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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1911)
3 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN SWORDS OF GENERAL GRANT bill got loose, and the hustle to find it In the National museum at Washing was simply a tragedy. A clerk in the ton there is a valuable collection of pension office wanted to give a hundred- swords which belonged to General Grant dollar bill to his mother for a birthday and were presented to him on various present. He sent Jackson, the colored occasions during his military career. messenger of the commissioner of pen The general prized these swords very sion, down to the treasury department highly and at the time of his bankruptcy with a lot of small change to get a new gave them as a security for loan. He $100 bill. Jackson, instead of putting afterwards recovered them with the the bill in his pocket, as he thought he proceeds of his fatuous Memoirs, which had, tucked it into a wrinkle in his shirt. he wrote while slowly dying. One of It spilled out, and landed on the floor the swords was presented to him at the of the treasury department, however, capture of Fort Donelson. On this and there they told him he could not occasion, one of his officers, noticing have gone far if he wanted to. It had, that the enemy’s haversacks were filled been picked up by the ti i.e he got back, with rations, reported the fact to (¡rant and put back in the vaults with the with the words,’"They have come out pre expectation that whoever had lost it pared to fight for several days.” Grant, would come after it. shaking his head slowly, replied: ‘ This RANDOM. means retreat. Soldiers don’t fill their I he grain is doing nicelv. haversacks this way unless they are planning to decamp. Now then, one I he farmers are very busy plowing more sharp attack and we will end this down at the lake. fight. Frank Madison returned to Cheinawa A little later Grant took possession of last week from Washington. the fort, and in honor of his triumph a Mrs. A bn Logan, of Toledo Oregon, handsome sword was presented to him by G. W. Graham, C. C. March, C. W. was visiting her son, James, at the Lagout and John Cook. It is gei erally school this week. known as the “Sword of Donelson.” and Felix Isadore is now back at his old is the one which Grant was most fond work as a gardener. Mr. Westley says of wearing. Felix can plow some. There are three other famous swords •Joe Bittles succeeded in making the which were presented to Grant on occa training table in the trv-out on Monday sions similar to that« f his victoy at Fort afternoon. He came in fourteenth. Donelson. They are all beautifully en The connecting of the pipes in the graved and rest in the National museum, small boys’ lavatory will be finished the favorite relics of General Grant.—Ex. soon by Mr. Smith, Mr. VanTassel and their details. CHASING A BIG BILL. There were people tearing their hair at tne treasury department in Washing ton the other day. A hundred-dollar Mr. Jones, a speculator, of Jefferson, Oregon, purchased 210 bushels of potatoes from the school last week. They bought 80 cent per.
