The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-07
aimed At AMERICAN INTERESTS
Canadian Occupation Of American Soil In
tended to Injure the United States
Shrewd Move to Drive Outfit
ting Trade Abroad.

the wagon road at q cost Of $4,000 Soon
after the White Pass hotel is reached.
This hotel is situated at the foot Of
steep hill. 1t is big log house. There
are accommodations for sixty people.
and they sleep three In a bed Com
Portable? Well, / should say, There IS
no reluctance TO sleeping three in bunk
In that climate. The charge is IS cents,
and you furnish your own blankets.
Frequently every bunk Is filled and peo-
pie sleep on the floors and tables, wher-
ever there is room. Meals are 80 cents.
From the White Pass hotel to the sum-
NIT It is steep travelling. Humorous incl
dents are OF regular and frequent occur
renee. / saw one outfit hauling whisky
over the summit. Soon after the start was
made one team slipped off, and horse. man
and sled went rolling down the bank to
the snow drifts at the bottom. little
further UP second followed the first I'M
fortunate. and before the summit was
reached the last man drove his horse too
near the edge of the trail and he, too,
followed the others.
Claim of the Canadians.
''On Summit lake / saw a Swede from
Tacoma returning from Like Bennett He
sat on his sled, and, hosting sail, sped
along as rapidly as q man would ride or
dinarily on q wheel. Between Summit
lake and Middle lake there is camp call
ed Rescue camp. which intending travel
ers on the trail should bear in mind. There
be secured.
after reaching Lake Bennett Mr.. Bar
ron and / started back over the Chilkoot
trail. 1t was showing hard and the wind
was blowing gale. II seemed TO cut
through our clothing like a knife. They
told US that the trail had been impossible
for ten days. The wind was at our backs
and with the dog team and our outfit,
weighing $50 pounds, we made the trip
over the summit to Sheep camp in seven
hours. On the way through the canyon
between Crater and Long lakes. We met a
man who had tried 10 get over the summit
and determined 1T was impossible. He had
$50 pounds on sled and said he would re-
turn to Lake Bennett We tried TO per-
suade him to follow us. He started and
then again turned back. The wind carry
ing drift snow and small particles of ice
along at the rate of forty miles an hour,
swept through the canyon. 1 cannot be-
lieve that man ever got out of the canyon
alive.
"We reached Sheep camp without fur
Their incident worth noting except that We
had a lively time sliding down the sum-
mit. 1t was on return trip TO the sum-
NIT that | met Inspector Belcher, who
with force of twenty men. took I'D a
position at the block house right on the
summit, and nine or ten miles this side
OF the international boundary line. In
spector Belcher treated me courteouslv
enough. telling me. in response to a query,
that he was stationed there under orders
from the Dominion government. The Ca
nadans are claiming that the summit of
Chilkoot pass is to be considered as the
boundary between the two countries rath-
er than line drawn thirty marine leagues
from tidewater. OF course, the question
VIII one day have TO be settled by arbI-
tration. but l cannot well understand how
the United States is to tolerate this occu-
pancy OF American soil by the British
without ever so much as a by your leave
or notice OF any sort. At least. this land
must be considered as a disputed strip
and It's seizure by the British when II has
always been considered American terri
tory constitutes. in my mind. ground for
action by tina authorities OF state a;
Washington. IL Is a menace TO American
trade and shipping and is so regarded In
Dyea and Skasway."