The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-22

JUDGE BURKE ON BOUNDARY.
lAne on ODeial NAP Of 1So0 ees~e
q. NJ. rwsnty-fsus Miles North
~ Wlukwsn-CnAss Late Agree
A>ns Seems % De LeeoseA one
MIL Usreh-Other Psints Com
~~~t>l Upen-Lyaa Canal rsFss.

IuA~e Thomas Burke yestardAy EXAM
sneA tha ssxt of the modus vivsn0 re-
rsrAing the Aiaskan boundary. - re-
norfsd ia the Associated Press dtspatches
nublian>d in yesterdays Poss-Anseih-
xsnesr. Judge Burke. whe - . fecos.
nissa authority On matters connsceeo
With the Alaskan dispute. AYERS tnst =.
ons point on the boundary t0e 49, -
vivsnli gives Canada twenty maee %
Amsricas tsrrttery. according to avail
~ mans examined in the light Of The
locumsnt.
yudgs Burke said yesterday:
"rrom the msaSer description conveyed
throuah the Associated Press dlspetcnes
i II impossible to locate Il, tne 49, st -
the so-caiisd modus vtyendi. Ins pug.
iished Description OF the line refers TO
government maps. which are not Obtain
scription 10 incompiets and cannot be
fully understood.
:sfhs map OF Alaska issued by the de-
partmsnt q the interior IN ,sse !. s c1o..
"a b. the Dalton trail. 70 = about
tvseiy -four niles north Of Nukwen.
whsreas the hns et this point. - de-
- but . rniie or q mile and half north
Of Klukwan II that b the case. there
would b m apparent loss. uudsr xne
nnsdus vivsndi. of about .t twenty s. nile;
may Be, however. that IN examination
Of the full text of the modus vfvsndi and
Of The maps referped TO therein VIII snow.
patches, that our present line v sub
stantisliy maintained throughout, but i
am afraid this will not prove to - the
ron the othsr hand. II 10 greatly to the
credit Of the state department that SEQ
Rotary Hay seems to have successfully
insisted upon the principle that. accord
a. ~ ~ra ta lARt <xH ttA nj
Of is1 between Russia and Great Britain
and which constitutes the basis OF our
title % Alaska, We are entitled 70 . con-
snS so.lowinx = the Windins Of the coast
from the point Of the continent where
the tine ascending 10 the north along
the Portland canal intsrsects the 18th
Elias This. Of course gives W the
whole OF Lynn canal. with all the oom-
msrciAl advantages arising from such
81 the sss and TO the strip Of mainland
susossefully commended for by Russia--is
R:.s:stiy o clear sns S,y Ia; only wonder ns
ject Of serious dispute When. In the
course OF time. the provisional line OF
the modus vivendi shall give way to the
doubt that the title OF tho United States
will be fully and freely acknowledged to
the strip Of mainland extending from the
up Portland canal with the 5Sth parallel
OF north latitude to Mount st. Elias. and
bounded on the land side by the summit
Of the mountains situated parallel to the
coast. whore such mountains are not
moro than ten marine leagues from the
coast. and whore there In no such mount
ain range. or whore such range. II II ex-
lists. r. more than ten marine leagues
from the coast, then by q line follow
the wtndinGr OF the coast and ten marine
loaguea therefrom
''xhe title Of Russia to this strip of
maitland was acknowledged and con-
frmed BY Great Britain in tho treaty OF
In. We bought II Of Russia In 1857 II
= now toe late for Great Britain to aues-
ton our title"