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Show ALASKAN BOUNDARY LINE SETTLED. SET-TLED. The Outcome of the Decision a Great Disappointment to Canada. Tho Alaskan boundary commission reached n decision whereby nil tho Amorlcnn contentions nro sustnlncd with tho exception of thoso In relation rela-tion to tho Portlnnd cnnal, which Canada wins. All that now remains to bo dono is for tho commissioners to nfilx their slgnntures to tho decision decis-ion nnd completo tho mnp which will nccompnny It. On tho mnp will bo marked tho boundary line, definitely fixing tho division of Amorlcnn and British territory on such a bnsls thnt no American citizen will loso n foot of land ho nlrendy believed ho held, whllo tho United Stntcs will got all tho wntorwnys to tho rich Alnskan territory, with tho exception of tho Portland cnnal, which gives Canada tho ono outlet sho so much needed. Oreat dlsnpproval of and disappointment disap-pointment Is felt in Canada over tho doclslon of tno Alaskan case. "I would not llko to crltlclso Lord Alvorstono's decision until I havo road it, but tho result Is a very great disappointment to mo." This was tho view of Thomas Hod-gins, Hod-gins, K. C, tho master In ordlnnry, who hns mndo a special study of tho boundary dispute, and It conveys the fooling of Canadians generally. |