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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
PELAGIC SEALING METHODS
Wholesale Slaughter of Seals Con-
Quoted On Scientific Principles.
Row the Animals Are Murderea-Riies for
White Men and Spears for Indians-fright-
full Risks Which the Hunters Take.

Special Correspondence of the Sunday Journal.
WASHINGTON. April 2.-If the temporary
agreement for protecting the seals of
alaska, known as the ''modus viveDdi."
were not renewed, the whole piratical feet
of sealers would enter Behring sea next
July and wipe out in one season the entire
Pribylov herd. destroying the scaling in
dustry in those waters forever. To make
this understood. 1t is only necessary TO ex-
plain the astOnishingly scientific system
of slaughter adopted by the peIagic
eealers. Suppose that there were a
single herd of 100000 valuable fur
bearing beasts which travelled continu-
ally over q kite-shaped track. many thou
sands of miles IN circuit. on the great
plains of the West. Imagine that. these
animals devoted eight months in every
year to traversing this route. never vary
ing from it. so that their entire company
was always sure to be at q given point on
the road at a certain date. though hating
together in an isolated spot for four months
annually, to breed and rear their young.
How long would it be before the greedy
hunters would lave wiped them all out?
IL the latter were permitted to surround
them at their breeding place. a single sea-
son would suffice for their determination.
seals. The ~herd-there is only one-Ieaves
the Pribylov islands about Nov. 10 each
year, to spend the winter IN warmer waters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03

for sixty or n hundred miles. ov erhauls the
animals and proceeds as before. SO it con-
tinues week after week. month after month,
until they have been pursued to Behring
sea, into which some bold poacbers fol-
low them. lying Oft the Pribylov islands in
the fog which haIdlJ ever lifts and shoot
ing the breeding mothers that venture out
into the ocean. In 1856 there were seven
vessels engaged in the sealing industry On
the northwest coIst. There were twentys
two in 1887. thlrty-three In 1859. forgive
1890. and ITO last summer. This year there
Will be about l25 schooners in the business.
All of these crafts and more than two
thousand Canadian. American, japanese
and Indian hunters are devoted to the in
discriminate slaughter of this herd of
valuable creatures. which are to-day al
most 90 per cent. females. They are at
s6nx writing Passing up the coast coast by w yan,
are now being killed 80 per
cent. are heavy with unborn young.
BY July 10 the entire herd viii be on two
islands in Behring sea. breeding and nurs-
July 90. and mp to Nov. 10 the mother seals
are constantly going out to the ocean fish
ing banks for food. They nurse their Off
spring at intervals of from one TO four
days. and travel in search of fish fifty to
The fleet, entering Behrpg SEQ in July.
would draw q Gordon around the islands.
practically anDIhirats all the mothers be-
fore the helpless young are weaDed In No
yember. and leave the infant seals to
starve by myriads on the rocks. While not
literally exterminating the species. the re-
sult of this would be TO destroy the sealing
industry forever. True. the pelagic seal
ers would ruin their OWE business. but
they belong to a class of people who care
only for to-day and do not look forward to
the morrow.
If Lord Salisbury could see one of these
Canadian sealers thrust his gaff-hook
into the carcass of o nursing female
seal and drag the body over the
gurwale into the boat; if. as this
ruthless destroyer cuts the hide from the
animal. he could watch the milk squirt, on
which a Door little family of baby seals de-
Ponds for sustenaDce, how quickly would
he cry shame upon such beastly. barbarous
butchery! How long would il be before he
signed an agreement with the United
States for the protection of tho prosecuted
creatures! Ii Is most unfortunate that the
details of this inhurlan business have not
hitherto been made familiar 10 the public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03

