The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-11-27
Tide Table for November, 1895.
Low WATER.

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Thursday, PSI ; 6s7 9lI OSe 81 S562g BOO II
Friday 800 9ll0 35S I'LL 526 6 4 393 2 s 81 -
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SHIPPING DAYBYDAY|
Marine Matters, Here, There ard
Everywhere.
The Elmore left out yesterday for Til
lamook.
The steamer Signal will be down from
Portland tomorrow.
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The four masted British ship Rowena
will leave out for Queenstown tomorrow.
The Mobile Bay lost four of her sailors
in Portland. She shipped four new men
here yesterday.
The British barb B~annockburn was
towed up the river to Portland yesterday
afternoon. She is chartered to load wheat
for the United Kingdom.
Notices were posted on the government
bulletin board yesterday hat a severe
southeast gale was raging off the Ump-
qua, and proceeding north.
The British ship Mobile Bay arrived
down from Portland yesterday and an
chored off the Seaside cannery. She will
not leave out for several days.
The hearing of the cases in the admi-
rally court at Victoria of charges against
the sealing schooners Marvin and Be
atrice for violation of the sealing regula-
tions is now going on.
News has been received from the
steamer Carihoo Fly, of Victoria, that
she went ashore in the Skeena river and
has become a total wreck. Sho belonged
to Messrs. Cunningham, Dempster &
Sltotbolt.
The lumber schooner Hueneme arrived
in from San Francigco yesterday morning
and was at once hauled alongside Fin
layson's dock where she is now discharg-
ing sand ballast. She will leave up for
Portland today.
Under date of October 10th Shewan G.
Co, of Hongkong, write: For San
Francisco there is very little cargo offer
ing and no vessel has yet taken the berth
to follow the L%yndhurst. For a part
cargo 50 gold per ton might be paid"
The steamer Alice Blanchard arrived in
port from San Francisco yesterday morn
ing at 8 o'clock. She had on board 400
tons of general merchandise. After dis
cl arging 100 tons in this city she left
up the river for Portland at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon.
When the Alice Blanchard was passing
Cape Argo on her way up the coast, at
10 o'clock on Sunday morning, she passed
the gasoline yacht Lucero making good
Roadway south. The little vessel appear
ed to be going along at a fine gait and
progressing easily.
The steamer Harrison arrived in from
the Siuslaw yesterday afternoon with
1000 cases of salmon aboard consigned to
Gilmore, Sanborn G. Co., and forty passen-
gers. mostly fishermen who have COM
pleted the seasons work. AS soon as the
weathe moderates the Harrison will
leave out for the Nehalem.
Antoine Sinstad, a we'll known fisherman
of this city, has returned from Killasnoe,
Alaska, where he has been employed dur
ing the season just over by a company
that is carrying on an extensive herring
business at that point. This year $1,000
barrels of herring have been caught ut
K~illasnoe, 10000 Of which nave been put
down in salt the other 10000 barrels
have been converted into oil, and 1000
casks of this product were shipped to
New York last month. Mr.. Sinstad in
tends to return to Alaska text season.
The lighthouse board, by Rear Admiral
John G. Walker, chairman, has given no
tice under date of November 70 that a
plentiful supply of water having been OBJ
tanned at the station, on Tatootsh island,
south side of the west entrance to the
Straits of Juan de Fuca, OTTER November
IL, the steam fog whistle Will be sounded
during thick OF foggy weather, as stated
in the list of lights and fog signals and
the list of beacons and buoys. This no.
tice affects the list of lights and fog sig
mails, Pacific coast, 1895, page %, No. $50
and the list of beacons and buoys, tt
cific coast, 1894, page 80.
On the passage of the steamer Yarra-
wonga from London to Sydney, completed
October 9Th, an uncommon though not
unprecedented incident happened. The
Yarrawonga was nearing Cape Bojador
when the wind freshened from off land
n the steamer became enveloped in a
cloud of red dust. For several hours
everything about the ship was smothered
in a fine red-tinted grit. In some of the
hard westerlies along the seaboard Of
Africa shipmasters ave reported that
dust from the high lands on the seacoast
has come aboard their vessels when they
were quite fifteen miles off shore.
A new type of armor for warships has
been devised by p. r. de F. d'Burny. a
French civil engineer, Of Chicago. His
IDEA is to secure in a steel box thin plates
of steel with the edges presented to the
fire of the enemy. n the advantages
claimed are cheapness, ease and quick
ness Of manufacture and the ability Ia
replace a damaged box at sea. He also