The San Francisco call., 1898-08-25
HAD 4 WHALE
 FOR A TARGET Ship Captains Did Some Clever Shooting. IS KEEPING UP THE SEARCH MIR. PAXTON EAGER TO RE COVER HIS WIPES BODY. The Ex-Pilot Boat Caleb Curtis cn Her Way Here From China
 With a Party of Gold
 Hunters.
IS KEEPING UP THE SEARCH
MIR. PAXTON EAGER TO RE-
 COVER HIS WIPES BODY.

The supply of Australian coal In this market was largely augmented yesterday. Three vessels from Newcastle, N. s. w., made port during the day, and two more put In an appearance Tuesday night the ships Mayfield and Thornliebank were outside. and when the wind fell light they were anchored inside the lightship. When the fog lifted in the morning they were picked up by the tugs Reliance and Res cue and lowed into port Later the bark Inversnaid hove in sight. but her captain refused a tow until late in the afternoon. This left outside the bark Inverurie and the ship Duchalburn, and in their com pany was the American ship Santa Clara, from Karluk, with cargo of canned sal mon, the first of the season The Thorn liebank made the best run of the quintet. She came here from Newcastle in sixty seven days. while the others were "A, 75, " While S1td @ the ' Thornliebank and Mayfeld were lying at anchor on the bar yesterday morning Captains Mcbride and PhilHpps back whale for target. They got fifteen or twenty bullets into the mammal, but t seemed rsthsr to enjoy the sensation ship of nearly two years with the whale. When the Thornllebank was being built in Scotland whale visited the shipyard Captain Mcbride was experimenting the construction of the vessel and he and QOZen others thought IL WOuld DS d GOOQ joke to lassoo the whale. 4 steel hawser was passed over the mammals fiukes and then made fast to a pile. Now. this pile hi Which fhs stood alh caPtan N MeBrde @ and his friends. With swish of its mighty tail, away went the whale and away tain Mcbride and his friends into the waters of the Clyde. Their rescue took some time. and when they collected their senses whale, hawser and pile were gone. Captain Mcbride Mill not vouch for the pile, but he asserts that the whale which visited the Thornliebank yesterday morn, ing had something fast to his fiukes, and he believes 1t Is the one that paid his ship visit when she was on the stocks two
 The launch Amy was out all of yes terday with Charles E. Paxton and Hen ry Peterson aboard. searching for the body of Mrs Paxton. who was drowned week ago yesterday by the overturn- ing of the Scandals launch. Yesterday morning the bereaved husband patrolled the entire water front in the Amy and went as far south almost as Baden
 During the afternoon he went oyer to Goat Island and from there to the Berke- ley flats. No one in San Francisco knows the bay better than Henry Peterson, so that every current and eddy that would move the body will be followed system atically It will therefore only be mat ter of time when the remains will be re-
 The ex-pilot boat Caleb Curtis is on her way back to this coast. She Is on her way to Alaska with a party of gold hunters from Hongkong, and Is to stop here on her way north. On July she put into Yokohama for water and sailed again two days later. The Curtis was a well-known pilot boat on the bar years ago. and was once wrecked on Point Bo- nita A few years ago she was sold. and some parties here fitted her out as a sealer She went over to the coast of Japan and made a fair catch, but her captain not only sold 1t but also the ves- sci and then disappeared. The Curtis was in Hongkong when the captain sold her. and there she remained until Cap l tain Whistler, late of the Northern Pa cifc Company's steamer Tacoma, secur- | ed and fitted her out for a voyage to the 1 Klondike.
 Captain Slater has been appointed mas | ter of the bark General Fairchild vice | Captain Brannon, resigned.