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Show POACHERS ARE KILLED. Ten Japanese Killed in Attempt to Raid Seal Rookeries. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 29. The captain cap-tain of the whaler California, which arrived ar-rived at this port today, reports that on September 12 he spoke the Japanese schooner Toyo off the Kurlle Islands, and was informed by its captain that during an1 attempt to raid the Copper island seal rookeries, ten Japanese had been killed and twenty-five or thirty taken prisoners. Copper island Is the smaller of the two Kommandor islands, situated in the Bearing sea. , |