The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-06
SEA AND SHORE.
Contents of a Can Picked Up on
Humboldt Beach.
Quick Passage Made by the Bark George F.
Mauson-Vesssls Detained by Gains
Out side-steamers Bar-Bound.

FIOm LU0 crew OIL lHe Steamer corona,
which arrived yesterday, it is learned that
on Tuesday last a screw-top tin can was
picked up on the beach at Humboldt by one
of the life-saving crew. 1t contained piece
of paper signed First Officer" on which
was written the information that the Royal
Tar and all her crew had been lost off Point
st. George. 1t is evidently foolish joke on
the part of some idiot, for the bark Royal
Tar only left Newcastle, n. S. w., for Eu-
reka on August Goth, and could not have yet
arrived in that locality.
The tug Roberts, Captain Smith, went on
fishing excursion to the banks off Duxbury
Reef yesterday, leaving her berth at 1880
o'clock in the morning and returning at
o'clock in the evening. There were thirty
two people on board, and they all made good
catches. About 500 pounds of fish, chiefly
rock cod, were caught, Mr.. Dolliver being
high hook with seventy-one fish.
The weather was thick at Point Lob0S
yesterday and a calm prevailed up till noon,
when a light breeze sprang up from the
southwest The barometer read: o'clock
in the morning, 3007; noon, 1904, O'Clock
in the evening, 29.99.
ARRIVAL OF THE LAKME.
Among the vessels that arrived yesterday.
was the steamer Lakme, Captain Carter.
She made the trip down from Seattle in
four and half days, and brought 615 tons
of coal for p. B. Cornwall. The Lakme
was chartered here and has been running
steadily on the sound for over year, III
command of Captain Graves, who has now
taken charge of the steamer Michigan.
Captain Carter of the Lakme was formerly
commander of the ship Blue Jacket.
The steamer Emily, Captain Roberts, ar
rived Saturday, 70 hours from Coos Bay,
via Port Oxford, with cargo Of 100000 feet
of lumber and having barge in tow for San
Pedro. SherPports that fifteen miles north
west of Point Reyes she passed the schooner
Orient bound in.
The steamer Corona, Captain Hannah,
arrived yesterday, 10 hours from EnreEa,
bringing IS cabin and Sc steerage pasSen-
gers. Among her cargo was large guam
tity of butter and S2262 treasure.
A DAMAGED TUG.
The schooner Ruby A. Cousins has arrived
at Eureka after a passage Of rwenty-three
days from Honolulu. She sailed up the bay
with fair wind and tide. When she dropped
anchor she swung around and collided with
the tug Ranger, carrying away the bulwark
on her stal board quarter The schooner
was uninjured.
There is considerable dissatisfaction
among the engineers of the Pacific Mail
steamer China, owing to rumor that their
wages are to be cut down. If such thing
occurs they express their intention of leav-
ing the vessel. The union to which they be-
long has charge of the matter, and no doubt
everything will be satisfactorily arranged
before the steamer sals on the 9th inst.
The crew of the new missionary schooner
Pitcairn, which was recently built by Cap
tain Turner for the Seventh Day AdyentistS,
were busily working yesterday setting up
rigging, etc. They never, however, work on
a Saturday. The sailors are hariy-looking
set, though they are vegetarianS, never eat
ing meat. They also eschew tea and coffee.
MADE a QUICK TRIP.
The bark George +. Manson. Captain
Crack, arrived late on Saturday night alter
quick passage of seven days from Taco
ma, with 2200 tons OF coal for the South
Prairie Coal Company.
The Mexican steamer Altata, at Fremont
street, flies the Mexican flag at her foremost
and flag at the main bearing the letters
NJ. N. 5. A, showing that her master is
member of the British Mercantile Marine
Service Association.
The brig Percy Edward sailed on Saturday
for the MarquesaS, and the four-masted
schooner Volunteer sailed at the same time
for Grays Harbor. There was hardly any
wind outside, and the vessels driited about
with the tide. Yesterday morning thew
the South Beach, and tugs took hold Of them
we're near and lowed them out to the whist
ling buoy.
There was an unusual number of promen-
aders on the water fro mt yesterday, espe-
cially at the north end. The chief objects
of interest seemed to be the ships Yorktown,
Gretna aud Ventura, at Union-street Wharf,
all of which had disastrous time at sea
during heavy gales The TWO former vessels
now look quite trim and shipshape again,
but the latter looks quite wreck yet.
BAR-BoUND VESSELS.
The steamers National City and Silver
Spring were bar-bound at Humboldt at last
accounts.
Up TO dark last evening the vessel arrivals
numbered twelve, ten coasting steamers and
two sChoOners.
Tie bark VIII W. Case and the barken-
tines Tam OShanter and 5. q. Wilder lowed
to sea yesterday.
The Dora Bluhm will go to Beale street
to-day and the steamer Australia to Folsom
street
The ship Blue jacket and steamer Lakme
went to Main street.
The ship State of Maine will leave her
berth at Oakland to-day and anchor in the
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