The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-03

bring many Honolulans home ana viii
also bring five days later mail and
news
THE SHIP HILSTON.
A vessel supposed to be overdue and
posted as overdue at Port Townsend,
the British ship Hilston, Captain f. II.
Joslin, and reported universally as sew
enty days out of Honolulu for the
Sound is as a matter of fact not over
due, is not missing and never sailed for
the Sound. She sailed long ago for a
nitrate port of Chile and will go from
there around Cape Horn for home. She
cleared from Honolulu on April 18th for
TocapiIla The captain before sailing
had allowed it to be understood that he
was going TO the Sound in order to hold
his crew to unload coal here which was
brought from Newcastle. The crew
were no doubt surprised when the ship
got out to sea to discover that it would
be a very long time before they ever
saw the Sound and that they We're
bound for Chile, thence around the
Horn.
COMING TO HONOLULU.
The following vessels are to arrive
here from San Francisco: Schr. Alice
Cooke, bark Diamond Head. ship +. Il.
Sutton, ship f. F. Whitney, schr Hell
enc, bark Mohican, schr. Mary +. Fos-
ter, schr. Rosamond. schr. Robert Lew
ers, bark st. Katharine, bark 5. ".
Castle and bark w. II. Dimond.
THE LATEST FROM NOME.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 22.-In let
ter received from Captain T. +. Col
cord, who left here some weeks ago in
the steam whaler Thrasher the first
direct news of the season concerning
affairs at Nome is received. Under
date of June I'd Captain Colcord writes
as follows from Nome:
I'VE reached here in safety last night
The Albion came in yesterday and re.
ported being in company with the Mary
r. Hume only the day before. The
Hume should be in by this time The
weather here is good and this is a greai
town, but thousands will go away dis
appointed. There are many new claim.
discovered every day but they are be
ing jumped many times. so a man doe.
not really know when he has one. Lot:
in the city are selling at high price.
and everything is dear, but will cheap
en- later on in the season. Some of thu
/ locators are making only 81 to SIS OF
their claims and this may discourag,
any one who has not a good plant
/ They have been working by hand only
THE Thrasher is to proceed to Por
I Clarence with dozen or so passengers
I There is no sickness here, and there ha.
been none during the winter season
/ There have been only two deaths, and
one of these was from gunsho
wounds
The schooner Elk reached Dutch Har.
Dor on June Sth after a fairly smooth
passage and is no doubt at Nome by
this time.
The steamer Homer is reported e
have reached Dutch HarbOr on June
14th. The steamer Luella, with the
barge Dewey in tow, reached that plac.
on June Sd.
KILLED ON THE GRANT.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 21.-Johr
HiIlman, second officer of the Army
transport Grant, was fatally injured al
Sis o'clock yesterday morning on board
the vessel. He was directing the work
of hoisting the steam launch from the
bay to the superstructure on the star
board side, on the after part of the
Grant. Owing to the vessels heavy list
to port. the launch swung with con
siderable force when the davits were
turned, pinning Hillman against ar
iron ventilator and fracturing his skull
He had stopped down to see that the
| launch's keel cleared the davits. and
was caught before he could get out Of
the way.
| The launch weighs eight tons, and it:
entire weight appeared to rest for al
instant upon Hillman's head and lef
shoulder. when the davits swung it il
the opposite direction. Hillman fel
unconscious to the deck blood pouring
from his mouth, nose and ears. He wa
carried to the hospital department o
the ship. and few minutes later to tn,
Harbor Hospital, where Drs. Bauer ant
Robinson ascertained that the base o
his skull has been fractured. Hillmal
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