FUR-SEAL SERVICE. 



By Walter I. Lembkey, Agent in Charge. 



Instructions to the agent, dated May 16, 1912, directed him, as 

 usual, to proceed to San Francisco and there purchase the provisions 

 and other supplies needed for the Pribilof Islands. Under these 

 instructions he left Washington May 19, arrived in San Francisco 

 May 23, and immediately entered upon the duty to be performed 

 there. The steamer Homer had aheady been chartered to transport 

 the supplies to the islands, the charter price being $150 per day, 

 including wages of crew. Owing to the limited appropriation which 

 Congress had provided, it was necessary to restrict the purchases to 

 the actual necessities, such as food, clothing, fuel, and medical 

 supplies. 



The Homer sailed from San Francisco May 27, reaching St. George 

 Island June 12 and St. Paul on June 13. After discharging cargo and 

 returning to Unalaska for coal for the islands, she sailed for San Fran- 

 cisco on June 28, with Assistant Agent James Judge on board, to 

 purchase supplies which were to be sent to the islands on the second 

 trip. Sailing again from San Francisco on August 4, the vessel 

 arrived at St. George on August 24, but storms delayed unloading of 

 the cargo, and the return voyage was not begun until September 11. 

 With one of her two propeller shafts broken, the Homer finally arrived 

 at San Francisco on September 27 with the year's catch of sealskins 

 on board. 



AFFAIRS OF THE COMMUNITY. 



natives' bank accounts. 



Interest at the rate of 3^ per cent on the several natives' bank 

 accounts on deposit with the Union Trust Co., of San Francisco, for 

 the year ended December 31, 1911, was collected by W. I. Lembkey, 

 trustee, and paid by him to the several owners of the accounts, in 

 accordance with the receipted rolls transmitted to the Bureau of 

 Fisheries and now in its files. Twenty St. Paul and nine St. George 

 natives own such accounts, the amounts thereof aggregating $5,039.14. 



During the year but one addition to the principal was made — $50 

 to the account of Simeon Fratis. Three withdrawals from principal 

 were made — $25 each from the accounts of Simeon Fratis and John 

 Hanson, both of whom are at the Chamewa Indian School, and $43.50 

 from that of Peter Oustigof, to pay for a sewing machine. The inter- 

 est on the accounts of Hanson and Fratis was sent by money order 

 to Chamewa and separate receipts returned. 

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