The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-06

that great corporation was returning good
for evil in assisting vessel that was des-
tined to be competitor in bay-passenger
traffic. But the man up tree erred in his
observations, for the Seattle boat was
libeled by the company for salvage.
The full value of the steamer was de-
manded, it being claimed that she was
derelict with her officers and crew aboard.
The owners gave bond, the case was set
for hearing and the boat was repaired for
her new field of labor. She is TO begin
running to Vallejo next Friday, with Cap.
tain Clement Randall as her master.
But the luckless craft is not out of the
belt of hard weather, for the Federal Off
Gals have been mysteriously informed that
she left Puget Sound under officers who
were not legally qualified to navigate a
vessel at sea.
1t was also stated that she was not prop
erly cleared at the port of departure, as to
do so her master and engineers would have
to show that they were properly licensed
to go outside. The Inspector of Hulls and
Boilers has turned the papers over to the
United States District Attorney, who will
commence proceedings against the steamer
and her officers. The penalty in the case
of Captain II. T. Stream and Engineers A.
E. LIE Ballister and G. f. Park Is $3.50 each,
and of the Hatch Brothers, owners, 500
apiece. If the vessel was not legally
cleared she may be conhscated.
Captain Mathew Turner of Benicia has
turnedout anotherschooner to take the place
of the Alaska Packing Company's schooner
Kodiak, lost on the northern coast April
a. The new Kodiak is III feet in length
25 feet beam and IL feet in depth and of
about It's tons burden. She is a pretty vessel
with clean yachtish run, not unlike the
famous Vigilant, and has the graceful
shape of all the Mathew Turner craft. Her
mafnmast is 80 feet long and her main
boom so feet in length, giving some idea
of her great spread of canvas. She lies at
the foot of Steuart street, being finished up
for her first trip North in few weeks. In
the meantime Captain Peterson issues an
invitation for the crack yachts to come out
on the bay when the Kodiak II makes her
trial trip.
The barkentine Cleaner is out ninety
one days from a Chilean nitrate port, and
in view of the fact that she was only pro-
visioned for the usual run, sixty-five or
seventy days, much anxiety is occasioned
by her long delay.
The American ship A. G. Ropes, while
off Cape Horn in the midst of stormy and
freezing weather, was boarded by an I'M
usual visitor in the shape of green parrot.
As the wind was blowing toward the shore,
which was twenty miles distant, it could
not have come from that wintry land, and,
| as no vessel was in sight, the manner in
which that bird of the tropic zone got in
| that icy locality is a mystery. and its few
words of Spanish, "all its stock and store,
| canno. make the matter plain. First Mate
Boyd is working during his off-watch
hours teaching the stranger sufficient Eng
lish to tell the fate of the ship it left, per-
chance laundering off the stormy cape.
All 10y, a Chinese merchant, who has
been living in Los Angeles for fifteen
years, was sent back to China last Satur-
day on the City of Peking He committed
murder in the Flowery Kingdom twenty
years ago, and while serving an imprison-
ment for the crime killed q guard and
escaped to this country. This coming to
the knowledge of the Federal officials he
was deported as a criminal under the
Geary act. If All 10y does not commit
suicide or succeed in escaping from the
steamer in some Japanese port he will be
instantly beheaded upon reaching his
native land.
The steamer Homer, which was run
into by the Arago off Coos Bay, is living on
the shore near Mansfield, where she was
beached to prevent her from sinking. AS
she was not badly crushed by the collision
il is probable that she will be rescued
from her berth on the beach.
The steamer State of California came
down from Portland last week with her
engines in charge of Assistant Engineer
Seaman, as CHIEF Engineer Kress left the
vessel at Portland to hurry to San Fran
cisco by rail to attend the funeral of his
son. The boy was 10 years of age, a
prominent Native Son and a very popular
uOrnO man.