Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-08-16
INDIAN
SCHOOL
CLOSING
Salem Training School Has
Excellent Programs Notes
on Commencement Day

school at Chemawa Tuesday afternoon
and evening and all were highly
pleased.
Superintendent Chalcraft, superin.
t%endent in charge Of the Salem Indian
school, has been in the service 90 years
OF this time he was 10 years at the
Chehalis agency and Puyallup school.
Then he came to the Salem school. re.
tired from the service awhile, was four
years supervisor of Indian schools, and
then returned to Salem on Superintend.
ent Potter's resignation.
Assistant Superintendent Campbell
has been in the Indian service since
1881. He started on his official career
in Carlisle, Pa, the mother of all mod.
ern Indian Training schools; was su.
perintendent at Sisseton. 9. Oak, trans
ferred to the Wind River school. sho.
shone reservation, Wyoming, then to
Warm Springs, and thence to Salem.
Disciplinarian David T.. Brewer has
been reared in the Indian educational
work. He was born an Indian near
Tacoma, was officer at Forest Grove,
and came with the school when IL
was located where II now is near Sa.
lem. He was detailed to take posses.
sion of the grounds before the first
blow was struck on n building. For
three years he has been living at his
nome near Tacoma, and on June 9th re.
sumed his position at Chemawa.
Among the visitors on announcement
day were several old pioneers, who
gave most interesting "reminiscences Of
their first visits to Chemawa. w. d.
Claggett, whose old home place joins
Chemawa on the west, has killed deer
on nearly every acre Of the site Of the
government school. He was first on
the grounds SO years ago this fall, and
pointed to a little rise Of ground on
which the great water tank now stands
whore he killed two deer standing on
one log. He did not say whether he
stood on the n log or the deer. In
those days when n met as many In.
dams as whites the white man saluted:
"Khheim.' The Indian replied:
"Ka mika elatawa." Good day.
Where are you goingi Both races
were obliged to employ the jaIgon for
intercourse. II was more necessary for
the whites 10 speak Indian than for
the Indians TO speak white. John
Mimic, who was at the forenoon exer.
cisos, rode his pony over the site OF
this government school in 1s45, or
sixty years ago, from the Salem hills
to st. Paul. The country was heavily
timbered and there were more Indians
than whites. Chemayway, as II was
pronounced, was four miles nsrth.
west on a bench Of land, just above
the river bottom. His salutation when
he met an Indian was; "Kaheim, ak. "
His Indian replied; "Nawitka," or
''Klaheim, n~awitka." Good day,
Good day, certainly. OF course
Indians Of those days are gone,
The missionary, civilization, whiskey
and other eoneomitants Of progress
have wiped the red man Of pioneerdom
out of existence. His descendants are
here to the third and fourth genera
lion, with most generous representa-
ion of white blood. The Indian who
through the forest with pan.
her tread 10 stalk his deer with bow
md arrow or even closer spear throw,
$ represented by the manly, upright
igures of educated boys and girls. The
'nly Indian gait left is on some little
right of the reservation. The
walk "white." The general APP
and health OF the boys and
is excellent. They have bright .
yes and happy faces, walk with jaun' !
y and snappy step, are well fed and ,
veil clothed, as well they may be on ,
allowance of sl67 per capita, and 4,
II the comforts of government homes. .
are about 500 children here, :
lore than half of more or less white
arentage, and so to 90 employees, most q
white. Excepting an epidemic of !,
last winter, with one fatality q
lere is almost no hospital record to
'eak Of. Good drainage, septic sew ;.
age, plenty Of good water, vegeta-
es and fruit nave done their work. a.
The Field Sports.
Befor a very large crowd and amid
ost beautiful weather, the following q,
were pulled on, Assistant su'
rintendent Campbell time keeper,
.rrow starter, Woods clerk, Brewer
Sp
race, 100 yards; silas Moon, Sc