POPULATION OF ALASKA AND ITS MISSIONS.
THE annual report (1890) of Governor Knapp, of Alaska, states that the population of Alaska is about 50,000, composed of 6,500 whites, 1,900 creoles, 2,900 Aleuts, and 3,500 civilized and 35,000 uncivilized other natives. At Sitka is a Presbyterian Church, with 300 native communicants, and an excellent Industrial Board School, with 170 pupils, of whom 106 are boys and 64 girls. The Presbyterians have missions at Sitka, Juneau, Hoonah, Haines, Fort Wrangle, Klawack, and Howkan, with 20 teachers, 437 native church members, 450 pupils in mission schools, and 537 pupils in Sunday schools. The Swedes have three missionaries at Unalaklik and Yakutal. The Church Missionary Society of England has three missionaries at Nuklukahyet and Buxton. The Protestant Episcopal Church has a missionary at Auvik, on the Yukon River. The Moravians have nine missionaries at Bethel and Carmel. The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church has two missionaries at Unalashika. The Friends are supporting at Douglass City five missionaries. There is an independent mission at Metlaktahla. The Roman Catholics have two missions, one on the Yukon River and one at Juneau. The Russo-Greek Church reports seventeen parochial schools.