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Show I ALLEGFJ GRAB I OF'U UNDS B Adoption of La Folleftc's Resell Rese-ll lution by the Senate Revives H Alaska Controversy. H SYNDICATE ACTS BEFORE H TAFT'S ORDER IS ISSUED H Tracts Subsequently Opened to B Entry Said to Have Been H Surveyed in Advance. flH By Apsociatetl Press. SjEATTIjB, Wash.. April 22. Senator IMjg l.n Kollcttc's resolution. adopted by the W United States senate Inst Thursday. calling on tlie secretary of tho interior jK for information relative to Prosidont Taft's executive order of October 12, 1910, withdrawing from the C'hugach HI forest reserve J2.S00 ncros of tide land 9B on Controller" bay, Alaska, has revived jB tho whole Alaska coal controversy. Con- B troller bay is the nearest ocean port B t,,e rejit Behring river coal fields. BR in which are situated all but one of H the groups of el.-.ims whieli have boon MB under investigation. Tho bay shore is shallow, but ships could load coal at HB trestles built across the mudilats to Bfl deep water. H It is alleged that last summer tho DH steamer M, 0. Lindsay landed op the Ml shore of Controller bay more than five XM miles of barbed wire fence consigned BB to Richard S. Ryan. It is' alleged also mm that early on the morning after Prcsi- 2B dent Taft. 's- order was issued Richard SBI Stanley Rvnn, n former delegate to & congress from' Alaska, staked all the BV opened, posting notices of i loca- B tion under soldier's scrip. Ryan's op- BP orations are said to be financed by Probst. Wetzlcr and Company, New IBl Lands Surveyed in Advance. Ryan, according to la ml office of- Bfl ficials. was engaged all last summer in Bfl surveying tho hinds subsequently Bfl opened, and his engineers are known as BJ Guggenheim cmnlovccs. BR At the Seattlooffico of the Alaska, WM or Giiggonheim-Morgan syndicate, it Ml was said todav that, nothing was known Bfl of Ryan's movements. Bfl On March ?, the closing day of cou- Bg gvess, bills were passed granting Ryan Bfl the right to build two .bridges across Bfl Bearing river, nvan has filed on right Bfl of way for 'n railroad to connei't Con- BB troller bay and the coal fields. His sur- BB ' vc-v wraHols that of the Controller Bay Bf and Bchring Coal Railway company. Bf Includes' tho Water Front. IBB The land withdrawn from the Chu- IBK pach forest and alleged to have been Bfl so promptly scripped. stretches for four IBB miles along Controller bay and includes IBB - all the most desirable water front cx- ccpt 1320 rcct that were tiled on before be-fore the bav was included in the national na-tional forest. The claimant to tho i:?20 feet is the Controller Bay and Bearing Coal Railway company, which was or-ganized or-ganized to develop the Davis-Li pny coal field in the Bohriug river district. Henry It Harriman, attorney for the Davis-Lippy interests, said today: "The Controller Buy and Bearing Coal Railway company has no connection connec-tion with the Guggenheim-Morgan syndicate syn-dicate or tho railroad projected . by Harry White and his California associates. asso-ciates. We have profited by no executive ex-ecutive order, and no congressional act has been passed in our interest." |