Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1902 — RT. REV. BISHOP ROWE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RT. REV. BISHOP ROWE.

The Noted Episcopalian Divine Now in This Country. The noted Episcopalian divine. Right Rev. Dr. Peter Trimble Rowe, bishop of Alaska, M-ho is now in this country, is one

of the sturdiest figures in the church work of the Northwest. His labor has been among th< Indians of ou; northland territory and he has me with many adven tures and accom plished much good He has won th love and confideuc' of the natives ' many of whom are

practically unknown to n-hite men. The bishop’s life in Alaska is arduous and exhausting, traveling, as he does, hundreds of miles by sledge, drawn by dogs, visiting miners’ camps, woodohoppers’ huts nnd ministering in every way to the natives of the country. lie has established eight schools nnd tM’o hospitals. besides fourteen mission stations, and has eight clergymen, fifteen lay readers and five lay women as helpers. His last report to the Board of Missions shoM-ed that during the year he had traveled 10,552 miles and had held 175- services

RT. REV. ROWE.