The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-10-23

disc for Honolulu and Hilo, the Mat
son line steamship Hilonian arrived
Sunday morning from Portland after
a somewhat tempestuous voyage OF
eleven days. For the first few days the
vessel encountered n heavy gale and no
progress was made. Added to TINS
was some trouble in the boiler section,
a new crew having been shipped mt
Portland at the eleventh hour and the
vessel sailing on schedule time. Captain
Klitgaard. well known on the Coast,
is here for the first time as chief en-
gineer of the steamer. Captain Kilt
gard has Strengthened out the engine
room pilikia and the vessel will be In
her usual first.ciass condition on leaving
port.
The Hilonian brings a record cargo
this trip and the showing is gratifying,
not only to Captain johnson, but to
Portland's business men.
Business looks good up in Portland
for the Hawaiian trade said Captain
Johnson Sunday, land there seems
to be a certainty that it will continue
now that the people up north have
got an opening down here"
Sixteen hundred tons of freight come
direct from Portland and 1890 tons
was loaded at San Francisco Among
the Portland shippers are Haywood
Bros. q Wakefield Co, Goodyear Rub
Der Co., Oregon Iron Mfg. Co., Mar
shall, Wells Hardware Co., Bell g. Co.,
Acme Mills Co., Fleischner, Mayer &
Co., Meier e. Frank, Pacific Hardware
L. Steel Co., Chas. l.. Mastick & Co.,
Allen & Lewis, Pacific Coast Biscuit
Co.. Bushong Co, Neestafter Bros,
Paterson, Smith e. P-att. w. b. Glaske
Co., F. S. Harmon & Co, Adamant Co.,
Multnomah Lumber & Box Co., Port
land FIGURING Mills, Ames-Harrls Ne
vile Co., r. l.. Polk & Co., Zhn Bros,
Kerr Clifford & Co., NJ. j. Lindsay, Pol
son Implement Co.
The Hilonian breaks up the local po-
tato and cracker famine The steamer
brought about $500 bushels of potatoes,
as well as crackers galore, besides feed,
hour, onions, salmon, agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS. dressed turkeys and chickens,
furniture, boots and shoes, apples, dress
goods, etc.
The Hilonian will discharge and leave
here about Friday for Hilo to discharge
the remainder of her CARGO. and load
the rest of her sugar cargo, amounting
All lOIu 10 dDpul Ouuu tOHs.
The Hilonian brought no passengers
this trip. One of the Royal Hawaiian
band boys returned on the vessel as
a member of the crew.
wBEDON'S LAST TRIP.
Captain Weldon, of the American
Hawaiian steamship Nebraskan, is Wis
ting Honolulu for the last time, at
least for a couple of years. On his re-
turn in the Nebraskan to the Coast he
will resign his command to First Of
ficer G. b. knight and will then leave
for Salina Cruz, Mexico. to assume his
new duties there as port captain for
the A. II. company. Salina Cruz Is
the Pacific terminus of the Tehuante-
pee Railway, and 1t will be the i'm
portant base of operations in the Pa
cific for the American Hawaiian
steamers.
First Officer Knight was formerly in
command of the ship ]. b. Thomas and
for the past two years has been first
Huff" on the Nebraskan. He Is a
young man, comparatively, and is re-
garded as an experienced navigator.
Captain Weedons departure from this
route will be matter OF regret to his
He is a fine navigator and a most
agreeable man socially and sea cap
tain to whom the newspapermen on the
front tie to.
The Nebraskan arrived yesterday
morning from San Francisco and is
berthed at the Eva end of the Railway
wharf. She brought 5000 tons of freight
for Honolulu. 140O for Kahului and $50
for Hilo. She will take on about 1A0O
tons of sugar at all three ports, be-
sides about 5000 cases of canned and
glassed pineapples. mostly the product
of the Wahiawa plantations.
A deck load of ia hogs, ten horses
and ten mules was landed here safely.
ALAMEDA HAS BIG LIST.
With a big list of passengers and
one of the biggest freight cargoes
brought In for some time the Oceanic
Steamship Alameda came into port
Friday at 1 o'clock, few hours be-
hind her regular hour of arrival. Her
delay was due to stop of two hours
In midocean to allow of some repairs
in the engineroom and to the fact
that on several occasions 1t was nee
essary to run the engines at reduced
speed.
Among the seventy-three cabin pas
seRgers were many well-known Homo
Iuans returning from mainland visits.
Among these are w. A. Baldwin, A.
Berg, Miss G. Caywood, Mr.. and Mrs,
C. M. Cooke and Mr.. and Mrs. C. NJ.
Cooke, Jr., Mrs, C. S. Crane, Captain
w freeman Of the Kinau, p. NJ. King.
Mrs. C. Leadbetter, Rev. w. Z. Pot
wine. Thomas Prime and c. c. Won
Hamm and wife.
Mrs. Rudolf Buchly and Miss NJ. A.
Buchly. sister and niece of w. Pea
cock, We're among the arriving passen-
gers. and C. j. Hutchins was accom-
panied on his return by Mrs. w. b
Fielding, his sister-in-law.
Miss N, b. winston, who has spent
previous winters in Honolulu, has re-
turned for visit of some months.
Beyond the slight delay in the pas
sage the trip down was pleasant one
The steamship Nebraskan was passe,
on Sunday a short distance out from
the Coast, and the transport Logan
bound for San Francisco. was ais
sighted
The Alameda brought 1880 tons o
freight and ninety-three sacks of mai
Purser smith reports that II is al