The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-04
CRUISE OF THE RUSH.
Twenty-one British and Amer.
lean Sealers Seized.
THE CUTTER RETURNS SOUTH.
Kescae Of the Cr~w Of the Wrecked Al
phs-Arsiss Hasher's Adventure
sale Of Struggled Opium.

FoEr TowssFxn, Oct S-The revenue
cutter Rush arrived from Sitka last night
about O'Clock On her way TO san Fran
cisco from her cruise in Rehring sea during
The past summer. She left Siska last FRI
day, and the voyage Was made without
incident The correspondent of the PesT-
IsrsLlssseEs boarded her this morning
after the items Of her famous cruise. ard
was Hospitality received by Captain L. u.
Shepherd.
There is absolutely nothing new that
can be said OF our cruise, said the captain.
The newspapers have already given more
details of ii than could be gained from the
facts in our possession" He stated that
the Rush arrived At ounalaska from san
Francisco on the 10th day of June. and
eraised in Behring sea diligently from that
date until she sailed from oanalaska 10
Sitka on her way homeward. The Bear
arrived at onnaiaska on the proceeding day
from Point Barrow. 10 continue the cruise
ior month or more, when she will also
follow the Rush homeward.
During the cruise twenty-one vessels
were boarded out of fleet of about thirty
five sealers in the sea. British and Ameri-
skins were transferred 10 the Rush and
turned over 70 the customhouse officials at
Siika. These skins are worth about S.
apiece. The seizures were all hloodless.
The clustering attitude in which the British
captains so frequently appeared in Victoria
dispatches was assumed either before or
after their interview with the Rush.
The most daring resistance encountered
was in the case OF the British captain who
remarked. upon being overhauled: Its
most damnably announcement 10 be seized,
don't you know
On August IS the Rush picked up six
Ahoset Indians near ounalaska in great
distress for food and water, having been
separated from their schooner, supposed TO
be the Beatrice, while ont in small boats in
fog.
Two Cape Hook Indians belonging to tho
schooner Kate were also taken aboard at
Beikofskay. The Indians went ashore
from the Rush at Nootka sound
A singular coincidence of the cruise was
the seizure of the schooner Lilly, taken on
the day and within forty miles Of the place
OF her seizure by the Rush two years ago.
On her arrival in Sitka, homeward bound,
September II. the Rush Immediately set
out in search of the missing schooner
Alpha, and returned to Sitka with the
sehooner's wrecked crew September 10
All on board are in excellent health and
have been so during the entire cruise. The
officers Of the Rush are Captain l.. G..
Sheppard, First Lieutenant and Executive
Officer Frank Tuttle, Second Lieutenant
and Navigator ]. G. Moore. Second Lieu
tenant II. v. West. Third Lieu
tenant T.. II. Dimock, chief
Engineer j. A. Doyle, First Assistant Will
liam Blackmore. Second Assistant n. Coyie,
Surgeon +. b. Perry and a crew of forty
men. Mrs. Shepherd and children. Leon
ard, jr., and Willie. accompanied Captain
Shepherd to 0unalaska, where they lived
while the captain was cruising in the sea.
The officers Of the Rush are attending the
Key City Clubs opening reception in their
elegant new home this evening" the great
est social event that has ever occurred in
Port Townsend.
The Rush will proceed to Seattle tomor-
row morning, and is expected 10 reach San
Francisco some time next week. All on
board enjoyed the grandeur and suhlimity
of the scenery of the Northern sea. but are
glad enough to change its barren solitude
for civilization.
ARTIST HusHER's RESCUE.
Mr.. G. A. Husher, the San Francisco art
ist. who was reported as lost ON the
schooner Alpha between Yakutat and
Sitsa. was very much interested in copy
of the San Francisco Examiner OF the 2sth
ult. which he secured on stepping ashore
from the Corona in this city yesterday
morning Its best item was an account of
his awful tate, embodying his portrait,
"Husher's last letter" and other melan-
choly mementoes.
Mr.. Husher sailed from Sitka on the Alpha,
a fur trader, for Yakutat, August 4, TO OBJ
tain some views of Mount ST. Elias He was
the guest of her owner, ]. j. kuehn. On
the return the schooner sailed from Yaku-
tat bay August H. She soon encountered
terrific southeasters and was finally
driven back in a disabled aud unseaworthy
condition. The shipwreeked party were
contemplating the alternatives OF living
there through the winter on sealskin stew
or making an overland journey of 20
miles on foot and by canoe. To make this
Journey ii would be necessary to await until
snow fell and use snowshoes, as the
moss and underground renders the coun-
try otherwise impossible. Their stock Of
provisions was reduced 10 half sack of
-four and peck of beans. Captain sbcp-
herd, of the Rush. upon his arrival ut
sitka. September II. learning of the fears
for the AIphs's safety. set on, with his
cutter within an hour in search of the
missing vessel, and arrived at Yakutut i'm
about thiriy-six hours. The party was
taken aboard the Rush and taken TO sitka,
and the schooner left Ell the beach. The
prompt action OF Captain Shepherd. Just
after arriving in port from a tedious cruise
OF three months In Behring sea, is COM
mended with feelings Of gratitude by the
rescued.
Mr. Hnsher Is young man whose dar-
ing adventures have placed him in perilous
situations before, but he saws that be never
again wishes 70 encounter an Alaskan
sou;hessier. lie has made several thrill
ing balloon ascensions in California. and
once obtained series OF photographs os
San francisco from a height Of mile
above the city. and later like series Of
Los Angeles. He Is prominent member
OF the Olympic Club OF Francisco.
eExERaL MILES GOES HUNTING.
Brigadier-General Nelson A. Miles. T.. y.
| A. commander OF the Division Of the Pa
| cifc, and Lieutenant CooneI J. u. De
Russey and Dr. Woods arrived In this city
yesterday afternoon on q tour Of insrec-
/ ton OF the military posts of the Northwest.
I This morning the party went sboard the
/ wolc0tf. as guests Of Captain Glover. and
! went 10 Port Angeles for a game hunt.
LaEGw SALE or orIua.
| The opium sccumuIating from vkrions
I seizures during the past year. 67ZSs pounds
I prepared and -ixty-four pounds crude. ~as
al.