The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-02-15
OUR DAILY MARINE COLUMN

Tile sclfo6ner John r. Miller cleared al
thc custom house yesterday with 2s5,OOl
feet Of lumber from the Clatsop milih'
bound for San Francisco.
The steamer Belgic is expected to ar
rive in San Francisco from Hong hons
next Monday. The steamer has on board
elehty-sIx passengers, sixty-fve of whom
are chInamen, also forty-fyc chinamen
,or Panama and twenty for Havana
The machinery is being taken out OF
the old sloop-of-war Iroquois at Mare Is
land and she will soon be ready to leave
for port Townsend. where she Is to be
used as a quarantine hospital. Dr. 7. II.
Bailhache of the United States Marine
Hospital has been ordered to take charge
81 the ship and has called for bids from
the towboat companies for towing the
vessel to her destination.
A new 150-ton schooner for which the
iron work is now being made, VIII be
built on the Siuslaw river for w. +.
stevens and others The new boat Will
ne launched in about three months and
viii be used in the coasting trade.
The ships Mowhan, Danmark and Hell
,nslea crossed out to sea yesterday.
The ships Ainsdale and Star Of Bengal
20 to sea this morning.
Yesterday dispatch received at the
ann Francisco Merchants Exchange from
Eureka to the effect that the schooner
serena Thayer had arrived at that port,
and reports that on the I'd inst, eight
niles west-northwest Of Humboldt, she
nassed a portion of the top of house
# some vessel, apparently OF large dl-
mensions. In size the wrecSaSe was
bout twenty-four feet long and twelve
'eet wide. The frame of skylights was
,ttached and the top of the house was
painted yellow. No other wreckage was
seen.
The carpenters were engaged yesterday
n putting the masts into the steamer El-
more. which had been removed during
he repairing and altering the steamer.
The barkentlne Monitor moved from
Section OF the San Francisco seawali
yesterday bound for Humboldt bay with
(, non-union crew on board. While being
owed through the Gate rough weather
vas encountered and the hawser snapped.
iror this reason the vessel put back into
he stream to await better weather Late
sunday while the Monitor was moored to
he seawall parties slipped her hawser
opes and she began drifting out into IN;
trcam. The night watchman gave the
llarm In time to prevent her from bcihs
.aIrled out by the tide, ard with the as
distance of the crew CT an adjoining ves-
vel. coupled with the labors Of her owA
rev, the barkentlne was again made
. asst and q close watch kept through the
light 10 see that the act was not re-
)eated. When daylight came o white
substance covered the rigging in places
which was said to be acid rubbed on for
he purpose Of corrodlng the ropes The
perpetrators of the deed are not known,
out as the Monitor preferred a non-union
rev, those interested in her intimate
hat It was done for revenge by soma
! persons In sympathy with union sailors.
The Alliance crossed out yesterday for
trays Harbor and Willapa.
The Haytian Republic left for Victoria
and Sound ports yesterday morning.
| The Stockton steamer, Captain Webber,
! still rests high and dry on a bar in the
Jan Joaquin river, about five miles be-
ow stockton where she has been planted
| or ten days past, and her owners are
| somewhat Of q quandary as to the best
neans OF getting her into the water
] gain She rests so high up on the bar
hat at high tide the water does not
each TO her hull. The plan of dredging
he sand away from beneath her was
ried, but this was abandoned for feay
he would break to pieces from the strain.
| Unless she can be noated at the next
Ugh tide, which comes at the full moon,
| I is possible that n barge will be an
| hored alongside and with derrick and
ackle the steamer lifted back into the
water.
| Union sailors in Seattle, which is the
eneral headquarters of the union on
he Sound, dlsclaim any knowledge of the
| disturbance on the barkentlne Jane l..
| stanford at Tacoma on Thursday night.
Agent Glynn of the union says that five
II the sailors Of the Stanford left the ves-
sci at Port Townsend, and there were but
lew left when the bark reached Tacoma.
It Is claimed by the master Of the vessel
that men supposed to be union men
boarded the vessel at Tacoma and so
'ntimidated the non-unlon men aboard
that they left the vessel. The work of
loading the Stanford comes within scope
Of longshoremen's duty.
1.-THE shlpowners' non-union shipping
Office says the S. f. Chronicle, in
creased its sphere of usefulness yesterday
by sending out on the steamer Corona.
under the guard Of two Deputy United
States Marshals. a crew of four for the
schooner Bertha Dolbeer. now Mt New
port, and q similar crew for the schooner
Edward Parks now at San Diego In ad-
dition non-union crews were signed before