Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-11-19
WHAL, CRUISE ENDS
IN MUTINY OF CREW

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Nov. 0.
With an owl that flew on board when
the ship was still 500 miles away
from the land, story of mutiny,
hard luck, and hunger, and 700 bar
rcls of whale OIL the whaling bark
John and Winthrop returned Sunday
night from nearly years cruise in
southern and far eastern waters. AS
for the crew, the men who did the
hard work, are concerned, the COM
pcnsation for the eleven months of
toll and discomfort will be about 81
apiece and an undivided interest In
the owl. The owners and some of
the officers will do little better.
The owl was found in the rigging
one morning about a week ago. it
had landed there during the nigat
and allowed itself to be caught with
out protest. 1t was very hungry and
has shown willingness to eat any
thing at any time since.
Twenty members of the crew were
in irons for seven days while the
whaler was at Hakodate. They re-
fused duty because, they say, Cap
tain w. T. Shorey, master of the YES
sci. broke his word In the matter of
granting them shore liberty. They
refused duty later when, after a
hard days work, Shorey ordered that
their supper be limited to bread and
tea. This second mutiny was settled
by the captain yielding and ordering
the cook to serve a microscopic SAM
pie of salt meat to each of the mutt
neers.
Among the men put in irons at
Hakodate was John Quart, boat
J stcerer. Quart not only refused
duty. but refused to submit to the In
dignity of joining his shipmates in
irons. lie gave in, however, when
Captain Shorey and Mate A. S. Hitler
placed revolvers against his head
and gave him two minutes in which
to make up his mind whether he
would take steel or lead.
: The men blame Captain ShorcA
for the small catch. They say thit
! whales were plentiful, but that Shor
ey lacked either the grit or inclina
l ton to go after them. They sa,
1 that he wasted time at Honolulu an;
in the Caroline Islands with the dus
ky beauties ashore. Upon the fai
u Caroline Islanders they say he Law
ished gifts of Standard oil and econ
omized later by sailing the John ant
Winthrop without side lights.
, On August 1G, while off the Jap
anesc coast, the John and Winthro
was rocked by an earthquake an
that night the heavens were lighte
by the passage of n beautiful comet
The only accident of the cruise wa
q on September 2, when whale, int
which he had driven n harpoor
smashed the second mates boat int
smithereens and scattered the Occu
pants over the face Of the waters.
All were picked up by the thir
mates boat, by which also was recoy
cred the end of the line to which wa
attached the harpoon that ha
aroused the whales anger. The haI
pooh was still In the whale and tn
leviathan towed that boat at automc
bile speed until dark, when the lin
was cut.
While at Hakodate, two Japanes
warships entered the inner harbol
where the John and Winthrop wa
lying. As the warships passed, off
GERS and men lined the rail of bot
vessels and saluted the America
flag.
The steam whaler Thrasher, Car
tain Foley, from the Arctic, also al
rived Sunday night. The Thrashe
got only two whales, which yielde
about 5000 pounds Of bone. TIL
Thrasher was fighting ice all tn
time 1t was whaling and got no far
Their north than Point Barrow. Car
tain Foley reports that the Jeanett
lost Its propeller in the ice.