The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-27
IN FROM THE ORIENT.
First Union Pacific Steamer
Arrives i'm Port.
LOADED DOWN WITH FREIGHT.
Tacoma Freight Discharged Here-A
Novel Trial of Two Mutinous
Sailors at Victoria.

British steamer Palmas, the first vessel
on the Union Pacific line between Seattle
and Portland and the Orient, arrived IN
port yesterday and was welcomed by
large crowd of people who viewed her
from the wharyes as she catered the har-
Dor. She is fine steel vessel with a
carrying capacity of 4, 800 tons of freight.
She carries $500 tons in addition
to her coal supply for the trip.
Her cargo for Seattle consisted
of 30 tons of sugar. rice and other Chinese
and Japanese merchandise and lot of
bananas from Honolulu. and was dis
charged at Yeslers wharf. Her Tacoma
freight was all discharged here, and she
will proceed to Portland this morning
with the balance of her cargo. She dis
charged quite an amount Of freight at Vic
toria.
The Palmas is chartered by Samuel
Samueis, successor to Frank Upton, and
took the place of the Zambesi. She is
being followed by the Mascot and other
vessels on the same line. She sailed from
Hongkong on June III, stopping at Moi,
Kobe and Yokohama, Japan, and at Hon
olulu. making her time to Port Townsend
forty-fiye days. She had every pound of
freight she could carry, leaving 600 tons she
could not take and 100 passengers. Most
OF her passengers were for Honolulu and
quite a number for British Columbia. She
had eight japanese on board for Portland
and three white passengers. Some OF her
cargo was for Honolulu. and in place OF
ii she took on lot OF bananas, pineap-
Tles, etc.
The PaImas is n propeller, scnoonerrig.
go feet long - feet beam and "a feet
depih of hold. Her registered net tonnage
is so. She was built at Belfast in 1855
and is owned by Elder, Dempster d Co..
of the African Steamship Company, of
Liverpool. London and Glasgow. She
made voyage from Liverpool to Phila-
delphia, taking cargo back from New
York to China just before being chartered
by Samuels for a space of nine months.
Captain William Taylor, master of
the vessel, said she would take such
freight "a she could get at Portland
for Honolulu. China and Japan, and would
then proceed tn Departure bay 10 coal be-
fore starting on the return voyage. He
said she would not go back by way of the
Hawaiian islands unless she got suf-
ficient freight to make it an OBJ
feet. She is not passenger
vessel, having been built especially for a
freighter, but has fair accommodations for
q limited number of cabin passengers.
Captain Taylor said he did not know
whether she would be sent out for the
Sound again on her return or not. She
was not chartered for any particular route.
and might be sent off in some other d.
rection.
Captain Taylor had to bring two men,
bers of his crew in irons from Honolulu.
He says he had always treated them with
30 much consideration that they had be-
come ungovernabie and he was forced to
take this method OF bringing them TO
time He had allowed them
TO go on shore and drink and carouse and
never chastised them for 1t as long as
their conduct did not become intolerable
At Honolulu they got drunk. and when
his officers ordered them out TO work.
they showed fight. The captain remon-
stfated with them, but they paid no
attention. Finally ne had the British
consul arrest these two, but the consul re-
fused 10 try them and placed them back
on the vessel when she was ready to start.
The captain was determined that they
should not go unpublished for
their conduct, and placed them
in irons and kept them there
until the vessel reached Victoria He
then went before magistrate and made
complaint against them, but owing to the
quarantine he could not,have this trial on
shore there. the vessel only be-
ing allowed to touch at the outer wharf
10 discharge with longshoremen taken
over from Port Townsend. He told the
magistrate he would give up the vessel
unless the men were tried in some way
and punished. The result was that the
magistrate and his clerk went down and
held court on the wharf. The captain and
witnesses gave their testimony from the
edge OF the vessel, not being allowed to 90
on shore nor the magistrate II go aboard
the vessel. The trial resulted in the two
sailors being sentenced TO thirty days i'm
prisonment and the forfeiture Of their pay
for the voyage