The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
GENERAL JAILBREAK PLANNED
SEVENTEEN PRISONERS READY :c, FOR THE ATTEMPT.
Three Opposition Steamers Now on .' :. the Alviso Run and Rates
 Are Being Cut in Consequence.

catraz have been heard from in an indi- /. feet manner. Sweeny, whose love for a :" North Beach girl, got him three years on tie island for assertion, has paid his lady love a visit, but to the army officers she ;prGfesses the greatest ignorance as to his
 whereabouts. The boat in which the men made their escape has been picked up on the beach at Goat Island. There was about a pint of blood in the bottom of :. her. and the sides were smeared with : blood. This bears out the statement of :: tie sentry, who says he hit one of the es- . capes and heard him grooming in the bot @tom of the boat. The supposition is that
 tic runaway soldiers landed at North ;. Beach and then cut the boat adrift. Had they landed on Goat Island, there would :: have been no means of escape, as none of '- the boats used at the stations on the isl
 and are missing
 .. It appears that there was to have been . a general jail-break on the island last : week: Seventeen prisoners were all ready to take French leave" but the disabling
 of' the gasoline launch threw all the plans :out of gear. Sweeny and his companions :. were afraid to walt until another oppor-
 tnnity arose and determined to trust :themselves to the small boat. Extra
 guards now patrol Alcatraz night and day
 and 1t will be a clever prisoner who es- ;.capes for some time to come.
 The transports Australia and City of P: Sydney will begin coaling to-day. The ,' Australia will go to the sugar refinery for
 
 . get hers at the Mail dock. Both vessels : are to take troops to Honolulu. The Scan- ,: :dta is ready and it is said she will go out ;" ever, that all three vessels will sail to- gether next Saturday or Sunday. - The Woodmen of the World are to have
 an excursion around the bay tomorrow.
 They will go out on the river steamer
 Caroline and Captain Leale will show ~ them all the points of interest in the bay
 The Caroline has had new engines and
 boilers put in and is now one of the finest river boats in the bay.
 .. The transport City of Picking arrived : from Manila via Nagasah yesterday. She
 was twenty-three days coming up and . brought back fifteen enlisted men whose
 time of service had expired. On August : 1s; in latitude A north AZ west an Ameri- . can three-masted schooner with main-top
 mast gone, was spoken. She was steering =. There is a lively little rate war on be- tween San Francisco and Alviso. The rate by steamer used to be 50 cents to Aiviso and 75 cents to San Jose. but it is safe to say that those figures will be -~ cut one-half before the week is out. Be- . fore. the klondike boom struck San Fran CISCO the stern wheel steamer Alviso had .. the trade all to herself. She was taken ., 9fti however, and fixed up for the Yu- :. kOn trade. When the bottom fell out of the boom the Alviso was put back on '' her old run. The reasons that kept the <:.AlNtso in San Francisco Bay also pre- vented the river steamers Alice RiX and :H..C; Grady from going north The name of the RiX has been changed to San Jose, and lThat oI the Grady to J. NJ 1 Smith. and both of them are running op- ! position to the Alviso. There is just so
 much business on the run, and there are sure to be some lively times over the securing of 1t. Incidentally it should
 have some effect on the freight rates be- tween here and San Jose
 The barkentine Planter now holds the "record for a round trip to Laysen Island
 from Honolulu. The former record was :: tnirty-one days, but the Planter went to Laysen and loaded 1000 tons of guano and /: got back to Honolulu in twenty-five days. . Fifteen amateur fishermen, headed by Milton Perry, Henry Tobin, James Gin dOrf and George Williams, gave their 70 friends and relatives a great fright yes to the Cordell Banks last Saturday night. a'hey returned safely last evening, the de- lay being caused by discovery that coal oil had been supplied in place of gaso- line for their schooner launch, the Ida A: They speak highly of their entertain ment by Captain Ahlin.
 .:' The members of the Chamber of Com
 merce are deeply interested in having something done to prevent any more accidents similar to the one on the bay recently in which the Government steam CT Mcdowell ran into and sunk the launch of the Scandia. A letter was sent .to.the Board of Harbor Commissioners
 asking if there are any rules that can
 be applied to put a stop to vessels run .Iiing so close to the end of the wharves, to: which the Commissioners yesterday
 replied; calling attention to paragraph
 5 Of rules and regulations for the port of San Francisco, adopted by the liar
 sells propelled by steam, except when go- ing. to or leaving the seawall, must not
 run inside of a line 800 feet distant from and parallel with said seawall.