Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-08
LAPS RAIDED SEALS.
Five Teachers Were Ordered Sbot By Order Of Department of
 Commerce and Labor.
JAPANESE HAD NO ARMS.

poachers in the Pribilof islands are contained in special to the Herald dated Dutch harbor, Alaska, July 26 via seaward, Alaska, August z, which says:
 Five Japanese were shot and killed ! on the Island of St Paul, of the Pribi- lon group, by order of the agent of the department of commerce and la bor on July IT, as the result of a raid by four Japanese schooners on the seal rookeries.
 The revenue cutter Mccullough reached here to-day from St Paul with twelve prisoners, two seriously wounded, who were turned over to Deputy Marshal Harmon.
 The raiders were discovered lying near Northwest Point, St Paul, by native lookouts of the North Ameri- can Commercial company, which leases the seal privilege from the government. Word. was telephoned from the patrol station near the rock cry in which the raiders were aim- ing and Special Agent Lempke of the department of commerce, on duty in the Pribiloff islands, arrived on the spot as the Japanese reached shore. He ordered the boat crew to surren- der. which they did.
 On climbing the promontory at the end of the cape. overlooking one of the larger ro0keries, schooner was seen close in shore. Looking straight down over the cliff, the patrol saw dozen or more Japanese, skinning a great number of seals which had been slaughtered indiscriminately.
 The raiders refused to, surrender when Lempke reached the scene and tried to make of with their booty in small boats, several of which were drawn up on shore. The agent then ordered his guard of native to open fire.
 The Japanese offered no resistance, being without arms.
 Three of the raiders fell dead on the beach. fourth was seen to be thrown overheard from one of the boats that escaped, and fifth body driftcd ashore later in another boat.
 The men had killed more 200 seals, many of them cows. Those who es- capped carried away about 120 skins.
 The raid is believed to have been concerted effort by the Japanese, who have been hanging around the Island for months and giving the revenue cutter much trouble.
 The Tokwa Maru, schooner, was overhauled by the cutter SRerry on July 5 of the<new Volcanic island which rose near Bogoslof. 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 Pribiloffs at once, but dense fog set in and lasted until the Perry re- turned here on July 16.
 The Mccullough reached the islands on July 20 and took charge of the prisoners.
 Besides the Tokwa Maru the schooner 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, the westernmost in the Aleutian chain, and were routed by the Perry.
 The raid is the most serious that has eyer occurred in the troubled his tory of the rookeries. The last at- tempt to rife the island was made about ten years ago by schooner flying the Mexican flag. She was in- terpreted by cutter before carry ing out her purpose.
 The ra,d was supposed to have been planned by Alex Mclean. He was known to be in Victoria. B. C.. last winter. but left there for parts unknown in the early spring.
 Officials and company men on the seal islands are considerably excited. although no further raids are ex- pected, as the patrol of the Behring sea by the cutters becofnes continu- ous on August 1. Their captains sem disinclined to pursue or capture even schooners known to have taken part in the raid unless found in the limit or in open violation of the law.
 Many prisoners were taken just after the raid, but were allowed 10 return to their vessels. as the guard was considered insufficient to control 90 many. The prisoners buried their own dead on the beach.
 in trying to return to the seal islands with Agent Lempke on July 22 the Perry broke her cylinder pump a mile from shore and Is tenn Dorarily out of business. This leaves the patrol short of vessels and the sIands unguarded. The Thetis is in Inc Arctic and the Rrsh on duty at Bristol bay. the Bear out ,f commission and the Mccullough | nnder orders to proceed to Sitka to tske on board the governor of the 1 iIstrict and land Fish Commissioner now at st Paul. on Kodiak slsnd.
 The prisoners left on July 25 on | he monthly mail steamer for valdez 1 where the court Of the second judi | :iaI district in which the Seal islands l ie. sits ia August The charge will probably be piracy. Department of commerce agents are preserving the | itncst secrecy about the affair.