The San Francisco call., 1898-02-08
Pilot Boats Called in Q Hurry by the Sharp
 shooter.
The Captains Mad When Ii Turned Out to Be Only a
 StOwaWay.
Charles s. Woods of Winters Search ing the Front for His Run
 away Wife.

shooter gave the pilot boats America and Lady Mine short race outside last Sunday. She was lowed to sea early in the morning and in the after noon Captain Little" Jordan of the American and Captain Big" Jordan on the Lady Mine both sighted the barkentine with her ensign flying at half-mast. Both the pilots thought that some serious accident had hap pened so in spite of the strong wind and heavy sea they ran down to the vessel The America was the first to reach her and as she came up under the barkentine's counter a big wave broke on board which almost sub merged the smart little schooner. Cap tain Jordan was equal to the occasion, however, and soon had the Sharp shooter within hailing distance. The captain of the barkentine told the pilot that he had a stowaway on board whom he was unwilling to take to Honolulu
 According to the laws of Hawaii cap tains of vessels are liable for any des- titute person they may bring to the islands. AS the stowaway had not a cent nor even a change of clothing the captain could not listen to his appeal to be allowed to work his way down as he knew if the man succeeded in landing the ship would be libeled and if he didn't land he would have to bring him back to San Francisco Even then the immigration officer here might refuse to land the man because he IS not a United States citizen so that the Sharpsheoter might have been saddled with him for an indefinite period.
 A boat was lowered and the stow away was taken on board the America, after which both the pilot boats went back to their stations. A little while later Captain Harry Marshall or the tugboat Active came along and Cap tain Jordan signaled him. The situa- tion was explained to Captain Mar shall and the stowaway was trans ferred to the tug. Later he was land ed at Folsom-street wharf. To the crew of the Active he said that his name was Harry Edwards and that not being In good health he wanted to reach his friends in Honolulu. He gave his ring, $3 Gall the money he had) and his best suit of clothes to one of the sailors to stow him away. The sailor performed his part of the contract, but in an unfortunate moment he put his head out of his place of concealment to get a last look at California and the
  the signal was flown from the Sharp shooter. Edwards was fairly well dressed but did not have the appear ance of ever having done any hard work He felt very sore over the re- fusal of the captain of the barkentine to allow him to work his way down. He is now stranded in San Francisco with only one suit of clothes and To cents in his pocket.
 Charles . XNOOdS was round the wa ter front all day yesterday looking for his wife, Gertrude, who has deserted him. Woods is a pruner by profession and earns big wages in the orchards and vineyards in YOlo County. Lately, however, he has been drinking consid- erably, and his wife of two summers, getting tired of 1t, said she was going to leave him. She got together all the money that was in the house. acked all her clothes and left for San Fran cisco last Thursday. The next day Woods began to realize his loss, and, not having any money and being un- able to borrow any, he walked all the way to San Francisco. On his arrival here he searched the town all over and then enlisted the services of Sergeant Tom MahOney of the harbor police. The two of them tried diligently to find the missing woman but failed, so last
 
 cents to pay his way to Benicia and said he was going to walk the rest of the way back to Winters. Woods de- scribes his wife as a handsome bru- nette, a little above the medium size and dressed in a brown suit and a brown hat. She is a country girl, never having been in San Francisco but once in her life, and then only for a couple of hours. If Woods does not hear from .l,- ba fc- %O his affairs in order at Winters and come back to San Francisco to con- tinue the search.
 The steamer City of Puebla had an exceedingly rough trip of it from Puget Sound to San Francisco. She had to buck into a heavy wind and sea all the way down and was in consequence nearly twelve hours late in getting in. Part of the railing was carried away and some of the windows in the pilot house broken. Captain Debney. who took the Queen to Seattle, came down on the Puebla as a passenger. He will take charge of the steamer Pomona on her next trip, vice Captain Cousins, who go~s north to assume command of the Umati!la at Port Townsend. Cap tain Harry Goodall, who took the Uma- tilla north, will come back to San Francisco and will assume command Of the steamer COlumDla n 1ne POrt- land route Captain Conway of the Co., lumbia has been transferred to Port land, where he has been appointed su- perintendent of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's steamers.
 The British bark freddie and the American bark Encore both arrived from Honolulu yesterday after a rather lengthy passage of twenty days. Both of them are sugar laden and will go to Oakland, where their cargoes will be discharged into cars en route to New York. This is the first of the sugar car goes that are to be transhipped direct into cars for New York.
 The British bark Cambrian from Ore gon for Queenstown has been lowed into London in distress. The cable gram to the Merchants Exchange says that She had lost many of her sails. her pumps were broken and the decks dam aged
 The bark Oakland. which was aban- doned some time ago off the Columbia River and later lowed to Port Hadlock in a Waterlogged condition. is to be sold at auction al the Merchants Ex- change to-day.
 The Alaska Yukon Transnortation Company's steamer Albion got away for Juneau, Dyea and Skaguay yester-