The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-17

Up ABOVE tfle SuSe Oh the horizon Wnlle
he Concord's stern was rapidly lengtheh-
ng the distance between the two vessels.
Both crafts are pretty good sailers.
MILE MORRIS.
Captain Nelson left Honolulu yesterday
afternoon with the gasoline schooner Ma
olo TO try and save the schooner Mile
Morris, which was wrecked at Kaneohe
he other day. There is but little hope
hat the schooner can be raised and re-
paired; she is almost under water. How
EVER, the Malolo carries cargo to the
Tindward side of Oahu and stops at Ka-
leohe, where she will save what is left
If the Inflated boats cargo, leaving the
Norris TO go to pieces should she be in
/ condition where t..ere is no chance of
'aving her.
AMERICA MARU.
Steamer America Maru, from Yoko-
lama, which arrived SUNDAY night, as
'eported in the Advertiser. brought 200
onS of general merchandise for Honolu-
u. She took no coal here and discharged
Ter cargo from three matches with all
possible dispatch. She brought nine Jap
,nese and twenty-five Chinese for This
oort, besides her cabin passengers The
Maru is carrying a quarter of a million
dollars from Japan TO San Francisco on
his trip. Captain Going is in great
hurry to reach San Francisco and is like
y to break records from here to the
Coast: some say that the Maru is to be
passed over to the United States for use
As an army transport. The officers aboard
ienied this, however, and say that certain
repairs are necessary in San Francisco,
md they want to get the vessel there in
time to make them without any delay in
her return sailing. BY some carelessness
Or ignorance, the American flag was hoist
ID below the Japanese flag on the America
AIaru yesterday morning. Nobody at
taches any significance or Importance &c
this breach of international etiquette, as
Il was purely "a matter of ignorance.
RACE WITH THE INDUS.
An exciting ocean race took place in ORR.
entail waters not long ago. 1t was between
the America Maru and the French liner
Indus and occurred between Yokohama
and Hongkong. The vessels are both fas
boats and passed each other three time:
during the interesting contest, and, al
though the Indus is constructed for great
er speed than the America Maru, the Ma
ru arrived at Hongkong away ahead o
the other boat.
LEWIS AND TURK.
Formerly it was Turk and Lewis; nov
IL Is Lewis and Turk. little while ago i
was ME and Lewis now it is ME ant
Turk" There has been a little friction
between the heavenly twins" they hav
had a slight Observation-Disclosures littl
quarrel. Lewis called Turk down an,
now Turk must take a back seat unit
such time as he shall take it into hi
head to call Lewis down and resume hi
former sway as boss of the partnership
Business for the shipping masters is fair
ly good at present, although they are b,
no means monopolizing the trade, captain
of vessels preferring, for the most part
to ship their own crews.
BREEDING OF EELS.
The breeding of the common eel is on
of the interesting questions settled by nat
uralists within the last few years. TIL,
young are not at all eel-like, and wer,
called Leptocephali, says Prof. Ray Ian
kester, until ten or twelve years ago
when a specimen in an aquarium on tn,
coast of Brittany gradually developed int,
a conger eel. The first inference that tn,
Leptocephali We're abnormal eel progen!
has now been proven to be erroneous III
various kinds having been shown to b,
the normal young of the various cells. TIL
breeding place has been traced finally [,
the sea, where the eggs are laid anc
Matched in depths as great as 500 fathoms
TROUBLE AT NOME.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-The frs
treasure and passengers to arrive at thi
port from Cape Nome this season reache,
here yesterday afternoon on the steame
Portland Ctp
mining town on June 18th with but on
passenger, but at Unalaska picked UP sew
en- more. She brought ten boxes of gold
aggregating $4,000
News was brought by the steamer tina
s5O0,O0o had been taken out at Topkuk b,
a number of miners who went there from
Nome, but it is said that there Is not mucl
gold there, the amount found being tn
fine stuff washed down a little creek {
the beach. Topkuk is about fifty mile
from Nome. Miners had been workint
there a month, while at Nome they ha
only begun when the Portland left, Som
of the most successful at Topkuk are Cal
-ltornians, one man by the name of Scot
taxing out $4,000 and another by tn
name OF Sanderson about the sam
amount. l.. A. Stockley also took out
large amount
The passenger from Nome arriving o
lne fortland went to Alaska from Hon
duras by way of this city and Seattle las
september in the schooner Thomas +
Bayard. He was one of a party of eigh
that went to Alaska upon the Representa-
tons OF man who told them that he ha
discovered claims on Quick river. on MOI
ton bay, which produced SIS to the par
Leaving Seattle in the Bayard, the part
went to the Quick river. but could find n
ricn ground. and the claims alleged I
nave been discovered proved to be myth
cal Inc party prospected in that sectio
al winter. however, but without success
ne ana his companions went $40 mile
oo"n the country to Nome as soon as tn
weather would permit, arriving ther
May 10Th. Everything was at a stand
sun on account of promiscuous clai,
jumping, and nobody was doing much
the way of mining. Lindebloom. She dis
ccFerer OF Nome, was embarrassed on n,
count OF being regarded as a foreigne
and endless litigation over his claims wa
IN prospect. A real estate man shot
man for working on cn,i,
adjoining his office, the shot resultiney
the amputation Of the mans arm. Sever.
thousand men We're at Nome and cond
tons generally were bad, everybody Wal
ing for court to be established to soft,
the dlfferenees over claims. Hundreds ,
men from Dawson reached Nome carl
TINS spring. and gambling was carried a
with high hand, money being EXCHANGE
ana very little gold dust being in evidenc,
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