Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1902 — CLEARS UP ALASKAN BOUNDARY [ARTICLE]

CLEARS UP ALASKAN BOUNDARY

Lieutenant Owens Finds Monuments Fixed Ago by Russians. A. telegram from Skaguay announces that Samuel Weltzman, a merchant of Haines, has arrived there with the news that Lieut. Owens has been successful in finding the boundary monuments established years ago by the Russians. He found two monuments in perfect repair and definitely located the spot where the third one has been recently destroyed. One of the monuments discovered Is about ten miles above Rainy Hollow and the other on Tahkeena river, fifty miles from the coast. Lieut. Owens is nqw examining other portions of the boundary, and will secure the statements of Indians. Destroyed monuments were ieveled to the ground. On the summit of Chilkat Owens found an old storm house built by the Russians and called by them the “bo'inilary house." Its walls are falling down, but proof was obtained of occupation nt one time. These discoveries, it is stated, prove beyond doubt that the Russians occupied the entire disputed territory now claimed by Canada, and that the boundary lice, according to the Rnsaian treaty, is exactly where the Americans claim it tv be.