The San Francisco call., 1896-08-01
A CASE OF KILL
OR Be KILLED,
Seal Hunter Scott Had a
!. Narrow Escape in
Japan.
ARRESTED FOR MURDER.
A United States Consular Court
Acquitted Him of All
Blame.
THE FEARLESS AT sAUsALITo.
She Will Be Thoroughly Overhauled
and Painted and Again Put in
Commission.
THE FEARLESS AT sAUsALITo.

The big tug Fearless will be put IN COM
mission again next week. For over
month she has been laid up in order to
get a thorough overhauling. Yesterday
Captain Dan Haskell took her over to
Sausalito, and she is now anchored near
the clubhouse, close to the well-known
Yacht Lurlne. The move has been
made in order to get the tug away from
the coal dust and dirt of the water front.
She will be painted white, and when COM
pleted will look like an addition to the
"White Squadron" The big tug and the
Lurline made pretty picture as they lay
at anchor in Richardson's Bay yesterday.
The Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Company's Belgic arrived from Hongkong
via Yokohama and Honolulu yesterday
with the following cabin passengers: Mrs.
F. Butterfield. j. N. Boyd, J. Bennett Sr.,
]. Bennett Jr., Paul Corlhran, f. Duiar-
dine Beaumetz, Captain S. L. Christie,
Rev. A. Clark, K. Fujiiama, DR.. ]. F.
Gentner, Captain a. c. Gerrish. T. S.
Morrison, Miss NJ. Nichols, Hon. Paul
Neuman, w. G. Pierce, Mrs. w. g. Pierce,
Professor George S. Schultze, ID. .Suzuke,
]. B. Trevor, Mrs. J. B, Trevor, Miss S.
Macdonald.
The Belgic made the run in SIX days
ten hours, which beats the Gaeiic's time
from Honolulu by two hours. Ex-Attor-
ney-General Paul Neuman1 OF Hawai, who
came up on the steamer IS on mission to
Guatemala on behalf of his Government.
The Belgic brings the news of the loss
OF tie British ship Scottish Dales, She
was bound from Tacoma for Australia,
and went on coral reef in the Fiji Islands.
at the time the Dales was 216 miles east
by south from Suva, the capital of Fiji,
and under full spread of canvas. Cap
tain Mccarthy stood close into Vatoa reef
to catch the trade winds, and went on q
rock which was not down on the chart.
The vessel was loaded with lumber, and
heavy deckload weighted her down. She
soon began to settle and when the pumps
showed eleven feet of water in the hold
the crew abandoned her. Captain Nc
Carthy and twenty men reached Suya, but
the gun boat Rugarooma had to be sent
out to look for the mates boat with eight
men in it. They were picked up two
days later and landed at Suva. The only
man who suffered was consumptive ap-
prentice who was lying at deaths door
from the exposure when the mail left Fiji.
Owing to an inadvertence the name of
Purser Bendall was placed under the pic
ture of Captain M. Carey of the Monowai
in yesterdays CALL. The genial and
popular commander is SO well known,
however, that anybody connected with
shipping could see at glance that mis-
take had been made.
Patrick Mackey, once sailor boarding
house master, attempted to commit sui
eide in the Harbor Police station yester-
day morning. He had been arrested for
drunkenness the night previously, and
when he sobered up took off his suspend
ers and hanged himself TO one of the bars
of his cell. Officer Cullom cut him down
and sent him to the Receiving Hospital.
The British ship Linlithgow loaded with
wheat for England. was prevented from
leaving port at the last moment yester-
day. The scow Colonel Baker took her
load of coal, and as there was no steam
on the tramp's donkey engine. Captain
Petrie asked the captain of the scew to
hoist the coal aboard. This was done,
and then Captain Schouw demanded $40
pay. It was refused, and just as the
steamer was about to sail, the United
States Marshal put in an appearance and
libeIed her for $40. The anchor had to be
dropped again and the vessel will lose nj
least $500 by the delay.
The schooner Lizzie Adams had pecul.
lar experience yesterday. She was on
her way from Alvarado with load of salt
for the steamer State of California. On
the way over she sprung leak, but man.
aged to reach her destination. All of the
salt that had not melted was removed and
then the schooner was run on the mud
fats. The captain thinks that the Adams
ran on snag while making her way
down the creek.
The three whaling crews that will go
out on the tug Fearless on the 22d inst.
have established headquarters on Com
mercial street, near East. Tuesday next
they will begin practicing, and every
morning = regular course of whaling drill
will be seen from Clay street wharf
Among the arrivals on the steamer Bel
gic yesterday was Milton Scott, an erst-
while hunter on the sealing schooner
Louisa D. He had an exciting time of it
in Japanese waters and very nearly lost
his life. Japanese footpads attacked him
and he shot two of them in self-defense.
he was tried for murder, but was acquitted
by the Consular Court and at once took
passage for San Francisco.
81 had narrow escape" said Scott yes-
terday. "The schooner had finished her
cruise in Japanese waters with a small
catch OF 531 skins. We were all well and
hearty when we reached Hakodate, and
everybody got shore leave while the vessel
was fitting out again for cruise in Bering
Sea. was out one night and when re-
turning to the ship three Japanese stood
me up. showed fight and guarded nv
self from their slashes with my right arm.
(Here Scott barred his arm and showed the
three cicatrices which are on his arm be-
tween the wrist and elbow. Wnen / |
saw it was question of life or death I
drew my revolver and mortally wounded |
one of my assailants and halfkiIled an |
other. l was taken to Yokohama after
being held for murder in Hakodate and
was there tried before the United States
Consular Court. was acquitted and the |
Consul paid my way to San Francisco.
NY best friends in Yokohama were |
Masuru Latin and Kaarpan Thew went |