The San Francisco call., 1898-02-25
A SOUTHEASTER MAKES TROUBLE Coasters Gould Not Get Out and Steamers
 Overdue.
The Klondike Craze Has Struck the Enployes of the Mail
 Company.
Nearly a Score of Them Throw Up Their Jobs and Are Going
 to Dawson.

The storm along the coast raised con- siderable trouble among the shipping yesterday. The wheat laden ship Royal Forth was to have gone to sea, but Captain Cooper did not like the looks of the weather and remained in port. The schooner Emma Utter was taken outside by the tug Active, but when the captain got a look at the bar he changed his mind and returned to the harbor. The gasoline schooner Mary c, for Bodega, and La Chilena, for Fort Ross, went as far as the heads, but returned to an anchorage oil Meiggs wharf to await a change in the weather The steamer Santa Cruz, from Seattle; Columbia, from Portland; North Fork, from Eureka Arcata. from Coos Bay; Samoa, from Eureka; Washtenaw, from Tacoma, and Gipsy, from Santa Cruz, were all scheduled to arrive yesterday morning, but were de Iayed by the southeaster which ragged outside. The schooner Mary Gilbert, which has made several attempts to get away with passengers for Prince Will Hams Sound, finally succeeded yester- day and will land the miners she has taken away at Orca station, near Cop per River.
 The steamer Mariposa is to sail to- day for Australia, calling at Honolulu, Apia and Auckland. At the last min ute accommodation was secured in the steerage for fifty marines, who will ar rive from Mare Island on the Unadilla this morning. These men will be drafted to the Bennington and Balti- more, now in Hawaiian waters, in or der to bring the crews of the men-of- war up to their full complement
 Police Corporal Cockrill had an ex- citing chase after a Japanese on the Mail dock yesterday. The Jap was placed under arrest for carrying a con- cealed weapon, and while the police of ficer was calling up the patrol wagon the Jap made a break for liberty He lodged in and out among the freight lying on the wharf, and was just pre- pairing to jump overheard when Cock Till caught him by the coat tail and pulled him down on the wharf. The Japanese has some friends on the steamer City of Peking, whom he was very anxious to see. For the last two or three days he has been bothering Gatekeeper Ford for permission to go down the wharf, but it has always been refused. Yesterday he came down armed with a big navy pistol, and his arrest followed. To prevent another attempt at escape the Jap was taken to the City Prison in irons.
 There is going to be an exodus of em- ployes of the Mail Company to the Klondike Third Officer Thompson of the City of Peking has resigned and his place has been taken by J. Marine, late third officer of the Aztec Second As sistant Engineer Venker, also of the City of Picking, and W. B. Swears, ship ping agent of the Mail Company, are all going to try their fortunes on the Yukon. Miss Clara Strand, the popular stewardess of the Newport, is to open a restaurant in Dawson City, and the Mail Company is now looking for her successor, as. the Newport is to sail in a few days. And 1t is said that fifteen other employees have the craze and have thrown up their jobs to go to the Klondike.
 The Union oil Company's tank bay steamer Oleum broke down again yes terday. She is used in carrying crude petroleum to the gas works, and this is the third time she has broken down since she was turned from a stern wheel steamer into a gasoline boat. Yesterday some part of her machinery gave out, and she had to be lowed to the gas works by a tug
 The following graduates of the Me Nevin Brothers Navigation School have been granted licenses by the United States Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers: As masters-Emile c. Gen. erieaux, Daniel Mclean, Charles Ev- ans, c. M. Wilson, William Kendall, Charles Madeison and George Wes ter. As mates-E Behrsing, E.. Thomp son, c. O. Sodardahl, Christopher Olsen, s. S. Pedersin, L. A. Gus tafson w H. Davis and Hermann G. Hansen. By the examining board of the Chamber of Commerce. as mas ter. Donald Munchison and John Kir-