The San Francisco call., 1896-10-20
WHEAT To LOAD
The WHEAT SHIPS
It Is Pouring In From Ali
the Adjoining Coast
Ports.
The Willamette Brought Down
Over Twenty-Five Thou
sand Sacks.
A FLEET READY TO LOAD 1T.
Vessels for Hawaii and Australia
Are Leaving With Over.
flowing Cargoes.
A FLEET READY TO LOAD 1T

Wheat still keeps pouring into the port.
Every vessel from Puget Sound and the
Coium bia River brings more or less OF the
valuable grain and as the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company has been unable to
handle all the goods offering extra vessels
have been chartered and put on. The
Willamette was taken off the coal route
and sent to Tacoma to load. She had
taken in about 600 tons OF coal, bat never
theless Captain Holmes managed 10 get
about 25,000 sacks in her tween decks.
Every one OF them will be discharged on
the seawall and they will be used as
stiffening for the fleet that is now in port
awaiting chance to load.
Captain Holmes is one of the oldest and
most experienced masters that comes TO
San Francisco. Years ago he was master
of the Willamette and then went to the
Umatilla. AS captain of the latter he was
the most popular man on the coast. Now
he has gone back to his first love because,
as he says, "There is less work and less
worry"
The British ship Kelat had her flag at
halfmast yesterday. E. Bates, the owner
OF the vessel, died in England last Satur-
day.
The Harry Morse is to take a load of
salmon to Sydney. The demand is great
just now, and as the steamers of the
Oceanic line have more freight offerings
than they can carry, sailing vessels have
to be put on the run. The Morse will DE
a valuable ship when all the salmon now
on the dock is aboard.
The bark Andrew Welch will take
peculiar cargo to Honolulu. Yesterday
she took aboard a considerable quaint tity
OF nitrate from the ship British Princess.
and to-day she will go to section 3 of the
seawall and fill up with -four and railroad
ties. Every inch of space on her is en-
gagged, and every vessel up and loading
for Hawaii is in the same position. 1t
looks as though business was picking up
IN the island republic,
The Pacific Mail Company's Peru got in
from Hongkong via Yokohama and
Honolulu yesterday.
Adyices from Honolulu by the steamer
state that there was a serious row on the
British ship Troop. The sailors attacked
the officers, and Second Mate Hanvey
fired three shots into the crowd. Sailor
Dzar was slightly wounded and the rest
ran. Hanvey was tried and acquitted.
The bark Gainsborough, which went on
Diamond Head on the morning OF August
90, was taken off on the 4th inst. and was
towed into Honolulu harbor. The dam
age was slight, and after temporary re-
pairs have been made she will come to
San Francisco for a thorough overhaul
ing.
The Peru reports that the British bark
Ladas left Honolulu on the 9th inst. for
this port to load wheat for London.
The sealing schooner Josephine is re-
ported with 149 skins. Captain Hansen
also reports that late in June he spoke the
Diana with ten and the Retriever with six
otter skins.
The little schooner Mercur, built by
Turner for Wilkens & Co., is being fitted
out at Howard-street wharf. She is 20
feet long. 20 feet broad end feet deep,
and will be used as trader to the Marshall
Islands. The Mercur is a handsome little
craft and should prove to be fast sailer.
A private letter gives the information
that the Sierra, Captain McWhinney, is
coming here from Cardiff. The jolly old
skipper has host of admirers here, but
he will be disguised when he learns that
his bosom friend, Captain Cowper of the
Kinross hire, is on his way to England
from Iquiaue and not to San Francisco.
HAS William been here yet?" was always
the first question asked by McWhinney,
and when a negative answer was given he
would say, "Well, I'll wait awhile, the old
woman will be along in a few minutes"
When Cowper was first he would ask, HAS
Jim been here yet?' and when he got
negative reply he would SIT down and re-
mark, "Well, the old man will be here in
a few minutes" They were always to-
geiher and are known everywhere as
Damon and Pythias.
Captain 'Jim" Patterson of the Dun
staffnage is praying for chance to come
to California. A couple of years ago he
was ordered to San Francisco and he did
nothing during the entire trip but curse
l. II l.
and sailed for Europe with better
opinion of the people ana the country.
He is now in Calcutta and writes to Jim"
Boyes: "How l wish l was back in Cali
fornia. The heat and mosquitoes are some
thing awful and the climate is unbear
able. l take back all / said about San
Francisco. It's a great place to live
to have the old ship at anchor inside the
Golden Gate"
Quite fleet got in last night. The
schooner Lizzie Prien, from Coquille
River; the bark Aureola, from the Sound;
the ship S. P. Hitchcock, from New York;
the Britisl ship Manchester, from
Antwerp, and the British ship Eudora,
from Callao. were ali in the offing at dusk,
while the tramp steamer Wennington
Hall, from Shanghai, and the ship Ellen
Esslin, from Taltal, got in early In the
day. All the big ships are chartered to
load wheat and will get quick di patch.
The bar buoy at Coquille River has
gone adrift, so coasting captains will have
to look out. The steam schooner Farallon
is tied inside the bar and cannot get out,
and the steam schooner Alcazar is outside
waiting chance to get in.
The schooner Mary and Florence got
foul of the cable yesterday. When the
food tide came she dragged her anchor
and brought up on the telegraph line.
Assistant Chief Wharfinger Scott sent out
an order to move the boat at once, but the
order could not be obeyed. Twelve men
were at work up to dark trying to move
the boat, but failed. The schooner was in
a dangerous position and the captains of
the ferry boats had to keep bright look
out for her during the night.
j. LEAsK Ross, formerly of Morrison,s
Photographic studio of Chicago spent
Yesterday in Salt Lake en- route to San
Francisco. Mr.. Ross has an enviable
renutation as one of the finest exnert nho-