Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1919-04-18
SlLETZ

olietZ Wuile on Her way TO take cnarge
OF the school in l.. d. Woods district.
She formerly taught IN the public
schools OF Newport. Her husband,
Prof. ]. M Miller (Brick Miller, as a.
was best known when football play
err is Principal OF the .Wnrren school
near Portland. He has five teachers
under him and the school Is one of
the best In the country. When he was
leader in the ball games, a freckled
faced, redIheaded boy with John at
tached to the end Of his name, no one
Thought he WIS the making of a great
teacher. There is nothing In a name.
1t is in the person.
Mrs Grant King returned Friday
evening from two weeks visit with
friends in Portland.
Mrs. Franklin, with her mother, Mrs.
Allen Parker, moved back to Toledo
Saturday. They spent the winter and
summer at Siletz. Mike Mackey was
over to help them get ready TO move.
A good many people are now coming
TO Sflotz looking for land. The Siletz
Valley as every one knows, is the gar.
den spot Of Lincoln County
A. c. Crawford with mis- tractor is
now plowing the land about the Agen-
cy The land looks fine and the tractor
moves faster than horses, plows deep
and lays the burrows smoothly. The
tractor plow, like the auto, has come
to say. With these spleadid improve
men;s the farmers life is a pleasure.
When properly farmed this soil will
produce Hike It used to, so bushels OF
oats and 300 to 400 bushels of potatoes
10 an acre The Indians say they are
going 10 keep up with the white man.
II they do they will have to get up a
little e,c'lier and work n little harder.
These Indians are patriotic and fur.
nished a good quota Of young men To
help put down the great war, that
sought 10 overthrow democracy and
establish autOcracy in Ill the world
AutocroCy and democracy cannot live
together in this world. One or the
other must give wtay and from the
spirit exhibited by the friends of lib
erty autocracy must givo way. Abra
ham Lincoln aafd long ago, This na
tiOn cannot exist half slave and hall
free" so we believe now this world
cannot survive half democracy and
hall docpo.ic.
a social hop was given at TIC
Grange Han Saturday evening by the
EDiourian Club Twenty couples were
present and all report a splendid good
time. Miss Elkins was chairman OF
tie managing committee.
Archie Lane, son of Mr. AID Mrs
Scott Lane, came home Friday and
will help a.s father run the farm. He
belonged to the Aviation Corps and
was stationed in Mississippi. Did not
go over the seas
Susan Fuller. Undian name Cooua.
uD, died az Siletz April 9. 1919. age =
as near as could be made out, 1Ol
years. She was n young woman when
che great fire swept over this country
in the fall Of lS45. She said her peo
pie. the Siletz tribe, numbered $50 per
sons. She was born near the Agency
and lived at Siletz all her life. She
often spoke Of the Silctz Valley. said
her people always had plenty to eat
great herds OF elk and deer grazed
upon the green grass Of the valley and
played upon the hills and peacefully
lay in the shady groves along the
banks OF the beautiful Siletz river
She heard the sound OF the WATERFALL,
and the song OF birds long before the
white man made his appearance in tht.
country. Said the Alsea, Yaquina
Salmon River and Nastucky peopl,
married among her people till the,
were like one family. and the Silet;
tribe lived in peace with all thei
neighbors. She said that when tn,
great fire went thru this country th,
Great Spirit kept II from distroyin.
the timber on Siletz so that her peopl
might have a hunting ground TO keeI
them from starving. But instead o
the Indians getting the hunting groun,
the corporations have got II for tn
benefit Of the white race and then
selves. Her funeral WIS preached b
Rev. Walter Ross and the choir san
some beautiful selections and he
body was laid to rest among her peopl
Un the hill overlooking the beautifr
Siletz Valley. almost a stones thro-
from where she was born, more tina
hundred years ago.
Mrs. p. Il. Perkins OF Portlan,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ Collin,
is now on three weeks visit with he