The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-07-30
SEALING STOPPED.
Tho seal POachers Proceed to Hang Up
the Fiddle.

VICTORIA, b. c., July N.-The sealing
schooner E. B. Marvin returned TO port
last night, having been seized by the Amer
lean cutter Rush in attempting to enter
Behring sea after having been warned by
the Rush at Sand Point not to do so. The
Rush chased her into Ounalaska seized
her and handed her over to the British
warship Nymphe, by which she was or
dcred home. The United States cruiser
Marson sailed for Behring sea yesterday.
Commander Hitchcock, OF the Alert, was
passenger to rejoin his ship.
Sealing is certainly stopped in Behring
sea and all the Victoria fleets are now on
the way home. The entrance to Behring
sea is etfectually blocked and is no W pa
troled by five American and two British
war vessels. The latter are the NVmphe and
the Pheasant and the United States vessels
are the revenue cutters Bear, Rush and Cor
win and the gunboats Thetis and Mohi-
can. ....
Last night the Victoria sealing schooner
E. Is. Marvin arrived from the north, hay-
ing been seized by the United States cutter
Rush and turned over to the Nymphe, the
latter giving the Marvin orders to sail di-
rect for this port and remain here.
The Marvin was. notified at Sand
Point by the Rush that sealing was
prohibited in the sea and alter being fur
nlshed with copy of the proclamation of
President Harrison, was ordered not to at
tempt to go into Behring sea under penalty
of seizure. No attention was paid to the
warming and Capt. McDougall sailed for
the sea, determined to wdit until mott
fled by a British vessel. lie was over
hauled at Ounalaska afterward by the
Rush and taken captive. The schooner
was turned over by the Rush to the
Nympha, which ordered Capt. McDougalI
to proceed here and wait further orders.
The Marvin's officers say that nearly every
schooner has received notice. and they will
certainly be seized if they attempt to enter
the sea after being warned.
The Mary in brought news that on July
the sealer La Nymphe was fired on by the
Thetis between st. George and St. Paul ISL
ands. She tried to escape from the Thetis
but was brought up by shot. Another
schooner, name unknown, was also fired
on, but succeeded in escaping.
few hours alter the Marvin arrived the
schooner Walter l. Rich entered the har-
Dor. The captain OF the Rich says he was
about to enter Behring sea on July % at
Unimak Pass entrance to the sea, when he
was met by the United States gun boat
Thetis and handed copy of
the proclamation. The cap
tain was then warned OF the
consequences should he ignore the warn
ing. The Rush cruised off the pass for sew
eral days, then started Tor Victoria. She
got twenty-one skins after being notified by
the Thetis. The American schooner AL
bert Walker, whose owner is at Kodiak,
was also warned at the same time
as the Rich. Several schooners are said to
be already in the sea. A number OF them
are intending to go in and hunt seal on the
Russian shore and defy both the United
States and British men-ot-war.
AT o'clock this morning the schooner
AlnOka entered the harbor here. The cap
tain reports that seventeen British and
American sealing schooners were caught
June 20 off Alitak bay by the
United States steamer Thetis and
warned not to enter Behring sea
on pain OF instant seizure. The captain OF
the Ainoka decided to abide by the order
and returned to Victoria, but some of the
schooners intended to Try and enter Behr-
ing sea and hunt sea- on the Russian side
The Ainoka left Alitak bay June "A.
A dispatch from Vancouver says: "The
Vancouver Belle was the first of the sealing
fleet to return to this port. She arrived
last evening with twenty eight skins. She
had just entered Behring Sea on July g.
when she was warned by the United States
cutter Corwin to leave and she re-
turned accordingly. At that time twenty
nine sealers had been warned. The schoon-
er E. B. Marvin had taken fourteen skins
when she was seized by the Rush. The
Vancouver Belle brings news that the
schooner Beatrice, of this port, lost boat