ANGRY ALASKANS.
■ , f EMPTY COAL INTO A HARBOFR
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
(Received May 6, 9 a.m.)
NEW YORK, May 5
Following the example of the "Boston Harbour tea-party" of 1773, a | mob at Cordova, Alaska, enraged at j coal lands cases by the "Washington legal authorities, threw hundreds of tons of Canadian' coal into the har- , hour, declaring that, while millions of tons of Alaskan coal remained unmined, foreign coal should not be used. The Alaska Steamship Company ' owned the coal, which it had itself imported. (The "Boston tea-party" was composed of American citizens who gathered at Boston on December 16, 1773, for the purpose of making a demonstration against the attempted importation of tea into the colonies. A large popular assembly met at the Old South Church to protest. As their protest wasineffectual, the same evening a body of about fifty men, disguised" as Mohawks, boarded the three British tea ships in the harbour and threw 342 chests of tea, Valued at £IB,OOO, into the water.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10231, 8 May 1911, Page 3
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169ANGRY ALASKANS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10231, 8 May 1911, Page 3
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