The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-27
MARINE NEWS AND NOTES.

The ManzanitG will go out to the
bar to-day to buoy out the new chan
mel.
The State of California arrived
from San Francisco yesterday with 30
tons freight for this port.
The steamer Signal, loaded with
powder and other combustibles, ar
rived from San Francisco yesterday,
The government steamer Cascades
will leave to-day for Portland where
she will lay up for two months repair
ing.
The Oregon sailed for San Fran
cisco yesterday with the following
freight, 1000 SKIS oysters, 1900 cases
salmon, 725 bdls pulp, and 3 tons
assorted truck.
Thos. Neil, master of the steamer
Dolphin reports that buoy No. 1, on
Shoalwater bay, has not drifted away
as was recently stated. When he
went out from there last Thursday the
buoy was in place all right.
The tug Discovery has found the
remains of the steamship Idaho float
ing down the straits of Juan De Fuca,
and after an examination found she
was worthless and allowed her to drift
to sea. The wreck will probably be
exceedingly dangerous to navigation.
The United States fish commission
steamer AlbdtrOSS, which spent a
season here twice this year, is now lying
at the Mare Island navy yard, Califor
MIA. Last Tuesday night boat with
eight sailors and a crippled newsboy
left the AlbatroSS for Vallejo. When
near the U. S. steamer, ThetiS, the
boat upset and four of the occupants
were drowned.
- Walter Oakes, son OF president
Oakes, of the Northern Pacific, has
been appointed secretary and treas
urer of the Puget Sound and Alaska
Steamship company. This is the new
line which will compete with the Union
Pacific's sound steamers. G. II. Pres
colt, the second vice president of the
Northern Pacific, is to be president of
the steamship line, and d. B. Jackson
general manager, with headquarters at
Seattle.
Captain Dettmess OF the steamer
COSDlOpOLiS, says that on the last trip
to Gray's harbor, he saw log, the
largest he has ever seen afioat or
ashore, in latitude Al deg. 40 min.
north and longitude 124 deg. 20 min.
west. At first the captain thought
that it was a ship bottom up, and he
steered for the object. This was on
December 18th. The captain esti-
mates the log was eighty feet long
and seven feet in diameter; and he
considers it very dangerous to passing
vessels.
The steam schooner FGralLOne was
being towed across the Yaquina bay
bar by the tug ReSOlute, at noon on
the oath, when a heavy sea washed
overheard, from the deck of the
schooner, chief engineer Pugsley, a
cabin boy and three sailors, named
Frank johnson, Chas Dickinson, and
VIM. Brown. The three latter were
drowned. The schooner was badly
damaged. Life and property are evi-
IDENTIFY of little value when atioat in
that vicinity. 1t is to be hoped that
the OregOnian will not place this dis
aster "at the Columbia" the same as
it has others that happened at Shoal-
water bay and Gray's harbor.
A fixed white light of the first order,
varied by red fash every minute, is
now shown from the structure recent
! " erected on the extreme westerly
end of Cape Meares. The light will
i illuminate the entire horizon. The
+ focal plane is 223 feet above mean sea
I level. and the light may be seen in clear
weather from the deck of vessel Is feet
above the sea, 2112 nautical miles.
The light is shown from black Ian
tern, surmounting low white tower
in form of frustum of an octagonal
pyramid. Two brown oil-houses (dis-
tant 65 feet) and keepers dwelling,
painted white with lead colOred trim
mings and brown roofs distant 1000
feet stand to the eastward of the
tower. The approximate geographi-
cal position of the lighthouse, as taken
from the charts of the U. S. coast and
geodetic survey, is as follows: Latitude,
As deg, % min. 50 sec. north longi-
tude, 123 deg, So min, 30 sec. west.
:, Magnetic bearings and distances of
prominent objects are approximately
as follows: Tillamook Rock light
house, n. N. W. a W., 2715 nautical
miles; Cape Lookout, S. by E., 9 nau-
tical miles. Cape Foulweather light
is the next light to the southwark, dis
tance 40 miles.