The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-30


Potralnd Sunday with a barge load of
wood for the water works and soon af-
ter left for up river with two schooners
in tow.
Capt. Charles e. Weeks of the whaler
Thresher was injured by fall and died
March 20 aboard his vessel at Hereschel
island. He was one of the best known
W Whaling masters on this coast and had
numerous friends here and in Portland.
The four-masted schooner William Bow
den, Capt. X. Fjerem, which has loaded
900 feet of lumber at Port Blakely,
cleared Thursday at the Tacoma customs
office for Port Plrie, Australia. The tim
bers were loaded very quickly as in the
Port Plrie mines but certain sizes and
lengths are used.
The schooner Vine, which was built by
Captain Burns, of Seattle, has been char
tered by Captain Gilmore, who will take
a cargo of lumber with her from Ia
coma to San Diego, after which she VIII
go on the ways at Port Blakely and be
heightened about forty feet and con-
verted into a three-masted schooner.
s The first class unarmed cruiser Power
full, sister of the Terrible, was Launched
at Barrow on Wednesday. The new
cruiser will be much larger and greater
displacement than any other vessel here
tofore built by any nation. The Russian
cruiser Rossi, now in course of con-
struction, which will have displacement
Of over 1900 tons, probably comes Sec
oDd.
The Dutch bark Van Galen arrived at
Vancouver last Wednesday, 115 days from
Java, with 2,5i0 tons raw sugar for the
refinery at that place. This cargo was
much needed and will keep the refinery
in operation for some time. Another ship
has been engaged to follow. AS soon as
discharged the Van Galen will load
canned salmon at Victoria for Liverpool
or London.
The run of fish yesterday was excep-
tionally good, both the seiners and boat
men doing well. AT the Fishermen's
Packing Company, seven tons were put
in from divers seining grounds. The
total average Of gill METERS Is about 10
to 2O the inside river boats having the
best of it, their average being between
worked quite late last night, 1t being
nearly 10 o'clock before they were clean
ed up The run of fish is expected to
last at least three days.
A letter received yesterday by a prom
inent merchant of this city says that the
cannery vessels bound for Bering sea
were detained over a month. In all 1t
took some 65 days to make the trip. Sew
eral of the vessels were caught by ice
fields and kept there for "a period of
30 days. The letter also states that there
Is more ice than ever before and that the
trip was the longest for many years
past During the winter the cannery
owned by Captain Chas johnson and
John Lundberg was destroyed by fire.
The sailing vessel B. p. Cheney, Cap
tain Hartman, went to sea yesterday
with 2.16S tons of South Prairie coal for
San Francisco, says the Tacoma Ledger.
Before leaving her captain had some
trouble with few members of the crew.
but came off victorious. The sailors made
an attempt to recover their wages, con-
testing the legality of some of the ship
ping articles. They were beaten in this
regard, 1t being proven they had not
lived up to the agre eements they had made
in the articles they had signed. Then
they complained the vessel was unsea-
worthy. Under the order of the. court
Harbor Master Gift, Capt. De Lano and
Capt. Anderson conducted a survey yes
terday and pronounced the vessel sea-
worthy in every respect. Accordingly she
was allowed to sail.
Captain Grounds, late of the Skagit
Chief, but who Is now engaged in the
ship building and repairing business at
Ballard, was In Tacoma yesterday, says
the Ledger. Hauled out on the ways Mt
Ballard are the steamers Eliza Anderson,
Merwln, City of Qpincey, and Daisy,
all owned by the Puget Sound & Alaska
Steamship company. They are being put
in good repair and will soon be brought
to Tacoma. All the vessels NAMED are
pioneers and once were prominent In
Sound shipping. The old Eliza Anderson
is the mother OF the fleet. She was built
on the Columbia river by Captain
Grounds father in 1S5S-59 and has been
in service almost continuously since.
Capt. Grounds says she is In an excellent
state of preservation and that her bot
tom is as firm and sound as II but ten
years old.
Freight competition between the differ
ent Oriental steamship lines is becoming
keener than ever. 1t was thought short
time ago that the lowest limit for carry
ing -four to the Orient from Pacific coast
points he'd been reached, but the rates
have dropped still lower to level where
profits seem altogether out Of the ques-
tion. When it was announced some time
ago that flour would be carried to the
Orient for 81 a ton there was much specu-
lation among shipping men as to the
probable effect of the cut. There will
be more, however, now that the rate
has been cut down half. The Northern
Pacific Steamship company on Wednes-
day set the 50 rate, and with immense
cargo ships expect to at least hold their
own with the other companies Flour
is now the principal freight carried by
eaca Of the Oriental lines.
The schooner Helen n. Kimball, 1SS
tons register by government measure
ment, sailed from Puget sound for MaZ- |
allan, and from the latitude OK San |
Francisco to destination was but ten |
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