The morning call., 1892-05-12

roof. $50 feet long and 40 feet wide. fitted
with hunks, doors, windows and all need
full accommodations for washing and cook
ing.
The Austrian corvette Fasana will leave
for Honolulu on Saturday TO remain 10 days
and then proceed to Yokohama.
The United States cruiser Ranger left for
Boring Sea via Port Townsend yesterday
morning. Alter service in the north she
will proceed to join the China squadron.
The ship Edward 0'Brien, lying at
Vallejo-stTeet wharf, is leaking four inches
an hour aud will have to be locked. The
cargo has only been saved from damags by
hourly service of the crew at the pumps.
A young man named w. K. Howard. who
arrived from Vallejo on the steamer Herald
yesterday morning, was arrested on land
ing in connection with a false affidavit
made, it is said, at the instance of f. Blanco.
a bumboat man, who had charged rival
named Louis Malley with smuggling whisky
on board the cruiser Boston at Mare Island.
Beer is allowed on the ships. but whisky is
prohibited, and Blaneo claimed the Malley
introduced whisky on board in beer bottles.
An investigation will be made.
The Pacific Coast ComDany's steamer
Eureka arrived from San Pedro and way
ports yesterday morning after rough pas
sage. Many OF the passengers landed at
Monterey and finished the trip by rail-
Chief Engineer Gallagher sustained serious
grain sack, and on the arrival of the ship
here he was driven home in a hack.
The tnree-masted schooner John c. North,
tile bark 5. c. Allen and the bark News
boy, which left Hawaii on the same day,
had an exciting race TO this port and arrived
within an hour of each other yesterday
morning, IS days out. They did not sight
each other until near the heads. All three
were beaten by the new f0ur-masted
schooner Aloha. which also arrived yester-
day morning after run OF 10 days. She
brought six japanese and six Portuguese
passengers.
There is marked Improvement in
freights, aud the British ships Mo0ltan and
EarlscOurt were chartered yesterday for
wheat at Ct IS. The rate had fallen as low
as 1Ss Cd.
26ton steel cable was reeled out of the
hold of the Earlscourt at Spear-street wharf
yesterday morning.
The 1aquina will be put on in place Of
the steamer Gypsy. now under repairs.
Among the removals for to-day are the
bark Mary Glover from Third to Oakland
Creek and the bark Bonanza from Oakland
to Third street. Yesterday the schooner
Golden Shore aud the brig Lurline were
towed to the refinery. the bark Allen from
the refinery to Mission /, and the schooner
Ii. G. Wright from the refinery to the Mer-
chants DrydOck.
In pulling up the old piles at the Market
street Terry slip yesterday the grip OIL the
clay bottom was so tight that the piles came
up entirely stripped of bark, which slipped
off like the fingers of glove. The work of
lowering the cylindrical caisson is now pro-
eeedlng.
The new ship Susquehanna is being
calked at Fremont street wharf. The
statement that she is leaking is denied.
All the berths for the steamer Queen for
the first Alaska trip have been engaged.
The brig Galilee has been chartered for
another trip to Tahiti.
Captain II. l.. Read of this city has been
successful in raising the British tug Tepc,
sunk off the British Columbia Coast The
Topic has been tioated into Vancouver har-
Dor.