OCR Text |
Show FAMOUS SITKA RECTOR DEAD. Witnessed the Transfer of Alaska to the United States. Seattle, Wash Rev. Sereins George Kostrometinoff. rector of St. Mchael cathedral, Sitka. Alaska, and who had been connected with that church since ixsr,. died at a hospital here Saturday, aged t'.l years. He was born at Sitka of Russian parents and was one of the last survivors of the group that witnessed wit-nessed the trnns'cr of Alaska to tho United States by Russia to. t right vears ago, the ceremonies Liking place at Sitka, then the capital. |