Show RICH GOLD FINDS ON THE THELAND LAND HAY GAVE WhY AWAY i I 1 Q Stampede Ie is Predicted t to the Porcupine District Where The Flag Was Hauled Down T t tAmer Americans Amer Being Forced Out of Splendid Mining Strip By 1 Canadian C nadia Rules Serious Trouble Over Customs l Victoria B BC C Oct 3 Provincial l Rogers who returned to today today today day from fro Porcupine reports ports r rich finds of gold in that district and predicts a abig abig abig big rush there ther Already there are a number of men In that district d claims were staked on Bear and Clear creeks in one day Good reports also come c me from the headwaters of Stewarts river where 25 cents a pan is being taken out The trouble at Mount Baker over I Ithe the boundary line dispute has almost reached an international crisis Yes Yesterday Yesterday Yesterday a pack train of goods on the way from Chilliwack to Mount C ker for claims was seized by bJ the American custom authorities on the ground that the goods had gone across the boundary line Une into the states Deane the provincial surveyor who I is fixing the boundary line says that Canada will derive a stretch of new newland newland land two miles wide by the moving of ot I the line back ack b where it was originally and should now be located Valuable American mines are included 1 ed In this strip AMERICANS FORCED OUT Our Valuable Mines Nines Will Revert Severt to the Canadians Minneapolis Minn Oct 3 A special from Tacoma Wash to the Chicago says J H Cobb has reached Juneau from the Porcupine district with news of the first results of the occupation of the I disputed territory by Canadian officers cers cern Cobb says several dozen Amer American AmerIcan American ican miners have already left and oth others others ers era are going They prefer to leave rather than to go to he formality and expense of attempting to acure title to their claims from the Canadian au authorities authorities authorities Gold Commissioner Martin and other Canadian officials have installed them themselves themselves selves for the winter in buildings on the international line half a mile north of Porcupine City Martin posted notices that all claims legally staked by Americans would be confirmed and andset andset andset set a date a date for hearings To his surprise not a single claim was pre presented presented presented for confirmation c T of the exodus of miners holding ng claims aims c on Boulder and Nugget creeks These abandoned ab claims will now revert to Canadians |