Ridiculous
Writeup of a
Missionary
The Tacoma (Wash.) Daily Tribune
of Aug. 23 devoted considerable space to
Rev. Charles Eugene Betticher, Jr., a
missionary well known on the Tanana
river for the past live years who went
outside a few weeks ago. Here is a
paragraph from the Tribune’s writeup:
Rev. My. Betticher has en
countered hardships. Frequent
ly in winter he has walked the
long stretches between his sta
tions over the snow, requiring a
month to cover the 600 miles of
valley. Three times he has been
left for dead. Once he fought a
hand-to-hand struggle with a
drunken miner and narrowly
escaped with his life.
For the time being the man who will
be responsible for the contents of the
modest little paper just coming into life
under the name of the Yukon Valley
News is absent; hence his substitute
will do nothing more than suggest that
such stuff as is contained in the Tribune
article is calculated to give an erroneous
conception of Alaskan conditions to
people in the States, and is sure to
make the missionaries ridiculous in the
regions in which they operate.
Such ludicrous writings are not con
fined to outside papers: a few months
ago a Fairbanks publication likened the
personal appearance of a prominent
missionary to its conception of the figure
of Jesus Christ.
TO PETITION
FOR POSTOFFICE
A petition is soon to be circulated for
signatures asking for the establishment
of a fourth-class postoffice at Grant
Creek, Gold Mountain district, 30 miles
down the Yukon from Tatiana. The
office ought to be established, for the
lack of mail facilities has been keenly
felt by the people of that district during
the past summer. The want is not so
pronounced in the wintertime, when
mail is regularly delivered by the car
riers.
It is more than probable that the
district will steadily increase in popula
tion. For three years the white people
there has averaged nearly fifty.
New Commissioner in Fortymile.
Elmer K. Brady has resigned the po
sition of United States commissioner for
the Fortymile precinct, says the Dawson
Yews of Sept. 0. John A. Kemp, mer
chant at Steele Creek, has been named
by Judge Overfield for the position and
has entered upon his official duties.
Mr. Brady filled the position for six
years and gave a high degree of satis
faction to the people of his precinct, lie
will locate in Dawson and Mrs. Brady
and son Jack will go to Washington
state for the winter.
The Yukon Valley News starts out
with one native subscriber on its list—
Paul Williams, at Nenana. It would
surprise the average dweller in interior
Alaska to know the interest taken by
the natives in matters treated of by the
local press.
SIMSON BROTHERS RHV
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
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