The San Francisco call., 1898-10-10
TRANSPORTS
 MAY LEAVE
 ON SUNDAY Necessary Repairs Are Being Rushed.
REAR ADMIRAL MILLER HERE
TO TURN THE COMMAND OVER
 TO COMMODORE KAUTZ.
Death of Captain Cattermole-Eva Hess Went to Victoria on the Walla Walla as Flor
 ence Cooper.

The transport Indiana got in yesterday morning and the Newport will prooaoiy arrive to-day. Both vessels left Manila in fairly good trim, but the Indiana has taken a very long time to get back. She made the run to Yokohama in fourteen days and there she coaled. From foko- hama to San Francisco she took twenty six days, or nearly fortnight longer than the Mail steamers. A slight break in her machinery was the cause or the delay. The Newport is only twenty-seVeh days out from Manila but she called at Kobe and sailed again on September Zz' so she should be here at any hour now
 The Senator will come off the Union Iron Works drydock to-day and the Va lencia will take her place. The Ohio VIII ro on the Union Iron Works drydock to- day also and as soon as she has been overhauled the Indiana will take her place. The latter vessel went direct to the quarantine station and will be fumi- gated before she goes on the drydock. The Newport will follow the Valencia at the Trnion Iron Works and an effort will De made to get all five vessels away next week. If they can be fitted out by Mon day they will leave in c punch. II not the Senator will sail next Sunday ana the others will follow as they are got ready
 The cruiser fIllldISAPiAiei ID b0NtN SNe 4-ON old anchorage off Folsom street wharf She went down to Honolulu in the good time of six days, nineteen hours, but as there was no hurry 10 get home the re turn run occupied nine days, nineteen hours During the first part or the Voy. age she was delayed by strong head winds. Early yesterday morning Rear Admiral Miller came ashore and on his return to the cruiser will turn her over 10 Commodore kautz, who VIII succeeu hiiii in command of the Pacific station.
 Admiral Miller will go on the retreo TSt by operation of law early next month lie has been more than forty years in active service and has commended in all parts of the world. He has been q member or the faculty at Annapolis and served with distinction throughout the civil war: ana has therefore seen the evolution or tbe war ship from the wooden frigate of Far ragut's time, through the ironclad 10 the steel structure of to-day. He mas served Uncle Sam in all capacities and his ialth- full service of forty years practlcalhIy .hN, ended when he unfurled Old Giory to lHS Hawaiian breeze.
 The Philadelphia will probably remain in the stream for couple or days ana will then go to Mare Island for an over
 Captain John Carl Cattermoie the we'll known ship chandler, died yesterday al the ripe age of 74 years He was hale and hearty almost to the last. so his death comes as a surprise to his hosts of 1884 in command of the German bark Gottfried He ran her between here and Mexican ports for a long time and then in 1873 he returned to Germany. He sold out all his interests in that country and with his family came back 10 San Fran cisco. For a time he ran on the coast in the old bark Bohemia. but finally he gave up the sea and went into the ship chand- lery business which he conducted, along with his son Charles H., up to the day of his death.
 The steamer Walla Walla arrived from Puget Sound ports yesterday, and her officers bring news or Eva Hess, the O'Farrel street a few, days ago. She went north on the Walla Walla as Flor ence Cooper and became very friendly with a drummer who was making the trip to Seattle Eva or Florence became very lively the second day out from San Francisco and the chief steward had to s!ons. At Victoria, B. C., she left the vessel, and on the return trip of the steamer some of the crew say they saw her on the street in company with a alone during the voyage and evidently went north of her own volitton.
 Wong Sam, an old, friendless and pow erty-stricken Chinese, attempted to com init suicide the water front yesterday The last 10 cents he had in the world he invested in Chinese lottery ticket. and when 1t did not win anything he walked down to Union-street wharf and Jumped overheard. Some of the crew Of Brit ish ship fished him out and took him to the Harbor Receiving Hospital, where Drs. Fitzgibbon and Green brought him around
 William Thompson. driver at PaIo Alto had a narrow escape from drowning early yesterday morning. He was drunk and wandered into the bay from Mission street wharf Dr. Green who was asleep in the Harbor Receiving Hospital. and George ". Pratt, who was asleep on the State tug Governor Irwin, heard his screams for help and went to his assist ance. They got a loop of a rope over Thompson's shoulders and under his arms. Then 1t took four of them to get him on the wharf. Thompson went back to Palo Alto last night after signing the
 The ship William H. Macy which was recently purchased by Eschen Miner for the coastiug trade, is receiving a thorough overhauling. She is on the dry dock being recalked and coppered and put in first-class trim. Captain Slater will be her new master, and her first voyage will be to Seattle for a load of coal
 The American ship A. G. Ropes arrived from New York yesterday after a smart passage of 13s days Captain Rivers sailed her through the Straits Of Le Maire, and on August s was caught in a blizzard The crew had a hard time of il keeping warm and some of them were slightly frostbitten- In Is north 19 west the Ropes caught the southern edge Of a hurricane but fl did not do much damage. She brings Q general cargo to Williams, Dimond & Co.
 The steamer Fulton arrived yesterday from St Michael via Dutch Harbor, Seattle and Grays Harbor. On her way down the coast she picked up the sschoon- CT Berwick in a waterlogged condition and towed her 10 the mouth of the Co., where she was turned over