People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — TO STEAL PART OF ALASKA. [ARTICLE]

TO STEAL PART OF ALASKA.

Such Is Said to Be the Direct Design of the British Government. Seattle, Wash., Feb. 7.—G. A. Carpenter, editor of the Alaska Juneau, has arrived here and speaking of the boundary controversy with Canada he says: “If the claim set up by the British is correct there is a prospect that Juneau will come within the limits of the territory claimed by them under their interpretation of the description of the boundary. This description says that, In the absence of a mountain range the boundary line shall be within ten - marine leagues of the coast line. The American idea is that the iine shall follow the meanderings of the bays and inlets. “Among all classes of people in Alaska it is the opinion that if England succeeds in getting this strip of territory from the United States government it will be a steal pure and simple and another victory for the aggressive policy pursued by the British.” Mr. Carpenter also says the American boundary survey parties were negligent in their work, not sending parties into tlfe interior but merely making observations with field glasses from the decks of their steamer, while the Canadian surveyors scaled the high coast ranges to the very summit of the mountains, in many leases subject..g the men to great , danger to life and ||mt> in order to secure exact dat.i .vhich would naturally make and mark a boundary line.