The San Francisco call., 1899-07-10
A Clever Capture Of
Old Offenders.
OVERDUE SUGAR Boa ARRIVES
BRIG LURLINE BEATS THE REST
OF THE FLEET.
Steamer UmatiIla in q Heavy Storm.
Transports Ohio and Newport
May Not Arrive Before
Wednesday.

Two weII-krown sneakthieves were
locked up in the HarbOr Police Station
yesterday morning. officer Shaw saw
them hanging around the Tiburon ferry.
and when the wife Of eX-Judge Hayden
reported the loss Of her purse he arrest
Cd the two piCkpockets on charge of
vagrancy.
Their names are George Young and
Frank Mcguire. and both have been ar
rested a number Of times. Young was
one Of the principals in the Louvre rob
berry When the gang got away with the
securities from the safe in the grill room
il was the Young who opened neSJua-
tiOns with Schwartz to pay 500 for their
return and who actually received the
cash from the saloon man in front Of the
ferry depot.
Mcguire became famous at the grocers'
picnic. Judge Conlan caught him in the
act of picking a wCmans pocket and af-
ter a spirited contest placed him under
arrest. The next day Judge Mogan re-
released Mcguire on his own reCogniZ-
ance. This made Judge Corlan very an
CRY, and he at once went ON the Warpath
and rearrested the pickpocket Mcguire
worked his way out of that SCTape, but
last week was arrested again and only
got out Of jail on Friday. He enjoyed his
liberty for fOrty-eight hours and then ran
against OfhceT Shaw on the water front.
The transports ONO and Newport, with
the Second oregon Regiment aboard, are
now out tWenty-SiX days from Manila.
Both vessels were to come via NagaSaki.
hut no news of their arrival at that port
has been received. 1t does not follow,
however, that they did not put in there.
because the transports nave fire.
Cueutly stopped at NagasaN and no news
Of their having done so was telegraphed
here. If the Ohio and Newport stopped
at Nagasah they viii not arrive here un-
I'll Wednesday or Thursday. If they did
not they are now fully due and should
drop into port at any moment.
All the preparations to welcome the Or
egOn boys back from the war have been
completed. The Board Of Health and Ad-
jutant General Babcock are to be mott
ned at once and every vessel on the front
viii dress ship. AS the matter stands
now the welcome home Will have to be
extended to the boys aboard the trans
ports as he vessels are only to remain
few hours il port. The Governor has
been unable TO make satisfactory ar
IdLstiutHiS LOT me ttlaIiSlui aeon "a oL Ilie
men from san FRANCISCO 70 portland, SO
the Ohio and Newport will turn around
after an hour or 50 in the harbor and
proceed to the Columbia River.
The steamer Umatilla, which left here
last week for Puget Sound, had a terri
bic time on her way up the coast. w hen
the vessel was twenty-fCur hours out 1t
came on TO blow and in q short time
a hurricane was raging. StateroOm win
dows were swashed in, the saloon and
dining room We're flooded, and the cabin
boys were driven out of the glory hole.
For two days the storm continued. and
when the steamer reached Victoria. B. c.,
twelve hours late. everybody on board
heaved a sigh of relief. The Umatilla
took 115 cabin and SO Steerage passengers
from San Francisco.
The brig Lurline arrived from kahului
yesterday after Il long passage of twenty
six days. She is the first of a big fleet of
sugar boats that has been anXously look
ed for during the past week. The fast
bark Santiago is now out thirty days.
and the barkentine Archer twenty-five
days from Hilo: the bark MOhiCan, twen-
ty-nine days. schooner II. =. BendiXSen
twenty-siX days. ship Standard twenty
five days. barkentine Irmgard and ship
Aryan twenty-three days and schooner
Aloha twenty days from Honolulu: brig
COnsuelO twenty days frOW Mahukona,
and schooner Muriel. from HOnoipu. nine
teen days. These are long passages for
even this time of the year. and all of them
should come along during the next
twenty-fOur hours. now that the Lurline
has shown the way in.
Captain Mcleod reports light and baf-
fling winds during the entire passage.
He says that If some of the vessels have
no better luck than his ship they will
not be here for a week.
Robert Hamilton will not pay another
visit to Fishermens wharf for some
weeks 10 come. Yesterday he and a
friend went there and began washing a
dog, much TO the disgust Of the fisher
men. Words led to blows. and in the SCuf-
fe that followed Hamilton was knocked
down and received a compound fracture
of the left leg. He was taken to the
Harbor Hospital, where the broken limb
The steamer San Juan arrived from
Panama and way ports last night She