The San Francisco call., 1899-04-12
Fireman Knocks the
Captain Down.
DILLON USED A MAUSER RIFLE
FIRST VISIT OF THE CANADIAN
STEAMER TARTAR.
Purser Bucklin Wages War on the
Filipinos With a smooth-Bore,
Unaccompanied by Slaugh-
ter but by Noise.

The transport Morgan CITY arrived
from Manila yesterday after a good pas
sage OF twenty-eight days. Strange TO
say, the first assistant engineer was in
disgrace, thus making the third consec-
uuFe transport to come in here with
trouble III the engine room
First Assistant Mears of the Scandia
was under arrest when that vessel
roach-d port, First Assistant Dyer of
the Arizona was left behind at Manila to
serve a l5-days sentence for mutiny, and
now First Assistant Green of the Morgan
City is in disgrace
The relations between Chief Engineer
Kelly and First Assistant Green were
strained before the Morgan City left
Manila. When that vessel reached Ma
gasah there was an open rupture, with
the result that Green was relieved from
duty and ordered 10 his room. Then the
firemen came into the squabble. They
asserted that the food supplied to them
was not good. and that Green ~ot into
trouble with the chief because he stood
up for their rights. They therefore sided
with the first assistant and refused duty
Then there was music in the air. Cap
tain Dillon explained 10 the men that il
was mUuuy ON the hlgh seas, and told
them plainly what they might expect on
arriving sat san Francisco. Then better
couusels prevailed and the fremen went
back u work.
The trouble was not over however,
and one of the hremen is now nursing
q broken head as the result of an en-
counter with Captain Dillon. Gus Moore
was one of the ringleaders of the strike,
and ON a number of occasions the cap
tain had t1 admonish him. A couple of
days ago Moore was very insOlent and
Captain Dillon ordered him below. The
fireman got furious and jumping for
ward struck the captain on the point
OF the Jaw. Telling him to the deck. Dill
\ few an 70
but when he got on his feet again he
was not slow TO act. Selling an old
Mauser rifle, that was lying on the
deck by the barrel he used the butt as
club and knocked Moore down. The
latterS scalp was cut open and he was
badly used up. Yesterday when the
Morgan City docked his head was COW
cred with bandages and he was sick and
OF course there is going TO be an in
vestigation. Green has complaints TO
file not only against the chief engineer
but also against the captain. He ac-
cuses the latter of conduct unbecoming
an olheer OF a transport sport and gentle
man, but Captain Dillon laughs at the
charges and shows letter from First
Lieutenant Thomas NJ. Moody, Twen-
tieth Infantry, in charge of the men,
who went to Manila on the Morgan City,
which thanks Captain Dillon for his
Kindness and courtesy to everybody
aboard the transport during the voyage.
There seems 10 nave been series Of
misunderstanding on and about the
Morgan City 1t was generally under
stood that she was TO bring the remains
of $50 soldiers here for interment. In
stead of that she only brought the bod
les of Lieutenants d. D. Afford, James
Mitchell and Ed a. Hartjng. In army
circles the remains of the heroic sol
diers were also expected, and when the
Morgan City passed Alcatraz the fort
began firing the minute guns. Captain
Dillon says it was generally supposed
at Manila that the bodies would be sent
up on the transport, but the order was
COuntermanded
Seven discharged soldiers came up or
the Morgan City in charge of Captain
Christy of the Twentieth Kansas. They
are: Edward Franklin of the Hospital
Corps, Sergeant E. o. Augustine, Private
John Short, Private John Clements and
Sergeant Charles Peare of the Eighteenth
Infantry, Private John Lotus of the
Twenty-third Infantry and Z. A. Ander-
son of the First North Dakotas.
The Morgan City will be overhauled and
reprOVisiOned and got ready for a return
trip TO Manila as quickly as possible. She
is sure to be ready by the 20th inst, but
II 1t can be managed she will sail this
day week.
The Canadian Pacific steamship Tartar
Tartar is from Hongkong and first went
to British Columbia to discharge hel
cargo intended for transit by the Cana
dian Pacific Railway. The Tartar made
the voyage from Hongkong to Vancouver
in thirty-siX days, from Kobe in twenty
seven days and from Yokohama in
twenty-five days, while she ran from Co
She had one first-class passenger and
siXty-seven Japanese. The Tartar will
dock at Lombard street wharf
she has gross tonnage of 4425 and 276S