The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-19
MISSION PARTY N. RETURNS FROM
 5 WEEKS TRIP
Rev. 5. Hall Young Revisits Scenes of 42 Years Ago
 Lectures Monday.

Dr. s. Haii Young, of the Presby i terian Home Mission Board, with i headquarters at New York, formerly 1 superintendent of Presbyterian Mis- sions in Alaska, and author of Alaska . books; Rev and Mrs. George J. Beck | of Hoonah, Rev. David Waggoner and . Ralph Waggoner of Juneau returned ! to Juneau yesterday afternoon from | a three weeks trip among the towns and, villages and canneries of the | northern section of the First Divi- 1 ision.i The trip was made, in the Presbyterian mission boat, Lois | (which is in charge of the Rev. MT ! Beck and of which he is master. The |. istaunch little craft, which recently has been overhaued and put in first class repair, covered 641 miles in sthree weeks .ar -i E The clergymen left Juneau July i2s and visited Funter Bay Hoonah ! Port Althorp, Tenakee, Rake, Killis :, snoo, Sitka and other points. Meet ings were held the Indians and their | conditions were studied, as well as the canneries and the fisheries Dr. !. Young also continued his work Of ! ( gathering data for his fourth book on Alaska. which will appear in short time.
 Covered Ground In Canoe
 Dr. Young traversed practically the same waters that he covered AZ years ago, shortly after he first came i to Alaska At that time he made the trip in a canoe. That early trip is featured in Dr. Young's book, "Al.| aska Days With John Muir
 Among the interesting incidents of the trip in the Lois was the meet, ! ting of Dr. Young with Charles Gun < snok at Rake. an Indian who was shot in the leg and severely wounded in i 1.-the presence of Dr. Young, AZ years ago. at WrangelL Gunnok, who was an expert silyersmith and who served { as an interpreter for Dr. Young on Ismany occasions. was the innocent victim of a feud between families | which were at war at Wrangell He ! was a bystander and not a member of f either of the warning clans. Is To Lecture In Juneau
 Dr. Young will remain in Juneau for several days Sunday morning ! he will preach at the Northern Light | Presbyterian Church here, and Mon | day evening he will deliver his H. | lustrated lecture on "The New Al. i aska" at the Palace Theater F It was in 1878 that Dr. Young first { came to Alaska as superintendent of 1 Presbyterian missions in this Ter ritory He remained here for 10 years, making his headquarters at ! Wrangell He then became presi | dent of an Eastern college for 10 | years, and returned to Alaska again | in 1898, remaining here until he was made member of the Board of Home Missions, more than dozen [ years later.
 Love for Alaska Dr. Young said today that while | he found his work in New YoA 4 where he has been for about 10 years interesting, his real love is for Alaska, and he wants to return | to this Territory to spend his last days.
 After a trip to Skagway and Haines, Dr. Young will go back to Wrangell, where he arrived last May. 1 and complete the task of gathering | data for his new book. It will be a | history of the beginnings of mission | work in Alaska and the beginning of civil government here. He was in | this Territory for six years before 1 the civil government was established. ! It will also contain much instructive ! and entertaining historical matter ! concerning the natives of Southeast ! ern Alaska. &their feuds and wars.