Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-08-21 | Page 4 | Local News

0 It Koems that after all Jnpun does not lay any claim to Wnke or Marcus Island and that the occupancy by Japan was merely to give Juptinnsc citizens a lighting claim to the phosphate > I 11hl te deposits whleh had been found and abandoned by 1 Capl RoHchlll who h said to be In partnership with Tom Fitch In his effort to revive hia claim from which he nan bccn absent since 1SSO and to secure which he has done nothing more than to file In the ollica of the Secretary of Slate at Waishlnu tlon a notjce of Intention But this country is 1 not particularly Interested in that its i chief point lying 1 In the sovereignty sov-ereignty the Island being A convenient landingplace and station for the Pacific Pa-cific commercial and ciuaslGoverumcnt cable I