Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1902 — RUSSIAN BOUNDARY SHAFTS [ARTICLE]

RUSSIAN BOUNDARY SHAFTS

Indian Guides Americans to Six Monuments in Alaska. Seattle, Wash., dispatch: Reports from Juneau, Alaska, say that United States Judge Brown has word from Commissioned Gerton of Porcupine that Johnnie Stick, an Indian, has guided J. W. Smith and Frank Alterinose to the boundary Russian monuments, six in number, In Rainy Hollow, found by Lieutenant Emmens. The district is a vast mineral belt in American territory. The monuments are ten feet high and built of atone.