Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — CANADIANS ARE BITTER. [ARTICLE]

CANADIANS ARE BITTER.

Dominion Representatives Withdraw from the Commission. In consequence of the attitude maintained by the Canadian commissioners, Lord Chief Justice Alverstone decided not to hold the proposed public London meeting of the Alaskan boundary commission, but to hand its decision to Messrs. Poster and Sifton, respectively agents of the American and Canadian governments. The Canadian commissioners not only declined to sign the award, but said they would publicly withdraw from the commission. They as well as the Canadians connected with the case are very bitter. Telegrams from Premier Laurier and other prominent persons in Canada show that this sentiment is shared generally throughout the Dominion. The Alaska award relating to the Portland canal gives the United States two islands, Kannaghuuut and Sitklan, commanding the entrance to the Portland channel and the ocean passage to Pert Simpson and destroying the strategic value of Wales and Pearse Islands, which are given to Canada.

Tclegrama from Berlin say the Russian government, inflnenced by the British offer to allow the Zionists to colonise Uganda, in Bast Africa, is causing hints to be conveyed to the Russian Zionists of its willingness to grant territory in Manchuria for an autonomous Jewish state under Russian protection. Clarence L. Seymour, a young attorney of Boston and a stepson of Got. Bates of Massachusetts, is coo&ned in the insane ward of the county hospital at Denver, Colo. He went to Denver on account of poor health.