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The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
Two Cargoes for Hawaii.

The steamer Hawaiian sailed yesterday for
Honolulu and Kahului with an assorted cargo,
valued at s57, SAB. The following were the
principal shipments:
100S7 lbs middlings PA ctls barley. 107
ctls wheat, 10 half-bbls beef. 10 cs whisky, 3s
bxs spices 1870 lbs beans % crts onions. 500
lbs meal 5000 lbs sugar, 659 pkgs nails, 63
pkgs dry goods. 1891 lbs tin plate. 1857 bdls
I016 pcs iron Al bdls $40 pcs structural steel.
$50 pkgs railroad material, 204 rails. 1873 coils
rope, 40 pkgs machinery, 400 600 lbs cement,
40 kegs staples, tanks. II, 400 lbs bark ex-
tract 015 lbs soda, bales cotton duck, A
bales twine, 4 pkgs wagon material, bbls
tanning grease. IA bdls millwork, 2316 lbs
starch, 100 cs boots and shoes. IA cs hats, 6
bales leather, so bbls lubricating oil. 56 bds
pipe, 3 cs cigars and cigarettes, Shetland
ponies.
The steamer also carried 16 cs wine cs
table preparations, cs glue and 20 bales rope,
en- route to New York.
The barkentine Archer was cleared for Hon.
oulu yesterday with a general merchandise
cargo valued at S19. 100 and including the fol-
lowing:
15O bbis -four 1859 ctls barley, so ctls
wheat so ctls oats. 1S1 ctls corn. 1870 bales
hay q, 07e lbs middlings S1S1 lbs bran, 2S05
lbs oil cake meal. $3.50 lbs salt COO lbs coffee,
16 bbls beef. bbis pork. 13 pkgs groceries
and provisions 270 lbs butter 557 gals wine.
10 es lubricating oil. 2414 posts, 43 bales dry
goods 100 bbls lime Is pcs cars. 10 bb,s
pitch 8 rolls leather. 2750 gals distillate 112C
gals gasoline, 212 cs soap. 1870 lbs rosin,
pkg machinery, drums acid. bdls broolns-
s coils cordage, 90 ,0o0 bricks. bdls sails
16.117 IT lumber.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
Tourists From New
York Are Among
Passengers.

The Pacific Mail Company's San Jose,
Captain H. Thompson, arrived early
yesterday morning after an uneventful
passage from Panama and way ports.
In each of the Central American re-
publics at which the San Jose called
the white bird of peace is still sweetly
cooling. Everybody is too busy gath
ering and marketing an extra big cof-
fee crop, say the San Joses officers,
to indulge in any revolutionary pas
time. When the last bean has been
shipped away and the coffee kings
have closed their accounts for the sea-
son there will come a period of idle
ness during which hard-earned dollars
will disappear with little effort. When
the majority of the people in the rev.
olution zone are broke" the time will
be ripe for an insurrection, but just
where the first outbreak will be, trav-
elers from the South have different
opinions.
AS far as they could judge by what
they saw and heard at San Jose the
officers say internal affairs in Guate-
mala seem to be more settled now
than they have appeared for some
time. The Guatemalan officials are
worrying more, they say, about trou-
bic from the outside, inspired by the
holders of Guatemalan securities.
Several weeks ago the Guatemalan
Consul here confided to Customs Col
lector Stratton his suspicious that con-
traband of war was being shipped
from this harbor to aid the revolu-
tionists in that country. Mr.. Stratton
laid the matter before the Department
of Commerce and Labor at Washing
ton and yesterday came a letter from
Secretary Hay assuring the Collector
that the State Department was ready
at all times to act upon tangible infor-
nation.
The San Jose's passengers were near
ly all from New York, most of those
in the cabin being tourists, who pre-
ferred ocean travel to the dust and
discomfort of the overland journey.
The liner brought 1887 tons of cargo
and treasure valued at S10,S00. Her
passengers included the following:
S. l. Moore. Mrs. S. L. Moore. Miss H.
Armstrong, F. Barrios, S. Wolf, James T..
Rook. Mrs. James T. Rook Mrs. G. L. Spen-
Ger, H TONNE, Dr. H. X. Beatty, Mrs. H. K.
Beatty, A c. Sprout C. c. Stevens, H B..
Htchings, P. Raal F. Denssen, j. Driscoll,
w. Borx A. Mendelsohn, d. Baakensieck.
James Donohoe, J. Teneyck. M. Maunier, Mr.
Galletti, G. Carayani Joseph Fielder. P. Kel-
ley, Max Karp, F. L. NJ. Smith,. H Camus.
H. Reeder, NJ. Jurgens, J. Cuthbertson-
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
Danger to Coasting vessels.

