The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-29
THE PASSING THRONG.

Rev. Sheldon Jackson, who is reported to have
been murdered by whisky smugglers near
Juneau, has q number of acquaintance in
Seattle, through which he has passed number
of times in his trips to and from Alaska He is
native of Montgomery county, N. Y, where he
was born in 1891. After graduation from Union
college in 1856 he went to the Princeton Theo.
logical seminary, and was ordained q Presby-
terrain minister. His first work a missionary
was at Spencer academy, In Indian terri.
tory Then from 1859 to 1864 he was home
missionary for Western Wisconsin and South.
ern Minnesota In 1869 he was made superin-
tendent of missions for Northern and Western
Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska and other territories,
and he gave special attention to the organiza-
ton of churches along the line of the Union Pa
cifc. In 1879 he went to Denver Is superin-
tendent of the missions in the Rocky mountain
territories from British America to Mexico.
There he stayed until 1882, when he went
to New York to take the business man.
agement Of tho Presbyterian Home Missionary.
After three years he was appointed United
States general agent of education for Alaska and
he organized the first public school system of
the territory. He has published number OF
reports and articles on the schools aud missions
of Alaska. Last evening Sam K. Johnson,
custom officer who 10 familiar with the sirua-
ton in Alaska, said: 'sThe news regarding DR..
Jackson is startling. though it is not
unredsOuaDlO 10 pellefo tn6t the
smugglers have killed him. They
are lawless and violent. and have already COM
mitted more than one outrage. DR.. Jackson was
aggressive in his control OF the Indians, though
he had been inclined to leave the enforcement
of the law to the regularly constituted author
tiles"
C. E. Mallette, of Port Angeles, arrived at the
Northern hotel yesterday on his way home
from the Democratic state convention at Van
couver, to which he was q delegate. "Of
course II was a Cleveland convention" said he,
last night, "and George Hazard has killed
himself dead by trying to make it out anything
else" Mr.. Mallette declares that in spite OF
what Captain l. B. Hastings. OF Port Townsend,
manager of the Hastings Steamboat Company,
may say, the people of Port Angeles have Just
cause OF complaint against their present steam
boat service. Said Mr.. Mallette: "Any
one desiring to go from Seattle to Port
Angeles must leave here at night on
the Edith, and spend the night making
the stops between here and Port Townsend.
Then he leaves Port Townsend in the morning
and arrives at Port Angeles in the afternoon.
If man starts from here in the Premier he has
to sleep at q Port Townsend hotel, so in any
case he spends part of two days getting from
here to Port Angeles, a distance of seventy i've
miles. The extra meals on the way cost as
much as tho iare. Furthermore, the contract
for the mail between Port Townsend and Port
Angeles distinctly says that there must be six
mails each way every week. We get the six
mails from Port Townsend. but on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays the Hermosa carries
no mail back TO Port Townsend, nor have
passengers any way of getting there For I'M
der the present arrangement the Hermosa goes
to Neah bay on those days, returning early the
next morning. Both passenger and freight
rates are higher than they were. TOR now we
have three wharfage charges, one at Seattle,
one at Port Angeles, aud one for transfers at
Port Townsend"
Miss Susie N. Russell, of Seattle, was married
At Olympia yesterday to Colonel Frank t. Gill
bert, of Walla Wala. Chief Justice Anders, of
the supreme court, performed the marriage
ceremony. Colonel bert is one of the notable
men of the state OF Washington. AT the out
break of the war, though but boy, be entered
the service of the Union. His rise was "a pid,
and in short time he was lieutenant colonel
of the Fifteenth Illinois cavalry, a regiment
which he commanded during the greater part
of the war. Colonel Gilbert served Tor time
on General Shermsn's staff. and for a consider
able period commanded q brigade At the
close OF the war he was offered commission