Show I DISTRESS IN THE KLONDIKE Assistance Will Be Asked From te Government at Washington Seattle Wash Ja According to late advices from Dawson the United States government will be called on to relieve indigent miners in the Klondike The Dawson Nugget unSler date of Dec i says thee is a srong movement on foot at Dawson to send a representative to Washington for the purpose of enlisting the United States government in the cause of aiding in remedying the great distress which prevails among the miners of the Yukon The hospitals are overcrowded over-crowded with indigents and the finances of those institutions will not allow of anymore any-more wholesale charity The Yukon council declares itself already ready out of funds to care for the Indigent Indi-gent sick Donations for the care of the sick come in regularly but in small amounts while at this present moment nothing less than 0000 per month will come anywhere near taking ordinary care of the poor fellows without money or property The dreaded scurvy has made its appearance and none but those connected con-nected extent with the hospitals know of its The fact is that the amount of distress here has outgrown the total charity of the place and nothing less than S2tX > OuO will relieve the distress of this winter Pood is here in plenty but it takes money to buy I A memorial will be sent to Washington asking congress to help |