The San Francisco call., 1899-07-11

the Government service until all the vol
unteers have been brought home,
The Government officials and the people
generally have been looking for the trans
ports Ohio and Newport since FRIDAY last'
The two steamers have the Second ore
gon boys aboard. and the crowds VINO
want to welcome the soldiers have been
making the lives of the people in the Chlet
Wharfinger's office miserable. About
every five minutes the telephone bell rings
and when Chief Wharfnger Henderson
or Assistant Chief Wharfnger Dryden an
swers it the question almost invariably IS,
Have the transports with the Oregon
soldiers aboard been sighted YETI
The chances are that both the Ohio and
Newport put into Nagasaki for coal, and
as The Call said before 1t VIII IN Co conse- Sc
on their last voyage from Manila via
Nagasaki to San Francisco the Ohio was
twenty-eight and the NewpomTt r. tWenty sil;y,,
both rCsecis will be twenty-eight days
out from Manila and until then they they VII MI
not stop at Nagasaki they may pop in
at any moment from now on.
The Governor of Oregon does not ex-
pect them before to-day: He will arrive
up his quarters at the Occidental Hotel.
Major Wilson. who recruited the regiment
in Oregon, is also here and he will go out
to meet the transports on the tug Gov
ernor Irwin with the Governor of Oregon,
Governor Gage and Mayor Phelan.
Everybody. win know when the trans, rs
Eureka m e a. Planning Mills will blow for dve
minutes without stopping. Again, when
the steamers are pa passing ing IN m through h the
and will keep 1t up until the transports
have come to an anchor. The party on
the Governor Irwin will then board the
vessel that carries the headquarters of
the regiment and welcome the poYS PACK
in the names of Oregon and California
The GOLFERS Washtenaw and Progreso
had an interesting race down the coast.
They left Puget Sound together and there
was never more than a mile between them
all the way down until the ifghtship was
reached, when the Washtenaw made a
squirt and beat the Progreso into port by
about four miles. The Washtenaw came
Seattle.
in consequence several vessels nave Sc
cured good charters. The Cypromene was
taken yesterday at 35s to load barley and
the Kenilworth and Ross-shire at 32s I'd
to load wheat for England. The, Hecla
has been chartered to load lumber on
Puget Sound for Australia.
H. Wood, an old man who keeps a clotn-
ing store at 609 Clay street was found al
most dead in bed from gas asphyxiation
yesterday morning. He was hurried to
the Harbor Hospital, where DIR. Thomp-
son worked over him for quite while
again. The old mans sons say IT was
an attempt at suicide, but the police seem
been three deaths in the family. of late
and the old man has been very despond-
ent He was removed to the Lane Hos
pital during the afternoon.
About six weeks ago two men went out
to the North Farallon rocks (about eight
miles from the Farallon light to poach
sea fowl eggs. They landed on the rock
all right, but although two attempts have
since been made to take them off both
have failed on account of the. very rough
weather The men had enough provisions
To last them for some time and the eggs
would keep them from starving, but the
question is how could they exist without
water? Their supply must have given out
long ago and the chances are that they
may have perished from thirst:
No one seems to know their names.
They were both Telegraph Hill boys and