Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-21 | Page 8 | Hawaiian Birds Slaughtered by Birds

HAWAIIAN BIRDS SLAUGHTERED BY BIRDS Washington Feb An estimated value alue of Is placed by Capt V mV VY Y V E Jacobs or of Limo tho revenue cutter Thetis on the birds feathers and wIngS seized by him In January on the HawaIIan islands or of and Lis lanak There the feathers and wIngs had been gathered and stored by Jap Japanese anese In violation at President Roose desIgnating time the Islands as a breeding ground for birds of plumage Twentythree Japanese were arrested and have havo boon beon turned over oyer to timo tho UnIted States marshal nt at Honolulu for trial From statements made mado b by Capt Ja Jacobi Jacobs cobs cobi In u a report to the treasury de department department the depredations had be been o oIn In progress 1 since early carly last year A largo large quantIty or of feathers and wings val shipped before ime he arrived In hI all the captain thinks that about bIrds were killed by the hunters The tho tern ten time the petrel and the albatross The Tho Japanese produced documents purportIng to give them the privilege of gatherIng fertilizer and bIrds of plumage but when the tho officers from the vessel landed and showed th lr authority the offenders surrendered without resistance Copies CopieD or of the presidents proclamation tion were posted period on La and Lis LIi lansky and on othen Islands within tIme the reserve rosene