The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-21
IT WILL Be WITHDRAWN
Alaskan Boundary Question Is
the Great Obstacle.
A PLOT WHICH F|ZZLED
Boer Agents Said to Have Engineered
the johannesburg Affair - Presi
dent Kruger Had Moth
ing to Do With 1t.
Copyright 1899 by Associated Press.

Copyright 1899 by Associated Press.
London May 2O.-The fate of the
Anglo American-Canadian commission
was naturally regarded here as
matter of, great Importance and the
various rumors and reports on the SUP
ject attract more attention. dispatch
from Washington to the effect that the
RESUMPTION of the commissions lapors
depends upon settlement of the Alas
kan boundary in this city, and the as
secated press made inquiries at the
center Of negotiations in London. FROM
an unimpeachable source he obtained
the following statement:
THE thorny nature of the Alaskan
question makes 1T probable that upon
the resumption of the sittings OF the
commission it will be withdrawn from
discussion, to be taken up later, should
circumstances be favorable. The Alas
kan question has practically dropped
from the discussions. and the statement
that it's discussion and settlement VIII
be the sin qua non on the resumption
of the sittings of the commission Is III
accurat e.'
The representative of the associated
been discussed in the most concil1atory
spirit on both sides. The newspapers
here express regret that the Alaskan
dispute has grown more acute at time
when the relations between the Two
countries are so cordial and the news
that the conference will probably be
resumed in the autumn has given satls-
faction. So,
The Globe, commenting on the dis
,tn1, Of maj,
says:
Pending the meeting of the confer
ence, the first step to be taken after the
preiminaries are settled will be to
arrange modus vivendi and no time
must be lost in doing this If the sltua-
ton is not to be lamentaply compl-
Gated by a conflict which will make the
final settlement more difficult than
ever
The great Johannesburg plot against
the Transvaal is classed as having fig
zled out like damp firecracker. 1t is
claimed that the Boer organs striVed to
magnify the affair into another jane
son raid, but have now abandoned the
| attempt in despair. 1t is further asserted
| that the men arrested comprised cou-
| pie of Boer agents, who, some people
(! claim, probably engineered the whole
| scheme. The remainder of the prisoners
| are described by Times correspondent
| as set OF honest out drunken MEL
| whose intentions were only to prepare
| the town against possible Beer violence
| in case of war.
! The police are believed to be response
| BILE for the discovery of the conspiracy.
| Nobody thinks that President Kruger
knew anything of the Matching of the
! affair, as he lis looked upon as being too
shrewd not to see tiasco.
An interesting insight into Boer meth
| a
| some awards from the Boer secret
| funds for spying upon customers.
Much Importance is attached to the
coming meeting between Sir Alfred
Miner, the British high commissioner
of South Africa and governor of Cape
Colony, and President Kruger at
Bloemfontain, capital of the Orange
| Free State. There is general antici-
patton that Sir Alfred Miner has been
instructed by Joseph Chamberlain, sec
rotary of state for the colonies, to put
forth certain demands in the shape OF
concessions to the Uitlanders in form
practically amounting to an ultima
tum, and that the Beers will be re-
quired to accept and carry out the
British demands within specified pc
Rod or the Transvaal will be occupied
by British troops.
Uitanders who have just returned
from the Transvaal are strongly of the
opinion that President Kruger vii
give in. They argue that the Boer:
will remain, though, and there will bt
a rattle of swords and snabbards. blu
that they will finally yield without any
bloodshed.