Show LAY DOWN TO DIE Impoverished lUiners Rescued in the Wilds of Alaska Tacoma Wash Aug 31apt Per kine commanding the United States post at Fort Egbert on the Yukon has wired the War department for authority author-ity to send a relief expedition to 200 Impoverished miners who started in July on a fiOOmlle trip through a trackless track-less wilderness of the Lal river In the Copper rler vallely to Tanana river thence to Yukon Miners hurried Into Xazlnu last spring only to find that placer prospects there were workable only by hydraulic mining mi-ning on a large scale Hearing of anew a-new strike on the Tanana river they started overland carrying but small I supplies supposing that provisions could be purchased at several trading posts en route Three miners were rescued from starvation by Henry Bratnober who is exploring the Alaskan mineral zone for the Rothschilds and the London Exploration Ex-ploration company In a smull tent exhausted unable to move and hardly able to speak he found P 1 A Letlig whose home Is at Delano N Y William I Wil-liam Kruhm of Baltimore and Harry I Behrens who said he lived In New York I city For three weeks these men had lived on berries but finally their strength gave out and they had lain down to die They told Bratnober that the trail from Naxlna to Tanana was being traversed by 200 men in the same situation t as themselves |