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


Early in the morning yesterday the
American bark Alden Besse arrived in
port, having made the trip from San
Francisco in "a days. The trip was
slow one on account of very light winds.
The Besse brought 100 tons of gem
eral merchandise, consigned to w. G..
Irwin & Co. She will commence to dis
charge at the old fishmarket wharf. A
dozen mules for Gus Schuman arrived
on the bark. One came very near dying
on the way down. but was saved by the
efforts of the sailors.
At about As a. m. the British steam
er Energia was sighted off Koko Head.
She is bound for Australia and continu-
ed on her way with cargo of lumber
from Port Ludlow. the Energia is one
of the California and Oriental line. The
pilot boat went out to her but did not
speak her.
1t is not known why the Energia
passed this way.
BARK MICHIGAN
| Mrs. Powers, who has come to the
Islands to visit friends on Kauai, was
the only passenger on the American
bark Mohican, Captain Kelly, which ar
rived here shortly before noon yester-
day. The Mohican is II days from Sar
Francisco and brings 1900 tons of gen
eral merchandise for Castle & Cooke
besides a horse for +. d. Tenney, three
cows for Chris Holt and las hogs foi
Wagner & Co. Five days out from SaT
| Francisco the schooner Robert r. Hind
bound for Hilo with general merchan
disc. was sighted.
LUMBER HANDLERS.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.-The lum
Der handlers, whose demand for 81 ;
day went into effect yesterday. onl.
partly won their fight. Instead of a s
day, the lumber dealers compromised
for 40 cents an hour, which means $50
a day. When L. e lumber handlers hear
of this concession they concluded to ac
lcept it, as it meant raise of 60 cents
day. All hands went to work. The me-
have the best of the situation. for a
lpresent there is a dearth of all kinds o
men working along shore.
The demand of tn stevedores on tn
transport dock for 40 cents an hour an
50 cents overtime was not granted yes
terday, and the men refused to go [
work. In the strike are a great man
non union men. The union men EN-
ploved on the dock struck last weel
1 ne men Htdht lIie al that "
every dock but the transport WhaI
stevedores are getting the wages the
ask. Colonel Long has had the matte
under consideration for several day:
but has not yet given his final answe
SHAG ROCK.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.-Ther
has been much speculation as to tn
success or failure of the blowing up {
Shag Rock. Opinion was about event
I IA 4 IF l,A inr
and not a few unsuccessful bidders o
the work said at the time that it coul
result in nothing but failure. Contract
or Axman, who blew up the rock, dc
clared that it had been disintegratet
and that all that was necessary was
dredge out the debris, when the re
uuire,I depth of thirty feet would be ha
above the rock. Since then clam-she
dredger has been at work on the spo
and ii has been there so long that nav
gators are beginning to doubt the sue
} cess of the explosion.
! CATTLE AT SEA.
The loss amongst the cattle on boar
4 the Anerley, a steamer bound frol
{ Newcastle to South America, is an eS
! perience not yet common on the Pacif
\ coasts, although not an uncommon el
perience on the Atlantic. Between New
castle and Melbourne the Anerley Ell
Z countered hurricane weather, and TT
matches were battened down, as heaV
\ seas were breaking over her. The
must have enSued a scene of death an
} destruction down below never equalle
z by the widest turmoil of a mad rush i
D a stockyard. Rolling rails under, as tt
Z steamer was, the fittings must hay
8 gone like cardboard and the cattle bt
J come a rolling, struggling, bellowin
, mass. To add to the inferno, it al
! pears that two or three seas had foun
Z their way down before the hatcht
. could be fastened down. When the
! were removed the ascending stenc
) must have been like the reek of thu
} most internal pit where sinful sou
z are stewing." The poor beasts on dec
only Jared better in some of them bein
: bodily washed overheard. In the A
) merican cattle steamers the cattle al
D looked after by men accustomed to II
dangerous work, and handy and ale
at getting a fallen beast on it's les
4 again. But this is, of course, only
ordinary weather. In such storm
D that encountered by the Anerley no h,
. man assistance could possibly ava
& the poor brutes. 1t is fortunate tn;
! none of our transports encountered sue
) gale. or the loss of horses would hay
! been startling.
SOLE SURVIVOR
NOME, Alaska. June s (via Seattl
June 26).-After four months of fearf
, suffering, during which he helpless
watched the death of one after anoth
OF his companions, James Murphy
New York, a castaway sailor was re
= cued from starvation by natives on s
\ Lawrence island. He was picked l
from the island on June LIST by the bal
Alaska.
Murphy is the sole survivor of a par
of six which sailed for Nome Novemb
3, 1899, on board the schooner Eacre
OF San Francisco. The others of II