Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
SEALERS RETURNING.
Seven War Vessels Are Guarding the
Bering Sea Entrance.
ONE SCHOONER WAS CONFISCATED.
Her Master Disregarded the Warming and
Paid the Penalty.
OTHERS WILL SEAL IN RUSSIAN WATERS

VICTORIA, B. c., July 26.-Sealing is
certainly stopped in Bering Sea and all the
Victoria fleets are now on the way home.
The entrance to Bering Sea is effectually
blocked, and is now patroled by five
American and two British war vessels. The
latter are the Nymphe and Pheasant, and
the United States vessels are the revenue
cutters Bear Rush .and Corwin and the
gunboats Thetis and Mohican.
Last night the Victoria sealing schooner
E. B. Marvin arrived from the North,
having been seized by the United States
cutter Rush and turned over to the Nymphe,
the latter giving the Marvin orders to sail
direct for this port and remain here. The
Marvin was notified at Sand Point by the
Rush that sealing was prohibited in the sea,
and after being furnished with copy of
the proclamation of President Harrison
was ordered not to attempt to go into Bering
Sea under penalty of seizure.
No attention was paid to the warning and
Captain McDougall sailed for the sea, de-
termined to wait until notified by British
vessel. He was overhauled at Unalaska
atterward by the Rush and taken captive.
The schooner was turned over by the Rush
to the Nymphe, who ordered Captain Nc
Dougall to proceed here and wait further
orders
ALL sCHooNERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED.
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 Marvin brought news that on July
the sealer La Nymphe, of San Francisco,
tho Tbo4i hatr
George and ST. Paul Islands. She tried to
escape from the Thetis, but was brought up
by shot. Another schooner, name un-
known, was also fred on, but succeeded in
escaping.
A few hours after the Marvin arrived, the
schooner Walter L. Rich entered the
harbor. The captain of the Rich
says he was about to enter Bering
Sea on July % at Unimak Pass entrance to
the sea when he was met by the United
States gunboat Thetis and handed a copy of
the proclamation. The captain was then
warned of the consequences should he ig-
more the warning. The Rich cruised off the
Pass for several days then started for VIC
toria. She got 81 skins after being notified
by the Thetis. go
The American schooner Albert Walker,
whose owner is at Kodiak, was also warned
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schooners are said to be already in the
sea-
WILL HUNT ON THE RUSSIAN SHORES.
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-of-war
AT one o'clock this morning, July 26, the
schooner Ainoka entered the .harbor here.
The captain reports that II British and
American sealing schooners were caught
June 20 off Alitak Bay by the United
States steamer Thetis and warned not to
enter Bering Sea on pain of instant seizure.
The captain of the Ainoka decide to abide
by the order and returned to Victoria, but
some of the schooners intended to try and
enter Bering Sea and hunt seals on the
Russian side. The Ainoka left Alitak Bay
June %.
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 % skins. She had just
entered Bering Sea on July when she was
warned by the United States cutter Corwin
to leave, and she returned accordingly. At
that time 90 sealers had been warned. The
schooner E. B. Marvin had taken IA skins
when she was seized by the Rush. The
Vancouver Belle brings news that the
schooner Beatrice, of this port, lost boat
and three men.