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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1910)
2 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PUPILS' ITEMS. John Murray is acting barber. The boys were reseated on Tuesday morning at breakfast. Mr. Saunders repaired a fence near the dairy barn on Monday. The wagonmakers put about 12 chairs together on Tuesday morning. The farmers hauled hay this week from the field west of the prune-dryer. The berry pickers came home on Fri day evening, but returned on Sunday. The blacksmiths put tires on wheels for the stump pulling machine last week. The gardeners are very busy this week cultivating and clod-mashing the 25 acre tract of potatoes. Thomas Case is fireman this week at the engineroom. Tom is becoming a great hand at this work, and after leav ing here is going to follow this calling on a steamer plying between Alaska and the coast cities. Stick to it Tom. PASSED AWAY. Under date of June 22, 1910, Mrs. J. P. Hadley wrote Supt, Chalcraft from Douglas, Alaska, of the death of Chas. Weaver. It is with sincere regret that we iearn of the demie. of the estimable young man. Following is the brief letter of Mrs. Hadley: "Dear Sir:- We thought you would like to hear concerning Chas. Weaver. He passed away before your letter came in May. He suffered very much the last few days, but through it all gave testi mony of the presence of Jesus as his strenght. We seldom have such a victor ious death among these people. We are leaving the field this week Jor a one-year furlough, having spent nearly five years in Douglas." FLOWERS OF THE STATES The goldenrod is the chosen flower rf Alabama, Kentucky, Maryland and H braska. Arkansas and Michigan havt adopted the apple blossom. Louisia,);i and Mississippi the magnolia, Washin ton and West Virginia the rhododendron Iowa and North Dakota the wild rose California has the poppy, Colorado th,. columbine, Conncticut the mountain laurel, Delaware peach blossom, Ida ,, the syfinga, Indiana chooses corn, Kan sas the sunflower, Maine the pine cone Minnesota the moccasin, Montana hitter root. New York the rose, Ohio the red carnation, Oklahoma the mistletoe, Ore gon the grape, Rhode Island the violet, South Dakota "pasq'ie," Texas the him bonnet, Utah the Sego lily, Vermont red clover, Tennessee the daisy. Washington, June 27. Census bureau officials predict that within the next ten years all the Indians in the United State will become citizens. The 1910 Cenevi report will show manv interesting fact? about the red men. Tt will show each Indian's. tribal relations, his proportion of Indian and other blood, whether he i- axed, the character of the dwelling he i living in, the number of times married and whether living in polygamy. Ex. Miss Lucy Camille of the Flathead Indians was married Sundav -at the mission, near Tekoa, to Joe Sebicp. f"i of the deceased chief of the Coeur d Alenes, and the. couple were given n re ception after the ceremony. The bride .i a beautiful Indian girl and well Pl eated, while the groom is one of the prosperous members of his tribe au'l ;1 graduate of the Chemawa Indian Sclv' at Chemawa, Ore. Ex.