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Extent Of the Educational
System Adopted by the
United States.
A Noble Act of Charity by a
Daughter Of the Late w. :
H. Vanderbilt. z
Dakota Grand Army Men il
Camp Yesterday at the /.
City Of RedfieId. !
Iowa Republicans Given a
Surprise by Gov. Larrabee i
--0thep News.


Special to the Globe
WINNIPEG, Man., March 2S.-Rev.
Sheldon Jackson, d. D., United States
general agent of education in Alaska,
who is at present in the city awaiting
the departure of the steamship Idaho
for Alaska, was interviewed by repre-
sentative of the GLOBE yesterday. He
has been engaged in mission work for
the past thirty years, eleven Of which
he has spent in Alaska among the In
dians. His headquarters are at Sitka,
but he is constantly travelling from
school to school and takes the greatest
interest in his work. He will be ac-
companied north by Mr.. and Mrs. Ii. j.
Lake, missionaries from Dakota, who
propose to engage in mission work
in Alaska. MI. jackson has just
returned from a visit to the
East which was partly of an official
nature. Last summer amongst the
tourists who visited Alaska was a
lady named Mrs. Shepherd, daughter
aire railroad king. This lady was
of the late W. H. Vanderbilt, the Million
greatly interested in the Alaska Indian
schools, and before returning South
she expressed her willingness
TO PAY ALL EXPENSES
in connection with taking a party of
native children East and providing them
with frst-elass education. The
munifcent offer Rev. Mr.. Jackson
gratefully accepted, and when he
started on his Eastern trip he was
accompanied by eight native children,
five girls and three boys. The girls
were placed in Moody's female seminary,
at Mortified, Mass, and two OF the
boys at Capt. Pratt's Indian school. at
Carlisle, Pa. Mrs. Shepherds offer en-
braces four years course and all eX-
penses OF the children paid, including
their passage back to Alaska. The
third little boy. the youngest of the lot,
was adopted by Mrs. Saxman, whose
husband was drowned in Alaska while
engaged as all Indian teacher there.
Mr.. SaXman and an Indian were
drowned while travelling in a canoe
from one station to another. Mr.. Sax
man left childless widow in the East
and the Indian left widow and three
children, the Youngest Of whom was the
little fellow mentioned above. When
Rev. Mr.. Jackson went East he visited
Mrs. SaXman, said to her the boy was
the son of the Indian who was drowned
with her husband, when she at once
made up her mind to s
ADOPT AND EDUCATE HIM.
Concerning the Indian school system
of Alaska, Mr.. Jackson said. there are
few people who have any idea Of the
number of children being educated and
cared for by the government in that
part of the United States. Throughout
the territory there are government
schools with 1000 children, nearly all
natives. These schools are situated at
Hawcan, Klawack, new Metlakahtla,
Fort Weangel, Juneau, KiIlisnoo,
Haines Kadiaka, Afognak, Unga,
Nushagak, Kuskakquim and Yukon,
and are entirely supported by the.
United States government. The Pres
byterian church has nine ministers in
the territory, four church organizations
and about $50 communicates. The
Protestant Episcopal church has two
ministers stationed there; the Moravian
church two, the Baptist church one. in
addition to several Roman Catholic and
Greek clergyman.