The morning call., 1892-07-18
CUT TIE CAPTAIN.
The Skipper Of the Kenmore Slit
by His First Officer.
Narrow Escape of Three Young Men From
Drowning-A Schooner Ashore
at Goat Island.

The British ship Kenmore arrived in port
yesterday morning from Honolulu. Her
flag was reversed In the rigging, which
meant call for the police. Officer Fergu-
son accordingly went out from Melggs
wharf and found Robert Damn, the chief
officer, patrolling the deck with handouts
Oh his wrists, and Captain jenkins told the
police officer that the mate had assaulted
him and cut him with a knife. The skipper
says the officer refused TO arrest Damn, and
Ferguson says that Jenkins refused to sur
render the prisoner TO any body but the Brit
ish Consul.
A CALL reporter went out to the ship,
which is lying away over al AlcatraZ. The
deck was in charge of an importent-l0O
parsonage with red whiskers He had
glass under his arm and blnocular In his
hand. lie very kindly consented to see II
the captain was in a condition to receive
visitors, but he also volunteered the inior-
nation that if be was asleep he'd be -
if he'd arouse him." Luckily the captain
was awake and the red whiskered gentle
man was saved the trouble Of eonslgnlng
himself to perdition.
CAPTAIN jenkins in telling his story OF
the trouble said that Damn joined the ship
at Honolulu about the 1st Of j une, and very
shortly afterward he learned that he was
incompetent. Shortly after they left port
the captain, who had his eye on the mate,
watch, and he went down to call him.
Damn jumped out OF his room with his
pocket-kniie in his hand and ran the blade
Into the captains abdomen several inches.
jenkins yelled for help, aud the second
mate and the red whiskered gentleman men,
toned above went TO his assistance. The
captain says that Damn declared he would
die before he would be taken. but he did not.
His room was besieged and he was CAP
tured, and has been In single irons ever
since.
THE MATES VERSION.
Damn says that the whole business was
the result of q put-up job on him by the
captain, second mate and steward. lie
claims that he understands his business
thoroughly, but he WAS not bully enough to
suit the sanguinary skipper. The steward,
he said, took the wick out of his lamp, and
when he went below one night 10 I'LL his
pipe, the captain, the sec0pd mate and the
steward followed him. In self-defcnse he
grabbed his knife and plunged 1T into the
captain, not knowing whom he struck at the
time. Damn says that besides being
sailor he is a carpenter. aud went down to
Honolulu about eight months ago on the
bark Forest Queen. Finding that he could
not succeed very We'll as carpenter, he
resolved 10 ship on the Kenmore. The cap
tain, he found out later, was sea bully
and had no use for any mate who would
not tyranniZe over the men.
1t was afterward discovered that the man
with the red whiskers was parsOn named
Hughey Steuart He was passenger and
a FREUD of the captains until the mate cut
the captain. Then he was elevated To the
formers position. and the men say that he
has been very active ever since.
RUN DOWN BY THE ANNIE.
George Reitermann, Gus Hoegmann and
Charles Martin went out In a Whitehall
about noon yesterday for sail on the bay
and came very near sailing to the bottom
The boat was beating down the bay with
the boys on the thwartS, and the yacht
Annie was coming fiying up before the wind
at lively pace. The boys tried TO get
out of the way. but as the wind
was against them IT was no easy
matter and the Annie bore down on them
at speed sufficient had she struck them
broad>ide, to have swamped the small
boat and killed the occupants. AS it was,
the boom of the Annie hit the mast OF the
Whitehall glancing blow and filled her full
of water, soaking the three young naviga-
tors thoroughly. OF went the Annie like
the wind. leaving the boys to get out of
their plight as best they could. They were
little worse for their duckDg, but outside
Of that they and their boat escaped without
damage.
The schooner Archie and Fontie while at
tempting to go to Oakland wharf yesterday
afternoon got somewhat mixed up with
Goat Island. The captain not knowing the
bay very well thought the overland route
was the safest and he landed his schooner
high and dry on the island. The Reliance
offered him a tow, but as he only wanted to
pay $40 for it he was left to himself. At
$50 o'clock he signaled the tug Wizard and
was towed to Oakland.
DIED AT SEA.
The steamer City of Picking arrived at an
early hour yesterday morning from China
and ia an. being % days l hour out from
Hong-Kong and II from Yokohama. On
July 10, after leaving the latter place. one
of ner passengers, named =. Nygard. died OF
consumption. His remains were brought
on to this city.
The City of Papeete arrived from Tahiti
and the Marquesss Islands yesterday morn
ing with cargo of cocoanuts. She reports
everything quiet at the islands. When she
left Papeete the Dubourdieu, the flagship
OF the French squadron in the Pacific, was
at anchor there.
The San Francisco Yacht Club had a run
down from Vallejo 10 Sausaito yesterday,
and the Ramona had the honor of leading
the fleet home. She belongs to ex-COmmo-
dore William NJ. Mccarthy.
The ship Tostetti came down from Selby's
yesterday and was locked at Oakland.
The bark Enoch was lowed TO sea yester-
day morning by the Sea Queen.
The schooner Marie L. Smith docked at
Oak land wharf yesterday.
The ship Eurasia will 60 alongside at
Spear street this morning