The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-08-20
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.

ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
The State of California came in yes
terday morning and lef UP for Portland
at noon.
The Gatzerb and Harvest Queen came
down yesterday I'm place of the Potter and
Telephone Both Ithe latter steamers will
be on their regular run today.
The American ship Jlmes Drumnpond
was flowed out to sea yesterday after
noon. She goes direct to Queenstown for
orders. Captain Curtis was busy all
morning bidding good bye ITO his host
Of friends alshlore. He expects ito return
here naXt year for a load of wheat.
D. Mclean, owner, and j. Jensen, cap
tain, of THE Chilian bark Atacarma, are
being prosecuted in Seattle for cruelty to
a negro boy ON board the vessel. They
are accused of brutally beating him and
of stringing him up by the thumbs and
will have TO answer to a criminal charge
as weil as ito a suit for damages in the
sum of $4,000.
The contract for erecting Pacific street
wharf was yesterday let to James Nc
MaIhon for $3.50, says Fridays Call.
There were Indications of collusion
among the bidders, and last time when
the bids were opened they were thrown
out. N1cMahon and his father were both
among Glhe bidders. They both came
down the second time, but their bids were
cut prOportionately, SO that the sons
was still the lower
The first direct news concerning the
destruction by fire of the american bark
William w. Grape has been received,
dated Iquique, which states the bark was
I'D have sailed from Junin July 81 for
New York, but was prevented through
stress of weather AIT half past ten that
night she wals fired by an incendiary,
thought ito be one of the crew, and the
captain and family barely escaped. Moth
ing of the bark's property or the cap
tain's personal effects, except chronome-
ters, was selved.
The steamer China sailed for China and
Japan yesterday with the largest crowd
of passengers in the cabin SHE has yet
carried from this port. Among the pas
sengers was Irving M. Scott, of the Union
Iron Works. Mr.. Scott's "trip lis one of
pleasure, but while he is in Japan ne will
give the government a few ideas on
the construction of warships. Japan has
been talking for some time about re-
constructing htr navy, and the head of
the Union Iron Works and builder of the
Charleston, san Francisco, Monterey,
Olympia and Oregon is of the opinion
thlt warships for the Orient can be built
as wel in San Francisco as any place in
the world.-Bulletin.
Norway. has Prince line of ships.
just how many ships there are in the
line is not known Recently four of
these vessels were grouped In the harbor.
Of Rio. The owner could get no outward
freight from that port, and so they were
all ordered to tlha Hastings mill in Brit
ish Columbia for humber cargoes. The
pioneer of this quartet arrived on the
10th, after a very long passage of 1856
days. This was the Prince Amadso,
which has a charter to load lumber at
Hastings mill for the United Kingdom.
The other three Ships in the line are the
Prince Louis, Prince Frederick and
Prince Victor, which are out from Rio
for the same destination ST. so and SO
days respectively. Another ship in the
same line is the Prince Regent, which
left Rio II days ago for Puget sound
AM uileSe ShlupS ebIe ullttT Vile Norwegian
flag, and they will all load lumber upon
arrival.
The recent sailing in ballast of the
British Ships Eu1onnane Q@7 Bsn.arig
from New York TO Newcas ,e, N. s. W.,
has led an eastern f~7' % make the fol-
lowing REMARKS in Jleir trade circular:
why the EIioms ne and other ships do
not go down Ito Nova Scotia and take
coal form there to San Francisco, in
stead of going round the Horn in ballast,
is a conundrum probably to be answered
only by the lack of enterprise of The
Nova Scotia mime owners. They could
not carry coal from an American port
on the Atlantic coast TO San Francisco
because the law excludes foreign owned
Ships from that, being what is termed
domestic trade. but they could get
coal cheaper at Nova Scotia than at
Baltimore, an dtlhe distance is very little
greater, besides which the duty would
be no greater alt San Francisco than the
duty upon Australian coal. No coal has,
however, yet been shipped round the
Horn from Nova Scotia, though much has |
been sem: to the West Indies and to
South America"
The sailing schooner, Bowhead, which |
arrived here on the 7th inst. with
oarSo Of seaiskins, was seized yesterday |
by THE United Statets authorities and |
is now in The hands of the United States |
marshal, SO STATES the News. When the |
vessel arrived Captain Noyes made the
nee ssary report TO the customs officials, |
with details as to where he caught the
sea'SlSns that he hlld on board. From
i.his 1T appeared that he caught in jan
uary 10 skins of female seals in waters
prohibited by section s of the act ap-
proved April g. 1894. His own written
evidence convicted him of violating the
laiw. 1t is fact, however, as the law
reads that vessels having a license can
seal in prohibited waters in what is
called the AREA of award" excepting
during the close season from May to
August. Captain Noyts says that ne had
TO license because when he sailed the
licenses had-u0t arrived at the customs
house from Washington when he applied
for one. Anyhow the treasury depart-1
meDt teiegraphed from Washington to
seize the vesssl and she is now in-fimbo.
rx.-r4.-