The steamer Eureka, Captain Andrew Hall,
which arrived Friday from Ladysmith. report
ed to the Merchants Exchange that on Feb
ruary a. about twenty miles northwest Of
Point Reyes she passed dereict, which ap-
peared to be a piledriver. According to the
officers of the Eureka the derelict large
Travel along this coast is very heavy and in
the shipping community surprise ex-
pressed yesterday that steps had been taken
by the authorities find and destroy the der
elict reported three days ago by the Eureka
On the Atlantic coast the revenue cutter
service finds in work of this kind the principal
excuse for its longer existence. 1t is different
here. and yesterday there were many COM
ments on the fact that while the derelict pile
driver is wandering along in the track of
crowded passenger steamers the revenue cut
ter Hugh McCulloch, offcered and manned,
and supposed TO be ready for at short no.
tice. is swinging idly among the yachts at
Sausalito.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
Bensted Renews onenses.

j. Frederick Bensted, the English
remittance man, who was arrested a
month ago for annoying the members
Of Grace Episcopal Church, was ar
rested again yesterday on complaint of
Frank P. LIE Count for the same Of
fense. Bensted seems to have an in
sane infatuation for Miss Susie LIE
Count and has written several letters
to her, denouncing Rev. David Evans,
of Grace Church, Miss LIE Counts
fiance. He was warned when arrested
the first time to keep away from Grace
Church and not to correspond with
any of it's members. Despite his prom
ises, Frank P. LIE Count declares, he
has renewed the offenses. Bensted is
held at the detention ward of the Cen
tral Emergency Hospital and will be
examined by the Insanity Commission
ers.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
REAL ESTATE BOARD MAKES
SUGGESTIONS ABOUT LAWS
Directors Forward Resolutions to
Legislators at Sacramento Con-
cerning Two Measures.

The directors of the San Francisco
Real Estate Board met yesterday and
adopted resolutions to be forwarded
to the Legislature at Sacramento, urg-
ing the passage of a bill now before
the Legislature relating to actions for
obtaining. possession Of real property
upon default in payment of rent. A
preamble and resolution were also
adopted by the directors which are
in part as follows:
Whereas The San Francisco Real Estate
Board has deliberated upon the provisions of
the so-called Stanton oral contract bill and
deems that the enactment OF said bill as a
statute would be prejudicial TO the interests
or real estate dealers and of real property
owners and would be the constant source of
much expense, annoyance and litigation; and
Whereas. The law il stands requir-
ing contracts authorizing the purchase sale
of real estate for compensation commission
TO be in writing and subscribed by the party
to be charged. by his agent has proved sat
islactory to both real estate dealers and to real
property owners in the past; therefore be IT
Resolved That the Legislature of the State
of California, in Senate and Assembly assem-
bled be and they are hereby earnestly pc
tit.oned TO take such action as may result in
the defeat of the so-called Stanton oral con-
tract bill.
President Howell presided at the
meeting of the directors All the
members of the board were present.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
Water Front Notes.

The Spreckels tug Dauntless left yesterday
for Monterey with the oil barge Monterey in
tow.
The whaling bark Andrew Hicks arrived yes
terday off Honolulu.
The Standard Oil barge No. 93, which ar
rived Sunday from the Atlantic in tow of the
oil steamer Atlas. was towed by the tug De-
fiance to Napa Junction to discharge.
Frank NJ Kramer, first assistant engineer
on the steamship Enterprise, which arrived
Sunday from Hilo. died suddenly early yes
terday morning at his residence in this city,
T6 Belcher street.
All hope of saving the schooner Onward,
which went ashore the other day at the mouth
of the Coquille River. has been abandoned.
According to last reports the vessel is rapidly
breaking up. a
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
CO-N DI IONS AND GEN Elk
FORECAST.

