The San Francisco call., 1906-09-18


The China was expected early yester-
day morning, but 1t was nearly
O'Clock in the afternoon before she
dropped anchor off Meiggs wharf.
Among the passengers from Honolulu
was A c. L. Atkinson, Secretary of the
Territorial Government. Atkinson's
visit to the mainland, he says, is purely
a matter OF private business and pleas
ure He is going East and expects TO
visit Cuba. Apart from shipwrecks. he
says, affairs in Hawaii are quiet. The
Territorial Government, he says, is go
ing to make Honolulu the best equip
ped port on the Pacific.
The China's passengers were: A. H.
Bryant, F. Koessler, II. Jeffrey, Emil
Woodsum, from the Orient; and from
Honolulu: A. c. L. Atkinson, S. A
Baldwin. E. w. Elan, f. Hedeman, Mrs.
@. c. Johnson, E. ]. Lord, J. A. Low,
Miss Z. Schaifer, l. n. Williams, L. A.
Wolff. l. Frahm, c. Hedeman, i.
Klamp. Miss McKenney, G. Schaifer,
William Waterhouse.
VIII Return Tomorrow.
The United States revenue cutter
Golden Gate Captain Dodge, which for
the last two months has been at Mare
Island Navy-yard, undergoing thor
ough overhauling. will return to the
barge office tomorrow and relieve the
little inadequate Hartley of duty in
connection with the Custom-house. The
Hartley ancient and honorable. willing
but weak, serves in an emergency and
is fairly comfortable when not crowded
in fine weather, but as steady equip
age only adventurous souls like Board
ing Officer Victor Lindquist, in whose
veins flows the blood of Vikings, tread
her narrow deck with any degree of
comfort. There is a tradition in the
customs service that once upon a time
somebody who knew a thing or two
about boats prophesied. after riding in
the Hartley over a stormy sea- that
some day the little cutter would break
in two. This story is retold every
time the afternoon breeze kicks up
sea, and under the influence of two
months of the Hartley and that story
the customs boarding force is getting
nervous and anxious for the arrival to-
morrow of the Golden Gate, the flag
ship of Captain Dodge's fleet
salmon Vessels Arrive.
The ship Santa Clara, twenty-three
days from Nushagak, and the schooner
Mizpah, twenty-five days from Bristol
Bay, arrived yesterday, both heavily
laden with salmon. The Santa Clara is
the vessel that left here the day before
the earthquake and carried among her
passengers about sixty white youths
who had engaged themselves to work
at the canneries as Chinese. 1t was one
of these youths that set fire to the
cannery at Coffee Creek, in the destruc-
ton of which seven boys lost their
lives.
Where Is the Hiawathaf
Anxious inquiries were being made
yesterday for the ten-ton power schoo-
ner Hiawatha. which left Black Dia-
mond on Saturday for Howard-street
wharf No. 2 and has not yet reached
the berth engaged for her. The Hia-
watha depends for her progress on
gasoline engine and it is possible that
a breakdown of her machinery may
be responsible for the schooner's tar
diness She carries crew of two men
all told.
VIII Tow Ship to London.
A tug has left London for St. Vim
cent to get the British ship Wray
Castle and tow her to the British cap
itaI. The Wray Castle recently put
into st. Vincent considerably damaged
by fire.
Vessels Collide I'm Bay.
The schooner Robert r. Hind ran
into the bark Edward May late last
night and both vessels sustained con-
damage. Inc dlnu passed IN
over the bar about 10 o'clock and was
trying to make her way up the harbor,
when she became becalmed and before
she could be controlled drifted against
the May
The Mays jib-boom and portions of
her forward gear were carried away,
and the Hind lost portions Of her deck
stays and her forward rail. In the mix
up Mrs. Erickson, wife Of the captain
of the Hind, was struck on the head by
q falling spar. She was only slightly
injured.
Juteopolis Arrives.
The British ship Juteopolis arrived
late last night. eighty days from New
castle, England, with a cargo of coal
consigned to ]. and A. Brown Cap
tain Stewart reports that on August IA
Robert Short, a seaman, fell overheard
and after being half an hour in the
water was hauled back on the ships
deck and came into port as good as
new.