Group Athletics

Group athletics as provided for by the new Course of Study and our school calendar do not mean the playing of impromptu football or other games in the vicinity of the shops before time for the work whistle to blow. The rules of the school provide that boys should start for their various shops when the first whistle blows and be inside the shop ready to begin work at the second whistle. A number of the boys seem to fail to understand this rule. This morning a boy was taken to the hospital for examination after indulging in a "football" game around the shops. Happily the only injury sustained was the loss of a little wind but it might easily have been more serious. Confine your play to the grounds provided for that purpose where employees are on hand to supervise and see that no one gets hurt. -Campus.

October Weather at Phoenix

The official weather man tells us that our highest temperature was 80 degrees, our lowest 41. The average is 70 degrees, just about the normal. The highest temperature recorded at Phoenix during any October was 102 but it has been easy to forget that this year. This October had 65 inches rainfall and, as we have previously stated, no snow. We have now just reached our normal total rainfall for the year up to date, 6.35 inches. There were 24 clear days, and an average of 84 per cent sunshine.

Indian Day at State Fair

Wednesday, November 15, will be observed as Indian day at the Arizona State Fair.

A Noted Visitor

Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma honored the Phoenix School with a visit on Monday morning, October 30. He was introduced by Superintendent Brown and gave the pupils some excellent advice, his main points being kindness, industry and honesty. He carried his audience back through a number of generations to bring out the fact that we were all kin to each other. He emphasized the fact that the true Indian was always honest and truthful. At the close of the speaking the employees were introduced to the senator. The meeting was held at the new outdoor auditorium. The senator addressed an audience in Phoenix during the afternoon at which a number of pupils and employees were present. Senator Owen is of Indian blood and chairman of one of the most important committees in the United States Senate.-Campus.

Indians Increasing

Cato Sells, Indian Commissioner, after a survey of the tribesmen who are wards of the United States, reports that the death rate is falling off, the birth rate increasing and that the number of persons of Indian blood has recently commenced to increase.

It has been said that this strange race, of superior mental attainment, yet possessed of no literature and no enduring structures, would have developed, in the course of centuries, to be peers of the Caucasions if it had been left to itself. Living in a hunter's paradise, the Indians were slow to branch out into agriculture and to abandon their nomadic habits. Civilization has demanded that they adopt a different manner of living abruptly or perish, and a great many have perished.

It is in farming that the Indian has found his refuge. With the Government striving to undo the brutal errors of centuries, it seems probable that the mournful prospect of the extermination of a brave people is indefinitely postponed.--Detroit (Mich.) News.

Miss Flenniken has been appointed to a position at Mescalero, New Mexico.

Mollie Redfox is assistant laundress at the Fort Yates, North Dakota, school.

Dr. Callahan of Oklahoma has reported for duty at Toadlena school, Crozier, New Mexico.

Miss Ruth Beiler of Waterman, Illinois, has been appointed teacher at Cantonment, Oklahoma.

Miss Austin of the Carlisle school has been promoted to head matron at Tomah, Wisconsin.

Claude Dicker, carpenter at Haskell institute, has resigned and will follow his trade in Lawrence.

Julia Brownwolfe, a former Haskell pupil, is employed in the land office at Fort Yates, North Dakota.

Mrs. Lydia Birkholz Spencer, a former matron at Haskell Institute, is now living in Philadelphia.

Ida Schrimpscher has been appointed assistant matron at the Riverside school, Anadarko, Oklahoma.

Mrs. Gates Hodges, boys' matron at Genoa, Nebraska, four years ago, is now a resident of Houston, Texas.

Mr. Wells, formerly of the Philippine Service, has been appointed principal at Shiprock, New Mexico.

Miss Georgia E. Cantrell of Butler, Missouri, reported for duty as teacher at Genoa, Nebraska, October 9.

Miss Bishop, large boys' matron at Haskell institute, has been transferred to Shiprock, New Mexico, as seamstress.

Miss Hazel Richards of Genoa, Nebraska, is temorarily filling a teacher's position in the Indian school at that place.

