Show CAST GOAL INTO SEA I BUSINESS MEN AT CORDOVA ALASKA FOLLOW EXAMPLE TEA PARTY SET BY BOSTON Incensed at Delay In Opening Alaska Coal Fields F Mob Throws Several Hundred Tons of British British Columbia Coal Into the Bay Cordova Alaska The Tho excitement caused by the governments government failure to hurry action In Alaska coal cal land cases reached a climax here on Thursday when business men and citizens ris formed a a. mob and armed with shovels ahoy shoy- els marched to the ocean dock of oC the Alaska Steamship company where tl ey y proceeded to throw several hundred hundred hun hun- dred tons of British Columbia coal into the ba bay Incensed at the thought of no reply to the many appeals cabled to President Taft to urge early action looking to the opening of or the Alaska coal fields the citizens of Cordova of-COrdova Cord va decided decided decided de de- de- de to follow the example set by tile the Boston tea party and thus express the serious crisis that has been reached in the Alaska coal situation For several days the sentiment In m fa r-of r of some public outburst has growing Among those who participated in inthe inthe the party coal were A A. J T. T Adams president of the chamber of commerce commerce com corn merce Mayor ex W. W H. H Chase and Councilmen James Flynn and Charles Ross Richard J. J Barr Barry general agent o of the Alaska Steamship company and the Copper River railroad was in his his' office on the dock dock- and was taken taleen by complete surprise when the mob swooped on to the property He d de demanded demanded de- de that the shoveling cease but the crowds crowd's only answer was Give us Alaska coa coal Barry was armed but friends persuaded him not to fire |