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GOOD NEWS FROM ALASKA

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 7, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 14.

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GOOD NEWS FROM ALASKA.

By Editor

COMMANDER GLASS, of the Jamestown, gives a good report of affairs in Sitka. Schools are opened and the Indians are compelled to send their children to them; the villages have been cleaned up, and the houses whitewashed; the Indians are becoming industrious. Drunkenness has disappeared, as the manufacture and sale of "hoochenis," an intoxicating drink, is prohibited. This has rendered all the other reforms possible. And thus, alas! "the poor Indian" has been brought under the baneful influence of "prohibition." Here is occasion for another "calm" lachrymose essay from Dr. Crosby.