Show OFFERS A ROYALTY SEATTLE MAN WOULD PAY FIFTY CENTS A TON TO MINE ALASKA COAL offer coming on eve of ballinger investigation which would not net the government millions in royalties washington A now new anil and sensational factor prepared tuesday to add intensity to the already sufficiently excited situation over the alaska coal lands on the eye eve of the beginning of the dal linger investigation john E ballaine Dall alne ot of seattle said to bo be the largest individual owner in alaska made a propos llon in writing to tile the senate committee on territories of which senator beveridge of indiana is chairman offering to the government a royalty of goc a ton on coal valued mined for the lease ot of acres of some of tile the choicest coal lands in alaska in tho the katalla batalla and Ma districts such a tonnage royalty would net to the government mr ballaine claims as high as per hundred acres |