WEATHER. CON DlTIONS AND GENERAL
FORECAST.
moderate disturbance continues over the
valley of the Colorado and Southern California.
1t may move slowly northward
Raln has fallen generally in Arizona and
snow may be expected in the Sierras south of
Mount Whitney.
Another storm overlies Washington. Rain,
with high south winds. is reported from the
mouth of the Columbia River northward.
Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty
hours ending midnight February 2s:
California north OF Tehachapi-Cloudy Tues
day, possibly showers in north portion; fresh
south winds
California south of Tehachapi-Cloudy un-
settled weather Tuesday, with showers; fresh
east winds.
Nevada-CIoudy Tuesday. with snow In the
Sierras; cooler
San Francisco and vicinity-Cloudy Tues
day; fresh north wind. .
Los Angeles and vicinity-Showers Tuesday;
cooler; fresh east wind.
i Sacramento-Cloudy Tuesday; cooler light
north wind.
Fresno-Cloudy Tuesday; in the noun
tains; light north Wind A. G. McADIE,
District Forecaster.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
Springs q Leak at Sea.

The schooner Orient, Captain Saunders,
which left here February 81 for Grays Har
Dor returned yesterday account of leak.
The leak was discovered on Friday when the
schooner 160 miles to the westward OF
this port. When she arrived yesterday the
water coming in through her seapls at
the rate of four inches hour.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVED.

Monday. February 81
Stmr San Jose, Thompson % days Ia hours
27 minutes from Ancon, via Mazatlan 6 days
10 hours and 40 minutes.
Stmr Gypsy, Leland. 80 hours from Mon
terey.
Stmr Mackinaw. Storrs 101 hours from Ia
coma.
stmr w. H. Kruger. Norberg. ~ hours from
Redondo.
Stmr State of California, Thomas, 20 hours
from San Diego.
Stmr George Loomis, Badger. - hours
from Redondo. up river direct.
Etmr Columbia, Doran. So hours from Port
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
Via sausalito Ferry

SUBURBAN SERVICE, STANDARD GAUGE.
Depart from San Francisco daily at "a :o5.
las S:25 9:10 $50 IL 100 a. m; 12:2O Las
s:15. 4:35. 5:15 $3.50. $50. 7:15 1915 and
1875 D. m.
Arrive at San Francisco daily at f6:40 7.s5
s.Ib $50 9:35. 1880 a. m; 1910, L 30 2.s5
4:25, sos. SAP. 6:22. 6:57. 7:4O and II :25
D.
+Daily except Sunday
For Fairfax daily at 7:45 a. m also Satur-
days at 3:15 p. m. and daily except Saturday
and Sunday at 515 D. m.
THROUGH TRAINS
7:45 a. m daily-Cazadero and way stations
8:15 D. m. Saturdays only-For Cazadero
5:15 p. m. daily. except Saturday and Sun
day for Tomales. etc
TICKET OFFICEl650 Market ST.
FERRY-Union Depot. foot OF Market St
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28

BAEHR TAKES NO ACTION.-Auditor
Baehr took action yesterday relative to the
Mayors threat TO remove him unless he repay
to the city the amounts of audited demands
for Grand Jury expenses under penalty Of re-
moval. Baehr said he desired to consult with
his attorney to what steps IL any, to take
regarding the Mayors ultimatum-
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
The Overdue List.

