The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-01-08

~ ~ Wv ANfF"ff"f
The new pilot schooner will probably
arrive tomorrow.
There wor0 no movements Of any Kind
among tho ships IN port yesterday.
The coiumblna ~ stu detained In port,
She viii make another attempt 10 got out
today,
The cadzow Forest has not yet been
R5in TO cross In and II II doubtful n she
viii make the passage today
Tho wind nj the cape averaged MY
miles all day yesterday, with tho mouth
of the river very rough and a thick fog
obHeurlng observation.
Tho British bark Cambrlan King. ~
days from Mo IN ballast. IL outside with
a pilot aboard. She was Observed early
yesterday morning standing well away
from tho shore going north. and no doubt
by this time she In somewhere near the
Vancouver Island coast
Arthur Sowall, owner " The chip
Beljgmin y. Packard. has libclod the
tugs Rea Queen and Hercules for $500
damages. The action has been brought
In tho United States district court. Se-
wall claims that. through tho negligence
OF the owners OF tho tugs. his ship was
run ashore.
Tho British ship heafaror. lD days
from Antwerp. and the British ship
SnniRnw. % days from Newcastle. Ana-
trAiia. arrived yesterday Afternoon. says
the Gail. Tho Seafarer had very rough
weather on Cape Horn. and during one
spell II was very cold. ON October sist.
Ia 81 degrees ~ minuetH south. 81 degrees
p minutes west. she sighted two Ice
bC-ga
A late Liverpool dispatch says: Since
cur last We have no change 10 report,
the Wholesale market being quits ~llfcless,
Tho DrumaliH arrived here this week
quite Unexpectedly. though considerably
overdue. She brings 500 cases Of Alaska
salmon. which 10 all sold. and which
comeu onto a market almost bare OF this
grade. Dealers have anxioualy awaited
her arrival for some time. aa stocks could
not have lasted much longer. and n good
demand II anticipated In the new yetr.
The British ship lnyersnhii. - days
from New castle. Australia, AMI the Ger
man ship Hahncmann. iS days from
Hamburg. wore both chartered 10 load
here. says the Journal Of Com
but their failure 20 arrive by De-
slHt leaves them to seek fresh
when they reach here. II IL
Sald they Scrc chartered at Il lis ~.
while the rate now offered II n g. or G..
The ~IIahuemanu was spoken by the Sea-
faror. which arrived here yesterday. In
% degrees south. n degrees west. on No
vcmber 18th.
Two achoonors intended for the Coast
trade are 20 bo built az Eureka. |
Cal. the FIRST 10 he quit about the mid
die OF July. II Is Ia be built for A.
OF San Francisco. and will be- a
ihrcc-mastcr OF eo,oo feet capacity. The
other viii be launched about the middle
OF August. and II for Wilson bros, Of
HArbor. II viii be n four-mns.er
OF 10000 feet capacity, A schooner now
on the stocks. n thres-master Of s00.o0
feet capacity, has been purchased by
Charles Nelson. OF San Fran
and Will be finished by the middle
" June.
Tho British ship %Glengowan vii prob
ably 10 n total loss, She sailed from
swansea for Nan Francisco seventy-nine
lays ngo. and at FIRST all went well.
a month out the cargo Of coal was
foupd TO be heating. and Captain
at once took every prSrantion
TO save his ship, The matches
battened down and water was
constantly on lhe heated deck.
rhc IRE spread rapidly. and seeing there
NJ chance TO control u. Captain
headed his ship for Port STAN
when the anchor was dropped the
hold OF tho ship was n raging furnace.
All control over the FIRE was gone. 80
The captain ordered the ship scuttled
This was accomplished on December 18th
asst. and the latest news from the wreck
Is that the GlonEowan viii be a total
oss. The GlenEowan was a new ship
was on her maiden voyage. She
l.No tons register and was con-
'lgned TO J. ]. Moore 4 Co, Captain
Is well known as an able sea-
nan and II nrst-rate shlpmastcr.
ON December 10th. at the Liverpool po-
leo court. nineteen seamon were charged
With refusing to obey the orders OF the
Master OF tho British ship Dunsta fnge,
which Ia well known here, and which
eft tails coast In July and reached
liverpool In October. The attorney for
he captain and the owners informed the
curt that the vessel left the Mersey on
he nth inst. for Philadelphia, with a
rev OF Il hands all told, They went
'ut In II tug, but when outside the Mer-
they met bad weather, the tow rope
and they had to return TO port.
That was on Thursday. On the Friday
morning, when In the Mersey. the cap
ain requr7t3d tho crew to turn to, but
hey refused. stating as the reason that
he ship was too heavy for them. They
we're asked TO turn TO again. hut they
gain refused. Captain Patterson was
allied and gave corroboratlve evidence
le said each Of the prisoners had le-
eived an advance note for g las beforo
ailing, Asked by the magistrate what
hey had to say, prisoners said the ves-
el was not safe to sail In. and made
nrlous allegations against tho captain.
The magistrate said he had n good Idea
Why they had refused. They thought
When they got back 10 the Mersey that
hey had g los In their own or their
wives pockets, and that was the reason
ney refused work. They were all liable
o six weeks Imprisonment. and n the
'fense had taken place ON the high seas,
When the lives OF other men were en-
angcrcd. they would have been SEN to
all for that term. As It was. they
you'd have TO pay a fine OF 55s and costs
r. one months Imprisonment in default.
yesterday morning. says the Chron-
Gle OF the Sd inst, peter Bishoff.
iichael Mcconnell and Peter Anderson.
hrcc men from the sealing schooner ]. ,
.Ippinger, came In from sea In one of the
'essel's boats. They had left the schooner
N the Farallon islands about s o'clock |
morning to hunt seals, when n
udden fog shut down on them, hidi lg
he vessel and every other object from
They fired Off their guns. but
Ieard no answering report, So all day
hey sat In their little hunting boat and
Waited for q rescue. A number of seals
we're seen, n two were shot and Sc
ured to break the monotony of the en-
orced idleness. Toward night the sea
rough and the boat was In dan
,er of being swamped. The waves
would break over them. and while two
4 the men kept the boats head turned
o sea the other man would bail out the
as fast rs he could work. They
,ad no idea which way they were drift
ng or in which direction the wind was
Tho ann uvapt damn and afuI |