Show governor or annual baert washington oct 15 james sheal ley governor po vernor of alaska in hia annual report to the secretary of the interior says that on the fourth of july the cutters buah corwin grant and perry were in the harbor of and gave the an object leebon aa to alie proper and patriotic celebration of the day on the disappearance of the beale atie governor eab no one at all familiar with alie past history of the islands can look upon the deserted rookeries of today and not realize will crushing force how great has been the diminution of specially of the reproductive class the females alie governor baye that the claim of the canadians and the british that the excessive killing 0 scale on land is the cause of the depletion ia disproved by the lie eang that on the rook ariee now there are many male seals while females are scarce the diminution ia due directly to the at sea where no can be anade as to the of the save that better protection must be granted them than ie afforded by the paris tribunal tri buhal and that the schooners have not been able to make the usual catches this season the catch of the british vessels being not over per vessel he baye of the british vessels the gnip hope of saving themselves from loss a as behring sea the supply here ie greatly diminished great britain rave to the canadian sealers in creased facilities by availing herself of a technicality and violating the clear intent of alie paris regulations relating to firearm when the canadian authorities secured from england what ie practically a repudiation or at least a negation of the paris tribunal they knew it would be possible poe sible for british columbian schooners coming from alie bide of the aea to use the allowed firearms fir earma and evade detection by urging that the aking found on board with shot wounds while in behring sea wore skins taken on the japan coast the governor bays that the remedy for the evil 1 ample but under existing circumstances its application is difficult unless groat britain has forfeited by her recent action all right to consideration and the united states holds with a arm hand any vessels found engaged in destroying seals the remedy laid down by the paris tribunal has proved a failure the governor says that ekine were taken on the islands this year and were taken by poachers 75 per cent of which were females the governor bays that the patrol of the sea by alie united states lias been of the best and the government lias acted in good faith in ito efforts to enforce the paris tribunal the governor discue oe at some length the mining indri tries of alaska and fare that the production pro luction indicates that it will be a and permanent industry the laws of the mining country are administered by the miner wholly impracticable to try to exercise government control of alin mines at present upon the subject of the alaskan boundary the governor bays the people of alaska expect and believe that the government of the united bbate will and maintain our right to all the territory included within the boundary line fixed and agreed upon by treaty mado between great britain ana russia in 1825 and acquiesced in for nearly three quarters of a century without questin que or dispute |