The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-08-03

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ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
The steamer d. S. Baker brought down
from the Scandinavian cannery yesterday
morning 5000 cases of salmon which were
put on board the Sierra Parma at the
o. r. & N. dock.
The Manzanita arrived In from Destruc,
ton Island last evening. She reports hav,
ing spoken the sealing schooner Kate &c
Annie near Gray's harbor. The schooner
hls mine sea otters aboard.
A special dispatch received from San
Francisco by the Astorian last evening
states that the big log raft in tow of the
Mineola arrived in that city safely at
1 o'clock yesterday morning.
The steamer Stlte of California left out
for San Francisco yesterday afternoon.
Fifteen hundred barrels of cement were
taken on at the o. r. & N. dock. The
steamer also had a good passenger list.
"A summary of the marine mshaps in
the Puget Sound district for 1884, just
made public, shows total Of twenty
| five cases investigated and losses of $780,,
$50 accruing. Six steamers were destroyed
by fire during the year and ten grounded
or sunk. But no collision Is reported.
| According to the last report of the
| Port Townsend customs department
for the preceding quarter, the number of
sail vessels holding permanent register
was thirty-nine with a gross tonnage of
| II 1866 tons net tonnage, II, ALE The
| steam vessels numbered sixty, gross ton
mage, 9,676.S9; net tonnage, 6,72S.A
| Messrs. S. II. Levins, Sons of Philadel-
| phia, one firm among the multitude of
| the Commercial Astorian's esteemed east
| ern correspondents, write a bright let
ter, in the course of which they give some
mackeral statistics Of interest. During the
| past mack sral ssason the firm received
| as a result of seven months operations
| %, ,S39 barrels of this delicious species of
| fish.
julius Berghoff, a Seattle fish buyer,
| representing C. l.. Mattladge, a large
| New York dealer, was arrested at the
| instance of the latter, last week, charged
| with misappropriating S1,50O by fraudu-
| lent use of letter of credit on the Pu-
| get Sound National Bank. Berghof de-
| posted $1,000 cash bail and has gone to
| New York on a business trip pending
| an examination this month
William e. Curtis, the Japan corre-
| spondent of the Chicago Record, finds
that the Japanese are looking forward
| ii the construction of the Nicaragua canal
| with great eagerness. Japan proposes
| to surround the world with her ships,
and parliament will be asked to guaran>
tee it's great steamship company against
| loss in opening trade with our Pacific
coast. The Japanese wish to exchange
their coal for ouf iron and cotton.
The sealing fleet which has been gath
ering around Sand Point to be ready to
enter Behring Sea on August l. will to-
morrow, says Thursdays Colonist, COM
mence their SEASONS operations. There
has been little if anything heard from
them since they left the coast of Van
couver Island, and whatever does come
now in this direction will only be antici-
pated by the Alaska steamers. According
to these the weather on their last voy-
ages was not as good as they experienced
for several previous trips, but the steam
ship Danube which arrived few days
ago reported better weather in the North
Some lonely wayfarer has been using
the spacious %. r. & N. dock as a rest
ihg place for his weary head during the
last few nights Unobserved by the usual
ly lynx eyed custadians of that huge
warehouse he managed to crawl into the
center of stack of wheat, removed
three tiers of bags, and on this agrl-
cultural couch slept the sleep of the just
erclosed by breastworks of grain and
fankad outside of that by solid battle
ments of salmon His little snap has now
been rudeCy disturbed and the sacks have
been replaced three deep In their old
position The company's officials
shouldn't begrudge the tramp his free
Lodging. He earned 1t by his ingenuity.
1t considering the matter Of obtaining an
adequate supply of seamen for our navy,
il should not be forgotten that nearly
three thousand enlisted men are diverted
to the service of the coast survey and
fish commission, services that are of about
as much use to the navy as they are to
the state of Nebraska. The utter useless
ness of the coast survey business, all of
the photographic department of the navy,
has long since been exposed and 1t only
appears to b. maintained for the sake OF
a few scientific civilians who manage to
draw large salaries. Abolish both these
services and they would be little missed,
while the navy would have more men at
its disposal.
''The British ship Eudora came in from
Swansea yesterday afternoon" says the
Bulletin, thus outsalling the Earl Bur-
CESS, Manydown and Lord Templemore,
which sailed eleven, seventeen and nine
teen days in advance. The Alice left
Swansea the day after the Eudora. and
is now due together with the other three.
The Eudora has also outsailed the Helen
Sea and Port Patrick from Antwerp and
the SCkoto and Sierra Nevada from
Liverpool. The Eudora was chartered be-
fore leaving Swansea to load wheat back
upon her arrival here, and she will be
discharged as rapidly as possible th-t she
may carry out that engagement some
time next month. We shall be dlsap
pointed If we do not have a dozen ships
from distant ports this week"
Mr.. j. NJ. Garrison of Forest Grove
writes as follows to the Commercial AS
tOrlan: Ihe question OF lle WelSnt OF
the largest salmon ever taken from the
Columbia is in dispute here. Knowing
taat your paper is an acknowledged au-
thority, 1 ask you TO decide the matter"
The largest salmon ever caught in this
river, that Is to say the largest whose
weight has been thoroughly authenticated
was delivered to j. o. Hanthorn's cam
nsry In 1884. It weighed 70 1-5 pounds. 1t
has been often rumored that William
Hume's cannery once received an 81
pound salmon, but in all probability there
Is no truth in the statement. Several
cannerymen who have had wide exper-
fence here in the industry unite in say
ing that they have never yet seen an 50
pound salmon.
The Duke Of Westminster Is known
throughout Great Britain, and in fact
emOng mariners the world over as the
"sailOr's friend" nationality or race max