The vessels on the overdue list quoted
for reinsurance as follows: Stork, so per cent
Francois and Brodick Bay, per cent; Black
braes, 10 per cent; Skidby, 75 per cent, and
steamship Tacoma, 30 per cent.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY %.
N0TEIn the ahnue ernositinn AZ a.. .i

NOTE-In the above exposition Of the tides
the early morning tides given in the left
hand column and the successive tides of the
fourth time column gives the last tide OF the
day. except when there but three tides. as
sometimes occurs The heights given are in
addition to the soundings of the United States
Coast Survey Charts, except when minus g.
sign precedes the height, and then the number
given is subtracted from the depth given by
the charts. The plane of reference is the mean
of the lower low waters
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
The Orient Comes
Back to Port in
Distress.

SMYRNA-Arrived Feb 27-Stmr Arabic,
from New York. via Funchal Algiers. etc..
on cruise.
LONDON-Arrived Feb 27-stmr Mime
tonka from New York.
GIBRALTAR-Arrived Feb 27-Stmr Can
opic. from Boston, via Punta del Gada, for
Genoa, Naples. etc: stmr Princess Irene from
New York, for Naples and Genoa, and pro-
ceeded.
BRDMEN-Arrived Feb 27-stmr Main.
from New York.
Sailed Feb 25-Stmr Brandenburg. for New
York.
DOvER-Arrived Feb 27-Stmr Finland.
from New Yorks for Antwerp. and proceeded.
PLYMOUTH-Arrived Feb 27-Stmr Kron-
prinz Wilhelm from New York for Cherbourg
and Bremen, and proceeded.
ALEXANDRIA - Arrived Feb 27-Stmr
Moltke. from New York. via Funchal. Cadiz.
etc. on cruise.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
NOTE FOUND IN BOTTLE
SPEAKS OF A SUICIDE
IL Is Signed Oscar, but Police Look
Upon II as Hoax by Some Prac-
teal Joker.

While passing a tree near Golden
Gate Park tennis courts on Sunday
morning Herbert Lang, a boy living
at 174O Fell street. found q note in
a bottle. He took the bottle TO the
Park police station. where the note
vas taken out. 1t read thus:
Dear Gussie: / know this is a awful deed
but you have wrecked my life. I thought you
were true 10 me. but ] found you were not.
When you receive this I Will he in the other
world. GOod-by, with kisses forever. the one
YOU wrecked OSCAR.
p S.-Burn my remains.
Policeman Fulwider was detailed to
search the locality for body, but
was unsuccessful. Captain Burnett
looks upon the note as a hoax perpe-
trated by some practical joker.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
Card Systems and Cabinets.

$500 buys a card index drawer. SOC
record cards and "a guide cards. Loose
leaf ledgers. price books. fling cabinets
of every description and good printing
Sanborn, Vail & Co., TAI Market st.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28

sATcHEL THIEF IN THE TOIIS-Frank
Prigmit. alias Frank Frick, was booked at the
CItv Prison yesterday on a charge OF burglary
and a charge of petty larceny. He is said to
4. be the man who has been stealing the satchels
OF passengers at the ferry depot and Third
ana Townsend for some weeks. He was ar
rested at the ferry by Corporal ,Egan.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28

The schooner Annie M Campbell was cleared
yesterday for Guayaquil. Ecuador. with 20, 557
redwood and s615 fir railroad ties, valued at
S9s15
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28

Try the United States Laundry. 1904
Market street. Telephone South 420
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
NEWS OF THE OCEAN.
Matters of Interest to Mariners and
Shipping Merchants.
Railroad Ties for Ecuador.

The schooner Churchill is chartered for lum
Der from the Columbia River to Haiphong.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
CENTRAL AMERICANS ARE TOO BUSY WITH
COFFEE CROP TO STIR UP REVOLUTIONS
Steamship San Jose Awlves From Panama
Weather Renort
Q20th Meridian-Pacifc Time)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27-5 D.

tIZUth Merfdfan-Pacfhc Tfme.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27-5 p. m.
The following maximum and minimum tenn
peratures reported for the previous day:
Boston ......A .3S-22 New York ... 40 Is
Chicago :...... 43-34 Philadelphia -. 1920
Cincinnati ... 44-5o Pittsburg .3S- 20
Honolulu. H. I..16-64l St Louis 5O-3S
Jacksonville 49,. .66-42l Washington ..44-22
New Orleans, d.. Ga so
SAN FRANCISCO 1882
The following the seasonal rainfalls to
date, as compared with those OF the same date
last season. and rainfall in the last twenty
four hours.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
Memoranda.

