The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-09
ernment. but Is an agent of the company which has leased the islands.
DETAILS OF RAID.
Japanese Had Been Giving Revenu,
 Cutters Much Trouble. S,

Sapnnese Had Heen GnvtnG NevenW 4.
 Cutters Much Trouble. S
 New York. Aug. s--Further dep ,> of the killing of five Japanese poao in the Pribiloff Islands Is contain Yin a special to The Herald dated f.tch Harbor. Alaska. July 26. via Yard. Alaska. Aug. ', which says:
 Five Japanese were shot 2 killed on the island of St. Paul of .e Prih- lion group by order of the agent of the July IT. as the result of a raid by four Japanese schooners on the seal rook- cries
 The revenue cutter Mccullough reached here today from St. Paul with twelve prisoners. two seriously wound
 cd, who were turned over to Deputy Marshal Harmon.
 The raiders were discovered lying
 near Northeast Point. St Paul. by na-
 tive lookouts of the North American Commercial Company, which leases the seal privelege from the government. Word was teIephoned from the patrol
 station near the rookery. for which the raiders were aiming. and Special Agent Lempkc. of the Department of Com merce. on duty in the PribiIoff Islands. arrived on the spot as the Japanese reached shore. He ordered the boat crew to surrender. which they did. On climbing the promontory at the end of the cape. overlooking one Of tho larger rookcries, schooner was seen close in shore. Looking straight down over the cliff the patrols saw a dozen or more Japanese skinning number Of seal which had been slaughtered. Tho raiders refused to surrender when Lempke reached the scene and tried to make off with their booty in small boats. several of which were drawn up on shore. The agent then ordered | L l. A-1 AE k4w~-- AA 4 a..- rfse.. Japanese offered no resistance. being without firearms.
 Three of the raiders fell dead on the beach. a fourth was seen to be thrown overheard from one of the boats that
 escaped. and a fifth body drifed ashore
 later In another boat.
 The men had killed more than 200 seals, many Of them cows. Those who escaped carried away about 120 skins. The raid is believed to have been Il concerted effort by the Japanese who have been around the island for months
 and giving the revenue cutter much troubla
 The Tokwa Maru. a schooner, was overhaulsd by the cutter Perry on July s, off the New Volcanic Island, which rose near Bogosioff. forty miles from
 here, last March. She was crowded with Japanese, but no seal skins were found aboard. Suspicious of Captain Dunwoodie, of the Perry were aroused and he proceeded to the Pribloffs at once, but a dense fog set In and lasted
 until the Perry returned here on July 1 IS.
 The Mccullough reached the islands
 on July 20, and took charge of the prisoners.
 Besides the Tokwa Maru. the schoon- CT Bosso Maru is known to have been in the raid last autumn. Japanese were found fishing and trading with
 the natives on the Island of Attu and were routed by the Perry.
 The raid is the most serious that has occurred in the troubled history of the rookeries. The last attempt to rife ! the island was made about ten years l ago by a schooner flying the Mexican flag. She was intercepted by cutter
 before carrxine out her purpose. The raid was supposed to have been planned by Alec Mclean. He was known to. be in Victoria, B. C., last
 winter, but left there for parts un-
 known in the early spring. Officials and company men on the seal 1 islands are considerably excited, al- though no further raids are expected,
 as the patrol of the Boring Sea by the
 cutters becomes continuous on Au- gust i. Their captains seem disin | clined to pursue or capture even schooners known to have taken part | in the raid unless found in the three mile limit. or in open violation of the | law.
 Many prisoners were taken just after | the raid, but were allowed to return to their vessel as the guard was con sidered insuficient to control so many. | The prisoners buried their own dead on
 the beach.
 In trying to return to the seal is- l lands with Agent Lempke on July 22,
 the Perry broke her cylinder pump a
 mile from shore. and is temporarily out l of business. This leaves the patrol | short of vessels and the islands un- I guarded. The Thetis is in the Arctic.
 the Rush on duty at Nushagak, Bristol | Bay, the Bear out of commission, and
 the Mccullough under orders to pro-
 ceed to Sitka and take on board the l governor of the district and island Fish | Commissioner Bowes, now St. Paul on
 Kodiak Island.
 I The prisoners left on July 25 on the l monthly mall steamer for Valdez, where the court of the Second Judicial Dis trIct, in which the seal islands lie, sit-
 ting in August. The charge will prob ably be piracy. Department of Com merce agents are preserving the utmost secrecy about the affair.