Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-03
FROM BERING SEA.
The Cutter Rush Returned to
San Francisco.
Sealing SchOOners Scarce When
She Departed.
Only One POacher Arrested During
Her Cruise.
work of McGrath's Surveying Party-Ed-
ueation in Alaska-Reindeer
Introduced -Whalers
IN the Arctic.
Associated Press Dispatches.


SAN Francisco, Oct. 2.-The United
States revenue cutter Richard Rush ar
rived from Boring sea this morning.
The Rush left Ounalaska September %.
Among those she brought down were
Special Agent j. Stanley Brown, from
the seal islands; DR.. Jackson, govern
ment agent for education in Alaska; and
the McGrath party, who had been two
years in upper Alaska, about Fort Yu-
kon, surveying the United States bound
ary line. No sealing schooners had been
seen in Boring sea for some time before
the Rush left. Many were warned dur
ing the season, but only one, the British
schooner f. B. Marvin, was seized by
the Rush.
THE M'GRATH PARTY's WORK.
What has been accomplished by Nc
Grath and company, further than that
the boundary OF Alaska has been deter
mined at the intersection OF the Yukon
river with Forty-mile creek, McGrath
refused to say until his report has been
made to Washington. Regarding the
experience of the party, however, be
was less conservative. 1--WE left here"
said he, ION June IA, 1889, and reached
our headquarters on the Yukon river
August is, 1889. Camp Davidson, as we
called oul camp, was located about loVV
miles from the mouth of the Yukon.
From this point all our observations
were made. There are no trails, and
our only mode of transit was by river.
Every clear night we took our OBJ
servations, but the weather was not
favorable, and this necessitated our
staying on the river the second year.
We struck camp and left on June 22d
this year, went to st. Michaels island,
and after staying there twelve days
were picked up by the cutter Bear and
carried to Ounalaska, from which place
we came here by the Rush"
Some time after the McGrath party
left here, their provisions for the winter
were shipped to the Yukon; the goods
reached St. Michael's all right, and
were transferred to the Arctic, which
was wrecked. The men secured pro-
visions from station 900 miles below
EDUCATION IN ALASKA.
DIR. Sheldon Jackson, United States
general agent OF education for Alaska,
who returned on the Rush, reports that
the three government schools in the
Arctic had prosperous year. DR.. jack
son accompanied the revenue cutter
Bear on her Arctic cruiser, and made a
successful commencement in the intro
duction into Alaska of the domestieated
reindeer of Siberia, small bands being
placed upon the islands of Amaknak
and Ounalaska.
AFFAIRS IN THE ARCTIC.
The Bear returned to Ounalaska Sep
TENDER 18th. Owing to unusual light
winds the ice pack had not left the
shore up to the last of August, conse-
quently the Bear and the whaling fleet
were unable to reach Point Barrow, but
communication with that station was
opened up overland. Three whaling
vessels that wintered at Herschel's
island, at the mouth of the Mackenzie
river, had secured but one whale be-
tween them. Point Barrow, station of
the Pacific Whaling company, was re-
markably successful, securing $1,000
worth of whalebone. The inhabitants
being found in a starving condition,
Captain Healy raised sufficient sum
from the officers and others on the Bear,
to purchase a supply of food to sustain
the people until the next SEASON for seal
and walrus.
The United States vessels Mohican
and Thetis were still in Bering sea at
the time the Rush left, and the ship
Ericsson was discharging a cargo of coal
ordered for government vessels.