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Show RESOLUTION OF PROTEST. Mass Meeting at Seattle Considers Alaska Coal Situation. SKATTI.R. "Wash., May 22. A resolution reso-lution protesting against the delay In the adjudication of the Alaska coal rlttims and calling upon President Taft to revoke the oxecullvc order withdrawing withdraw-ing tho Alaska coal lauds from entry was adopted tonight at a mass meeting of citizens called to consider the coal situation In tho northern territory. The resolution calls attention lo Ihe hardships hard-ships worked upon the people of Alaska, by reason of their being compelled " to nay high prices for imported fuel while Immense deposits of high grade coal He near at hand, and points to tho Cordova, "coal parly" as showing the seriousness of tho situation. Concluding, the resolution resolu-tion says: "We approvo of the rejection of all claims la connection with which fraud is proven and request that tho president of the United States revoke his order withdrawing Alaska coal lands from entry en-try and use his good offices lo advance to patent without further delay those claims which virc not contested, to tho end thai the development and prosperity of Alaska he no longer retarded." Among those who addressed the meeting meet-ing wcro former United States Senator Samuel 11. Piles. J. D. Calbreath of Denver, Den-ver, secretary of the American mining congress, and Falcon Josclyn of Fairbanks, Fair-banks, Alaska. |