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Show TRAGEDY OVER ALASKAN LANDS Seattle, Wash., Feb. 15. The body of Petor Taubs of this city, president of the American Marble company, waa found last Friday on tho company's property on Fox Island, Alaska. The cause of death has not been ascertained. ascer-tained. . The company has had much trouble over its Alaskan holdings. Five years ago Wm. Deppy, a stockholder, wus shot and killed ou the company's land by Robert Ball, a dls-barred attorney, who had gained control of a majority of the stock. Ball was given a twelve-year twelve-year prison sentence, but Is now in the National Hospital for the Insane at Washington, D. C. The property was recently sold to the Vermont Marble company, and Taubs' visit to Alaska was In connection connec-tion with the transfer. |