Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-13
MISSIONARY TO
ALASKA COMING
Rev. F. B. Drane To Speak At
Episcopal Church Here
Feb. 6

A prominent missionary of the
Episcopal church, the Rev. Frederick
Blount DYane, will visit Americus
next month and will speak at Cal
vary church en- Monday, February 6.
Archdeacor Drane has been appoint
cd archdeaoL of the Yukon to sue
eeea the late Archdeason Hudson
Stuck, who acquired fame by climb
ing to the summit of Mt. Donali.
Arehdeacon Drane. is graduate of
the University of North CAROLINA
and of the General Theological Sem
linary of New York, and is the mis-
sionary of tie seminary, being sup
ported ty the students of that insti-
tuition. He mas been in Alaska since
August, 1915, when ffe went to the
mission at Nehana. Later, he went
to the Tetana Valley missions.
The Rt Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe,
D. D., Episcopal bishop of Alaska, is
now in New York EN- route to Wash
ington in the interest of the fishing
rights of the natives of the territory
of Alaska, and according to a state
ment made by him, another big gold
strike is looked for in the near fu-
ture.
"Old prospectors, said Bishop
Rome recently at the Church Mis-
siohs House in New York, the head
quarters of the Episcopal church,
"are wagging their heads and pre-
dieting a bg find n the Chandelar re-
gion, which is about 200 miles north
of the Yukon. They refuse to desig-
nate the exact spot where they be-
liove ore will be found, but they ex-
press the firm belief that one of these
days there will be strike which will
bear comparison with the old Klon-
dyke field"
Through Gold Rush.
Bishop Rowe is one of the old-tinl-
ers Of Alaska. For the last twenty
seven years he has directed the mis-
sionary work of the Episcopal church
in the territory. During that period
he has covered thousands of miles
mushing across the snowfields behind
his dog pack, and when he was not
doing that he was padding his own
canoe along the inland streams dur
ing the open season. He has been
through all the famous gold rushes
and at fifty-fve is as bronzen and
hardened and fit as the Alaskan
Indians in whose interest he is max
ing his trip to Washington.
Two years ago the Bureau of Fish
cries promulgated regulation under
which no more commercial fishing
was to be permitted in the Yukon af-
ter Sept. /, 1921. Commercial fish
ing has been going on in Alaska
wholesale on the Yukon and Copper
rivers, the result is, according to
! Bishop Rowe, that the natives are
hard pushed to secure food, and there
are many instances where children
are starving. With the regulation
now in force the packing companies
have taken an appeal to Washington
to have it rescinded. A hearing has
already been had on the subject, and
the matter is now in the hands of
Secretary Hoover. 1t is not ques-
tion, states Bishop Rowe, of depriy-
4 ing these companies of their fishing
]
rights. All the fish they want is
down near the coast. What needs
to be done is to protect the rights of
the natives, and Bishop Rowe hopes
that Secretary Hoover will see the
wisdom and humanity of allowing the
regulation of two years ago to stand.
eff it is rescinded,' said Bishop
Rowe, mot only will the natives and
the white residents as we'll, be de-
prived of their food supply, but soon
er or later the salmon will be ex-
terminated
Has Fine Future.
Bishop Rowe has a firm belief in
the future of Alaska which he de-