The San Francisco call., 1898-05-05

| off in great shape when we once | started The hottest fight, however, I | ever did see was one that history has never recorded nor bards sung about. It was one of the revenue cutters coming l down from the Arctic with wrecked
 crew, and while it lasted it made hell | fairly pop in little space
 "On board the cutter there was dog l by the name of Taska and three
 quarter grown black bear. The dog
 reigned supreme from the break of the | poop aft while the bear considered everything on the main deck as his par l ticular property. As long as each animal l did not encroach on the territory or the ! other everything would go along pleas
 antly, but as soon as the border was ! passed then the trouble would commence.
 '"The dog was accustomed to sleep under | the cabin table, while along the transoms | on each side four men slept-the captain | of the wrecked whaler, the pilot, the cap | tain of the cutter, who had given up hls | own private stateroom to a minister who
 was aboard and myself. One night as the 1 little vessel was plunging and tossing in
 a heavy sea way. l. lying on the trausom 1 half awake, heard the dog under the table 1 uttering low growls and moving around 1 in an uneasy manner At the same time | something came softly pattering down the | brass shod steps of the companion way stopping at every IeW steps. l was won | dering what could be the matter, when | suddenly something black, emitting hor- rible growl, shot up on top of the table, | smashing the swinging lamp to atoms and immediately afterward pandemonium 1 seemed to have broken loose in the cabin. The other gentlemen of the transoms sprang out in their naked feet and rushed
 around in the darkness falling over each
 other and being continually trodden upon h1rf of he atpb
 deck, who. hearing the row, had come down below. The minister stuck his head out of the door and asked what the matter was. The chorus of sulphurous answers he received sent him back strangling to the privacy of his chamber.
 Finally a light was procured and there amidst the wreckage of what was once the cabin furniture. the bear and dog were discovered fighting like couple of things possessed of the devil. The dog was monster and game, but the bear was proving a little too much for him, though the blood and hair scattered over everything showed that neither was hav- ing any walkover. They were finally separated with the help of a red hot poker brought from the galley. The dog retired to lick his wounds. while the bear, making rush. in the course of which he managed to take about five inches of skin off the cutter captains leg, got into the pantry, where he started to demolish the crockery. Various plans were suggested for his dislodgment. but finally it was decided to lasso him and drag him out. The rope was thrown over his neck and an Irishman by the name of Duffy, mounting to the top of the com panion way tried to pull the beast up after him. The bear however would not move until the pilot drove the point of 8 cutlass into him, when he moved so quickly that Duffy was unable to get out of his way, and consequently passed the next three weeks under the care of the ships surgeon.
 When everything had quieted down the minister, emerging from his stateroom, said in the calmest manner possible: Was there not something unusual going on?' He received such an explicit answer from the cutter captain, whose leg was being bandaged. that he never asked another question until the vessel reached port, and he wanted to know what street car would take him to his destination"
 Among the late arrivals at the Grand is T. E. Dillena, mine owner of Jackson, Amador County.
 MT and Mrs. William Bollard arrived yesterday in the city and are to be found at the Occidental.
 Miles Wallace, the Yosemite Comrnis- sioner, is one of those who registered at the Grand yesterday.
 F.. A. Middleton, one of the big men of Watsonville, Is a guest at the Grand, where he arrived last night.
 W. A. Beherns, a wealthy manufacturer of Chicago, is at the Occidental accom- panied by his wife
 Y. Brithjenboth, a traveller from Am sterdam, Holland, is one of those who ar rived at the Palace yesterday.
 George H. Maitland of Healdsburg has come down to the city on a short business trip. and is registered at the California
 Vice-Presdent J. c. Stubbs and Freight Traffic Manager William Sproule of the Southern Pacific Company leave to-mor- row night for Cleveland Ohio, to attend the meeting of the Transcontinental Freight Bureau. which will be held in that city on the 10th of the month. The meeting is a continuation of the one recently held at Hotel Del Monte, at which the fight over carload and less-than-carload lots was the most interesting feature, and which re- suited In temporary victory for our merchants over those of the East.
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 Cal. glace fruit soc per ID at Townsend'ss