Fisher. Reissue-James Williams, Calvin A.
Koon, James b. Jackson, John w. Cantrell.
William Alligee. Original widows,
can 4. Young, 8. Morrison, T.. Downing, M.
flaming, L. A. Merrill. L. MeCleary, Jemima v.
Brown.
TO RESIDENTS OF ILLINOIS.
Original-John ]. Schleigh. Henry A. Heacker.
Geo. German. Chas. kessler, Edward Wilborn
tdeceasedl, John ii. Boswell, John W.. Bayne,
Geo. Cutler. Thaddeus c. Aver. Thornton Bland,
Robert III. Allison, Andrew Christensen, Warrick
G. Stalnaker, John j. Gilmore, Jerry Henderson,
VIM. A. Capinan, CASTOR McWaid. William w.
Hupp, John s. stevens, John j. MuhDnthaler.
James A. Brooks. Henry A. Heacker, Michael
Ohern, VIM. ID, Vest, VIM. s. snider, Norris
Tracy. Joshua Jacobs. Martin Q: Niles, Chas. J.
Ruch, Emulous A. Bisseii. Michael Devlin,
VIM. II. Rupert. Thos. Campbell, Calvin w.
Brig. Henry Focke. Alexander Dekete. William
II. Watson, Henry Lange. Samuel b. Carmack.
Frederick Crise, Jacob X. Oliver, Amasa e..
AthertOn, Henry Babe. Henry II. Adams, Abra-
ham Elder, John c. Good, Christopher G. Friend,
Charles Hunt. Orlwey kidmel, Benjamin f.
Davidson, Ernest Ridell. Additional-Davi W.
Ross. Friedrich Sansel, William Thompson,
observation-disclosures +. Covsert. Renewal
and reissue-Reese W. Davis (deceased.j In
crease-lke ]. Lamb, Albert A. Funk, John Nor
Healer, John F. ~BOokwalter, william Fl. Colds
borough, William ID. Gelpin. Reissue-Dent
Poston. Henry Wakeford. Reissue aud increase
Jesse f.. Beaver. Original widows, etc. Minor
of David Floerke, Mary a. sunderlin. Amanda
Meyer. Nancy Claypool, Ella Reno, Rebecca Un-
ger. Lima Wil6orn. Katharine Phrmann, Eliza
beth Snced.
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swept seas, nor stared into those frightful
fo2s, can realize the risks which are taken.
every day of their lives. by these hunters.
OF understand. in view of the small reward
they receive. why they pursue such an oc-
cupatIon. The gunner Is paid for the skins
he gets from $3.50 to s. apiece. according to
the size ana quality. The boat-puller is paid
from 40 cents to 81 a skin. though
sometimes he works for $50 q month. Ten
skins make n very big days catch, and to
get so many the hunter will usually expend
from $50 to 200 cartridg es. That would
signify about $40 for the hunter. whose
labor is highly skilled. and "a for the
puller. The owner of the vessel provides
ammunition. Indians have their own
spears and canoes. They get the same
prices for skins as the white meD, but do
not secure so many.
When the skins have been fetched aboard
they are rubbed with plenty of salt to pre-
servo them. Enough OF the fat is left upon
them TO hold the salt. This fat has an ex-
traordinarily offensive odor. The smell is
not only dlsagrecable. but il has n certain
sickening quality which turns the stomach
of any one who is not accustomed to il.
When the officers of the revenue marine
board q sealing schooner their first proceed
ing is almost invariably to go 10 the rail of
the vessel and reliDquish whatever they
have eaten recently with an abandon which
appears as if they have no further use for
it whatever. +, RENE BACH.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
ONLY S3.65
To Chicago IU the Erer Popular Momon
KOfffe

To Chicago JU the Erer Popmiar Monon
Route.
The only line running dining cars: an
elegant dinner for 75 cents.
The only line runping Pullman vestlbuled
trains, heated by steam and lighted with
electricity. An elegant Pullman sleeper
leaves every night for Chicago; the same
stands at west end of Union Station and
can be taken at $40 p. M. Fast v~estibuled
limited. with dining car attached. leaves
at 11:35 a. M; arrives at Chicago 500 D. 10.
Night express vestibuied limited leaves at
12:40 a. M: arrives at Chicago at 1855 a. m.
Chicago terminal. Dearborn Station, Polk
street. two blocks from the Auditorium,
Grand Pacific. Board of Trade. The only
line landing YOU in the heart of the city.
Union Station and Massachusetts, avenue.
]. /. BALDWIN, ID. p. A.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
PENSIONS FOB VETERANS.
Residents of Indiana and Illinois Whose
Claims Enve Been Allowed.
Pensions have been granted the follow

InB-naIITCU IuGTdTIIIS.
Observation-Disclosures 4. White. Isaac y. Keller.
Milton A. ShIpley. William T.. Hern, Henry ID.
Golpen. William L. Chapman. Charles Carter,
Samuel PenGill. :. Robinson. William W. Evans.
Lawyons Leslie, Sampsln Swinegan. Daniel
Weldy. Thomas Grimes. William Baughmau,
bolt, Joseph Modlin. William b.. Mikesell, Alfred
Carper, james l. Boothe, Jacob White. Josiah
Eis!nan. Calvin Halfway. Noah Frick. Henry a.
Reed. Lorenzo y. Jenkins. Conrad Forst. Charles
Beasley, William Morrow. Taylor Pendle-
ton, Albert J. Hanson. Additional-WilliaIu II.
Grooms, W: Booth. Hngh frltchard, Henry IL.
Harvey, William III. H. Hamilton, Charles ID.
Mckay, Phineus Holmes, John A. Shoemaker.
Supplemental-Joseph A. Herman. Increase
=. Hedriek, William NJ. Alexander. ID. IL Allen.
Benjamin j. Grant. j. +. Histt, +. hamburger.
william ID. DeCourtey. G.. Hagemann. q. W. Nor
rison, Jasper Hasty. NJ. Law, II. Willingerhoif.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03
MIGRATION CHART OF PRIBYLov SEAL HERD.

