The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-04
MARINE NEWS AND NOTES.


Tie -Eichigan arrived FROM Seattle
yesterday loaded with coal for Port
land.
The bark James ChtSt0H, which
left Port Gamble with a cargo of lum-
Der for San Francisco this week, re-
turned to Port Townsend leaking.
She had gone about fifty miles beyond
Cape Flattery when a leak was dis
covered and she turned back.
The General Niles is still lying at the
Willamette Iron works dock. says the
Journal, having discharged her car
go of merchandise from Gray's Har-
Dor, and this being her last trip on
the Willamette, her crew were busily
engaged yesterday in removing many
of the large ropes, chains, etc, from
her two masts, preparatory to her fare
well trip to her future home or the
Sound.
Captain Angerstein, of the wrecked
Idaho, is in Victoria. He reports the
ship all cracked and fast breaking up.
it being only question OF short
time when she VIII disappear entirely.
The wreckers are still at work saving
everything possible. The efforts to
save her having proved futile. As
much of the stores and upper works
as possible, will be removed and the
old steamer Will be left to the mercy
of the wind and waves.
The barkentine building at Port
Blakely by Hall Bros, for Captain
George F. Smith, Is ready for launch
ing and will be named ITmgGTd,
Captain Paul will command her. The
vessel has n carrying capacity of S00,-
600 feet of lumber, and can tow away
1,20O tons of sugar below decks. She
is l6S feet in length on the keel, and
1856 feet in length over all. She has
81 feet beam, and a depth of hold of
IL feet 4 inches. She will he en-
ployed in the Honolulu trade.
The year of 1889 will be noted as
one of catastrophe, and disaster on sea
and shore; on this coast, fire has ami
Inflated property, and wind and wave
have wrecked several vessels. Among
other steamships known to AstOrians,
are the ALASKAN, the Fearless, the
ARcOB and the Idaho 1t is to be
hoped that the dismal record of the
year is complete. and that the list of
wrecks by sea, and fires and floods by
land will not be made longer during
the remaining four weeks of the year.
The steamer Nichigdn, arrived in
from the Sound, yesterday afternoon.
The captain reports that at $50, last
Monday afternoon, about miles w.
5. w. from Cape Flattery, lie came
alongside the steamer Alki, from De-
parture Bay, coal-laden for San Fran
cisco, disabled. and flying signals of
distress. The steamers engine had
broken down. The NichigGn towed
her in to Neah Bay. On being asked
had any British vessel been tOwed in to
the Sound recently, the captain said,
Yes" bnt that she was not loaded,
but was light.
Judge Hoffman, OF the United
States district court, in San Francisco,
has just rendered a decision of much
Importance to merchants and ship
owners in the libel suit Of the steam
ship State of California against the
barkentine Portland, and in the com
panion suit in which the relations of
the owners OF the two vessels were re
versed. The cases grew out Of q col
lision which occurred outside the
heads over two years ago. The decis-
ion is in favor of the steamer, the
Portland being held responsible for
the accident through failure to prop
erly display her lights.
The Canadian Pacilic's steamer.
Danube, upon her last leaving port
was loaded unusually light, and short
ly after passing from the Columbia
into the ocean, exceedingly rough
weather was experienced and the half
empty steamship was tossed around
upon the waves like a cork. and
as one of her officers said, half
the time. she was standin' right
up on her hind legs, which
had the effect of making the crew
| deathly seasick TO a man, something
they hadn't been guilty of in all their
years of seafaring. On the down trip
very good weather, in comparison to
the trip preceding was had, and the
steamship safely rounded the treacher-
Gus rocks on the straits of Fuca
about twenty hours ahead of her i'll
fated sister, the idaho.