Per schr Orient. Captain Sanders. hence Feb
! 21. for Grays Harbor-Returned to port on
| account Of springng a leak on Feb a. 100
| miles west of San Francisco; vessel leaking
| at the rate of inches per hour.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
RAILWAY TRAVEL.
Other Santa Fs Trains:

Other Santa Fe Trains:
7:30 a. m.
9:3O a. m. For Stockton Fresno. Bakersfield.
500 D. m Merced Hanford and Visalia-
100 D. m. For Stockton.
500 D. m. For Kansas City. Grand Canyon
and Chicago
Ticket Offces-e53 Market st. and Ferry Depot
San Francisco: also 1112 Broadway Oak
land CAL; also "a South First. San Jose.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
Steamer.

Time Ball.
Branch Photographic Office. U. s. N. Mer.
chants Exchange. San Francisco. Cal.
February 81. 1905.
building was dropped exactly at noon to-day
l. e.. at OF the 120th meridian. at
D. M. Greenwich time. j. C. BURNETT,
/. Lieutenant, U. S. N. in charge
Sun, Moon and Tide.
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Time and Height Of High and Low Waters
at Fort Point entrance to San Francisco
Bay. Published by official authority Of the
superintendent
NOTE-The high and low waters occur at
the city front mission street wharD about 25
minutes later than at Fort Point: the height
of tide is the game at both places.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28

OAKLAND HARBOR FERRY
fFOOt OF Market St)
f7.fSAM. s.eoA.M. t1.8oA-M.
100 P.M- 500 Pm. lis >. ~
for MorninE. for Afsernsen
Sunday excepted Sunday only
saturday only Monday oalE.
tsIops nj all stations on Sunday.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
FROM SEATTLE.
Destination. Sails,

Gkagway & Way Ports Feb. 2S
Skagway & Way Ports. Mar. /
Seward & Way Ports. Mar.
Skagway & Way Ports. Mar.
Valdez & Seward -. Mar. 9
Skagway & Way Ports. Mar. 6
Skagway & Way Ports. Mar. Z
Seldovia & Way Ports. Mar. 10
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-28
Movements of Steamers.

TO ARRIVE.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-11-23

moneys deposited in the bank by Ter
rltorial Secretary Grimes and Secre-
tary Wenner of the territorial. school
land leasing board few days before
the bank failed. Judge Hainer held
the money was accepted by the bank
after the latter was known to be in
an insolvent condition and is therefore
a preferred claim against the bank.
Receiver Cherry has appealed this
case to the Oklahoma supreme court,
where it will be argued in January.
If the territory again wins this case
against the receiver, it means at least
20 per cent less dividends paid by the
bank, for the reason that numerous
other claims are pending against the
bank awaiting final action of the
Grimes-Wenner suits. If the Grimes.
Wenner case is won by the territory,
the bonding companies will have ~
per cent more to pay TO the territory,
than if the territory should lose the
case.
1t has recently developed that IN
case the territory should finally lose
it's suit against the American Bonding
company in the higher courts, that
it can hold the United States Fidelity
and Guaranty company of Baltimore
for only $4,000, although the company
was on the banks bond for 100000.
When it became time for this COM
panys bond to be renewed, there was
some difficulty between the head office
and the territory regarding the au-
thentic signatures to the bond. Finally
the territory returned the bond TO
Baltimore Tor changes, and before 1t
was returned the bank failed, without
the bond being renewed. In the mean
time, however, Jas. Upshaw, of Okla
homa City, territorial agent for the
company, had made binder, for $25,-
coo, to protect Chas. +. Billingsley,
president Of the Capitol National bank
and this binder was the only bond
in force with the United Fidelity and
Guaranty company when the bank
failed, and the company is now even
contesting it's agents authority to is
sue such a binder.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-11-23
NEWSBOy HAD HIS REVE NGE

