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Twenty-five Cents a Year. February 1910. Vol. X. N0.1t
Gabriel B. Wooche
A little before midnight Tuesday
Feb. 1st. Gabriel B. Wooche passed
away.
He was born at Kuguyak, Kodiak
Island in 1894. By the death of his
father in 1905 he was left an orphan
and was brought to the mission at that
dine He gave his heart to Jesus
about 2 years ago and was bap:lied.
It h s l.reu his misfo. tune to have
inherited a very poor cc 11 titution,
and lie often had sick spel s lasting
two or three days. A litt e more than
two weeks before his de..lh he was
taken id with what seemed at first to
be a gastric fever, but it proved to be
typhoid. The fever had left him and
if it had not been for other complica
tions which arose, there seem'd to be
no reason why he should not have
recove.ed. But sui h evidently was
not to be. Very suddenly the dis
ease 00k an unexpected turn, and
though l*e had every {attention we
cou d possibly give hitn, yet we
could not keep him with us.
The funeral service was held at the
Church Thursday Feb. 3rd at 2 P.M.
Many of our readers do not know
that there is no undertaker at Kodiak
whom we can call in when a death
occurs, all that work we have to do
ourselves. Wasi.i Aj{izza made the
cofiu tor Gabriel we lined and trim
med it and put the body in it This
was the first experience of the kind
we have nad, since we C-me a year
and a half ago, as this is the first
death that has occurred in the orph
anage family in two and a half years.
Faralion Wrecked
The steamer Faralion was wrecked
on a reef between Interskin bay and
lliamna, west of Cook inlet at 9:^0
o'clock on the morning of January
5th. A blinding snow storm was pte
vailing at the time. The crew, con
sisting of thirty men, and eight pass
eugers, reached the shore in small
boats, all being saved. The ci st
aways camped tn a small cove, using
sails as tents.
Provisions were obtained from the
wreck, but whe n the steamer \ lCvOi la
reached the scene on the morning of
February 2nd, the supplies were near
ly exhausted. As it was, the wrecked
party had a t ying experience on ac
count of the weather. It reached for.
ty degrees he'ow zero and blizzards
raged a portion of the time.
One of .he mates and several of the
crew started for Kodiak in a small
boat, soon r fter the wreck, to seek
aid. They have not been heard of
since.
The Farallon struck the teef at
high tide and is a total loss. Five of
the crew were detailed to stand 1 v the
steamer, on account of the insuiance.
— Seward Weekly Gateway.