| Show ALkKA8 nnUIIAIIY Dispute Witt ll tlt Most h atleld hon 10 AId Trouble Washington March 4The breaking out anew 01 the controv01y over the boundary line between Alaska and llrltlsh Columbia created much Interest Inter-est among officials today and calls attention at-tention to the necessity for a final disposition dis-position of the boundary Issue While a matter whose adjudication rests In the jurisdiction I of the flute department depart-ment It Is I pointed out here officially that the maps and data proposed with the greatest care and precision by the coast and geodetic survey authorities ustaln In every point the position assumed as-sumed by the United States with respect re-spect to Its domain There Is however nn Important question 01 construction ot the terms ot the Anglollusslan treaty slgnetl at St Petersburg In February Feb-ruary 182upon which our claim rests This government flies upon salt water ax the bal ot tho definition of meanwhile mean-while the BrItish dispute this nnd claim the Islands as the Ocean shore whle wold place the had oC Lynn canal I In British territory gltlng them oil P I Important points like Tallo and Skaguay Skaguayt I Is ailed to the fact that thl ttt dor not no Seems to be bee I be-e ad ln8 II 0 trip lea leagues wldu as American land but It docs make the boundary line the ummlt ot the mountain range provided that range does not Involve a width of over en leagues According to the reckoning of the count survey authorities and the lines of demarcation I In their publications the summit of White pass o > er which he HrlllKh flag Is I reportd to have been planted Is I ten miles on the Unllid Staten side of the tenl ague or thirty mile Iwundary line The Hist mOl hllnll cited In the treaty Is I the Ml Ht rllas line In Ullas connection the specific terms I of the treaty between Clreat Britain and Russia defining tho boundary Is I licit l of the treaty between the United I tlntcs and llussla am dtflnH the boundary of Alaska In the pllreha oC that country the first I > ortlon 01 which Is I na follows That whatever the summit of file mountains which extend In a direction parallel to the coast from the Mth degree de-gree of north latitude to the point ot intersection of the Mist degree ot west longitude shall proe to be at the distance 01 more than ten marine leagues from the ocean the limit between be-tween the lirltlfh Possess lons and the line I 01 the const which to I to bong to lIuala as above mnloncd hall lie formed by a line parallel 10 the wind Ing 01 file coasl and which shall never esce1 the dltance 01 tn marine leagues therelron |
