The morning call., 1892-12-06
A DEAD MANS KIT.
1t Leads to the Discovery
of a Crime.
THE NEW HAWAIIAN LINE.
Danger From Floating Piles in the
Bay-Plans Prepared for
Training Ship.


police sa. at his desk yesterday afternoon,
an interested spectator of the opening of a
large canvas bag containing what is conf
monty called sailors kit.
Detective Egan was another interested
| spectator. There was story connected
with that kit, and he had succeeded in un-
ravelingit.
On last Friday night Sergeant Helms and
| Officer Donahue had espied couple of we'll
known FOUNDERS Juggling along big bag,
and as neither of the men were credited
with the honest ownership of anything
more than the clothes they stood up in they
were arrested and booked for vagrancy at
the North Harbor station.
On Saturday Detective Egan was detailed
to work up the case, and he soon found quite
sufficient evidence TO raise the charge
against the men to burglary. They were
transferred TO the Central station yesterday
and their names entered as James Daley
and Arthur Burton.
The bag they were conveying away on
Friday night contained clothes enough to
litter the entire floor of the North Harbor
station when the contents were laid out
yesterday. The most interesting portion OF
the co ntents and that which led TO the dis
covery OF burglary was simple but con-
vincng little card stating that the bag and
the kit belonged to John jacobsen, who
was drowned when the schooner Maid of
Orleans was run down on August IA Of the
present year.
1t will be recalled that the captain and
two other men persisted at the same time.
There were number Of other documents
in the bag, among them declaration of in
tenti0n 10 become a citizen, made in this
city by Jacobsen two years ago.
The cit had been left in charge of Pres
ton d MckinnoD, and EgaD, In following up
this clew. found also that the place in which
the kit was slowed away had been broken
into from the outside and in the night.
Daley and Burton are each about 80 years
of age, and their records are such as to offer
great probabilities of the dead sailors kit
causing them 10 be sent across the bay for
good long term.
The captains of ferry-boats and coasting
vessels are having an anxious time of it just
now in consequence of the number of piles
drifting about the bay. Some of them are
from lumber RATS broken up by the late
storm; others are the fragments of rotten
piles carried away by the sans agency, and
now sweeping hither and thlther on the
bay under the influence of extremely strong
tides. 1t is found necessary to keep extra
lo0kouts for these logs. any one of which
would knock hole in boats side big
enough 10 sink her.
The tide of yesterday morning was the
highest known for many years.
Stewart MenZies, Oliver Eldridge and
Charles Nelson, tie committee appointed
by the Chamber OF Commerce to draft bill
in favor OF training-ship for the coming
meeting Of the Legislature at Sacramento,
have in hand a report on the schooship
ST. Mary's, prepared by the Chamber of
Commerce Of New York. II appears from
this report that the boys who have spent
two years on board the st. Mary's are good
ordinary sesmen, and most OF them fairly
above have fully considered both the ST.
Mary's or American plan and the Conway
or English plain. The ship TO be used il
the Legislature taxes action, will be
school in the strict sense of the term and
not reformatoTy. The idea is TO make
good American seamen.
The Japanese cruiser Kongo from Vleto-
ria was anxiously looked for all day yester-
day but did not turn up. A good story is
told to the effect that when the cruiser was
~ victoria ria the people tried to sell Captain
Iashiro 800 tons of wet coal by weight. But
the Jap had been In the trade himself and
was up 10 all the tricks. He went on 10
Vancouver and took his coal there by "6ry
measure" 1t is stated that the officers and
| men were much better pleased with their
reception in Vancouver than in Victoria
where the papers ridiculed them.
ApTopos OF the steamers MineOla and Con-
emaugh. which are now running between
this port and New York by the way OF the
Horn on the Atlantic-Pacifc line. the Liv-
erpOol Journal of Commerce is disposed TO
be sarcastic. 1t says that il these are sam
pies of the boats to be Struggled into the
American merchant marine ''cheapness' in
its slang sense can be the only inducement
for Amer leans TO buy abroad, for they are
by no means the equal OF American built
steamers of the same class. The Journal
adds that both vessels have since their nat
uralzation figured considerably in the
newspapers under the heading of Marine
M:shaps."
Joseph Avery. who has been chief officer
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's
steamer City of Panama for three years,
has been promoted to the captaincy of the
steamer. At the time of the promotion he
was the senior chief officer in the company's
service on the Pacific.
Among the passengers On the steamer
Santa Rosa, Which sailed for San Diego
yesterday, were a bridal couple. Mr.. ana
Mrs. James Z. Cornell. The bride is the
daughter Of Police Captain Douglass aud the
bridegroom well-known business man of
San Diego. Miss Rose Hillard aud Jerome
VNeill, brother-in-law of j. j. McDade,
were also passengers by the steamer
The American ship j. b. Brown, which
arrived from Nanaimo yesterday morning,
sixteen days out, was leaking badly aud
the crew were kept at the pumps as she
passed UP the bay. She was loaded with
coal for John Rosenfeld's Sons.
The steamer Mare Island, running to
Berkeley, resumed her trips Yesterday. She
sighted derelIct schooner off Sheep Island
The Maze Island was herself abandoned iu
last Tuesdays gale aud was recovered by
the ing Etna.
The steamer Al-Ki. which arrived yes
terday from Departure Bay, had very
heavy weather for the first two DAYS and
was forced to put into Noah Bay aud
anchor.
The bark S. c. Allen sailed yesterday for
Honolulu with non-union crew under
police protection.
number of well-known waterfront
oracles were Interviewed by a CALL re-
porter yesterday as to the new line of
steamers to be run between Vancouver and
Honolulu.
They all expressed the opinion that the
attempt would be made, but did not see
how the line could possibly pay in the
present depressed condition Of trade at the
islands.
Chief Wharfnger Boobar has received
letter from Mrs. Mamie Fleming of Cam
eron, Tex, asking for information as to the
whereabouts of her son, Harry Douegap,
who shipped from this port on vessel
going north and has not since been heard Of
a flsderman's boat is lying unclaimed on
the beach at Aleatraz Island. 1t Ia believed
to be one Of the Sacramento River fleet
which has quarters in the IL" annex at
Flsherman's wharf. As there is no love lost
between the local Italians and the Sacra-
ment0 River fishermen, most of whom are
Sicllians, the Italians profess ignorance and
Indifference whether any men were drowned
from the boat or not,
a box containing wel-known brand of
smoking tobacco fell into the bay at Vallejo
street wharf yesterday morning. and soon
the packages were drifting all over the bay
The wharf rats got into any boat that came
handy, and have stolen enough tobacco to
keep them In cigarettes for three months to
come.
The barge Office at Meiggs wharf, which
was badly shaken in the late gale. is 10 be
moved TO section b Of the keawall and re-
built.
The work of relaying the cable between
this city and Oakland was commenced yes
terday. The loading up of the appliances
proved formidable task and was not com.
pleted TIL late In the afternnnn