Show ALASKAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE washington sept 7 while gratifying progress has been made toward tho arrangement of a modus temporarily pora rily defining alie boundary line between alaska and british columbia and the concerned in the negotiations are hopeful eliat success will attend their efforts it can bo stated that at this moment the negotiations are still running and therefore it cannot Q said that an arrangement has been reached it is still possible for alie whole scheme to bo disarranged owing to the injection at this point of some such counter proposal as wrecked the modus thought to have been arranged by ambassador and lord salisbury state department officials insist that while it is not within reason to expect that any arrangement fair and satisfactory to both parties to the negotiations tiati ons shall be entirely one sided still it will be found when the result is made public that tho united states has secured a majority of the points in contention and that the opposition lias made concessions of the greatest importance but one of the difficulties of the situation is that alie department is precluded from making eliat fact officially known out of regard for tho obstacles that would probably be placed in the way of the conclusion of the agreement by those elements in canada an J this country alio are opposed to any sacrifice |