The San Francisco call., 1907-02-12
Shipping News and Gossip
of the Water Front
Japanese StowaWay on Hazel Dollar
Is Landed on Shore of Seudi Bay

Captain Bruce Of the steamship Hazel
Dollar hates stowaways. The Hazel
Dollar arrived here yesterday without
stowaway who was hidden in one of
the freighter's boats when she left
Yokohama and was discovered a few
hours after the steamship left port
That stowaway probably hates Captain
Bruce now. He was a japanese and was
discovered on January 1e. He was
brought before Captain Bruce who at
once gave orders for the steamers
course to be changed. Mr.. Stowaway
was invited at o'clock next morning
70 step back into the boat that had hid
den him. The boat was launched and
rowed into shallow water, where the
stowaway stepped overheard and waded
ashore on the beach of the Bay of
SeudL The boat returned TO the ship
and the Hazel Dollar resumed her voy-
age.
She encountered some heavy weather.
nut not such a spell Of il as was expe-
rienced by the winnebago. which ar
rived on Saturday and whose master
predicted that the Hazel Dollar would
not reach port for a week.
The Hazel Dollars cargo included
coal and general merchandise.
VIII Look for the Rita Newman
The United States revenue cutter
Thetis, Captain Hamlet, sailed yester-
day IN search OF the power schooner
Rita Newman, which left the Coquille
River nineteen days ago and has not
Yet put in an appearance. She was
sighted of the CoquiIle River under
sail, her gasoline engine having
broken down. The Rita Newman is a
seaworthy craft and no fears are en-
tertained for the safety Of the vessel,
but as her voyage has lasted long be-
yonc reasonable expectations it is
feared that those on board may be suf-
fering for food and water.
Ross of SausaIfto Missing
Pilots returning from sea Sunday af-
ternoon reported a small sailboat going
10 sea on the ebb tide. The pilot boat
was anchored of Fort Point when the
little craft swept by and was lost in the
fog. The Merchants Exchange re-
ceived word from Sausalito yesterday
that q Mr.. Ross of that place had start
ed on Sunday in a catboat for San Fran
cisco and had not been heard Of since
It probably was Mr.. Ross that the pi-
lots saw. There was no wind and the
sea was smooth, as 1t has been since.
For Repairs to Tug SIoeum
The following bids for repairs to the
army tug Slocum have been received
by the quartermaster's department:
". A Boole & Son, Inc, S3425; Union
Iron Works, $378l; Risdon Iron Works
$500, and Moore & Scott Iron Works
$500. Boole. the lowest bidder. is just
completing repairs and alterations on
the new quarantine tender Argonaut
which will be in commission again in q
few days.
Where Is the Schooner Antelopeg
The little schooner Antelope has
again disappeared. She left here forty
six days ago for the Umpqua River.
Advices from there contain no record
Of her arrival. She was to have loaded
salmon at UmpQua for Astoria The
Antelope Is owned In Astoria and has a
name for occasional very long passages
HghtshiP Returns to MOOrings
Lightship No. 20, Captain Kenealy,
returned yesterday to her station on
the bar and relief lightship No. rs came
in and is at her berth at Goat Island.
Lightship No. 20, while in port, was
thoroughly overhauled at Bodies yard,
also has been undergoing repairs.
Water Front Notes
The Oceanic Steamship Company's
liner Alameda from Honolulu and the.
Pacific Mail liner Newport from Pana-
ma are due today.
The steam schooner National City,
which went ashore near Redondo, has
been foated.
The collier Tellus arrived yesterday
with $3.50 tons Of coal
The Pacific Mail liner San Jose left
Mazatlan February Z. for this port.
Receipts Of lumber yesterday by sea
amounted TO 2.278.000 feet.