The San Francisco call., 1898-12-20

went and borrowed a revolver from one Of the officers. He returned to his room with the weapon and drove everybody be- fore him. The bo'sun tried to disarm him, put lied when the pistol was pointed at him Just to show you fellows that and with that he emptied his revolver at the row of electric lights in the alleyway. He put five of them out, one after the other, after which he was overpowered
 One of the first men aboard the vessel yesterday was Major Field of the artil- Iery He went out to investigate some trouble between Captain c. P. Echols, C. ;. A, and Captain Nat T. Messer, U. $. V, and the crew of the ship. It was this aftalr that nearly caused mutiny stop ped the transport in midocean and caused all hands to go without cooked food for tWenty-four hours. The whole trouble was caused by the cabin windows of other officers who may in future have to travel by that transport they should be moved to some other portion Of the cabin. These particular windows open out on the forward deck, and at night. if the curtains are not drawn across them throw very strong light, which is very 1t might prove source of danger, Cap tain Hart gave orders that the curtains should always be drawn when the lights in the cabin were burning
 On the evening of December Captains Echols and Messer were playing cards in the cabin, and in order to get every breath of air that that was going had the .{3 eur IT, could not keep a proper lookout on ac- count of the light, and sent word to the chief steward to have the curtains closed. Harry Schwartz, the watChman in the cabin, was sent to do the job. He closed one curtain and went to the other. When he turned around the hrSt one vas done it. he closed 1t again. Il opened that" said EchOls. '1eave it alone" The boy explained that it was the captains orders and he must obey him. He closed the curtains again, and EcholS got angry. He sent for the chief steward and said said he had not been impertinent and had only obeyed orders. Then Messer and Echols ordered him to be put in irons.
 In a few minutes the news spread all over the ship, and the cooks and walters went on strike. Captain Hart explained to them that it was mutiny on the high seas but they refused duty unless Schwartz was released. The mutiny spread to the firemen, and the steam in the boilers dropped lower and lower until there was barely headway on the trans port. The chief engineer was sent for, and he said he could do nothing, as his firemen said they could not keep steam on the vessel
 By this time the two captains thought it was time to do something, and they agreed to release Schwartz if he would sign a written apology. This the boy re- fused point blank to do, saying he had done nothing for which he should apolo- SlZe. All llllS llIllt ploIH Ildi ldu DStH acting as mediator, and he finally got Schwartz to say that in whatever he had said he had not meant to be impertinent but that in closing the curtains he had only obeyed orders His irons were struck off and that ended the matter for the time being. The boys father was down to meet the Scandia, and he intends to make somebody suffer for the indignities heaped upon his son.
 Captain EchoIs left the Scandia at Honolulu and came to San Francisco on the Gaelic He is now in the East Nat T. Messer Jr. left the Scandia at Hono- lulu also, and came up on the Alameda Both Captain Messer and Captain Echols have. therefore laid their side of the case before the authorities, so Major Field went out yesterday to get the other side of the case.