The San Francisco call., 1906-08-07
COAST SHIPPING NEWS.
Items of Interest to Mariners
of the Pacific.

ASTORIA. Aug. e.-The steamship Redondc
SrriVsd here last evening and viii load lum-
arrived today TO receive cargo Of lumber FOX
TACOMA, Aug. 6.-The bark Carondelet from
San Francisco reached Port Gamble today. The
ship Glory OF the Seas from San Francisco
reached Port Hadlock.
from Hecate straits with $50 900 pounds Of hall
but. Halibut shipments being made TO
The Gillian bark Curzon bound from Val
paraiso TO Port Townsend and the schooner
hlng cyrus, lumber laden from Tacoma TO San
Francisco coilided yesterday in fog at the
entrance of the Straits Of Fuca- Reports from
Tatoosh say that both vessels were damaged
chored four miles south Of Flattery rocks.
VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. 6.-The ofhcial
Government inquiry into the sinking Of the
The Chehalis went down on July 81, after col
lision with the Princess Victoria. Judge Nor
Nine lives were lost. Captain Grimm of the
Victoria is now being tried on a charge Of man
witness was Captain Howes of the OhehaIis.
who claims that the Victoria whistled once and
not twice stated by Griffin.
The prevalence of forest fires along the coast
to the south Is becoming source Of worry to
shipping men because of the consequent smoki-
ness of the atmosphere. On Puget sound the
harbor and the Frazer River II is getting very
dense.
have been IN the harbor during the last few
days inspecting the vessels at this port. 1t is
and masters may be revoked. On Just what
grounds the inspectors VIII make trouble can
not be learned.
TIE schooner A. J. West sails tomorrow for
San Francisco with 100000 feet OF dressed lum-
Der. The Centralia will tomorrow finish loading
q cargo OF 100000 feet for San Francisco.
The new stevedore concern organized In op-
position TO the Longshoreman's Union has 100
men at work. Apart from calling out the
nv
dores, the unions have made no recent efforts
10 interfere with the work Of loading.
here She viii begin loading IN a few days.
SAN PEDRO. Aug. e.-The steamship Helena
has arrived and is discharging 200 feet Of
lumber. The rest Of her cargo, $4,000 feet, is
FOR Port Los Angeles for which port she sails
Kaak from Hamburg, finished discharging a
large cargo of cement and left in ballast for
Vancouver, B. c. She was towed ninety miles
to sea by the tug Warrior. She win load a
lupber cargo for Cape Town, South Africa,
The schooner Lizzie Prien, Captain Hansen.
and the schooner Endeavor, Captain MeAllep,
finished discharging lumber cargoes and sailed
and the latter for Tacoma The ship Henry
Willard, Captain Anderson. win finish discharg
ballast for Bsllingham. where she will reload for
SANTA CRUZ. Aug e-Two steamships
on its way from Los Angeles and the Bonita
tied up and took aboard $500 barrels OF lime
for San Francisco.
PORT HARTFORD. Aug. e.-The Standard OIL
Company's tug Sea Rover. with barge No. in
tow. arrived this afternoon from Point Rich,
mond. The barge is now loading with oil and
will return north tomorrow.
EUREKA. Aug. 6.-The steamship Alliance
She delayed for few hours because the
longshoremen refused TO work at night on her
cisco. carrying siKty-four passengers and mis-
cellsneous freight, mostly lumber. also $50 head
Of cattle. The steamship Francis Leggett ar
rived today TO load lumber for the south.
SEATTLE. Aug. 6.-The American schooner
with a cargo Of lumber for San Pedro The
Francisco with 1000, 900 feet of lumber
The Railway and Marine News publishes
forty large steamers and forty-four sailing
vessels now on the water loaded with material
steel and cement. nearly all OF which is being
Antwerp and Hamburg.
While sleeping in their berths on the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company's Alaska steamship
Alki Joseph Nelson and Thomas jackson, two
Alaska Indians, were brutally assaulted at /
O'Clock this morning. Jackson struck with
club, which inflicted a long cash over the
his face badly beaten. Both Indians claim they
do not know their assailants. 1t is believed they
were strike sympathZers. although one of the
of1cers says the Indians were fighting among
Themselves early in the evening.
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Of the Simpson Lumber Company, which recently
bought her. the steamship Redondo arrived today
from San Francisco the first voyage she has
made since the sailors strike. The vessel will
be kept in the coastwise trade. The Oriental
liner Nicomedia left this morning for the Orient
with a cargo OF general freight.
Work is progressing on the time ball apparatus
at the Custom-house, and IT will be ready for
service IN q few days.
Captain werlich Of the lighthouse department
received a letter today from Ejnar Mikkelsen
the polar explorer, stating that the Anglo-Amer-
ican polar expedition left Port Clarence on the
schooner Duchess OF Bedford for the pole on
July 20. This missive was written just before
leaving the Port Clarence rendezvous and is
the last word from the expedition.
TACOMA, Aug. 6.-The schooner Balboa from
San Pedro. July II for Mukilteo went ashore
tnls afternoon during dense fog four miles
from Crescent Bay on the Straits Of Fuca The
steamship Alice Gertrude was unable 10 pull her
OF this evening but expects to at high tide In
the morning Captain Burmester thinks the
Balboa is uninjured.