Did it ever strike you that when 1t
comes to waiting for revenge a news
boy, the same apparently impatient
little street gamin, is the most patient
being on earth?" remarked the one
who was pulling at the cheroot. We'll,
I'm here to tel, ,you that it is so, and
you'll believe IL when you hear this
story" he continued. "In my town
there used to be one of the crustiest
cid bachelors that ever lived. Some
people said he was miser, but
whether that was so / don't know.
At any rate, he was the stingiest ever
"One morning he bought a paper
from a newsboy and handed him a
coin. 1t was ten-cent piece, and the
boy didn't look at it, but pocketed 1t
and turned away. The old fellow
waited for his nine cents and suddenly
saw the boy darting across the street
to dispose of another paper He called
a policeman and had the little fellow
arrested for the theft Of the nine cents
The boy explained that he hadn't no.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-11-23

OF his favorite specimens: The
South American boas are most easily
tanned. My present boa, which have
lad about two years, invariably sleeps
in my bed, round my feet. He is per-
fectly clean, lies still and very seldom
disturbs me; occasionally he crawls
to my face to lick It. | frequently take
the python to bed, but at present she
is timid and II she cannot find my
feet in the night becomes scared and
walks out Of bed, curling herself on
the floor. The evil result is that she
becomes cold"
or the plague of caterplllars that
overran the Scottish lowlands In
1885: "The caterpilars marched in
armies straight ahead and the conse-
ouence was that when they encoun-
tered sheep drains which are open
drains about eighteen inches deep
and eighteen inches wide at the top
they tumbled into them in such num-
bers that their dead bodies damned
up the water and they might have
been taken out in barrow loads"
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-11-23

Richard Bell in his new book. my
Strange Pets" tells of the solan
geese, which in Great Britain in by
gone days, used to be salted and dried
for human food: Many years ago
these dried geese found their way
to the lowlands of Scotland and were
used as an appetizer. A small por.
tion, when eaten before meals. was
supposed to tickle the appetite. In
this connection | have heard a good
story. A worthy farmer in the neigh
borhood gave a dinner party and
when the dinner was in progress he
asked one of his guests if he would
have another portion upon which
the guest remarked, 1 think | will, as
| ct bit o solan goose afore | left
hame and it has made me very hun
cry upon which his neighbor said:
L dinna believe in these solan geese,
for | ct hall yin afore cam AVA
and | dinna feel bit the hungrier. 1"
A correspondent of Mr.. Bells gives
the following information about one
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-11-23

ticed that the old fellow gave him O
dime. But 1t availed him nothing.
Through the influence exerted by his
accuser the boy was sent to the house
OF correction for two months. He
swore vengeance on the old man and
about eighteen months later his op-
portunity came.
1T was during heavy rainstorm.
The streets were veritable rivers and
at one corner barefooted newsboys
had constructed walk over boxes.
Among the boys was our little friend
and among the crowd at the corner
waiting to pass was the crusty old
bachelor. The old fellow started to
cross, the boy saw him and Immediate
ly recognized him. STOPPING for a Sec
ond he moved one OF the planks. When
the old man stepped on this plank 1t
slipped from him and he was given
splendid ducking. I'm even wild dat
guy grinned the boy. Now I'm layin'
for de Judge dat sent me up. New
Orleans Times Democrat.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1905-11-23
MOLTEN LAVA AND FLOOD

Strange things have been happen
ing in the South Sea islands," writes
a Sydney correspondent OF the Chi
cago Daily News. "In Samoa a vol
cano has broken out, which belched
forth a torrent of molten lava three
miles wide clear to the sea- Forum
ately, the land over which the tor
rent flowed was a desert and, though
the sight was singularly impressive,
very little harm was done. From the
Marshall islands, however, comes
different tale There was a terrific
hurricane swept over the atolls and
islets of which the group is composed,
and Jaluit, where most Of the Euro
pean settlers reside, was washed by
an enormous wave at least six feet
high, which suddenly transformed
that islet into a lake in which the
natives with their families swan for
their lives and the native houses
fioated about.
'At noon the day Of the hurricane
at Jaluit the sky was pitch dark, ex-