The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-29
DRIVEN FROM BERING SEA.
The Men-of-War Actively Engaged in
Warning the Sealing Schooners.

warning the Seal1n& ScnOOner8.
VICTORIA, B. c., July 2S.-In addition to the
schooners Marvin, Walter Rich and Ainoka,
which returned from the northern sealing
grounds on Saturday night, the Vancouver Belle
returned to Vancouver, and the Annie E. Platt
has returned to this port with 160 skins, the
total catch OF the season. The vessel was spoken
by the Thetis at Sand Point on June %, and
after being furnished with copy of the agree
ment and proclamation, and warned not to en-
ter the sea, started for home.
Captain Bissett says he concluded everything
was all up when he saw that the British min
lister at Washington City had assented to the
agreement The copy furnished him was signed
William in stead of Julian Pauncefote, but he
did not attempt to reconcile the discrepancy.
On Unimak pass a strong south gale
was encountered, and he was carried
into Bering sea. He cruised about
for several days, and getting the wind favorable
set sail for Victoria The Thetis has been the
most industrious of all the war vessels of the
United States, and up to the date of the
schooners departure had boarded and notified
twenty-six of them. The Rush, Corwin and H.
M. s. Nymphe had warned great many, and up
to July u fifty-three American and Canadian
sealers had been warned. Many of them have
started for home and may be expected to arrive
daily, while others have gone into the sea.
Some OF them intend to hunt on the Russian
side and defy both nations, but there are four
Russian gunboats patrolling the territory OF that
country, which win seize all foreign vessels
poaehing or trespassing in Russian waters.
Among the schooners said to have already
entered the sea, many of them having been
warned and notified, are: The Sapphire, Pencil
ope, Triumph, Beatrice, Genevieve, Theresa,
Black Diamond, silver Andy, Pioneer, May
Bemis, w. C. Cove, Carmelite, all Canadian ves-
sells, and the Henry Dennis and Sophie Suther-
land, American vessels. The Henry Dennis, of
San Francisco, had on board !, 900 skins.
The Dyer, another San Francisco schooner,
experienced q small mutiny on board, and the
captain placed three of the crew in irons Two
OF them became obedient and were released, but
the third sailor was still in irons when the
schooner was at Sand Point. She had only
taken about 800 skins up to the time she was
notified and warned to stop, hsving had general
bad luck. She went on the rocks in Rose harbor
and lay there for two weeks before she got off
again. The men were working shares and
their disappointment at working for q "dead
horse" aroused a feeling of discomfort and
started the mutiny.
Three whalers were in port at 0unalaska
when the Marvin was there. One of them the
bark Northern Light, of San Francisco, had
captured eleven whales, and besides a valuable
cargo of oil, had on board over $4,000 worth of
whalebone. The steamer Jessie Freeman re-
ported four whales captured, but the Lewis had
not taken any up to date.
Admiral Hotham, of the flagship Warspite,
has received o report from Commander Turner
of the Nymphe, informing him as to the seizure
of the Marvin. The letter was dated July r. on
which day the Nymphe intended to sail for
Pribilof islands. The American vessels were to
start for the same place on July Ia, and the yes-
sells of both nations were 70 rendezvous there
July 90 At the date of writing the Nymphe
had seen nothing OF the British warships Pheas-
ant and Porpoise, which were daily expected to
arrive in the sea-
Captain j. c. Cox, president of the sealer s
association, and owner of the Marvin, is having
prepared protest which will be at once for
warded to the minister of fisheries and marine
Mt Ottawa The ground taken in the protest is
that the captain OF the Marvin had done moth
ing Illegal but had merely gone into the sea for
the purpose of meeting one OF the English gun
boats and directing attention to the signature of
William Pauneefote, instead of Sir Julian, in
the proclamation
The Walter Rich was notified off the Shums-
gin islands. After receiving the warning she
proceeded west, and was again sighted by the
Thetis off the mouth of Unimak pass. The Rich
at once hove to, and was thanked for so doing by
boarding officer, who accepted their explana.
ton that they would sail for Victoria at once
The officers of the Rich say the seals are very
plentiful, and the schooner took twenty-ons in
one day off the pass
Captain MeDougal, of the Marvin, reports that
the Rush came across two sehooners In Bering
sea between St. Paul and st. George islands, and
signaled them to come about Not obeying the
command, they were both fred at By the Rush
One of them, the American schooner Lanejempa,
of San Francisco, hove to and was ordered out
of the sea. The name OF the other is unknown,
but she was flying the British flag. She had a
good wind, and ran away from the cutter and
escaped.
The sealing schooner Mary Ellen returned
haap
warned by cruisers to leave. She reports moth