Show ALASKAN CLAIM of 0 En glands claim to a slice of alaska the albany journal says grout gret britain Is determined to survey the boundary line be between teen alaska and british columbia to suit herself she has now awl an independent perv eying party on the tha ground working in li hi r interest In lerent and determined to got moro more item ea roast and moie in Is or of the gold fields mail and it if possible it a control of some borne of tile tho rivers once occupying ing any ground for a time undisturbed turbent tur beIt she will claim it forever that Is 13 her custom clinton anti and tit the northwest ones will ill make no exception and it if the th matter iran la Is left to arbitration As e b be a the osera the bell belter way la Is to keep keen her ter tit nt arms length bengt it and maintain our own outposts ou ourselves relves with pride in all sections section st of our oar country bethar they be full of historical fact or big biff with unknown pon pan america shou should id maintain that great britain should I 1 let e t tho the alaska boundary alone and that our own government should khouli the baby territory big biff enough to mako make sixty sites of the mime ilso of massachusetts to a posit position ion wherein sher eln she may help herself the course of 0 great britain Is all the more astonishing because when russia rusala owned alaska she came to a perfect understanding with england about the boundary line between the two countries for sixty years england found no fault with these limits and in the treaty hy by which alaska was ceded to the united states the description of 0 them was copied verbatim about ton ten years ago however great britain preferred a claim and she ehe Is working on it still and it all comes from the fact that there Is much in alaska that Is valuable and great wants it it if the yukon river were in a milder climate thoro there would be gold enough taken from its banks in fix the next three years to double the gold of the world because tor for it hundreds u of miles to an extent probably double all the placer ground ever worked in california very rich placers exist the writer kouhia saw a gentleman f from rom there a few days ago a gentleman who has spent the past two winters there who said there were many mine muneis is 11 at t work there now though it 1 Is a tearful fearful lourney journey to go there the mouth of the bucon la Is nearly miles from san francisco and the way that region la Is reached Is by dog sleds from sitka and then alien alaska 13 one of the greatest flah fish countries in the world and very likely the quartz veins w will ill be found before long which supplied lied all those placers and when that Is done men can work all the year round tho the mistake which our government made mad a was that it did not when england preferred her first growling propose to submit the whole matter to the czar of russia for settlement and that would bo be rood ground to take now |