack of water, he semi a
quarter of a pie.
The bottom of the vv( 11 is being ce
mented this week.
Time teils the tale and it has told it
well in the life of the Eureka packing.
It is splendid for good engines, a perfect
packing for poor engines, etc. Ask the
Chemawa Band as to their experience
with it last summer.
During the installing of the large
dynamo the ammeter showed economy
on the part of users. Now since we have
a generator capable of giving all the
power needed and more, too, shall we
turn on all the lights, whether needed
or not, and waste fuel? '"The better
qualified the man the better. the salary."
Young men increase your salaries by
taking a course in our engineering and
plumbing departments. A good bargain
we furnish the fquipment for learning
the trade, you furnish the head.
An Engineer.
INDIAN PROPERTY RIGHTS. '
When an Indian man marries an In
dian maid in the Indian way, he jR
within the protection of the white man's
law, according to United States District
Judge R. S. Bean, who said so this
morning.
The reason for the judge's decision
was litigation growing out of the title to
certain landson the Umatilla reservation
where Indians had married according to
tribal customs had been divorced, and
finally had died, leaving the settlement of
of the estates to the care of the white
man's court.
Three of the?e cases came before Judge
Bean recently, while a fourth presented
the slightly different features that the
dying Indian had been refused the last
rites of the church unless he was mar.
ried in the church. 'I he squaw refused
lo go tluough with the ceremony, and
lived with her husband as a servant tin
til his death.
Judge Bmn said in rendering his de
cision that the question was whether the
manage of an Indian allotee according
to tribal customs was valid. It had been
contended that since the federal act of
1887 provided that all allotees should be
citizens of United States therefore they
are bound by the same laws as other
citizens, including the obligation to
marry and the privilege of being divorced
like other people.
The federal courts had never passed on
the question, Judge Bean s;id, though
the state supreme court had decided that,
tribal relations were binding. It was
only go d reasoning to hold that where
the federal government regulated the
right of the Indian to drink liquor and
kept him confined to his reservations
that the citizenship of the Indian was
still hedged about with some restriction.
Since their tribal life had not been chang
ed, it was only proper that their tribal
customs should be allowed to prevail.
He, therefore held thata tribal marriage
was binding, and that childem born
the result of tribal marriages were to b
considered the proper heirs to estates
left by Indian allotees.