The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-08
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 often involve great danger.
 Last winter when Bishop Rowe made the heretofore .unattempted jour- ney from Fairbanks In the centre of Aiaska to yaldex on the south coast,
 a distance of 800 miles. he was'obliged to cross several mountain ranges. find his way along uncharted rivefs. and generally be . pioneer for those who might follow. The journey. was 70 that his food supplies gave out and he was obliged to shoot some of his dogs and for three days was without food. Some idea of Bishop Rowe's exper-
 fences on this journey may be sather- ed from two extrscts from his last win ter's journal: 10 I
 ''February lsth. Did not sleep last night---very -cold--shoulder pained.
 Must be s5 below A low mist hangs
 over the snow. sign of intense cold.
 Broke camp-doss unwilling, to start
 too cold for their feet-sleds pulled
 hard--a mist enveloped man and dogs just from their breathing in such cold made a camping place late--then a fire. pitching tent, getting some thing to eat--nothing since breakfast.
 February 17th. Slept better. Fin gers ached--froze them yesterday.
 Cold as ever Hard to persuade dogs
 to start--whined and held up their
 feet. Entered long slough-glaciers
 on one side--encountered an overflow had to take to high bank and make along it. through the trees. for two
 miles before we could take the ice again. Soon camped about 1 D.. m" The work that Bishop Rowe has done
 has made him known and loved
 throughout Alaska. The Indians will
 often travel four or five hundred miles
 to meet him and receive Christian in- struction from him. Almost without exception the miners are his enthusi- astic friends and advocates. Any man who does not admire Bishop Rowe and want to further his. plans is more or
 less an object of suspicion. because he writes himself down as thoroughly bad individual
 In addition to churches and schools, the Bishop has established seven hos pitals in different parts of Alaska.
 Here miners who have met with acci- dents, or who have been taken i'll with pneumonia, typhoid fever or other dis eases in their sometimes isolated and
 almost uncomfortable cabins, are cared
 for. as well as the Indians. Tho pre-
 vailing opinion of Bishop Rowe was
 we'll expressed recently by Lieutenant
 cantwell of the navy department, who
 was sent into Alaska to report on the condition of the people and the com-
 mercial outlook of the country.
 In his report to the government, Lieutenant CantwcIl said:
 The good work Bishop Rowe has done in carrying the consolation of re, I ligion to the people in this country cannot be overestimated. Everybody who has had ever had the pleasure or his acquaintance and has seen him
 at work in the field is filled with ad-
 miration of his frank and lovable nH
 ture. There Is not a single humble
 woodcutters' hut along the river that
 he has not at sometime during the
 dreary winter visited and frightened by his presence, and the good that he
 has done in these inhospitable regions Is incalculable. Surely such men as Bishop Rowe. in whose breast the true
 missionary zeal burns with such a pure
 and steady light, should never lack | the means of carrying on the good
 work which is so urgently needed in this country"