The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-01-02
wANToN KILLING OF SEALS.

Danger OF their Final differentiation.
WASHINGTON, December 7.--Shel-
don Jackson, who was last sprlng
appointed United States General
Agent Of Education for Alaska,
having completed his labors, has
returned to Washington and re-
ported to Secretary Noble for
assignment in the Bureau of Educa-
ton.
Mr.. Jackson, in conjunction with
his mission for the Bureau of Edu-
cation, was also an agent for the
Census Bureau in the capacity of
enumerator. Soon after his appoint
ment he started for Alaska, and
since that time has directed his att
tention principally to thorops
examination of the condition of
natives, their modes Of living
education. Mr.. jackson was
board the revenue cutter Bear
months, which enabled him to-
at the heretofore inaccessible
tons of Alaska and to secures n
valuable statistics concerni
number of natives now the1
WHAT HE sAYs.
eff the Government OF the
United States" he says, g does not
Immediately take aggressive steps
to prevent a wapton destructi0p OF
the fur seals, this industry will ina.
year or two be totally exterminat-
ed. Last year the North American
Fur Company executed cono. =
with the United States, agreeing to
pay the equivalent of 81, 0O0, 900 an
nually for the privilege Of taking
60, 900 skins, but were unable to
take more than $1,000, while the
British poachers are swarming the
waters in open defiance of the reve-
nue. cutters and the laws of the
United States. They illegally and
unfortunately captured more
than $4,000 seals. This number,
however, only represents about one
fifth of their actual plumber, for,
ESsM d il s anaseza s5
killed more than 100000 seals,
which they could not bring to the
surface.
"The officers of the Bear, very
often without orders or authority,
were powerless to do anything to
prevent the destruction of the seals,
and poachers, in sheer defiance of
their presence, continued the de-
structive work as long as there was
anything in sight, until there are
very few live seals remaining.
"They Unfortunately killed in
or out of the catching season, and
the females were treated with no
more consideration than the males.
Young seals scarcely able to take
care OF themselves in the water
were killed. They were not taken
from the rookeries s,y the pcachers.
as denlapded by the contract Il b.
leigitii;s:aae. e company paying cfor-
mously for tSssa privilege, but were
killed with carbines directed by the
Indians in canoes, under xhe protec-
ton Of the English cruisers.
SEND I'VE CRrfszss THERE.
1t is absolutely necessary that
the United States should send her
navy into these waters to &C.,
every English poaching vessel.
found within the three-mile limit
illegally killing off the remaining
seals. Three years ago the rook-
erles at this season of the year
were black with breeding seals,
while now there are scarcely any
on them, and if nething is done to
protect the seals the industry in a
little more than year will have
been totally exterminated.
1t may appear strange, but it
is nevertheless true, that the young
seals soon after their birth if put III
the water, will drown just like any
other animal, and naturally they
cling to terra firma. l noticed that
Secretary Blaine in recent CORES
pondence with Salisbury on the
fur-seal dispute called his attention
to the fact that the English Gov
ernment exercised an exclusive
monopoly of the. pearl industry on
the Pearl islands, off the coast OF
india. How long do you suppose
they would allow us or any one
! else to reap the benefit of this in
dustry? "Only long enough" he
concluded, "for them to dispatch
their big cruisers to these waters
and seize and hold for damages
every poaching vessel found reap.
ing the benefits of their monopoly