The San Francisco call., 1898-09-23
SOME SOLDIER
 BOYS RETURN
 FROM MANILA The China Back From
 the Orient. ZEALANDIA IS AT NAGASAKI THREE WEEKS BEFORE SHE
 STARTS HOME. An Opposition Line of Steamers Has Been Put on the Route Between San Francisco and Puget
 Sound.
zEALANDIA IS AT NAGASAKI
THREE WEEKS BEFORE SHE
 STARTS HOME.

The transport China arrived from Ma nia via Hongkong and Nagasaki yes terday. Those who came up on the vessel were: Major General F. V. Greene, Cap tain w. G. Bates, Lieutenant s. Schiftiin, Major General J. B. Babcock, Major s. D. Sturgis, Captain Theodore Rethers, M. D., Chief Engineer Galt of the Charles ton, J. Faye, J. Jack, Murat Halstead. H. Wolfe, Felipe Agoncillo, Sixto Lopez, Dr. Foute and the following soldiers: B. F. Merryman, l.. c. Myers. c. w. Der minger. H. R. Thomas, c. Albrecht. c. D. Whitehead, F. McCann. J. K. Jenkins, H. E. Brown, c. B. Russell and M. Gable.
 Senors F. Agoncillo and s. Lopez are the financial agents of General Aguinaldo. They will go from here to Washington in the hope of conferring with President Mo Kinley. From there they will go to Paris to attend the peace conference.
 Murat Halstead Is correspondent for the New York Herald. At Honolulu he was taken sick. but afterward recovered sufficiently to proceed to Manila At the latter place he was again taken sick. so he came back home. J. Jack is a mem- Der of the firm of Smith, Bell & Co.,. mer- chants of Manila, and was enabled to make the trip to San Francisco through the courtesy of General Merritt c. D. Whitehead has the honor of having been the first United States soldier to land in the Philippines during the war. He has been invalided home. H. Wolfe went from San Francisco with General Greene as interpreter.
 General Merritt and his staff went as far as Hongkong on the China. At that point they took one of the Peninsular and Oriental steamers and went direct to Paris. M. Gable, who came here on the He is going through to Chicago and car ries ali the generals private correspond ence.
 transport Zealandia was on the dry dock After leaving Manila the latter vessel was, caught in ,typhoon and had he, her nd ruddeG post i i ans an9 1t was expected then that another three weeks would be required to complete the repairs to the Zealandia.
 It Is not known yet whether the China will go back to Manila as transport or not The Mail Company has her sched- uled to sail for Hongkong via Honolulu seems determined to keep her, and in that event she will carry troops to Mania. She is in first-class order and could be five days at the outside.
 An opposition line to the Pacific Coast Steamshp S4mpany has , started tar in the every seven days. and has begun by cut. ting the first-class passenger rate to VIZ and the second-class to g. The new line will run the steamers Charles Nelson. Cleveland and Lakme. The former two will carry freight and passengers and the I.akme will carry freight and combusti- bles only. The steamers will run direct to Tacoma and Seattle, and will connect at those points, with other steamers for all agent of the new line, and J; Tyson. who represents Captain Charles Nelson. went north few weeks ago and looked the Was the placing of the Charles Nelson. Cleveland and Lakme on the route in op- position to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company.
 M ODay and J. Meyer had a marrow escape from drowning yesterday. They drove down to Mission l wharf with a horse and wagon ana 1oo got f unaer nnae The The horse took fright at steamboat whistle and backed the wagon and the men In 1t overboard Luckily the the men me ,0rse were da res, and the animal was drowned. The horse and wagon went down in the Falls of Af- tons berth & and ns,d as that d vessel haf was ne eX Assistant Chief Wharflnger Scott nou- fled ODay and Meyer that they would have to get the wagon and ,nsa haraess @ up up as and the big 3O0O-ton ship is now on top of horse, harness and wagon.
 The British ship Vimeira, l57 days from passed Cape Horn 74 days out and, then had a succession of heavy gales for 21 days On July IA she was caught in hur- ricane that lasted 4S hours, during which nearly whole suit of sails was blown
 The schooner Helen N; Kimball arrived in latitude 3e.57 north, longitude 1N.So hemorrhage. The deceased had some rel thought he could reach port with the re- mains. When off Point Reyes last We'd nesday the body had to be consigned to
 The big raft containing s,5oo0oo feet of lumber that left Astoria in tow of the tugs Rescue and Monarch was off Eureka
 The British ship Balasore, I'll days from Newcastle, England the Caithness- shire. T days from Newcastle Australia. and Honolulu. fHe iegcHi got in edIi yesterday. A ~ rum
 Captain McMurtry, the popular master of the new river steamer, H. J. Corco- vacation a.s in Fresno County. The gallant captain wanted to get as far away as possible from old ocean, so he took his spot spot 5000 feet above the level of the sea On August 30 he says the grass around his camp was covered with frost and on esef nss se on S f in Tfr se oTr e 9a Captain McMurtry Is a mighty hunter and the cabin of the Corcoran is to be hm dns his Vaeaon The pea oy trophies are the skins of deer. noun tain lion and bear. Just as Captain Nc the mountain lion sprang on the unsus, pecting animal. The captain fired and. strange to say, both animals rolled over dead Just then the bear came out of A thicket, and, without a pause the captain fired again. Over rolled the bear and now McMurtry has the three skins as proof of his prowess.
 The Chilean bark Bundaleer, which ar- rived from Newcastle, N. S. w, last Wednesday night. was short of provi- sions, but the crew did not suffer very much.