Show I DIi I CONCfSSIN TO CANADA AMERICANS MAY SURRENDER DYEA AND SKAGWAY Proposition Now Before the Joint High Commission Dispute Over the Boundary Line to Be Settled Chicago Feb 3A special from Wash ington t the Tribune says l the report of their subcommittee is adopted a seems possible If not probable a sllca of Alaskan territory embracing tho entrance en-trance to the Klondike may b ceded to Great Britain in a treaty to be adopted by the AngloAmerican commission The subcommittees report it Is sd comes dangerously near to putung Skag way and Dyea under British control leaving leav-ing to tho Americans however the control of the headwaters of Lynn canal by which obth of the supply towns are reached Under tho treaty of cession it was provided that whenever the summit of the mountains which extend In a direction di-rection parallel to the coast from the fiftysixth degree of north latitude to the one hundred and fortyfirst degree of west longitude shall prove t b it the distance of more than ten marine leagues I from the ocean the limit between the British and American possessions shall I be formed by the line parelled to tim winding of the coasta nd which shall not exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom The British commission at first took the ground that the coast line was determined determin-ed by tho islands which of courst would e court have given them possession of the mainland main-land at almost all points They have abandone that theory but have made anew a-new claim regarding tho headwaters of tho Lynn canal This large estuary divides Into what are known as the Chilkoot and Chllkat Inlets 1 in-lets twentyfive or thirty miles thi of i i Skagnay The subcommittee apparently favors the point of division as the head I of the line If this is coast lne I theory agreed to it would put the boundary line just i about on the shelf of land where the city of Skagway Is located and would apparently appar-ently put Dyea in Canadian territory entirely en-tirely I Is believed to be the purpose of the subcommittee to put the landing place Itself barely within American territory tory so as to permit of the establishment of a custom house but giving to the Canadians I Ca-nadians the real city Itself with its warehouses ware-houses and other facilities for beginning facites begnning tho march to the Klondike I Q C |