The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-05
MELONS AFLOAT.
A Sloop's Load Drifting
to Sea.
Collision Between the National and
Captain Weber-A Child Born
on the Aurora.

There Is sadness in the heart OF every colored
lnhabitant of San JOAQUIN County. The gaso-
line sloop National, with 1000 watermeions on
board, was run down In the river Monday night
by the Stockton steamer Captain Weber. The
melons are now passing through Raccoon
Straits in pairs and singly out TO sea. Ihey
marked the course OF the tide all the way from
Antioch TO Lime Point during the day.
The captain of the National Is believed to De
at fault for the collision. as he tried TO cross
the WebeT's bow. He failed, and the National
was struck amidships. She would have gone
down had not her crew of four men beached
her and jettisOned the wateImelOns.
The Weber was on her way up the river to
Stockton when the accident occurred. She ran
into the National Just below Antioch.
When the steamer Dauntess passed the spot
on her way TO this city she brought the crew OF
The sloop along with her. No lives were saerl-
tced, but the melons were almost total loss.
Captain Lewis, formerly OF the Pacl1c Coast
steamship Company, has chartered the TRIM
little schooner G. q. White, and Is going 70
Alaska for a load of salmon, herring and hall
out. Captain Lewis thinks that home Industry
should be cared for He noticed during the
past six months that northern hshermen made
d success OF fetching caTgoes OF nalDut 10 tnls
city for marketing, so he arrived at the conclu-
sion that he could make money out OF 1sh Just
the same as they. He chartered tue Whlte ana
is now fitting her out at Steuart street wharf.
The northern boats 1T out IN Puget Sound
and take money out Of the State; therefore
local shippers think that captain Lewis shouId
be encouraged In his venture. There Is good
market here for fish, and local boats should de-
rive the beDent OF H.
The ship Levi P. Burgess got in yesterday
afternoon from Chignak Cannery Alaska, with
80, 403 cases of salmon and 104 skins OF Vari-
Gus kinds. The Burgess left her last April with
124 Chinese and 90 white men 10 handle the
seasons pack. All the white men returned
with her. but one Chinese di' at the cannery
and one was tax en- i'll and had 10 be left behind
until the next vessel leaves.
Tf int galu aFlh han fhn nj
rived in the north, and tue run of fish was very
small. AS the season advanced. however, mat
tiers improved. and Captain Yunggrrn of the
Burgess says the pack was a very good one.
The schooner Jennie Wand Is on the north
ways repairing. She will 90 10 Antioch for
load OF hay for San Diego. The schooner Nora
Harkins Will also take cargo of hay To that
place, an indication mat the grass is getting
pretty short down south.
The Anne riean shin Henry B. Hyde has
finished loading general cargo for Liverpool,
aud goes iuto the stream to-day. The Ameri-
can ship E. b. Sutton Will be shifted 10 Steuart-
street dock 10 receive general cargo for New
York. A number OF the ships that have been
In the stream for some time Will dock during
the day.
The Starlight is the name of the new naphtha
sloop built for Lynde & Hough for use between
this city and the coGtsh-yaTds at California
City.
fl. II. Hogan. grocery dealer. had w. H.
Dickinson. local salesman, arrested and
booked at the North Hat Dor alton for embeZ-
Zirment. Hogan says his employe appropriated
500 OF moneys collected by him. Dickinson
denies the allegation.
An unknown woman gave birth to 4 child on
board the steamer Aurora that arrived from
Sacramento yesterday morning. The woman's
actions caused comment among the passen-
gers on the vessel Some OF them claimed that
she was put on board at Chips Island by a
man whom ODOokers took to be her husband.
lie paid her passage and bade her good-by, then
went ashore.
The woman gave the name of Mrs A. Per
cell, and said that her husband resided in San
Francisco and not at The island. She claimed
that he had deserted her in her trouble.
A MRS. Bell of 10121@ jackson S rect told
story cOntradicting Mrs. PercelPs statements.
The latter was taken TO Mrs Bells house.
Shortly after birth the child died, aud its
body was taken TO the Morgue.