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Show HOB WANTED -. TO IMPRESS TAFT ; Cordovar Alaska, May 5. Excitement Excite-ment over the dumping of the Alaska Steamship company's coal pile into the bay, as a protest against Prcsl- , dent Taft's failure to acknowledge receipt of any of several hundred . cablegrams sent to him last Saturday, asking him to expedite the opening of the Alaska coal fields, subsided today Deputy marshals are guarding guard-ing the company's property. At Seward, where tho steamship company has 1,500 "tons of coal, guards have been stationed. It is j! I thought there will bo no further j trouble. The mob's action was taken , as a desperate means of drawing attention at-tention to the stato of affairs in Ala.-ka. |