The San Francisco call., 1899-11-04
WASHINGTON MEN
DEPART ON The
STEAMER QUEEN
A Big Crowd to See
Them Off.
HORSE TRANSPORTS DEPART
NO NEWS FROM THE OVERDUE
CYRUS WAKEFIELD.
Ship William Tillie, Drawing Nearly
Twenty Feet, Taken Up Oak
land Creek-Notes Along
the Front.
NO NEWS FROM THE OVERDUE
CYRUS WAKEFIELD.

The steamer Queen sailed for Puget
Sound yesterday with 365 Of the Wash
ington volunteers aboard. There was an
immense crowd down to see the steamer
off and three hearty cheers for the soldier
boys were given as the Queen moved
away from the wharf. The Queen carried
troops only and all the arrangements for
her charter and the dispatch of the men
were made by Levi N. Ankenny Of Walla
Walla, Wash. The transport Leelanaw
got away early yesterday morning for
Manila via Honolulu, with 275 head Of
horses. The Conemaugh, with 280 horses,
Will go this morning.
The transport Hancock came off the
Hunters Point drydock yesterday and
went to the Union Iron Works to put off
a lot of gear and pigiron. She was to
have had her trial trip yesterday, but the
putting on Of her bilge keels was not
completed In time. She will be ready by
Monday and during the afternoon her
compasses will be adjusted and she will
have a trial spin around the bay.
The American ship Cyrus Wakefield is
now out 120 days from Port Stanley, Falk-
lands Islands, for San Francisco and ten
per cent reinsurance is being paid on
her. The Wakefield was caught in a
storm off the Horn, during which Cap
tain Henry was either killed or murdered
The vessel then put into Stanley and while
she was there the ship John R. Kelley
was wrecked while making port and Cap
tain Chapman took command of the Wake
field. That was four months ago and
since then nothing has. been heard Of the
vessel: The general Impression is that
Captain Chapman, finding 1t impossible
to round the Horn, squared away and is
coming via the Cape of Good Hope.
The British ship William Tillie, drawing
nineteen feet six inches of water, went
up Oakland Creek to discharge yesterday
Since the estuary has been dredged near
lY all classes of vessels can go up and
down the creek with safety. Captain Silo-
vich, in the tug Alert, had no difficulty in
taking the big Britisher up to the coal
bunkers, where her cargo Is to be dis
charged.
The longshoremen along the front made
a demand yesterday for 40 cents an hour
on all work and got It, The rate used to
be 90 cents an hour and one or two iso-
lated strikes for an advance of 10 cents
were successful. From this on the pay
Tim Larkin of $50 Sacramento street
was treated yesterday at the Harbor Hos
pital for a badly lacered scalp wound.
Before officer Henneberry could get the
man to the hospital he nearly bled to
death. Larkin says he was held up by
two men on the corner of East street and
Broadway, who robbed him of $50 and then
knocked him down with a club.
Denis Hughes severed an artery be-
tween the middle and ring finger with a
before Drs. Robinson and Holmes could
stop the hemorrhage at the Harbor Hos
pitel.
A publication named the sea Gull has
been started on the battleshp Iowa.
Henry Murgotten is editor-in-chief and
Der is very creditable production and
contains a number of local hits