The San Francisco call., 1899-04-13
Four Batteries Sixth
Artillery Depart.
A CLUBBING CAUSES INSANITY
BILL BooNAKA, A SAILOR ON
THE MAUNA ALA, BEATEN.
Sailing of the Nippon Maru for the
orient-A Wharf Rat" Drowned
From Lombard Street
Wharf.

The Toyo Kisen Kaisha's steamer Nip
pom Maru sailed for the Orient Yesterday
crowded with passengers and loaded to
the guards with freight For Honolulu
she took away four batteries of tile Sixth
Artillery. They will relieve the Second
Battery, L. S. V, which has been sta
toned in Hawaii almost since the an
neXation of the islands The latter on
their return here will be mustered out Of
the service. The batteries which sailed
on the Nippon Maru are in command of
Major Samuel Miles.
Miss Ida M. Forsyth was also a pas
senger by the Nippon. Maru. on her ar
rival at Honolulu she viii report to the
surgeon in charge OF the United States
Military Hospital for duty as active chief
nurse.
The jeanette Waldorf Company also
went away on the steamer. They will I'LL
an engagement al Honolulu and viii then
proceed 10 HOngkong on the next China
steamer.
"Biu" Boonaka. a sailor on the Hawai-
ian bark Mauna Ala, has gone crazy as
the result OF a beating he received in the
Scandinavian headquarters on the cor
ner OF Jackson and Montgomery avenue
last Tuesday morning. lie was struck
over the head with club and thrown
out on the sidewalk 10 shift for himself.
he was picked up IN Seml-consclouS
condition and sent 10 the HarbOr ReceiV-
ing Hospital in the patrol wagon. On his
arrival there DR.. Won der Leith seWed up
two wounds on the scalp. The sailor was
drunk, as We'll as being badly hurt, so he
was put TO bed.
About noon BoOnaka was considerably
better, and when he said he wanted to
leave the hospital no attempt was made
to detaIn him. He was not seen again
until officer Mackey ran across him on
the front yesterday. He was then a raw
ing maniac and il took half q dozen po-
Gsemen TO handle him. At the Receiving
Hospital in the City Hall ii was found
n hn 60 ~ m -flr
headquarters had affected his brain. He
was placed in straitjacket and sent
out to the City and County Hospital
BOOnaka is a Russian-Finn and lived at
Lanes sailor boarding house on Davis
street. Lane says he always was a quiet
peaceable fellow, but he must have got in
with a tough crowd at the saloon.
One Of the wharf rats" is missing and
the harbor police are rounding up the
tribe To see which of them lost his life.
Early Yesterday morning several of them
appeared on Lombard street wharf and
made raid on some potatoes that were
stored there. As potatoes are retailing at
haul to a wharf rat. One of them was
surprised in the act of lowering a sack
into a small skiH by Fred Raabe When
the latter began TO run down the wharf
the young fellow got confused, and los
ing his balance fell into the BAY He
must have struck against the skiff. as
both he and the potatoes disappeared.
The wharf rat did not come up again and
q few bubbles were all that showed Raabe
skff which he used in his midnight
prowls is still tied up to Lombard street
wharf
The Marine Firemen's Union is max
ing another attempt TO get rid of the
Chinese employed on the United States
transport Hancock date Arizona). With
this end in view the union has interested
the California delegation to Congress- and
a hard fight IS to be made to get white
hremen work on United States vessels.
The association made the attempt some
Uncle Sam did not own the vessel The
facts of the case have been wired TO the
Secretary Of War and it is hoped that
the Chinese Will be replaced by white
men before the Hancock sails