The morning call., 1891-01-16
SEA AND SHORE.
Sailing of the COquelle After
Long Detention.
Sealing schooners Coming to This Port to Fit
0ut-Birth of a Boy on the Ship Larnaca.
Sale of the Bark Hope.

Ross & Hewlett, who act as agents for
nearly all the sealers coming to this port.
have received word from Captain +. Z.
Miner of the American Sealer Henry Dennis
that he will leave Seattle for this port on the
Goth inst. On his arrival he will fit up with
hunters. boats, etc, preparatory to going on
cruise. The schooner will carry two
steam launches. which have been built for
her by the California Launch building Com
pany at Sausa ito. This will be quite new
departure in the way of hunting the fur
bearing animal
The schooner Coquelle, Captain Schroeder,
left this port for Coquille on October 18TH.
She arrived there after n passage of three
days and then loaded for this port. After
loading the bar became shallow and the
vessel could not cross out. dispatch was
received yesterday stating that the schooner
had, after her long detention, succeeded in
passing out on the 18th inst She may be
expected here to-day or tomorrow.
The weather was thick ana foggy at Point
I.obos yesterday and the wind all DAY light
from the northeast. The barometer read
o'clock in the morning, 50.35; noon, 3O.45;
o'clock in the evening, 1898.
BORN ON sHIPBoARD.
On Wednesday Mrs. Giles, wife of Cap
at Union-street Wharf, gave birth to a boy.
He is fine little fellow and weighed 10
pounds 8 ounces. The little tot can, in
future years. claim with pride that he is a
Californian and may be eligible To be Presi-
dent OF these United States. Captain Giles
however, says that the kid is a thorough En-
gllShman and the first bit of clothing that
was wrapped around it was the British
Union Jack.
Captain Donaldson OF the steamer Arago,
which arrived Yesterday, 46 hours from Coos
Bay, reports tina. on the 18th inst. he passed
a schooner from Coquille, five miles off the
bar, bound south. She was lumber laden
The Arago brought down $50 tons coal, 50
boxes of apples and S2026 treasure.
1t was learned yesterday that the bark
Hope, which has been trading from here to
Alaska Tor some months. has been sold by
the Aleutian Is and Fishing aud Mining Com
pahf 10 captain Case, an Eastern man, for
$4,000. She viii. 1t Is said. be placed IN the
lumber trade between Puget Sound and Aus
traia.
LONG CHARLEY's NEW COMMAND.
Captain Charles Haritwen, formerly mas
ter OF the Soi hiR sutherland, has been ap-
pointed by Ross u Hewlett acting for the
owners. master of the sealing schooner
Louis Olsen, when was formerly the British
sealing schooner Dolphin. The schooner is
now on the Columbia River and Captain
Haritwen, who Is generally known as Il cong
:
there on Monday to bring her to this port
where she will be fitted out with boats,
stores, hunters, etc.
The tug Roharts will 90 down to Hafmoon
Bay to-day with the wreckIng schooner San
Pedro in tow, which will make another at
tempt to wreck the schooner Argonaut
which went ashore there some two months
ago.
The steamer State of California, Captain
Ackley, which arrived yesterday from Port
y hrnnuIt prr Ir
CABIN aud nifty steeTage passengers.
The British ship Peter iredae sailed from
Port Papudo, Chile, for Portland, Oregon,
on Monday.
The ship Lord Dqwnshre sailed from
Liverpool for this port OH Wednesday.
VALUABLE CARGO.
The British steamer Strathelyde was
loaded with wheat from McNear's new
warehouse, Port Costa, in practically four
teen hours. She has 6J,407 bags wheat,
weighing g. 1851 pounds, equal II 9l,19S
centalS, or 1887 bushels, equal to 4071 long
tons. The steamer returned to this port on
Wednesday, aud will sail for St. Vincent
Cape Verde Islands.
The British steamer Houuslnw has arrived
at San Diego on her second trip from
Nanaimo with 1000 tons of coal. This
steamer has been engaged u make twenty
i've trips between British Columbia and San
Diego and TO land 100. 900 tons of coal at that
point.
it SHIPS SldlGdIU anu 1. L. ONduHiaD,
lying at HarTisOn-street Wharf, had their |
ensigns flying al half-mast yesterday out of
respect to the memory Of a sou OF Mr.. SUIT |
ton, agent for the vessels.
The shlD Gilvan, now sixteen days out |
from Honolulu for this port, has 4 22o, 053
pounds OF sugar, valued at Sl79,93 This
Is the largest cargo Of sugar cleared from
Honolulu in two years.
The steamer San Juan arrived at Panama
on the 18th. and the City of Sydney lett
there on that date for this pOIt.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The steamer Maggie Ross, which was
badly injured while crossing the bar at Coos
Bay. went on the Union Iron Works Dry
dock yesterday for repairs
The ship jeremiah Thompson has locked
at the Mail Dock.
Inc Maxwell went mp to Port Costa.
The wbalers W. Ii. Meyer and Northern
Light went to Fremont street to fit out for
cruise.
The Vidette will 90 to sea to-day.
The steamer Al-ki shifted from Beale to
| Broadway esterday.
Inc bark Margaret locked at Beale street
Inc bark Harvester shifted from the
| sugar refinery tn Mission street
The Emma Claudina towed to sea.
| The bark James Ches on aud shin Carnar-
! yonShlre VIII tow to sea to-day