The San Francisco call., 1898-01-27
ROUNDED THE HORN IN A CALM

w. H. Triggs. The chartering of this steamer is the biggest transaction yet recorded, as hundreds of thousands of dollars are involved in it.
 It is said that the steamer Czarina is to be taken off the Coos Bay trade, fitted with berths for 100 passengers and put on the Dyea- -Skaguay run.
 The steam schooners National City and Albion have been chartered by the Alaska Yukon Transportation Com pany and will at once be fitted out as passenger steamers. The Albion will sail from here on February 5 and the National City five days later. The com pany has booked it's first passengers for Dawson City. via the Yukon. Mrs. Bjornstad and a party from Ross Val ley will leave here about May l on the steamer National City.
 The steamer City of Puebla got away yesterday with the following passen- gers for Dyea and Skaguay:
 J. Ahrens. w. Steiner. D. Baltansky, NJ. R. OConnel, H. Kahrs. Mrs. Gilman and two children, J. c. Rice, n. l.. Gray, A. " 0ieson F Keel C de Martini Ma1rti ,,I R. Peters. A. T. Kinsky. M. B. Courtney, F. AIlenan, F. H. Perreiter. B. Schwartz, P. l.. Decoto, A. Mold. R. B. Price, Mrs. M. l.. l.. Loomis, c. R. Mofatt, w. w. Hough. E. W. W Neal. W. H. Peckham, NJ. NJ . Kate Johnson. Mrs. F. Cligrial.
 Donald Mcleod, new arrival from Australia, was also to have been a pas senger but he got into the hands of the Philistines and missed his boat. Tues day morning he had his ticket by the Puebla, G41 in sovereigns, S20 in gold and two gold rings. He met Pat O'Donnell and John Hessing, two sail OTIS who were to have joined the Brit ish ship Kilmory yesterday, and in their company visited Barbary Coast. Last night Officers Bean, Castor and Clifford heard that O'Donnell and He's sing were spending English money lavishly, so they locked them up on suspicion. On them were found 936, one ring and s6 45. Shortly afterward
 Mcleod showed up and said he had
 been robbed and identified the two
 men. Captain Ferguson of the Kill mory had to get two more sailors be- fore his vessel could put to sea-
 The schooner Actaea is fitting out at Brooklyn, N. Y, for St. Michael via Bermuda and San Francisco. She has ! been purchased by Captain Charles C. | Mccarthy, late chief officer of the Pa cific Mail Company's steamer Star
 buck. She will bring out ten passen- gers, three of whom are women. | At a meeting of the Alaska Trade Committee yesterday morning 1t was decided to have an exhibit at the Min ing Fair showing the supplies neces- sary to last one man one year in the KlOndike, and also to have cooking exhibit. showing how the food should be prepared in the Alaska gold fields. The committee will distribute literature and give all the information regarding routes, sailing dates, fares, etc, and. in fact. establish a branch office at the fair for the purpose of informing those who have been induced to come via San Francisco on account of the fair, of the real status of things in Alaska and | to give the most accurate data on all points,
 H. Calkskein, the steward, and the l second mate of the barkentine Sharp shooter. had a narrow e. ape from as- phyxiation yesterosy. The barkentine has been chartered to carry sugar from Honolulu and as she was infested with rats 1t was determined to kill them off
 before putting the vessel into commits sion. Accordingly everything was bat tened down and a charcoal fire started in the hold The fumes awoke the two men who had gone to sleep in their
 hunks. and they were helped on deck | only just in time. CalkSkein was ta- ken to the Harbor Receiving Hospital,
 where pr. Deas soon had him out Of danger. | On the 9th inst. reinsurance was paid
 in England on the following vessels:
 British ship Glenpark, from Rio de Janeiro for Astoria under charter to C.
 w. McNear, guineas per cent: Ra- venscrag, from Port Townsend to Cal lao with 1,O0O,000 feet of lumber aboard. 10 guineas per cent; Strousa, from San
 Francisco to Leith, 15 guineas per cent. l (The Strousa arrived at Leith on the
 o9d inst) And the steamer Pelican, from Port Townsend for Taku, So
 guineaS per cent.