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Show GUGGENHEIM IS CALLED A MONOPOLIST WAPHTNT.TOX, Feb. 1. Hearings upon the bill to give a Government charfpr to the Alaska railroad compauy for it projected railroad from the head of (,'orlova bav to a point on the Yukon river near Eagle, Alaska, were continued todav before the Senate Committee Com-mittee on Territories. There was added interest in the bearing because Andrew F. Burleigh of New York, one of the promoters of the railroad, declared de-clared that the opponents to the bill were trying to "corner" copper fields of Alaskan and that their plans would be intercfered with if his railroad invaded in-vaded the field. urleich charged that Simon On-genh4m. On-genh4m. Senator-elect from Colorado, is identified with the movement ts secure se-cure a monopoly of the Alaskan copper fields. |