The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1937, Page 10

.EACHING THE COLUMBIA RiveR AFTER MONTHS OF HARD ANP DANGEROUS TRAVEL , THE WHITMANS SELECTED A SITE FOR A MISSION AT WAIILATPL NEAR WALLA WALLA, WHILE THE SPAL- DINGS WENT ON TO OTHER FIELDS. ouLD You WB ELIEVE 1 e .mn DELIVERING THE REPORT OF HIS JOURNEY TO THE OReGON COUNTRY TO THE AMERQICAN MISSIONARY BOARD N BosToN, Doctor MARCUS WHITMAN VOLUNTEERED TO PLANT A MISSION IN THE WILDS OF THE FAR NORTHWE. s PROPOSAL WAS APPROVED AND IN 1836 WHITMAN WITH HiS BRIDE-, NARCISSA , AND TWO OTHER MISSIONARIES, MR. AND MRS, HENRY SPALDING, SET OUT ON THE LONG TREK ACQOSS THE CONTINGNT TO OREGON. o ST MILL ANT? PLANTED M1 SSION SELF - 3 STAIN - [ THE KINDLY DOCTOR WENT FEAR- LESSLY AMONG THE BARBAROUS CAYUSE INDIANS, PREACHING THE GOSPEL, TEACHING THEM MANY THING S AND ADMINISTERY 7O THE SICK OR INJURED ++ -+ e TRIBAL COSTUME OF THE Yopos SanTos INDIANS OF GUATEMALA BEARS AN AMAZING RESEMBLANCE- TO THAT OF THE CARTOON CHARACTER- Foom ST Louts WEST THEIR WAY LED ALONG THE OLD OREGON TRAIL . RCISSA WHITMAN AND MRS DING WERE THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMEN TO CROSS THE ROCKIES g Hir GENTLE BUT HEROIC WIFE PID HER SHARE NOBLY, THE SICK AND TEACHING THE INDIAN SQUAWS HOW TO COOK, SEW AND TAKE PROPER CARE THEIR PAPOOSES......... E LITTLE S FLOURISHED. Yy @Ri5TUING WiTH CANNON AND ORNATE wWiTH MUCH GILDEP CARNING, THIS FAMOUS ENGLISH WARSHIP, "SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS", WAS THE FINEST MAN-OF\WWAR OF HEQ TIME: -~ BuILT FOR CHARLES ] IN 1637, THE "SOVEREIGN" TOOK PART N MANY WMPORTANT SEA FIGHTS AND HAD A LONG AND HONORABLE CAREER ..---- INVENTED, POWDERED PUMICE USED TO BE SFRINKLED ON LETTERS TO DRY THE INK ......... cesessvecevee