Show OF FERS ROYALTY SEATTLE nbattle MAN WOULD FAY FIFTY TY CENTS A TONTO MINE ALASKA COAL offer coming on eve of ballanger I 1 I 1 investigation which would net the government millions in royalties washington A now new and sensational factor prepared tuesday to add intensity to the already sufficiently excited situation over the alaska coal lands on the eve othe odthe beginning of the dab bal linger investigation john E ballaine Ball alne of seattle said to be the largest individual provert property owner in alaska made a proposition propos Uon iton in writing to the senate committee on territories of which senator bever idge of indiana Is chairman offering to the government a royalty of a ton on coal mined tor for the lease of acres of some of the choicest coal lands in alaska in the natalia and matakuska Ma districts sucha such a tonnage royalty would net to io the govern ment mr ballaine Ball alne claims as aa high as aa per hundred acres |