The record-union., 1899-05-31
VIII Do Garrison Duty at the Scene Of the
Disputed Territory.
General Anderson Explains His Ex-
periences With Dominion Police
in Our Northern Possessions
Last Year-A Large Party of
Noted Scientists Arrive at Port
land, En- Route to Alaska.

CHICAGO, May 3O.-Under direction
of the War Department, Brigadier
General T. M Anderson, commanding
the Department of the Lakes, has or
dered Company E, Seventh United
States Infantry, to Alaska. The com
pany is now stationed at Fort Sheridan,
and Captain C. S. Farnsworth is in
command. The soldiers are to do gar
rison duty in place of a company of
the Fourteenth Infantry, which has
been withdrawn and sent to Manila.
Company E will leave for San Fran
cisco probably tonight, from which
place it will be transported by water
to Skaguay. bf
General Thomas M. Anderson is in
terested, from a military standpoint, in
the settlement of the Alaskan boundary
question. He is the American army
officer who, about a year ago, went
to Alaska with a force of soldiers and
drove out of the Territory the Domin-
ion police that had .rendezvoused there,
it was supposed for the purpose of
taking possession of valuable lands be-
longing to the United States
The issues in the controversy were the
subject of discussion by the General at
his office in the Pullman building. He
drew emphatic conclusions of the duties
of the United States in the matter In
describing his work last year. he said
When l reached the disputed terri
tory with United States troops. I found
that the Dominion police had taken
possession of Skaguay and established
a military office there Maps illustra-
ting the boundary between Alaska and
the Yukon district, as fixed by the
Dominion Government, had been cir
culated broadcast Ten days later a
full company of uniformed Dominion
police came up to strengthen the ad-
vantage already gained at Skaguay by
taking possession of Taiya, but, in the
meantime, l had established two gar
risons in Skaguay. two in Taiya and
one at Haynes Mission, which is the
beginning of the Dawson trail
This gave me the advantage of pos
session, and when the Dominion police
finally appeared I notified the officer in
command that he would have to take
his men across the border Immediately:
that my directions We're to rid Ameri-
can territory of Canadian police. Well.
the police retired, and we have held
the ground ever since''
SCIENTISTS GOING TO ALASKA.
PORTLAND, May go = Two-score
scientists of note, constituting the Har-
rlman exploring expedition to Alaska.
arrived in Portland this morning by
special train over the O. r. and N.
This afternoon they left for Alaska.
going down the Columbia River on the
Heet steamer Hassalo to .Kalama and
there boarding a special Northern Pa
clflc train for Seattle. There they will
embark on the steamship George w.
Elder, which sailed from Portland Sat
urday to take On a supply of coal for
the two months cruise in Alaskan
waters. In order that the fullest BEN
efits may come from the expedition.
Mr.. Hartman has enlisted the COOP
GRAFTON of the Academy of Science of
Washington, D. c.
The following is a list of the members
of the party:
Edward H. Hartman, patron of the
expedition.
William H Brewer, Yale University.
John Burroughs, orinthologist, West
Park, N. Y
Wesley r. Coe, Ph.D., Assistant Pro-
fessor OF Comparative Anatomy, Yale
University
Leon j. Cole, taxidermist, Ann Arbor
Mich
Fred V. Colville, botanist of the De-
partment of Agriculture, Washington.
D. c.
Dr. William H. Dali, honorary cura-
tor of mollusks in the National Mu-
scum, Washington. D. c..
Fred S. sDellenbaugh artist Crees.
more. N. Y.
W. D. Devereux. mining engip Ger.
Glenwood Springs, Col.
Miss Dorothea Draper. New York
City.
Daniel G. Elliott, curator of zoology
IN the fleid Columbian Museum, Chi
cago.
Benjamin K. Emerson, Professor of
Geology IN Amherst College, Amherst,
Mass.
b. E. Fernow, Professor of Forestry
of Cornell University.
DR.. A. X Fisher. orinthologist of the
United States Biological Survey. Wash
ington, d. c.
Louis A. Fuertes, bird artist, Ithaca.
N. Y.
denfy Gannett, chief geographer of
the United State Geographical Survey.
Washington, D. c.
r. Swain Clifford, artist, New York
City
6. K. Gilbert, geologist of the United
States Geological Survey, Washington,
D. C.
DR.. George Bird Grennell, editor of
Forest and Stream" New York
Julian H. Jones, stenographer
Washington, D. c.
Thomas H. Kearney, Jr.. assistant
botanist OF the Department of Agri-
culture, Washington, D. C.
Charles A. Keeler orinthologfst. Di-
rector of the Museum of California,
Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
Captain Luther S. Kelly, scout. yell
lowstone National Park
T. Kincaid, entomologist. Seattle,
Wash.
Dr. c. Hart Merriam, Chief of the
United States Biological Survey,
Washington, d. c.
Dr. Lewis Morris. physician, New
York City.
William E. Ritter Professor of BIZ