The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-06-13
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.

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ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
The Alice Blanchard will be down from
Portland on Saturday night.
seventy-five trap piles will be towed
down to Ilwaco from Deep River this
morning.
Six seining sikiffs have been completed
and forwarded to various locations in the
past two days
The Queen will tow a big scowload Of
pottery clay. from Fort Clatsop to Port
land this morning.
The steamer Truckee wild be in port
this morning from San Francisco with
a large miscellaneous freight list.
The Mayfower towed a bargeioad of
cattle Ito Gray's River yesterday, and re-
turned to her dock in the evening.
| The steamer Electric yesterday made
the trip from Skamokawa to this city
in one hour and twenty minutes, exceed
ingly fast time.
The British ship Rathdown began load
ing salmon yesterday morning. 1t is
thought that she will clear about the
2Sth of the present month.
This morning the Electric will take 25
tons of hay TO Westport and will then
go to Skamokawa and tow seining out
fit from there to Snag Island.
The schooner Letitia, lumber laden for
Oakland, Cal. sailed out yesterday af-
ternoon. Her cargo consisted of 255,000
feet of planking and $4,000 shingles.
Two masts will be brought down from
Westport to this city this morning for
the pilot Schooner San Jose. The old
masts were taken out of her yesterday.
For the first time in many months the
Signal cleared for the north yesterday
without taking back a single Chinaman
of those she brought over on her incom-
ing trip.
The steamer Electric yesterday took
large donkey engine to the Clatsop Mill
Co.'s logging camp at North Shore and
went from there to Skamokawa with two
other donkey engines.
The Louisa Vaughn, a tender for the
dredgtr Ladd, was sent down from Port
land yesterday by the Port of Portland
commission. She was buslly engaged all
day sounding outside where the Ladd
Is operating.
News came to the city yesterday that
Captain A. M. Simpson, owner of the
steamer Cruiser, had sold her to Pug.t
Sound parIties for $1,000 She wifi be over,
hauled and taken up to the Sound at the
end Of the month.
A new smokeJtack for the power house
of the Astoria Street Railway Co. at
Uppertown was completed yesterday at
the Astoria Iron Works. 1t is the larg.
est in the city, being 64 feet in height
and 50 inches in diameter.
The seines along the lower river re. |
port gradually increasing returns, and |
from Pillar Rock down all locations IRE |
doing better as the water reaches lower |
levels. SpencT's grounds delivered 1850
pounds yesterday, and that is at present |
about the average of the ssining outfits. |
The Beaver Hill coal brought up by |
the Blanchard is to all appearances bet
tion from Coos Bay. The Manzanita will |
take several tons of it when she COM
plstes her overhauling and it is probable
that the dredger Ladd will also take a |
considerable quantity in day or two.
The Eclipse is now being completed |
rapidly. Her upper works are all fin
ished and ready for the painters, and |
her hun is half cased in. Her lines have
been very greatly improved by the altera-
tion in her shape forward and aft, ,sand II
is believed by her owners that her speed
WIN be increased considerably by the
change.
The British tramp steamer Signal pass
ed out yesterday morning for Vancouver,
B. c. She had on board 450 cases OF |
salmon consigned ito Liverpool by the |,
Astoria Packing Co., and several tons Of |
flour which win go from Vancouver to |
Japan. A small quantity of her miscei,
laneous freight will be sent from Victo-
ria to Australia.
The Dalles mes-Mountaineer says:
From fishermen it is learned that the
salmon run this year has been the small
lest for many seasons. A few Chinooks
have been caught, but silver-sides and
steelheads have not put in an appearance
yet. Tlhare has not been enough salmon
to supply THE local demand and the can
neries have had little or nothing to do"
The item published in this paper sew,
eral weeks ago concerning the veteran
Captain Phil. Johnson's first experience
with an iron ship has gone the rounds of +
nearly every newspaper on the coast.
Talking of the matter yesterday, the
captain expressed himself tersely as fol-
lows: ''Thsre was the skipper-he was
a Welchman; there was his missus-she
was a Scotchman; there was mel was
New England Yankee; and there was
the ship-she was iron. Altogether it
was the funniest four in hand that ever
come into this ere river, and don't YOU
forget it."
Mr.. Johnson, who was deputized by
Admiral Walker to outline the 1Iove>
merits Of the Columbine, said bsfore the
steamer left that she would proceed to
Sltka and thence cruise down the coast
to San Diego, allowing a thorough in
spection Of the aids to navigation. The
least important points will be overlooked
and others, such as Tillamook Rock, will
he passed by on account of the difficulty
Of landing, the inspection being only of
a general nature. When Admiral Walker
started for the West he had INTENDED GO
ing to the Port Orchard naval station,
but the train into Tacoma being two
hours behind time. the plans were chang
ed, and the Coiumbine headed straight
for the north.
When the Clyde line steamship Algon-
quin, which arrived in New York from
Jacksonville May 1st, had been four hours
out at sea on her trip It occurred to
First Officer Alfred Rich to make a littIs
tour Of inspection Of the handsome
colster. The greatest Vigilance Is neces-