The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22

and crew Of the italian cruiser Dogan, due
ne Whe mailing Gays voyaee S9 from the Sound
the Philippine Islands on the American schooner
W. H. Talbot, E. II. Ralph of Tacoma fell
has Just been received by Ralph's family.
ASTORIA, Aug. 2l.-The schooner Virginia;
wR fodsv oyer FeT sn St % OF BsS
knight OF st. George arrived today to load
lumber for the Orient.
Queen, with the Transportation OIL Company s
sonoma in tow from San Pedro; arrived today
proceed 10 San Francisco
SAN PEDRO, Aug. 21.-The steam schooner
evening and depart from Grays Harbor via
San Francisco tomorrow. The steam schooner
Rival win get away Thursday. Lumber han
morning TO handle the cargo Of the schooner
Centralia. The Sailors Union held a meeting
last evening and discussed the situation on the
water front, but no decision was arrived at.
Walter Macarthur, editor of the Coast Sea
mems Journal, was in San Pedro today in con-
session of the City Trustees was held last even
ing and an ordinance was read the first time
empowering President Weir of the board to
close the saloons should emergency arise.
number OF saloonmen were present and con-
sented TO close their places Of business every
evening at O'Clock during the present crisis
The steamer Melville Dollar. Captain Fosen,
from Grays Harbor, came into port this morn
carried a full cargo Of lumber and little delay
was experienced in getting sufficient number
Of men to begin work. All work on the sailing
vessels has been stopped no longshoremen
are obtainable. The partially discharged vessels
in port are the Mildren, Ludlow, Louise Louis.
and Gardiner City The ship McLaren is ready
for sea, but Captain Fry has been unable to
been compelled to quit. owing to lack Of labor
TO handle the rough lumber.
PORTLAND, Aug. 21.-"Just as soon as the
the season" said W. Wittenberg. general man.
ager of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company this
three Of them viii be brought TO Portland and
placed in service between here and the bay city.
The proposition depends entirely upon the atti-
tude OF the local merchants Agents of the sew
eral steamship companies also say that more
freight is being shipped from San Francisco TO
Portland these days than ever, Notwithstanding
the suPposition Immediately following the earth
quake and fire that the business coming this
way would be destroyed. Previous TO the disas-
handled a. full cargo. and on the return trips
they invariably came back rather light. But
now they are bringing full cargoes on both the
With Pilot Pope on the bridge the trim pleas
ure yacht FL Primero left the harbor this after
noon bound for Tacoma, which will be her fu-
ture home. Captain John NJ. Ponton will take
the yacht around the coast. She will carry a
crew Of of twelve men, all told.
When the American bark Homeward Bound
reaches Portland about the middle of September
she will probably be libeed for the recovery OF
reinsurance debt contracted seven years ago.
AT thst time she was known the German
bark Otto Gildermeister and was bound from
Yokohama for Portland in ballast
The immense big raft anchored in Wallace
slough down the Columbia River will be toEved
TO Astoria Friday. to be picked up by a sea
going tug for San Pedro. Two river steamers
have been engaged to tow the raft 10 Astoria
and they will leave Portland Friday morning
for the present anchorage of the raft
The steam schooner Yosemite went to Van
couver this morning TO load lumber for San
Francisco. She arrived at Astoria last night.
VANCOUVER. B. c.. Aug 21.-For the pur-
pose of selecting site the Frazer River for
the building of log and pile RATS for export TO
San Francisco and TO Panama Captain H. r.
Robertson Of the Robertson Raft Company.
contracts for the shipment of log rafts TO
Panama, which are large enough to warrant the
building of two Oil-burning steamers equipped
with special towing apparatus for use on this
coast These RATS are now building at Phfla-
delphia and win arrive here next spring There
being a law against the export of British Co
lumbia logs, Robertson intends to buy his logs
raft them there. He will commence operations
inside Of thirty days Robertson saws that when
his towing. steamers in operation no more
RATS will be lost at sea to become ioa ating dan
gers to navigation has been the case several
times in the past.
EUREKA, Aug. 21.-The steamers Alliance
and Corona departed today, one for Portland
via Coos Bay and the other for San Francisco
Because helpers were not plentiful the Corona
was unable TO get away with large a cargo
as usual ana keep up TO schedule. Representa-
uves of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company
asked Mayor TOrrey yesterday if be would ap-
point a special policeman to protect men whom
they would bring up from San Francisco The
Mayor refused, saying such action would
tend to arouse the local longshoremen unneces-
sarily He said he was willing to appoint a
watchman TO look after the company's ware
house.