The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
LIVELY RACE BETWEEN TUGS. The Vigilant Outran the .' Alert in a Trial of . :.-.
 Speed.
Some Anxiety Over the Non Arrival of the Nellie G. Thurston.
spoken. 700. Miles. South west of This . ~ Port blythe Steam w haler ;. :-::s: Jeanette.

e. The tugs Vfgilant and Alert had trial of speed from the sugar refinery to Fol- som street wharf yesterday, and the Wig |. liant won. The Alert has. recently re- ceived thorough overhauling and had a new boiler put in. When Captain Jo- seph F. Trewren of the Alert found that he was to bear the Vigilant company back from the. refinery he determined to try conclusions with the crack of the Blackstack fleet. Captain John SfIovich was not averse, so when an, even start was had the engineers were told to open the engines up. It was blowing hard and a choppy sea was on but both steamers flew through 1t. The spray broke clean over the: pilot houses, but each: captain held on and for. the first mile neither had the. advantage. Then the Vlg1lant began to. gain inch by inch and when Folsom street wharf was abreast she was three open lengths to the good. The Wig liant is much the larger and more power full boat of the two. so the Alert, though beaten, was certainly not diSgraced.
 There: has been a general miXup on the schooner Thomas s. Negus. that arrived here from New York two weeks ago with 8 party. of gold hunters. Captain Me Cure, who brought the schooner out, has sold out his interest in. the vessel, and F Captain Errart is now. in command. The gold hunters. had to get all. their sup plies here and they made their arrange ments with Smiths cash store by which the latter takes over the management Of the schooner and the miners get their supplies:.~: The Negus is going with the New Workers to Copper River and on her return to San. Francisco she will be fitted out to carry passengers to St. Michael
 The steamer Zealandia arrived from Honolulu yesterday with seventy-four cabin and thirty-nine steerage passengers; She was late in leaving Honolulu, and owing to heavy head weather she was unable to make up:the lost time. '.-
 The schooner Nellie c. Thurst6n. now Francisco with; a party of nineteen gold hunters, has been spoken 700 miles south west of. this port by the steam whaler Jeanette The Jeanette left here for Hon. olufu on March g, and arrived there four teen days later. n' From Honolulu the news of the speaking came by the Zea- landia, so the schooner. must have met some very heavy and adverse weather to have kept her:off port so long.
 :: The, old: wooden bark Dominion is a very long time-i0Q days--out from New castle, N, s. w. She was spoken on Jan- uary 8, butt the position was not given so she should have been along some weeks ago. The Dominion was sent to Aus tralia by T: B. H. .Whitefaw to. be sold The captain found a purchaser. but he :. pocketed the money and WhitelaW has neither seen nor heard of him from that day to this The Dominion was built in 1875 and is 3214 tons net burden, is owned by .Cow1islaw Bros. of Sydney, N. s. w. : and has a. cargo of coal consigned to J. J.:Moore & Go.
 There was nearly a collision between the baTkentine, J. M. Griffths and the pi1ot-boat Oracle s yesterday. The bar kentine came in; from. sea and anchored near the schooner. Soon she began tc drag. ard. the captain on tl>e Gracie s had ; to. slip. his anchor and make sail in order : to avoid. a collision. The tug Reliance ? was sent to the rescue and lowed the Griffiths to a safe anchorage:
 The" schooner Edward Parke had tc come back to port yesterday. Two days ago she sailed for Willapa harbor, but . was caught in a storm outside and los1 . her jibbo9m. After her repairs have been made she will proceed.
 The steamer Walla Walla sailed for Puget,Sound ports yesterday with over 300 passengers. Some of them are going to. the gold fields, but the majority are 2 taking advantage of the cut rates owe, the Canadian Pacific Railway.