The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-25


VIII leave this city for the n0Fsa ia
Saturday on sas
c---------------- u x.ss-usr Cottage
Nfssiea caty, after having
work I'm the spert sems time IN
the United States.
p----------------<o ssreuce Of Episcopal
San ministers here and has delivered many
addresses on the coast and in the f-as'
calculated 70 increase interest IN tne sosA
Of which he Is at the head
nsxs7oo Row. wsiI live IN the memory OF
she early ps1ners Of Alaska as father OF
the hospital service on the Yukon. SET
,y.rs which has received The Unst ntea
praise ssf al, aho have lived IN the mining
f.arrzEas and seen the bensslcsnt ~sfk &c.
eo1npsished. Al Circle tsty. rampant ana
Sksg.ay these hospitals have oeen g,
tahzi.nea ard many = stricken prespector
owes his Hf@ 10 The attendance ne re-
c~ssea through fhsm. The paNson nos
p4fsl xas not estshl shed bv Bishop Rowe.
wkss has ne supervision over any territory
rot American.
Bishop Rowe was seen last evening In
THE osfice II Burton E. Bennett. ex-Lnitsd
Ssases attorney for Alaska, and told nriehy
~ TIE work being accomplished In Alaska.
Twelve missions have been sstabl sn
ed ne sad land there is room for more
were ii net 50 impossible TO get efficient
workers. II is hard 70 ind men IN ALASKA
who are willing 70 devote themselves 10
missionary work The search for gold has
involved all and they do not feel like de-
voting time In which they might find gold
raine TO developing the religious natures
Of the Indians or encouraging the good in
their ceuntrymen. In the matter OF md
ing help | have been seriously handicap
ped and oaly exnect 10 carry on N future
competent hands.
Missions are now opened in Sitka. Jun
eau, Skagway, keteh:kan. Circle City, Fort
Yukon Fort Hanlin. Rampant Tanana,
M pff has "a
for the natives. bat in the isrger settle
men,s and towns, sich as Sitka. Skagway
and Juneau. they are for whites as well.
There seems TO he a mistaken idea
that Alaska is not a mission field. that
because the country Is rich one there
Is no need of outside support for its
churches. A mission You know, Is not
SELF Importing. but is kept up by out
side contribution, Most OF the money in
Alaska 10 in Dawscr. which is outside my
jurisdiction. As faS as that Is concerned
what is known as the mission field
The future development of the mining
csmrs or the American side will put the
missions beyond the need of outside asst
ance- have great confidence in the
koyukuk and many pt3spectors have gone
there on my recommendation. / base my
belief in the district on rough gold | have
seen IN the rosss ssion of Indians from
there. We are anxious 70 strike 4 kIon-
dixie In American territory and think
ne hoyskuk Is whore IL viii be found
The richness of the American side is so
iar a matter OF promise, but little actual
prospecting having been done But ex
peFlenced miners have been turned from
he Canadian territory by the restrictive
JAWS and are now attending 10 the de-
yeiopment OF districts on fhs American
side
bsshop Rowe Is comparatively young
man and In vigorous health. Probably no
better selection for TIL Xxx To be done
could have been made 1T the clergy OF
TIE Episcopal church. lie mas been laugh
ingiy accused OF more than religious in
.eas7's IN me country because OF his persist
ent optimism In sueaking OF ifs future
nave not cents worth OF interest In
the mines Of Alaska. however" said Bishop
general welfare"
b Q. Williams. for twenty years a mem
Der OF the faculty Of Cornell university
ana the author Of several hooks now he
h's used extensively In universities and