Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-25
REHRING SEA.
A Returned skipper Tells of the
Doings Up There.

VICTORIA, B. c., August PAY ester.
day afternoon the schooner Sapphire ar.
rived from Behring sea, having ON board
2 500 skins. Captain W. Cox, hei
master, gives the following particulars OF
his cruise: On the 4th of July the
Sapphire entered the ''closed ocean,
and five days afterwards took her first
catch oftseals. After that the catches
were good and frequent, and everything
went we'll. On July oath the Pathfinder
came up to the Sapphire and spoke tc
her, and reported all we'll, with a catch
OF $40 seals. Four days after this the
Annie G. More was spoken, with 500
skins aboard, and all we'll. On July
goth, with fair wind, the Sapphire
came in sight Of the Maggie
Mac, Captain Dodd, who told him
that on the same day he had beer
boarded by Lieutenant Tuttle, of the
cutter Rush, who informed him of the
capture of the Black Diamond and Min
ME. Captain Dodd stated that the Min.
ME had been towed by the Rush into
Ounalaska and laid up there, and that
when asked by Lieutenant Tnttle where
he had come from he stated that he had
caught his sesls at Copper Island on the
other side. When he heard this Tuttle
seemed to be satisfied, and remarkinl
that he had
OTHER FISH TO CATCH,
Was leaving the gangway when Captain
Dodd asked what he meant. He pointed
to gtwo specks over near the land, and
said they were the schooners Nellie
Adams and Mary Ellen, which he was
going to nip in the act. As soon as ne
had left the Maggie Mac got as far away
with her $50 skins as possible, having
seen the Rush standing down on the
seemingly unsuspecting schooners.
In addition to the above Captain Cox
was told while aboard the Maggie Mac
that schooner, the name of which he
did not remember, had reported to them
that the Penelope had been sighted in
tow of the Rush, heading for Ounal-
aska.
CHASED BY THE BEAR.
At 10 O'Clock in tho morning after the
Maggie Mac had been visited, the sky
was overcast and the sun was just sue.
ceeding in struggling out of the mist
when ship was sighted only about
three miles off the vessels quarter.
Speculation as to what the stranger
could be was rife, until the mist rose a
little and revealed a thick volume of
smoke pouring out of her tunnels, and
the big bulk of the United States cutter
Bear appeared. Captain Cox put up
every stitch of canvas his little vessel
could carry and aided by a splendid
southerly wind, fed before the steamer.
The latter gained for half an hour and
then the Sapphire began to show her abil.
tiles and slowly but surely left her
chaser behind.
PAPERS FORWARDED TO OTTAWA.
OTTAWA, August 24.-Hon. Mackenzie
Bowel has received a telegram from
Victoria, that the papers in connection
with the seizures OF sealers have been
sent to Ottawa.
NO COMMUNICATIONS FROM ENGLAND.
WASHINGTON, August 24.-The Acting
Secretary of State today said that no
communications from Minister Lincoln
upon the subject of the Behring sea
troubles had heen received at the De-
partment. He had heard nothing be-.
yond what he had seen in the news
papers from the British Government, of
an intention OIL it's part to request arbi-
tration, and in fact the Department has
had no communication from the British
Government upon any subject since Sec.
retary Bayard Quilted office.