The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1890-08-23
a REAL LIVE QUESTION.
The Projections ct the Sur Seal Methods
of the Private Saaicr@.

0s the Private seaacra.
ABw Yeng, Aug a1
The New York Suu's WsshiaItoa specia
sass: Toe declaration Of Mr.. Alexande
slavely Hill, 10 the British house Of com
mons, that the hnntirR Of seals by ID,
Victoria vessels leads to @no uud1e waste
IL contradicted by a great amount of test.
mony taken by COZ gress. Mr. Hill is the
speci i champion o. thu dominion poach.
efs in pariamf tt. ard naturally makes out
the best case possible for them; but hr
guards himself iy phrase that leaves IL
uncertain bow mush waste resulting from
lAhe shootiag CT seals in the open Foa, III
N1nsequence of which many sink and are
pot recovered. is to DO considered ~ not
| nndne Al the same time, Capt Erskine.
nf the steamer 80. Paul, who has arrived
"a San Francisco, says that the Victoria
Vessels have alre ,dy secured great many
Hsalsktna this year, and that they have
snany vessels In or on the way 10 the Bch.
Esng sea, not any Of whith b, at the l~test
ace unts, had been interfered With. H.
Farther thinks that IA is q matter OF few
Feais hen the seals VII become extinct. 7"
Acateh Of 81, 900 to $4,000 skins by the
private sealing vessels II probably bout
Che average Of late years, aud could Il b,
sonfned T. that amount. or even 1000,
tAera would ba less anxiety ab 1ut seal ex-
bnetiou. Last y, ar the catch OF the Ca
nadian vessels Was 20,57a, of which 1885
Ners taken in Bshtiag sea, and iha rs-
naindsr in the north Pacific American
vess IL also make captures, but these have
Zen checked OF late by The government
#izutes. Three years ago Treasury Agent
Jingle, who had charge OF the seal islInds,
a4ported that The number OF breeding seals
tbers that year, according TO the careful
&lcalation OF his assistant, Mr. Nuysg
vas 6,55T, ,750. alihonga he himself was in-
dined to estimate the number at about
one-fourth less, or about 6, ,000, 900. Upon
xuch number aud with the rate at VIII Ch
khs animals multiply, the taking OF 30, 400
Akins year by tho poachers woaid make
10 serious inroads, even though IL involved
nc destruction OF IN my more OF ths ami.
mals from its wasssfal methods, besides
she allowance To- the governme1t a lessses.
fndeed, Agent 1inkl., after estimating
a unmber OF skins taken by private seal.
tfs That year at 30,O0l, or about tho sum-
As nov, eddsd that Il is certain that this
ynai amount OF animals " still on tha in.
Grease, After retu ming 10 Washington
this same officer dwelt with emphasis on
"a destructive metho is employed b. the
palYate sealers. aud get declared that seal
hfa was increasing with great rapidity.
Bat Tue real danger IL that the moment
andisesimlaats sealing il allowed or Is safe
Al overwhelming magssers Of tho anima
sill rssult. They are partly protected now
n orr Jaws, and BY the numerous seizures
u i'd nader them. The chances of eonds.
sslsn '..J h Tas's 4 I bassnsss Es tn DO
nj niofn authorities have always advocated
the cause OF their citizens, never autil this
year has the Br tish government taken
positive ground on The subject and that
gr Juna became known too late to affect
the onifE of this season. With no arrests
by our cutters this year, aud WITH the as
susauce In British Columbia that its seal.
ers would be protected by the British navy,
Behrlng sea would lie overrun next sum
mer with these sealers, nuless the present
status og The question Should TO changed;
Gon, the successor of Agent Iingle, has
declared that under such " stem the seals
wonld be totally extinct within hye or six
Years; and certainly within ten or twenty
= ears they would disappear, as they did
from their old resorts in the southel
hemisphere, where formerly millions we're
found.
Some experts give the ramber of cap
tured az one In three OF al that were shot
ID the open see, this being Capt. Abbeys
statement. Others desia,e taat il Is only
sas IL ssR4 or a%sr ~ he eeaeA=Fs- -se+fe--
times shoot them with rifles nj q long
distance.
Take away such protection as the seals
nov hayas and both Canadian aud Ameri-
can vessels will swarm ar0and the govern
meat islands in year or two, slaughtering
the animals as thes move eompaetly
thitLer. and again at the end of the season
when thy return CO the Pacific from the
rookEries. How many such years would
1t take To destroy the value of the govern.
meat's J islands aud d drive the animas
from the Behring sosg Tie protection Of
the fur seal is matter In wh,es tle whole
world kss an interest.
As5ufh Afsican Monarch Wac May Fight.
LoRDoE. Aug. sa.
South African advices iepfesent that
LobenRnla, the king of Mat b eland, IL
very mush rntated with the course OF tie
hrAtsl company, which has recently bsen
Limited 10 eeltain privileges In his do
mintons, and that hia people are ripe for
var I4ohepgula ID the most powerful
monaroh in Sonth Africa, and IN able 10
master an army of $1,000 well trained
lighting men. The warriors are more
anxiona Tor war than the king, who under.
standa something of the extent of British
% ser. and In allow 10 enter upon n conflict.
shonld l.obengula so to war against the
ool0nists. IA would be n moro serions At.
faar Than the struggle with tLe zulus.
Aensl in xonr Pour and q Haifs.
WAmatNgToN. Ang e.
The treasury department has issuld a
Circular proyidipg FOR the redompt on, be-
fore Sept. 4, Of S2,0UO,0o0 Al per cent.
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