The morning call., 1892-06-08
ALONG SEA And SHORE.
News From Bering Sea by the
Steamer Al.Ki.
The Australia Sails for Honolulu-Trisl Trip
Of the New Stockton steamer-The
Big Lumber Raft.

The Pacific Coast Company's steamer Al
Ki arrived from Stka via Seattle yester-
day with news of the cruisers and sealing
feet. Captain Plummer reports that the
Mohican left Sitka on May % and the
Adams on the previous day; also that the
HaSsler is at the Westward Islands with the
McGrath survey party. The American seal
ing schooner Challenger, the crew of which
were caught raiding at the PrybilOh
Islands, put in a. 00nalaska for provisions
and was seized there. She will be con-
demned and sold. The report as to the
murder Of Rev. Sheldon Jackson is denied
but it is asceTtained that a missionary
named Edwards was murdered last Janu-
airy. The missing party OF miners IS re-
ported at juneau all well. The captain OF
the Challenger was sentenced TO ninety
days Imprisonment and the men 10 thirty
days.
The Oceanic Company's steamer Aus
tTalia, Captain UOudlette, sailed for Homo
lulu yesterday with - cabin and 80 Storage
passengers. The departure Of the vessel
was delayed several hours by her machinery
getting ont of adjustment Among the pas
sengers were :. Cunningham and bride,
Professor J. KeRp of Mills College, j.
Waterh0use, a wealthy Australian planter,
Miss 4. H. R'msdeil of the Berkeley High
School and Mrs. Maddox Of New York.
The steamer Noyo arrived from Fort
Bragg yesterday with portions OF the big
raft in tow. The raft broke on the south
reef about ten days ago while being towed
out of the haTb1r, and the greater part OF
il was lost The NOyO was sighted eight
miles north of the heads a little before
Il O'Clock yesterday forenoon, but 1t
was O'clock before the steamer with its
tow arrived off the city front The raft
was in two T-shaped sections, about
fifty yards apart and an equal distance sep
Grated the nearer from the steamer. Inc
latter viii probably bring down the bal
ance of the raft on her next trip and II
looks as If the trouble experienced with the
original will deter the company from eX-
perimentng further in the same way. In
the East these experiments have proved
very successful, but the conditions of shall
lOW haTbOTS and heavy swell on a rock
bound coast have not prevailed on the pOr-
ton of the Atlantic coast where the at
tempts were made
TIE STOCKTON STEAMER.
The new opposition steamer Captain
Webber made a trial trip yesterday. 1t
was not a regular formal affair with by
Gus crowd on board, but a buSiness-lke
trial of the machinery ana boilers. In get
ting out from tie wharf at Main street the
steamer get bumped considerably, and soon
y Il
cyli1der gave way. Still the results were
satisfactory on the whole to the promoters,
and ii is expected that the second trial TO be
made to-day will be successful enough TO
warrant the vessel being placed on the
rOute on Thursday, by which time a dock
will be found for her. The regular line has
not made any move looking 10 a cut rate
yet. but q few DAYS will probably inaugnr-
ate as lively competition as that Of three
years ago. When that competition was at
It's height the fare 10 Stockton was 10 cents,
meals on board > cents, beTths % cents, so
that 1t was cheaper TO live on the steamers
than to board at ashotel or lodging-hOuse.
The secretary Of the Coast Seamen's
Union has written letter stating that the
attempt to set FIRE to the ). =. Allen was
not made by member of the union. and
that the assault on Deputy Shipping Com
missioner IhOrOld was due to his drawing a
revolver and threatening the union men,
who only acted in seli-defense. The Allen
viii SAL to-day under police protection.
The Pacific Mail Company's snew steamer
Peru, which has been built at the Union
Iron Works, will be launched at IL o'clock
on Saturday night to secure the advantage
of a high tide. She is $50 feet long. A. feet
beam and p feet inches In depth; built
entirely Of open-hearth steel, under special
survey 10 receive the highest class of insur-
ance; has three decks ana hurricane deck
main and upper deck Of steel-and has five
water-tight bulkheads, with all modern con-
veniencPs for handling cargo. Her boilers
are $500 horsepower. and she is expected 10
have speed Of Is knots. Her accommOda-
t0ns are for 104 tISt-clasS, 70 second-ciass
and 600 stePTage passengers. Outside OF the
steel plates used in the hull and boilers, the
vessel is entirely the product Of California
labor.
All The traders from the South Sea
islands are overdue. Ihe TrOpic Bird is
mt 4 a "a ia 1 - q,
days from the Marshall Islands, the Paul
Isenberg 50 days from Honolulu aud the
schooner Transit 81 days from the same
port.
TIE British ship Lodor from Newcastle,
\. :. w, for this port has put into
M0ntevideO with cargo shifted.
The removes yesterday were the ship
Dunsyre from the stream to Beae, the
steamer Umatilia from Beale 90 Broadway,
the schooner Volunteer from Howard to
sea, the fCuT-msSted schooner Gardiner
City from the Merchants drydock 10 LON
bard, the ship Katie Davenport from
Hunters Point drvdOck after cnpperng) TO
l}eale, the snip Fildanden from Green to
MARTINEZ the ship CYRUS Wakefield TO
Port Costa, the ship Mayhill from stream
to Long bridge, the barkentins Eureka
from Mission flats to the Merchants dry
dock, the schooner Sailor Boy from the
stream TO Oakland, tile barge Seattle from
Oakland to Green. the ship knight Com
mander from Mission No 10 Hunters
Point drydOck. To-day the s. c. Allen and
the bark Bundaleer will tow to sea, the ship
Alaska from the Union Iron Works to Oak
land Greek, and the bark Southern Chief
from Fremont to the Union Iron Works.
A DANGEROUS DRIVEWAY.
The driveway over the city's portion of
the water front from the Maddox TO the
Oregon dock, has reached such condition
that teams can no longer pass over it, even
10 the daytime, and an accident OF fatal
character may occur any night.
The new steamer Daisy Kimball Is hav-
ilg her boilers, smokestack, etc, put In at
F0lsOm-street wharf
w. j. Myer & Co. of Liverpool are fitting
out a new 2500-ton ship called the Damson
Hill for the California trade. She will be
commanded by Captain Brown, formerly of
the StanmOre.
An addition to the long chapter of acct
dents on the British fleet at Martinez &C.
CURED on Monday when Carpenter Brown
of the AIcedO fell into the hold and broke
an arm and leg.
The steam-schOoner Hattie Page returned
yesterday from her first trip to Eel River.
The British ship Hutton Hall, which has
arrived from this port at Cork, 107 days
out, reports calling at the Pitcairn Islands
and finding the colony flOurishng.
The British bark Port Glasgow, which has
arrived at Cork from Portland, Oregon, also
called at the Pitcairn Islands. She had
very heavy weather of the Horn and cargo
shifted.
A new 3OO-tOn three-masted schooner. the
Louise. has been launched at Eureka for the
lumber trade and will go up to the Umpqua
River in ballast.
The lighthouse tender ManZanita has left
Tacoma on her annual trip to lay down
new buoys, etc, on the inside passage to
Alaska.
Tha EoIinsa Contof, Nrot.o., a. - .
the Oldest schOOners sailing out OF this
port, having been built at New York in 1852
Five cargoes OF lumber have been shipped
up TO date from Eureka 10 Honolulu.
captain McCrae has succeeded Captain
Calvary in command of the steamer San
Juan.
Charles II. Broderick, late mate of the
sehnnner EtheI Zane d cd recantIu nj Errnlra n