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Show Mounts Stephen Can Havo Post. Special Cablo to The Tribune. LONDON, Feb. 21. Lord Mount-Stephen will be asked to succeed the late Lord StraLhcona us high commissioner for Canada in London, He Is S4 years old, and was one of tho threo pioneers who, with Lord Strathcona, carried into effect tho long cherished scheme of constructing con-structing a railway to link up thn Pacific Pa-cific seaboard with eastern Canada, to open up tho grain-growing areas of the west. Tho other two wero R. B. Argus and James J. Hill. Later the then George Stephon assumed tho presidency of the Canadian Pacific railway, which ho held until 1283. |