The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-19

sand point is q great rendezvous for
sealers before they enter Bering sea. They
DO their trading there. On previous cruises
We were given information to the effect
that whisky was kept for sale there, and
tnat the sellers had a secret place where
they kept it-in the basement Of a store
mouse. Captain Healy determined to see
IL there was such place and so he
set US to watching. We finally To-
Gated the house-we got an linking
which house it was-and we examined the
cellar. 1t was the most ingeniously con-
trived affair imaginable. We stepped into
the cellar and looked about. 1t was APP
parently bare. To the right was large
oulkhead that looked as if it was built
solidly against the bank. A matchsafe
and box holding fire extinguishers were
hanging on this bulkhead. We turned up
the box and under it were some
small bolts and thumb-piece
OF iron. BY turning the thumb
piece it worked catch in the floor on the
inside of the bulkhead, and the whole half
OF the bulkhead. which was cut across the
center, turned out and up on hinges. The
hinges were hidden by cleats that were
nailed across. and they certainly looked
innocent enough. Nothing was in this
place disclosed by the secret bulkhead,
but beyond was another bulkhead.
About the center of the partition
and near the floor was bolt with square
head, and it ran through one of the
rights that seemed to protect the bulk
head. A piece of gas pipe was lying near
the bolt. 1t looked like a piece of cast
away old iron, but the end Of it was ham,
mered to nit the bolthead, and served as
key to turn the bolt. As soon as the bolt
turned door a foot thick was opened
out OF the bulkhead and revealed an
other secret closet about eleven feet
deep by six feet square. To our
disappointment the place was empty. It
was newly repaired, but it was evident
that it had been in use for several years
and the reason it was not filled then was
simply because it was too early in the
season. We destroyed the place and came
away. We were two whole days, but Cap
tain Healy accomplished his purpose and
did not regret the delay. No arrests were
made because no evidence in the shape of
liquor was found or the premises.
while we were :at Sand point we
learned of another shipwreck, the schooner
Dashing Wave being the unfortunate YES
sci. The Wave was owned by Lind &
Hough, of San Francisco, and was carry
ing supplies to fishing stations. She was
wrecked on Hair Seal cape, but her crew
of ten men escaped to the mainland IN
safety. They were near a fishing station
and as small vessel went to their assist
ance, we knew they were not suffering and
SO we came away and left them.
AT this time we had all the witnesses
but one, and we had to go 200 miles to the
west, to Cape Pankoff, to get him. We
found our man there, but he did not want
to come, saying that he never heard of the
murder before; but we took him all the
same. The taking of witnesses to Sitka. a
distance of 1 300 miles, works great hard
ship on them, for it will be nearly year
before they can return to their homes and
business.
"At Cape Paukoff we learned that two
men had been lost during the winter
We could not learn their names, but they
were white men. They went out to the
mainland in a dory to hunt. A snow
storm came up and they were never seen
again.
From Cape Paukoff we went to Sitka
and left the whole party. Tuesday Com
missioner Tapler and Miss Buggy were
married. 1t was swell affair, and all of
the officers attended in full uniform. We
left Sitka the next day, last Thursday.
with the wedding party and we arrived
this morning"
Lieutenant Jarvis considers the cruise
Just ended one of the most successful ever
made by the Bear. She accomplished
everything for which she was detailed in
a much shorter space of time than antici-
pated. The Bear was not expected here
until June 1. He attributes the successful
cruise and speedy time to Captain Healy's
driving energy. cool management and his
knowledge of the waters, in which he has
cruised ever since the Alaskan territory
was annexed.
"There are no light houses, no buoys and
no government surveys up there" said the
lieutenant, "and our maps, though not
perfectly correct. were made by mariners
who studied the coast from the deck
of a ship, and are good enough
to go by. The thousands of small islands,
which are nothing more than reefs of rock,
make navigation very dangerous matter.
During our entire cruise we lost only one
day and part of another day. The first
day we laid to for a gale of wind. and the
other day we encountered dense fog"
How about the VOLCANOES; did you see
any, and are they active now?" was
asked.
eve had grand view of the Alaskan
VOLCANOES, returning from the Pribiloff
islands to Unalaska. One day the weather
was as clear as only Arctic weather can be,
and one could see miles. The main
land stretched before and no sound
broke the stiffness save the swish
of the water, caused by the driving of the
vessel. To the south of US, over our bows,
We could plainly see Volcanoes Bogoslow,
Makushin, Akutan and ShivhaIdin, COW
cred with snow, as was the whole country.
All four mounts were smoking hard
Bogoslow was putting. The peak, and for
a considerable distance down the mountain
side. was blackened and marred, caused
by the lava running from the crater and
melting away the snow. The view was
over our bows. To the north the vision
faded where the horizon kissed the sea.
ALI the VOLCANOES are in the Aleutian
islands,"
The Bear has received orders to make
immediate preparations for sea and she
will coal today She will, probably in a
few days, leave for Boring sea and will be
gone until the first of December. The ves-
sell will visit the land of the midnight
sum- and returning she will leave Alaska
to touch only at San Francisco.
While in the Arctic region Captain
Healy will make Investigations relative to
the project of importing tame reindeer
from Siberia into Northern Alaska. as a
means of affording food to the Esquimaux.
The white men have driven the whales