A new governor, the fourth in four years, orders children into mission schools and bans alcohol sales after about forty drink-related deaths.

What happened

By 1890 there were only a few dozen baptized Catholics on Yap and ten pupils; the governor threatened parents with fines if they did not send children to the mission schools, and attendance jumped. Fr. Daniel later reported that the Yapese road gang went on strike after losing their gin under the ban.

Why it matters

When German rule made attendance voluntary in 1899, mission-school enrollment fell from 542 to nine, showing how much it had depended on Spanish pressure.