The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-30
Steam erS OriZaba and
Walla Walla Were
Behind Time.
GOOdall, Perkins & Co. Expert
menting With a New Coal
Oil Launch.
1t q Success They VIII Be Used as
Tenders for the Alaskan
Steamers.
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The steamers Acapulco from Central
American ports, Orizaba from Mexican
and the Walla Walla from Puget
Sound ports arrived yesterday morn
ing. The Acapulco had an uneventful
trip until the bar was reached, but
both the Orizaba and Walla Walla
were detained by the weather. The for
mer vessel caught it In the Gulf of
California. and at San Pedro, Santa
Rosalia and Ensenada she was de-
layed owing to- the tremendous west
erly swell which made it impossible to
handle the lighters. The Walla Walla
encountered head winds from the time
Flattery was passed until Cape BIanco
was reached, when a heavy gale was
run into. She was twenty-four hours
late In reaching port and Captain Wal
lace says it was lucky she wasn't later.
The captain of the Acapulco reports
that on the 2Sth inst, when eighteen
miles off Point Sur, the hull of
schooner apparently about 140 feet long
was sighted. This is probably the
remains of the schooner Elnorah which
was run down by the German ship
Refine Rickmers some months ago. The
wreck is drifting south with the cur
rent.
Among the passengers by the AGA
pulco was Mrs. r. Boido, NJ. D., and her
two children. She is a Native Daugh-
ter of the Golden West, and her hus-
band is a practicing physician in An
tigua, Guatemala. Mrs. Boido win
make her home in San Francisco for an
indefinite period.
Among the passengers on the ORR
n , z TIT
and E. 3. Kimball, q mining engineer.
The latter is a son of the late DR..
Kimball Of Haywards and a graduate
Of Stanford University. He and Mr..
Lee have been to the Mills mine at San
Fernando in the district of Culican
Sinaloa, and have returned to San
Francisco to meet Mr.. Mills. Ma
chinery for the mine and all the ap-
planes for opening up the claim are
to be sent from this point.
Among those who came down on the
Walla Wana were r. P. O'Neil, first
assistant engineer Of the wrecked
Cleveland, and Peter NORM and Joseph
Costa, two of the sailors. O'Ner was
in the captains boat, Norm and Costa
were in the mates boat which was res
cued by the Canadian tug Quadra.
They say all hopes of ever hear
ing from Second Mate Henderson's
boat have been given UP. When they
left the wreck Captain Hall, Captain
John MetcaIf, Lloyd's surveyor and
James Tyson were there trying to get
the wreck off. The mems account of
the disaster has already been pub
lIshed in The Call dispatches.
Gooda1, Perkins & Co. are expert
menting with a little coal oil launch
called "The Kid" in contradistinction
to the Pacific Mail Company's 1.-THE
~. Ill 1e
all the company's Alaska steamers will
be supplied with them to be used as
tenders at Dyea and Skaguay. Trading
steamers are allowed to carry coal oil
Of q high test, but they cannot carry
gasoline according to law. If, there
fore, THE Kid be a success there will
be no difficulty in keeping her supplied
with fuel.
So far she has not proved to be
success. In order to make the coal oil
sufficiently combustibie, 1t has to be
heated to a certain degree before reach
ing the spark. These arrangements are
not perfect, and consequently some
days THE Kid" will work to perfection
and other days it is worse than a baIky
mule. Yesterday It was on its good be-
havior and did wen and another trial
half a dozen of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company's employees were
out in the boat, but in nid-stream 1.-THE
Kid" struck work and drifted around
for an hour before a tug picked her UP
and towed her to Broadway wharf
The Alaska Commercial Company's
schooner Pearl arrived from Unga ISL
and yesterday with $4,000 in bullion
aboard from the Apollo mine. The cap
tain reports the schooner Arago at
Sand Point. The latter vessel made the
run up from San Francisco in the verv
fast time OF thirty days. A private let
ter to the Lynde & Hough Company
says the schooner was hove to for
thirty-four hours under bare poles. She
had out 120 fathoms of hawser with a
kedge at the end of it to prevent the
vessel from drifting. The Arago has
gone cod fishing and the captain re-
ports the weather as being very bad
and the fish as very scarce