Show IS 18 THIS REPORT TRUE A report came to this office yesterday to the effect that tho the old gentleman we have never heard him called by any other name than junkie Ju ukla who has been making ills his home over by the mountain and who lodged at the bloom feed barn for some time Is living on beet pulp has very little with which to keep keel himself warm and Is in danger of both starvation n and freezing to death tile the old man makes periodical pilgrimages to town and gathers up scraps of all kinds he presents a most deplorable picture and we understand that he be Is very eccentric and resents interfere ence in his affairs by any one on the outside these things may all lie be true and they may be raise false but certainly the case ought to be looked into no matter what kind of a nature the man has ins been endowed with he Is a human boing and no humanitarian would permit an animal to live as the report states this th isman mall is living ile he Is a proper charge upon the public and while responsibility for ills keep is being determined the poor man should not be compelled to suffer let the city and county look the matter up and provide food and shelter for this unfortunate |