The San Francisco call., 1898-02-10
STORM.BEATEN
 SHIPS IN PORT The Wachusett and Rufus E. Wood in the South
 easter. Stern and Barges for the Yukon Go North on
 the Sintram. Frozen Oranges From Fresno Seized on the Water Front and
 Destroyed.

Two more weather beaten VeSSeiS reached port yesterday, the Wachu- setts from Departure Bay and the Ru- fus E. Wood from Nanaimo, B. C. Both vessels encountered a succession of squalls during the voyage. Captain Davidson of the Wachusetts says they
 would freshen up from the southeast until regu-ar gale was blowing.
 Then it would haul around to the south, southwest, and then work grad ually back to the southeast and begin all over again. The ship caught the full force of the gale off Cape Blanco and there she was hove to for several days under lower topsails and a fore sail.
 The Rufus F. Wood came in under jury rudder. She caught the gale off the Columbia River and lost her rud- der-head in a squall that lasted three hours Captain Mcleod unshipped the spanker boom and made steering gear
 with it. Worked by tackles, the bark
 came along all right until heavy
 southeaster was run into off Point Arena. There the bark had to be hove to for some time until favorable
 wind came along and brought her into San Francisco.
 The United States sloop-of-war Mo- | hican came down from Mare Island yesterday. She had about half her complement of apprentice boys, and | when the others are procured she will start on a cruise in the southern seas, which will probably include long l stay at Samoa.
 Nearly sixty boxes of frozen oranges | were seized by Health Inspector Jor- | dan on the water front yesterday. The fruit was sent here by Hobbs, Parson & Co. of Fresno. Jordan made
 a speech to the crowd of peddlers and fruit dealers who were present, saying | that any of them who were caught | selling frozen fruit of any kind would | be arrested and prosecuted by the | Board of Health.
 Captain Dan James of the tug Ida w. and Captain William Johnson, owner Of the schooner J. B. Leeds, had an alter cation yesterday which ended in blows. The trouble arose over the cost of tow ing the schooner, Johnson insisting that the price charged was exorbitant and Captain James insisting that It | was fair and reasonable charge. | James got decidedly the better of the | argument, but the matter is not yet | by any means settled. Johnson was at | one time connected with the Pacific Mail Company and was also member
 of the Salvation Army.
 l The old whaler Lew Williams is to
 have a new set of twin screw engines
 put in, and when the alterations are
 completed she will go on the Dyea
 route until the Yukon River opens,
 when she will go on the run to St. l Michael.
 The ship Sintram, lying at Spear
 street wharf. will begin loading for the | Yukon River tomorrow. Four stern
 wheel steamers and six barges have been built for the Alaska Exploration Company. These will be put on board
 the Sfntram in sections, and with them
 will go 800 tons Of coal and 100 rpechan- | ics. The ship will be lowed to Dutch
 Harbor by the tug Fearless, and on
 her arrival there everything will be | discharged. The 100 men will be com
 posed of carpenters, painters and ma
 chinists, and they will proceed to put
 the steamers and barges together. The
 coal will be loaded into their bunkers
 and then the steamers will be able to
 start for St. Michael in June when the
 Yukon River opens.
 The Pacific Mail Company's steamer
 City of Para arrived from Panama and
 way ports yesterday with forty-seven cabin, twenty-four steerage and ten | Chinese passengers. The voyage was
 an uneventful one.
 Captain Wallace of the steamer l Walla Walla returned from the East yesterday and will resume command of
 his vessel when she returns from the
 sound. Captain Wallace went to Bos- l ton to attend the meeting of the Mas