Show FUNSTON DOES NOT TAKE STOCK IN REPORTS Washington Jan 8 Reports of n great destitution and threatened starvation among the inhabitants of Fairbanks Alaska lask having baYing reached the war depart department department department ment through a communication cotI n of the mayor of thata place addressed to Saul Sena Senator tor Nelson General l command commanding com m and lag ing the department of the Columbia C wets waa W directed to make mako an investigation and to s stake take such stICh steps as tut would conserve the public peace while affording relief The TIle mayor specially reported that staple supplies sup plies piles were w not given but said 80 to those th people peo from tram supplies on O hand at Fort Fe t Ol bene While Gen Funston was carrying oat oOt nth instructions In Captain Cap n O 0 A Net Berl stationed at Fort Egbert g t Alaska laska wired the department that he hf had r rep calved information Inform from Lieutenant Lick Uck ard who was as at nt Fairbanks lo as a late as December that lie he neither saw nor heard beard of any famine that there had been beena a shortage of supplies occasioned by b an early farly freeze free but that freighting had been going goins on steadily steu n and that game seemed plentiful Under r date of the instant General F telegraphed the Ute war department dE that he had bad Instituted Inquiry as to how bow bown many n rations r could be spared but sug suggested sugg ted ge g that men e who sit down dona 00 at Fairbanks and and an await await w lt govern government vera ment relief are arc entitled to little consid conald consideration oration since within ten days da they can reach Dawson Rampart Tanana nana nr or Bach where there are abundant t supplies for fot sale rale He sarcastically sarc states that If It these the e m nigh p heard hearl of a II gold strike they the would snow snowshoe shoe a u thousand mila |