| Show he cares for sourdoughs 1 A 0 shoup superintendent of the alaska pioneers home at sitka lias has arrived at seattle says the rost post intel ligen Ilgen of that city tills this sourdough home was established by the territory in 1013 1913 said sir mr shoup and we now have sixty live inmates most of them old fellows who have pioneered it in almost every district of alaska the territory established this home for the purpose of caring tor for the old sour sourdough sourdoughs doug ia and the sitka silka institution Is really a haven for these old fellows who bilto have become incapacitated from further pursuing the golden rainbow the average of these sixty five inmates is sixty eight years and among them we have several who have been prospecting in alaska for forty years in juddi addition tion to caring tor for the inmates of this home the territory also has a pension system which cares for the needs of a number of others who are not altogether helpless as well as of the widows and needy women |
