ALASKAN COAL MEASURES.
AN ENRAGED POPULACE
(Received 6, 8.5 a.m.) New’ York, May 5
Emulating the Boston Harbour tea party of the year 1773, a mob at Cordova in Alaska, enraged at the non-settlement of the Alaskan coal lands eases by the Washington legal authorities, threw 7 hundreds of tons of Canadian coal into the harbour. declaring that while there are millions of tons of Alaskan coal unmined, foreign coal shall not be used. The Alaska Steamship Company. which owns the coal, had imported it.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 120, 6 May 1911, Page 1
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