The San Francisco call., 1899-06-18
Nippon Maru Was in
Quarantine.
TROPIC BIRD IN FROM TAHITI
SERGEANT tom BENNETT
"DoPED" AND ROBBED.
Given Knockout Drops on the Bar
barry Coast-The Whaling Bark
Northern Light to Be
Lumber Vessel.

The Occidental and Oriental Company
steamer Doric sailed for the Orient yester-
day. She had over sixty cabin passengers
and all the freight she could carry.
Among those in the cabin were Edmund
Burke. a graduate of Columbia, and
Clarence e. Burke, a graduate of Prince
ton. Clarence was with the Rough Riders
in Cuba. The brothers are making tour
of the world for pleasure.
Mrs Barry Baldwin and Miss Dorothy
Baldwin were passengers for Hongkong,
en- route TO Manila. where they will join
eX-United States Marshal Baldwin. who
IS in business there. Mrs. William II.
Avery wife of Passenger Agent Avery of
the Pacific Mail Company, goes to Hong
kong for her health, and Miss Katherine
Gray the actress, accompanied by her
grandmother, Mrs. +. 2. Read. goes TO
Honolulu on a pleasure trip.
The Oriental Steamship Companys
(Toyo kisen KaishaJ Nippon Maru viii
not get here from China and Japan until
the oath inst. She was due yesterday
but was detained seven days at NagasaN
in quarantine owing to a case of smallpox
which developed while the steamer was
on her way from HongkOng. The Nippon
Maru and the Rio de Janeiro will both
reach San Francisco from the Orient
about the same time.
The steamer Umatilla took away last
Friday a crew of sixteen men for the
American ship NJ. Z. Grace, now on Pu-
get Sound. AT Seattle the rate for sailors
is S35 a month and $35 blood money The
men who went north on the Umatilla
signed for $40 a month and SO blood
money" Their arrival is likely to make
trouble with the boarding house runners
on the Sound.
The barkentine Tropic Bird arrived from
Tahiti yesterday after q long passage Gov
ering thirty-three days. She had light
bathing winds from the start, and only
once during the entire passage was a
strong fair wind encountered. The Tropic
Bird brought up fifteen passengers.
The schooner Repeat arrived from Hon
olulu yesterday after being out twenty
three days. She sailed ten days after the
four-masted steel schooner Honolulu. but
saw no sign of that vessel during the run
up. Light winds delayed the Repeat, and
the same cause may be keeping the Homo
Tom" Bennett, wearing a sergeants
stripes of Company d. Ninth Infantry
terday morning for knockout drops.
The unfortunate soldier suffered par
oxysms of pain, during which it required
five men to hold him. Finally DR.. Fine
relieved him by means of emetic, and
later he was sent to the Preside. Ben
nett was paid off Friday, and Friday
night he visited the Barbary Coast. When
he went into dive on the corner of Mont
gomery and Pacific streets Bennett says
he had S37 % in a wallet. At the Harbor
Hospital not a cent could be found in his
pockets. After being "doped' and robbed
Bennett was thrown out on the sidewalk,
where officer James O'ConnOr found him
and took him TO the California street sta
ton. From there he was sent to the Har
Dor Hospital.
The old whaling bark Northern Light is
going into commission again. She wGS
built in 1851, but is apparently as stanch
to-day as ever. For over forty years she
made annual cruises to the Arctic in
search of whales, and when the business
became dull she was laid up in Oakland
Creek. When the rush to KotZebue Sound
was on she was fitted out and carried
over 100 passengers to that region. On
her return she was again laid up, but now
her deckhouses are to be taken off and
she is going into the lumber trade.
A small steamer for gold dredging on
the Yukon is being built near Port Costa.
She is to be called Cordeia Heald, ard
will go TO st. Michael under her own
steam.
The British ship springburn arrived
from Newcastle, y. S. w. yesterday.
weather during the passage and lost a
number of sails. OF port she ran into
strong northerly gale, accompanied by
very high sea. The Rufus z. Wood, now
out ninety-two days from Sydney, \. S.
W, has probably been delayed by the
same kind of weather as that encountered
by the Springburn