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Show ANCIENT SPANISH DOCUMENT. Shows Vancouver Islund Should IJeloug to tho United States. Seattle, Wash., Feb. 21. -The Post Intelligencer publishes a facsimilie of a Spanish document which shows that the Spanish were in actual military possession of Vancouver island between 1790 and January 1792. It is stated that the document, if it had been in the possession of Emperor William of Germany when he arbitrated the Canadian Can-adian boundary between England and the United States, would have incon-testably incon-testably proven the right of the United States to Vancouver island. The document docu-ment in question is a report of Pedro Alberni upon the condition of his forces on his return from Nootka sound to Mexico. It is dated January 1, 1793. The original document, which is now in Seattle, was sold to a British citizen over forty years ago, and it has been withheld for personal reasons. |