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Show PURIOINING POACHERS. Thr -Mailing F.tenai Ual-I on tha Keal ltH,trrirt. Sah FkaK' Is'o. An!?- n.-Capt-'iin Erskine of the strnmer St. Paul, which arrived from Oiinalaska, ay Victoria poacher this year secured 20,01 sealskin. seal-skin. lDConseiiieuoetlm North American Amer-ican Commercial company, which lea.r geal rookeries from ihe gorerAment, finds it take reduced to 20.00(1 skin ' it i merely a matter of a few year,' aaid Captain Erskine, "when seal will become extinct." It i reported at Ounalaska there w ere Vi poaching ven-l at port on their wav to BebrimT and " far riot a -tingle attempt ha'l i""ei matie to ..-ie anv of the eontrabaml vessel. Ihe Bear i now in the Arctic ocean and the Kusb at Pnboioff lsiaod. |