The San Francisco call., 1908-07-28
Shipping News and Gossip
of the Water Front
Ship Falls of Dee, Short of Provisions,
Is Supplied by Liner Nevadan

The American-Hawaiian steamer
Nevadan, which arrived yesterday from
Seattle. reports having met with and
supplied with provisions the British
ship Falls of Dee, so days out from
Iquique for Victoria. The captain of
the Falls of Dee stated that his YES
sci nearly went ashore on Cape EIiz-
abeth and lost an anchor and chain.
Rough weather and head winds were
experienced during the last three weeks
Of the voyage OF the British vessel
The Nevadan is to load freight at
this port for New York.
Assuan Brings Light Cargo
The Kosmos line steamship Assuan,
Captain Paepsler. arrived in port yes
terday, 1l6 days from Hamburg and
six days from MaZatlan. AT Callao
the Assuan went alongside the dock,
and when IL arrived here yesterday the
quarantine officials compelled the OFF,
GERS 10 take the vessel out to Mission
bay for fumigation.
Cases Of plague are said to be in
CallaO at the present time, and ac-
cordlng TO the quarantine officials the
the wharf. The few passengers were
landed by a tug early in the morning
The Assuan carried a light cargo
S54 tons-including 1000 barrels of
cement l,l56 bags OF coffee and 500
Following were the Assuan's pas
sengers: A. Canobbio, NJ Pflkington
Lenaro Garcia, Mrs. Asuncion L. de
Burn
New Line of Steamers for This Port
The German steamship Arabia, which
has been chartered by the Portland and
Asiatic steamship company, one of the
Hartman holdings, IS due 10 arrive at
this port Friday. The Arabia is one
of a string of four vessels chartered
to run between this port. Japan and
Portland. The other three are the
Nicomedia, Numantia and Alesla. All
four of the steamships are OF more
than 1900 tons, the AleXia being 5,167.
The lengths Of the vessels range from
$50 feet to 437 feet. The AleXia is a
twin screw steamship and has a reputa-
The new line OF steamers will dis
charge freight at this port, but will
receive only at Portland and Japanese
ports.
Minnie E. KeltOn Total Loss
The steamer Minnie E. Kelton, which
was previously reported towed 10 AS
toria in q waterlogged condition, is
now a total wreck on the outer end or
the jetty sands. The efforts to raise
the vessel appeared TO be entirely sue
cessful until last Sunday, but during
the night IL broke away with the
barges and started out over the bar
with the tide.
After reaching rough water It broke
away from the barges and went on the
sands in position which renders sal
wage impossible. The barges were res
cued by the tug Tatoesh.
Siberia Bringing Raw SILK
The Pacific Mail steamship Siberia
left Honolulu Sunday evening for this
port. The Siberia is bringing 49, cabin
passengers, 100 of whom are from
Honolulu. and 210 Asiatics. The Siberia
has a full cargo of 5000 tons, which
mating and 1850 tons of tea and gen
eral merchandise. The vessel Will
probably arrive at this port Saturday
morning.
OIL Carrier Arrives From Japan
The Standard oil steamer Tonawanda,
Captain Trigg, arrived In port yester-
day afternoon in ballast from japanese
ports. The Tonawanda stopped at sew
eral new ports in Japan this trip. Cap
tain Trigg reports an uneventtul voy-
age from his sailing port, karatsu
good weather being experienced all the
way over.
Governor Takes Many Passengers
The Pacific Coast steamship COM
pany's steamer Governor sailed yester-
day afternoon promptly at 1880 o'clock.
freight and about $50 passengers for
northern ports. Carl Eaton went out
as clerk yesterday In place of Earl
Hamilton, who is taking his vacation.
H Craig is the new assistant clerk on
the Governor.
Water Front Notes
The Matson navigation companys
steamship Hilonian is to sail tomorrow
for Honolulu with a cargo of general
merchandise and a full list of passen-
gers.
The steamship Lurline of the Matson
line is at present at Honolulu loading
sugar for this port.
The steamer Despatch. which has
been under charter TO the American
Hawaiian steamship company, is due
10 arrive at this port early this morn
ing with a cargo of 1000 tons OF tin.
This is the last trip the Despatch will
make under charter. 1t will resume its
run in the lumber trade for its owners,
the Pacific lumber company.
The bark Andrew Welch is loading
fertilizer at Howard street wharf No. 2
for Honolulu.
The Kosmos steamship Amman left
Hamburg July "a for this port.
More than 10000 barrels of oil came
in through the Golden gate yesterday
afternoon.
The Pacific Coast steamship City of
Puebla is due to arrive this morning
from Alaska and Puget sound ports.
The steamer Olson and Mahony,
Captain Payne, left yesterday for Ma
zatlan with a cargo of lumber.
The san Francisco and Portland
steamer State of California. arrived
yesterday from Portland and Astoria.
The steamer Queen arrived in port
yesterday afternoon from San Diego
with a large list OF passengers.
Sixty girls from the factory of Levi
Strauss d Co. were entertained on one
a trip around the bay, which lasted
several hours, the party landed at
FL Campo. where they had clambake.