The San Francisco call., 1906-08-04

Of 25 per cent in the wheat crop result Of
the heavy rains early in the season and not
winds IN July, which killed resown grain. This
will decrease the State wheat yield TO about
The schooner Ida Schnauer, Captain Larsen.
sailed today from Port Ludlow for San Francisco,
via Port Townsend, with lumber.
The steamship Spokane win be sent to San
Francisco on completion of her present trip to
ABERDEEN, Aug S-The strike situation
took & serious turn today and the union sailors
on half dozen sailing vessels were called out
The vessels that incurred the wrath of the
unions were those lying at the docks Of the S. E.
Slade Lumber Company and included the bar
kentine Wrestler and the schooners A. ]. West,
Watson A. West, S. R. Slade and Golden Shore.
This is the first move made by the unions toward
calling out the crews Of sailing vessels, and the
unions may forerunner 10 similar action at
other coast ports
The slade Lumber Company recently entered
into contract with the Grays Harbor Stevedoring
Company 10 load its vessels. The stevedoring
concern was organized soon after the longshore-
men struck, and is supposed to be sort OF non
this concern organized the American Brotherhood
OF Longshoremen, membership in which is linn
ited TO Americans. This concern has been han
ding cargoes for the Slade Company and today
the unions called out the crews Of the vessels
lying at the Slade docks Application for sea
men has met with no response from the agent
for the Sailors Union, and it looks like a gen
eral walkout sailing vessels under charter TO
The A. ]. West viii be the first of the vessels
TO get away Captain Gruner declares that he
will sail his ship 10 San Francisco with three
men, himself and his two mates He states that
the action OF the union has been without reason,
and says he is determined 10 show the unions
that he run his ship without them. The
vessels now loading ar the Slade mills will carry
of lumber.
EUREKA, Aug. s.-The United States tor
pedo-bost destroyer Paul Jones sailed today at
noon for Esquimalt for target practice.
The steamships Eureka and Corona sailed to-
day on time with passengers for San Francisco.
The Corona carries cargo Of lumber.
The British bark Tweedsdale, which left San
Francisco IN tow Of the tug Defiance several
days ago, arrived in port today.
The steamships Argo, Despatch. Sequoia and
Ravaln due here from San Francisco today, had
SAN PEDRO. Aug. s.-The schooner Daunt-
less, Captain Anderson, eight days from Grays
sen, five DAYS from Eureka, arrived today The
schooner Eldorado, Captain johnson, left for
Gray's Harbor in ballast. The ship McLa aurin,
steamship AlcstraE. steamship El Aguador, Ger
man ship LiZabeth, barkentine Charles F.
Croker. barkentine Portland, ship Henry Willard
lis. @. n. Watson, Beulah, Lizzie Prfen, Muriel,
Dauntless and John are In port. The barken-
from Tacoma. J. NJ. Grifith, from Port Had.
lock and Retriever from Port Hadlock. and the
from Olympia Ludlow, from Aberdeen, and
Okapogan, from Port Gamble, are due at this
port Captain Karl Friedman has succeeded
august Meter IN command OF the bark Vidette.
P. Larsen has been enrolled as master of the
schooner F. NJ. slade and o. johnson OF the
steamship Newberg
PORT Los ANGELES, Aug. a.-The steam
ship State OF California. from San Francisco,
Vile de Mulhouse sailed for Seattle. The
steamship Coos Bay, from San Francisco the
French ship VILE de Mulhouse; Captain Bony,
from Antwerp, the steamship Marshheld, from
San Francisco, and the schooner c. S. Holmes.
from Olympia. are in port.
The British ship Lucipara, Captain witt,
ninety-two days from Rotterdam, the British
ship Lorraine, Captain Williams, eighty-two DAYS
from London, the British ship Glenalvon Cap
tain Henderson, seyenty-two days from New
castle, the French ship Helene Blum Captain
Gueinais, 1S2 days from Melbourne and the
Dutch steamer Nederland. forty-two days out
from Shields, via Antwerp, are coming here.