The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-05-01
THE WATER FRONT.

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THE WATER FRONT.
The Oregon will reach San Francisco
today.
The Columbine went up to the buoy
station yesterday morning.
The Manzanita leaves out on her trip
to Puget Sound at 6 o'clock this morn
ing
Twenty-Five tons of hay were brought
down from Gray's river on the May
flower yesterday.
A car load of clover hay from the
Willamette Valley is coming down
from Albany this week.
The steamer Occident has been busy
shifting Sutherland's pile driver TO
several locations at Sand Island.
Several two-inch planks are being
run along the piling round ParAer's
dock to keep. out logs and driftwood.
The scow belonging to the steamer
Eclipse is on the gridiron near Dali
gity's Iron Works, being caulked and
re-planked.
All the marine work on which the
employees of the Astoria Iron Works
nave been busy for the past month is
now completed.
NH faaktWra nI,o naA ~,,Ats.- l. -
appearance in large numbers and will
for the mex six weeks be plentiful
along the waterfront.
The Queen came down from Deep
river yesterday with a big cargo and
a large number of passengers. She left
back late in the afternoon.
The steamer Alice Blanchard leaves
San Francisco for this port at $50 this
afternoon. She will call at Coos Bay
and Marshfield on the way up.
The Southesk and General Roberts
started up for Portland yesterday
morning in tow of the O~cklahama.
Pilots Empkins and Smith were In
charge of the vessels.
There was considerable discussion
along the water front last night as to
whether the flag flying from the mas
of the sealing schooner Kate and Ann
was larger than the schooner or not.
Pilots Cordiner and Grassman are
now out on the pilot schooner. With
the approach of warm weather they
will take turn and turn about every
ten days with Pilots Doig and Staples,
who will go ont next week.
Shortly before moor yesterday the
Truckee arrived in from California.
She had II tons of miscellaneous freight
for this port, and after discharging left
up the river for Portland. Captain
Thomas reports that continued head
winds caused the lengthy trip.
The work Of weighing the tin from
the ship Highland Home was complet-
ed at moor yesterday, and all of the
plate is now ready to leave bond. 1t
is a coincidence that the counting of
the cargoes of both the Cupica and
Highland Home tool exactly the same
number of hours.
MIR. F.. Hagaman, of-the firm of SUIT
ton & Beebe, who has been in the city
for the past two days, states that the
British ship Genesta, 100 tons from
Philadelphia to Hiogo, Japan, has been
chartered for the new crop of wheat
hence in October. Mr.. Hagaman left
for Portland last night.
The little launch Witch Hazel which
went to Alaska on the deck of the
steamer Al-Ki, from Tacoma, on March
oath, is now on the beach at Dyea'
Alaska. The launch vas built on this
river and shipped north by w r. Hud-
son. He intended to run her on the
Chilcoot Pass on me n launch
her in the streams leading to the Yu
kon. On arriving at Dyea the scheme
was found to be impracticable.
The bark Melrose is at Esquimalt
with a cargo of lumber for Santa Ro-
sale, but Captain Peterson and his
crew cannot agree. Five of his men,
when orders were given to hoist an
Choir, refused to sail on the vessel,
claiming that they were union men
inc demanding union pay. Captain
Peterson refused to listen to any other
proposition than that under which they
had shipped, and the five men were
ordered in irons. The men appealed
to the local authorities, but they up
nelQ Ine master OF une VeSSel, Three
of the men finally decided that 1t was
better to work than to live in the
fazarette, but the other two remained
obdurate. According to the officers OF
the vessel the Melrose will complete
her voyage with the two men in irons,
unless they come back to the terms on
which they left San Francisco.
The San Francisco sealing schooner
Kate and Ann, Captain Chas. Litcbens
arrived in at 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon, with 391 sealskins, the result OF
her work since January. The skins
are all of large size and Captain Litch-
ems states that they are the best he
ever caught. They will be shipped to
London via New York on Thursday.
Two hundred were caught off the coast
of California, about $50 off Destruction
Island, n the balance, 80, were cap
tured on Monday off the mouth of the
Columbia. An attempt was made to
hunt yesterday morning, but the wind
was too high, and though the water
was full Of seals, no other effort was
made to catch them. The season closes
today. The Kate and Ann will leave
here on Monday next and will from
then until December fish for sea otter
along the southern Oregon and Califor-
mia coasts. The catch of seal is con-
sidered remarkably good considering
the bad weather encountered during
the past two months, and it is doubt
full If many larger schooners have done
as well.