The San Francisco call., 1898-05-02
DAMAGED IN THE NOR WESTER The Alden BeSSe Lost Two of Her Boats
 in the Gale.
No Cargo for the Steamer Venus, Now Ready to Sail
 for the Orient.
Sergeant Tom Mahoney Nearly Killed Near the Ferries by
 Crazy Cow.

The bark Alden Besse, which got in from Honolulu yesterday, had a very hard time of it during the last four days of the voyage. She was caught in the north wester that delayed the Gaelic thirty-six hours, and she brought marks of the en- counter into port with her. Two of her boats were smashed, her port railing was carried away and the forecastle was flooded. The carpenter was washed out of his shop, the cook was nearly drowned in the galley, and, all in all, everybody on board had a bad quarter of an hour.
 Captain Porter's account of the trouble was as fol1ows: 1.-TWO days ago we were chased by Spanish cruiser. The rascals fired two shots at us, both of which took effect. Go and examine the damage for yourself. I stood the fellows nonsense as long as possible, and then I cracked all sail on my ship and ran him down. Yes, sir, I ran him down, and that Spanish cruiser, with all on board, went down That's one warship less for Uncle Sam to fight, anyhow"
 The two shots which took effect on the Alden Besse were two big seas which broke aboard, one after the other, and did all the damage. They swept clean through the 'midship house and nearly took two of the crew overheard with them. The passengers on the bark from Honolulu were Mrs. and Miss Dayton and Mir. and Mrs. TerWilliger.
 The schooner Hattie I. Phillips. which came around the Horn with a party of Klondikers, has been sold by Captain Blackburn to Cassidy & Snow of this city. Some of the gold-hunters are going back to their homes in the East, while the others will start for the Yukon as soon as the river opens.
 The gasoline schooner Chetco is to be put into the Kotzebue Sound trade. Cap tain Dan Mclean is going in command of her. Last year the Chetco was put on the berth for St. Michael, but she did not sail, as the boom died away. She has now been brought out of retirement, and will take party to the new gold fields.
 The steamer Acapulco arrived from Panama and way ports yesterday with eleven cabin and sixteen steerage passen- gers. Everything was quiet in Central American ports when the steamer was there.
 The tramp steamer Venus, chartered by the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company to replace the disabled Coptic, will go out with hardly any freight in her hold The Rio de Janeiro could not take Gaelic will be full when she goes out, and yet the Venus will go out practically empty. It is said that the reason for this state of affairs is due to Captain Me Gregor having kept his vessel in Quaran- tine for a week when he could have docked the day after he came in by obey ing the quarantine laws as laid down by pr. Rosenau. McGregor gained his point, as his vessel was released without either he or his men being fumigated, but now the shippers will not allow their goods in his vessel. In this way they are getting even for having to wait week for goods they were urgently in need of.
 John Rollin was run over by one of the cars of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railway at Reed station yester- day and had his foot crushed. He was brought to San Francisco on the steamer Tiburon, and Drs. Hill and Zabala at tended to his injuries at the Harbor Re- oeiving Hospital.
 Three cows and two calves created quite a scene on East street, near the ferries, yesterday. The animals got scared and would not lead. Then they got angry and charged the crowd right and left. Tom Mahoney had a narrow escape, as a slight rip in his coat will testify. One of the vaqueros lost part of his pantaloons, while another was knocked down but not badly hurt. It took nearly an hour to get the crazy cattle away from the ferries and into a stable, where they will be kept until the streets are quiet.
 The Harbor Hospital has proved a boon to the water front since it's establishment. The doctors have been kept busy from the start, but last month was the busiest of all. In March 330 cases were treated but on Saturday night last the month of April was five past the 400 mark. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company S new steel steamer Senator will make her trial trip, leaving Broadway wharf May 3 at a. m Invitations for April 30 are good for this trip.