The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-10-15
AMERICAN AND
BRITISH CAMPS
TO BE MARKED BY HISTORICAL
MONUMENTS
Ceremonies to Take Place Friday,
October 21--Excursion From Se-
attic, U. s. and Perhaps British
Vessels to Attend.

The sites of the American and Brit
ish camps on San Juan island during
the years of joint occupancy are to
be marked by granite monuments to
be unveiled next Friday, Oct. II, the
32nd anniversary of the day upon
which Emperor William l, of Ger
many, signed the award in favor of
the American Interpretation of the
boundary treaty concluded at Wash
ington June Is, 1916, thus fixing the
Canal de Haro instead of Rosario
strait, as "the channel which sepa-
rates the continent from Vancouver's
island" and awarding to the United
States all the islands now embraced
in San Juan county. The event will
be otherwise historically important
in that it will commemorate the first
instance in which two great nations
resorted to arbitration to obtain o
peaceful settlement of an information
al difference.
The monuments are to be erected
by the Washington University State
Historical Society under the personal
direction of Prof. E. S. Meany, pro-
fessor of history. A special excur-
sion steamer is to leave Seattle about
midnight of Thursday, the goth, ar
irving at American camp, at the
south end of San Juan island, about
9 o'clock Friday morning. AS soon
as the ceremonies connected with
the unveiling of the monument there
are concluded the vessels in attend
ance will leave with their passengers
for English camp, at the north end
of the island, where similar exercises
will take place The U. S. monitor
Wyoming has been ordered to attend
and the editor of the ISLANDER is adj
vised by Prof Meany that she will
probably come down from the navy
yard Wednesday or Thursday and
anchor in Griffin bay 1t is expected
also that one of the vessels of the
British squadron at Esquimalt will be
in attendance and also the q. S. rev.
enue cutters Grant and Arcata and
launch Guard.
The exact locations of the monu-
ments were recently selected by Hon.
]. S. McMillin, by request OF Prof.
Meany. The one at American camp
will be on what was the crest of the
redoubt and the one at English camp
will be close to the site of the COM
mandant's residence,
The invitation to attend the cere-
monies is general and large attend
ance of the people of this county is
especially desired. Residents of San
Juan island can easily reach either
or both camps by teams or boats.
Capt. Edward d. Warbass, post
sutler at the American camp, had
letter few days ago from General
George B. Dandy, who was, a lieu
tenant IN Company M, 3rd artillery,
stationed here in the early Cos. He
is now visiting his daughter, wife of
Capt. Dean, of the 10th Infantry, at
Fort Lawton, near Seattle. He will
probably be present at the unveillng
of the monuments. Capt. Warbass
also had letter lately from Gen.
James Forsyth, now retired and liv-
inc at Columbus, o., who was a sec
ond lieutenant under Capt. Pickett
at Fort San Juan He was in COM
mand of the troops at the Standing
Rock agency in Dakota at the time
of the last Indian uprising there, in
which Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux
chief, was killed. The general says
in his letter to his old friend: L
Judge from the papers that the
change in your part of the country
must be so great that | would not
recognize even San Juan, and am
positive that everything that re-
member of Belingham bay has dis
appeared" !" The letter is signed
ssYour old friend, Tony Forsyth.