The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-08
SEA AND SHORE.
A Bloody Fight on the River
Steamer Aurora.
Fire on Beard the Whaler James Allen-A
New Ferry Steamer-Movements
and Charters.

There was fracas on the fruit steamer
Aurora at Jackson-street Wharf about noon
yesterday, and it ended with man named
Theodore Gull being knocked out with a
poker. Gull has been employed in the
kitchen as helper, but in some manner in
CURED the wrath of Samuel Josselyn, the
coipred gentleman who is respected as the
chief cook of the steamer. After wordy
war, Josselyn ted Gull to shut up, as he
was in no ood to take back talk" This
angered Gull. who insisted that he was a
better man than any one that ever peeled Il
potato, at the same time picking up a
ki!chen-knife and vowing that he would
IN axe hash of the cook. Josselyn turned
seven shades paler when he saw his favorite
weapon in the hands of his enemy. He
ordered him to put it down, and lodged
around the table to keep out of reach. In
passing the range he caught sight of the
poker. big fellow about four feet long.
lie seized it at once and before the aston
ished subordinate could get out of the way
the heavy poker descended on his head with
a crash and Gull dropped to the floor, while
blood poured in streams from a cash in the
back of his head. Afraid that he might have
killed Gull, Josselyn would have jumped
overheard, but a powerful deck hand pre-
vented him. Gull proved to be a lively
corpse and after the affair was found wash
ing the blood off his head and neck in pan
in which some salt pork was soaking. The
last seen of him he was heading for the City
Hall to procure a warrant for the cooks
arrest on charge of attempted murder.
A wHALER ON FIRE.
A private dispatch from the whaler Helen
Mar, lying at Port Clarence states that the
how To nc A haH no
from being destroyed by fire on July 4th.
The fire broke ont about 10 o'clock in the
morning, and in short time clouds of smoke
were pouring out OF her hatchways. Assist
ance was rendered by the Mar and the steam
erS Ocra and Narwhal, which ran alongside
of the burning vessel and soon had their
steam pumps at work. The fire was at last
put out, but not before the lower hold was
full of water and the upper deck beams were
badly scorched, Owing to the prompt as
slstance rendered the vessel was not dam
aged enough to force her to return to port.
Instead of adding forty feet to the length
of the steamer Piedmont, at a cost of So, 600,
the Southern Pacific Company have decided
to build another boat, to be used as a relief
1t is expected that the new steamer will be
ready by Spring.
Captain Turner has launched another
new schooner for the island trade. She will
be named the TreyarOa, the translation of
which means long passage. Her length is
% ASOt, II UCdill lttG uCplu. anu VIII
register about 100 tons. Captain Matherson
will have charge.
CHILDREN's DAY.
The children in the Good Templars'
Orphans Home at Vallejo will be trea ted
to trip to San Francisco and a chance TO
spend several hours at Golden Gate Park,
on Saturday next. Piper, Alden & Co. have
placed their steamer, the Sunol, at the dis
poSal of the children for that day, free of
charge, and in addition to the trip from
Vallejo and return the little ones will also
be taken around the bay and shown all that
there is to be seen.
The wife of Captain Newcomer of the
ship Lord Downshire died yesterday morn
ing at st. MarY's Hospital. She was very
sick when tue ship arrived in San Francisco,
and was soon after removed to the hospital.
The funeral will take place to-day from 10
Bourbon street. The deceased lady was a
native of Ireland and well-known in this
city.
Outside the heads the weather yesterday
was haZy with northwest wind sixteen
miles an hour. The barometer stood 1890.
MOVEMENTS OF SHIPPING.
The steamships State of California arrived
from Portland, the Record from Coos Bay
and the National City from Eureka. The
British bark Sarah and Emma put in from
London with general cargo for Grvin,
Baldwin & Eyre, and the Levi G. Burgess
from Departure Bay brought 2460 tons of
coal for t. Dunsmuir & Sons
The steamship Montserrat left for Ma
naimO, the Corona for San Diego, the Ore
gon for Astoria and the West Coast for Fort
Bragg. The grain-laden Land5krOna sailed
for Antwerp, the bark Oakland for Port
Madison and the schooners James Town
send, American Girl and Excelsior for coast
ports.
The ship Berlin went to Fremont street
and the Gaena and Clan Macfarlane 10
Port Costa to load. To-day the ships George
StptSOO- I.Och Eek and Rpuicia and ia
bark Bundaeer will 90 to sea.
CHARTERS REPORTED.
Among the charters reported yesterday
were the following: British iron bark Sarah
and Emma, 1907 tons, chartered prior to ar
rival for wheat to U. L., Havre or Antwerp
ASS. steamer Signal, 392 tons, coal, from
Tacoma to this port. chartered by the South
Prairie Coal Company; ships T. f. Oakes
to load wheat at Portland for u. K, Havre
or Antwerp.