The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-19
SEA AND SHORE.
A Man.Eating Shark Caught by
Fishermen.
Arrival of the Australia Unique
Enterprise-Suicidea at sea-Movements
of Vessels and Charters

of Vessels and Charters.
While hauling in their nets off Angel
Island yesterday morning two Italian fish
ermen named Augustine and Andrea Tar
coma discovered something larger than
salmon entangled in the net They soon
found that the imprisoned monster was a
big shark of the man-eating variety, and
they were not little frightened when the
big fish rushed for the boat with his inn
mense jaws wide open revealing three rows
of wicked looking teeth. They shouted for
assistance and several boats fishing near by
answered the call. The fish made nasty
fight, but was dispatched and towed to the
Fishermen's Wharf, where he will be placed
on exhibition. The shark measures 1873
feet long and 81 feet in circum ference, and
weighs fully ton.
The mail steamer Australia arrived yes
terday from Honolulu with twenty-seven
cabin and sixty-one steerage passengers.
. Captain Houdlette reported that on the 14th
inst. he sighted the United States steamer
AlbatroSs at work sounding S44 miles from
Honolulu, and that all on board were we'll.
Outside the heads yesterday the weather
was clear, with twelve-knot breeze from
the northwest The barometer stood 30.01.
A UNIQUE ENTERPRISE.
A unique enterprise has been, or will be,
| started in the town of Aberdeen, according
! TO a statement in the Times Of the rival
| town OF Grays Harbor.. 1t is the manufac-
| ture of steam barges, flat-bottomed and of
| of light drauGht, so as to navigate with Sc
| curity the choked channels of the upper ana
| southern parts Of the harbor. Appreciat-
| ing keenly the crcums tanceS of disadvanta-
ha Of Ahariaan n
| at last adopted most feasible means of
| cOnquering Cow Point, that embarrassing
! obstruction to navigation lust below Aber-
| deem. The barges will net draw over two
! or three feet at the utmost, and 1t is believed
that with reasonable prudence and careful
| seamanShlp the shoals of the point can be
| successfully avoided.
Captain futile OF the revenue steamer
| Hartley thinks that the revenue service can
| be rendered more efficient if the naval de-
| partment had charge OF it, and with that
| object in view he is circulating petition
| among the leading business men praying
that the change be made.
1t is stated that another sea lion was cap
| tured yesterday morning and taken to Lake
! PillarcitOs. 1t is claimed that the company
has a gang of men employed to capture The
! animals.
| TO ESCAPE BRUTALITY.
John Carroll, seaman of the ship
| Eureka, committed suicide on the 18th ult.
at sea in order to escape the treatment,
| SO it is said, he was receiving at the hands
| Of Mate John McNicholas. This officer,
| 1t is charged, beat and kicked him.
and one day chained the poor fellow
TO big dog and made him march up'and
| down the poop deck. The men claim that
! Captain Dinsmore was aware of the way
| the mate treated the men, but made n o
effort to stop it. Yesterday the mate. who
| has been paid off from the ship. called at
the office of the United States Marshal and
| asked whether there VS. a charge entered
| against him there and finding That there
! WAS none left his address and stated that if
the ,fficers wanted him he could be found at
| any time.
| a dispatch was received at the Mer-
| chants Elk hange yesterday stating that the
ship Manuel Llaguna, bound from New
| York for this city, had put into CalIao on
the 14th inst, with the captain injured, but
had sailed again Oh the next day. No fur
| Their particulars were given.
a dispatch from London states that the
British ship e. Granite rant; Rock, bound from
town with her deck damaged.
WHITE ELEPHANT.
Mrs. Leong All Tung. Chinese woman,
| is on board the Umatlla and is likely to
stay there for some time, as the officials in
this city refuse TO let Ter land. she having
been remanded TO Victoria, b. c., from
| which place she came in May. She was
sent back on the recent trip of the Una
tilla, but the Customs authorities at that
| place also refused to allow her to make
home among them. so she is thrown on the
| hands of Goodaf, Perkins Il Co., who are at
| loss to know what 10 do with her.
George Scott, one of the passengers who
| came 10 this city on the steamer Umatilla,
| created sensation at Broadway Wharf as
that vessel was docking yesterday morning.
He went tn the upper deck and took
header into the bay. A boat was lowered
and the man pulled out of the water. He
gave no reason for attempting to end his
| life.
The carpenter of the ship 6. P. Hitch
cotk WAS severely injured yesterday after
! noon while at work in the vessels fore hold
by sack of potatoes falling on him. The
| ship is lying in the stream and surgeon
| was sent for.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The moves yesterday were the Spartan,
land Light to Fremont, Knight Of st.
| Michaels to Howard, Robert Duncan to
| Beale, Mercury TO Third street, Carradsle
and Arnadale to Port Costa, Sea Breeze
| and s. 7. Hitchcock dropped into the
! stream. the Gilcruix down from Port Costa,
! Signal and Tamerlane to Oakland Creek
| and the Alex Black to Hunters Po.ut Dry
| dock. To-day the Gowanbank will 60 10
| Oakland, Arctic Stream to the sea-wall
! Ncho as Thayer to Oakland Creek and the
| Nanpactus will tow to sea.
| Departures were The steamers Corona for
San Diego, Greenwood for Greenwood, En-
| pre- Tor Nanalmo and Los Angeles for
! Eureka; Norwegian bark Europa Tor West
| port, the Italian ship Salvatore Ciampa for
| Queenstown, the ship San Joaquin for New
! York, the schooner Undaunled for Kodiak
and the Mary Gilbert, Wing & Wing Ida
Schnauer, Guide, Berwick and Newark for
| coast ports.
Arrivals were the steamers Coos Bay
| from Moss Landing. Ulnatila from Vic
| toria, Pomona from New port, National City
from Eureka, Cleone from Usal and West
| port from Bear HarbOr.
| CHARTERS REPORTED.
Among the latest reported charters are
the following:
| Iron ships c. s. Bement, 1899 tons, and Ar
| mida, 1924 IONS rechaTtered for wheat 10 u. X
| Havre or Antwerp, 30s-a decline.
| Schooner r. 5. Redfed 446 tons lumber from
| Chenlanius 10 sydney, 60 5s; Melbourne e.
| 10s-charte1ed by lie Chemanus MIL Company
| Schooner Prosper, 526 TONS lumber from Ia
coma TO Shanghai, 81 l0s-chartered by the Pa
| ellie Pine Lumber Company
| Schooner j. u. North 324 tons, mercban disc
| hence TO Santa Rosalia-chartered by A. Car