The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-02-11


tion through the public press Of request that
any person having knowledge Of bride hay
ing been received by the San Francisco Com
mission report the fact to the Washington Com
mission.
Profs. Mendenhall and Merriam, the United
States Boring Sea Commissioners, called on Sec
rotary Blaine on Thursday, Feb (. and after
wards spent an hour with Gen. John w. Foster
in arranging the preiminaries Of the joint con-
ference which will take place shortly between
them and the British Commissioners in Wash
ington. Ii is generally understood that the
Joint Conference viii make two reports, one to
/ Secretary Blaine, which will be signed by the
American Commissioners, and the other to Sir
Julian Pauncefote, the English Minister at
! Washington, TO be signed by the British Com
missioners. These reports are to be adyisatory
TO the arbitrators and it is therefore of the
greatest importance that they should be based
upon facts upon which both sides agree.
That both sides are not now in accord upon the
most important points involved in the eontro-
yersy, can be said upon the highest authority,
but there is one point upon which there is no
disagreement. Both sides agree that the seals
have been materially reduced in numbers in
the past five years, but as to the direct causes
which have contributed TO this result there is
a very wide divergence Of opinion. The Eng
lishmen do not think that the Canadian
poachers have been nearly so destructive of
seal life as have the Americans while Profs.
Mendenhall and Merriam are satisfied that the
Canadian poachers have not only taken from
10000 TO 10000 seals annually, but that they
have slain female seals bearing their young
and female seals whose young afterwards
straved 10 death on the rookeries for want Of
nourishment, and that not more than one seal
IN four shot in open sea is recovered. Ii this
latter estimate is correct, authorities on the
subject say that il is within bounds that the
Canadians have destroyed a quarter Of mill
lion seals annually within the past five years
The Government has never allowed the Alaska
Seal Commercial Company TO take more than
100000 seals annually, and these have been
killed by the most approved methods on land,
where a careful selection can be made, 10 avoid
killing females who are either bearing young
or have young on the rookeries IL Is there
fore apparent that the Canadian pOachers, who
kill their game in open sea, responsible for
the depletion Of the seals which has been noted
in the annual migration 10 the seal islands.
But this Conference will have to come TO some
agreement over the whole question, before it
can be arbitrated.
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John ]. Rggin, Mary Zimmerman and Ella
Matthews, by their attorney, w. w. Kerr,
late Assistant Attorney. General Of the United
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State a claim for indemnity from the Chilean
Government for the murder Of their brother,
Charles William Rggin, one OF the Baltimore's
sailors who was killed at Valparaiso, Chile,
Oct. I6 1891. The claimants live in Philadel-
phia and in their petition they claim Riggin
as their brother, aud state that they are bis
nearest kin and only heirs, and that by reason
Of his death they have been deprived not only
Of his companionship and society, but also OF
the comfort help aid and assistance heretofore
received by his brother and sisters from him
that they have been greatly damaged and in
iurod and are justly entitled TO demand and re-
ceive from the Republic of Chile reasonable
compensation therefor. They therefore invoke
the aid Of the United States to secure from
Chile the payment Of reasonable compensa.
ton to which they believe they are entitled.
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The White House was ablaze with light on
Wednesday evening Feb. B. the occasion being
a State dinner TO the Diplomatic Corps The
dinner was attended by an unusually large
number Of the ladies Of the corps whose bright
and handsome toilets were very pleasing TO tho
. eye. The decorations Of the various rooms o.
the mansion were very elaborate, palms, flower
, aud potted plants filling every spare nook in
the large rooms. in tho State dining room th,
, corners were filed with tall india.rubbei
plants, the window recesses with palms anC
blooming plants, and tire mirrors were huns
T with smilax; tho mantels were banked Will
; ferns studded with pinks, primroses aud hya
7 cnths 20 accord with the cOl0rs Of the orchid
used in the table decorations. in tho middle
/ Of the table was a large oval basket Of mRidens
: hair ferns, thcky studded with pink orchids
q and on either side of this centerpiece wer
{ similar plats Of ferns surrounded by marrow
e gilt railing and filed with beautiful flowers
: Besides the members Of the Diplomatic Corp
/. and ladies, the guests were Secretary and Mr:
8 Blaine Senator aud Mrs. Henderson, Senate
I aud Mrs sherman, Mrs. Frye, Representative
( lBlOunl anu WIFE, MITE lfoihlauJ MIS- 4Auaaci
4 Harrison and Mrs. Dimmck.
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i Senator Turpie 81 Indiana, by request in
troduced a bill ia. the Senate on Tuesday Eel
o 2 for relief for her suferings aud services
d Of Mary Stuart Lasselle late a computer in ia
+: Census Bureau, who was notified on Thanks
e giving Day Eve, 1890, by the Superintendent
n Of the Census, that her services were no longe
10 required. This is rather an innovation on IA
10 methods generally resorted 10 by discharge
% Government employees, for they usually have
Of Member or Senator accompany them TO Oh
N head Of Department and make a demand "a
d reinstatement. Accompanying the bill is
be memorial signed by Mrs. Lasselc, in which sli
/. reciles that she was appointed cemputer i
the Census Bureau at 500 per annum, to tax
ly effect after she had taken the oath Of oiiic
r She was sworn in on the 9th Of May, 1890 an
IN performed her duties until Nov 90 when sl
6 was dismissed. That after several hard month
he work under the most adverse circumstances,
"a her shattered condition Of health, without N
at least intmation or warning, at about II o'cloc
10. on the morning Of Nov. 20 just as her fellow
be clerks were about 10 receive an extra half hol
~ day in anticipation of Thanksgiving. "A pap,
nd was brought 10 her desk, where she was sti