The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28
Transports Ohio and
Senator Start.
DUNNING WAS A PASSENGER
SHIPOWNERS AND. SAILORS
UNION STILL AT WAR.
Boarding Masters Compel Captains to
Pay Big "Blood Money" for
Sailors at Portland-An
Earthquake at Sea.

The transports Ohio and Senator left
the dock for Manila last night. They car
ried ''the fighting Thirteenth and several
hundred recruits for the different regi-
ments in the Philippines. The Senator
carried Colonel Smith, the headquarters,
band and companies A, c, +, q, II and
and a number Of recruits. The Ohio car
ried companies b, d, b, X and l., besides
the recruits.
There were lively times before the
steamers got into the stream Many of
the soldiers had succeeded in passing the
sentries, and they had to be rounded up
and brought aboard. Many Of them were
under the influence of liquor and showed
fight, and in consequence they were not
used very gently. The vessels will not
leave port until this morning.
John L. Dunning. for the murder of
whose wife Mrs. Cordelia Botkn is now
in Jail under a sentence Of life imprison-
ment, was passenger on the Senator.
He goes to Manila as correspondent for
the Associated Press. He was in Cuba in
the same capacity when he learned of his
wife's death.
The trouble between the Shipowners'
Association and the Sailors Union of the
Pacific still continues. A number of yes
sells are now lying off Meiggs wharf
awaiting crews. But the shipowners as
getting men and will send them away to-
day. The bark Oregon secured a crew
during the afternoon and went out.
Up in Oregon the fight is between the
boarding masters and the shipoWners. The
former control the supply of deep-water
sailors and refuse point blank to accept
a months advance for each man shipped,
but demand instead 800 blood money -
In consequence a number of vessels are
tied up in the Columbia River and others
have paid the demand and proceeded to
sea.
Captains Campbell of the Balmoral and
Forbes of the Dunstaffnage had an ex-
perience in this respect that they will not
soon forget. The Balmoral came here
from England, and it will be remembered
that when off the Horn she was in COLI
sion with the British ship Glenercht and
the latter had to put back to MOntevideo.
The captains wife of the Glenericht was
drowned. The BalmOral came on here
and after discharging was repaired and
proceeded to Astoria to load for Europe
The Dunstaffnage arrived here from Cal
cutta on the 11th inst and is now dis
charging at the seawal.
The Balmoral and Dunstaffnage belong
to the same owners and when Captain
Campbell of the Balmoral was called upon
to pay $100 'blood money for his crew
Captain Forbes thought he could help
him out. His men We're all by the ship,
so last Saturday he took nine Of them be-
fore the British Consul and paid them off
Then he bought tickets for them to Port
land, and last Sunday shipped them to
the Balmoral in care of a watchman
aboard the steamer Columbia. The men
arrived at their destination all right, but
before they could be got aboard the Bal
moral the boarding masters had got their
ear and they all refused to sign. This
brought Captain Campbell to time and he
compromised by paying the boarding
masters $50 'blood money" for his own
men.
The revenue cutters McCulloch, Corwin.
Bear and Thetis are nearly ready for sea
and will sail in few days. They will rem
devious at Dutch Harbor The Thetis
will tow the sternwheel boat for patrol
duty on the ! ukon as far as St Michael
was going to Manila, but the treasury
officials now say. she will go to Alaska
with the joint high commission appointed
TO settle the Canadian-Alaskan boundary
dispute.
The schooner John A, from San Fran
cisco for Eureka, was well shaken up on
the 10th inst. by an earthquake. The shock
quist thought he had struck a submerged
log.