Show AID hD Will BE SENT i i F i 2 MiNERS AND IND INDIANS AT NOME l ff Washington Aug 31 nAt At the cabinet meeting today two other subjects be beside beside side that of China were considered the condition of several hundred or thousand destitute miners at Cape Nome and of a large number humber of or Indian I tribes in Alaska I It was decided that at the war depart department ment meat should send a transport to Cape I Nome to bring back such of f the miners as are penniless and liable to endanger endanger endanger ger the public welfare there this win winter winter ter b by reason of their destitute condi condition condition tion lion Provisions and ana clothing will be besent besent besent sent to the Indians who are said to be destitute The transportation companies it is claimed refuse to aid the unfortunates at Cape Nome Winter will m come by bythe bythe bythe the end of September and the transport in order to effect relief must be at once on General eral Randall estimates th that t there I Iare are 1000 persons hi in Nome in jn danger dan of oC starvation Information Inform Alon received receive from front I several official and unofficial sources I shows that the Alaskan Indians along the coast from Cape Nome are in a serious condition The miners it is rumored have gath sath gathered gathered ered for their own use UISe nearly all of the drift wood which the Indians have been accustomed to depend upon for their winter fuel and in some In Instances instances Instances stances the cabins of the Indiana Indian have been torn down by the Hie miners and the C wood used by them regardless of th tl the suffering Indians In addition to these tRese S afflictions it is said that the grip in a t most form fonn has broken brokeR out net among the Indians and that altogether er their case is one which hieb calls for foe im ha immediate oJ f mediate succor f |