Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1909 — SAILOR SURPRISES SCIENCE [ARTICLE]

SAILOR SURPRISES SCIENCE

Boatswain Keeps Alive Two Beal Pups by Artificial Means. Washington, Dec. 21. —Judson Thurber, boatswain on the revenue cutter Bear, now at San Diego, Cal., is to get a 6,000 miles trip at the expense of the United States government, and all on account of two seal pups. Thurber caught the little seals in Alaskan waters early In October and has kept the animals alive by artificial means, contrary to all the legends of sealers and the previous experiments of scientific persons. In order to find how it is done Thurber has been ordered to come to Washington to show the bureau of fisheries his artificial method of rearing young seals. If Thurber’s method Is round practicable it will mean much to the sealing industry.