Show WHALING FLEET NOT DESTROYED revenue cutter bear reaches st blich michaels aels with news A few of the vessels were wrecked but the others escaped from the ice floes crews of a number of the ships brought to st michaels san Fran francisc francisco claro o sept 13 A chron chronicle i cle special from st michaels alaska aug 25 via victoria B C sept 12 says the revenue cutter bear Beara arrived in a po port rt this afternoon with a 16 whal ere belonging to the vessels of the fleet that were crus crushed fied in the ice pack while in winter quarters off point barrow on july 28 the first vessel of the season to ar at rive she found the surviving mem bers here of the steamers mere orca and jessie 11 freeman and the schooner rosario and took them on oil board kiting giving them thy the first square meal they had enjoyed in anny a day the tho rescuing party found that provi i alone aiona on the belvedere newport jean ette and fearless the vessels which bad had escaped destruction in the ice hoes floes were setting getting very low each vessel was given a supply sufficient until the ar sr rival of tenders from the routh on augast august 17 having fulfilled her mission of rescue and relief the bear started south on her journey to st michael chael with the whalers chalers whose chips were lost shortly after her arrival at point barrow the bear boar was caught in the ice and the prin armure aurs was so tremendous that I 1 1 ome ot of her fit started arted and preparations t were made for abandoning the tbt ship fortunately the pressure res sura subsided e but thy the bear was unable to tree free I 1 herself from the pack for thirteen days after first being pinched if this be true it is a reason that all thrifty mer merchante chanta td can understand and appreciate spain has bad had nothing to consider but debts and ana outlay for months it is ratifying gratifying to hope to bo be able to take in some thousands of dol dollars larr of revenue from cuban custom houses which many persons in this country think should be already open and free to goods from america the administration does not however credit this charge against spain nor does it agree with those who make complaints that the spaniards arda are not get ing out fast enough it recognizes that it is not an easy thing to pack aw troops out from any country in a short abort time the problem becomes r quite ser sos lous when the country endeavor endeavoring li it to do t his bag has no money little credit androw and few b boats oats at her command and it is willing to 10 give spain bome latitude in the matter it has no intention of acting in a hasty manner and in ordering the de do feared sold soldiers eol diers lere to move on much has to be done and the administration is willing to allow time for the perform 1 ance of the great task that spain baa bag on band hand the newport fearless and jeanette arrived before aug 3rd ard when the bear became fast fait in the ice where ebe she remained for thirteen days it being found impossible to blast her way out stores were however transferred to the whalers chalers on sleds finally on august 17 the tile bear got loose from the tile ice fee and with the rescued whalers chalers started on her way south A atop stop was made at point hope on the where the schooner loulee louise J kenney was bound on the beoh where she eh had bad been wrecked the day before her officers and crew were taken on board after making several stops the hear bear arrived at a st michael on aug 25 and left on the following day neah bay sept 13 the revenue cutter bear ton touched clied here on her way down the coast she has on board lieutenants jarvis and Bert bertholt bolf and dr call composing the tile relief party and 01 members of the crews of the v vessels that were wrecked including the craw of the ec hooner louis J kenney when the men came aboard ibe the bear it t after ehe she reached cape smyth there thero were in all twelve of these exchanged places with a like number the fearless slid eighteen shipped on other vessels of the whaling fleet two shipped on the morning light at kotzebue sound six shipped on some of the yukon river steamers when they reached st michael chael and two others shipped on the english ship allala al at dutch harbor besides the loss of the orca and freeman last fall the schooner rosario was the tile only other vessel that was crushed in the ice the other vessels the newport janette fearless and belvidere are all out and either on their way down or have continued on their whaling cruise the wanderer which went jinto hershel leland island last fall when she shia found she could not get out is known to be safe captain of the jeanette who was taken ill III at cape smyth came down on the bear having turned his vessel over to thomas ellis and charles brewer the bear reports that a petty officer of the whaler baler rosario committed niclide by drowning last spring and in june Phill phil mannot farin of the jesse fresman dropped dead of heart disease gray of he the jeanette Jeanett ft died of dropsy A siberian and a japanese attached to the fleet also died since the fleet was last heard board from the bear left st michael for the north on july fth tu to rescue nine m inere whose boa a large steam launch bad been wrecked five miles south of cape Ita atamanoff manoff while making the trip from rampart city on the yukon river to st michael for provisions and supplies all th the a miners were saved and the bear proceeded on her way to point barrow on the way several stops were made and bills con by lieutenant jarvis of the overland relief expedition were paid in foods goods wanted by the natives at point hope lienden lieutenant Liea tenant ant bertloff Berl Bert boft boff reported that the thirty four reindeer which had strayed from the lapps herd while crossing kotzebue sound on the ica ice oa on the way to point barrow bad had been brought to point hope and that although several bad had been killed for ford the herd had increased by the birth of fawns to forty nine captain sherman of the wrecked whaler orca orea boarded the bear at point day he reported the tile wreck of the rosario and the serious condition of the belvidere it being impossible for the bear to pass the ice barrier food was sent to the Belv ideres men by a native skin boat in charge e of lieutenant hamlet wh who 0 successfully cess fully accomplished his mission and reached point barrow only eighteen hours hour a after the bears arrival there at caps cape on july the crews i ot of the wrecked steamers jessie II 11 I 1 i freeman and orca and the schooner rosario Ko sario were taken on board the bear and given the he first equale meal they had eaten for many a day later dispatches show that the I 1 steamer was not wrecked but that her captain beached her u lightly lor for the purpose ot of relieving the rudder of a mass mas ot of fishing nets which had in some manner become entangled with the steering gear no alarm is felt tor for the lately of the ship |