The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-07-21
GUATEMALA AND
SISTER STATES
PAYING IN COIN
Large Sum in Treas
ure on the Colon.
THE STEAMER TAI Flu ASHORE
ON HER WAY FROM PORTLAND
TO VLADIVOSTOK.
Schooner Prosper Goes Sea Otter
Hunting-New Steam Collier
Robert Adamson in
Port-Notes.

The Pacific Mail Company's steamer Co
lon arrived from Panama and way ports
yesterday with the largest consignment of
treasure that has come from Central Am
erica in many a Ions day. 1t came in the
form of concentrates, silver ore, slugs,
bars, Peruvian soles and Mexican eagles.
All the money from Guatemala came in
bar silver. Mexico paid her debts in gold,
and the other countries paid up in silver
and gold. In the consignment there were
10 ,4S3 soles, worth about $1,000, 80 cases of
Mexican eagles. valued at 800 900, az bars
of silver valued at 1872 SAB. one bar of gold
valued a $3.50, one bar of gold and silver
valued at $1,000. Y sacks of silver Slugs
valued at $4,000. and 400 bags of concen-
trates and 149 bags of silver ore. The
treasure is consigned to the Nevada Bank.
Anglo-CalifOrnan Bank, Selby Smelling
Works, Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
and w. LOaiza & Co.
Besides the treasure the Colon brought
full cargo of coffee and sugar. 60 parrots,
80 paroquets, 8 monkeys, macaws. and
hooking birds. She had % cabin passen-
gers and 81 Europeans and Is Chinese in
the steerage She made the run from
Panama in the good time, considering the
number Of stops, Of 20 days 2 hours
There was no trouble in quarantine and
she locked shortly after her arrival.
The steam collier Robert Adamson,
chartered by John Rosenfeld's Sons to re-
place the Siam, taken by the United
States Government to carry horses to
Manila, arrived from Nanaimo, B. c..
rier for her size. which can be gathered
from the fact that she is 1882 tons net bur
den yet brought into int port 44s$ tens 4ai OF Of
Liverpool, England, and was built in 1885.
Sch is 335 feet long, AZ feet broad and II
feet inches deep.
The German steamer Tai Flu is ashore at
Cape Zamok. a rocky headland on the
Siberian coast. and may be total loss;
went to Portland, where she loaded 10000
barrels of flour, valued at S5S 900, for
Vladivostok. She sailed from the Column
bia River on June IS and must have gone
ashore several days ago, as the tel
egram to the Merchants Exchange
telling of the disaster is dated July
10. Cape ZamOk is about 80 miles from
Vladivostok and Captain Schuldt must
have sent a boats crew to that place to
among shipping men is that the strong
northerly current must have carried the
Tai Flu out of her course and piled her up
on Cape Zamok or the small island lying
short distance off shore. The Tai Flu is
owned by the Asiatische Kustenfahrt Ges
Of s snd vas %. b f9 Two Years lag ago
80 feet | inch beam. and 10 feet 8 inches
deep. Captain Schuldt was making his
in Portland and the vessel in Germany.
The steamer South Coast, which plies
between Eureka, San Francisco and
southern ports, is ashore at Hueneme:
She is resting easily on the beach and
will be got off next tide Her owners
do not think she will be damaged to any
extent.
The little schooner Prosper, with crew
of three men and a boy, started yester
day for the Gulf of California on a sea
otter hunting expedition. The last
steamer brought the news that a herd
of sea offers were feeding along the Mex
lean coast. and it did not take Captain
George Nedever long to put the boat in
commission. With him went George W.
Rider, William Chisholm and a boy. At
Monterey they will pick up the hunter
and then the schooner will be headed for
the Gulf. Last year the same party, I'M
der command of Captain Lutgen, went to
the Gulf of California in the schooner
skins. which they sold for over $17 600 or
d little over $500 a skin. They have not
done any work since their return. but the
news that the herd was again to be seen
along the Mexican coast brought them
all to the front again. and the charter OF
the Prosper followed.
The schooner H. d. Bendlxsen, which
was such a long time out from Homo
lulu. arrived Yesterday. She was delayed
by light winds and Calms.
The steamer Homer, which is coming
here from St, Michael via Dutch Har-
Dor, is expected on Saturday She is
bringing down eighty-five passengers and
a considerable quantity of bullion for the
North American Trading and Transport
tatiOn Company.