The Alaska daily empire., 1916-10-21
Bishop Futile Observes Jubilee Anniversary while Convention
 Is Meeting.
WAS WOODY WESTERNEB
Bad Man" Attested to H aCsihractJI c etaoin His Character and
 Was Ready to
 Back Hini.
(By G. D. cHRIsTIANJ

(By G. D. CHRISTIAN)
 ST. LOUIS. oct 12.-This month with the General Episcopallan Con- yenuon meeting here, Bishop Futile, the venerable Presiding Bishop will celebrate his Golden Jubilee. The occasion will be marked by many fitting services and festive gather ings in the city and diocese. Among the most notable of these will be the dedication of the $5O0O0 church at St. Louis, and the presentation of a thank-offering of $1OO,00O to start a Memorial Mission in the west where the good Bishop began his ministerial career and where he did such splendid work.
 In 1867 he was Bishop of Montana, Idaho and Utah, a field of 34O,OO0 square miles; In 1880, Bishop of Utah and Idaho, 195,OOO sQaure niles in 1886, Bishop of Missouri, 10000 square miles; from 1890 to the pres ent time, Bishop of Missouri (West Missouri having been set apart as a diocese) 92,OOO square miles.
 Thirty years ago, Bill Bunkerly noted bad man. thus voiced the general opinion of Bishop Futile:
 "He's full-jeweled and 1S-karats fine. He's the biggest and best Bishop that has ever worn black gown, and the whitest man in these mountains. He's @ fire-dghter from away back, and wherever he ehoses to go a birthstone raid among the sinners in this gulch he can do it. and I'll be back of him with my pile. He is the best Bishop, and you hear me howl"
 The estimate was as true as it was picturesque, and it holds good today.
 In the early days of his western the Bishop found out the high cost of living, as he told in a letter to friends in the East: Chickens here are S2 apiece" he wrote My bill for five days at the Planters Hotel was S22. l have had to buy a new tooth brush. It cost me $50, and is no better than what we buy in Morris for 95 cents
 In his early life the Bishop was a schoolmaster. General Charles King, who used to be one of his pupils, says Of him:
 Never was there a tutor who preached less and procticed more. His life was lesson of seif.denial of study. of purpose. Work hard, play hard, pray hard. might have been his motto. Boys ehrank from boy subterfuges before they had been month in TuttIe's presence; he seemed to feel such infinite pity for a coward
 The Bishop never tires Of extoll. | Ing the character of the pioneer peo- pie who literally made" the West. !
 Strong men made the population )f the mountains in those early days | put they were loyal and kind to ne. People of all sorts and kinds gathered around me In my visits to he ranches and the gulches. They ,alled me Our Bishop'-Jews, Cat ,lics and Protestanto alike. An old Catholic friend gave me the gold lust to make the Episcopal ring.
 My heart treasure in it's deepest lepts to a love for all that the rude ok of the mountains did for me n those twenty years of my early manhood" he said.
 Doubtless" says the St. Louis ,epublic, Bishop Futile owes some. hing of the vigor of his splendid ersonality and the eighteen karats' f his manhood to the hard knocks mong the pioneer folk. But some. hing deeper down than environment as molded his character and he lands out a man among men-strong fine and at the same time ender loving and self-sacrificing"
 "So East and West.a continues he same paper, "are uniting their rforts to pay a debt of gratitude in
 way that it will be most pleasing , Bishop Tuttle-in monuments to lrry on the work of higher service"