New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-07-29
SEALING STOPPED.
The Seal Poachers Proceed to Hang Up
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VICTORIA B. c., July 2.-The sealing
schooner E. B. Marvin returned to port
lean cutter Rush in attempting TO enter
Behring sea after having been warned by
the Rush at Sand Point not to do so. The
flush chased her into Ounalaska, seized
her and handed her over to the British
warship Nymphe, by which she was or
dered home The United States cruiser
Marson sailed for Behring sea yesterday.
Commander Hitchcock, or the Alert, was
passenger to rejoin his ship.
Sealing is certainly stopped in Behring
sea and all the Victoria fleets are now on
the way home. The entrance to Behring
sea is effectually blocked and is now pa
troled by five American and two British
war vessels The latter are the Nvmphe and
the Pheasant and the United States vessels
are the revenue cutters Bear Rush and Cor
win and the gunboats Thetis and Mohi-
can. -. --.' -. ...
Last night the Victoria sealing schooner
E. B. Marvin arrived from the north, hav-
ing been seized by the United States cutter
Rush and turned over to the Nymphe, the
latter giving the Marvin orders to sail di-
rect for this port and remain here:
The Marvin was notified at Sand
l.
prohibited in the sea and after being fur
| nlshed with a copy of the proclamation of
President Harrison. was ordered not to at
tempt to go into Behring sea under penalty
Of seizure. No attention was paid to the
warning and Capt, McDougall sailed for
fed by British vessel. He was over
hauled at Ounalaska afterward by the
Rush and taken captive. The schooner
was turned over by the Rush to the
Nympha, which ordered Capt. McDougall
to proceed here and wait further orders.
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 was fired on by the
Thetis between st. George and St. Paul ISL
ands. She tried to escape from the 'Thetis,
but was brought up by shot Another
on. but succeeded in escaping.
! A few hours after the Marvin arrived the
schooner Walter I. Rich entered the har-
Dor. The captain OF the Rich says he was
about to enter Behring sea on Jul y % at
was met by the United States gun boat
| Thetis and handed a copy of
! the proclamation. The cap
tain was then warned OF the
! consequences should he ignore the warn
| ing The Rush cruised off the pass for sew
eraI days, then started for Victoria. She
| got twenty-one skins after being notified by
the Thetis. The American schooner AL
bert Walker, whose owner is at Kodiak,
was also warned at the same time
as the Rich. Several schooners are said to
be already in the sea. A number of them
are intending to 60 in and hunt seal on the
| Russian shore and defy both the United
| States and British men-of-war.
| AT o'clock this morning the schooner
| Ainoka entered the harbor here. The cap
tain reports that seventeen British and
| American sealing schooners were caught
| June 20 off Alitak bay by the
United States steamer Thetis and
| warned not TO enter Behring sea
on pain of instant seizure. The captain of
the Ainoka decided to abide by the order
and returned to Victoria, but some of the
| schooners intended to try and enter Behr-
| ing sea and hunt seals on the Russian side.
The Ainoka left Alitak bay June a.
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 twenty-eight skins. She
had just entered Behring Sea on Jul g.,
when she was warned by the United States
cutter Corwin to leave and she re-
turned accordingly. At that time twenty
nine sealers had been warned. The schoon-
er E. B. Marvin had taken fourteen 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,"