The San Francisco call., 1898-11-14
T WAS 4 DAY
 IN JUNE ALONG THE WHARVES Visitors Who Missed
 the Etna. ARREST OF A FLOUR THIEF A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT THAT DID NOT COME OFF. The Sad Mishap of Geyserville Man and His Paul Revere
 Ride to Save His
 Bride.
ARREST OF A FLOUR THIEF
A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT THAT
 DID NOT COME OFF.

Somebody turned the leaves of the al- manac back yesterday and inadvertently turned on a day in June. The water front, which never does anything by halves in the way of climate, worked well over to August in its effort to swing back in the tide of time. The sky was cloudless, the bay waveless, with Indian summer effects along the shores. Around the docks the tar grew soft on the ships rigging and the East-street promenaders left foot prints in the Quarter-liquid asphalt A quartet of whalers lay asleep in the sun at the Howard pier, with suspicion of melted oil oozing from their seams. There was not a breath of breeze to flush the hot figureheads of the heavy-coated po- hcemen nor to shiYer the leafless houghs of Colonel Chadbourne's naples dying in their little rocky holes along the wharves
 Doubtless some of the midsummer heat came from the choleric feelings of sew eTal thousands of the Italian colony, who had come down to visit the cruiser Etna, moored off Folsom street. They were not to tread the decks of the warship and their expressions over this result added fervency to the atmosphere. The Etna $ commander brought up the visiting party with round turn when the first division of tugs, launches, scows, schooners, fish ing-boats and whitehalls reached his ship: Then and there nrSt-claSS row started into being. The chartererS of the fleet of boarding craft came clamoring for prece- dence at the gangway in all the idioms of the Latin and Anglo-Saxon tongue until the frantic skipper drove them all back into their boats and directed the Italian Consul to make explanations, which was that no visitor should come aboard Many enterprising boatmen had hired tugs and gasolene launches at considerable eX- pense, and their language in discussing the affair was heated to several warm de- grees.
 The expected naval engagement between a. ,fc-cfN and Commodore Buhner of the Treasury Department did not take place yesterday as vas advertised ana the u.5s Saon;atnee ne passed the day in peace. While the ad- miraI was getting his forces together to move the cutter Golden Gate by force out of the way of the brig Harriet G, that the latter vessel might come into the dock, the commodore moved the cutter himself and hosulitieS were averted..
 II am a ruined man. shouted J. L. Lit tlemore yesterday morning as he rushed he told his tale of woe, which was in ef- feet that he was on his way to Geyser- vile to wed Miss May Sweet, and he and the ceremony were due at the village of Boiling Water al p. m., and woe to him If he failed to appear at her side at that hour In that case she would believe him faithless. Geyserviiie rival would take his place and the merry wedding bells would ring for the villain. He had his tears. The entire ferry sri: building force gathered around him with their sympathy ana duNlCe ana ne was started north by later train. At Santa Rosa he would get the speediest team, and a relay at Healdsburg, sixteen miles away. From that place to Geyserville is eight miles, making total of seventy-five miles he must travel before 2 o'clock or lose his bride. History will tell how this Paul Revere-in-love made the ride
 William Johnson, a teamster, was ar rested by Officer John McGreevey on Broadway wharf as he drove off the dock with ten sacks of flour he had taken with out authority. He broke down, confessed not only to stealing the ten sacks, but to taking at different times several other loads of four. His plan was to apply for the articles with a bogus order, which en- abled him to carry his load away un- molested. He was suspected and was watched till arrested.
 The United States training ship Adams will leave this port with her crew of ap- prentices shortly after December l for Magdalina Bay. where she will remain two months. From that place she will make the Sandwich Islands, thence to Japanese ports, returning to San Fran cisco about July l, 1S99