New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-27
cEALING SHIPS SENT HOME
,.opK OF THE MENoF-wAR IN BEHRING
SEA
VICTORIA SCHOONER sEIzED-soME VESSELS
WILL DEFY THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN
WATCHERS AND HUNT SEAL on
THE RUSSIAN SHORE.

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TIE RUSSIAN SHORE.
,,,,,ria B. c. July 2e.-Seslng is certainly stopped
A. n.nSng sea- and all the Victoria fleets are now
:. ,be way home. The entrance TO Behring Sea Is
s..,rally blocked. and is now patrolled by five
.--,can and two British vessels. The latter are
a.. Nvmphe and the Pheasant and the United ssates
sss are the revenue cutters Bear. Rush and Corwin
"a cha grnboats Thetis and Mohican. Last night the
,Y,r, sealing schooner f. b. Marvin arrived from the
o,th having seized by the Rush and turned over
20 the Nymphe, the latter giving the Marvin orders
a all direct for this port aud remain here. Inc
Marvin was informed at standpoint by the Rush that
..Iine was prohibited In the sea, and. after being
nrn,,hed with copy of the proclamation Of President
r.-dson ordered not to attempt To 50 into Behr-
,,s sea under penalty OF seizure. No attention was
nd TO the warning, and Captain McDougan sailed Tor
~. sea determined to wait until informed by Brtish
vrssel He was overhaued at ounasaska afterWsra
Nv the Rush aud taken captive. The schooner was
.nrned over by the Rush to the Nymphe, who ordered
captain McDousar to proceed here and walt iur'her
orders A.
Tho Naryin's officers say that nearly all the
.chooners have received notice and they viii certainly
be seized IL they attempt to enter the sea arVer Oens
warned.
The Marvin brought news that on July the sealer
Ia Nymphe Of san Francisco was nred on ny Tue
Thetis between st. George and ST. Paul Isahos' 'he
tried 10 escape from the Thets but was Drought up Nv
a shot. Another schooner, name UNKNOWN was "is0
fred on, but succeeded in escaping
few hours after the Marvin arrived the schooner
walter l.. Rich entered the harbor. The captain OF
The Rich saws he was about to enter Beirng sea On
July O. at Unmak Pass entrance TO the sea- "hen ne
was met by the Thetis and handed copy Oh the
proclamaaon. The captain then warned OF the
consequences should he ignore the warning The Rich
csed of the Pass for several days and then started
for Victoria She got twenty-one skins after oelns
warned by the Thetis.
The American schooner Albert Waller whose owlle
is Mt Kodiak was also warned at the same uihe as US
Rich Several schconers said TO be already III Vh
sea number of them intend 10 go In and huht sea
OIL the Russian shore and defy both the Uleo sV4ue'
and British meu-of-war.
Al o'clock this morning the schooner Ainokn en-
tered the harbor here. The captain rePorVe ''a
seventeen British and American sealing schooneTs wet
csnSht June 90 off Alitak Bay by the Thetis an(
warned not 70 enter Behrtng sea on pam 81 Hsta.
seizure The captain OF the Ainoka decided 70 aola
nv the order and returned to Victoria. but some OF t
schooners intended to try and enter Benrhg sea ~,
hunt seals on the Russian size. 1ie AluVA A0A' @N
Bay June %. mn, x. NIL.
Vancouver dispatch says "The Vancouver Belle
was the first OF the sealing feet to return 70 this port
She arrived last evening with twenty eight SKINS sht
mad tust entered Bohring sea, on july ., when she
was warned by the Corwin 70 leave there and she re
turned accordingly At that time twenty nine seaIeIs
mad been warned. The schooner Il. H. Marvin hs<
taken fourteen skins when she was seized by the kL
The Vancouver Belle brings news that toe schooner
Beatrice OF this port, lost boat and three men.
The tinted states steamer Marion sailed Tor BehrR
Sea to-day Commander Hitchcock, OF Tue AIeFI WIS
a passenger and will rejOlD his own snip