The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-01
WATER FRONT NOTES.

Revenue Cutters Bear. Grant and VOL
colt we're IN the bay yesterday.
Steamer Utopia took coal yesterday at
the bunkers OF the Seattle Coal and Iron
Company.
United States fish commission steamer
Aloatross Is reported on the Southern Cali
ifornia coast.
Capt. Ayers, OF the ship Selkirk. now
loading lumber at Port Ludlow for Aus
tralis. vas IN the city yesterday.
Capt. Oracle. OF the ship Falkland. now
iying at Port Townsend awaiting char
ter, Is a guest OF the Hotel Stevens.
The oregon Improvement Company's
steam collier ProgresSo f. loading at the
con1pany's 6unkers for San Francisco.
The Oregon Improvement Company
had a diver working Saturday locating
sunken piles In the south slip OF the Ocean
dock.
Steamship UmatiIa. Of the Pacific Coast
steamship line salls for San Francisco
cargo OF Hour. wheat. coal and general
merchandise.
Capt. John r. Libby. member OF the
present legislature. who Is also manager
or the Puget Sound TugbOat Association.
vas IN the city yesterday en- route 10 his
home in Port Townsend. RE win return
10 Olympia this morning.
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the Judgment OF the California
district court In the case OF Robert Rob
ertson and four other seamen. arrested in
San Francisco for refusing 10 obey the
orders OF Master Aragon. after having
entered into articles 10 make voyage TO
Valparaiso.
There are at present on the Sound no
less than half a dozen nne big vessels
which were all chartered for grain car
goes and sent hitherwards during the
wheat boom, which Immediately preced-
ed the election. They all met with the
same poor luck In the matter OF passa ges
and arrived too late 10 get the benefits OF
tbs wheat excitement.
There Is much disappointment among
sealers as a result Of the recent sale OF
skins In London. The highest price paid
WAS Ss.66 and some skins went as low as
x4f6 while the average was s5.72 To COM
piicate matters. the best Indian seal hunt
ers are demanding 81 A skin which would
leave bat very little margin for the own
ers TO figure on. Notwithstanding the
gloomy outlook there are many sealing
vessels being fitted and put In readiness
Tor the annual sealing cruise.
The offices Of the Pacific Coast Steam
ship Company are being overhauIed and a
general reimbursement Of the space occu-
pied hy them at the Ocean dock VIII bet
ter the facilities for business The parti-
lions have been knocked out vita the ex-
Ception Of Mr.. Trowbridge's private Of
nee. and the space converted into one
general room, for both passengers and
freight business. The move was deemed
advantageous after the establishment Of
the uptown passenger office
The Port Townsend Call says that the
nght between the rival quarantine officers
AZ San Francisco - not over BY any
means DR.. Chalmers stands on his state
rights and insist that due consideration
shah be given 20 his rulings Uncle sam
aserfs that no child OF his shall gainsay
MS rulings and thus the matter stands
California has grown 20 he a great big
baby. but Uncle sam still insists upon the
right OF spanking her when he thinks she
demands correction. In consequence the
state quarantine officer IS ignored and A
general mix-up Is the result.
] c Pringle remarks that. In contrast
with the Slam and other vessels that went
to san Francisco for c8rE0es and lost
their charters hy nOn<arTiv8l within Speci-
Hsa time. that the vessels chartered for
Puget sound grain carEoes are not in the
unpleasant predicameut OF being forced
- cross the broad Pacific on a losing voy-
a ~ I'm ballast. bat can. when their OWL
ers 50 desire secure a lumber cargo. car
sturdy timber growth OF the state of
Washington. The statement Il made in
connection with another that the slam
goes back TO Australia tn ballast
The non-arrlval AT san Francisco OF the
SWanhflda now siNty-eighi days out from
Newcastle. y : W. on which the MUIR
derer Butler Is known 60 have shipped Is
causing the detectives no end OF worri-
neut The crew was known - be bad
lot and threatened mutiny II tHey were
taken 10 sea without being paid Trouble
between Capt. Fraser and enc of the men
was feature Of the Newcastle visit u the
shin in which alteration the captain WIS
struck i1 the mouth K Is now thought
possible that the threats OF the tough lot
may have something 70 do with the Swan
midas Uom-arrtVaL