Hearing prtbyloc Islands Ibou. Nor. 10 and Returning by July 1ol
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-03

week wee ethel biggest kind o su@esesa and Everybody vent away pleased oto with wG
but With whit they bought This week we continue showing SPRING FASHIONS and NOVELTI
Gloves Jackets, Capesa and Wraps and Pna@ds The great store will be full of mhretm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06
THE Sherman Register is in q ba

THE Sherman Register is in q bad
b.. 1t says In its issue of the Isl
that "The peaceful answer to his
(Harrison's) ultimatum was in the
hands of his secretary on the same
day that he sent his war message"
Tkis statement is positively denied
by the presidents secretary, who lie
On record on this matter, and wa
some, lays before the date of.the Reg
listers article. The burden of proof Is
on the Register to show that it did
not know of this denial of Secretary
Halford at the time that it made its
charge. If it did know, then it lie
convicted of lying; II it did not know,
then it is convicted OF ignorance in
the very thing that it criticises as a
pu bile journal. AS matter of fact,
the message was sent to congress
twenty four hours before Egan's mes
sage was received, announcing that
a peaceful and conciliatory answer
would be sent by Chile. Will the
Register have the manliness to cor.
rect its error?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

JOHN M. THURsToN, of Nebraska,
is named in connection with the vice.
presidential nomination of the re.
publicans. Mr.. Thurston Is true
and tried republican, a man of brains
and quite popular in the west, but
the presidential nomination this year
will come to Indiana and the second
place on the ticket will fall to the lot
of some eastern man. This will shut
Mr.. Thurston out.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

CANADA, despairing of securing i'm
mi gration in competition with the
United States, has established a
propaganda in Europe for the purpos Q
of promoting immigration to that
country. Let her decrease her debt
and hang some of her official boodlers
and she will be able to secure immi.
grafton without paying bounty for
it. This country would gladly spare
her several hundred thousand new
arrivals annually, and perh APPS pay
her for taking some of them.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

THE statistics of Russian starvation
are appalling. The human mind can
hardly grasp the idea of twenty mill
lions of people on the verge of starva-
ton, and these are inhabitants of .
country of great. fertility, in which
restitution is seldom felt. The fail
ure of the crops for three successive
years has brought the country to this
condition. and relief must be afforded
or there will be millions dying of
starvation within the next few
months.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

FIvE-EIGHtHs of all the executions
In the country last year were by
Judge Lynch, and Texas was no ex-
ception to the general rule. The pis-
tol toter and the lyncher and the reg
ulator flourish in the reign of James
the Hogg as they did aforetime, not.
withstanding the promises of better
things that were made on the day
that he assembled the throne and as
sumed the royal purple. This is not
laid as a sin at his door, but 1t shows
that promise is very much easier than
performance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06
THE north will invest more capital

THE north will invest more capital
in the south from year to year, and
the political situation will have little
or nothing to do with it. All the
same. that invested capital Will be do
ing good missionary work in the
south and undermining its democratic
solidity. The beginning of this work
is already apparent, and it will grow
to the day of the emancipation of the
great south.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

ADMIRAL PORTER, in his publIca-
ion, skinned the cuticle from Ben
Butler most numerically. 1t was to
be expected that Ben would return
the compliment when the time came,
and this expectation has not been dis
appointed. Porter had this advant age,
the public records give an emphatic
denial to Ben's charges against the
Admiral.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

BISMARCK showed his wisdom in
refraining from any expression OF
opinion on the sectarian educational
bill, and William wishes he had not
taken q hand in matter so ticklish.
The debate upon the bill has been
very bitter and it may be with.
drawn.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

NICARAGUA is making exceeding
ly liberal offers to any one who will
go there and enter into the cultivation
OF coffee. The government donates
the land and pays q premium on the
planting.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

MILLS does not like this popguu
firing at the Mckinley bill, inaugu
rated by Springer. Mills would send
in solid shot, even If the recoil did
dismount the democratic battery.
Mills Is no coward.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

IF, as asserted, Tammsny will shut
out from the New York primaries all
those who are not members of that
organization, then there is music
ahead for the faithful in Gotham who
have not bowed down to Baal nor re.
ceived the mark of the beast in their
foreheads.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

