Show INDIANS I NEED FOOD Fivo Hundred in Vicinity Cooks Inlet Alaska Starving Tacoma Wash Nov 11lIrs James W Smith Just returned from Cook Inlet In-let Alaska says that fully half of the thousand Indians in that section comprising com-prising five tribes are slowly dying of starvation The Influx of white prospectors pros-pectors has resulted In the killing of much game with the result that the Indians are deprived of flesh for food and furs ior clothing Lhey dried salmon sal-mon last summer but not enough to go around and winter finds 100 to COO of them without enough food to last until un-til OecemberV Mra Smith 11015 a wealthy miners wife divided her stock of provisions with the destitute Indians and now appeals for further aid Most of these Indians belong to the Russian church but It is powerless to help them Un less l provisions arc sent In by steamer at once she saya hundreds will surely die While Jiving at Grays Harbor eight years ago Mrs Smith then Mrs Martha Mar-tha White swam IntQ the surf and rescued three ahlpwrecked sailors from drowning for which Congress voted her a medal |