The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27
THE COLOMA
 ARRIVES AT
 UNALASkA Overdue Bark Picked Up by the Cutter
 Bear. Delayed by Head Winds on the Northern
 Voyage. Assistance Comes When Her Water Supply Is Nearly
 Exhausted. ALL ON BOARD ARE WELL. Not Case of Sickness on the Vessel Since She Sailed for the
 Aleutians.
Assistance Comes When Her Water Supply Is Nearly
 Exhausted.
ALL ON BOARD ARE WELL.
Not Case of Sickness on the Vessel Since She Sailed for the
 Aleutians.
Special Correspondence of The Call.


 UNALAsKAa,Alaska, March 3.-The bark Coloma of San Francisco, Captain J. Mattson, was picked up in Bering Sea to-day by the relief steamship Bear and lowed into Unalaska. The Colo ma is a month overdue, having left Cape Flattery on December 30. When picked up she had been out sixty-four days and her supply of fresh water was nearly gone.
 On February and the Bear cruised in Boring Sea and the Aleutian passes looking for the Coloma. She returned in the firm belief that the bark had foundered at sea. On February 23 the Alaska Commercial Company's schoon- CT Pearl came into port from San Fran cisco and reported that she had passed the Coloma in Unimak Pass on the pre- Vious day. On the 27th and 18th the Bear searched for her again, but with out success.
 Since the 22d the bark had been try ing to beat up to the Bay of Unalaska and has been within sight of the noun tains of Unalaska Island ever since, except on the first of March, when she was blown off by the seYerest storm of this winter. All the way up from Cape F'lattery the Coloma had head winds constantly. She sighted Unalaska Island on February 16, but could not get into the pass until the 22d. All are we'll on board and there has been no sickness during the entire voyage.
 The Coloma is the first square-rigged vessel to make the winter trip to the Aleutian Islands. Last year a schooner belonging to the North American Com mercial Company the General Siglin, was lost with all on board trying to get to Kadiak Island. a much less difficult voyage.
 The steamships Portland and Bertha arrived on February 28, the Portland coming in eight hours ahead of the Bertha, although the latter had two days start.
 On March 1. the steamship Eliza An derson parted her moorings at Dutch Harbor and drifted on to the rocks, where she now lies a wreck. The An derson last summer brought a party of Yukoners as far as Unalaska. They had narrowly escaped from laundering on the way over, and on reaching this port the vessel was found to be fitted with scarcely any of the life-saVing de vices enumerated on her certificate of inspection. She was declared unsea- worthy and was prevented from con- tinuing her voyage to St. Michael.
 All are well in Unalaska, Dutch liar bor and on the Bear Both the North American Transportation and Trading Company and the Alaska Commercial Company are hard at work building steamships and barges for the Yukon trade, to be sent in the moment the river opens. Each company is building four steamships here.
 If one is going to the Klondike this year he should not buy transportation unless the passage up the river is guaranteed. Last year a large number of people got to St. Michael, but the companies which had river boats would not take them to Dawson unless they came up on the tickets of those com panies, as they claimed that they could not accommodate more than their own passengers and freight.
 On February 26 the body of Peter Shaishnikoff, assistant storekeeper for the Alaska Commercial Company at Unalaska, was found close to the wharf He had been missing for two days and the body was recovered by means of fishing lines.