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Show TOISUUliiJ e That Territory Wants Hepresen-tat Hepresen-tat ion, or If Not, a (iovcrn-ineiit (iovcrn-ineiit of Its Own. tv Q The Delegate Empowered to O.fer the m United States $14,000, OCO For It. kjjt z TO BE PAID IN $20 GOLD PIECES Q . M If Congress Yill Not Allow Their Delegate to Take His Seat q , In the House. H (A The Movement is Backed up by the Solid Citizens Who Have CD Money in Plenty. itjj a THEY WAN F POPULAR GOVERNMENT Captain Jamil Carrol of Sitka Tnll the Demand of the People of the Northern Territory. I Washington. Dec. 27. Captain James Carroll of Sitka, who was chosen by the Alaska convention to be territorial territor-ial delegate if congress should give Alaeka rteprrapntatinn, is in the city. Talking to a reporter for the Post, ho said if representation is denied, congress should at least grant other reasonable requests of the people of Alaska. He also spoke of Anothnr Proponttlon he was willing to make on the part of the solid citizens of the country. If congress did not think Alaskaof enough importance to give it a system of jurisprudence juris-prudence and all tho Fanlltlei and Klghtl ' it had granted every other outlying settlement set-tlement of the government, he was empowered em-powered to otTer the sum of $14,000,000 for the territory, and would pay it over In ft'JO Gold I'leeee on the shortest sort of notice. This was $7,500,0011 more than it cost, not to i speak of the big yearly prolit the government gov-ernment had taken for sealing privileges. privi-leges. The offer, he said, Wu Bona Fine. and he was sure that if those making ( the offer had complete ownership, what- ' . ever flag was raised they could secure to the people the blessing of Popular Government, unhampered by the annoying defects of the present system, which worked use-less use-less hardships and clogged developments. develop-ments. ., |