F. M. Grant of Pawnee City, Oklahoma, has been appointed carpenter at Genoa, Nebraska, succeeding Mr. Redbird.

Edward Mills, formerly in charge at the Tulalip, Washington, agency, is now a resi dent of Everett in the same State.

John Shawnego of Holdenville, Oklahoma, has been appointed baker at Chilocco. He is a former employee in the Service.

George Fletcher, formerly a pupil at Has kell and Chilocco, has been appointed assist ant disciplinarian at Genoa, Nebraska.

W. F. Morgan, formerly gardener at the Genoa, Nebraska, school, is now a mailing clerk in the postoffice at Detroit, Michigan.

Edward Bristow, for many years in charge of the Swinomish, Washington, reservation, died recently at the Washington Veterans'

home.

Mrs. Mattie E. Pruitt, teacher, transferred from the Red Moon school, Hammon, Oklahoma, to Genoa, Nebraska, has returned to Anadarko on account of ill health.

Ray S. Abbey of Oklahoma, recently stationed at Canton, South Dakota, has been transferred to Genoa, Nebraska, as assistant engineer, succeeding Mr. Warner, transferred to Tomah, Wisconsin.

Miss Inez Hudson, teacher at Shawnee, Oklahoma, resigned recently and was married to Mike Lynch, formerly of Crow agency, Montana. Mr Lynch is employed in Government work near Spokane, Washington.

Miss Grace L. Lyons has been transferred from Fort Mojave, Arizona, to Sherman Institute as head nurse, succeeding Miss Harriet Quillian who is taking a special course at the Santa Barbara Normal.

Mrs. Taylor, who resigned recently as teacher at Genoa, Nebraska, has been reinstated and appointed field matron at Lamedeer, Montana, where Mr. Taylor expects to substitute in day school work.

Miss Susie Thomas, matron at Red Lake, Minnesota, underwent a surgical operation in Minneapolis shortly after her return from annual leave. During her absence Mrs. Elliott is substituting in the position.

Mrs. H. E. Mitchell is employed as matron at Allesandro Lodge, Sherman Institute, during the absence of Mrs. Lubo. Mrs. Tarrant is assisting at Ramona Home pending the appointment of a successor to Miss Sherier.

Edward Peacore, principal of the Fort Peck school, Poplar, Montana, was operated on for appendicitis at Wyandotte, Oklahoma, during the summer. Mr. Peacore has recovered and is again on duty at Fort Peck.

Recent appointments at Tulalip, Washington, include: Miss Elizabeth Hazen, seamstress; Mrs. Caroline F. Williams of Marysville, temporary teacher; Miss Lucy M. Lane of Lumni reservation, baker; Miss Carolyn M. Hibel of Everett, temporary assistant clerk.

Miss Nellie A. Armstrong has been transferred from Haskell Institute to Shawnee, Oklahoma, as teacher. Other changes at the same school are Miss Jane Reed, appointed teacher to succeed Miss Inez Hudson-Lynch, resigned, and Mrs. Sophia Anderson has resigned after many years' service.

Among recent changes at the Shiprock, New Mexico, agency are Misses Phillips and Wisdom, transferred, and John Chisholm, resigned. Miss Gibson succeeds Miss Wisdom as seamstress. M. E. Poyer, clerk at the same school, is expecting transfer to the United States Forest Service.

Superintendent Small of the Seger school, Colony, Oklahoma, has been made special supervisor and it is reported he will be succeeded by Jessie W. Smith, supervising principal of the Kiowa agency, Anadarko, Oklahoma. Miss Helen Mitchell from the Seger school is stenographer to the superintendent at Chilocco.

The employees at the Kiowa agency hospital, Lawton, Oklahoma, are as follows: Dr. J. G. Janney, physician; Mrs. C. M. Williamson, head nurse; Mrs. Semeler (temporary), nurse; Mrs. Wanda Komah and Miss Bessie Audy, assistant nurses; Miss Ollie Nunn, cook; Miss Mary Maines, assistant cook; Mrs. Barbara McGuire, female laborer; Dudley Overton, engineer; Jacob Walkinney, policeman.

