The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-06-26
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.

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ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
The British ship Rathdown was bending
sails yesterday.
The Gardiner City went up the river to
Portland yesterday to load lumber.
Two carloads of salmon were shipped
up the river by the o. R. & N Co. last
night
The Rathdown has now received 10000
cases of salmon and will complete her
cargo next week.
The Escort Is now in commission and
will attend to all work at the mouth of
the river till the return of the Relief.
The little Eclipse was launched yester-
day in front Of the Astoria Iron Works,
and will be ready for business again next
week.
In all probability the Rathdown's bow
spirit will be completed by the Astoria
Iron Works today and will be placed
in position on the ship on Friday.
The Potter's wheel is now running as
well as ever again. 1t is probable that
a new dynamo engine will in a few days
be substituted for that already in use.
There was very little wind outside the
mouth of the river yesterday and the
barkentine Omega had some difficulty in
getting up past Tillamook Head in con-
sequence.
The four masted barkentine Omega ar
rived in yesterday afternoon from San
Francisco. She will at once proceed to
load lumber at the Knappton mills for
Valparaiso.
The Harvest Queen is now loading up
in the bone yard. She will be overhauled
in the latter part of next month, in or
der to put her in the best possible con-
dition for the towing of fall wheat ships
Freight Clerk Cook of the T. J. Potter
has been transferred to the position of
purser of the Northern Pacific, and
Frank Gibbert, an old time Willamette
river purser takes his place on the Pot
ter.
The Manzanita arrived down from Port
land yesterday afternoon. She has most
of her thirteenth district supplies on
board, including large number of gran
ite sinkers for holding buoys in position,
and will start out on her Puget sound trip
today.
The Falls of Dee came in last evening
says the San Francisco Commercial
News, after a long trip Of 1877 days from
Newcastle, England. She is under char
ter to Eppinger & Co. at Us Cd. and her
arrival is as good as a profit Of $4,000 to
that firm, for they would have had to
pay that difference to duplicate the char
ter in case she had mt turned up.
The schooner Lizzie Prien crossed over
| the bar inflow of tug, on Sunday after
noon, says the Florence West. She light
cred about a week ago. unloading 10000
feet of lumber, which reduced her cargo
to 100000 feet. The Prien is the last to
cross out of the four vessels which were
detained in this river by the shoaling of
the BAR
The steamer Chittagong should be off
the mouth of the river at daylight this
morning. Her arrival is eagerly awaited
and no doubt she will be literally saluted
by every steam whistle within sight as
she comes up to the dock. 1t is probable
that she will stay here for some hours
before proceeding to Portland, anchoring
in mid-Stream.
The hulk Ludlow, honored with the
designation schooner" on the observer .
reports, was towed out to sea by the
Relief yesterday afternoon bound for San
Francisco. The Relief on her arrival at
California will go into dry dock and be
thoroughly overhauled. She will not be
in the Columbia again before the be-
ginning of September.
The steamer North Pacific will be here
this morning from Portland and will
at once start running across to Iiwaco,
In all probability she will take two
round trips from the city every day,
making connection with all trains and
steamers. Her Ilwaco dock Will be in the
vicinity of Seaborg's landing.
The steamer Sehome, which has just
been leased by the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company to the Puget Sound
and Alaska Steamship Company, for SER
vice on the Victoria route, Is in litigation
A libel was filed Monday in the United
States court against the steamer for
$1SS.36 by Edward q. Spaulding, as re-
ceiver of the Puget Sound Dry Dock
Company. The complainant reports that
the Sehome went on the dry deck last
May, a year ago, and had repairs effect
ed which reached the sum demanded and
that the owners of the vessel decline to
remit.
Captain Bryant inspector of hulls, and
c. c. Cherry, inspector of boilers on the
Sound, are about to start on a voyage
which will take them out to the west
ward along the Alasga peninsula to make
their annual inspection of steam crafts
in that part of their district. The in
spectors have never before made voy.
age to the westward Of Juneau and Sitka,
because there was nothing out there to
inspect. Now 1t is different, and eighteen