The San Francisco call., 1898-07-31
ADRIFT IN
 <: MID.OCEAN. .'..;': =. A~Doubt::: as to the lden- tity of a Derelict. FoUNDERlNG OF THE GUAYMAs SANK FORTY MILES OFF THE
 COAST OF MEXICO. Ten Years Ago She Was Known Here as the Diego, Later as the
 Manuel Dublan and Next
 as the Guaymas.
F0UNDERlNG OF THE GUAYMAs
SANK FORTY MILES OFF THE
 COAST OF MEXICO.

The, underwriters and ship-owners are .-still worrying over the derelict that was sighted off. Point Reyes a few days ago.
 They are not at all satisfied in their own minds that the wreck is that of the bark Forest Queen. That vessel was old. hay ing been built in 1869. and they reason that she would not hold together for any length of time after turning turtle. The Forest Queen left the Sound in the early
 part of last March for San Pedro. and . If she =capsized it must have been during that month. If it was her remains that was: sighted off Point Reyes then they . must. have been derelict for about four nIonths,
 : James Tyson, agent of the Forest @neent says the description of the dere- "liet furnished by Captain Rasmussen of . tiae schooner Louise exactly tallies with the missing vessel. but then again others
 say that the description would fit at least a dozen coasters. The schooner No mad is long overdue from China at Puget sound and the southerly set may be car irving: her remains down the coast. An
 other schooner that left Puget Sound last May is also overdue and some of the underwriters think
 1t might be she All doubt as
 to~the name of the vessel would be set
 at rest and a big menace to navigation
 removed If the Government would only . send out one of the vessels now lying in
 port to either blow 1t up or bring it into
 port.
 70 The Merchants Exchange received the
 following telegram from MazatIan yes
 terday The steamer Guaymas of the Mexican Occidental Railroad Company
 of Mexico foundered forty miles north of Acapulco. The vessel went down gradu-
 ally The captain had sent one of his
 boats to Acapulco for assistance, but the steamer sank before the help came. All the passengers and crew, with the excep-
 uon of one sailor, were saved and are now at San Geronimo"
 The Guaymas was built in 1888 and was S3s tons net burden. She was 151 feet long, P feet 5 inches broad and If feet ! men deep. Her engines were built by
 ". B. Thompson of Dundee, Scotland but had seen many years of service be- lore. they were put in the Diego. The nome port of the vessel was Mazatlan, Mexico.
 A free fight on Folsom-street wharf last
 Wednesday ended in an investigation by the Harbor Commissioners yesterday. the the crew on the scow. pile-driver has not been a happy family for some time past Two of tile most belligerent have been D: Ahern and G. c. Heath, and their language when addressing each other
 ' Y. V last. when the days work was over, they adjourned to the wharf and had a set-to Aherh got the worst of 1t and appeared at yesterday meeting of the board with a very black eye. His version of the story, as told to Commissioners Harney and Herold, was that Heath called him 9ad Iyl names ana then struck him. Later Heath and the other men employed on the pile-driver went over and had a drink and then Heath returned and beat Ahern again.
 different, and as he was corroborated by half a dozen witnesses it was accepted as. the correct version. "Ahern called me 8; Dutch - and then struck me in the .stomach,' said he to Major Harney Then he. tried to scratch my face, and when I hit him a lick he turned and ran away-. He. did not look where he was going and ran into one of the uprights his eye. Then he got his thumb jammed in a crack and raised such a row that the. ,longshOremen working in the old of "a. ship came on deck to see who 7 as and fight. it out, but he would not, so left him.
 The two fighters were then sent out of the room. and the evidence of the others was taken It was all in corroboration of :Heath's story: Ahern was recalled and asked how he got his black eye. He said*he got 1t from Heath's fist.
 .'::Djdn't you run into post?" asked Major Harney. At this Ahern looked disgusted and replied: What in the name of God would I do that for. major?'' ;; This. .brdke up the meeting and Ahern was. excused. The Commissioners will probably r.suspend him for a week and order to give him another chance. co R.. Royd has been appointed chief sweeper on the water front He takes the place of ex-Senator T. Kane.
 'i The. ship Tacoma will be ready for her cargo of livestock tomorrow. The last :of the hay was taken in yesterday and as soon as the horses have been put aboard the vessel will sail for Manila.