The San Francisco call., 1895-10-19
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
THE GASOLINE SCHOONER CRYSTAL
OF SEATTLE WRECKED AT
YAKUTAT.
ODD FELLOWS RETURN HOME
CHINESE CAUSE TROUBLE OVER
THE BURIAL OF THEIR DEAD
AT SEA.

The schooner Kodiak arrived from
Cooks Inlet yesterday and reported the
total loss OF the Seattle gasoli-.e schooner
Crystal The latter was on her way from
Cooks Inlet for Sitka with a number of
miners aboard. A heavy gale sprang mp
and the vessel headed for Yakutat. In at
tempting to make the harbor the Crystal
lost headway on the bar and in few mo-
ments was thrown high and dry on the
beach. The passengers and crew managed
to get ashore, but lost their effects and in
few hours the schooner was total wreck.
Captain Peterson of the Kodiak could
not do anything for the shipwrecked men,
so they waited for the steamer Dora, which
will bring them to San Francisco. The
steamer was not due at Sitka until the 7th
| inst, and the miners and sailors had
| long wait. They were made comfortable at
Yakutat, however, and the Indians did
everything in their power to help them.
VERY few of the miners will remain at
! Cooks Inlet this winter" said w. l.. Wash
burn, agent OF the Alaska Commercial
| Company, yesterday. He was one Of the
passengers on the Kodiak and knows Just
how matters are UP there. -Four or five
miners were doing fairly WE'LL" continued
he, "but the remainder did not make
|
SO hard-up that Captain Peterson brought
them down out OF charity. 1t was all al
luvlal mining, but the field was not nearly
as extensive or rich as they pretended.
There are, perhaps, five or six good
mines out OF the lot, and those do not more
than pay expenses. Alaskan fields are
certainly not poor mans diggings"
AS Tar as the two miners who came down
on the Kodiak. are concerned they have no
words bad enough in which to paint their
prospecting tour in Alaska. After their
little ready money went they were at the
mercy OF the Storekeeper, and their daiiy
earnings barely sutficed to keep BODY and
soul together. According TO them the
field at Cooks Inlet will never nav for the
working.
The fjllowing notice has been issued bv
the photographic Office:
JUAN DE FUcA STRAIr.--on or about October
/ 81, 1893, fixed white tubular antern light
will be established, sixteen and half feet
above mean high water, q white gallows
frame on Baaddah Point, south side OF the en-.
trance to Neeah Bay from the eastward The
| light is on the following bearings:
Tangent Koitlah Point north 50 deg 20 min
west true (west one-eighth north mae1
Right tangent Waaddah Island north % deg
west true northwest onecighth west mag)
The steamer Mary CARAT arrived from
| Stockton yesterday afternoon with lbs Odd
: Fellows aboard They closed their en-.
campment in Stockton Thursday evening
but 1t was CLOCK FRIDAY morning before
they were ready to leave. Superintendent
Corcolan delayed the steamer for them
and all the stragglers were aboard before
the Mary Garratt pulled out.
| The United States steamer Ranger ar,
rived from Central American ports yester
day. The following is list of her officers
Commander, Z. w. Watson; executive
officer Lieutenant U. r. Harris; naviga.
tor, Lieutenant H. w Harrison; ensigns-
d. w. B amer, III. II. Hough, G. f. Pres
ton; past assistant engineer, Howard Gage
past assistant surgeon, 6. Tucker Smith
assistant paymaster, Francis j. Semers.
The Ranger came here direct from Aca
pulco, and brings no late news of the dis
aster at La Paz.
4 A telegram to the Merchants Exchange
states that the British bark Rathdown