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Show RUINS OF STONE HUTS. This What Alaskan Boundary Monuments Monu-ments Aro Declared to Be. Vlcloila. II, C, cirt 30 Archlb il.l Coineron, road superintendent, who has Just in lived bcie fiom Porcupine, sua thu line of boundiry monumiula nlligitl tn have bmi dleiuveied and slated to bo the di mnriatloii uf Al is kan bound irj. aie the ruins of stone hut built hy Hi' Indlins or the Interior, In-terior, where they met with those of the en ist em u luiitral gioiind, about sixtj-elght mlliH fiom tide-water nnd nbotit ten miles heond the tlmber-liml tlmber-liml He ilestrlbe the origin of the huts as follows "The Indlins of the mist and those ot the Inltiloi weie Jiulous of each other, In fuel, weio hcrcdltiuv foes, and It w is artu geiiiiatlous uf bitter find that mi aimed Irute was established bitwetn thciu Ilefure the niiangi-inent niiangi-inent of this aboriginal mollis vlviudl, Ihe luterloi, or Stltlc Indians, were not allowed to hunt tu nap nu the l'aclllc slope, the en ist, or t'hllas Indiana, holding all Ihe territory which Ilea between be-tween the sea and mountains it their particular n serve "Whip the llusalaim established trading posts on the const of Alaska, the Chllas sent envoi to the Sticks nnd piopused peatt firms, ho that tlulr furs could be exrlioiigcd A liuec wn iniidei by which the Sticks wern ill-leiwed ill-leiwed to come noma the divide laden with rurs to a certain lulnt where Ihe Chllas met them with a stotk of rimhIs fiom the storehouses of the Hiisslans, and then at stated time ol the em n gicat Indian fair wa held The ineeting-pUie was outside of tho timber tim-ber Hue. and na no wood was available, avail-able, the Indiana l.ulll stone liuls uf Ibe iiinst prlinltlvc'ioiistriictlon, mid those huts were used In enniiiion car nftei jear by the traders Those weie the' so-called inoiniments " |