The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-24
MARINE NEWS AND NOTES.
The Alliance arrived in Yesterday.

The Alliance arrived in yesterday.
The British ship Cro1Cn of Eng
land, 1893, % days from Port Pirie,
and the barkentine Tam O'ShGnte1
are outside.
The Geo. w. Elder arrived from
Alaska yesterday with 1000 cases of
salmon, sundry Cinnamon and several
returning Astorians.
The steamer oregon came in yester-
day morning and after putting off a
large lot of fruit started up stream on
a race with the Elder.
The schooners ECa and Esther
Blum, lumber laden, sail to-day, the
former for San Francisco, the latter
for San Pedro. The Premier sailed
yesterday.
The Columbia goes 10 San Fran
cisco to-day. She takes from here
l 400 bdls shocks, 215 SKIS oysters,
4,544 cs. salmon, $40 pk'gs pulp, II
carboys and cs. labels.
Looking at the steamer COLuBlbiG'S
lights as she lay at the o. r. & n.
wharf last evening, called to mind the
fact that the Columbia was the first
passenger steamship in the world to
have electric lights on board.
The steamer State Of California
was taken from the Union Iron Works
to her wharf at San Francisco last
Tuesday, having been thoroughly
overhauled. She will resume her
regular trips tomorrow, taking her
old position recently occupied by the
NecicO.
The steamer Me.cicO arrived at
San Francisco last Tuesday twenty
four hours late, with sixty saloon and
seventy steerage passengers, and a
large amount Of freight. She had a
rough time all the way down, expert
encing head winds and strong rain
squalls.
The steam tug S. l.. NaStick, of
Seattle, has been sold by David Gil
more to William c.. Hammond, of
Port Townsend, for S16,5OO. The
steamer will continue in the Puget
sound service. She is 100 tons bur
den and was built in Port Discovery
twenty years ago.
There is a law prohibiting trade in
foreign built vessels between Ameri-
can ports. The captain of the Largo
Lam, a British ship at San Diego,
has just discharged 1000 barrels of
cement at that port, and has on board
$500 barrels for Portland. He has
telegraphed the department at Wash
ington for permission to proceed here
and unload his cargo.
The steamer COSmOp0liS, which ar
rived at San Francisco last Tuesday
from Gray's harbOr, met with rough
weather on her way down. Captain
Dettmers reports that when off Cape
Blanco the steamers shaft was bent,
and three blades of her propeller were
broken off by heavy seas. She was
also short of coal, and had to beat her
way down in her disabled condition
against strong head wind.
The German bark j. H. HlLStede
sailed from Victoria, B. c., for Lon
don yesterday with 56,686 cases of
salmon, valued at $330.988. This is
the most valuable cargo ever shipped
from the province. The bark Lebu
sailed at the same time as the HuS-
tede, and both vessels will race to
London. The captains of both have
a large wager on the race, and have
shipped picked crews. Both vessels
are clippers and fast time is looked
for.
The steamer st. Paul, Captain Frs
kin, thirteen days from Ounalaska,
arrived at San Francisco last Tuesday
evening with weight saloon and
forty-eight steerage passengers. She
reports having experienced strong
east and southeast winds during the
past ten days with heavy rains. She
left at Ounalaska, October 9, the
steamer Dora and the schooner Bear
and both were to leave for San Fran
cisco few days later. Her cargo con-
sisted of nineteen hundred cases of
salmon, and twelve packages of per-
SOnal effects.