The San Francisco call., 1898-07-26
Several of the Oregon
 Fleet in Collision.
B0ILERMAKERS ON A STRIKE
NIGHT SHIFT ON THE STEAMER
 CENTENNIAL WALKS OUT.
Demand for Double Wages Met by a Curt Refusal, So They Packed Up Their Tools and
 Quit.

The Oregon grain fleet seems to be hav-
 ing a hard time of 1t. The ship Cypro-
 meme has arrived at Queenstown leaking.
 On May 12 last a rivet started and up to
 the time of reaching port the vessel made
 more or less water. The bark Tweeds- dale was damaged in storm and had to put into Durban. South Africa. A dis patch received by the Exchange yesterday
 says she has been in collision with the German bark Triton. The damage is not known. The German ship Emile from
 Portland for Antwerp was also in col
 lision and has put into Hamburg. The
 extent of her injuries is not known.
 From midnight to 5:45 a. m. yesterday
 the only arrivals were the steamers Az
 tet and Sequoia and the schooner Mon
 terey. From that hour up to p. m. there
 was not a sail in sight, but ten minutes
 later the schooners Sequoia, Western
 Home, Zampa. Eclipse, Amethyst, Vik-
 ing and Defiance, bark Aureola and ship
 Louis Walsh and two or three others that
 could not be made out all showed above
 the horizon The ship Clan Macfarlane
 that got in during the night made a very
 fast passage of 127 days from Liverpool.
 Captain Templeton has his bride with
 him this voyage. the gallant skipper hav-
 ing married since he was here last
 year on the River Platte the Macfar- lane was caught in a pampero and lost
 suit of Saus Otherwise the voyage was
 uneventful.
 The Mail 'Company's steamer Aztec ar
 rived from .Hongkong and Yokohama
 yesterday. She brought over 115I tons of
 Freight and only one Chinese passenger.
 Like all the steamers that have arrived
 from HOugkOng since the battle of Ma niIa Bay, the Aztec brings over number
 of trophies of the fight The purser is the proud pDSSeSSOr of an uneNploded
 shell that was dug out of the ruins of .Cevite and also Of a number of tattered flags. Almost wagon load or uneX- pl0ded shells have been brought rom Ma nlla since May last, and as they are all v6uched for as having been fired by the American fleet the inference Is that Uncle Sam $ ships must have carried some mighty poor ammunition or else some body must have been gulling the relic hunters.
 steamer H. J. Corcoran is about to for sake the sea for a short time and turn his attention to gold mining. He has just cleaned up S30000 on a little mining deal in Tulare County and now intends developing some fine properties he owns in Fresno and Calaveras Counties. Cap tain McMurtry found out yesterday, Dluch. to his disgust that had he and his partners held on to the Tulare property another week they would have doubled their money. Captain McMurtry resigns his command Of the Corcoran on Aug ust l.
 Owing to a break down on the new river steamer H. J. COrcoran last Satur- QaJ there were a Der or disappointed people in both San Francisco and Stock ton. The steamers cylinder head was damaged during the run up the river, and 1t will be couple of days before she is on the run again. When the T. c. W alker reached Stockton on Sunday it was decided to take the City )f Stockton out of retirement and put her On the COrCOran'S run for that evening" l Tn consequence r. Daggatt the able chief l steward of the Walker had his hands full He got his men aboard the Stock | on, cleaned her up thoroughly, fur | lished up all the rooms. got the kitchen | n working order and had a firSt-class | meal ready and everything in apple pie | order when the steamer left her dock for | San Francisco at D. m
 The new steamer Aloha has been | placed on the berth for St. Michael She | laS nrst-claSs accommodation for about | seventy passengers. As she Is to tow up Yukon, those who go up on the Aloha 1 nay be reasonably certain of reaching 1 he gold fields without delay.
 There was a small strike aboard the i steamer Centennial yesterday. The yes 1 sel is having new plates put under her boilers and the work goes on night and . day. The boilermakers and the night | shift demanded double pay, and when if | was refused them they walked out. The { Risdon Iron Works has the contract. and 1 H. Tabrett, the marine superintendent | says he had no difficulty in filling the | strikers places.
 A letter box which Postmaster Mon -ague has caused to be placed at Peter 1 sons boat house is proving a great ac- ,ommodation to the shipping community. | All the revenue cutters and men-of-war lie off Folsom street. and heretofore inc | sailors had to take their chances of get l ting some one who was bound up-teV,n .o mail their letters at the ferry depot Now every boat that comes to the Fol | landing brings one or more letters to mail. Merchant vessels are also much accommodated by it. and if ! will prove a godsend on the sailing day 0t the transports as nearly every one ! ashore to be mailed.
 The gunboat Iroquois came down from Mare Island yesterday. She is to tow the ship Tacoma to Manila and will he | got ready in the stream.