| Show THE lOtl IIMtlVr AM ALASKA A subject which will jiecessirlly re hands of ceive some treatment at the the President In his annual messiKo at the opening of Cong next winter Is I the condition of affairs and the necessity of governmental action In Alaska The United States has owned that vast territory for many yearn bulb bul-b never tan much Interest In Itat least not to the extent of giving It suitable care and rpreentatlon an 11 part and parcil of the great ncpublle Current activity In correction of this neglect has thus far exhausted Itself i In supplying a company of soldiers I while on the part of the secretary of war there hall hn n mnnl ttaUon ot real Inlet In con slderlng way s and means to aid and succor tho American cltl I zone who have rushed heedlessly toward tM gold fields without once knowing how they were going to get there or preparing themselves with adequate uItenc while en route or after getting beyond the snowy barriers between the coast and the rich river beds far Inland Jut what Congress Con-gress can or should do or what the President will recommend Is I not now clear but It Is I fair to predict that the news from the north during the next sixty dnys will be of such a character so to make Some decisive action ac-tion compulsory Unless nil accounts and forecasts arc misleading there will be cause for much Sympathy with the condition of the Klondlkers before spring and the port of humanlly Is I to take step as quickly as possible for the amelioration of a condition that looks as though It might easily become be-come desperate |
