People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — FOR FOOTHOLD IN ALASKA. [ARTICLE]

FOR FOOTHOLD IN ALASKA.

IssHi City Newspaper Prints Bensa* tlonal Story of Treaty Dispute. Taoma, Wash., Jan. 15.—The Alaska Vews. published at Juneau City, nakes the sensational prediction that Takou inlet and the head of Qynn janal will become famous the world >ver as affording grounds for a fierce ntemational dispute between Great Britain and the United States and a :ause of arbitration by the European oowers to determine which country -hall hold possession of it, according |o tne provisions of the Russian treaty ind the subsequent purchase of Alaska bv the United States. The Tacoma Times says: “Each nation holds fast to a differ?nt construction of the Russian treaty, England maintaining that the bouniary line does not follow np and iround the deep inlets and bays, as held by the United States, but follows the general coast line ten marine leagues in the interior from salt water. Great Britain sees a flaw in the treaty •ind, with her usual agressiveness, will endeavor to wrest from the government of the United States the harbors and inlets, so a British seaport will hold the portal to the Yukon country and the undeveloped northwest territory. “Will the United States, under Gresham’s policy, lose valuable possessions in southeastern Alaska? Since Japan is coming to the front as a commercial power England hasher tentacles upon Alaska to snatch a seaport for her navy and commerce laden ships.”