Show JT 1 faff yur ajr SEALS ajl D 0 OMED government MAY DECIDE TO SLAUGHTER ENTIRE HERD tired of the uneven fight against tile the canadian poachers whose depredations depredation are be yond control it is practically certain that before long lone the ho unita states government will decide to slaughter the entire herd berd thus thua wiping out tile sti species cles cum com plemely and finally so ao far as the a tira of the north pacific are con turned nh ann n ve ile acquired alaska from hussla ue obtained exclusive property rights so it was ACS understood over the pastern half of lich dehring ring sea aen which lip to that time hud had been eg aided an aa N A all getting ready to brand a seal a mail time lake belonging to the czar this half included tile the la Is lands which b tho the way vity atra re not discovered until a little mer a cen tury ngo ago mainly 0 ti file he circum StAl lols that they ure aro in at most perpetual fog off with will the Islat islands ids ot of course went tile the fur ur seals and we might inight have succeeded in pl ot and the litter for an lu lit definite period it 1 only it had bad beta their habit to blind all of their heir lives in the it i ear ot of the gilb lov group unfortunately however the seals scale melody visit the islands in the summer time for breeding pur posea poises leaning leading them in november and te turning in june the rest of the ear car they in it a minatory lay oy aga to more sout southern beral 1 alers the ibe herd berd finding its ay in the mouth month of fob feb ruady to a lati latitude tudo some distance south of san ff alcisco an cisco and thereupon turning again this habit off thelis ltha been an easy eagy matter for the in masters astero ot of vessels specially equipped for w this sori Bort of fl ober y to follow alcon allu the f I 1 tat W tenure WW MOP t it jw such euch oil cli S at ai eav e speared t while sleeping on I 1 maw as r fall the arro arc shot hen ben shot shat sa in scantly killed they dive and as an a re gult nine out oat of ten of 0 those fatally injured are lost accordingly according it la is estimated ti mated abat the canine 01 ol seals by tills means involved the destruction st of about 1000 it e ox posed to attack in fit no other vay may the he held could not lot such dech nina lion f for 0 r ati ah indefinite but to compute tile the badly work tho the seal hunters the tice of coast ing in tile alio vicinity of tile the island and destroying the females as aa they van out to sea in pursuit of fish for food 1 lien tin an animal Is assailed on its bif eding it la ili surely doomed in its aa much as n natures opportunity ot of the la Is cut on off thus thua it has ha been with mith the ilia fur S seals eal a iviry female fillod in the vicinity of tile the islands left one or wore pups pupa on shore share to starve to death and in this manner ini after ear tens tells of thou sands of the young peti relished shed miser miner ably no wonder ihn that the last laet Z 0 00 O deuis baia the rookeries rook erlea eries of the group have been lot almost limion lUl ln of tho th 3 linni ped innab linings the herd being reduced in nut boLls daling that period from about to the pies ent cut estin estimate talo gagnat baich by our own people ef fethe DILaR tires might hap bale breen adolt adopted td but our govern has haa boll almost st to deal aith tile the canadian poachers sit all ef boits to the cooperation of great britain being vain imn in na its much is all ol of the sealskins seal skins ure are ded and prep ajel for market in angland Uri gland baie for nian man aars ara lie ilie industry try tills hua binen employ ment to of Pel the attitude of oar friends frienda italo ariosa as tho the sea aea in this matter liss hag been to say the helst ot of it unintelligent but even yet it la Is the main cause baure or it being that the british autho atlea acie on oil technical gi founds to adaill that out om dehu ilfe hta in lint sea bea exten extends dd boond tile the customary custo marv three mile now it happens that the female seals commonly conn from 20 10 to 30 miles away front from the is lande in pursuit of nail and thus the poachers roa chers are easily ablo able to destroy them |