The San Francisco call., 1899-09-12

Arena twice in search of information ana
have kept circling around the place I Where
the raft went adrift in widening circles,
hoping to pick it up On the Sth INST we
smoke the tug Fearless, and as she was
going to continue the search l put INTO
San Francisco.
the derelict and brings it into port, as 1t
is now a menace to navigation.
Strikes seem to be epidemic on the water
front lust now. Boiler-makers, carpenters
times during the month for either snorter
hours or more pay, and yesterda! TN
ongshOremen followed SUIT ney d, .
paid by the hour, so naturally 1t is an
advance in wages they want. The strik-
ers are the outside longsnorener.lnat
Is. those not connected with the union
and they demand so cents an hour. Some
months ago they were satisfied with 50
cents an hour, then they demanded and
got 40 cents and now they Wan[ I'd OY bG the
demand are the caNnery feet and the
sugar boats. The Roderick Dhu and the
Edward May had to get the sugar out
and the agents agreed to pay the extra
money At noon Yesterday the longshore-
men went to work discharging them. Inc
are plenty of men they will probably have
no trouble in getting their cargoes out.
There was a serious stabbing aflalr
among the Italian ishermf9 Potro IN t6g on,Iici o
was standing at stall 70 doing some bust
ness and near by was Giuseppe GaraMt az !,
an old man ana QudTTtlSOuit. lt
Younger fishermen had been teasing him
during the morning. and about noontime
some one in the crowd called him foul
name. Garatu thought II was vas ,Sra Qulilci q
knife he stabbed him in the back. Ofncer
I, ]. Bailey was called in and he took the
two men to the Harpor ponce statlon' on
There Garatti was charged with an as
sault with a deadly weapon. AT the Har-
bor Hospital Drs. Robinson and Murphy
found that Quillici had a deep an9 as serious aS
Garatti had documents in his pockets
showing that he had several thousand
dollars in bank.
William A. Duperu chief engineer of
the steamer Aurora, died suddenly aboard
the Pride of the River from hemorrhage
yesterday morning. He was taking with
his son when taken sick. The slatter Sc
cured an ambulance and had his father
convened to the Harbor Hospital, but
when Drs. Robinson and Murphy ex-
amfned him he was dead. The Morgue
Coroner allowed the body to be taken
To 1923 Golden Gate avenue, the family
residence of the deceased
The steamer America Maru sailed for
San Francisco from Yokohama on the
10Th inst. She was delayed by small
fire in her coal bunkers =
The steamer Cleveland was late IN
getting to Seattle owing to running snort
6f coal Herlcharterers sent her out for st.
Michael with a short supply and no
coal could be got at Dutch Harbor when
the vessel called there. In consequence
oil the hunks in the steerage had to be
a., sa.r ont and used for fuel. while the
cargo, booms and all the spare wood in
the ship had to go into the furnace before
the vessel reached Seattle; - A..
private advices received from the Ber-
;,a Sea Yesterday state that the Lynde &
II55u9h barkentine Fremont had taken
40 900 Goldfish and the. crew was still fish
i,e, 49, ~, August l5 This is about the larg
aot catch ever taken by one vessel during
a short season.
Nearly a ton of putrid sturgeon was
seized on Jackson street wharf YESTERDAY
Tba stuff had been sent down
the river by italian fishermen, but spoiled
On the way. Last Saturday the same in
spectors seized nearly four tons Oh the