The San Francisco call., 1906-08-28
Brings 14,476 Seal
skins From the
Pribilofs.
SECONDVOYAGE
Rookeries Regular
ly Raided by
japanese.

The steamer Homer. which arrived
yesterday afternoon, brought from the
ePribflof Islands a fortune in furs. II
was a cargo that occupied little space
and affected the draught OF the vessel
hut a few inches In value. however,
II represented the worth OF a whole
feet of Homers.
The Homer is under charter TO the
North American Commercial Company
and this is the second trip she has made
this season TO that concerns northern
trading station. The bulk of the furs
were sealskins. of which there were
l4zT6 slowed away in the Homer S
hold. She also brought ten barrels of
blue foxskins, one barrel Of mixed
foxskins, fifteen sheepskins and the
skin OF one COW.
The sealskins will be shipped to Lon
don. which is the only place in the
world where the art OF treating the
skin of the seal and giving its shaggy
coat the plushlike softnes that makes
II so valuable is understood
E. ". Clark, agent for the De-
partment Of Commerce and Labor, sta
toned for the protection Of seals at st.
George Island. IN the Pribilof group,
was a passenger on the Homer, accom-
panied by his wife. Mrs. Clark would
not allow the major to say more than a
few words
He did manage TO impart the infor-
nation, however, that there had been
many raids this season on the rook-
. cries and that the Japanese were the
principal offenders. The Japanese who
were killed on St. Paul Island were
shot down by guards who had placed
them under arrest
1t was stated on board the Homer
that a number of japanese were ar
rested subsequently on St George
Island. but Major Clark would not con-
firm this. He said:
Everything that has happened in
connection with the raids on the rook-
cries has been published in the papers
I have nothing further to add
The Homer arrived about 4:30 o'clock
and after lying at anchor of Meiggs
wharf for an hour or so was ordered
70 Oakland Long Wharf, where she
will discharge her valuable cargo. She
left here May IA Captain Donaldson
reports an uneventful passage. The
Homer was twelve and a half days COM
ing from the Pribilof Islands and eleven
and half days from Dutch Harbor.
Looking for Harry j. Hart.
Back and forth along the water front
the twenty men that constituted the
crew OF the filibustering steamer En-
pire wandered yesterday in search OF
Harry J. Hart. the agent they say,
who hired them for the unlawful ex-
. -pedition. The majority Of the men are
Greeks and they want Hart 70 make
good the promises that the men say he
% made when they agreed TO take the
; Empire TO Corinto with a cargo Of con-
traband arms and ammunition for the
revolutionary army. In Guatemala
there is d price on the head of every
member OF the Empires crew, and
although Guatemala is a long way of
these men think they should be paid
. ROW. for the risk they might run if al
any future time they should elect to
visit the Central American republic
Up TO a late hour they had not located
Hart Some Of the officers want Hart
, 10 make good TO them the bonus he
promised and all hands want pay from
the time they left the Empire at Cor
into until they arrived here last Sat
uyday on the City of Panama.
Heavy Receipts of Lumber.
Thirteen may be an unlucky number
but thirteen coasters did San Fran
cisco d good service yesterday by
bringing into port thirteen cargoes OF
lumber These cargoes varied from
$4,000 feet 10 100000 feet and in the
aggregate the days receipts by water
amounted TO 6,307 900 feet The schoon-
ers r. C. Slade and Watson H. West
Syhose combined cargoes amounted &c
g. ], ,9f7 900 feet, were toWed, tandem
. fashion, from Grays Harbor by the tug
Daring The trip was made in l1G
hours.
Water Front Notes.
The Pacific Mail liner City of Peking
will sail at noon today for Panama and
way ports. She will carry full cargo
but few passenger
The Oceanic Steamship Company
liner Alameda is due today from Homo
d lulu
The liner Korea, which leaves for the
Orient September 4, will take from
Honolulu all those of the Manchuria' S
passengers who were unable to get
accommodations on the Hongkong
Maru.
The japanese liner Nippon Maru ar
rived at Hongkong Sunday, a day
ahead OF her schedule time.
The liner Siberia, homeward bound
left Yokohama on Sunday.