KING caucus is boss In the demo.
crat roost at Washington this session
Next session of congress the republi-
cans will have control aud public
questions of national concern will not
be decided in party caucus, where
brains are at discount and only
noses count.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

THE attack made upon the postal
department for extravaganza is sharp
ly rebuked by democratic members of
postoffice committee in last house,
who assert that every dollar called
for was needed to meet the increased
expenses of the department. The
kickers can make a note of this.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

OUT of the 5000 murderers in this
country last year only two per cent
were legally executed, three and one
third per cent were lynched, aud the
rest still live, either in Jail or out of
it. The advocates of hanging find
that mode OF punishment very unpop-
ular with juries.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

GROVER will be addressing the
students of Michigan University next
month while Hill is manipulating the
convention in New York state that is
to sound the keynote for the Chicago
gathering. Both events are set for
the same date, Washington's birth.
day.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

The lambs in the fold of the "Good
Shepherd" st. Louis, are mighty
frisky, judging from the published
accounts of the manner in which
some of them scaled ten foot fence
last Monday night.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

IF the democracy come west for
their candidate Palmer stands q
mighty good show. If the east gets
the nomination and Hill and Cleve.
land kill each other off, German
stands to get the red apple.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

1.-THE favor OF God" is declared. by
the Palestine Times to be better de-
fence for cities and nations than the
best and strongest human devices,
but all the time God is on the side of
the strongest and best drilled battal-
ions.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

SPRINGER has not learned that
the easiest way to lose battle is to
bring up his forces in small detach-
ments and have them beaten in de-
tail. His hindsight is keener than
his foresight.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

BEHRING sea matters will not be
srbitrated this season in time to pre-
vent poaching under the,pew regula-
tions that will be established, and
the modus vivendi of last year will
be continued this season.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

The Fort Worth Gazette and the
Mail are divided on nearly every
question that challenges considers
ton. The Mail is feminist the Gazette
in its rabid opposition to Mi lis.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

1t is not what man has, but that
which he does not want, that really
constitutes his wealth.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

CONGRESSMAN BAILEY, of the Fifth
Texas district, has taken the house
by storm. He will not have the OPP
portunity i'm the next house that he
has in this, as it will be republican.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

The Gazette is taking Mills back
track for years to prove his dIsloyaIty
to the interests of Texas in congress.
The Gazette is not happy in its choice
of ground for assault.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

THE Iowa republicans are almost as
unwise as the democrats in the ma
tional congress.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06
TO CORRESPONDENTS
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1892.

The country press of the state, and
more than half of the dailies, favor
Mills election.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

Is German using Hill as his cats
paw to rake presidential ches tnuts
cut of Cleveland's fire?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

THE democracy are more dis
gruntled over the silence of Russell
Harrison than over anything that has
happened since Baby Mckee put
Ruth's daint y nose out of Joint.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

BAN ANTONIO reads with COM
plaisancy the record of municipal
contest elsewhere, and congratulates
herself that there is no city election
in her precincts this spring.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

THE silver question is as gingerly
trested by the democrats in congress.
as if il was loaded.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

THERE are no end of democrats who
love Mills for the enemies he has
made in his own party.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

HILL has chosen cold winter
weather for his state convention
Not inappropriate for freeze out.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

GALVESTON FULTON is always in IL
before the convention, but not after.
ward. That winds him up.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

THIS Congress has spent CIV,
months doing nothing. The less they
do the better for the country
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

CERTIFIED copies of notarial docu.
ments in Mexico cannot be executed
on typewriter. The secretary of
justice says that they are not to he
accepted.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

THOSE who think that Tom Reed is
not having dead loads of fun this
congress are way off.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

The campaign for Hill has opened
in Texas. Can his Tammany club
corral the state convention?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

CLEVELAND seems inclined to lie
Hills boom run itself off its legs anc
die for want of breath.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

JOHN BULL says that Uncle Sam
bulldozed Chile. Not SO. John tried
to buIldoze Sam and gotleft.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

Is 1.-THE extra session lost in the
shuttle? If 1t is to come early.in March,
as promised, it is time that some
sign was given to herald its coming.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

GALVESTON organizes " Hill re-
uiting station in the shape of a
Tammany club. Others will follow.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

THE democrats were more con-
cerned about the effect of Harrison
message on his presidential chances
than they are of the honor of the
country.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06

TAMMANY throws down the gaunt.
let to the democracy of the nation
aud Texas seems more than half in.
ctined to bow down before the Gotham
MOloch.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-06
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Miscellaneous Notices.

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