Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — "IT'S MINE! IT'S MINE! THIS POLE IS MINE!" [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

"IT'S MINE! IT'S MINE! THIS POLE IS MINE!"

Lieut. Gov. Mclntosh of the Northwest Territory (referring to the Bafflnland story and speaking for John Bull) —It is all British territory right up to the north pole, and there is need to assert formal sovereignty. Any person who discovers the pole from tae Occidental side will have to reckon with me, for it is all within my province.