Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-03-13
"A Liberal Offer.
Destitute Indians.

Bishop Stanley left this city at five
o'clock Saturday evening on the delayed
east bound train. The St. Paul Globe
of Mondaylpublishes a column synopsis
of sermon he preached there Sunday
morning. The following is an extract
from this article in the Globe:
There has been terrible suffering and
privation among the Indians and half
breeds of the Turtle Mountain reserva-
tion during the past winter. Some time
last February, Bishop Stanley Of
North Dakota, received word from the
branch of the Catholic bureau at Rolia,
advising him that if something was not
done at once, starvation would be the
lot of many Of the people. Word was
at once sent to Father Stephan, director
Of the Catholic Indian bureau at Wash
lngton, and Bishop Stanley set out at
once from his home in Jamestown to see
for himself if the state of affairs had been
as bad as reported. Meantime Father
Stephan had communicated the case to
Edward Morel and his wife, formerly
Miss Louise Drexel. sister of Catherine
Drexel, all of whom have been more
than liberal in all such cases, who lmme
diately sent word to expend any amount
of money they might deem fit, to provide
for the sufferers. Bishop Stanley arrived
in the city Saturday, and purchased
what was sufficient provisions to last for
month. The shipment was made at
once, and the goods will arrive at their
destination today.
yesterday morning Bishop Stanley
preached an eloquent sermon at the
Church of the Immaculate Conception,
in which h., described his visit to Turtle
Mountain reservation, and the terrible
condition Of the suffering Indians. He
said that according to the official books
OF the agents, there were 4l5 families,
numbering in all $3.50 souls, who had
little, if any, means of support, and of
FROM the government. These are given
ten pounds OF flour and three pounds of
fat pork each, once in two weeks, one
month or sometimes two months, ac-
cording to the judgment of the agents,
or the quantity o. the supply on
hand, 4 X
1.-The shipment that will arrive today,
he says, consists of 10000 pounds of
flour, 5000 pounds of bacon, 5000 pounds
of rice, AGO pounds of tea, four barrels Of
sugar, and $40 woolen blankets. Aside
from this, he says that the sufferers are
in need of wearing apparel He stated
that these donations might be sent to
himself at jamestown. Oak, or to Sister
Genevieve, at Rolla, North Dakota.
1.-THE sermon was touching one, and
its eloquent pleading moved many to
tears. Yesterday afternoon Bishop
Stanley stated that donations had al
ready begun to come IN, and he hoped to
see the sufferers cared for in short
time. He said that he could not HIM
self believe that such degree of suffer
ing could be found outside the tortures
of the exiles of Siberia, and had to see it
with his own eyes to be convinced that
such things could exist in the United
States"
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