The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-22
DECK And DOCK HERE
YESTERDAY
STEAMSHIP SARK ARRIVES IN
FROM BAY CITY - EUREKA
HERE FROM EUREKA-SHIPS,
DATES AND CARGOES.

A report was current at midnigh
last night that there was vesse
outside on fire, and that she was be
ing towed in. No continuation o
the report could be obtained. A
North Head nothing had been heart
and it was reported there hat the fog
was SO heavy that nothing could b.
seen more than few hundred feet
away. Nothing had been seen on
either side OF the river up to and
after midnight. The Tatoosh had
heard nothing and lay at her dock
To the little British ship Arctic
Stream will be awarded the blue rib
bon of the foreign craft belonging TO
the 1907 season grain vessels sailing
from the Columbia River. Captain
Charles c. Dixon. master of the ship,
in a cablegram to Portland friend,
stated that the Arctic Stream arrived
in Queenstown early Monday morn
ing. She sailed from the mouth OF
the river late on the afternoon of
April !, thus making the passage in
the remarkably fast time of 10
sailing days. This is one of the
smartest passages made from Port
land to Queenstown or Falmouth,
and is the record for the past 20
years for a sailing vessel of small
class, the Arctic Stream being but $50
feet long and IS feet beam. She was
butt in 1885 at Port Glasgow, Scot
land, of the best iron-no steel plates
having been put in her hull, and on
lines that make her look like an over
grow nyacht She is owned by c. E.
DeWolf & Co., of Liverpool
The Norwegian steamship Sark
crossed in from San Francisco, at 5
o'clock yesterday morning and went
direct to the Hammond Lumber Co.'S
docks, where she will take on an in
itial load; going thence to Portland
for part cargo and returning to the
Hammond plant, will take on her
deckload and sail for Port Pirie, Aus
tralia.
Captain Ike Turppa has been ap-
pointed master of the Kamm steamer
Lurline, temporarily, vice Captain Nc
Gully, who is in attendance upon
court in Portland upon charge of
exceeding the speed limits of the
"harbor" there, and who will resume
command shortly.
The Armeria, flagship of the light
house fleet of tenders in the 18th dis
trict, has completed her repairs and
will leave out shortly for Nome,
Alaska, on supply trip, and will not
show UP here before concluding that
voyage.
The steamship Geo. w. Elder cross
ed in at noon yesterday from the
California coast, with big list of
passengers and a fair manifest of
freight, and went on to Portland al
most Immediately.
Captain Archie Cams new pleasure
motor, the Myrtle" has been tried
out with happy results and is now one
of the marine successes of the day in
Astoria waters.
The schooner Mabel Gale, now on
drydock at San Francisco, will make
this port on her first voyage out, and
load lumber at the Columbia mills, at
Knappton, for Molendo,
The steamer Eureka arrived in yes
terday at 10 a. m. from Eureka, and
after brief stay at the Calender, left
UP for Portland. She was flying rather
light.
The handsome lighthouse tender
Heather came in from Coos Bay yes
terday. She has been laying sys-
TEN of buoys in those waters.
The steamer Sue H. Elmore is due
in from Tillamook at any hour.
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