The San Francisco call., 1897-09-17
OTTER HUNTING
DOES NOT PAY
Captain Nielsen Says the
Herds Are Being ES-
terminated.
Brought the Schooner Rattler,
Which Reports a Poor
Catch.
During the Season a White Otter Was
Killed-Its Skin Brought to
This Port.

A big feet of schooners was becalmed
off the Golden Gate yesterday. Many of
them towed in, but some held out until
the afternoon, when a breeZe sprang up
and they sailed in. Among those who
were punched outside were: The Sadie,
with salmon from Klawah; the Roy
Somers, with Iumb Der from Willapa Bay
the Rather. from seal and otter hunting
cruise; the o. NJ. Kellogg. with lumber
from Grays Harbor; the Melancthon
from Willapa Harbor, with lumber, and
the Will W. Case, with salmon from Bris-
tol Bay.
The Rather brought in 1913 seal and 26
otter skins. Captain Nielsen says the
otters are very scarce and those that are
sighted are very hard to XII. I'VE had
splendid weather for hunting" said he
yesterday. I'm order to hunt the otter
you must have a dead calm, and when
tell you that we lowered the boats fifty
five times you can see that it was not for
lack OF fine weather that we did not bring
back more skins.
Il think the sea otter IS being killed off,
and if som ething Is not done the animal
will become extinct. There were hunting
the otter this season SIX schooners manned
with whites Each one of these vessels
carried six boats. The Alaska fur COM
panies had out about twenty schooners
manned with Indians, and these carried
about twenty skin boats each. From this
you Will see that il was no wonder the
otter were scarce. We got curiosity in
the shape of white otter. The skin is
almost a perfect one and the only one of
its kind that has ever come to San Fran.
CISCO"
The bark Ceylon, that drifted down on
| Arch Rock the day she got in from Ha-
|
than was at first supposed. She was
| placed on the Merchants drydock, and an
examination shows that her entire keel
was carried away, all the sheetipg on the
port side was torn off and several of the
| planks were stove in. 1t will cost several
| thousand dollars to get the bark ready for
sea again..
! The United States steamer Alert will
| probably sail for Central America to-day.
She is just off the drydock has the best of
! steaming coal aboard, and should make a
! fast run to the seat of trouble in Guate.
mala.
Seaboard says that the whaleback CITY
of Everett, which took a cargo of grain
from San Francisco to the starving poor
OF India, is to start on another interest
ing voyage. She will lake cargo of iute
from Calcutta TO Spain. iron ore from
! Spain to New York, ana 1000 tons of gen.
! eral merchandise at New York for the
Yukon country. The owners OF the
whaleback xpect that she will reach ST.
Michael the latter part of February or the
| first week in March.
The Oceanic Steamship Company S
Mariposa sailed for Australasian ports
with very large general cargo and the
following passengers:
For Honolulu r. Burns Miss E. Clark.
| Miss Margaret Clark, Sidney CIementson and
wife, Harold q. Dillingham;, Rev. I. d. Garvin
ard wife, Mrs. W. R. Gardiner, Mrs c. A.
Graham and child, E. F. King and wife, Miss
Lannon, Miss NJ. c. Laughlin. H. Laws, E. C.
Macfarlane, Miss Marks, G. A. Marshall Mss
f: Miller. Mrs. L B. Newton, Mrs. c. T. Parsons,
Mrs. J.. l.. Smith, NJ. A. Tuly, Miss ]. Weber,
G. II. Webster Jr.. Judge Ii. A. Widemann and
! wife.
For rAuckland-william Berry, L. Brackspear,
D. Fraser. S. hetherington, ii. Kelly, Il. E..
King, 7. j. Perry, Mrs. C. Reid.
For Sydney-F /: L. c. Bartrop, A. Champ
leys, Rev DR.. J. W. Gushing, R. W. Denyer,
Z. P. Dixon, 7: J. Edmonds, Victor Elliott,
Mrs. c. J. Fairfax, Miss Fairfax, Miss A. C..
! Fairfax, G K Fearby. Hon. F. S. Grimwad
wife and maid, Miss Alice Grimwade, Miss F.
Grimwade, W. b. Godkin, Mrs. L. z. Goldstone
and two children, A. Collin, Z. J. German
Max Haberlein, wife and three children, E. f.
Hills, d. c. Johnson and wife, Mrs. Beatrice
Lorne anu child, II. Marshall Dr. A. J. NC
Donnell, Miss McGeorge, William Mclean. j.
W. Parsons and wife, Mrs. S. V. Pettigrew, p.
Pettigrew and Miss Phillips
JOIN dI hOHOiuiu Tor SyQ0ey-C. Van VOOl.
| ris Trumbull White, wife and child.
The Harbor Commissioners held a short
session yesterday. The Pacific Coast
Steamship Company wrote omplaining
OF the condition OF Broadway wharf. Mr.
Goodall of Goodall Perkins e. Co., point.
ed out that in many places it was in cam
ge- OF collapsing if any extra weight was
put on 1t. The assistant engineer re-
ported that 100 standard piles We're re-
quired under the wharf and thirty-fiye IN
the bulkhead. The board decided 10 draw
up plans and specifications and call for
bids for the work
The wreck of the old Orpheus that was
lost IN collision with The steamer Pa
cific IN November, 1875 has been located
by the wreeklng steamer Whitelaw, in
Barclay Sound. The Pacific went down
with lS5 out of 167 passeng gers and crew
and the Orpheus orifted ashore OH Lazar-
retio Island. The wrecker secured sew
eraI relics from the remains of the old
vessel and then steamed away.