Mrs. Joe Law, probably the best informed Indian on the Keshena, Wisconsin, reservation, is dead. She started the Indian school at Keshena and was instrumental in securing the first appropriation from the Government. For many years she was a teacher in the school. During the past twelve years, while she was an invalid, she has made rugs and tapestries for Chicago department stores.

Joe L. Shell, farmer in charge of the Swinomish, Washington, reservation, requests information regarding the present location of Edward Calhoun, for whom there is important mail in the Swinomish office.

Frank L. Hoyt has been transferred from Rapid City, South Dakota, to Genoa, Nebraska, as principal teacher, succeeding George F. Dutt, transferred to a similar position at Albuquerque, New Mexico.

AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM

Ground was recently broken for the building of the Museum of the American Indian, an institution to be devoted to the solving of the great mystery of the origin of the pre-historic races of the Western Hemisphere. Archer M. Huntington has given to the institution a site with a frontage of 65 feet on south Broadway, just of 155th street and adjacent to the group of buildings of which the Hispanic Museum is the center. Friends of George G. Heye, who has gathered the notable collection which is to be placed in the structure, have subscribed $250,000 for the building.-New York Times.

Mrs. Gray, boys' matron at Hayward, Wisconsin school, died recently.

James Smith, assistant clerk at the Phoenix School, has resigned, effective October 31.

Elton H. Davis has resigned as teacher of agriculture at Flandreau, South Dakota.

Leslie Gordon was transferred recently from the Sac and Fox agency to the Otoe, Oklahoma, agency.

Miss Phoebe Wisdom has been transferred from Shiprock, New Mexico, to Fort Lapwai, Idaho, as seamstress.

Enoch Jones, formerly an employe in the Service, is now assistant cashier in a bank at San Diego, California.

Miss Laura Westcott has been appointed intermediate teacher at Rainy school, Gotebo, Oklahoma.

Mountain

It is reported that R. E. Brooks has been transferred from Tulalip, Washington, to Sherman Institute as principal teacher.

Miss Helen C. Phillips has been transferred from boys' matron at Shiprock, New Mexico, to Sherman Institute as large girls' matron.

Mrs. Lida Allen Creutz of Los Angeles, California, a teacher at Haskell Institute in the late 80's, was a recent visitor at that school.

David M. Drappeau has resigned as assistant clerk at Flandreau, South Dakota, to take a course at a business college in Grand Island, Nebraska.

W. E. G. Humphries, principal at Flandreau, South Dakota, has been promoted and transferred to day school supervisor at Col

ville, Washington.

Miss Julia Dempster has been transferred from Red Lake, Minnesota, to Flandreau, South Dakota, as assistant matron, succeeding Miss Smith, resigned.

A contract has been let to remodel the sewerage system at Chemawa, Oregon, at an estimated price of $4,700. A $12,500

addition to the auditorium at the school is also being constructed.

John J. Teeple, formerly assistant clerk at Flandreau, South Dakota, is now employed in a similar position at White Earth, Minnesota.

It is reported that W. F. Dains has been appointed teacher at Camp Verde, Arizona. Mr. Dains was formerly connected with a State school in Ohio and has made many friends in Phoenix where he has been employed on the Indian school car line.

An interesting exchange which is eagerly read is the Future Citizen, published by the boys at the industrial school, Milledgeville, Georgia. It makes no pretense as a work of art but is chock full of good reading and sound common sense. Anyone would do well to get a copy and will be well repaid by doing so.

The Chemawa American makes its appearance in changed form as a four-page weekly with Supt. Harwood Hall as editor and Ruthyn Turney, printer, as manager. The magazine form will be retained for issues at less frequent intervals than heretofore. The work is up to the usual high standard of this publication.

Frank H. Avery, day school supervisor on the Colville, Washington, agency, who died recently, was one of the "Old Guard" in Indian education. Originally appointed from Kansas, Mr. Avery filled with credit various positions in the Service, including a short term as superintendent of the non-reservation school at Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The print shop has on hand a number of photographs of the school taken by McCulloch and Kunselman. The pano ramic views are $1 each, buildings and shops, 50 cents each and groups of pupils

mounted; 35 cents mounted. Those who have orders in at present are requested to call for their pictures at the NATIVE AMERICAN Print Shop.