The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-29

alive several days after. ] tried 10 buy II,
burt they refused TO sell. | have no doubt
that If this pun had been properly fed and
cared for that il would have lived TO have
grown to maturity. l have had many
wears experience in the sealing business
at Cape FIattery, and every season at its
close the young pups are plenty think,
as the Indians do, that these pups are born
in the water or on the kelp beds. My
opinion is that the fur seal of the cape
come from Lower California, and that they
do not go to the Pribilof islands. think
their habits are different from the fur seals
of Saint Paui's.''
Captain McAlmond's testimoney OF what
he had seen is of as much value as Mr.. FL
liott's testimony of what he has seen, and
is entitled 10 quite as much credence-
WHO EVER saw FUR SEAL PUP SINK LIKE A
STONE?
Now will ask if there is any reader of
the PosT-IsTELLIGEScER who has seen
fur seal pup sink like stone, and viii
venture the remark that there is not man
living, except HenrytW Elliott, who ever
saw fur seal pup 'sink like stone, and
he never has, because in one of his late
epistles he admits that they will flop
around a little" stone does not flop
around; it goes down at once. For twenty
years Mr.. Elliott has audaciousiy and ar
rogantly repeated this assertion till lately
he admits they Twill flop round" and I
assert they swim. Yes, my friend, they do
flop around. aud by your own admission |
have made you 1op around from your
twenty years assertion.
WHO is HENRY V. ELLIOTT?
No doubt many of the readers of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and particularly
those of the sealing population, have
asked this question. | will answer it by
quoting from an official document.
In 1879 Major William Governor Morris,
special agent of the treasury department,
made q report regarding Alaska territory.
which may be found in Senate Ex-Doc.
No 50, Forty-tifth congress, third session,
on page 1875, under the head of 'tThe Sense
Keeper of Alaska. Major Morris writes:
80 little is known about Alaska that
whenever anything comes up in congress
relating to II, information is sought
wherever it can be readily found. The sin
formant" is ever on hand with his work on
fur seals comfortably tucked underneath
his left arm To impart all the knowledge
extant about the country, for he knows
more about Alaska than any man living
~ decade has passed since We acquired
this territory, and for a decade has it Of
fered employment and subsistence for its
present sense-keeper. but the next decade
is warming into national existence, and it
is about time this bubble was pricked and
the bladder not quite so much inflated.
q am fully aware of all the consequences
to be dreaded, the responsibility assumed,
when rash enough to dispute the hereto
fore self-cstablished authority from the
Arctic ocean to Portland canal
Il will not pretend to deny his valuable
contributions to the ethnology of the Aleu-
tan race, (for he married a native of that
tribel. nor question the accuracy of his de-
scription III the management of a bidarki,
or the chase after the sea otter. In all
these outlandisn sports and occupations
he is perfectly at home. But when he
comes to denounce a whole country and
its people, and set himself up as the rade
meeunt of popular intelligence, the great 4
am of a whole territory and population;
sneers at any prospect of a change for the
better, and ventures 10 suggest to congress
what they shall and shall not do, and will
not acknowledge there Is any merit in the
land save what Is evolved out of the deep
researches of his own intellect. | say. yea,
j repeat it, it is time the impostor is ex-
posed, and, disagreeable as the duty has
been. il has not been shrunk from.
''rhis man seems to be the natural foe of
Alaska prosecution, and persecutes her
with the brush of the pencil and the pen
of an expert, and | attribute the present
forlorn condition of the territory today
more to his ignorance and misrepresenta-
ton than to all other causes combined. "
What Major Morris wrote twelve
years ago about the sense keeper
of Alaska" is true today If any
one makes an assertion which differs
from his views, instead of quietly exam
lining to see if any natural cause exists
why certain conditions may not produce
certain changes, he pompously and AFRO